Posted on 04/10/2012 4:45:45 PM PDT by Fred
That didn’t take long: Newt Gingrich has “humbly” asked Rick Santorum supporters to channel their support (read: money) to his campaign.
The Gingrich camp, deeply in debt after dismal performances in recent primary races, released a statement minutes after Mr. Santorum’s exit from the Republican primary this afternoon, saying, “Rick has waged a remarkable campaign. His success is a testament to his tenacity and the power of conservative principles.”
“I humbly ask Senator Santorum’s supporters to visit Newt.org to review my conservative record and join us as we bring these values to Tampa,” Mr. Gingrich’s statement continued. The former House speaker’s website, like most candidates’, puts its funding pitch front and center.
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When Santorum throws his support to Romney, that will be low.
JCBreckenridge
3-10-12
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Check out his/her postings from the last couple of days....... yup, sounds just like Pissant in re-tread Drag.
Newt is not out. If you want to call Newt “low” for still raising money while still active, you should call out Santorum for the same while inactive via an email request I got from Santorum’s campaign today as a former donor.
Bottom line, the only conservative candidate still in it is Newt. Please consider supporting him instead of Romney/Obama.
>> If Newt were to be honest for a change
Gratuitous nonsense.
I’m not nuts about Newt, but he sure as heck has my vote here in Texas. I don’t see why we have to run a ANOTHER candidate, just to lose again to Obama.
Don't know. My wife and her dyed in the wool Catholic pro-life friends were all diehard Santorum supporters. To a woman, they're going with Newt after today's announcement. They don't trust Romney's pro-life street cred.
Is the debate still on? Last I heard Mitt had not yet decided if he would debate.
Santorum was never for a healthcare mandate, and both Romney and Gingrich were. That’s on record.
Maybe it’s Newt who was secretly trying to sneak in that “Catholic” “social justice” by his former (flip flop) support of the mandate.
Some very smart women in your life.
:)
I strongly disagree. The whole “big government” Santorum meme is very overplayed by the Romney/Paul camp. It’s not as true as they made it sound and that’s an issue the type of voter that was supporting Santorum really does not care that much about or grasp. ALL of Santorum’s traction came from his big religious leader endorsements. Everything we heard about those endorsements indicated that Newt was by far their second choice. I suspect their supporters are of the same mindset. It was easy to get them to abandon Newt because you could point to his marriage infidelity, but it would be hard to get them to go to Romney because of his Mormonism and his liberal record on abortion and homosexual marriage.
It is more likely, I think, that a Santorum supporter would gravitate to Newt rather than vice versa. Some people simply think Newt can run government on more fiscally sound footing, in which case they might move to Romney for his business experience. But NO ONE supporting Santorum thought he could run government better fiscally and they didn’t really care one way or the other.
I see you’re back with your INCREDIBLY STUPID AND IGNORANT anti-Newt remarks which never make any sense at all. He only has to win 3 out of the following 20 states to win the 5 states necessary to qualify. You need to be committed and get a frontal lobotomy if you think he won’t do that now.
Like hell. Not after what he pulled. His big ego split the vote in 5 states which, if Santorum won, would have changed this race dramatically. Those five states are Alaska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Washington. This is not to mention the vote split helped Romney pick up delegates down South. This would have killed Romney’s momentum, and Santorum could have been frontrunner. Newt still had a chance to save things; when things started to pick up for Romney the past few weeks, he could dropped out and supported Santorum and urged his delegates to support Santorum, likely giving him Wisconsin. No, Newt hung in there in debt, visiting zoos and museums, all but saying that Romney is the inevitable nominee recently. He put his ego and fantasy hopes for a brokered convention ahead of stopping Mitt Romney. I got the feeling from him that if he couldn’t get it, Santorum couldn’t either. We had a chance at stopping Romney, and he was a factor in why we couldn’t. Now Santorum has suspended his campaign, and Newt is thrilled because he can now call himself the conservative alternative? Forget it. I don’t like him (I used to), and I don’t like Romney. I’m still debating whether I’ll hold my nose for Romney to stop Obama.
You’re really not a valuable member of this community. You do nothing but trash a good conservative like Newt with dishonest, misleading comments.
The remaining states left to vote have 1,053 delegates.
States with 1,233 delegates have voted so far.
If Newt and Rick combine their delegates, they need 732 more to win.
Romney needs 488 more to win.
So Newt and Rick only need 244 more delegates than Romney does to win.
Keep in mind Romney has almost never won over 50% of the vote in the states he’s won. This is a VERY different race now and many of the remaining states (shown below) look favorable to conservatives.
At the VERY least we should work hard to make Romney spend effort getting the nomination. We don’t want the GOP to think it’s going to be easy to cram this kind of disgusting fake and fraud down our throats the next time.
Missouri
New York
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Delaware
North Carolina
Indiana
West Virginia
Nebraska
Oregon
Kentucky
Arkansas
Texas
California
New Jersey
South Dakota
Montana
New Mexico
Utah
Newt had no power when he expressed interest in checking out romney care. When he had power he was an excellent conservative leader and fought off liberal efforts to socialize medicine.
Rick, on the other hand, not so much conservative leadership record given his Union (socialists) problem. But Rick does support life and that puts him way ahead of kill’em Mittens. I would have voted for Rick had he won the primary.
“Like Hell” is absolutely right. Newt alone is responsible for giving us Romney with his quixotic campaign. Had Romney been defeated in MI and OH, it would have been an early end of the road for Romney. Gingrich has baggage heavy enough to sink a fleet of cruise liners. He should have quit after the broad-based thrashing he received in Florida.
Funny, I was supporting Santorum and I thought he could run the government better fiscally than Newt or Romney could. I looked at his ACTUAL record and scorecard from fiscally conservative groups like Club for Growth and National Taxpayers Union (where was ranked in the top #5 most fiscally conservative Senators when he was in the SENATE), rather than listen to the lies spread by the so-called "fiscally conservative" candidates who supported the global-warming scam, TARP and the individual mandate for Obamacare. Paul Ryan learned first hand how "fiscally consrvative" Newt was when his plan trashed as "right-wing social engineering".
But go ahead, keep up the "socialist Santorum and his big-government supporters" lies and see how many of his supporters you get on your side.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Even if you add Rick and Newt’s votes together they come out less than Romney’s in Wisconsin.
The big problem is that grass roots religious right conservatives switched to Rick Santorum after following the commands of their pastors like lemmings. He never had a chance on his own merits. Many a commentator on FR predicted in February that the race was over and Romney would be the winner as soon as support switched to the untested, unvetted Santorum and away from Newt.
One proven conservative and one proven liberal remain standing in the primary. Where do YOU stand?
Livius, it's been clear all along that some Santorum supporters are willing to vote for a Mormon with a clean moral life. Many people simply cannot conceive of a Mormon being socially liberal, and do not understand that the Romney family has a record going all the way back to the 1960s of being devout in their personal lives but not “imposing their religion” in their elected positions.
Basically, Mitt Romney is a Mormon version of John F. Kennedy, with all the bad things that implies, except that I think Romney is faithful to his wife and actually believes what his church teaches.
The way to overcome that is to make clear just how unreliable Mitt Romney is on abortion. Based on Romney's history of judicial appointments to the state court system in Massachusetts, we risk a President Romney nominating more David Souters and Sandra Day O’Connors.
Abortion is a no-go issue for most evangelicals. I can make a long list of things I don't like about Newt Gingrich, but none of them are more important to me than Gingrich's undoubted positions against baby killing and against Islamofascism.
Gingrich is not my preferred candidate, but he's the last conservative left, and Romney is simply unacceptable.
Newt didn’t “trash” Ryan’s plan and that descriptive term you reference was not describing Ryan’s overall plan, just the idea that people would be forced into Medicare changes rather than having them be optional.
Consider me absorbed.
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