Posted on 04/21/2012 3:20:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
That would happen if Rick Santorum came out in support of Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich is still seeking the nomination and has his 13 Alabama delegates. Armistead said he hopes Gingrich won't become divisive because "there is no path to victory for him to get the nomination."
Mitt lies and smears his conservatives opponents in the primary - burying them with negative ads -- and the GOP-e is warning Newt.
sweater vest wants to ensure he gets picked for VP. my two least favorite candidates united. I’m beginning to see the wisdom of not voting. to hell with it.
“I’d much rather have Governor Romney as president than President Obama,” Skipper said.
Here we go again, hold your nose mentality. Is this thier strategy? Romney will continue the chess game while others may overturn the table and refuse to play. Looks like the the two parties are in bed with each other and enjoying the game. Either way they win and we lose
If we can take control of the house and the Senate, it becomes: either way, they lose.
While Nevada casino mogul Sheldon Adelson - who has donated $7.5 million to the group - did not give more in March, his wife Dr. Miriam Adelson contributed an additional $5 million last month, according to a report filed late Friday night with the Federal Election Commission. All totaled she has given $12.5 million and the family has given more than $20 million."...
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Alabama GOP Chair: If Gingrich Loses the South, He's ‘Out of the Ball Game’
By Lara Seligman
Updated: March 13, 2012 | 11:13 a.m.
March 13, 2012 | 7:21 a.m.
Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead said on Tuesday that out of all the GOP presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich has spent the most time campaigning in the state — and that he has the most at stake as voters head to the polls.
Gingrich needs Southern support the most, Armistead said, arguing that if the former House speaker doesn't do well in Alabama and Mississippi he will no longer be competitive.
You would think he was running for governor here, Armistead said on CNN’s Early Start, adding that if Gingrich loses both Southern states, I believe hes out of the ball game and then it will be a one-to-one between Santorum and Romney.
Either way I think the majority of conservatives and the country are going to give Mitt and the GOPe the middle finger salute!
Mitt Romney has one thing going for him: he’s facing President Obama. Just about anyone but Obama would destroy Mitt Romney in an election, but Obama is easily the worst president of my lifetime, maybe even in the last 100 years. So, I don’t think Romney is a guaranteed loss, but we’re definitely in much worse shape than we might have been. I would have liked an election with real contrasts rather than a battle to find the best of the worst. Gah!
The Conservative Constitutional Cause is clearly served by an Obama re-election rather than a Romney win.
A Right leaning/Conservative Constitutional Congress can easily remain united behind an Obama re-election....whereas the same Congress will be sliced and diced by the RINOS if Romney is in the White House.
The Powers That Be fully understand this....
Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media vet the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.
This election will be a non-election...featuring the state approved candidates-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.
“Alabama GOP Chair: If Gingrich Loses the South, He’s Out of the Ball Game”
Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead sings for his supper.
AND though there are going to be some winner take all primaries, the following contests are also on the schedule:
RI (16) proportional
NY (92) proportional
WVA (28) proportional -- elect delegates (who list their presidential pick on ballot)
NC (52) proportional
OR (25) proportional
AK (33) proportional
KY (42) proportional
TX (155) proportional
CA (169) proportional (by district)
NM (20) proportional
SD (25) proportional
There there are the Contested delegates: . delegates have to be "uncontested" in order to count. The frontrunner's rivals argue some of the states that awarded Romney all of their delegates violated Republican National Committee rules when they moved their contests ahead of April 1 and therefore should distribute delegates proportionally. This dispute, if it continues, would not be ruled on until the August convention in Tampa.
"All the media counts right now give him all of Florida, which is against the rules, all of Arizona, which is against the rules, and all of Idaho," Gingrich said Monday. "Those are all three proportional states and they should only be counting his share. So he has to win 1,144 uncontested delegates."
FL: 50 delegates
ID: 32 delegates
AZ: 29 delegates
For example, the committee agrees that some states that went for Romney jumped the line in the primary schedule, a violation of party rules. But RNC defenders shrug off other complaints, like that they undercut Santorum and Gingrich by formatting a delegate tracking list to pad Romneys tally, by forming a fundraising alliance this week with Romney and by highlighting a rule that would block an unlikely path to the nomination for Gingrich.
And its possible theyll be other clashes in the coming weeks, with the RNC signaling Thursday its opposition to a push by Santorum backers in Texas to alter the rules surrounding that states May 29 primary to help the former Pennsylvania Senator.
Critics of the RNCs handling of the primary are so sensitive to signs that the committee may be pulling for Romney that theyve even detected evidence of favoritism in the staff ties between his campaign and the RNC though some concede such speculation veers more toward conspiracy theory than legitimate concern.
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Summary of article:
A State Party Chair, who is a National Convention Superdelegate and a Federal Government Employee, a Congressional Staffer who is also a Republican National Convention Delegate, are trying to whip the normal delegates into voting for Romney nearly four months before the convention.
Makes you proud of the current state of the convention system of party decision-making.
He was correct. When GIngrich lost those two states, he was essentially done. Except he didn’t quit. He also didn’t do what others here are skewering Santorum about, release his delegates so they could support Santorum and give Santorum an argument that he could get to 1144.
Because Gingrich right now is playing the same game Santorum is — keep your delegates, go to the convention, use your influence to get your conservative positions aired.
Of course, it seems both candidates are more likely to release their delegates if Romney locks up a majority. In the meantime, Gingrich is still in the race, and has his one-on-one with Romney that his supporters wanted, and it’s only mid-April.
Lets see how Gingrich does in Pennsylvania, which isn’t conservative but at least is somewhat republican.
We can NOT allow this to happen!
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! I would rather fight now politically to destroy these IDEAL traitors, than HAVE to fight later with blood to keep this country what it was founded on!
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