Posted on 01/14/2012 2:37:06 PM PST by xzins
The only real choices for conservatives are Gingrich and Santorum. The South Carolina primary is the fire wall. If Romney wins there, then the Romney GOP Media will drive his campaign all the way to the nomination.
We all know this is true.
Right now Gingrich 23 + Santorum 16 + Perry 4 = ~43% of the vote.
Romney has about 27%.
If we stay divided, then Romney wins. If we make a hard choice, even if we don't really want to, to unite behind one candidate, then Romney will be defeated.
Can you do that to advance conservatism?
The logical person to unite behind at this point is the poll front-runner. The next most logical is Santorum.
Perry's people going to Santorum still leaves Romney a victor. Perry's people going to Gingrich will lead to a Romney defeat. Perry + Santorum going to Gingrich equal an overwhelming rejection of Romney.
Read the above article. IT is PROOF that Romney cannot win the general election.
Then pray about the right thing to do.
For all you Romney supporters lurking out there, this article is hard, realistic truth. You are backing a general election loser.
You, too, better do some praying.
The only thing I can figure out is he has nice hair and he smiles and laughs a lot after eveything he says?
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I've campaigned for him as far back as the 90’s and I've donated to him and will continue to do so as long as he runs.
We may not like Romney, he's only above Paul and Huntsman on my list, but we're not the ones who are going to make the call on who wins the election. It's the mushy, uninformed middle.
Unless we end up with Jerry Sandusky as our nominee, we're going to win going away.
Again, the danger isn't losing the Presidency, we've got that covered, it's that we could lose the chance to get a REAL SOLID CONSERVATIVE in that office.
But for the massive attack ads by Romney and the one by RuPaul against Newt Gingrich in Iowa, Newt Gingrich was running away with the nomination, -— there would be no Santorum in the race -— and now Gingrich is rebounding in the South since he’s fighting back against Romney, but with great cost to him, given the piling on by talking heads, like Rush, and Faux News pundits in the tank for Romney.
Newt is the fighter and the one to best fight the Marxist in the ugly 2012 arena.
Romney is trying to buy the nomination, but he won’t be able to buy the presidency.
STOP ROMNEY. VOTE FOR GINGRICH!
Good post.
I disagree on the part about winning this election.
Romney is not electable. He WILL lose.
The 8th reason not listed by Hawkins is that a sizeable portion of the conservative base will desert him. He is Obama lite.
Anyone voting for Romney in the primary because they think he will win in the general is totally fooling himself.
Romney’s track record is as a loser. He will continue those losing ways.
I’m not sure if the hair is even real...but the laugh certainly isn’t. It is the nervous laugh of someone trying to be “sincere” and knowing that they are failing miserably. He may well be a very nice man in private but he just reminds me too much of a used car saleman.
The MSM is pushing him, just as they did in 2008 with McCain, as the “only” Republican who can win. They were lying then (and knew it) and they’re lying now. If Romney is the nominee, then Obama gets a second term!
Is that Mitt Romney's name in a past life?
Romney will take a shellacking from the better liberal, 0bama.
Haven't we learned the lessons of '08 yet?
You know, mama, freeping the reader comments sections of S Carolina papers probably makes sense. I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks.
If we were to attack the electability myth in those letters, and the abortion, gays, and guns angles, then we could hope that S Carolinians would see those letters.
Wait till CBS/NBC/ABC explain how Mormons consider the rest of us "gentiles" and look down their noses at the un-initiated.
People in Salt Lake live in a little bubble. They have no idea how the rest of the country perceives them.
Romney is about to find out about that.
I support Rick Santorum because, while Newt Gingrich is smart, tough and a great debater, he is also a Washington insider through and through with a mercurial temperament that can be dangerous in a president. I simply don't trust him. I also believe that Newt's sometimes cranky, even surly demeanor when his ego has been bruised is dangerous. As the GOP presidential candidate, one unthinking outburst from Gingrich - which is quite possible - could de-rail his campaign and allow Obama to defeat him. I don't care to take that risk.
Santorum may not be as forceful as Gingrich or debate quite as well but he does not give the impression of a crabby old guy who knows he's smarter than everyone else. Santorum is bright and affable and, more important, a solid conservative (not a 'perfect' one) and has strong 'family values', which some on FR dismiss as hardly relevant when the economy is the main concern of most voters - but those social mores play well with most non-liberals. Most of all, Santorum can defeat Obama.
They worked together before and Rick would know how to work congress to get the clean up job done. Rick's a good man. Too nice to deal with the devil=BhO. OTOH Newt has experience dealing with evil. He'll fight fire with fire.
Whatever the consensus might be, I am personally convinced that January 21, the day of the S Carolina primary, is the most important date of this 2012 election.
That day the conservatives will have come to a consensus, or they will again allow themselves to be divided by the intentional strategy of the GOP establishment.
That will usher in the next GOP BobDole/JohnMcCain candidate who WILL lose...Mitt Romney.
CONSERVATIVES: Ad-MITT Romney Is Unelectable!
They worked together before and Rick would know how to work congress to get the clean up job done. Rick's a good man. Too nice to deal with the devil=BhO. OTOH Newt has experience dealing with evil. He'll fight fire with fire.
I could only support a Gingrich-Santorum ticket if that were the only possible way to defeat Romney but I remain convinced that Gingrich has more liabilities than Santorum. As for Obama, I think a potted plant could defeat him and we don't need Romney. The media may be in his pocket but most Americans are not happy and (rightly) blame Obama. The (White House) door is open for the Republican nominee.
7 Reasons John Hawkins Opinion Has No Merit
1) “Romney can’t win” he won in Massechusetts as a Republican. That in itself is a tough feat. Gingrich has never won a state race, Santorum lost his senate seat, Perry is just a plain incoherent speaker, and Paul (I like him) can’t get past his base and has no charisma.
2) “Romey Mormon” Attack on his religion will turn off Independents and curry favor with women who will sympathize.
3) New Gingrich couldn’t win a General election in any circumstance, neither could Santorum, nor any other candidate in the field.
4) Romney aside from Ron Paul is the only candidate thus far to poll in dead heat or ahead of Obama
5) Ginrich can’t even win a Republican primary how is he going to win a general where he is hated by independents and democrats
6) Romney is only candidate shown to be able to raise large money which will be required to overcome bias media and Obama’s fund raising machine.
7) “Bain” this leftist attack by Newt and Perry (glad be sucked in debates, otherwise he could have done well, a true leftist) is good to have now. Allows Romney to prepare defense for this baseless anti-capitalist attack for the General. Will be old news.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online from January 10-13 with a sample of 995 South Carolina registered voters. It included 398 Republicans and 380 Democrats.
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