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.
With the exception of Paul, I think any of the Republican candidates can beat Obama in the general election. With the exception of a big campaign war chest, Obama has more liabilties than Haley Barbour has pardons.ABO
Even though the future is one of the most difficult things there is to predict, in this case it’s not that hard. Santorum and Gingrich, though we love them both most of the time—nearly all the time—couldn’t beat Obama in the general election, and won’t get the chance. Romney has a 50-50 chance. It’s true that the Obama machine hasn’t gone to bear on him, but we haven’t really gone negative on Obama like we will next summer.
Romney is the only chance we have this time. And even though the negative points in this piece are true, there are some fairly strong counterbalancing positives. He has given some brilliant responses in the debates. (As well as a few lame ones.) And he has lots of good people—like Judge Bork—working on his team. That is a huge positive.
The more you needlessly tear down Romney at this point, the more you are playing the Dem’s game. It’s that simple.
There’s a reason why Romney didn’t run for gov. again in MA.
Out of the thousands of "experts" out there, this article is the absolute, defining opinion on Romney's electibility? I'm impressed......
Hawkins was also a vocal and written supporter of Duncan Hunter and we all know how well that went.........
He's just another "expert" in the long line of experts being paid to give their opinions and I don't give credence to any of them.
The public will decide this spring and whoever they decide on will likely defeat Obama............
That's just my unpaid opinion since I'm not a paid expert......
As a side note, I'm not trashing any of them since whoever is elected is going to get my vote in November......
>>>You, too, better do some praying.<<<
Normally I’d end my post with the words, “God help us.” It’s all I’ve got here.