Oh come on. He's the most vetted of the bunch. Face it, it's either Newt or Romney and keeping a "bullpen" is not really an option. So yeah, we keep a back-up "just in case" and we risk the nomination. Sorry, but this is NOT how you win things!
Thank you. If Santorum truly cares for his country, he’ll get out now. I hope he does, but my instincts are that Santorum cares about Santorum and will stay. I hope I am wrong.
Sorry I just don’t buy into “all eggs in one basket” mentality, especially for a candidate with enough baggage to fill not just a boxcar, but an entire freight train.
I expect that Mittbots and Obama supporters are keen on eliminating opponents in the competition of ideas (hence the huge campaign dollars going out for negative advertising), but not conservatives who are comfortable with their candidate. It also doesn’t instill confidence after only 3 states for a candidate to be calling on fellow conservative candidates to drop out, yet not calling on Ron Paul or Romney to drop out. Newt was doing just that after LOSING two in a row.
It has the appearance that Newt and his supporters are worried he won’t gain enough traction on his own to beat the four remaining candidates beyond South Carolina and reeks of despiration on your part which is not exactly a strategy for beating Obama if you ask me.
Now that Newt has a win, we’ll see what he does with it but the continued calls (by Newt and his supporters) for Santorum to step aside aren’t going to win me over.