It is time for Sen. Rick Santorum to drop out

Red State ^ | 1-22-2012 | Erick Erickson

[Revolting cat!]

Once Santy quits, the FR Newt haters will have nowhere to hide, and pretend they’re NOT for Mittens or Paul.

[SomeCallMeTim]

I hope Rick STAYS IN!

Elliot Abram’s article about Newt today will be DEVASTATING to Newt.. It KILLS ANY chance I had of voting for Newt in a primary.

Steady Rick could win this thing by default.. if he just continues to espouse conservative principles.. and, grows a PAIR... and starts attacking Mitt.

[TitansAFC]

Well, one thing is for sure.

Even if Newt stumbles for some reason, Newt backers should stay behind Newt, and Gingrich should stay in the race so that we have a “backup plan” in case Santorum stumbles.

Don’t want to be left without a candidate if Rick stumbles, right?

[ngat]

“Why is Santorum still in the race..? Answer the question. VEry simple...”

Iknow! I know!

But when I was saying why, as early as December, the San-tormites got very upset, and called me names. So we will just let them admit why later.

[Christie at the beach]

Rick S should endorse.
Florida will be great to shut down Romney.
The libs are saying, I will vote for Romney, not Newt.
Tells you all you need to know.

[show]

Go NEWT ! Lots of Newt voting Red States still to come.

January
Santorum - Iowa 28 delegates

RINO - New Hampshire 12
Newt - South Carolina 25
Newt - Florida 50


February
Newt - Nevada 28
Newt - Maine 24
Newt - Colorado 36
? - Minnesota 40
Newt- Arizona 29
? - Michigan 30

March
Newt - Washington 43
Newt - Alaska 27
Newt - Georgia 76
Newt - Idaho 32
RINO - Mass 41
Newt - North Dakota 28
Newt - Ohio 66
Newt - Oklahoma 43
Newt - Tennessee 58
? - Vermont 17
Disgrace - Virginia 50
Newt - Wyoming 29
Newt - Kansas 40
Newt - Alabama 50
? - Hawaii 20
Newt - Mississippi 40
Newt - Missouri 52
? - Illinois 69
Newt - Louisiana 46

April
Newt - Maryland 37
Newt - Texas 155

? - Wash D.C. 19
Newt - Wisconsin 42

? - Connecticut 28

? - Delaware 17
? - New York 95
Newt - Pennsylvania 72

? - Rhode Island 19

May
Newt - Indiana 46
Newt - North Carolina 55

 Newt - West Virginia 31

Newt - Nebraska 35

Newt - Oregon 29

Newt - Arkansas 36

Newt - Kentucky 45


June
? - California 172
Newt - Montana
? - New Jersey 50
Newt - New Mexico 23
Newt - South Dakota 28
RINO - Utah 40

Go NEWT !

[Just mythoughts]

Elliot Abram ....snicker... now there is an ego.

[ought-six]

“If Newt loses Florida, he’s in trouble. If Newt wins Florida, then I can see him winning Super Tuesday and racing for the nomination. A lot is riding on his Florida performance.”

Florida is critical for everyone except Ron Paul, who knows he will never get the nomination, but wants to stick around for his message.

There is no way and no math that will get Rick Santorum to the nomination. He has some good qualities, but he needs to bail and let Newt pick up most of his flock.

[Jim Robinson]

Romney loses Florida watch the establishment go into panic mode. Losing South Carolina and Florida proves that he cannot win the south. Those in the know feared that the evangelicals, independents and women would not go for Newt. Well, looks like that was a pile of horse hockey. The know it alls had it backwards. They won’t go for Mitt.

[Faith-Hope]

How much do you think Rick is being paid to stay in at least through Florida? (Maybe his expenses. )

[anglian]

As Santorum Surges In Iowa, A Pause To Check His Immigration Profile

By Roy Beck, Updated Friday, December 30, 2011
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusablog/beckr/december-29-2011/santorum-surges-iowa-pause-check-his-immigration-profile.html

[Windflier]

Elliot Abram’s article about Newt today will be DEVASTATING to Newt.. It KILLS ANY chance I had of voting for Newt in a primary.

So, all it took for you to post those screaming caps about Newt, was for some dusty pol to write a nasty article about him? Totally overwhelmed all your due diligence on Newt's record in office, did it?

I can't even believe you wrote that. Do you know how many times we've seen identical posts during elections? It's nearly become a running joke.

[Christie at the beach]

Rick S supporters, we have to shut Romney down or we are going to end up with him. If the RNC tags a conservative to his VP slot, that person will have been given the kiss of death-many people will not vote for that again. Obama wins. Please think about it. Newt is our only chance to taking a fight to the radicals. Romney will not fight, he will cave in. Liberals are saying they would vote for Romney so he will build a new coalition. The very thing Coulter is wanting, moderate voters. We don't need the moderates/libs to win with the right message. No one is perfect. Shut Romney down.

[ngat]

Elliot Abrams?

Same Elliot Abrams I remember sweating in front of the TV cameras at the Iran-Contra hearings back in the ‘80s?

Same Elliot Abrams convicted on two counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra Affair investigation?

[ROTB]

The kook Ron Paul needs to drop out

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Nobody expects Paul to act with any allegiance to “conservatism”, so people ask Santorum, who allegedly does.

[ROTB]

Ben Mugged: Yeah, let’s encourage the only conservative in the race to drop out. That’s the ticket!

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2837898/posts?page=25#25

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If the charges laid out in post #25 are true, then Santorum is no conservative. If his candidacy is more important than leaving an electable Republican, then he LACKS the character to be president, seeing Santorum is un-presidential.

You can bring up Newt’s relatively distant past, but my eye is always on the present, what the candidate is doing NOW.

Right NOW, Santorum is a risk for screwing things up into Romney being the nominee.

[CaspersGh0sts]

"He ain’t taking and it doesn’t matter how much I like him."

Do you consider this a statement on the shape of the social conservative movement in the country now? I realize that economic issues are dominating the frontier at the moment, but neither Romney nor Gingrich offer much inspiration to social conservatives. At least not from my perspective.

Santorum seems to me the only true conservative in the race. It's a better position than in 2008, for sure. I like both Romney and Gingrich far more than McCain.

I just feel kind of bad for Santorum. He's the guy up there who has stood on principle from the beginning.

[SomeCallMeTim]

Totally overwhelmed all your due diligence on Newt's record in office, did it?

I would say, it confirmed my memory of Newt's record in office... Some of the statements Newt made are IN the Congressional Record. Going to be hard for him to walk away from

[SomeCallMeTim]

Same Elliot Abrams convicted on two counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress during the Iran-Contra Affair investigation?

yes... a guy who "took one for the team"...