And I like the idea of defeating Romney here and now in Florida. If Romney loses Florida, he’s done.
Santorum has already admitted he’s abandoning Florida, but he shouldn’t drop out. He should just recommend to the Florida voters (like Sarah did in South Carolina) to vote for the leading conservative in the race (Newt in this case) and deprive Romney of the win and the delegates. After losing to Gingrich in South Carolina and Florida, Romney will either drop out or be dumped by the establishment or go down in flames later, then it’ll be a two man race between the two conservatives, Santorum and Gingrich.
Ron Paul is not a conservative and he’s not in it to win it anyway. He’ll have the young, dumb, doper, peace and love liberaltarian vote all to himself.
If I was Newt, I would be on the phone talking to Santorum as we speak. They are friends from way back and I would imagine if Newt put it the way you did, he would do just that. I know that Newt will be our nominee. I can see America’s improvement almost immediate in 2013.
If Romney loses Florida, he is wobbling but far from done, unfortunately. He will just regroup for Super Tuesday.
If Newt loses Florida (and right now it looks like he will), it gets very very tough. He will have to bounce back for the third time, and sustain it. He already did it twice, so the miracles do occasionally happen.
And yes, Santorum should just stop splitting the Tea Party vote, he got his moment and can go home now.
I agree; if Romney loses Florida he is toast. I think, though, that is when the Republican Establishment trots out a Christie or a Mutch Daniels as an alternative at a brokered convention.
Romney is far from done if he loses in Florida...
Look at the February schedule:
Nevada caucus
Maine caucus
Colorado (nonbinding) caucus
Minnesota (nonbinding) caucus
Missouri (nonbinding) primary
Arizona (closed) primary
Michigan (closed) primary
Maine will vote like NH did. And two states, Arizona and Nevada, have significant LDS populations.
Mitts dad was once the Gov. of Michigan.
Romney is far from done if he loses in Florida...
Look at the February schedule:
Nevada caucus
Maine caucus
Colorado (nonbinding) caucus
Minnesota (nonbinding) caucus
Missouri (nonbinding) primary
Arizona (closed) primary
Michigan (closed) primary
Maine will vote like NH did. And two states, Arizona and Nevada, have significant LDS populations.
Mitts dad was once the Gov. of Michigan.