Well, many Newt supporters here just know that Santorum is a slimey, big government, petulant, romney stalking horse, non-conservative, pro-labor, lightweight, back-stabbing, socon loser.
So, if Newt says he likes Santorum, that suggests one of three things:
1. Newt is a liar, and doesn't really like Santorum.
2. Newt is a poor judge of character, and doesn't choose his friends wisely,
or
3. Newt knows Santorum a lot better than some of his supporters who are completely deranged when it comes to Santorum.
My money's on #3.
I would like to be able to find those videos of Rick praising Speaker Gingrich that was shown on Fox last week- by the Bret fellow. I think it was 3 -4 videos they played. Newt should play one of those for an ad.
Independents and Reagan Democrats will not support Santorum.
Both subsets are waiting which strong horse emerges between Newt and mittens.
Santorum holdouts need to declare their sympthies now, if they have the backbone. They are either for Mittens or Gingrich when Santorum does endorse.
Santorum ended his chances tonight with his answer to the tax question.
He opposes the only fair tax: the flat tax, and he supports the progressive tax.
The audience mostly gasped on that.
It is amazing how quickly people here want this thing decided on who they base it on not is the most conservative but who they think can win. It goes to show you how young (and therefore ignorant, because of the school systems) the electorate are. Until the 1970’s you never knew who the nominee was until the convention. In fact the purpose of the convention is to pick the nominee.
If we could get back to all states using proportional delegates (anyone over 50% gets winner take all) then we could all vote our heart without relying on green lamp shades and then the delegates would finalize the most electible conservative at the convention.
“Santorum is a slimey, big government, petulant, romney stalking horse, non-conservative, pro-labor, lightweight, back-stabbing, loser.”
Agreed.