Posted on 02/08/2012 6:34:33 AM PST by Mustang Driver
If you cannot put away a 98-pound weakling who is clinging to the ropes, maybe you should be the one who packs it in.
Republican Rick Santorum swept the Midwest on Tuesday in 3 primaries and caucuses that covered the territory Republicans must win in order to defeat Barack Obama on November 6, 2012, and rescue this nation from socialism. Santorum’s overwhelming victories in Colorado (40%), Missouri (55%) and Minnesota (45%) were stunning victories after Mitt Romney seemed to sew up the nomination a week earlier in Florida. I have been saying that Rick Santorum is more electable than Mitt Romney having won statewide races in Pennsylvania twice. Taking on Tuesday 3 states the party needs certainly is encouraging.
However, Republicans face some problems with enthusiasm. You look at the number of people who voted and you see Rick Santorum won by default in two of the three states, not a good sign. Recent economic news has favored President Obama. While voting was up by 18% in Colorado compared to 2008, the vote was down by about that amount in Minnesota and cut in half over 2008 in Missouri.
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I don’t understand the assumption that every candidate should quit as soon as there’s a setback. Maybe journalists, as a self-selected group, are just quitters themselves? After all, they quit the search for an honest and worthwhile career pretty early ...
Default? Rick won the caucus I attended easily. Twice the number of votes cast for Second place Ron Paul. Newt received only 1% and Willard less than that.
Perhaps Texas can put Willard out of business before the convention. He is not entitled to be president just because his father was a GOP insider and he comes from a rich family. The faded blue jeans he affects do not make him look like a “regular guy,” but what an elitist thinks a “regular guy” looks like.
That begs the question, does that include all primary voters or just GOP? In 2008, neither party had in incumbent candidate and both had active primaries. In 2012, only one does, so you would expect the overall voter count to drop by about 50%.
Oh to have been a fly on the wall in the Mitt camp last night....
PS, I love my Mustangs...
Fair and balanced is Juan McCain
I’ve had enough of the ‘wisdom’ of Bill Cristal, Chas. Krauthammer, Ted Baxter, Bret Beahr, Toyko Rove, Ann Colter, Chris Wallace, Sean Wannabe, Dana Parino,
Brit Hume, Shep Smith, Judge Jeanene, Alam Clomes, Bob Beckle, Juan Williams, Whoraldo, et. al. all acting the part of the Romney cheerleading squad
Name true ONE conservative on FOX
There is clearly a hunger and a market for honest news and honest conservative news
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When and under what circumstances did Aldo Santorum naturalize?
Romney still has twice the delegates, he wont drop out now.
He is also a spoiled brat and after last night he will do everything in his power to destroy Santorum.
I am hoping that Santorum and Gingrich gang up on Romney.
Anyone know where Romney is getting all this money? He has spent about $50 million so far as far as I can figure, and this is only the beginning. How much does he have really?
Romney will not support Santorum.
Not only is Santorum a conservative, he is a Catholic.
Mitt Romeny is like the Euro- it should be dumped but so much is invested in it that it is going to be around a while.
Actually, Newt ought to quit.
Now that is the truth! I call him Sean the parrot. He thinks he is in league with Mark Levin.
Mitt’s biggest cheerleader next to that big fat leftist dope Governor Krispy Kreme.
For what it’s worth:
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The turnout engine continues to rattle unnervingly.
Perhaps it’s hard to measure turnout for nonbinding contests, and turnout in Colorado was complicated by bad weather. But Tuesday offered nothing to dispel a sinking fear that this crop of candidates cannot generate widespread excitement among Republicans.
One polling place in Missouri had about 10 percent of the normal turnout for a primary in the early hours.
Turnout in 2008’s binding Republican primary in Missouri was 588,720. Turnout last night was lower than 250,000. Binding or not, if Show-Me State Republicans felt passionate about their candidates, they would have turned out in greater numbers to give their man a little boost, even if only a symbolic one. (With more than 135,000 votes in Missouri last night, Santorum can argue he’s coming closest to catching fire, at least at this moment.)
Republican turnout increased slightly in Iowa and New Hampshire over 2008, but much of that appears to have been driven by Ron Paul supporters who may or may not be inclined to support the Republican nominee in November. GOP turnout surged in South Carolina, but then slipped below 2008’s level in Florida, and then plummeted in Nevada this weekend.
The Las Vegas Sun tallied up the depressing numbers: “More than 10,000 fewer Republican voters made it to Saturday morning’s much-trumpeted caucuses than turned out for the underpublicized caucuses of 2008. To put it differently: about 8 percent of the party’s active voter base participated this time, compared with about 11 percent four years ago.”
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How sad this this Romney character just wastes millions up on millions upon millions of dollars running for the presidency. He will always lose.
Sad — all that money could have gone to cure cancer or something. Instead it went . ...to the media.
Is anyone as boring as Dana Perrino? She cannot keep up with the quick witted Greg or “SmartA” Beckle.
Mitt should drop out. He is unelectable.
(He’s only won one race in his life and that was governor of ultraliberal Massachusetts)
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