Here is my medication of choice.
Or, the 12 year old or older are very smooth.
Don't drive.
Posted on 02/14/2012 11:31:26 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, following his wins last week in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, has now jumped ahead of Mitt Romney in Michigan's Republican Primary race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary Voters in Michigan shows Santorum with 35% of the vote to Romney’s 32%. Well behind are Texas Congressman Ron Paul with 13% and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 11%. Only one percent (1%) prefers some other candidate in the race, while eight percent (8%) are undecided.
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I hope they do that as well.
It doesn’t matter who the nominee is, Obama and his surrogates will try to slime him.
They couldn’t find anything legit to slime Santorum with, so they had to invent this contraception issue.
Just think of what they would throw at Newt or Romney!
I fear that neither Santorum nor Gingrich can beat obama in the general. And I’m almost certain that Romney can’t.
So....I guess here’s what I think. Perhaps our only hope is for each candidate to have enough delegates where the convention can be real, and then we can emerge with a new, surprise nominee (ie, Gov Jindal from Louisiana).
Then we have a short intense 3 month campaign, and then we beat obama.
Otherwise, I fear, none of Gingrich, Santorum, Romney nor Paul can win.
And dammit, I am in pain for my country to have to say that. But that is my very real fear at this moment.
I disagree. I think all 3 of them can beat Obama in the general election; if the election is about Obama, which it should be.
Do elaborate and pull no punches. I am desperately searching for reasons why I am totally wrong here!!!!
I can’t believe conservatives actually believe Santorum has any chance against Obama. What a discouraging primary.
My primary focus at this point is defeating Romney for the nomination. It’s payback time.
“While Santorum will be easily dealt with by Obama by attacking his social conservatism, Romney is in a real bind because he can’t do the same thing in primaries.”
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Strategerist-
Given your above post and the post below you made on another thread:
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Strategerist:
“ (It)Will be amusing to see how people will try to contort themselves into asserting Newt should stay in the race if he ends up third in any state that was in the Confederacy.”
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The implication is that you are either a Romney supporter; a Ron Paul supporter or support none of the Republican candidates.
Perhaps you have already stated your position; however, I am not aware of that; so, in order to promote honesty and full disclosure so that others may judge your posts accordingly which are you?
Thx.
-Geoff
Here is my medication of choice.
Or, the 12 year old or older are very smooth.
Don't drive.
Me too. And I think even I could beat 0. LOL.
Mac 12 (or even better, 15)!
I’m with you!!!
They tried the same fear tactics against Reagan in 1980.
Reagan’s response was, “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
Once Reagan convinced people that he wasn’t the monster the Democrats made him out to be, he had the election.
If Santorum’s the nominee, he needs to put his family out there so people can get to know them. Will women think he’s a Neanderthal if they see him with Bella? Then ask them the Reagan question.
Absolutely. Never drink and drive, you might spill it. That’s true alcohol abuse!
I think that is a fair response.
Santorum is no Reagan (no one is). But obama is much, much worse than Carter.
So, net? We might just be dealing with that same scenario, more or less.
You are full of fear and you can only guess what you think your opinion is.
Whoa girl, change your screen name, try something more definitive, "Severely conservative dudette", because you are, I fear, ball-less.
The RINOs & elite GOP like Washington just the way it is...it's all good for them with inside trading, go along to get along & the 'good life' that they enjoy at the expense of the taxpayers. POWER IS THE NAME OF THE GAME!
They are not about to give all of that up & if you listen to what Newt is saying he'll do if elected PLUS what he DID do as Speaker - they want him gone.
He's the only chance the Conservatives have to make a difference. Our country is going down the drain & if we miss this chance to turn things around - we will never see America the way we once did in our lifetime.
This is a Revolution for us & the life of our country. We had better wise up & do something while there is still a chance.
I can’t believe people are stupid enough to not understand how President of the United States in elected. So let’s do a quick review, shall we?
First, please tell me which state Rick Santorum would lose that John McCain carried, that due to Obama’s “superiority” as an incumbent (which you must believe exists) will allow Obama to flip a red state. Which one, come on tell me, which red state McCain won flips to Obama? Come on now, inquring minds want to know. And don’t just give me a state name, give me the demographics of that state and the county breakdowns as well.
Can’t find one? Didn’t think so. Now tell me why Santorum wouldn’t improve on McCain’s numbers by the 17,000 votes in NC or 30,000 votes he lost in IN? If you go county-by-county (which I’m sure you already did since you’ve brilliantly concluded Santorum has no chance), I want you to explain why you think Santorum at a minimum can’t increase the percentages on McCain in the areas that were far under Bush in 2004, that is the conservative areas where people stayed home or didnt vote?
We can do this for VA and FL too. McCain ran week in SW VA and other cosnervative strongholds including liberal Northern VA, yet we know conservatives DO exist in VA from what transpired there in 2010, and the fact that George Allen is on the ballot for Senate there in 2012 will help. As for FL, Santorum obviously wins just about every county in the North except for a handful, and provided he runs 2% points better (something not hard to do since McCain ran far under Bush in most of FL except the panhandle) along the I-4 corridor and SW FL, he will win (probably has Rubio on the ticket).
That leaves OH, where Santorum from nearby PA, will have an edge on the Eastern border counties. This is one area McCain already improved on over Bush in 2004, but McCain lost Central/West OH poorly, something Santorum is in much better position to carry with his labor background.
That’s 266 Electoral Votes with the carrying of NC, VA, IN, FL, and OH.
So one more state has to be carried. The traditional battlegrounds (other than the ones mentioned above) are NH, PA, MI, WI, IA, NM, CO, and NV. What we know so far is that Santorum has won caucuses in 2 of these states, with his prospects in MI rising. How many of these battleground states as Newt carried? 0, Zero, Zilch, Nada, etc.
Also, since you want to trash Rick’s electability to promote Newt’s, please tell me how Newt wins FL in a general election, barring the addition of a Rubio or West to the ticket. In 2004 and 2008, 53-55% of the General Election vote was female. Newt was already crushed by Republican Women, so please tell me why you think it will be better when Indepenet and Liberal women get to vote. That type of gender gap in that big of a state spells disaster. Sure, Santorum only got 8% of the female vote, but it wasn’t because of his unpopularity.
Dogs in Michigan don’t let their pet owners vote Mitt, Fido says no to Mitt.
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