Well, the anti-Santorum rhetoric worked it’s magic.
Congrats to those who slammed Santorum non-stop for the last few weeks.
Romney thanks you all very much.
I’m so sick and tired of being in the party that shoots itself in the foot over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over... to infinity.
You nailed it. Still, let's not give up. How can we put out the word that we want another candidate to get in the race since Romney won Michigan and true conservatives don't think he's electable.
If they could do it, why can't we?
Yes, exactly. Santorum is way better than Romney. He may not be perfect, but he isn’t a RINO like Romney.
The problem is that Newt and Santorum are still splitting up the anti-Willard vote.
Now, still, Romney is head and shoulders above Obama. We can NOT afford 4 more years of Obama.
You & me both. Looks like we may be headed for another election where many on our side would rather win a battle than win the war.
i’m so depressed. God help us.
Right - conservatives have no one to blame but themselves for splitting the vote. So you can thank santorum and gingrich for helping mitt get in.
I’m equally disgusted with Santorum supporters who have savaged Newt. I can’t believe supporters of BOTH candidates can’t lay off this stuff. I’m with Newt and have been since long, long before anyone though he had a chance to ever get a delegate. But I also recognize that the enemy is Myth.
Santorum and Newt supporters need to work TOGETHER, not snipe at each other.
Hank
Gingrich had the biggest win of the primary season, South Carolina with a 35% increase in turnout. The minute conservatives abandoned him just because he lost one state, the conservative vote was destined to be split and there was no way enough of Newt’s very strong support would abandon him for an unvetted, untested candidate like Rick. It was stupid to think Rick was going to score every point and make no stumbles in his first major test, which is the only way he could have won these contests. Conservatives moving to Rick decided to split the vote and lose these contests. The ONLY way to turn this around now is to GO BACK TO NEWT for Super Tuesday.
If conservatives refuse to see that Rick is TOTALLY unprepared for this task, not to mention completely unpresidential, and move back to Newt, then they will hand the election to Romney. Rick had his chance at a big win and blew it. He’s got nothing but small caucus states under his belt, most that were uncontested seriously. He has proved he cannot carry the day in the kind of states that count. Gingrich, on the other hand, has proved he CAN compete in big states that matter and can win states BIGGER than anybody. He still had about the double the popular vote Rick did before tonight. Gingrich is the frontrunner for the conservative alternative, there is no way for Rick to supplant him in that position now, and people need to realize that REAL fast unless they want to hand this election to Mitt by continuing to support Rick.
Here’s a thought.
Maybe our candidates ought to talk about what we’re concerned about. You know, the economy, our exploding debt, jobs, inflation up the wazoo, and did I mention the economy and jobs?
But, instead, we got Preacher-man (more holy than thou), talking about abortion, contreception, abortion, gay marriage, abortion... and did I mention abortion?
Santorum took his 10 minutes of fame and turned it into a sermon instead of an election campaign. And that’s all on him, not on those that point it out.
Anymore than it’s the little boy’s fault for pointing out that the King has no clothes.
Seems to me from the AZ & FL results that a majority of the retiree GOP crowd is into Romney. My relatives in their 70s say he was a businessman and looks presidential - they’re not interested in further discussion. Come to think of it, I have relatives in their 40s who say the same. Too susceptible to Romney’s barrage of negative ads. The worst part is that Romney has already spewed the GOP line about not attacking Obama. We know how that loser strategy worked in 2008.
Oh well, at least the Bishop is only slowed down a bit, as the delegate split with Santorum salvages some of the night. On to more friendly territory now.
It is not incorrect to say that among Conservatives in the race for the GOP nomination, Santorum leads in the delegate total with what he picked up in Michigan.
This will be NO VOTE for ROMNEY, in 2012, Primary OR General. No NOTHING.
I didn't bother to predict it on this forum, but I knew the "cult of personality" would win out, no matter which political party. I've seen it building and coming for years...sure you have, also.
It's over. We had a great run, but even if Mittens can beat Bambi in the general election, our Country is going down, even if at a slower pace. Do what you can for yourself. If Bambi or Mittens doesn't kill our great experiment, I'm sure that political correctness will. We will be Greece in so many years.
History always runs its course and repeats itself. Too bad. I thought that the USA would be the exception to the rule.
To quote Alexander Tyler:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
from faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to complacency;
from complacency to apathy;
from apathy to dependency;
from dependency back again to bondage."
I'm so glad that I'm so old and will not see the above happen. Best to you.
I know, all they know to do is what John McPain tells them to do.
***Congrats to those who slammed Santorum non-stop for the last few weeks. Romney thanks you all very much.****
If your sarcasm is directed at the few hundred Newt supporters on FreeRepublic - how do you account for the Romney win?? Romney should have been obliterated if voters were all pro-Newt FReepers.
You just about summed it up...