Newt endorsed Romney in 2008? Was that worse than endorsing Dede Scozzafava?
When the 2008 campaign started, quite a few Freepers favored Romney. He was a businessman, he fixed the Salt Lake City Olympics, he was a real conservative.
I remember arguing for months about that. And you can’t entirely blame people, because the truth only came out little by little.
Romney saved the Olympics? Yeah, with a huge barrel of pork from Washington.
Romney was pro-life and pro-family? Yeah, that’s why he was the guy who imposed gay marriage on Massachusetts when even the liberals in the State legislature hesitated to do so.
And he was the guy who put a member of Planned Parenthood as a permanent member of the Romneycare Board.
And he was the guy who ran on a plank that was pro-abort, although in 2008 he was saying that he had always been pro-life.
But people didn’t KNOW these things, until we dug in past the media lies and the Romney lies and figured out what he actually stood for.
Rick Santorum was very strongly pro-life, and he never would have endorsed Romney if he hadn’t believed his lies—as many people did, until they got to know him better over the months of the campaign. They certainly weren’t told by Romney, the Media, or the RNC.
Kinda odd way to have a good time, but to each dey own.
No No No, it’s simpler than that.
The reason many people supported Romney in 2008 (and something Romney played off of) was that the base and many conservatives hated (I mean despised) John McCain. Romney used this to his advantage and tried to position himself accordingly, as the “true” conservative alternative, even though his record suggested otherwise. People didn’t care though, they just flat out hated McCain.
This is essentially what Newt is trying to do this time around in 2012. He was grouped in with the rest of the RINO’s, but because of the sheer hatred of Romney, Newt is looked at as pure as the white driven snow, which most people know is BS.
As for Santorum in 2008, it was clear he absolutely did not get along with Mr. Gang of 14 in the Senate, who also used the “F” word to John Cornyn when he “parachuted” into the Senate to take control of the immigration issue. If it’s a choice between Romney and McCain, to Santorum, it was a no-brainer.
Did Newt endorse McCain??? If he didn’t endorse Romney in 2008, he helped give the nomination to McCain. Gee Thanks. I think Romney could have beaten O’Bummer in 08 and we wouldn’t be scared to death of what is now happening to our country.