Do you think FR welcomes people like you coming here to brag about Mitt Romney’s wins? You’re on the wrong forum. Go praise the Mormon GOTV effort somewhere else.
That’s rich, coming from the team that has excitedly cheered Santorum’s losses to Romney, and praised Gingrich for his efforts driving Santorum below 20% in Georgia, getting Romney extra delegates.
I guess if you have no real answer, it’s just easy to fall back on the “Romney card”.
But since you mention it, Alaska was a Caucus. In 2008, in the West Virginia caucus, Romney was winning, and Huckabee was coming in 3rd. Huckabee, wanting to stop Romney, called his Caucus workers and told them to switch their votes to John McCain. This put McCain over Romney, and cost Romney delegates, at the expense of votes for Huckabee. That is how you beat the guy you want to beat, and a Caucus is the ONE place you can easily do this.
Well, in 2012, in Alaska, Romney was winning narrowly. Gingrich was a distant 3rd. So, did Gingrich call up his Caucus workers and tell them to switch their votes to Santorum? There were probably only a few caucus meetings where this would have been necessary, Santorum only needed a few hundred votes. GIngrich might have lost a delegate or two, but maybe he could have done this just in those meetings where he wasn’t winning anyway, to push Santorum past Romney.
But he did not do this. I don’t say he NEEDED to do this, he’s competing to win, not just to beat Romney after all.
But don’t whine about how just MENTIONING that Gingrich lost to Santorum in Alaska is somehow cheering on Romney, when Gingrich had it in his power to beat Romney in Alaska, just by picking up a phone and making some calls.
Alaska is the state that proves that all this talk about Gingrich “taking one for the team”, said to attack Santorum for actually running a nationwide campaign for votes, is just talk. When there was a REAL opportunity to give up votes, Gingrich did not take it.