“Romney’s problem is his big lead doesn’t mean he’s a front runnner in the true sense of that word.”
Let me guess the follow on: “Just because Newt is in third place and dropping doesn’t mean he’s not the front-runner in the true sense of that word”
Newt is not driving anything in this election season. Do you really think nobody would talk about the price of gas? The sour grapes coming from Newt and his supporters get more unpalatable with each Gingrich loss. Eventually an ego the size of Newt’s will get the message.
What each of you Newt supporters are saying is that if he doesn’t win, he’s taking his ball and going home.
What he SHOULD be doing is stepping back and helping the other candidates. Instead, you rationalize that somehow Newt is relevant and his inexplicable hubris is somehow the only savior of America.
Nonsense. Newts a loser, and gets more pitiful and becomes more irrelevant and useless every day that goes by. It will come to a point when he wouldn’t be an asset even as an adviser to one of his betters in the race.
I’m not wild about Santorum, but hey, he beat Newt fair and square (and continues to do so - and will continue if you believe polls - which have been correct in terms of Newt’s standing with the electorate. If Newt had half the intellect he claims, he’d step back and help Santorum beat Romney in hopes of advancing the agenda that Newt claims he supports.
In reality, Newt is about Newt and he doesn’t care about America, the GOP, or anything else if it means HE isn’t President.
That is the Newt that I knew would always percolate to the surface - and why I’ve never supported him. He is an uncommonly selfish and self-centered man (even for a politician) that should never be nominated, and never elected.
We thoroughly disagree.
But you will fall for anything that has Newt as the villain.
You will not see anything else even if it is right before your eyes and all mathematics and logic were to point to its truth. Such as the point being made by utmost certainty that Santorum CANNOT WIN THE NOMINATION OVER ROMNEY BY DELEGATE MATH, NEWT OR NO NEWT.
And I will add, Newt was the frontrunner and Santorum was at 4 per cent, when Romney destroyed Newt in Iowa with five million in negative ads against a man with almost no money, and later in FL with twenty million in such ads.
While leaving Santorum alone in the ad attacks.
Then Santorum walked into that breach and became what he has become.
As the religion candidate in the Republican party.
Which in no way equals what is needed to win a national race against all the odds arrayed.
Oh, but Santorum and his supporters aren’t selfish, oh never, that would only go to Newt and his supporters.
Your Newt fixation dooms your thoughts, and it guarantees you will distort the view of fellow freepers and miss every key point of truth that doesn’t account for Newt the villain.
Good luck with that.
You might need it.
If Newt wants to help Santorum beat Romney, then his smartest move is to STAY IN and gain more delegates while proportional representation continues. If Newt got out and endorsed Santorum now, nearly half of his supporters would support Romney over Santorum. But if Newt continues to gain delegates, forcing Santorum to offer him the VP position in exchange for withdrawing, and then withdraws right before the winner-take-all states begin, far more of his supporters would switch to Santorum.
This is correct and worth repeating here. I can;t believe there are Freepers still willing to give Romeny the nomination on a silver platter by prtopping up Newt even when he has no chance in hell of winning this. Even his speech after 2 losses you could see the people clapping in the backround like they'd rather he went home and got out of the race. They were clapping politely but contrasted with Santorum in Loisiana speaing you could see the crowd was really passionately behind Santorum since he is gaining momentum. THIS IS THE TIME FOR NEWT TO SUPPORT SANTORUM AND GET OUT OF THE RACE.