Scary thought.
Posted on 03/14/2012 3:11:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
NATCHITOCHES, La., March 14, 2012—It was a good night for Rick Santorum. It was not a good night for Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich is a zombie.
President Obama might want to celebrate tonight’s election results in the morning with a nice bowl of grits for breakfast.
Gingrich’s southern strategy is dead, and so is his campaign. The only southerner in the race, he’s said all along that the South would help him to the nomination. ... He came in a close second in both, results that would be respectable if he had more wins to his credit. But he doesn’t. There’s no way Gingrich can spin the night’s results into victory.
Nor can Romney, but his campaign remains very much alive. The mathematics of the delegate race didn’t demand that he win – if he and Santorum traded results, the effect would be a gain of only seven delegates for Romney – but a victory in either state would have been a definite boost. He won some delegates, and if he wins Hawaii and American Samoa, as is widely expected, his delegate lead will grow, but the losses still hurt, and they illustrate a serious weakness.
Romney could have won in Mississippi, and even Alabama wasn’t out of reach. He had sufficient support on paper to win, and the spread between him and Santorum was actually quite narrow. Between him and Gingrich the gap was even narrower, and second-place would have been just fine. But his supporters weren’t sufficiently supportive to actually go out and vote. He showed, if anyone needed showing, that his support is a mile wide and an inch deep. His supporters preferred to stay home and watch CSI, and so Romney came in third.
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It is time for Newt to show that he cares about America by dropping out and getting behind Santorum. Mit
t cannot be allowed to win.
The U.S. economy, along with international events, (both pushed to the brink by Obama’s policies) will increasingly become a drag on Barack’s re-election odds. We have an excellent opportunity to extend the 2010 conservative uprising to the 2012 election.
Thx for the graphic ...helps to put the focus back on the reality of the situation vs the media and Santorum camp induced “drumbeat” for Newt to drop out.
Rather than go thru the entire litany of what is wrong w/both Romney and Santorum w/regard to their positions on various issues or how the suggested “two man race” would fail from a tactical perspective; I will leave those “dead horses” to be flogged by whomever else chooses to do so.
I will just say that Newt is the only candidate running that I feel I can happily and intellectually support. The other two are merely default candidates for me; to be used “only in case of emergency” in order to achieve the “prime directive;” which is to defeat Obama at all costs; which I have already pledged to do.
Newt said he would stay in the race; no matter how he performed in Alabama/Mississippi and he is maintaining that pledge. I will continue to support him as long as he remains in the race. It is, quite simply, a matter of principle to me.
GO NEWT!!!
If Newt did drop out, calls would immediately "surface" for Rick to drop out.
Newt is our Winston Churchill. Obama is our Chamberlain (only worse). I sure wish I could vote FOR Newt in the presidential election rather than ‘anybody but Obama’.
Santorum is a good man but he just doesn’t compare to Newt, who is a statesman. Romney is a good man but he is just a dud. (not a dude, a dud LOL!)
Yes, that would be bad.
The only thing worse is nominating Santorum, who will not only be crushed by Obama but who will lose SO badly that it may cost the House.
Deciding the nominee at the convention, AFTER the events of the upcoming hot summer, is the only way out of this mess.
Conventional "wisdom" is spinning for Mitt. They are wrong about "inevitable" Mitt and should realize (we sure do) that by continuing to advance that lie, they are looking like paid, in-the-bag shills for the Establishment - the K Street to Wall Street crowd - who do NOT want power returned to the states or to shrink federal government because they are still profiting and sticking us with the bill.
As Newt rightly explains. Powers that be on the Hill will not voluntarily change. It is up to Americans to make it happen.
You’re a Santorum supporter (not that that’s a bad thing) ... so I’ll ask you.
The economy is positioned to crash ... with or without Obama in the White House. What is Santorum’s plan to deal with this? Specifically.
I really would like to know.
God is in control. What’s Newts’ specific plan?
Your usual personal smear and cheap shots against Rick are based on a Romney AstroTurf campaign and the Dem media machine .
Your tired cheap shots are pathetic .
If Newt stays in that will happen and then Obama will win.
But then delusional fantasies fueled by sour grapes are not uncommon...
...but the stakes have never been higher and rational minds must win out.
So can I assume from your answer that Rick's going to pray our way out of economic collapse?
Good to know. Thanks.
And Santorum is our McGovern.
Can't you read?
No, I don't want Romney to win. It is my considered opinion that nominating Rick Santorum is a guaranteed loss to Obama, PLUS the loss of many otherwise winnable House seats.
Why on Earth would I, believing as I do, support what I believe is a lemmings off the cliff movement?
Boolhockey. You don't know that. As for me, I agree with a true conservative, Sarah Palin, who wants all of the candidates to stay in up to the convention.
And Newt’s strategy is?
Scary thought.
Have never quite figured out the strategy of this?
Tell me Santorum's. Really, I'm begging you. Tell me how Santorum will lead us back to prosperity.
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