Romney’s Delegate Lead Grows

The Washington Post ^ | March 14, 2012 | Aaron Blake

[Iron Munro]

Despite his losses in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Mitt Romney appears to have expanded his delegate lead on Tuesday.

The most recent projections from AP show Rick Santorum took 31 delegates from Alabama and Mississippi, while Newt Gingrich took 24 delegates and Romney got 23

But this morning, Romney was projected to win all nine delegates from American Samoa’s caucuses, and he also won the Hawaii caucuses by a large margin.

AP projections show Romney beat Santorum 18 delegates to four in those jurisdictions.

So, as of this morning, Romney has won 41 delegates from Tuesday’s contests, compared to 35 for Santorum, thereby expanding Romney’s delegate lead. (Gingrich is projected to have won 24 delegates.)

[kennyboy509]

I will not have the rino leadership of the republican party shove another dole-mcain-romney down my throat.

I will only accept Newt or Sarah.

If romny is the canidate I will vote for obama and a straight republican ticket for all else.

obama will be a lame duck for 4 years. This will also punish the rino leadership.

Flame away.

[kennyboy509]

I will not have the rino leadership of the republican party shove another dole-mcain-romney down my throat.

I will only accept Newt or Sarah.

If romny is the canidate I will vote for obama and a straight republican ticket for all else.

obama will be a lame duck for 4 years. This will also punish the rino leadership.

Flame away.

[kennyboy509]

I will not have the rino leadership of the republican party shove another dole-mcain-romney down my throat.

I will only accept Newt or Sarah.

If romny is the canidate I will vote for obama and a straight republican ticket for all else.

obama will be a lame duck for 4 years. This will also punish the rino leadership.

romney will NOT reverse any of the democratic crap storm imposed on us.

Flame away.

[chemicalman]

How many were bought by Romney & his PACs?

[MacMattico]

Unless Obama wins and keeps the Senate and takes the house. Then all hell breaks loose.

[Iron Munro]

I FEAR: BROKERED CONVENTION = OBAMA REELECTION

Obama has spent three years giving Republicans all they need to defeat him.
But they are doing their best to turn the tide and set him up for re-election.

Democrats get by with slinging dirt, acting like thugs, brutes, muggers and street rabble and slugging it out in public.
When they go at each other in primary elections their base still loves them.
Democrats can (and do) get caught on film doing the most vile things imaginable and not lose one democrat voter. They have no standards and everyone expects them to take the low road.

But a slug-fest works against republicans because they do profess to have high standards and sell themselves as the party of honesty and maturity. When they fail to meet their own high standards, or when they act out of character in the smallest way, the media savages them and does their best to stir it up even more.

[BlackElk]

1. As to Newt: I had supported him until he fell hopelessly behind in the race. If the GOP nomination had been mine to confer, I would have preferred Santorum but I supported Gingrich when he was the leading non-Romney and non-Paul. I now support Santorum in the hope that the GOP and the USA might survive.

2. Romney is absolutely the single worst serial liar I have witnessed in American politics since I started paying attention in the run-up to 1964.

3. You may recall Bush the Elder speaking openly of the creation of a "New World Order." That "New World Order" necessarily meant sapping American sovereignty in favor of vague international arrangements to be sold to the American public through a campaign of dishonesty and lies. Those international arrangements would allow major business figures to control and manipulate the world and its nations for the benefit of entrenched elitist business figures. See the performance of GATT, WTO and other internationalist schemes. Sapping the sovereignty of the United States of America necessarily jeopardizes the constitutional protections of the lives, liberties and property of individual citizens.

4. Consider the European Union's track record to date in threatening trade sanctions against any member nation which does not allow and effectively promote elitist priorities like abortion and homosexual perversions. It did not matter that, for example, Ireland had plebiscite enacted constitutional provisions prohibiting abortion. The European elites were determined to cram abortion down Ireland's throat. I am partially Irish by ancestry (County and City of Cork from which my grandmother emigrated) and I am Roman Catholic in my religious affiliation. I do not need to have the sorry likes of Barbara Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, Mitt Romney (watch what he DOES not what he belatedly SAYS), John McCain, Robert Dole, Elizabeth Dole, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Obozo, and the shadowy mega-business types who fund Romney's lies to cram heathenism, mass murder of innocents, sexual perversions, and the destruction of American sovereignty down our national throat via elitist international institutions designed to maximize at our expense the power, influence, control and profiteering of an anti-American and anti-Judaeo-Christian cabal.

5. As a conservative, I believe that we should sever our ties with and funding of each and every globaloney threat to American sovereignty, including but not limited to: The United Nations and all of its infamous subgroups, NATO which no longer serves any discernible American purpose, WTO, GATT, each and every "trade agreement" and each and every other organization dedicated to suppressing the economic prosperity of Americans who would work for a living at decent wages and decent benefits in exchange for their honest day's work (see Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum for the road abandoned by the soulless elitists who betray America and its people each and every day in matters of economics and morals).

6. As I type this response in rural northwestern Illinois, having lived most of my life in New Haven, CT, and its immediate vicinity, We are being bombarded with non-stop propaganda exclusively lies and distortions by Romney, funded lavishly by his elitist power-mad and money-obsessed buddies who want that constitution out of their way once and for all and subjected to supranational and international control by themselves and others like them.

7. If setting out to wreck the sovereignty of this country and to effectively castrate the constitution is not anti-American, I am at a loss to imagine what would be.

8. The massive and vicious campaign of character assassination that Romney and his moneyed lackeys )or bosses) relentlessly waged against Newt Gingrich in Florida until Gingrich's candidacy was effectively destroyed has been followed by essentially identical campaigning against Santorum who has proven more difficult for Romney to shake off.

9, Both Gingrich and Santorum have been gentlemen throughout this campaign as Romney has not. His tactics have substantially harmed the political process in this campaign and in doing so, he has harmed the Republican Party and the United States.

10. It does not take much imagination to perceive Romney and his fellow liberal liars chuckling up their sleeves over his ability to use the usual LSM suspects to avoid any meaningful discussion even of financial issues, let alone military, gun, pro-life, pro-family issues. Hear him tell his buddies that once the GOP nomination has been secured by lies and money, the conservatives (despised always by Romney and his fellow elitists) will have no place to go and, through their acknowledged hatred of Obozo, will have to vote for the Mittwit. He calls himself a "severe conservative." Romney is no more s conservative than Bull Connor as a Southern Democrat was therefore favorable to the rights of black folk.

11. Based upon Romney's track record as governor of Taxachusetts, he is an accomplished liar exceeding even the breathtaking capacities of Obozo in that respect. He governed Massachusetts as Obozo governs the United States. He refuses to admit that Romneycare is a fiasco and cannot very well argue with Obozo on the subject since Romneycare was the forerunner and model for Obozocare (including forcing religious institutions such as the Catholic Church to violate conscience or be jailed). Romney claims to prove he is pro-gun by saying he got one when he was about 14 years old. He probably hasn't seen it since and certainly hasn't used it since. You can bet his old man was no gun guy either. He claims to be pro-life but, one year AFTER his alleged conversion on the subject, he included $50 abortions (cheaper than s month's worth of most non-generic prescription drugs) in Romneycare and put Planned Barrenhood permanently on its board. He made no attempt whatsoever to resist the imbecilic Massachusetts State Supreme Court decision ordering legalization of sexual perversion and rump-ranging posing as "marriage." He had the lowest approval rating of any governor in the US in 2006 and therefore declined to seek re-election in that very anti-Republican year abandoning the governorship to Coupe Deval and a still more radical regime. Romney appointed many judges, most of them Demonrats and NONE of them conservative Republicans. One could write a book but those will suffice. Liberalism as practiced by Romney and Obozo and the late Ted Kennedy and John Kerry and sooooo many more is, as Michael Savage has noted, a "mental illness."

12. The foregoing and particularly paragraph 11 contains all the ammunition anyone needs to conclude that Romney is anti-American. You don't need references or quotes such as Donald Duck said that "Romney is anti-American;" or Bill Maher says: "Mitt is not a stupid c... or even a dimwitted t..., but a true tasteful patriot just like Bill Maher."

Free Republic is a political website and not a doctoral research project.

As you may have guessed, I have no toleration for Romney and I will NOT vote for him in Tuesday in Illinois nor ever after. I have cast my last RINO POTUS vote.

[BlackElk]

Not in your lifetime. Not in God's lifetime.

If your taxes go up, they go up. Kill off Romney's candidacy or face four more years of Obozo.

[BlackElk]

Thank you and please see #187.

[BlackElk]

Since Illinois is an absolute open primary state, watch Cook County (Greater Chicago) for evidence that the Demonrats are crossing over to help Romney. We are seeing the death of small d democracy (in our democratic republic) at the hands of corrupt deals and mountains of money. The Demonrats cannot wait to carry out their long developed plan to destroy Romney as what FDR called a "malefactor of great wealth." Mitt Romney's every moment of existence plays to the ancestral stereotype of Republicans create by New Dal Democrats and even earlier by William Jennings Bryan and Andrew Jackson.

You have the best solution: Santorum/Gingrich as a ticket. Gingrich is a brilliant guy and Santorum is an attractive candidate. We need credible commitments from Santorum that Gingrich will play a MAJOR role in policy development and that his ideas will be translated into policy.

God bless you and yours.

[wagglebee]

Fantastic post!

[oldfart]

I’ve spent more time than I like comparing the two and I don’t see a rat’s backside of difference between Romney and Obama. A vote for either one is a vote for socialism. There is no way I’ll ever vote for Rombama. Threaten me with whatever you can dream up and I will still refuse to vote for evil - and that’s what you want, isn’t it, for me to vote for the lesser of the two evils. Well, it ain’t gonna happen.