You’re pulling a scam but it’s so obvious, it’s amusing.
Mitt Romney’s a big government guy but we must believe he’s a regular Ross “under the hood” Perot, just buy it hook line and sinker as Mitt and the GOP-e laugh behind our backs.
But the joke is on them. We aren’t buying it or Mitt.
Newt is in this because he’s the only alternative, a conservative, to Mitt.
Not sure what you're talking about. I'm a Newt supporter and a totally anti-Mitt guy. I'm trying to make sure Mitt doesn't win the nomination and that Newt has a chance to team up with Santorum at a contested convention to beat him. Mitt will get to 1,144 delegates if Newt takes votes away in winner-take-all contests where Santorum is trailing Mitt by a small number of votes, like Illinois next week.
CW - I don’t think he’s scamming. If I could hand the nomination to Newt today personally, I would, to stop Romney.
The bottom line is both Newt and Santorum are finished in the battle for an uncontested nomination. Neither can pull it out, numerically, if we trust the numbers we are seeing. I don’t know who is voting for Romney, or who “organization” can count for so much, but he is getting enough traction that he will get the nomination clean as it stands today.
If Newt’s and Santorum’s people both unite, and vote for just one of those two, that person won’t win the nomination, but they will keep Mitt low enough on delegates that it will go to the floor of the convention. Newt has a much greater chance there than Santorum, and I think Romney would be much more likley to lose than Santorum.
That is our choice, and if you read between the lines of Newt’s campaign’s statement, it is what they are saying. Keep Romney below 1100 delegates above all else, and then send it to the convention.
If you oppose Romney, it is the only option, and if you stick to only playing the winner take all contests, it doesn’t cost your candidate.