Well that is too late now. We will be stuck with Romney. This really sucks. We FINALLY had the opportunity for a great conservative in Rick Santorum with social issues which we have NEVER had and it has been ruined by egos and selfishness. Oh well. Good luck with the election. This is what you guys fought for.
>> it has been ruined by egos and selfishness.
What a pant load. The indignation of Team Santorum knows no limits.
Newt peeled away the Romney voters, not Rick.
How was W or Reagan any less socially conservative than Rick?
That’s what I was thinking also. Why waste time in Peurto Rico when Illinois will be such a pivotal state from here on. May be he needed a vacation in sunny PR?
I posted the same thing a few days ago here as soon as it was announced Rick was going to Puerto Rico. It's the same mistake Rick made on Super Tuesday by wasting time in Georgia instead of going to Ohio more. It's complete inexperienced stupidity. Romney is a terrible candidate with a top-flight campaign operation. Newt and Rick's campaigns are amateur hour operations.
It did not have their desired outcome there and it might not in Illinois, especially in terms of delegates.
IL doesn't award delegates unless you get the most votes in a district. There is no proportional distribution. This has Romney beating Santorum in every single region. Therefore Romney will get all 54 delegates and Santorum will get 0 if this holds.
If Newt was out Romney would still have an 11 point advantage on Santorum, 45-34.
Makes no sense, they're saying Newt's 12% if he drops out only had 4% go to Rick and 0% to Romney. The other 8% went to Paul I guess? Just shows you can't do polling on this second choice stuff. Sounds like most voters just said they'd be undecided at that point. Obviously if Gingrich endorsed Rick or was announced as V.P. Rick would get most of his support, and the undecided of Newt's voters would probably break mostly to Rick anyway.
Why is it always someone else’s fault when their candidate doesn’t win? The idea between a primary is for all the candidates to showcase who they are and may the best man (or woman) win. Honestly, after the whole porn fiasco (part of the vetting) it’s obvious Santorum would go down in the polls. It’s not that it’s not an important issue, it’s that he took his eye off the ball (it’s the economy stupid). You simply can’t legislate morality no matter how much you try. He lost sight of what’s important to the majority of Americans RIGHT NOW. His morals are in the right place but he simply doesn’t have the experience necessary to be president. That’s nothing to be ashamed of, he just might want to start with something smaller, like governor of PA. That would give him executive experience and the opportunity to learn to deal with the press in a smaller venue.
Cindie
I keep trying to suggest to people:....The likely way, maybe the only way, we will get a truly Conservative president is first get him in as vice-president. Then have a successful 4 or 8 year term with our Republican president and finally get the conservative veep elected as president.
Romney has stated he expects to be a 4 year president because of taking on the serious tasks of reforming our government to save us from the impending bankruptcy we all face. Limbaugh says he was told this second hand. I believe him.
So the trick for this election cycle is to get Romney and a conservative vice-president elected and have Romney do the very hard things that must necessarily be done and then get Rubio or Christie, for example, elected in 16. The difficult part is not having both of them blamed for the coming changes to medicare and social security and medicaid at the state level.
Newt or Santorum don’t have and never had a chance to be elected as president. Ronald Reagan they ain’t.