Posted on 04/09/2012 3:48:29 PM PDT by RitaOK
Mitt Romney today indicated that he has been in closer communication with Newt Gingrich in recent days than with Rick Santorum:
Romney said he wasn’t surprised by Gingrich’s sentiment, expressed over the weekend on “Fox News Sunday,” that the former Massachusetts governor had all but wrapped up the GOP presidential nomination.
“It was not a surprise, he and I have spoken from time to time, and actually we have also gotten together with our wives and spoken,” Romney said. “We’re pretty open-eyed about this, as we talk about where we are at this stage. In all likelihood I will be the one that gets the delegates to become the nominee.” …
As for his closest competitor Santorum, Romney said he didn’t speak with the former Pennsylvania senator as often.
“We haven’t had as much interaction, although at each contest’s conclusion we speak with each other,” Romney said. “I call him, he calls me, we exchange congratulations. And we’ve had a chance to chat from time to time, and we continue to have a personal respect for one another.”
So, yesterday, Newt Gingrich randomly announces that he will support Mitt Romney if Romney becomes the nominee. Today, Mitt Romney says he talks more to Newt Gingrich than to Rick Santorum. It’s enough to make you wonder if the real alliance all along was a Romney-Gingrich alliance. Rick Santorum certainly thinks Gingrich steals more voters from him than from Mitt Romney. Ron Paul, meanwhile, has been in no hurry to promise that he’ll support Mitt Romney if (when?) the former Massachusetts governor becomes the nominee.
Just kidding. I don’t think the presidential primary process works quite like Survivor, as similar as it sometimes seems. Instead, I think all the candidates are considering what’s next for them. While Romney looks forward to the nomination, Rick Santorum wants to ensure he doesn’t consign himself to irrelevance with a loss in Pennsylvania, Newt Gingrich wants to ensure he’s still known as an “ideas man” in the conservative movement and Ron Paul wants to pass his movement on to his son, Rand. Fortunately for all of them, those aims aren’t exclusive of one another.
I won’t vote Romney no matter who is his VP.
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You do realize that you need a slate of electors promised to her for that to work, don’t you? Otherwise you might just as well write in “Mickey Mouse” or yourself.
Backstabber RINO Romney MUST drop out, or the GOP is doomed.
Romney isn’t my choice. I believe he is a fascist.
I suspect the RNC has data proving Romney is electable because of independents and disaffected Democrats who are concerned about government finanaces, the Federal Reserve, and the nation’s crumbling economy.
The RNC doesn’t seem to care what the conservative voters want; the Party is Hell bent on taking over Congress and the White House by any means possible.
Do you notice how the subject of law and order, one that cuts across party lines, is being ignored?
He's a genius at selling snake oil, as are the rest of his fellow cultists, as well as the country clubbers over at the RNC and their creepy looking greedy pulled back wives.
There had damn well better be a major viable conservative third party candidate in the mold of the Founders getting into the race toot sweet.
DC and the WASHINGTONIAN REPUBLICRATS are the problem.
THE GOP MUST DIE A WELL DESERVED PAINFUL DEATH IF MYTH FLIP SLICK WILLARD ROMNEY IS IT'S NOMINEE.
Yep. I don’t think the GOPe have a problem with the police state being created, they just want to be in charge of it. Then again, I think the GOPe elite have already written off the White House for 2012.
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Then it occured to me that more people will see my opinions expressed here (in replies mostly) than will even see it there. So here I am.
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Yeah!!!! Those damn Mormons!!!! Aaaaaargh!!!!
Sorry, not going to happen. You can always vote for the Constitution Party in some states, but they will end up with the same tiny fraction of the vote they always get (.15% last time around).
So you can only be patriotic if someone in your family has served at some time, even if it wasnt you?
“...I think the GOPe elite have already written off the White House for 2012.”
No, they have not.
The GOP isn’t expecting to win with conservatives participating in huge numbers this time around, and certainly not with those who are passionately pro-life.
BHO2 has so thoroughly demolished the Democratic Party’s white working class base this gives the GOP a chance this year to take the Congress - both House and Senate - and the White House. Independents, white working-class Democrats, and Conservative “anybody but Obama” voters can carry the GOP this national election.
I believe the GOPe have the numbers to back this up.
Don’t get the idea I like this, ‘cause I do not.
” OK Rita what would your response have been if the headline was? ....... “
That is a good question.
I believe I would say, Romney knows he could buy Santorum off in exchange for a job, since Rick would want any debt paid off AND the job. If Romney ignored Newt, I would venture that Romney wants Newt kept in the freezer.
I believe Newt actually ran because he thought he could help navigate the RINOS in DC, to secure a future for the country against Marxists, but never to crawl up the GOP-E legs for a job, or for seeking relevance. That was never his style. His historic record was his relevance.
It wasn’t enough. The people perish, in their preference for blowing bubbles instead.
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The way things are unfolding, I find it quite plausible that Romney is talking a lot with Newt.
You may not be aware that Romney did suspend all negative ads in PA, while Rick is out this four days, FWIW.
Mitt Romney is a big fat “never mind” to everything tea partiers have worked for.
I wouldn’t count on conservatives getting a second chance in the next 4 to 8 years let alone any time after. The tea parties were a moment of brilliance but are little more than a fast fading memory.
He's about as "Patriotic" as Charles Manson.
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