Like hell. Not after what he pulled. His big ego split the vote in 5 states which, if Santorum won, would have changed this race dramatically. Those five states are Alaska, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Washington. This is not to mention the vote split helped Romney pick up delegates down South. This would have killed Romney’s momentum, and Santorum could have been frontrunner. Newt still had a chance to save things; when things started to pick up for Romney the past few weeks, he could dropped out and supported Santorum and urged his delegates to support Santorum, likely giving him Wisconsin. No, Newt hung in there in debt, visiting zoos and museums, all but saying that Romney is the inevitable nominee recently. He put his ego and fantasy hopes for a brokered convention ahead of stopping Mitt Romney. I got the feeling from him that if he couldn’t get it, Santorum couldn’t either. We had a chance at stopping Romney, and he was a factor in why we couldn’t. Now Santorum has suspended his campaign, and Newt is thrilled because he can now call himself the conservative alternative? Forget it. I don’t like him (I used to), and I don’t like Romney. I’m still debating whether I’ll hold my nose for Romney to stop Obama.
“Like Hell” is absolutely right. Newt alone is responsible for giving us Romney with his quixotic campaign. Had Romney been defeated in MI and OH, it would have been an early end of the road for Romney. Gingrich has baggage heavy enough to sink a fleet of cruise liners. He should have quit after the broad-based thrashing he received in Florida.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Even if you add Rick and Newt’s votes together they come out less than Romney’s in Wisconsin.
The big problem is that grass roots religious right conservatives switched to Rick Santorum after following the commands of their pastors like lemmings. He never had a chance on his own merits. Many a commentator on FR predicted in February that the race was over and Romney would be the winner as soon as support switched to the untested, unvetted Santorum and away from Newt.
One proven conservative and one proven liberal remain standing in the primary. Where do YOU stand?
Don’t forget to add Newt’s recent call for Santorum to step down, which included the twist of the knife when he said to the reporter that Rick couldn’t take Michigan and Ohio. After Newt had split the conservative vote!
This would be cool, Pink, if Rick were running, but he suspended his campaign yesterday. If you want to blow something up, maybe you could go blow up on a Santorum thread.
Since Santorum is no longer running, this could be called a Gingrich thread and be pretty close to accurate.