This is about denying Romney the nomination. Newt almost certainly can’t get enough delegates to win outright. The point is to vote for Newt so that Romney doesn’t win first place, loses delegates, and a floor fight at the convention determines the nominee. What Newt is doing with his donor list is utterly meaningless to this goal and irrelevant to this thread.
For Gingrich to pull out any shot of winning any more delegates, he needs cash. Since he’s already 4.5 million dollars in the hole, he needs to raise around 10 million dollars in the next 30 days to pay down his debt and buy any kind of media. He has no superpac funding and little if any money coming in, so he is renting his donor list, which is the last desperate act of ANY politician in a campaign because it PUTS OFF potential donors who don’t want unsolicited donor requests. Renting your donor list is primarily used to pay off existing campaign debt.
But sure, it has NOTHING to do with the campaign. You’re political acumen is top-notch, sport. Don’/t quit your day job.
It’s irrelevant because we’re not here to PREDICT who wins the primary. Go watch some urban elite talking head pundit panel on TV for that. We’re here to PARTICIPATE in the primary. We’re not talking about what’s LIKELY, we’re talking about what CAN be done. The fact remains the primary is barely halfway over, and Mitt Moneybags has barely half the delegates he needs to clinch the nomination. The fact remains that if the Massachusetts Mormon loses most of the next 20 states, he DOESN’T GET the nomination. No one cares what’s likely. Did the patriots at Valley Forge sit around talking about what was the “likely” outcome? The fact is as long as it’s POSSIBLE to deny Romney the nomination, every conservative should be working to make that happen. And it most definitely is. If we get enough to people to vote against Romney, he will lose.