Posted on 01/18/2012 6:21:59 AM PST by rocky88
Buoyed by his strong debate performance in Myrtle Beach, Newt Gingrich has called his rivals to drop out of the race because "consolidating into a Gingrich candidacy" would "virtually guarantee victory" in the South Carolina primary and stop Mitt Romney becoming the Republican nominee.
Making the case to a crowd of almost 200 in an art gallery in the old railroad junction town of Florence, South Carolina he said: "If you look at the polling, I’m the only conservative who realistically has a chance to be the nominee.
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Pride cometh before a fall.
Santorum: Voted to impose a uniform federal tax mandate on states to force them to allow convicted , rapists, arsonists drug kingpins and all other ex-convicts to vote in federal elections.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00031
Luckily, this amendment FAILED because only 31 senators supported it, but LOOK at the company Santorum kept:Akaka (D-HI), Yea Bingaman (D-NM), Yea Boxer (D-CA), Yea Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Cleland (D-GA), Yea Clinton (D-NY), Yea Corzine (D-NJ), Yea Daschle (D-SD), Yea Dayton (D-MN), Yea DeWine (R-OH), Yea Durbin (D-IL), Yea Feingold (D-WI), Yea Hollings (D-SC), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea Jeffords (I-VT), Yea Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Levin (D-MI), Yea Lieberman (D-CT), Yea Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Miller (D-GA), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea Reid (D-NV), Yea Santorum (R-PA), Yea Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea Specter (R-PA), Yea Wellstone (D-MN), Yea
Santorum: VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS, paid for by reductions in state grants.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00179
HERE is just a subset of the most well-known DEMS that Santorum sided with...Biden (D-DE), Nay Boxer (D-CA), Nay Clinton (D-NY), Nay Corzine (D-NJ), Nay Dayton (D-MN), Nay Dodd (D-CT), Nay Durbin (D-IL), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Nay Harkin (D-IA), Nay Jeffords (I-VT), Nay Kennedy (D-MA), Nay Kerry (D-MA), Nay Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Leahy (D-VT), Nay Levin (D-MI), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay Obama (D-IL), Nay Reid (D-NV), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay Santorum (R-PA), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay Specter (R-PA), Nay
Santorum: Voted AGAINST increasing the number of immigration investigators:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00201
Santorum sided with the DEMS and RINO's here too. Here are just some better known names...Biden (D-DE), Nay Boxer (D-CA), Nay Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Chafee (R-RI), Nay Clinton (D-NY), Nay Collins (R-ME), Nay Dayton (D-MN), Nay Dodd (D-CT), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Nay Graham (R-SC), Nay Harkin (D-IA), Nay Jeffords (I-VT), Nay Kennedy (D-MA), Nay Kerry (D-MA), Nay Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Levin (D-MI), Nay Lieberman (D-CT), Nay McCain (R-AZ), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay Obama (D-IL), Nay Reid (D-NV), Nay Rockefeller (D-WV), Nay Santorum (R-PA), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay Snowe (R-ME), Nay Specter (R-PA), Nay
The competition will be driven out by lack of funds or votes. He lost in Iowa because of the unbelievable amount of unanswered negative ads. He’s in second place in SC. I’m not selling my soul I’m making a political choice. I’m not voting for Preacher-in- Chief!!!
Newt as a debater is tops. Obama would be floored if the debates were open and not rehearsed. I can see Newt as causing Obama to stay away from an open debate. But the Newt baggage will be pounded into us ad-nauseam by the MSM. I’m sorry to say that the GOP has no one that will drive the Independents to the polls. IMHO, its not a mater of ABO, its just that there is no fire there to motivate a large turn out. I’m seeing a lot of 2012 Obama stickers here in a largely Republican area. When Palin and Cain were forced out the fire disappeared. What is left is Blaaaaaah. Blaaaah won’t win. Romney, Newt et.al., won’t do it, and the Dems, know it. I would go with Newt though, because he knows how to answer Obama in an open debate. (If he is allowed to. I’m sure Obama’s handlers will try their best to only allow a controlled debate.)
I may agree with your opinion of Paul the candidate, but he is well organized and funded and has a devoted following, many of them young. Why should he drop out? He has done well in Iowa and NH, the only places that have actually cast votes.
Non of the other candidates have reached perfection on all of the issues you state. Get Real...they’re politicians. The only thing you have to go on is what you personally think they will do now!!
Palin wasn’t forced out ...she failed to get in!!!
you can’t fight those in the gutter by taking the high road every time, isn’t that right rastermaster? This is one of those times. Santorum is a pawn, not a king. same for perry and paul.
The Dems will have a field day with Newt’s baggage. A lot of it will be new to most Americans. Newt has been out of elective office for a dozen years.
Well, I would disagree, strongly.
Don’t forget his vote against right to work!
Where do you live in FL?
Can you name one republican Ron Paul has worked to elect. If he is a libertarian which he claims to be why isn’t he running as a libertarian. He only becomes a republican every four years when the elections roll around..in other words he is a Republican in name only!!!
I am worried what they will do now. Newt has said and written that he supports amnesty.
Any legislation that legalizes the status of those who broke our laws by entering our country illegally and allows them to stay is amnesty. We must not only prevent the Democrats and some moderate Republicans from hijacking the meaning of the word amnesty, but the public must be made aware about the true impact of an amnesty. The Heritage Foundation concluded that the cost of amnesty would be $2.6 trillion just for increased entitlement program costs. And the number of additional LEGAL immigrants who would join those who were the recipients of amnesty through chain migration, i.e., family reunification, would approach 70 million over a 20-year period, assuming there are only 12 million illegal aliens. We cannot assimilate such numbers. An amnesty would destroy the United States of America with the stroke of a pen.
Which candidate is clean on this issue!
Well, he appointed himself, of course, because he's just smarter than the rest of us. If you can't appreciate it, then you are the one who is stupid.
Pay no attention to the fact that Gingrich actually finished behind Santorum in 2 of 2 contests so far.
Seriously, though, this type of hotdogging is exactly why Newt turns a lot of people off. Even if he is the star debate performer and the smartest man in the room.
Santorum voted for Sotomayor to the appellate court.
I like a lot of things about Newt, but this whining for everyone else to get out and give him a clear shot is annoying.
Rick Santorum said the same thing recently. Everyone get out, waaa, waaa, you’re taking my votes.
At this VERY early stage in the game, this is premature.
Why are we so sheeplike that we let the media determine that South Carolina or any one state choose our candidates.
The number of electoral votes earned so far is miniscule.
Rick Perry is gaining favorables, while Santorum has shot himself in the foot, groin and every area he can reach as far as I’m concerned.
I like Newt but he’s more than capable of doing or saying something really stupid that will cost him support.
To decide this now with three conservatives left, you want to kick out one of them ??
If you don’t like Newt, and a whole lot of people Do NOT like Newt, do you want to have to settle for Mr. Rogers Santorum with his stupid ideas on social security, pandering to felons on guns and his iffy record in congress?
I don’t.
Ron Paul is not even a Republican, let alone a conservative one.
I know there are 'followers' of Ron Paul who think they're conservatives, but that's a topic for another thread....
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