Posted on 02/28/2012 8:38:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I do not think so. Santorum is doing a great job.”New Republic” is liberal rag.
The New Liberal saying Santorum will lose?
Wow, what a surprise!
Santorum put all his eggs in one basket and tried to knock out Romney. If you are going to shoot the King, kill the king. I think this benefits Gingrich as he secured major delegates next week in Georgia, Tennessee, and Oklahoma.
lets see New republic=commie rag
and he lost by% in MI.. running on fumes NOPE
Funny. This Commie Pinko at this Leftist rag had the opposite thing to say a couple weeks ago,..
“Why Santorum’s Not Going Away Anytime Soon”
I don’t know if this dude noticed, but Rick really damaged Romney in this. Romney was looking deranged today. Not the image of the heir apparent to the establishment GOP nomination. Santorum is also up in OH and a few other contests next Tuesday. I think good ol’ Rick can keep his voice till then.
All I can gather from this endless process is that the right can’t make up its mind on a candidate, and that indecision is likely going to leave us with Mitt Romney, who is a heel.
I really have no idea if Mittens can defeat Obama should he get the nod, but my gut tells me he can’t.
His appeal is basically that he isnt Romney and that he is super religious.
Past that you should not expect much.
We are getting down to the hour.
Can you enlighten me to how Newt already secured delegates in contests that haven't happened yet? BTW, Newt is at 10% in TN. Behind even Paul. Santorum is at 33%, Romney 17% and Paul 12%. How is Newt going to turn that around in 6 days?
Both “Aces” in my book.
Calm down. Jim picked Newt over your guy and everyone who posts for Newt, you have a melt down. It’s pitiful. :)
We should follow whatever the New Liberal press tells us to do.
Where’s the barf alert? This thread deserves one.
Hi, 2D,
I think I could have written this column!
I agree his PAC is excellent, and more so than the candidate, who is simply not seasoned enough to match the expertise and excellence of that PAC.
That NASCAR buy was brilliant!
Rick has benefited by Romney money smashing Newt.
But when you think about it, it would be settled by now in Romney’s favor, but for the PACS, as they are all that has kept Romney’s three opponents in the race at all and this long.
This was also alluded to on one of the cable panels this evening.
I hope you are right about Newt. Go Newt!
My thought is that Newt and Santorum both need to stay in this race. They are both good candidates and either an acceptable standard bearer for the GOP. I think that between them, they can still take enough delegates to stop Romney. Whatever is wrong with the majority of the GOP base? How can this RINO Romney be accomplishing this? How can we be so taken in by attack ads? Romney is destroying the republican party, no one should be supporting him. I don’t get it.
I believe “secured” is the wrong word to use for something that is going to happen in the future.
At the moment, Gingrich looks to pick up a good number of the Georgia delegates. He was trailing pretty far behind Santorum and Romney in Tennessee, but there is a week left. I haven’t seen the Oklahoma polling numbers.
There weren’t many delegates in Michigan, and it looks like Santorum got half of them. The question is whether 5000 voters is more important than the number of delegates.
If this makes Santorum look unelectable, it could damage him where he is now leading — Tennessee and Ohio, and maybe other places; it could also knock him out of 2nd place in Georgia, costing him delegates there.
If on the other hand he gets a good night’s sleep, and is seen not as a loser but as competitor that came within a few thousand votes of knocking off Romney in his “home” state, that could embolden support in the states he is currently winning, which would mean he’d have a fair number of delegates after Super Tuesday.
By “not competing”, Gingrich probably saves himself some grief. On the other hand, he won 1 state, got crushed in the next two states he fought for, and then dropped out for 5 state contests in a row. For better or worse, on the news he is treated as an afterthought. If that means he surprises people, it’s great. If that means people will forget about him except in a couple of southern states, he’ll be done.
This was probably the worst situation for beating Romney. Santorum didn’t “win”, so Romney is counted as a “winner”. But Santorum didn’t get crushed, so it doesn’t really help Gingrich.
Agree. Possibly Oh as well. Santorum thought he saw a weakness in mittens and went all in. Alas he come up a wee bit short. He may not recover.
OH on Super Tuesday will tell.
GO NEWT!
Did the casino owner give Newt’s PAC the extra $100 million yet or won’t we know until the next quarter’s FEC filings?
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