Posted on 03/15/2012 7:21:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Santorum is kidding himself, as people do on ego trips, bent on winning a nomination he’d waste, and the country be damned but he must have the hollow victory.
Ok. I will bite. I absolutely have zero problem with a Newt nominee. Now you tell me after winning two states how he is going to get the nomination at the convention. There is no way that he will get the nominee even there with 2 small wins under his belt. Things could have been different. He could have run his campaign better. Skipping almost every state was not a good idea. He ran hard in MS and AL and lost. The very places that he is strong in. I don’t know why people won’t vote for Newt. I think it is that people find Santorum more conservative, principled, family values candidate. The thing people don’t understand about Santorum is that he will get the blue collar workers who can’t stand Obama right now. Newt is going to fight Obama over the “higher educated on paper and higher income” type of people....problem is there is not enough of them.
The vitriol from some Freepers toward Santorum borders on insanity.
And I agree with you that “a few’ Freepers would like to see Rom. win for less than noble reasons.
It’s interesting that Rick supporters don’t bash other candidates with one tenth of the degree of nastiness as our esteemed “angry” Freepers. To me, it says alot about the quality of the people who are supporting Rick...and conversely, the character of the people who are supporting ______.
“as people do on ego trips,”
Hmm..LL, this actually applies to one of the OTHER candidates, dont’cha think?
Great response to LL, naps.
Thanks! Have a great weekend!
Wouldn’t surprise me if Newt is finished. Voters go where herded by the media, they fall for good looks or smooth talking.
Voters are stupid. Look who’s POTUS.
Conservatives need to face the reality of the 21st century voter’s brain. It’s diseased; by decades of chronic poisoning. In 1980 there were still enough sane, rational, civic-minded Americans to get Reagan elected. Not now.
Conservatism needs a good salesman and a miracle worker just to stay on message, never mind prevail. To prevail we probably need to make blood run in the streets, and we are not inclined that way.
Why, of course. At least one.
I was looking forward to the debate in Portland..hoping some very urgent issues would be discussed and also have noticed noone is asking about the UN. Wanted to hear the candidates talk about the soldier in Afghanistan; more clarity on what the hell we are doing in Africa and of course more on the economy. The tv ads, journalistic hit pieces just dont do it for me...I prefer verbal exchanges on ideas between the candidates and NO there hasnt been enough debates.
As for LL...she is right on Santorum. He needs to get back to the economy and address how he will deal with it. Off the contraceptives and porn ...it will hurt him if he doesnt do a turn around.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2859843/posts
I think we are being duped anyway. I have decided that all the infighting between Newt and Santorum supporters are for nothing. The establishment is going to force Romney on us whether we want him or not. I am so disappointed. We had a prime opportunity for a conservative (either Newt or Santorum) and we are going to be STUCK with Romney. I can’t get behind Newt because he can’t get people to vote for him so Santorum just seems like the logical pick and he is great. But I think we are going to get screwed. This is so depressing.
Read my 49. I would love to hear from you on this....Thanks!
You notice, this year has been set up to favor the establishment guy, even if he loses. LOL
No wonder turnout is poor. There is also a reminder in your link to us voters that the delegates are also establishment folks, so don’t get uppity. Good grief.
How many times have the media and establishment lied to you about "electability"?
Do you remember Bob Dole, McCain, Ford, etc.?
Take heart,naps. The Inevitable One is vulnerable. Trust me.
“When I was speaker, we balanced the budget for four years, and when Santorum was in the leadership, they borrowed $1.7 trillion,” Gingrich said. “There’s a big difference between fiscal conservatism and politics as usual.”
I hope they fight until the very end and force Romney to battle for every single delegate to the nth degree.
Newt has 175,000 contributers. If they gave another $200 on average that would be an additional $35 million dollars.
We can still pull this out.
“Get morals and you find the economy will go along with it.”
George W Bush was moral. He left the economy in chaos.
Agreed. I also wonder why it is that folks assume that if either Mitt or Rick is the nominee that all of the R money will get behind them (if it’s truly ABO) but that if Newt is the nominee it won’t? The money will be there for the R candidate, shouldn’t the candidate be a knowledgable one who can get the job done? I’d put any supposed PAST “baggage” of Newt’s up against the CURRENT baggage of BHO.
He is going to scare the heck out of a LOT of voters, but do you know what scares me more? When he leaves office and another BHO (or worse) gets in and uses the precedent to advance his/her agenda.
OK, so we get a brokered convention.
Who would we end up with?
Mitch Daniels? Bobby Jindhal? Jeb Bush?
(please, not another Bush).
Perry?!? Pawlenty?!
If it was anyone who’s running, including Newt, it begs the question of why they couldnt close the sale in the primary.
At least it would stop Romney, but it has maybe a 1% chance of happening IMHO.
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