Posted on 01/04/2012 5:16:30 AM PST by Slyscribe
“Newt, Paul or even Perry would have been a better choice. Santorum is good on social issues thou, I will give him that.”
Newt isn’t particularly credible, and has enough baggage to sink a battleship. I will never forget the image of him sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelegrosi stating his support for the destruction of our economy and global competitiveness.
I actually like most of Paul’s positions, but his stance on America’s military posture is laughable. He should never be Commander in Chief. Further, his newsletter baggage would sink him in the general election.
Perry would actually be fine with me, but he stumbled too badly in the debates and is ending his campaign.
Rick Santorum is actually the last, best hope if you don’t want to watch Plastic Mitt lose to 0. I’m quite convinced that’s the way it’ll go if he’s the nominee. Too many Republicans will be turned off by a quasi-Democrat, flip-flopping Mormon. And yes I think Plastic Mitt’s religion will be a major issue regardless of it being discussed or not. I wouldn’t be too surprised to see 0bama doing some Bible-thumping if Romney’s the candidate... ;-)
By the way, even if Santorum were to lose to 0, I’d rather he be the candidate. At least he’d be articulating conservative positions during the campaign, which might resonate after four more disastrous years of 0.
Did he?
Romney won by 8 caucus votes by spending millions versus Santorum spending virtually nothing.
Romney received virtually the same number of caucus votes in Iowa as he did in 2008....showing he is not gaining favoritism among Iowans.
Romney received a lower percentage of the caucus vote in Iowa than he did in 2008....supporting the last statement above.
Romney's baggage is continuously holding him at 25%...and that is only from poorly informed Republicans who think Romney is the only electable one left.
I’ve said many times... If not Newt, it will be Romney.
Some may say that Santorum can go all the way. They’re argue: Romney’s glass ceiling is 25 to 30%. Once other Not Romney’s drop out, there will be a coalescing around Santorum. That coalescing could equal 50 to 60% (minus the Paul/Huntsman effect).
But all that assumes that Romney’s glass ceiling stays intact. It probably won’t for many reasons - inevitability factor, media driven perception that only Romney can win or beat Obama, bandwagon effect, and peoples tendency to vote for who you they think is going to win, momentum coming out of the first two states, perception that Santorum doesn’t have the legs to go the distance, etc..
Santorum has 6 days before N.H. and 16 days before S.C. to raise enough money and credible enough organization to compete against Romney. Tall order. However, there are the super PACs and Santorum has one. It could take in large sums of money quickly and be a factor. Still, the odds in this category are not favorable to Santorum.
Santorum damaged Newt and the odds favoring Romney have now gotten much greater.
“Romney won by 8 caucus votes by spending millions versus Santorum spending virtually nothing.”
Yet he won, and will likely win in New Hampshire also. The media will spend a lot more time touting the win than pointing out how close it was.
Santorum worked Iowa very hard (and it is a shame he didn’t pull off 9 more votes;), he won’t be able to do anything similar from here on out. Now he’ll be facing the full weight of Romney’s organization and money. Also, the Republican establishment seems set on a Romney nomination.
Rick Santorum has a very steep mountain to climb if he’s to win. I just saw something about a Bachmann announcement, I sure hope she drops out. That would give Santorum a measurable boost, especially if she endorses him.
Yet Huckabee won Iowa in 2008 by a massive margin and it resulted in nothing for him.
You overestimate the importance of Iowa and New Hampshire to GOP voters. Both are polluted votes.
Santorum did no such thing, and Newt said as much in his speech last night.
I saw one Iowa event where the Romney-ites behind him looked like paid emotionless supporters. They were not smiling at all.
“Yet Huckabee won Iowa in 2008 by a massive margin and it resulted in nothing for him.”
I will say that I hope McRomney’s (just saw that handle on another thread, it’s a good one too) Iowa win will work out for him just as Huckabee’s did. =:-D
There is a major difference, though, in that Huckabee was not the anointed one for the last cycle.
We’ll see, and I hope you’re right. I encourage all who can afford it to donate to Santorum’s campaign - he’s going to need big advertising money.
Does Santorum have an uphill battle? Absolutely. Will Mitt and the Karl Rove wing of the Republican party put their bullseye towards him? Yup. But the conservative vote was so split up that what Santorum pulled off was nothing short of amazing. The RINOS were unified by Mittens. Now we need to get behind Santorum.
What Karl Rove et al need to understand is that Romney is NOT electable. Whether the Republican machine likes it or not, they need the worker bees of the conservative base. We've let them put out Dole, GWB, and McCain. It's our turn to put somebody out there.
Don’t want to rain on the Santorum parade, but folks should recall that his showing in Iowa mirrored Huckabee’s last time around and we all know what became of Huck — he’s now a talking head on Fox.
Santorum is not going to win SC. After practically living in Iowa for a year he could only come in 2nd. He can’t spend that much time anywhere else. He is a good guy but he does not have the national appeal, money or infrastructure. He will probably not even make it to SC. That’s Newt territory.
The slimefest is already started.
One of my liberal facebook friends posted up a story claiming that Santorum and his wife had an abortion for Gabriel Michael, instead of a surgery the baby was unable to handle that caused them to have to deliver very prematurely.
This latest attack made me re-think if I should even have this person on my friends list.
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