Posted on 01/10/2012 6:39:32 PM PST by Museum Twenty
"Tonight's results in New Hampshire show the race for 'conservative alternative' to Mitt Romney remains wide open. I skipped New Hampshire and aimed my campaign right at conservative South Carolina, where we've been campaigning hard and receiving an enthusiastic welcome. I believe being the only non-establishment outsider in the race, the proven fiscal and social conservative and proven job creator will win the day in South Carolina.
"South Carolina is the next stop. I have a head start here, and it's friendly territory for a Texas governor and veteran with solid outsider credentials, the nation's best record of job creation, and solid fiscal, social and Tea Party conservatism."
The only thing Rick Perry can accomplish is to siphon votes away from a more viable conservative.
PING
Perry complains about the 1 pcts tonight he is lucky to hit 1pct lol
Pick a Conservative going forward to SC..
New Hampshire
NEWT 11%
Santo 10%
Perry 1%
It’s like the night of the living moonbats on FOX News. Two liberals and a batsh!t crazy liberaltarian whooping it up.
>>The only thing Rick Perry can accomplish is to siphon votes away from a more viable conservative.
I agree with no disrepect to the Perry supporters.
You remind me an awful lot of Bucky81...any relation? He was all anti-Perry as well...
0.7% Perry needs to drop out. That will give more time in the debates to Gingrich and Santorum. :)
Fox was talking to Palin about Mitt’s win. She was defending Newt somewhat then they cut her off to go to the boring Huntsman’s speech.
Time for Perry to call it a day. He`s done.
I guess you’re right, a fellow who did volunteer and did serve his country, willingly in the military, against a fellow who took a deferrment to do missionary work in Catholic France for the Morman church, (draft dodger). AND his FOUR sons felt it was beneath their dignity to serve in America’s military for a minimum of time. Great President and his loving “special” family. NO, I do not care for the Republican leaders and presstitues favorite leader in this primary, Mit Romney, he’s too used to special treatment. I don’t care for that.
How many beers did Perry drink today?
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary Polling Data
Romney Santorum Gingrich Paul Perry
PPPolling 30 19 23 9 5
Rasmussen 27 24 18 11 5
CNN/Time 37 19 18 12 5
The answer is 5 for the spoiler.
We don’t need any more bloody debates like the last one moderated by the rat supporter Georgie Boy !!!!!
I don't think we need anymore debates. All we're going to hear now is the candidates restating their positions. We know what they're positions are.
Never heard of him but if you wanna take a poll here at FR..
Should Perry drop out now that he barely got 0.7% tonight???
I bet 80% for say,
HELL YES!
My friends, Rick is over, actually both Ricks. Please don’t split the votes in South Carolina, it is a Romney win. Rick Perry can’t win.
RuPaul might as well drop out too. He’s just going to get embarrassed in South Carolina. I know he won’t but he should. RuPaul is not going to do well in the next two primaries.
Strange, Perry came in 2nd on the FR poll just yesterday. I’ll venture to say that 80% plus of the folks on FR wish you would drop out.
Appreciate your alleged “conservativism”...
I voted for Perry here in Iowa.
But with less than 1%; he is done. The window to stop Romney is narrowing very fast.
It is looking like we will have vomit in the back of our throats in November, and a terrible choice to make.
How did we get to this point? Why do we have no viable conservative candidates?
Perry should drop out.
A vote for Perry is a vote for Romney.
It might be that Rick Perry is somehow being paid off by the Romney camp to stay in the race to split the anti-Romney vote.
Perry has zero chance. He has established himself as an imbecile and destroyed any credibility he might have had.
A vote for Perry is a vote for Romney.
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By that logic, we should start at the bottom of NH's list, not the top. I want nothing to do with whichever candidates the squishy, mealy-mouthed moderate Republicans in NH like the most. They voted for Mitt Romney and whats-his-name Huntsman, for crying out loud. Ugh.
With Ron Paul and Huntsman coming in second and third respectively, it appears to be a wise decision on his part.
This is far from over.........
There was nothing surprising about Romney's win tonight. With an open primary, none of it was surprising.
How did we get to the point where two open primaries with a handful of delegates have decided the whole damn race!
I am so sick of the wall-to-wall news coverage saying it’s over. Didn’t Hilliary win NH big?
I say there’s plenty of time to undo this mess if we don’t give up.
We'd better hope that Rick Santorum isn't over, because he is the *only* realistic alternative to Romney.
Perry is too stupid, Gingrich is too slimy, and Paul is too extreme.
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I just heard Jim DeMint on Mark Levin. (last 10 mins of the show) He thinks Perry is fading in SC and Newt is losing support due to the Bain attack. He said he was very disappointed about the Bain attack. Last of all..he said he believes Romney will pull it off in SC.
Perry's already in SC. His ads started running in SC a little more than an hour ago.
Looks like Romney will continue to face a divided opposition. Unfortunately
Thank you!
New Hampshire has a little over 1 million people. We are a country of 300 million people, so New Hampshire has 1/3 of a percent of the voters. Mitt Romney got 36% of the vote in a state that has 1/3 of a percent of the people in this country. How can you say this is significant?
That has nothing to do with it. The candidates have roughly the same support in most states.
The problem is not 2 smaller states going first. The problem is the lack of a viable conservative candidate running.
Use your brain cells and not your emotions. It's N-e-w H-a-m-p-s-h-i-r-e, an O-P-E-N primary in a liberal, northern state. And stop with the panicking. What? You want a few thousand liberals to choose your nominee for you instead of seeing what happens down south? It's not time for people to drop out until SC/FL. If you're so sure I'm wrong, it's time for you and all these other obsessed Perry-haters to start making your argument with facts instead of panicked emo behavior.
Go ahead. I'm listening. I want to see the math. Who knows? You may even convince me and others if you can make a coherent argument.
DeMint is WRONG. The Bain attacks will work in SC. Also the ads showing liberal Romney cozing up to homosexuals, and being for abortion the majority of his and probably still is.
DeMint supported Romney in 2008, don’t be surprised if he does it again.
One REAL CONSERVATIVE who will not support the liberal is
Sarah Palin. DeMint is a joke as far as Tea Parties go. He should get divorced and marry that sorry ass governor who supported the liberal.
Thanks for the info. I feel better after reading your post. I feel the need for some Irish Creme right now!
Doesn't this crap ever get old with you guys? I know I grew tied of it some time ago, and it isn't gaining any better odor as it ages.
Our elections are no longer being run by scrupulous people. This entire primary process needs to be fixed!
Perry’s done because of NH? He didn’t even go there.
I have a different view. Romney will be savaged from all sides in a state where he has little or no natural base. Better he has to fend off attacks from multiple directions. Otherwise he could focus all his resources on smearing only one conservative. I think Romney will have a very difficult time bettering the 15.3 percent he managed in South Carolina last time.
There is plenty of time for a conservative alternative to emerge, especially after the meaningless fiasco in New Hampshire.
It seems the people on FR don’t understand that Iowa was a caucus and NH an open primary state. This isn’t over by a long shot.
You need to change your jockeys. That pantload you are carrying around is really stinking up the place.
How did we get to this point? Why do we have no viable conservative candidates?
Can you say open primaries?
Until the Republican Party gets their act together this is the way it will be.
He's not doing well in South Carolina either. If he can't do well in the south...where?
I must have missed the shift in the timeline, as I could have sworn that Santorium lost his senate seat to a Democrat, and not by a hair, but a huge margin in what was supposed to be a close race. And I could have sworn that Rick Perry's a sitting governor who has delivered more votes than every other person running in the race combined in his last re-election campaign.
Oh well, I'll go read how the time stream has changed and see how well Santorium's done as the head of his senate committee...
The 2nd question is when. When is the "point of no return" where it truly is too late? All these obsessed and/or hysterical people flitting around from thread to thread are confusing the issue and spreading negative "group think" that's counter-productive. Of course, that may be their goal.
Who has a good website that's keeping up with the delegate math? Anyone?
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