Newt has been arguing for weeks that we need 1 conservative to face Romney who can win and the other should bow out of the race to make way for a conservative victory. Santorum showed that he's THE viable conservative in this race. Will Newt follow his own advice?
Ann Coulter at CPAC 2011 - Question & Answer Session - 2/12/11
Approx. the 10:00 mark.
The polls just didn’t try hard enough to skew these three primaries. They’ll try to do better in the future.
Willard has a real problem. When the polls say he has the nomination all wrapped up, his voters don’t bother to show up, and yesterday’s numbers are the result.
When and under what circumstances did Aldo Santorum naturalize?
Pretty remarkable when just last week Mittens led Rick by 11% in Colorado. His facade of inevitability is crumbling. And where is Newt? His campaign has imploded.
Wonder if the Newtrinos are now going to call on Ginrich to drop out and back Santorum, like they called on Santorum to drop out for the Salamander?
Full disclosure: I’m not backing ANY of the Four Horsemen for President.
We'll see. If he could just dump the "Punk" attitude.
A very good night.
Santorum and the media that have jumped on his bandwagon seems to forget that he WAS CRUSHED in SC and Florida. He campaigned in both states. Newt Gingrich beat Romney by 12 percentage points in SC, inspite of Romney spending millions in negative campaign ads against him. No one ran ads against Santorum and he was still crushed. Same thing in Florida. Santorum is a Northerner. A big spending Northerner who does not play well in the South. Last night was an impressive win for him, but it was not in the South. Newt Gingrich was not on the ballot in Missouri, if he had been I suspect he would have finished well. The only way Santorum could possibly carry a Southern state would be for Newt Gingrich to get out and endorse him. Southerners would vote for him them. They wouldn’t be too enthusiastic about it, but he’s 1000 times better than Romney, who is still despised by the average republican voter, especially in the South. Gingrich or Santorum can beat Obama. Willard the liberal can not. Let’s see how Faux News and Karl Rove spin last night’s crushing defeat for their favorite liberal.
Perspective:
Total turn out all three states combined last night: 365,000
Total turn out South Carolina alone? Over 600 thousand.
Turn out last night Versus 2008: DOWN 50%.
Now we’ll get Ann Coulter telling us all how stupid we are. Like a law degree gives you secret powers to read everyone’s mind.
GO NEWT GO!!!!
“far far away and take pelosi and the couch with you”
This is a bubble that will soon pop.
Granted, I am very pleased that Santorum knocked Romney on his butt, but there is no way Santorum should become the nominee.
I will continue to support Newt, but I an very pleased to see Santorum knock Romney down a few pegs.
Now we will watch the Romney wrecking machine attack Santorum.....
GO NEWT GO—it’s about the survival of our country!!
Question:
Did Romney throw these three non-delegate races to keep both Newt and Santorum in the contest thus continuing to divide the conservative vote? It follows the pattern the establishment and RNC has followed since 1988 to get their lackeys the nomination.