“They think Newt or Santorum would lose 35 States?!”
Yes they do. latest head to head polls had Newt down 18 points vs Obama. He’s a better candidate than Dole was in 1996, but his negatives are sky high, and Obama will not have to work that hard to keep those negatives high, with the media helping him.
Doubtful Santorum would do that poorly, but the media hates him and is on a search and destroy mission. The media will not stop until every liberal loathes Santorum with a passion and they will go 24/7 to make the election about birth control and gays etc. instead of about job and economy.
“If so, then Conservatvism is dead, at least in the Republican Party. “
Not really. We just need an electable conservative, fierce, disciplined and without any skeletons in the closet.
——“They think Newt or Santorum would lose 35 States?!”
Yes they do.——
If Santorum loses, it will be completely over, because he would be our best candidate since Reagan (think of the others). Might as well go down with a true conservative.
But with the economy the way it is, I suspect a Reagan-sized landslide.