Tied up in Michigan (Santorum slipping)

NBC/Marist poll ^ | Today | By NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, Brooke Brower, and Carrie Dann

[montag813]

The Drudge-supported promotion of misquoted media clips of Santorum/aides statements are doing the trick for Romney, as designed.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I'll say one for Santorum. He is a great source for tagline material...

[LS]

Doesn’t surprise me.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

We all want Romney gone. That's a foregone conclusion.

What you fail to realize is, following the perceived leader, without being loyal to one candidate, creates the spectacle we are now dealing with.

[Beagle8U]

If you look up a transcript of last night's ‘Special Report’ you can read about it. Slime ball Paul has no shame, and anyone who supports that POS is no conservative.

[cotton1706]

I am loyal to one candate. I was for Palin, she didn’t run. I was for Cain, he dropped out. Now I’m for Gingrich. If he doesn’t make it, I’m for Santorum. Will not vote for Romney.

[skaterboy]

it is pretty funny that newt said who loses his home state should drop out and then next couple of days we see mitt might win mi after all but newt is sinking in georgia...alas i doubt newt will be a man of his word

[dforest]

“I am loyal to one candate. I was for Palin, she didn’t run. I was for Cain, he dropped out. Now I’m for Gingrich. If he doesn’t make it, I’m for Santorum. Will not vote for Romney.”

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LOL, you just meant you were loyal to one at a time!

Kind of what has happened to me.

[Biggirl]

Rick can still pull it off.

[Biggirl]

I do not think so.

[redgolum]

LOL! A lot of Paul Bots will deny it.

[dforest]

The media and Tokyo Rove have already trotted out their excuse templates if Mitt loses in Michigan.

1. He hasn’t lived there for a long time.
2. They don’t remember his daddy
3. People only know him as Massachusetts Governor

So if Mitt does happen to lose Michigan, these are the only reasons he would lose according to Tokyo.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

I may have misread what you were saying in your previous post then.

But this mess is all due to fair weather politics. And it will end up in a disaster, unless we can pull off a Newt/Sarah ticket by a 3rd party effort, or a brokered convention option.

[Beagle8U]

Liberal dope heads, the lot of em!

[Fresh Wind]

There are those who say Paul has made a deal with the devil, uh, Romney that is. I’m not about to say they’re wrong.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Time will tell. And knowing Newt, you are in for a big surprise. If nothing else, Newt will stay in until the convention and see it through. Nobody knows more than Newt, how ridiculous a Santorum nomination would be.

Besides, the numbers are just not there for your hero.

[TBP]

I think Santorum will win there.

[LS]

BTW, with all the Santorum “satan” comments, I ask my classes that, if you hear Satanic messages when you play Led Zeppelin backwards, if you play a Satanic cult ritual backwards do you hear “Stairway to Heaven?”

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[Rick can still pull it off.]

The only thing Santorum can “pull off” is his goofy sweater vest campaign theme.

[Norseman]

I listened to Gingrich on Hannity’s radio show the other day. He kept pointing out that he had “big ideas”, that he was the candidate who thought “big”, etc.

He hasn’t figured out that we’re plenty sick of new “big ideas.” The original “big ideas” were framed in our Constitution over two centuries ago. We need a President who recognizes that and leads us back to them, not to some Newt world filled with new ones.

Every time he used the word “big”, it grated on me and reminded be of “BIG Government.” If he’s got that much of a tin ear, he’d have trouble in the general election, and it would also explain why he has so little support from those who had to work with him when he was Speaker.

That said, I’d support him over Romney, but Santorum is looking like the better choice for now.