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Santorum let his moment come, then go
thehill.com ^ | 02/29/12 08:30 PM ET | By Niall Stanage

Posted on 03/01/2012 5:18:23 AM PST by VU4G10

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To: Apollo5600

It reveals a desperation and a willingness to do anything to get the nomination. Considering the attack ads Santorum has run against Newt, and the negative (and false) things he has said about other conservatives during the race, and now this, Santorum isn’t as principled as he pretends. . . .

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If you lose the primary you are out, in politics most politicians will tell you that the ends justify the means. Unfortunate, but true.


61 posted on 03/01/2012 2:43:00 PM PST by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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To: ansel12

I find it less amusing that stopping Santorum seems more important to Gingrich supporters than stopping Romney.


62 posted on 03/01/2012 2:58:28 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

More ridiculous Romney serving, conservative attacking, anti Gingrich BS from freerepublic’s top romneybot.


63 posted on 03/01/2012 3:02:46 PM PST by ansel12 (Newt Gingrich knows how to deconstruct Obama in a head to head race, and that is what it will take.)
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To: ansel12

You are always good for a laugh. like a broken record.


64 posted on 03/01/2012 5:14:21 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

The broken record is you always trying to block conservatism from gaining the upper hand.


65 posted on 03/01/2012 5:23:40 PM PST by ansel12 (Newt Gingrich knows how to deconstruct Obama in a head to head race, and that is what it will take.)
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To: ansel12

The biggest problem for Newt is that people perceive him as a braggart, an authoritarian, and opportunistic.

He didn’t run because he thought he would have a chance, thats why he took off during his “campaign” to go on a cruise with Calista as his staff abandoned him in disgust, he ran because it ups the price for speeches and such.

Even during the first debates this time, right here on FR, people said he was a good debater, but he was Newt the RINO.

Now all at once he is a stalwart conservative hero. LOL


66 posted on 03/01/2012 5:34:52 PM PST by dforest
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To: dforest

The biggest problem for Newt is that as one of our most effective conservative leaders in history, the media set out to destroy him from the beginning.

There has never been a time when the media was not hammering an anti Gingrich message at you, not during his entire career.

In a head to head presidential race against Obama, Newt would spend 500 million dollars and have himself to show in front of the public as the Republican alternative, the true visionary, and the contrast between a man of history and the weak, pretender of the Democrats.

Man against man, Obama is no match against Gingrich.

That is something that the white Obamas could not do, nondescript attorneys both of them.


67 posted on 03/01/2012 6:13:14 PM PST by ansel12 (Newt Gingrich knows how to deconstruct Obama in a head to head race, and that is what it will take.)
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To: ansel12

Newt causes a lot of his own problems. Conservatives don’t support issues like Cap & Trade. It is a moneymaker though for those invested in the wheeling and dealing. A lot of the support for the fraud was the money to be gained for individuals.

The media pays very little attention to Newt. The only place he has shown up in the last few years is on FOX or the Nancy couch commercial. I have never seen him mistreated at FOX when he was a contributor.


68 posted on 03/01/2012 6:22:57 PM PST by dforest
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To: cripplecreek

There were two elections Tuesday and Santorum lost both.


69 posted on 03/01/2012 6:29:50 PM PST by csmusaret (I have kleptomania, but when it gets too bad I take something.)
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To: dforest

Sure, no conservative giant ever gets good treatment from the media.

Our conservative giants, Reagan, Gingrich, Palin, Helms, never have a good day with the media.

Even GOP moderates want to keep them from winning.


70 posted on 03/01/2012 6:30:44 PM PST by ansel12 (Newt Gingrich knows how to deconstruct Obama in a head to head race, and that is what it will take.)
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To: csmusaret

Or we could say losing by a small margin beats not competing at all.


71 posted on 03/01/2012 6:37:23 PM PST by dforest
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To: ansel12

Do you have a book of trite phrases you pick from randomly, or are you actually trying to think things up on the fly?


72 posted on 03/01/2012 6:45:25 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

As FR’s top pro-Romney guy you have probably heard it all from us anti-Romney people.


73 posted on 03/01/2012 6:49:40 PM PST by ansel12 (Newt Gingrich knows how to deconstruct Obama in a head to head race, and that is what it will take.)
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