Ha ha.
Good ones...not.
Santorum was in it all the way too.
He said they would have to add rooms on the WH to accommodate his large family.
He never let on that PA was going to be his waterloo.
That was a fact, unless he could overwhelm Romney enough to win that politically odd and tough state, without going deeply into debt just to try, with no guarantee of winning.
And it was fact that he could not ABIDE losing that state AGAIN, nor AFFORD to fight Romney for it.
He KNEW it.
His minions didn’t know it.
You will pretend not to know it, but I have no reason to pretend.
One more thing...he also KNEW that his delegate performance was poor, relative to his popular votes and his votes in caucus states.
Romney and Paul clean up in delegates.
Santorum WON the state of MO, but he will come away with only 7 of its 52 delegates, and ultimately even those pitiful few will support Romney.
This is just one example of many, that he had to know as this campaign unfolded.
That his minions never did understand.
And he didn’t clue them in, and he hurt Newt every second he stayed in on the power mainly of Evangelicals and radio talk show hosts.
Meanwhile, PA was a drop dead date.
He understood, even if his minions didn’t.
That’s why I played around with your “jackass” perjoritive directed at Newt, but you had Santorum in the same post and I thought, let’s reorder the words and get this RIGHT.
It must be nice to live in the land of make believe.
Newt said he’d be in the race all the way to the Convention. Santorum tosses in the towel, and good old Newt follows suit in short order.
I guess I shouldn’t expect someone delusional enough to still be supporting Newt, to be smart enough to be able to see his treachery for what it was.
Couldn’t see he didn’t have a prayer, but supported him anyway. BTW, hows that brokered Convention thingie looking about now?
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha, bwa ha ha ha ha ha...
That was awesome.
I have to agree with this. Santorum did better than Newt, but he never had a chance to win because too many conservatives recognized he could never win a national general election. Santorum was 2012's version of Mike Huckabee (2008) and Pat Robertson (1988). Santorum and Huckabee may be good family folks, but they would have no chance in an actual general election nationally. Newt could have been a consensus candidate, but social conservatives seem determined to go with the scripture quoting guy rather than considering anyone we can all coalesce behind. Outside of social issues, it is not even like Santorum had some great conservative economic record that could even attract fiscal conservatives. All he had was the social issues and that simply is not enough to attract enough conservatives even at the base and grass roots level to be viable against the establishment candidate.
I just don't see how this impasse is resolved easily. All it will likely take to splinter the conservative GOP base again in 2016 or 2020 is for Rick Santorum to run yet again. He will get the same voters, which is to say, just enough to keep a consensus conservative alternative from rising through the primaries.
RE: Santorum won MO but will come away with only 7 of its 52 delegates.
That’s a little disingenuous and hearkens back to the age old expression “putting the cart before the horse.”
Santorum was going to get most ALL of Missouri’s delegates, but then he dropped out.
Because Santorum dropped out, his supporters at the regional conventions didn’t have a leg to stand on, so to speak. Hence, the conventions were in disarray and the vote was pretty much split between the remaining candidates.
I know because I was there!
Had Santorum stayed in the race, you would have seen 50+ delegates going towards Santorum.
Anyway, I don’t think you meant anything by it, but your comment was a bit misleading and I thought I’d clear the air: Santorum had all those delegates. He simply needed to remain in the race.
However, Santorum quit and his supporters at the regional conventions were forced to choose between riding a dead horse or switching to one still standing.
Ergo, you CAN’T use Missouri to make your claim that Santorum “knew that his delegate performance was poor.”
Like I said, “cart before the horse,” my friend.
Cheers