This true conservative can live with Santorum. While not my first pick for president, he is the only one left standing that I can vote for without holding my nose.
It’s time for Rick Perry and Newt to drop out before it’s too late for the conservative side of the equation.
No it is not time for Perry and Gingrich to drop out. No candidate, including Romney, can clinch the nomination until well into April because of the way the RNC designed the delegate allocation this primary season. We have plenty of time to look at all three non-Romney candidates. While we’re doing that, each of them has the opportunity to make their best arguments to us and build a national campaign structure. A couple of weeks before Super Tuesday is essentially our deadline to pick one of those three to unite behind.
Still stuck on the concept of 100% ideological purity, eh? Newt may be a flawed conservative, but he loves this country and its Constitution, and will fight the leftists like no one else on our side.
He's also had a whole lot of experience in the halls of power, and knows how the Washington game works. Even better than Santorum, who was never in a leadership position in Congress (as far as I know).
Santorum may have come within a few votes of winning Iowa, but I'm afraid that's his high water mark. He's been at or near the bottom in polling since the primary contest began, and will not catch fire hot enough to win a plurality of the primary contests.
That leaves Newt as the only viable alternative. He's going to do well in South Carolina and Florida. I believe his momentum will pick up from there, and that he'll knock Romney out of the running before it's all over.