If the Conservative wing doesn’t rally around a SINGLE CANDIDATE, Romney is the nominee, by default.
If you want someone else, it’s time to get off our collective asses, and get out in to the real world and do something about it.
You can even phone bank from home.
Well I fail to see how Perry split this vote with 1%
That 70% of the turds have floated to the top in NH.
I was ready to phone bank and fundraise from home for Governor Palin.
NH is not reflective of the conservative electorate.
TCRLAF is right.
If Mitt Romney doesn't get stopped in South Carolina, we're in major trouble. It seems clear that Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum are all hoping South Carolina will make them the anti-Romney standard-bearer.
That may still happen.
If it doesn't, we're looking at a likely Romney win in Florida, with the momentum moving toward a Super Tuesday that could make it difficult if not impossible to stop him.
It is no secret that I have major concerns about all three of the remaining “not-Romneys.” However, I have much greater concerns about the split vote between the three getting Romney nominated and then defeated by President Obama.
We need to deal with this mess.
NOW.
Next week (the SC vote) may not be too late. Next month may very well be.
Yup. Almost exactly the same scenario as last time around playing out.
For all the talk about the “establishment” rigging the contest, I´d put more of the blame on “ego” on the part of the non-moderate candidates who carry on and split the conservative vote, despite having small chances for actually winning the nomination.
It´s not strange that conservatives are more numerous than moderates in the GOP primaries, but a quirk of that phenomena is that it gives the moderate wing a strategic advantage, as their vote is less divided.
Exactly. I have a a friend who was once a staunch conservative. His take is Anybody But Onada (ABO). ABO includes Romney, Gingrich, Paul, Perry or Huntsman. He has bought the GOP koolaid hook, line and sinker.
He keeps falling back on the GOP talking point of electability. It does not occur to him that he can play a role in making a conservative electable. Apparently his Florida circle of friends—very comfortable or better financially—agree with him.
I asked him if he thought the GOP was a real opposition party to the demrat party? He’s an otherwise smart guy and saw where I was going. He refused to answer the question. Instead he snarled at me that third party candidates can’t win and will insure Onada wins. I asked him if there was any material difference between GOP RINOs and Marxist demrats. The best I could make of his answer was that RINOs would take us down the Marxist road slower.
In any case, I asked him how voting for a RINO this time would return the country to its Constitutional roots. Of course he had no answer. What we do is thst voting for RINOs only begats more RINOs.
Your post is right on. Conservatives must break the RINO-led, demrat party controlled national GOP now. By break I mean recapture it from the demrat party and its RINO useful idiots. The best way to do that is to rally around the lone conservative pres. candidate. That person is Santorum. Certainly there is some risk involved. IMHO the risk is far greater—and potentially irrevocable—settling for the a RINO.