The only real choices for conservatives are Gingrich and Santorum. The South Carolina primary is the fire wall. If Romney wins there, then the Romney GOP Media will drive his campaign all the way to the nomination.
We all know this is true.
Right now Gingrich 23 + Santorum 16 + Perry 4 = ~43% of the vote.
Romney has about 27%.
If we stay divided, then Romney wins. If we make a hard choice, even if we don't really want to, to unite behind one candidate, then Romney will be defeated.
Can you do that to advance conservatism?
The logical person to unite behind at this point is the poll front-runner. The next most logical is Santorum.
Perry's people going to Santorum still leaves Romney a victor. Perry's people going to Gingrich will lead to a Romney defeat. Perry + Santorum going to Gingrich equal an overwhelming rejection of Romney.
Read the above article. IT is PROOF that Romney cannot win the general election.
Then pray about the right thing to do.
For all you Romney supporters lurking out there, this article is hard, realistic truth. You are backing a general election loser.
You, too, better do some praying.
The only thing I can figure out is he has nice hair and he smiles and laughs a lot after eveything he says?
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I've campaigned for him as far back as the 90’s and I've donated to him and will continue to do so as long as he runs.
We may not like Romney, he's only above Paul and Huntsman on my list, but we're not the ones who are going to make the call on who wins the election. It's the mushy, uninformed middle.
Unless we end up with Jerry Sandusky as our nominee, we're going to win going away.
Again, the danger isn't losing the Presidency, we've got that covered, it's that we could lose the chance to get a REAL SOLID CONSERVATIVE in that office.
But for the massive attack ads by Romney and the one by RuPaul against Newt Gingrich in Iowa, Newt Gingrich was running away with the nomination, -— there would be no Santorum in the race -— and now Gingrich is rebounding in the South since he’s fighting back against Romney, but with great cost to him, given the piling on by talking heads, like Rush, and Faux News pundits in the tank for Romney.
Newt is the fighter and the one to best fight the Marxist in the ugly 2012 arena.
Romney is trying to buy the nomination, but he won’t be able to buy the presidency.
STOP ROMNEY. VOTE FOR GINGRICH!
Wait till CBS/NBC/ABC explain how Mormons consider the rest of us "gentiles" and look down their noses at the un-initiated.
People in Salt Lake live in a little bubble. They have no idea how the rest of the country perceives them.
Romney is about to find out about that.
I support Rick Santorum because, while Newt Gingrich is smart, tough and a great debater, he is also a Washington insider through and through with a mercurial temperament that can be dangerous in a president. I simply don't trust him. I also believe that Newt's sometimes cranky, even surly demeanor when his ego has been bruised is dangerous. As the GOP presidential candidate, one unthinking outburst from Gingrich - which is quite possible - could de-rail his campaign and allow Obama to defeat him. I don't care to take that risk.
Santorum may not be as forceful as Gingrich or debate quite as well but he does not give the impression of a crabby old guy who knows he's smarter than everyone else. Santorum is bright and affable and, more important, a solid conservative (not a 'perfect' one) and has strong 'family values', which some on FR dismiss as hardly relevant when the economy is the main concern of most voters - but those social mores play well with most non-liberals. Most of all, Santorum can defeat Obama.
7 Reasons John Hawkins Opinion Has No Merit
1) “Romney can’t win” he won in Massechusetts as a Republican. That in itself is a tough feat. Gingrich has never won a state race, Santorum lost his senate seat, Perry is just a plain incoherent speaker, and Paul (I like him) can’t get past his base and has no charisma.
2) “Romey Mormon” Attack on his religion will turn off Independents and curry favor with women who will sympathize.
3) New Gingrich couldn’t win a General election in any circumstance, neither could Santorum, nor any other candidate in the field.
4) Romney aside from Ron Paul is the only candidate thus far to poll in dead heat or ahead of Obama
5) Ginrich can’t even win a Republican primary how is he going to win a general where he is hated by independents and democrats
6) Romney is only candidate shown to be able to raise large money which will be required to overcome bias media and Obama’s fund raising machine.
7) “Bain” this leftist attack by Newt and Perry (glad be sucked in debates, otherwise he could have done well, a true leftist) is good to have now. Allows Romney to prepare defense for this baseless anti-capitalist attack for the General. Will be old news.
Doesn’t it say something that GOP primary voters have, at one time or another, preferred Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and now even Ron Paul (In Iowa) to Mitt Romney?
This is a problem for Romney because he would be much less likely than either Gingrich or Perry to carry any of those states.
I also wish it would have said that most Christian churches and denominations do not consider Mormons to be Christians, instead of, "Mormons are not considered to be a mainstream Christian religion in large swathes of the country."
Aside from those two nitpicks, this is a very good article.
On the subject of the other GOP candidates, here are my thoughts. Romney must be defeated. Paul and Huntsman are not worth addressing and are irrelevant. I like Rick Perry, but like Michele Bachmann before him, he should bow out so that his supporters can switch to another conservative candidate.
This brings us to Newt and Santorum. Before this whole election cycle, if you asked me who the one person was who I would liked to have had most as president, I would have said Santorum. I still think he is the most conservative, I still respect him the most as a person, and I do not hold his Specter endorsement against him. However, I have warmed up to Newt a lot within the past few months. He may not be quite as conservative as Santorum, but I believe him to be at least conservative enough. I also think he would be a more competent and charismatic president and nominee than Santorum, That isn't to say that Santorum would be incompetent, but having Newt become president would remind me of when Ratzinger became pope. In both cases, I'd feel like a genius ascended to the highest office; the most qualified, experienced, and scholarly person out there. That's certainly refreshing now with Obama in office. I also feel that Newt would give us a greater chance of defeating Obama in the debates. Santorum isn't always the smoothest person, while it's generally agreed upon here that Newt would be the best of all the Republican candidates at wiping up Obama in a debate. In any case, I'd be happy with either of them as the nominee, but I wish they could just join forces and become a package deal.
Anyhow, of my "three C's," here is how the candidates fare:
Most Conservative: 1) Santorum 2) Perry 3) Gingrich 4)Romney 5) Paul
Most Charismatic: 1) Gingrich 2) Romney 3) Santorum 4) Paul 5) Perry
Most Competent: 1) Gingrich 2) Perry 3) Santorum 4) Romney 5) Paul
Bump!
“For all you Romney supporters lurking out there, this article is hard, realistic truth. You are backing a general election loser.
You, too, better do some praying.”
If they are backing Romney, they likely don’t have the address.
Very interesting article. I’m still mulling it over, but it definitely is thought-provoking.
The MSM works according to the principal that a lie told often enough becomes the truth.
Conservatives need to rally around Rick Santorum.
On Fox right now and seems to be having some success with applause.Still, no one is there from the other candidates to put him on the spot. And as long as conservs divide the vote, he is in the cat bird’s seat . Perry for sure should go and support ...Newt.
Santorum.
If Santorum had started with the kind of money Perry, Ginrich, Huntsman and Paul started out with, he would have been declared the conservative alternative about two minutes after Perry screwed up his second debate performance.
He's a LIAR on every major issue that is important to conservatives!
