In my opinion, The people screaming for Santorum to get out of the race aren’t considering the states where Romney is strong. These are the states where Santorum is likely to pull more votes from Romney than from Gingrich.
And right or wrong South Carolina picks the nominee and then Florida seals the deal.
Newt is an old man so he had better pick a young and conservative VP.
Rush was interesting today. It’s like he doesn’t really believe Gingrich is the one we want — so he keeps saying it’s not Gingrich that is winning, it’s just the message Gingrich is saying.
It sounds like Rush thinks that if Santorum could adopt the tone and style of Gingrich, then Santorum could get those voters and Rush would be happy. Like anybody could be the messenger — that seems to be Rush’s take.
Rush makes a good point. I hope Santorum hears it. The debate tonight was frustrating in the way Santorum is shut out from answering by the moderators. I hope his FL ground game is good.
This is the sound of Rush capitulating to a prejudice.
In this case, a regional prejudice against Western and Southern accents. "Western/Southern = ignorant hick".
It's part of the game the Eastern Media play against people who are not products of the New Class, i.e. themselves.
Rush is from Missouri but, like Dan Rather (Texas) has purged himself of his accent to Fit In -- although in Limbaugh's case, he wouldn't have had much of an accent to begin with, being from northern Missouri, where most people have the Midwestern "General American" accent shared by the upper Midwest with California.
(People from Illinois and people from California sound nearly identical, and it's hard to distinguish Indianans sometimes, too.)
Problem: By excluding Westerners and Southerners from consideration, Rush acquiesces in the Media campaign to exclude from national leadership most of the people within the "Finkelstein Box" (the South, Midwest, and Mountain West) who vote strongly Republican. This cuts off Republican and conservative leadership from the conservative roots.
That's like telling the Brown family that they can have anyone for a father but someone named Brown. Which is why the New Class types do it.
Santorum just needs to be more like a pit bull against Obama, not his fellow republicans. He needs to go after Obama, hit his policies hard and say how he would be different. He needs to show he can beat Obama, bottom line.
