People who realize Newt isn’t conservtive enough or electable enough to win the votes of the people who support Santorum, and think Santorum should force those voters to support a candidate they don’t want to support.
They keep forgetting that a candidate doesn’t own voters, the voters CHOOSE the candidates. They are mad that too many voters are choosing Santorum, and want to take it out on Santorum.
To put the country before his own interests.
Newt is Conservative enough for Jim Robinson who officially has endorsed Newt to win. Jim Robinson isn't mad at Santorum voters, he is simply stating the obvious that Santorum will NEVER win the Nomination. And as long as he stays in, he takes away from Newt.
These are the facts. Santorum will NEVER win and the longer he stays in the more takes away from Conservative Newt Gingrich beating Romney.
Free Republic's own founder is asking Rick to endorse Newt. It's the obvious logical choice for anyone that cares that a true Conservative will go against Zero in the Fall. Free Republic is a Pro-Newt website. That is a fact.
It’s a case of fighting a war with what you have, not what you’d like to have. There is nobody who is the kind of conservative we’d all like, so we have to settle for the conservative we have.
Between Santorum and Newt, Newt is far more able to take on the Establishment and win. Santorum, nice guy he is, could not. Unfortunately, Santorum does draw enough support away from Newt that he could allow Romney to walk up the middle and take Florida.
Do we go for pure or do we go for the win, that’s the question. If we take the pure, we cannot win. If we go for the win, we stand a chance of getting a pure candidate who can win later.