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Santorum Sweep: Should Mitt quit?
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail ^ | February 8, 2012 | Don Surber

Posted on 02/08/2012 6:34:33 AM PST by Mustang Driver

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To: SeekAndFind

Unless everybody votes for Paul and denies Mitt the delegates!


61 posted on 02/08/2012 7:43:39 AM PST by georgiagirl_pam (Step One: SECURE YOUR DOOR! (it will give you time to get your gun!) mysafedoor.com)
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To: GreenHornet

I’ll take that or the other way around. Just not Mitt!!!


62 posted on 02/08/2012 7:46:27 AM PST by georgiagirl_pam (Step One: SECURE YOUR DOOR! (it will give you time to get your gun!) mysafedoor.com)
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To: duffee

I use to have respect for Ron Paul. In his earlier campaigns for president he stayed above negative and vicious attacks on other candidates. He wanted his message to get out and that was it. But he has changed. Now he attacks Newt and Santorum viciously and never says a word about Willard the liberal. Remember the debate when he started off by calling Newt Gingrich a draft-dodger and went on and on about how he had served a got drafted (which is a lie), and never said a word about Romney dodging the draft. I knew then that Paul had abandoned all his principles and was in the race to help out Romney. Look for more negative ads now from Paul slamming Santorum for as a big spending republican. If Newt wins another state, he’ll do the same thing to him. Paul has became just a big pain in the ass.


63 posted on 02/08/2012 7:47:59 AM PST by NKP_Vet (creep.)
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To: carmody
“I’ve stopped watching Fox completely.”
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Gretta's show is about all that is worthy of watching on FOX these days.

While I hate to admit it, I watch CNN more and more; as their coverage during the current primary season has been more objective and accurate than any of the other cable news channels. Of course, I am sure that will change once the Republican nominee is chosen.

64 posted on 02/08/2012 7:51:00 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: Mustang Driver

Turnabout is fair play.

Mitt should drop out. He doesn’t have a chance. The voters have spoken. It’s all over.


65 posted on 02/08/2012 8:05:57 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: NKP_Vet
All the negative ads were from Romney against Newt and he still crushed him. No negative ads were ran against Santorum and he was beaten badly, even by Romney.

Yep, and "negative" ads are apt to be distortions and outright lies (as Romney did to Newt), but with Santorum, anyone who'd attack him could use plain straightforward data, which confirms that Santorum is the only real "compassionate" conservative in the race. He's like Dubya without the charisma. His voting record pretty much confirms that he's a big government kinda guy, "conservative" in that he's anti-abortion, but who voted consistently to RAISE the national minimum wage and who fought against cuts in the foodstamp program, among other things.

Godspeed Newt Gingrich.

66 posted on 02/08/2012 8:17:18 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: ASA Vet
When and under what circumstances did Aldo Santorum naturalize?

Doesn't matter. Nobody cares.

67 posted on 02/08/2012 8:22:30 AM PST by Drew68
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To: C210N
Santorum will be the guy, or he’ll be the February placeholder for Newt to pick up the baton early March.

Yea, I think this gets interesting when southern states vote, those likely to go to Newt.

Beginning to wonder where Mitt's strength is going to come from. Sure, he gets the Northeast states including Massachusetts and surrounding, but I don't see him doing that great anywhere else. Oh, and he'll get Idaho and Utah because Mormons HAVE to vote for their Bishop.

68 posted on 02/08/2012 8:44:38 AM PST by The Citizen Soldier (America needs Gingrich in 2012 about as much as England needed Churchill in 1940!)
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To: NKP_Vet

I think Santorum will have trouble winning any where if he becomes the perceived leader and is subjected to the onslaught of negative ads from Paul and Romney, not to mention the attacks from the media and pundits, including fox news.

I believe that Newt is in a better position to withstand this kind of campaign than the others, not that he will be able to survive it from the Republican side but I believe he could survive it from the democrats. I believe without Newt we are probably lost.

Ron Paul knows he will not be the nominee. He says he wants to get his message in front of the convention. Then why spend his and the PAC money attacking anyone? Much less a candidate that is not in the lead? Note that he has NEVER attacked Romney. I think the’ve made a deal, in exchange for the attacks on Newt and whomever else may be the not Romney, I think Ron Raul has agreed to NOT run as a 3rd party candidate if Romney gets the nomination and also that Rand Paul would be Romney’s VEEP. This would make sense in the traditional method of VEEP selection as Rand Paul is from Kentucky, far enough South and is perceived to have Conservative and Tea Party support. Rand has also shown that he is un-principled enough by his personal attacks on Gingrich and his BIG LIE re: breaking news to get on Hannity’s radio show to read a derogatory letter he had written about Newt to an Iowa newspaper. Of course Romney may renege on the deal when it’s too late for Ron Paul to run as 3rd party candidate.

I see the solution in beating Romney and Paul so bad that neither one is viable. Of course if I were in Virginia I’d load up with clothes pins and GERM-X and vote, I’m really having great difficulty in typing this, mark paul on the ballot.


69 posted on 02/08/2012 8:47:20 AM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: Elle Bee

I do believe that Greta and Hannity have been fair and balanced. That’s about all we watch on fox anymore, she still tries but gets ticked and changes stations, I just spend more time lurking on FR.


70 posted on 02/08/2012 9:00:56 AM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: Mustang Driver

YES!


71 posted on 02/08/2012 9:04:21 AM PST by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

GO NEWT GO!!!!
“far far away and take pelosi and the couch with you”


72 posted on 02/08/2012 9:14:15 AM PST by Craftmore
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To: Ozymandias Ghost

I agree about Greta. She has an authenticity about her that most other TV hosts are missing. I can watch her. She’s a great interviewer.


73 posted on 02/08/2012 9:19:00 AM PST by carmody
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To: duffee

I don’t think that Rand Paul has been in politics longer enough to seriously considered for anyone’e VP pick. Three years ago he was a practicing medical doctor. His foreign policy views, which he is very vague about, are in reality almost identical to the old man. He’s on the campaign trail with the old man and has consistently trashed Gingrich on talk shows, hardly ever mentioning Romney.


74 posted on 02/08/2012 9:55:00 AM PST by NKP_Vet (creep.)
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To: carmody
“Authenticity” is an excellent way of characterizing Gretta. I “read” her as a conservative Democrat; or perhaps Libertarian. I heard once that she and her husband are Scientologists; however, I don't know whether that is true or or just an unfounded rumor.

The “bottom line” is I believe she has great personal integrity and is honest. Those are two profoundly important qualities often discovered to be lacking in political analysts.

75 posted on 02/08/2012 9:56:04 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: NKP_Vet

I didn’t say it would really make sense if romney picked rand, I said the geographic and conservative balance would appear to be there. I haven’t really seen much in this election that has made sense. I do believe it feasible that ron paul and romney have a deal, ialso believe that romney is un-principled enough to have made the deal and also to renege on the deal.


76 posted on 02/08/2012 10:09:38 AM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: duffee
Sing it with me:

Get to Kobol, Jack

And don't you come back no more, no more, no more, no more

Get to Kobol, Jack

And don't you come back no more.



77 posted on 02/08/2012 10:21:28 AM PST by AnTiw1 (I lived through a mormon hell, I will not live in a country with a mormon president.)
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To: AnTiw1
Reminder to self: Kobol is the Battlestar Galactica holy world...it's KOLOB that's supposed to be the planet where the mormon gods hang out.

Didja know Glen Larson, who created BG, was mormon? Lots of LDS sources in the creation of that show ;^)

78 posted on 02/08/2012 10:30:39 AM PST by AnTiw1 (I lived through a mormon hell, I will not live in a country with a mormon president.)
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To: binreadin
It’s not going to be hard to make Santorum look bad to the uninformed moron out there either. His natural expression on his face is very annoying. So, they will paint him as a religious whacko and show a bunch of images of him with his constipated looking natural expression.

I was glad to see Santorum win last night though. Romney always comes across as so frantic. It’s mind boggling that he is such a successful business man.

79 posted on 02/08/2012 10:51:00 AM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: Mustang Driver

IMO, the reason voting turn out is down is because the MSM keeps telling people that Mitt is the inevitable nominee. Now that that has been proved to be a frickin’ lie, maybe voter turn out will get better. After all, why go to the polls if you think you know who is going to win, so goes the thinking of many people, a trait the MSM uses in elections frequently when they make early forecasts of winners.


80 posted on 02/09/2012 1:07:13 AM PST by calex59
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