Posted on 02/08/2012 7:43:46 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
I think Santorum has a fair chance in Michigan. Romney’s base of support is slowly going the way of the dinosaur. If nothing else, Santorum will snatch some much needed delegates away from Romney.
Rick: as genuine a person as Mitt is a slick phony . People can pick it up.
Who wins a brokered convention? (Palin I hope.)
Gawd, Romney is a slimy loogie...
I would relish the sight of the wheels falling off Romney’s buggy.
Santorum or Gingrich, one and two would be perfect. I want Romney bitched slapped.
Agree.
See what Larry Sabato says: From the Guardian (UK)
“Larry Sabato, professor of politics at the University of Virginia, said Santorum’s victories leave the Republican party in “a mess”. Sabato said he did not anticipate Santorum becoming the nominee and if it were to happen, Santorum would lose.”
This primary is going even better than I had hoped. My gosh and some folks were balking at me saying, “President Santorum”. Boy are they eating crow.
If I'm him, I'd be setting up shop along my fellow Italians in populist Northern Macomb County.
"Romney will have to come up with a positive reason to vote for him between now and Michigan,” said GOP strategist Ford O’Connell, who is unaffiliated in the race"
If he had one, we would've heard it by now. He doesn't- and that's why he has to rely on his crutch of trashing his opponents.
The Romney name in Michigan is not one that should sell well nowadays, outside of Detroit, and the various unindicted criminal union organizations.
Even with a false “R” designation.
I stopped caring long ago.
The citizens of Michigan made their bed, and they can either lie in it, or attempt to wash their corrupt sheets clean and try again.
It will be vaguely interesting to see what they do.
Ricky is pretending to be a winner.
However, it'll break the hearts of his supporters when they see the torrent of smears, some true and some false. All mis-characterized.
He's about the learn about the POTUS vetting process. If you don't have $100mil in the bank and promises for another $500mil to $1bil, you are roadkill.
I don't think he can pull 1/2 of potential GOP voters in the general and I don't think he'll pull 1/2 of GOP voters in the primaries.
JMHO.
“Rick: as genuine a person as Mitt is a slick phony . People can pick it up.”
There is no one who entered the race who I admired more than Governor Rick Perry. When “there was no path forward” and he made the painful decision to leave the campaign , I listened to every word of his goodbye. He was gracious. He was good-humored. He was respectful and encouraging. He endorsed Newt....and then he warned that Rick Santorum was not a conservative.
If nothing else, Santorum will snatch some much needed delegates away from Romney.
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By that, I assume that MI is not a “Winner-take-all” State. Am I right in my assumption?
Romney and Gingrich are both "hold your nose" candidates. Many conservatives will be proud to vote for a consistent conservative who is also a decent person.
Based on the article, I would like to believe that this decision for Rick in Mich and Newt in Ariz was a plan on their part. Romney had a good chance of taking both, but his task becomes that much harder if he’s fighting only one conservative on both fronts.
Lots of Catholics in Michigan - strong for Rick. there are also a bunch of Mormons - descendants of former polygamists jailed by the Feds’ Edmunds Act in the 1880s. I like Santorum’s chances.
He endorsed Newt and thought Rick wasn’t a conservative?? Excuuuuse me?? Rick doesn’t support amnesty or believe in man made global warming!
Ricky ‘won’ he got over half the votes of the less than 9% that bothered to show and ‘vote.
No delegates.
Ya, big victory.
Is none of the above still available?
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