Posted on 02/13/2012 12:29:25 PM PST by DestroyLiberalism
Santorum Catches Romney in GOP Race
Rick Santorum’s support among Tea Party Republicans and white evangelicals is surging, and he now has pulled into a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. In polling conducted Feb. 8-12, 30% of Republican and Republican leaning registered voters favor Santorum while 28% favor Romney. As recently as a month ago, Romney held a 31% to 14% advantage over Santorum among all GOP voters. Santorum is now the clear favorite of Republican and GOP-leaning voters who agree with the Tea Party, as well as white evangelical Republicans. Currently, 42% of Tea Party Republican voters favor Santorum, compared with just 23% who back Romney. Santorum holds an almost identical advantage among white evangelical Republican voters (41% to 23%).
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Feb. 8-12 among 1,501 adults, including 1172 registered voters and 552 Republican and Republican-leaning voters, finds that Barack Obama holds sizable leads over Santorum, Romney and Newt Gingrich in general election match-ups.
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Rick Santorum wasn’t a lot of people’s first choice, but he’s obviously the only choice left now. Most Conservatives liked him just fine, but were supporting other candidates they thought were good Conservatives as well. At this point he’s the only one in the race who is a Conservative, and he can easily beat Obama. He is the only Republican I will vote for out of those who are left. If Romney or Gingrich win I will vote for a some hopeless third party, or I will not vote for President. It’s getting so bad it’s hard to see any real positive change through voting when we can’t even get a Conservative nominated. We have to work like hell to slow liberalism, and we have shown no success in actually stopping it, or reversing it.
Gingrich should drop out and endorse Santorum since he’s not showing he has what it takes. Then Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Fred Thompson, etc. should all endorse and campaign strong for Santorum. I wish Gingrich would do the right thing, but I doubt he will. I wish Cain and Thompson would change their endorsement over to Santorum regardless, although I don’t see that either unless Gingrich gets out or has a dramatic fall. It’s disappointing that Palin and Bachmann won’t strongly endorse him, and then start campaigning for him hard. If all those guys would have gotten behind the last Conservative left with not only an endorsement, but with active campaigning with him, and helping him raise the money he will need then I think he could win easily.
Palin seemed too sacred to make a long shot endorsement only to now have Gingrich stalling and Santorum rising. It makes since considering the choices us TEA party members are left with. Bachmann really hurt her image by looking like she was just looking for the VP spot to balance out a liberal card. Cain disappointed everyone by asking for donations, and promising not to give in to the liberal media literally until the day before he dropped out. Then it was known he would endorse Gingrich, or no one.
Santorum is the only Conservative left, and he’s doing better than Gingrich. People need to switch over to him and be honest about it. If they didn’t think he could win they can admit that, and explain they are supporting him now because they feel he can. If we could ever get Conservatives behind a Conservative it would really help out. Endorsements may not mean a lot by themselves, but when they get out there and campaign for them they can bring in a lot of money and positive attention that makes the difference.
Rick Santorum wasn’t a lot of people’s first choice, but he’s obviously the only choice left now. Most Conservatives liked him just fine, but were supporting other candidates they thought were good Conservatives as well. At this point he’s the only one in the race who is a Conservative, and he can easily beat Obama. He is the only Republican I will vote for out of those who are left. If Romney or Gingrich win I will vote for a some hopeless third party, or I will not vote for President. It’s getting so bad it’s hard to see any real positive change through voting when we can’t even get a Conservative nominated. We have to work like hell to slow liberalism, and we have shown no success in actually stopping it, or reversing it.
Gingrich should drop out and endorse Santorum since he’s not showing he has what it takes. Then Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Fred Thompson, etc. should all endorse and campaign strong for Santorum. I wish Gingrich would do the right thing, but I doubt he will. I wish Cain and Thompson would change their endorsement over to Santorum regardless, although I don’t see that either unless Gingrich gets out or has a dramatic fall. It’s disappointing that Palin and Bachmann won’t strongly endorse him, and then start campaigning for him hard. If all those guys would have gotten behind the last Conservative left with not only an endorsement, but with active campaigning with him, and helping him raise the money he will need then I think he could win easily.
Palin seemed too sacred to make a long shot endorsement only to now have Gingrich stalling and Santorum rising. It makes since considering the choices us TEA party members are left with. Bachmann really hurt her image by looking like she was just looking for the VP spot to balance out a liberal card. Cain disappointed everyone by asking for donations, and promising not to give in to the liberal media literally until the day before he dropped out. Then it was known he would endorse Gingrich, or no one.
Santorum is the only Conservative left, and he’s doing better than Gingrich. People need to switch over to him and be honest about it. If they didn’t think he could win they can admit that, and explain they are supporting him now because they feel he can. If we could ever get Conservatives behind a Conservative it would really help out. Endorsements may not mean a lot by themselves, but when they get out there and campaign for them they can bring in a lot of money and positive attention that makes the difference.
Rick Santorum wasn’t a lot of people’s first choice, but he’s obviously the only choice left now. Most Conservatives liked him just fine, but were supporting other candidates they thought were good Conservatives as well. At this point he’s the only one in the race who is a Conservative, and he can easily beat Obama. He is the only Republican I will vote for out of those who are left. If Romney or Gingrich win I will vote for a some hopeless third party, or I will not vote for President. It’s getting so bad it’s hard to see any real positive change through voting when we can’t even get a Conservative nominated. We have to work like hell to slow liberalism, and we have shown no success in actually stopping it, or reversing it.
Gingrich should drop out and endorse Santorum since he’s not showing he has what it takes. Then Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Fred Thompson, etc. should all endorse and campaign strong for Santorum. I wish Gingrich would do the right thing, but I doubt he will. I wish Cain and Thompson would change their endorsement over to Santorum regardless, although I don’t see that either unless Gingrich gets out or has a dramatic fall. It’s disappointing that Palin and Bachmann won’t strongly endorse him, and then start campaigning for him hard. If all those guys would have gotten behind the last Conservative left with not only an endorsement, but with active campaigning with him, and helping him raise the money he will need then I think he could win easily.
Palin seemed too sacred to make a long shot endorsement only to now have Gingrich stalling and Santorum rising. It makes since considering the choices us TEA party members are left with. Bachmann really hurt her image by looking like she was just looking for the VP spot to balance out a liberal card. Cain disappointed everyone by asking for donations, and promising not to give in to the liberal media literally until the day before he dropped out. Then it was known he would endorse Gingrich, or no one.
Santorum is the only Conservative left, and he’s doing better than Gingrich. People need to switch over to him and be honest about it. If they didn’t think he could win they can admit that, and explain they are supporting him now because they feel he can. If we could ever get Conservatives behind a Conservative it would really help out. Endorsements may not mean a lot by themselves, but when they get out there and campaign for them they can bring in a lot of money and positive attention that makes the difference.
Rick Santorum wasn’t a lot of people’s first choice, but he’s obviously the only choice left now. Most Conservatives liked him just fine, but were supporting other candidates they thought were good Conservatives as well. At this point he’s the only one in the race who is a Conservative, and he can easily beat Obama. He is the only Republican I will vote for out of those who are left. If Romney or Gingrich win I will vote for a some hopeless third party, or I will not vote for President. It’s getting so bad it’s hard to see any real positive change through voting when we can’t even get a Conservative nominated. We have to work like hell to slow liberalism, and we have shown no success in actually stopping it, or reversing it.
Gingrich should drop out and endorse Santorum since he’s not showing he has what it takes. Then Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Fred Thompson, etc. should all endorse and campaign strong for Santorum. I wish Gingrich would do the right thing, but I doubt he will. I wish Cain and Thompson would change their endorsement over to Santorum regardless, although I don’t see that either unless Gingrich gets out or has a dramatic fall. It’s disappointing that Palin and Bachmann won’t strongly endorse him, and then start campaigning for him hard. If all those guys would have gotten behind the last Conservative left with not only an endorsement, but with active campaigning with him, and helping him raise the money he will need then I think he could win easily.
Palin seemed too sacred to make a long shot endorsement only to now have Gingrich stalling and Santorum rising. It makes since considering the choices us TEA party members are left with. Bachmann really hurt her image by looking like she was just looking for the VP spot to balance out a liberal card. Cain disappointed everyone by asking for donations, and promising not to give in to the liberal media literally until the day before he dropped out. Then it was known he would endorse Gingrich, or no one.
Santorum is the only Conservative left, and he’s doing better than Gingrich. People need to switch over to him and be honest about it. If they didn’t think he could win they can admit that, and explain they are supporting him now because they feel he can. If we could ever get Conservatives behind a Conservative it would really help out. Endorsements may not mean a lot by themselves, but when they get out there and campaign for them they can bring in a lot of money and positive attention that makes the difference.
Rick Santorum wasn’t a lot of people’s first choice, but he’s obviously the only choice left now. Most Conservatives liked him just fine, but were supporting other candidates they thought were good Conservatives as well. At this point he’s the only one in the race who is a Conservative, and he can easily beat Obama. He is the only Republican I will vote for out of those who are left. If Romney or Gingrich win I will vote for a some hopeless third party, or I will not vote for President. It’s getting so bad it’s hard to see any real positive change through voting when we can’t even get a Conservative nominated. We have to work like hell to slow liberalism, and we have shown no success in actually stopping it, or reversing it.
Gingrich should drop out and endorse Santorum since he’s not showing he has what it takes. Then Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Fred Thompson, etc. should all endorse and campaign strong for Santorum. I wish Gingrich would do the right thing, but I doubt he will. I wish Cain and Thompson would change their endorsement over to Santorum regardless, although I don’t see that either unless Gingrich gets out or has a dramatic fall. It’s disappointing that Palin and Bachmann won’t strongly endorse him, and then start campaigning for him hard. If all those guys would have gotten behind the last Conservative left with not only an endorsement, but with active campaigning with him, and helping him raise the money he will need then I think he could win easily.
Palin seemed too sacred to make a long shot endorsement only to now have Gingrich stalling and Santorum rising. It makes since considering the choices us TEA party members are left with. Bachmann really hurt her image by looking like she was just looking for the VP spot to balance out a liberal card. Cain disappointed everyone by asking for donations, and promising not to give in to the liberal media literally until the day before he dropped out. Then it was known he would endorse Gingrich, or no one.
Santorum is the only Conservative left, and he’s doing better than Gingrich. People need to switch over to him and be honest about it. If they didn’t think he could win they can admit that, and explain they are supporting him now because they feel he can. If we could ever get Conservatives behind a Conservative it would really help out. Endorsements may not mean a lot by themselves, but when they get out there and campaign for them they can bring in a lot of money and positive attention that makes the difference.
Newt has considerable support from Tea Party Conservatives. The founder of Tea Party Nation, Jason Phillips endorsed Newt, Allen Olson, the chairman of Columbia, SC Tea Party endorsed Newt, Florida Tea Party Leader, Peter Lee from Orlando and the Fla. Statewide Tea Party Leader, Patricia Sullivan endorsed Newt along with Todd Palin who is married to a huge Tea Party sweetheart endorsed Newt as did Cain of Georgia who was one of the chosen candidates by tea party folks.
Such a stark contrast in Newt and Rick. Newt fought Bush 41 on tax hikes, Newt orchestrated the Republican revolution, balanced budget amendments, contract with America and here we have Little Ricky bragging about his mega million dollars of taxpayer money spent on earmarks.
No thanks..its Newt or noone for me
Newt called Dole the “tax collector for the welfare state” and then worked hard for Dole in 1996. So how does ol’ Bob repay?
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