We’re screwed.
NRO should demand that its editorial staff resign.
On the face, this seems like a typical NR slam on Newt, but I really get the impression that the National Review is tired of carrying Milts water for him anymore. Half the piece is dedicated to pointing out what a disappointment he is to them. NR may see the writing on the wall that Milt isn’t going to make it through some important primary states alive, like MI and possibly OH. Is this them hedging their bets?
I agree, most of the states have now voted. /S Seriously what, nine states have voted now? How many do we have again? I hate when RINO’s say sh*t like they’re saying to Newt. You can’t spell RINO without NRO.
Romney Suffers Lack of Conservatism
My comment to their article currently going through their “approval” process...
You conveniently neglected to mention that Newt currently has garnered far more popular votes than Santorum, 838,715 vs. 431,819. Newt is the only one to win a state where turnout MASSIVELY increased in this primary, South Carolina with about a 35% increase in turnout. All other states were flat or suffered decreased turnout. That shows Newt is the only one of the bunch who has, at least once, shown the ability to catch fire with the public. And if not for Florida breaking the winner-take-all rule, I believe Newt would also have more delegates than Santorum.
That being said, there’s no question the momentum is on Santorum’s side. But I suspect the real reason you want Newt to drop out of the race is because you have endorsed Romney and Romney’s path to victory becomes much easier if he has only one opponent left to attack. Right now, Romney is forced to play Whack-a-mole with his negative ads. When he whacked Newt, Santorum popped up. If he now whacks Santorum, Newt may pop up again. Romney’s at a messaging disadvantage having to train fire on two targets. He divides his resources across two different fronts and risks looking like a desperate and vindictive candidate. He might be able to make people believe that one or the other of his opponents is the devil incarnate, but people may become more skeptical if the message becomes, “Everybody in this race is the spawn of Satan except for me!”
Santorum said in a September FOX News debate that, of the people on the stage, he would select Newt as his Vice Presidential nominee. I suspect both Newt and Rick have devised a two-front strategy to take Romney out and later join forces on the same ticket. I suspect one will withdraw at the time and place of their choosing, most likely soon before the bulk of the winner-take-all states start voting. For now, they can collect proportional delegates which, if necessary, can be released to one or the other at a brokered convention to put their combined total above Romney’s.
IMO, Santorum is peaking too soon.
Romney sucks. We all know that. The rest of the country is leaning. He's never broken his ceiling in polls. If you can't beat him without crying about someone else "taking your votes" you're not good enough.
The worm is yet to turn.
>> But it would be a grave mistake for the party to make someone with such poor judgment and persistent unpopularity its presidential nominee.
And by what measure of popularity does NRO itself stand to make such judgement? Feeble to none.
Go pound sand, all ye false prophets of Liberty.
Newt first choice.(I never thought I would ever say that)
Santorum second choice, (just to see how bad romney is) Ron Paul 3rd.
The National Review editorial crew has been a disgrace from the beginning of this electoral campaign and thus became irrelevant.
I don’t think that Mr.Speaker Gingrich cares about their opinion or even read their site these days. And he would be right to ignore the sellouts of the “Republicans Only In Name” corrupted gang.
I also think that if Newt is not the nominee, after the probable defeat in November of ANY of the other GOP establishment nominees facing Barack Obama, the Republican party will implode, achieving its gigantic hara-kiri suicide.
Four years more of Obama is the announced death of the Constitution and the people’s rights protected by it, first of all freedom of opinion and faith. Americans have a few months to decide if they want or no to live in a free country.
Like I will would never vote for GOP E romney, I won’t vote for his butt boy either. I’ve said never again and nothing has changed.
This is a continuation by the GOP-E against the integrity and stability of Newt Gingrich. It is entirely and completely a cowardly, lying, spiteful, mean-spirited, elitest attack.
That said, BOTH the records of Newt and those of Rick are conservative records. I believe Newt had an ACU average of about 88% and Rick had one of 80%.
The Romney-bots are busy dredging up the 12% of Newt's votes and the 20% of Rick's votes that were not pristine conservatism, and they are using those to cause in-fighting among conservatives so that BOTH candidates are injured and Romney emerges the winner.
We KNOW Romney's game by now but we keep playing into his hands even now; even down to 2 remaining conservatives we are content to allow Romney to manipulate us.
I for one will never vote for Romney. Ever.
Newt had done so based only on his mythical polling that has yet to materialize.
Newt has surrendered far too many issues to be a viable candidate. It takes more than a debate performance and a few soundbites to get voters motivated, and thus far Santorum has the momentum while the rest of the field stagnates or sink like a stone.