Posted on 03/01/2012 9:39:13 AM PST by VinL
The further Santorum slides back down the hill the more desparate and outlandinh he will sound. Won’t be long before he’s passed RPaul by putting both feet in his mouth.
Rick needs to just say, “thank you” to Newt, and then STHU!
Santorum is such a pander player it has now become richly sickening. Newt supporters are just not his best, last hope for prey and survival.
Rick can pander play with the union and the democrat cluster maybe too stupid to notice. They have swallowed pander before and plenty of it.
He knows he is losing, so what does he do? He makes even more desperate attempts to split the Conservative vote, by asking Newt's faithful to betray our only hope to save this once great nation, and move over to his pathetic platform.
Santorum is an empty sweater vest. Nothing more.
Pardon me. Newt has won 1 state. In the other states, other than Florida, he has come in behind Ron Paul in most of them.
In Florida, the total votes of Newt and Santorum was not enough to overtake Romney.
Now why would Santorum drop out when he had a plan ahead and was leading in other states?
If Newt wants to carry the mantle, he will have to compete in more states than he has so far. And winning would really mean something. A win in Georgia won’t be enough.
Thank you (and many others) for so strongly advocating for Newt Gingrich.
Really? The Newt supporters here at FR are hell bent at denigrating and posting garbage pieces on Rick. NO SUCH THING IS HAPPENING WITH RICK SUPPORTERS TOWARDS NEWT! I just went through a couple pages of current posts and found nothing. Here we have an article by an AP hack where the title is the total opposite of the actual story. Rick and his people never called for Newt to drop out, which is backed up by the Newt campaign.
Yesterday, the Newt people posted that garbage piece by Ann Coulter slamming Rick not once, but three times in a row. They scream bloody murder when she hits Newt, but hitting Rick is A O K. Then when Rick people step into those threads to defend our guy, it is "whining" and "trashing Newt". If you guys want to continue to play this game, fine. We are not going to sit around and let it happen unchallenged. You folks have now hitched your argument for the viability of Newt being a Mittens killer all on the Super Tuesday results. If Newt comes out of that only winning GA, are you folks going to have the intellectual honesty to say that he is not going to be able to knock Milt out of this thing?
Oh hell. I’m too distraught about breitbart to focus on the primary race but that’s what it is. Here are the contestants and they must run No one needs to drop out. What will be , will be.
I know,the Breitbart death is so disturbing. I think we all are in shock. He was a warrior for us.
It is like we take one step forward and two back.
LOL! Rick is clearly agitated and is now but barely coherent. Imagine, his campaign so desperate after a solid beat down they whine against Newt, but pander for his supporters. LOL!
Is that not damn typical? Ricky blames everybody’s promises for his stupid votes and bribe support!
FIRST, it was Spector’s supposed “promise”, in exchange for Rick’s support.
Second, it was somebody else supposed “promise” in exchange for his, I think it was the union vote!
I kid you not!
TWICE now! He is the brat on the play ground, Adam, in the Garden/Eve made me do it.
This guy has a pathology going on and thinks it’s not noticeable.
I won’t vote for Santorum here in Georgia. I’ll cast it for Newt, but if it ends up as a contest between Romney and Santorum, I’d support Santorum over Romney.
Ricky is getting absolutely flip-floppy as the campaign wears on, or maybe he just forget to take his "principled conservative" pills this morning. On January 29th, Santorum said this:
"We want the activists of the party, the people who make up the backbone of the Republican Party to have a say in who our nominee is as opposed to a bunch of people who don't even identify themselves as Republicans picking our nominee," Santorum told voters on the call held January 29. "I don't like that. I believe that states should only allow Republicans to vote in Republican primaries." In stark contrast to his campaign's more recent courtship of Democrats, in January Santorum told Democrats that if they wanted to vote for a Republican, they should switch their party affiliation.
"It's the Republican nomination, not the independent nomination or the Democratic nomination," he said on the call. "If you're a Democrat and you want to be a Democrat, then vote in the Democratic primary, not the Republican. If you want to vote in the Republican Party then become one."
At the time, Santorum's main criticism was of Romney's success in the New Hampshire primary, where 53% of Republican primary participants did not identify themselves as Republicans. In the weeks following Romney's win in the Granite State, Santorum repeatedly cited that statistic in arguing that his rival's supporters was out of step with the mainstream GOP electorate. Now Santorum is hoping non-Republicans will help give him the edge in Romney's home state.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/28/santorum-flips-on-dems-voting-in-gop-primaries/
One thing is clear. When the party bosses came calling this principled man was willing to pi$$ on his principles if the price was right.
More and more Santorum's speeches on the stumps are near-direct or direct plagiarism of Newt's ideas. Newt has spent years and years developing, enhancing, evolving his solutions. They are his life's work. For Santorum, they are stolen talking points. The Principled Conservative Not.
GINGRICH - Solutions, Not Talking Points.
He is the brat on the playground. If by some chance he should become the nominee, that pencil-necked Obozo dweeb will knock little Ricky down, steal his lunch money, and leave him sitting in the sandbox crying like a little girl.
Gingrich=Solutions
Santorum=plagarized talking points.
I want the ORIGINAL, Go NEWT the visionary.
You may notice that when Newt gives his ideas, it takes a day or two to soak into Rick or Mitt, and then they try to spin it as their own. By that time NEWT if off on another of his GREAT ideas, rofl.
They keep trying to play CATCH UP. lol
Most Santorum supporters spend a lot of time biting our tongues simply because attacking other candidates doesn’t help our guy.
It will be either Gingrich or Obama. Santorum’s feminist swing voters for Hillary (see ‘90s demographics) aren’t afraid enough of having the Democrat in office again. IMO, Gingrich is the only chance to get a Republican in as president.
I believe, despite current polls, that any of Mr.Newt, Santorum, or Romney, will be able to defeat -bama. It will not be easy, though.
It is also clear from the polls that Mr.Newt would have the most difficulty in doing so. He is well behind in both his “unfavorables” and the head-to-head against -bama.
I don’t see any good way of rationalizing this situation away. It is not wise for any supporter of Mr.Newt to ignore the reality.
I have subscribed to Mr.Newt’s newsletters for nigh on a decade now, and definitely think he is the best man to be president now. However, it is important to recognize that all of these guys would be many times better to have in the WH now than -bama.
Odd. If someone were to post something similar and factual about Newt, they would likely get zotted. I cannot see how this helps the cause of beating Romney. The vast majority of those discouraged by such a post will either switch to the “electable” Romney or decide to skip the primary. This is seen by watching the polls. Romney is rising more than Santorum is dropping. Those discouraged by the attacks are not going to Newt.
Or, you could look at it this way: there is still time to talk to Santorum supporters with facts and verifiables, and make the case to them honestly and with respect for their intellect, as well as appealing to their ability to sort things out; all with the hope that they might see that Newt is truly the man for the job. I thought that was what debate was all about.
I’m a Newt supporter, I believe I can speak for most of us: we know all about overcoming discouragement, overwhelming odds and adversity this campaign, and we’re still here!
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