Posted on 03/04/2012 6:08:33 AM PST by VU4G10
GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has pulled into a tie with rival Rick Santorum in Ohio, a new poll finds.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday shows Romney and Santorum tied with 32 percent support from likely GOP voters in Ohio, two days ahead of that state's crucial Republican primary.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich follows with 17 percent support, trailed by Rep. Ron Paul (Texas) at 6 percent.
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And Santorum can’t even compete for 18 of the delegates. Anyone who wants to stop Romney better get behind Newt in a big hurry.
With either one the rats are elated, they fear newt
I don't dislike Ricky, but he's in way over his head. Newt is the only realistic alternative who can beat obamney.
The candidate who is not named Santorum who gets the most votes in those districts will get those delegates.
It's a two way race for sure between Mitt and Rick and Newt is just flying on a wing and a prayer with delusions of some Super Tuesday miracle.
Delegate count as of today:
Mitt= 203 Santorum= 92 Gingrich= 33 The Nut=25.
Two way race and though I like Newt Gingrich when he loses on ST I hope he starts thinking about the future of our country by dropping out a endorsing Rick.
I think I read that in districts where Santorum failed to file his slate of delegates, if he won that district then no one would be awarded delegates.
To plaster the landscape with lies and mis-statements of facts, ignoring his record AND his past liberal rhetoric, he may win those with no brain cells (Ohio is full of parasites in the cities, AND State-Run-Media dupes throughout.
ANY Conservative will have a tough time to win Ohio, and Gingrich is splitting the vote with Santorum, too. The Ralien only gets votes from the nutcases, and Dem cross-overs, and college mush-heads.
With so many states being so liberal, it is a wonder that a conservative ever wins anywhere. This election has shown us that Republican primary voters are more liberal than the national media had thought.
*And I thank all of you who have been defending him courageously day after day!*
A few weeks ago I wrote an opus and left Free Republic (or thought I had)....I thought I would automatically be zotted....I wasn't.......(it could still happen)
But as long as I seem to have posting privileges and the ability to put words to computer, I need to speak out!!!!
For many weeks, months....I have sat here doing a slow burn as I read post after post after post from a core group of anti-Santorum freepers who bully and harrass-**and you know who you are!*..----
But after my 'opus' I was content to let Pro-Santorum encouragers speak thoughts I agreed with, and I cheered them on.
They took the slings and arrows of this core group of bullies.....and answered with facts and hope!....I thank them with all my heart!
However, today I realize how cowardly I am sitting here in the safety of my computer desk.....and the Santorum Encouragers are probably getting very weary from the defensive blows they keep warding off....(as I did before my 'opus')......
So I'm back..........and only Jim Robinson can determine for how long.
First I want to say I truly have no animus toward Newt Gingrich and hope to never write a hurtful post about him......and to only give facts.
Therefore, it sorely angers me for this core group of bullies who aren't content to sing Newt's praises.....but instead seem to relish tearing down Santorum.
Look folks............Santorum and Newt are facing an uphill battle....with Santorum closer to the goal.
With ALL the people who read Free Republic..... your ugly posts against Santorum must seem to them compiled in the same grouping as Main Stream Media & the multiple assortment of other leftwing groups......you're in the same cesspool....and using the same tactics!
I truly don't understand why you use every opportunity to humiliate him with your words...
..Folks, he very well is our last hope OR we get Obama again.....because Obama will annihilate Romney. Newt has tried and tried, but he isn't getting leverage!
I have to honestly ask..........Who's side are you working for?
Why in the world can't you accept both Newt AND Santorum?.........It begs the question....Where are your real loyalties?
We are about to slip into the abyss....
..and unless there is a real miracle, we are lost, IMO.
Mitt is pulling every trick & spending every dime he can to buy this election.
We must hang together!!!
I invite all of you in Freeperland who has something positive, encouraging or hopeful about Rick Santorum, please post it!----------
Don't let this core group of bullies define who we are!
Newt will win Georgia...period. One state out of ten on Tuesday is not going to produce this miraculous comeback that so many around here are proclaiming.
He talks all about it, but knowing how to make it happen, as well as doing the exact things to make it happen, is where Santorum is a bad choice. His record proves it.
Here is a list of what some of us have found in regards to your hero Santorum, and is also why some of us refuse to support him. The truth does matter. This does not include all the serious blunders your candidate has also been given a free pass on, just recently either.
Rick Santorum’s Voting Record
As you decide which candidate is worthy of your vote in the primary, Liberty Counsel Action encourages you to review the positions of all of the candidates on controversial issues. Here is Rick Santorum’s voting record on some key issues. Each vote linked to senate.gov roll call record.
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
I would vote for Santorum in a skinit over Obama. I don’t like him personally or professionaly, but I strongly prefer him to Obama. You like him and I don’t. That means we disagree, but it does NOT mean that I am a bully. If you can’t disagree agreeably you need to take your name calling back into self imposed exile.
Ignore and Freep on. The election will settle a lot of this and people will move on or change their methods.
No, that’s simply not true. The delegates are unbound and it’s up to the State party to decide what to do with them
Considering the massive drive to silence Rush Limbaugh over his “slut” comments in regards to Fluke, the collaboration among the Media and the Left in this case was mind boggling.
If Santorum gets the nomination, imagine the massive tidal wave of Leftists, who will form powerful groups to stop Santorum. They will be screaming his many hard core Social, Right stances on Abortion, “reproductive rights”, forcing religion on Government, (His belief that there should be no separation between church and state.) and on and on.
Santorum will likely rile the Left up to the point, where they hit the polls in record numbers, just to stop him. They more than likely will anyway, so they can keep Obama in office.
No matter who our candidate is, this is not going to be an easy election for us, by any means!
Come back if and when Newt has more delegates—THEY are the money talking.
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