Posted on 03/06/2012 9:18:04 PM PST by LonelyCon
Rick Santorum's campaign is calling on conservatives to pressure Newt Gingrich to abandon his bid for the White House, a senior adviser told reporters tonight.
Senior campaign strategist John Brabender said the key for the campaign going forward will be creating an opportunity to challenge Mitt Romney one-on-one, though Brabender maintained the Santorum campaign would not directly call on Gingrich to drop out of the race.
"We're never going to call on anybody to get out, but what we are calling is on Tea Party supporters and conservatives is to rally behind the only candidate that has demonstrated over and over again that he's the one who can compete against Mitt Romney," Brabender said.
"The real key right now is, can we get an opportunity to get a one-on-one shot with Mitt Romney," he said.
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Mr. Newt will take it all the way to the Convention and he will win there! Time is on his side, and he has the Bold Solutions, and the Bold message. Time will give this to Mr. Newt! I feel it in my heart!
EAGLES UP MR. NEWT!
I’m thinking no.
Agreed. As long as Newt stays in he will clip more delegates from Romney, and will have more leverage at the (hopefully open) convention.
Newt isn’t getting out until Romney is crowned the nominee. If you listened to Newt’s comments in Georgia this evening, then you would know he intends to stick it out to the bitter end.
NUTS
Why doesn’t anyone ever tell crazy ronny to get out?
He is background noise and the few delegates he gathers will do nothing but cause trouble. I freakin despise that selfish old coot.
Then why not ask Romney to drop out?
No, no and heck no!
Yes, Newt needs to go.
If Newt had pulled out, Ssntorum would have won in OH tonight. But what Newt is going to do is hang around long enough to throw this to Romney. Newt has a marginal base, horrible favorables, and stands as much chance as me as winning the nomination. The question really is, why does Newt want Romney as the GOP nominee??
Santorum 2012
Romney smacks them around with 200.
EFF THAT!
Ohio shows the folly of this reasoning. If Santorum had Newt’s +15 in Ohio, he would have won the full slate there.
Newt is dividing enough votes and letting Romney pick up the votes that he needs to win the nomination outright - no brokered convention.
Newt, after tonight - cannot force a brokered convention. Romney and Santorum won too many delegates.
RuPaul is at that age where rubber chicken tastes goooooooood.
It’s time. Newt needs to do the right thing for this country and the Conservative cause.
Now that he has a Secret Service entourage, Newt won’t drop out. Very clever of the administration.
“FoxNews says Newt takes 70 delegates tonight and Santorum 60.”
There are a number of Santorum’s delegates that are un-committed. Rick sure is whiney these days. GO NEWT GO!
“Then why not ask Romney to drop out?”
I’ll sign up for that!
Santorum, STUFF IT!
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