[VinL]

skeeter, I’m just having some fun on this thread. But here, I’ll answer you sincerely.

Newt can’t beat Romney one on one- neither can Rick. Romney has too much money and institutional power.

Rick and Newt only have a chance. They they stay in, and don’t campaign against each other. Instead, each attacks Romney and the Gop-e for having “fixed” this GOP primary- and they threaten to bolt the party.

The battle is grassroots against the establishment— and Rick and Newt have to make that argument together.

[skeeter]

Agreed. As I've said many times, I'd be happy with either of these guys. But once it becomes clear that one is impeding the other, that one has to get out.

We're not there yet.

[muawiyah]

In reality, with no Conservative candidates in the race, Romney was beaten down to getting 1/10 the number of votes he should have been able to expect in a normal process.

Sure, he gets the delegates, but who wants to be a Romney delegate after such a debacle.

Virginia's primary proved conclusively that Mitt's support is remarkably thin, and not enough to get out the vote in a real election.

Money isn't all you need to run. You need peeps and he hasn't got any.

[RitaOK]

” Newt can’t beat Romney one on one- neither can Rick. Romney has too much money and institutional power. “ ——

Vin, I’m glad you lay the truth out there. It is a fact.

I have known this also for weeks, but clung to hope, which led to prayer, and that somehow this cycle was so very different that the truly daunting events and the present facts could be reversed, that Republican voters would wake up and see the machine fix in place.

What is left is to pray that ALL three candidates can mess with Romney long enough to GET US TO CONVENTION, so that we will have earned a hearing of our complaints there, a seat at the table, and be in a position to offer up the delegate war as our bono fidis!

THE DELEGATES, OF ALL THREE, ARE OUR FINAL AND ONLY WEAPON
TO HAVE A VOICE OF OPPOSITION TO THE RINOS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

Alone, none of these candidates against Romney have a prayer, and We The People, the instance one drops out, are silenced and dismissed, left with nothing but theater.

The Establishment is in no real panic and that is quite telling, but for Barbara Bush, of course. But the Establishment knows exactly how this ends because we have failed to unite in time to overwhelm.

Santorum will NEVER be the nominee, one on one.
Newt will NEVER be the nominee, one on one, maybe period.
Ron Paul will certainly NEVER be the nominee by any math.

IMHO, Rick and Newt are unlikely to allign because Rick is so naieve, but as you said, to have a prayer they MUST together get radical and present a united front against Romney at all costs, for us to have a prayer to change the party apparatus, agenda and defeatism of RINO leadership.

I am certain Newt knows this and has tried with smoke signals to confer with Santorum, but Rick is small picture and mostly for Rick, and runs on just enough grandiosity and battle drama to blind him to any need for unity. This is not a sign of wisdom.

We can not be demoralized but instead must push for a united front, and in a serious rebellion against the Establishment, rather than push for one to get out.

Now, the truth is out there.