Posted on 04/21/2012 3:20:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Rick Santorum, the winner of Alabama's Republican presidential primary, hasn't released his 22 Alabama delegates to support another candidate, but delegates said they expect to unite behind Mitt Romney if he locks up the GOP nomination.
....Santorum won Alabama's GOP primary March 13, picking up 22 delegates, compared with 13 for Newt Gingrich and 12 for Romney.
Even though Santorum has suspended his campaign, the rules of the Alabama Republican Party bind his delegates to him until he releases them.
Dean participated in a conference call with Santorum on Monday, during which the former Pennsylvania senator told delegates he has no immediate plans to release them. Dean said Santorum is hanging on to the delegates for now to make sure conservative principles play an important role at the Republican National Convention in late August.
Delegate Tom Powers of Clanton said that if Romney gets the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the nomination before the August convention, he expects Santorum to release his Alabama delegates and encourage everyone to give Romney a 100 percent vote in Tampa, Fla.
Delegate Tripp Skipper of Anniston, an aide to Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, said that even though Santorum was his first choice, Romney appears to be the presumptive nominee.
"I'd much rather have Governor Romney as president than President Obama," Skipper said.
State Party Chairman Bill Armistead said it was obvious that Romney would win the nomination. He said some of Santorum's supporters in Alabama are already helping Romney's campaign, and he expects more to come on board.
Gingrich is still seeking the nomination and has his 13 Alabama delegates. Armistead said he hopes Gingrich won't become divisive because "there is no path to victory for him to get the nomination."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Does this E lapdog care?
Nope.
The people? Shoot, they're just there to vote for who we tell them to vote for! If they won't do that, then just ignore them!
/GOP-E
Time to bite the bullet. Romney's no better than Obama anywise, and may even be MORE dangerous since he'll have a compliant, go-along Congress to rubber stamp HIS increases in government.
If the General comes down to Romney vs Obama, by all means vote -- use your vote to influence the circumstances whichever Bad Guy (both Obama and Romney are bad for America) faces in office by voting third party SO THAT the final vote count shows how many voted AGAINST the liberal statist victor. Remember what happened to Clinton when he won with a 43% pluralisty -- 57% had voted AGAINST him, it was on record loud and clear, and therefore he got his ass kicked so soundly in the mid-terms that it was called The Republican Revolution.
A lot of conservatives are willing to make a deal with the devil -- Romney -- in order to avoid Obama. Like any deal with the devil, it is a losing proposition, spawned out of pure fear, and riskier than opting to fight liberalism HONESTLY by voting against it whatever form it takes.
Romney is DOCUMENTED as a dyed-in-the-wool liberal on major issues including cap-and-trade global warming eco-tyranny, nationalized health care, abortion-on-demand, the homosexual agenda, and appointing activist liberal judges. Voting for him is as nuts as voting for Obama.
The only sane option is to vote in a way that will do the most to weaken whichever liberal takes office, and that can be done by voting such that the victor has the most dismal plurality possible.
A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Voting for Romney would be shortsighted and stupid.
Yep. And Godspeed Newt Gingrich.
MM:
Newt won South Carolina and Georgia and was 2nd in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi.
Newt won his "home state" and has not withdrawn from the primary election.
The 2012 PRIMARY (which is the election we’re in right now) is the perfect election to take that risk. The GOP-e has a stinking candidate who presided over government-coerced abortions (Romneycare coercing Catholic hospitals and physicians to administer abortifacients against their will and religious beliefs) - who actually SET THE PRECEDENT for the same stinking, tyrannical action by Obama in Obamacare and thus negates what would otherwise be our chief distinction from Obama in an issue that 60-75% of the public opposes Obama on.
And we have someone in the race who has already had all the mud and money in the world slung at him and has stood with us for the principles of the Constitution, as well as recognizing the danger of the media and the Islamists. Unlike Romney, his actual record of accomplishments shows his ability to cut government and to support the Constitution. He has personal baggage because of cheating on his wife but has apparently genuinely repented of it when he converted to Catholicism, because he exhibits a penitent spirit regarding that issue, repented before his priest, and has remained faithful to his wife ever since.
Romney doesn’t have the nomination and if we can keep him from getting half the delegates from here on out he won’t be able to get the nomination. People talk about there being no way for Newt to get the needed delegates. Well, if conservatives solidified behind Newt there would be no way for Romney to get them, either. And THAT would be the ideal election for us to raise the finger to the GOP-e (that first showed us the finger with their lawlessness and corruption).
This primary election is the PERFECT election to do what we’ve all wanted to do for some time. But to do it we have to actually stop LISTENING to the GOP-e who wants us to believe Romney is inevitable. He’s not. What we need is the resolve and the courage to actually fight for everything we SAY matters. Time for us to walk the walk.
Bump!
Bump!
Bump!
My own sneaking hunch/premonition of a brokered convention to junk Romney: instead of Romney we end up with Jeb Bush. Better than Romney, but still a loss for conservatism and a win for liberalism, and LIBERALISM is the real enemy here.
Bump!
BUMP!
Yes. And voting against Romney in the primary is a way to let HIM and the GOP-e know that if we vote for him in the general it’s a plug-your-nose vote that’s really a vote against Obama.
One of the lines in “Valkyrie” that stands out was the rationale for even TRYING to oust Hitler: “We have to let the world know we were not all like him.”
Romney has said that government-coerced abortion is the “sounder” view of what Romneycare means, and that it is the “right thing” for Catholic hospitals to commit what they believe to be murder. What kind of soul would say that? We’re looking at somebody with the same heart of coercion that Obama has.
Even if we think Romney is inevitable, that just means that we HAVE to let the world know that we were not all like him.
Oh yeah, Phil...sure thing.
You may want to check my history. I abhor Mittens and have had the fortitude to share that way more than many Freepers on this site.
I was and still am a Santorum supporter...and originally was pro Newt until it became apparent that there was NO WAY he was or is going to be the nominee.
It is entirely silly to just continue to tout one candidate or another on FR anyway. POTUS is only ONE branch of our government, we have little or no control over who is going to be the nominee right now..and we can still work to help elect local, state and federal CONSERVATIVES to office in future to at least keep some semblance of a checks and balances system in place.
Your assessment is childish and most significantly, WRONG, about me. But if you’re one of the Newties, it’s typical.
Oh, and you guys may want to douse the immature GO NEWT!s or else don those knee pads yourselves.
That may be true but we’ll at least have a candidate who didn’t support government-coerced abortion, AND we will have said to the GOP-e that we refuse to be bought and sold like slaves.
If we reach that point I will consider it a massive victory on many levels, even though I can’t stand Jeb Bush.
It’s not too late. The GOP-e desperately wants you to believe that. Romney desperately wants you to believe that also - which is why he has bought off the “pro-life” groups to endorse him against Obama before he’s even running against Obama. They are trying to demoralize us.
But remember this: they have to try so hard to demoralize us because they know we can still derail Romney’s nomination.
IOW, they know it’s not too late, which is why they are trying to convince us to think it is.
I was for either Santorum or Gingrich; made no difference to me which got it. At one point I suggested that they ask the Lord to decide which should be the P and which the VP on the ticket and then draw straws to hear His answer.
At this point Santorum is keeping his delegates bound to him. Thank God! That will help keep Romney from getting the nomination in the first round of voting. That is the same tactic that Newt is after, and it can be effective. I was so afraid that Santorum was going to betray conservatism. He didn’t! He’s holding on for conservatism and for the people who voted for him because he represented conservatism! Thank you, thank you, Lord! And thank you, Santorum! That took courage and wisdom, and courage and wisdom were provided just when they were needed.
We’re still on course for what needs to be done.
The enemy we face is demoralization - either by those in the GOP-e and media who push for Romney, or by those who have given in to their demoralization efforts.
There’s a song I really love, by Casting Crowns, called “The Voice of Truth”, and it really, really applies right now - because the things we stand for are truth, freedom, and life, which are near and dear to the Lord’s heart:
Oh, what I would do to have
The kind of faith it takes to stand before a giant
With just a sling and a stone,
Surrounded by the sound of a thousand warriors
Shaking in their armor,
wishing they’d have had the strength to stand.
But the giant’s calling out my name and he laughs at me,
Reminding me of all the times I’ve tried before and failed.
The giant keeps on telling me, time and time again,
“Boy, you’ll never win. You’ll never win!”
But the voice of Truth tells me a different story.
The voice of Truth says, “Do not be afraid”.
The voice of Truth says, “This is for My glory.”
Out of all the voices calling out to me,
I will choose to listen and believe the voice of Truth.
Santorum had to drop out.
The reason is called Pennsylvania.
But no matter the reason, it happened.
Newt is all that’s left.
Win or lose, he’s one heckuva mensch.
You no like.
Who does that leave?
Romney, or Ron Paul.
I still choose Newt.
And as CW reminded, he won TWO states and placed second in three, but the bottom line is he’s still there.
Santorum dropped out because of lack of money, not PA.
Newt is not going to win anything, except maybe a speaking spot at the convention, which would be great!
He is still “here” because he is too stubborn to admit that his race is DONE, OVER, FINI!!
At least, Rick knew when to step down.
And no, Newties, it is not the Santorum supporters who spew hate and vitriol on this site...When you point a finger at someone else, there are three pointing back at you.
(Stuart Smalley, aka Al Franken).
And though Fox News is wrapped around Newt like an anchor, he's pressing on.
Gingrich presses ahead amid reports of suspending campaign, huge debt
He’s still an active candidate.
Apparently that option means nothing to you, although the alternative is Romney or Ron Paul.
He wins for me by being there and by doing what he can.
He’s great.
Whether people vote on that basis or not, and no matter what happens.
I’m grateful he’s there.
Are you aware that Sheldon Adelson’s WIFE gave Newt 5 mil. in March, when her husband didn’t give any more?
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