>> Someone like a Gingrich who would have made it completely ideological battle every step and could articulate it would have I agree made it a 60-40 or 65-35 victory <<
Oh c’mon, good FRiend. Gee whiz. Let’s be real:
Your “someone like” poor ole Newt — genuinely superb orator though he truly is — couldn’t even carry Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi or Louisiana in the ‘pubbie primaries.
So how on earth can a rational person imagine that Gingrich could carry any NON-SOUTHERN states in the general election, other than maybe a few “electoral-vote-rich” states like Alaska, Wyoming and Nebraska?
I agree 100%. If Newt couldnt convince more than 30% of republican voters in a southern state than how is he going to convince 65% of voters in a national election ???
Please dont tell me the only reason Newt couldnt get above 30% was because romney spent 20 million in attack ads against him, because obama would have spent about 1 BILLION dollars against Newt in attack ads in a general election, and obamas ads would have made romney ads look like childs play considering obama wouldnt of had to worry about being too harsh and pissing off republican voters in general.
Fortunantly the freepers that are holding on to these Newt and Santorum fantasies are not the fringe, because calling them the fringe would be a insult to the fringe. They are the fringe of the fringe of the fringe, and there is not enough of them in number to impact a local election for dog catcher in tumbleweed, oklahoma population 14.
99.999999999999999999999999999% of republicans realize romney is going to be the nomineee and republicans need to get behind him in order to defeat the kenyan, socialist, gay loving, america hating president that we have now.