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.
Im not holding onto any fantasies, the primary is over, Mitt is the candidate and nothing is going to change that.
What I have said is that Mitt isn’t going to make this an ideological election, he’s going to sit back, play boring don’t make a mistake, that’s it.
He’s not going to try to articulate the conservative world view, whether or not he agrees with it, because its not who he is, and frankly he’s not a person who can articulate it.
Only one guy could, he’s gone, and so it is.
Stop trying to start flame wars where none exist. I believe this election if it were fought by ideological ground with a candidate who could and would articulate the conservative, limited government, world view and knew how to handle the press, they would easily get 60%+ of the vote. Mitt ain’t that guy, so its not likely to wind up that lopsided, but its still going to be a lopsided affair.
Sadly because the election won’t be won or fought on ideology, the victory wont carry the weight into the next congress that ideologically the country has rejected social democracy and as such wins won’t be used to roll back a lot of the last 60 years of nonsense.
Ideology matters, but it won’t be in play, at least not on the right side of the isle for this election. The advantage gained won’t be pushed as it should be.
Now if you wish to discuss the primary and what happened with Newt, I will gladly do so, but that was not the point I was making, nor am I playing sour grapes.