Santorum and Newt to join forces to try and take down Romney?
I made the prediction that Rick Santorum was going to shake up the Republican presidential race, and I was proven right yet again. Though Rick Santorum lost the Iowa Caucus to Mittens Romney by a mere 8 votes, Rick truly was the big winner of the night hands down. Even though Mittens won Iowa, his win was by far non impressive, and his Republican establishment base should be very troubled by it. Rick Santorum was for the most part written off for dead. He had hardly any money, non existent name recognition up until recently. On the other hand, Mitt Romney had the money, the name recognition, the backing of the Republican establishment, and the on ground organization. So with all that going for him, how come he barely beat and I do mean barely beat Rick Santorum with just 8 votes? Here's another way of looking at it. Romney's victory cost him $75 dollars per vote, while Santorum's strong second place 8 vote difference finish only cost him $10 per vote.
Michelle Bachmann dropped out of the race yesterday, If she would have dropped out a few days earlier, Santorum would have beaten Romney. The 2012 Republican race is in away repeating itself in how the 2008 race unfolded. Back in 2008, Mike Huckabee didn't have a chance of beating John McCain, but he stayed in the race to make sure Mitt Romney didn't win the nomination. It was rumored that an unspoken alliance was formed between McCain and Huckabee to take down Romney. The Huckabee of this race might be Newt Gingrich. Just two weeks before the Iowa Caucus, Newt was leading Romney in most of the polls until Romney went pure negative on Newt by launching relentless negative ads against him in Iowa. Since Newt didni't have the money to launch counter ads, Romney's television ads took their toll on Newt's poll numbers and thus dropped him out of the top three. At least I can say one thing about Newt, he's not taking what happened to lying down. Matter of fact, Newt is very pissed off at Mitt Romney for what he and his supporters did to him. It would appear that Newt and Obama both have a common enemy they want to take out but for different reasons. Since Rick Santorum and Newt are friends, it's more then likely that Newt will go lightly against Rick but bring out the AK-47 against Romney. At this point, it's hard to say whether Newt is Santorum's stalking horse or is still in the race to try and win the nomination. Newt talked about a possible alliance with Rick on the Laura Ingraham show this morning.
Yesterday, John McCain endorsed Romeny. Yeah I know, what a shocker right? Well today, Juan McLame attacked Newt over his comments against Romney calling him a liar. Frankly, John needs to sit down and stay of out this. Nobody cares what he has to say. I give Newt credit for not being the push over like McCain is. I might actually have to start respecting Newt, well at least a little bit. Since the Republican establishment isn't exactly singing his praises, maybe he isn't that bad of a guy after all, time will tell.
Michelle Bachmann dropped out of the race yesterday, If she would have dropped out a few days earlier, Santorum would have beaten Romney. The 2012 Republican race is in away repeating itself in how the 2008 race unfolded. Back in 2008, Mike Huckabee didn't have a chance of beating John McCain, but he stayed in the race to make sure Mitt Romney didn't win the nomination. It was rumored that an unspoken alliance was formed between McCain and Huckabee to take down Romney. The Huckabee of this race might be Newt Gingrich. Just two weeks before the Iowa Caucus, Newt was leading Romney in most of the polls until Romney went pure negative on Newt by launching relentless negative ads against him in Iowa. Since Newt didni't have the money to launch counter ads, Romney's television ads took their toll on Newt's poll numbers and thus dropped him out of the top three. At least I can say one thing about Newt, he's not taking what happened to lying down. Matter of fact, Newt is very pissed off at Mitt Romney for what he and his supporters did to him. It would appear that Newt and Obama both have a common enemy they want to take out but for different reasons. Since Rick Santorum and Newt are friends, it's more then likely that Newt will go lightly against Rick but bring out the AK-47 against Romney. At this point, it's hard to say whether Newt is Santorum's stalking horse or is still in the race to try and win the nomination. Newt talked about a possible alliance with Rick on the Laura Ingraham show this morning.
Yesterday, John McCain endorsed Romeny. Yeah I know, what a shocker right? Well today, Juan McLame attacked Newt over his comments against Romney calling him a liar. Frankly, John needs to sit down and stay of out this. Nobody cares what he has to say. I give Newt credit for not being the push over like McCain is. I might actually have to start respecting Newt, well at least a little bit. Since the Republican establishment isn't exactly singing his praises, maybe he isn't that bad of a guy after all, time will tell.
posted by Alpha Conservative Male at 1:13 AM
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Get used to conservatives, it appears that Romney will be the G.O.P. nominee. You dislike Romney, but you hate President Obama. Therefore you "WILL" vote for Romney!
Now really, doesn't that tell you about the "actual" amount of support for the so-called "conservative movement." It should be obvious that conservatives are a minority in America. Why would you think conservatives have mass appeal, when the party of the conservative (the G.O.P.) can't and won't select a conservative candidate.
I believe the G.O.P. has the far right to blame. Birthers, weirdos who clame the president is a communist, secret muslim hell bent on destroying America from the inside, and various other nutcases. Campaigning on the idea that "God" sent you to run for president might play well in some conservative circles, but the average American finds it's a bit "off kilter" to claim that God endorses you.
"It should be obvious that conservatives are a minority in America."
Get off the crack pipe buddy. Modern Liberals are the minority in America, not Conservatives. Besides, what Conservatives are you talking about? The neo-con establishment versions which is Newt, Romney and Santorum. In the end they are all big government people. The modern neo-cons, big war militarism, corporatists and fake limited government and modern liberals like Obama who are big welfare, tax, spend and entitlement folks. The only real conservative is Paul who happens to be a traditional conservative and has the capability of bringing both liberals and conservatives together. The media hates him because the media is bought out by the establishment but he seems to be the only one who is truly for a constitutional government and a free-market so everyone wins, even you Allen. I am neither far right nor far left but neither party in there modern forms will fix the US so we loose either way with an Obama channeling The New Deal FDR (A Progressive Repub) and Most GOP Candidates channeling there neo-con trigger happy base. I hope for the sake of all of you establishment people that Paul gets in and truly we see what the founding fathers were aiming for and those others are not what it is. Limited Government and true freedom from the Bureaucracy. That is what it means to be a real Liberal, not a modern miss use of the term Liberal. Think on that all of you.
Eddie;"Get off the crack pipe buddy. Modern Liberals are the minority in America, not Conservatives".
I don't own a crack pipe Eddie. Perhaps you could loan me yours...
You're not living in the present my friend. Riddle me this; For the most part, aren't "conservatives" a voting bloc within the G.O.P.? If conservatives are a "majority", wouldn't that majority make a conservative the G.O.P. nominee? After all this is the G.O.P. nominating process, isn't it?
Mind you, I'm not going as far to say what happens in the general election. My point is who the voters choose to represent them as their party nominee. In the primaries President Obama ran his campaign touting "liberal" views from a very liberal platform.
Now how much sense would it make for you to claim that the "majority" of those who voted for Obama during the primaries were "not" liberal?
Bottom line...If the "majority" of G.O.P. voters were "conservative", you would have a "conservative" nominee.
Watched the GOP debate on-line while watching the Detroit Lions-New Orleans Saints game on NBC. I don't know which was worse, the beating the Lions took, or that sleeper of a so-called debate.
In the second half there was hardly any offensive efforts. There was very little pressure applied against the line. No one in the field threw any bombs, solid blocks or tackles to overtake the oppositions game plan. It was "sooooo" sickening I stopped watching, and watched the rest of the football game.
Three words...worst-debate-ever!
Poor silly allen. Most conservatives are registered as independents. Sorry, but can't have it both ways. Progressives say that the GOP is a party controlled by "right wing extremists", well your own comments dispel what other progressives have tried to pant the GOP as, so thank you for telling the truth. With that being said however, conservatives are aligned with the party more so then having any control over it. Most people identify themselves as being conservative over being liberal or progressive.
CB;"Poor silly allen. Most conservatives are registered as independents".
The question was; For the most part, aren't "conservatives" a voting bloc within the G.O.P.?.
So, just to appear as though you've proven some kind of ass-backwards stupid point, you've decided to say that conservatives are not a "VOTING BLOC" within the GOP?
You remind me of my aunt that has a son (my cousin), who every one else in the family knows is a drug addict. At the New Years Eve party he left my sisters home with her husbands gold watch and a few other items. His mother (my aunt) said that, "he didn't steal them, he just left without asking could he have them."
My cousin who's a a drug addicted thief, he doesn't take without asking...HE STEALS! As conservatives do what they do, they vote for GOP candidates.
As I told my aunt, sorry, but YOU can't have it both ways.
Newt deserves the VP slot, if successful!
Can you tell me if the journalist Martin Bashir is sick?
Laura is a forked-tongue banshee, but man she is HOT!
>>>Poor silly allen. Most conservatives are registered as independents.<<<
Tryone, I read a Gallup poll from the past couple years that found 7 out of 10 Republicans identified themselves as conservative and the majority of independents said they were moderates. But please feel free to treat this information the same way you do with all facts and ignore it.
Eddie, what the heck are you talking about?!? I mean, literally: You make no sense. ‘Versions which is” … “We loose either way” … “there trigger happy base” … Way to dispel the popular notion that conservatives are anti-intellectual. Try running that laundry thru the spell & grammar check next time you unleash your mind on the world …
Isn’t it obvious? The GOP is six months away from nominating a Mormon who passed health-insurance reform in Massachusetts. 20th century conservatism is suffering the same fate as ascots, stove-pipe top hats, and crank-driven velocipedes. It’s going to get an update whether or not you, Eddie, want it. And it ain’t happening with the GOP’s current version of the best and the brightest conservatives.
Newton Leroy McPherson (aka Newt Gingrich).
Newt is a lot of things, but he’s not even a Goldwater/Reagan Republican, which is apparently the current standard for conservatisim, or so they say. … Goldwater. Reagan. Old dead guys who spent most of their lives in the era of black and white photography. Anyone got any other ideas for the 21st century? Anyone?
Remember when Newt told a reporter the reason he held the hard-line stance that led to the government shutdown in ’95 was because President Clinton made him sit in the back of the plane during the flights to and from Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral? We want a guy like that running the White House? Newt looks like somebody’s old and fat grandpa, but he’s no grownup.
Ron Paul.
We’ve had presidents born in the 1900s, the 1910s, the 1920s, the 1940s and the 1960s. Nobody from the ‘30s. So why start now? Seriously, give us a break. Ron Paul going to be 77 in August. I’m not sayin’ the guy is past his time, but he still privately refers to African-Americans as “coloreds,” he wants the U.S. to withdraw from the UN and NATO, he thinks the uninsured should get medical treatment at churches, and he subscribes to a fringe economic school of thought that a) was hatched in 1883 and b) is derided by scholars as being averse to the use of mathematics and statistics. … Yeah, that’s some terrific futuristic thinking there, Dr. Paul! Funny how a lot of your ideas seems to be ripped off from Jefferson Davis, a guy who died in 1889.
Don’t let the Madison Avenue marketing fool you. Old guys DON’T rule.
The modern-day GOP has phased out the moderate voters such as myself. Today, Nixon would be pushed out for being too liberal. Even Reagan would suffer flame-thrower attacks by the Teabaggers. Heck, Lincoln – he of the “Party of Lincoln” moniker – would be called a RINO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Keep pulling for the guy who should have run for president maybe 35 years ago, Eddie! That type of progress is going to get you four more years of President Obama.
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