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BREAKING: Rick Santorum Dropping Out

Mitt Romney It Is.

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  April 10th, 2012 at 02:06 PM  | 

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Multiple news sources confirming the news, with a 2pm press conference in Gettysburg to follow. The news comes on the heels of word that his chronically ill daughter Bella was hospitalized again over the weekend. Santorum has already called Mitt Romney to concede.

In my view, it’s the right time for Santorum to drop out. His family needs him now, the delegate math precluded him from doing anything but dragging the race to a fractious convention, and with Romney preparing a huge ad buy as Santorum fell in the Pennsylvania polls, withdrawing now avoids a potentially embarrassing home state loss on April 24.

CNN has live feed of the press conference.

POSTMORTEM: There were missteps along the way worth learning from, but at the end of the day, each of the four finalists in this race – Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and Paul – met or exceeded any reasonable expectation for what they could have accomplished in this primary, given where they all started in the spring of 2011. Santorum in particular began the campaign – and even entered the last week of 2011 – as a marginal figure discredited by a disastrous 2006 loss, but vaulted himself back into the national conversation as a major leader of the social-conservative wing of the party and won over 3 million votes and 11 states.

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  • General_Confusion

    2012, the conservative free election year. ;(

    Prepare for the penultimate ?go along, get along” dream team of Romney, McConnell and Boehner

    • http://www.baseballcrank.com Dan McLaughlin

      I’m as anti-Romney as the next guy, but he’s still a major improvement on Obama.

      We go to war with the Mitt Romney we have.

      • rechts

        I will take Romney over Obama any day.

      • General_Confusion

        But he will do NOTHING to make things better.

        We will have full RINO control in the Presidency and Congressional leadership. That means the Democrats will be able to hold their gains and we will decelerate slightly the rate of growth in the deficit and government.

        Now if the Supreme Court does not kill Obamacare in its entirety all bets are off. The father of Obamacare will ?mend it, not end it? (aka fiddle it at the fringes) and the government deficit and growth will explode.

        Anyway we ran the RINO vs Full on liberal experiment already in 2008, any bets as to how it plays out this time.

        • In The Hook

          Our budget blueprints from the RSC and Paul Ryan are very conservative and they’re backed to the hilt by Boehner and McConnell. I doubt very much that either of those gentlemen are Tea Partiers but they know who is in charge now and it’s the voters. Look at Romney’s rhetoric and proposals. Far to the right of McCain or GWB. Way, way to the right of Dole.

          I think people lose perspective of how far this party has moved (for the better) in the last decade and a half.

          • avgjo

            who looks to records over rhetoric and proposals. And if we’re going to judge by rhetoric, let’s remember the ‘etch-a-sketch’ comment by one of his close people.

            Mitt will lose. And it won’t even be close.

          • vastrightwingconspiracy

            … who looks at records, how can you stomach voting for any of these people, other than Paul?

            He’s the only truly consistent one of the bunch.

          • avgjo

            Gingrich governed more conservatively than he speaks. It’s kinda like the guy that is rude to your face and says nice things behind your back. I much prefer that to the usual ‘conservative in the primaries, liberal in the general and governing’ that we usually get.

            And next to Romney, he’s Ronald Reagan’s second coming.

          • vastrightwingconspiracy

            …in Gingrich.

            Why would he govern differently than he speaks?

            Isn’t that the allegation against Romney?

          • avgjo

            might be a fair charge. However, in Gingrich’s case, it’s not so much specific things he says versus specific things he does. Rather, rhetorically, the general impression Newt leaves a lot of people with is that he doesn’t want to shrink government, he just wants to manage it better. However, when he puts that into practice, the results are nice.

            More basically, Romney is like the guy that says nice things to your face, and stabs you in the back. Newt is the guy that slaps you in the face and says nice things about you behind your back. Sure, each case has the commonality that they say one thing and do another, but one is refreshing, the other revolting.

          • garfieldjl

            Answer, he never managed that, Newt Gingrich managed to accomplish that feat, not Ron Paul.

          • vastrightwingconspiracy

            …you need to ease off on the throttle friend.

            I said consistent, not conservative. Paul walks the talk more than the other candidates and I don’t think that anyone can reasonable argue differently.

          • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

            leftist Cynthia McKinney in 2008. That’s hardly walking with the GOP.

            And if you want more reasonable evidence, just search Ron Paul in the google box at the top of the site for a plethora of diaries on the subject.

          • zachv

            I don’t like Paul one bit, and that bit makes it worse.

          • General_Confusion

            Looking at the record of Boehner and McConnell they have done NOTHING but run interference for the Democrats and slapped down any conservative that dared raise his head.

            Their words mean NOTHING, their actions have told me everything we need to know.

            I?m just not excited at the prospect of another conditions free debt increase or another budget deficit commission to cover for their inaction. At some point someone HAS to do something, we have ?jaw jawed? spending to DEATH and have ZERO to show for it.

            Vote Mitt ?Steady as she goes? Romney for Caretaker 2012

          • In The Hook

            Honestly, can someone please explain to me how Boehner and McConnell are supposed to get conservative bills through Congress and force the president to sign them? Blocking basically anything and everything Obama wanted to pass was about as good as we could do and we’ve done that. And done it at a nasty price I might add.

            Oh and for all of you who say we could have gone all the way to the mat on the debt ceiling fight, you’re just dead wrong. Our side would have taken the heat for it and the results in the debt market would have been absolutely horrible. Our borrowing costs would have skyrocketed TODAY as opposed to that being a problem a few years from now that we could fix with say, Ryan’s budget getting through a Republican congress and getting signed by a Republican president in 2013.

          • avgjo

            A power which they did not use.

            Our side has taken heat for everything anyway.

            I’ll never get why people believe that reacting to the opposition the way they want is a good idea.

            and don’t fool yourself. We won’t have a republican president in ’13. It won’t even be close.

          • General_Confusion

            Question, so the how does the 17 Trillion dollar deficit that was aided and abetted by the GOP House help the country? Answer, it doesn?t.

            At some point we have to actually DO something about it.

            The House, for the good of the country, absolutely needed to say NO and they could of have said NO! All crybaby Boehner had to say was ?I sent over a proposal, now you in the Senate need to VOTE on it?. Sadly what he did was notice that Harry Reid was frowning and immediately replaced a minimal plan with a full capitulation plan.

            What the is the point of electing Republicans if they are simply going to roll over and play dead when a nation threatening deficit is exploding out of control.

            Again be happy, we will sail over the financial cliff at 65 MPH instead of 85 MPH but boy will we look all kinds of bipartisan.

            Vote Mitt ?Now I can return to my true core leftist principals now that the primary is over? Romney in 2012

          • In The Hook

            What’s the difference between the Senate voting it down or Reid saying he won’t even take it up for a vote besides the optics? Because the Senate would have voted it down and that would have been that. Back to square one.

            Yes, the Congress has the power of the purse but we only control one chamber of that body. And Obama could still veto anything that was sent his way and do you think he’d get all the flak for it? Doubtful.

            The Left accepted incrementalism for decades and look where it has gotten them. Pretty darn close to their goals. You think we can sweep that away in one fell swoop? News flash, that’s not how the Founders envisioned it. The reason for all the checks and balances was to ensure that this country couldn’t take radical turns and that the majority could not oppress the minority.

            We have to accept that we can’t change everything all at once. We need some substantial changes to avoid calamity to be sure, but to try and implement the conservative ideal of the relationship between citizen and government would not only be disastrous politically it would also bump up against the very nature of our republic.

          • General_Confusion

            The deficit would NOT have increased! The House holds the purse strings, if they don?t vote to spend money it doesn?t get spent!

            If Reid wanted to spend money he would have HAD to negotiate with the House what that spending level would be, instead we granted a literal BLANK check for 2 Trillion dollars.

            We folded, we caused material damage to our nation by needlessly raising the debt limit, we got NO cuts, NO limits on any program, STILL have NO budget and now we (and our children and their children) will pay the price.

            Inaction, go along, get along is not the answer.

        • Common_Cents

          if you haven’t already. That is where you can make a difference in building conservative agendas and recruiting/getting conservatives elected for the future of the party and this country.

          Now it’s making the best choice between 2 alternatives, obama or romney. Like choosing pickles or steak, or if you don’t choose steak, you are more likely to be left with pickles after everyone else chooses.

      • APA Guy

        People who are tempted to whine about Mitt Romney need to shake the cobwebs from their brains. This is a war to save the United States of America.

        Your candidate lost. The country hasn’t yet. Get into the fight because WE’RE NOT DONE UNTIL OBAMA IS VOTED OUT OF OFFICE.

    • avgjo

      Although I’ll be the first to say I prefer Romney to Obama, ol’ Mittens will lose big.

      It won’t even be close.

      • APA Guy

        Those of us who haven’t jumped from your bridge aren’t buying what you’re selling. Romney took out Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich along the way…and he raises huge amounts of money.

        This isn’t over by a long shot…the war is just beginning.

        • avgjo

          it’s not sorrow, it’s fact.

          contrary to the spirit of the times, I don’t live by emotion. So while I might reach an unsavory conclusion, that doesn’t translate to sorrow.

          And I don’t expect anyone to buy anything. We’ll see in November. I’d be more than happy to eat my words with a nice side of crow.

          But don’t blow Romney’s ‘success’ out of proportion. He benefited from the stupidity of conservative media, conservative voters etc.

          He’ll be branded an elitist, the media will make hay of his religion (screwed up but true), his Wall Street ties will be distorted and Bain Capital will the new Bogeyman. Couple all that with Mitt’s obvious lack of principle (switching his position on abortion, MID-DEBATE, in 1994, anyone?) and belief that Obama is a nice guy, and you’re going to have McCain redux.

          • APA Guy

            But feel free to cry in your towel. Those who care about the country will get to work.

          • avgjo

            Attempts at snark aside, we’ll see.

            I’ll be here on

          • avgjo

            nt

    • tnguy

      I never believed in 2010 that Conservatives could’ve botched this so badly. Clearly, I was wrong.

      We’ll get the president we deserve, whether we get a 2nd term for the Bolshevik or a single term of liberal republicans, who will accomplish little more than use the conservative brand name like toilet paper.

      • avgjo

        It was a massive failure on the part of the conservative wing of the MSM, which shilled for Romney from day one, and of idiot conservative voters who apparently were more interested in expressing themselves through their vote than seeing to it that Romney lost early and lost big to one or another candidate. In other words, we as a group lack the brains and gumption to organize and rally around one good candidate. Add to that Ron Paul’s tilting at windmills, Rick Santorum”s ‘campaign over country’ mentality, all along with the fact that our wonderful GOP Congress has primed us for this loss by demoralizing the base, and you have a recipe for disaster.

        Although I don’t believe in wrapping it up and calling it quits, and I will fight during Obama’s second term, I’m really not convinced there’s much left to fight for.

  • wintermute

    Time to focus on the real problem.

  • EyeOnThePrize

    Time to rally behind the presumed nominee.

  • jon11

    Losing PA would have been devastating for rick. And he would have lost. Winning it would have meant little as it is his home state.

    General_confusion

    You think the Ryan plan is Liberal/progressive? I think its a good conservative plan by the most courageous legislator in America.

    liberals and progressives call it social darwinism.

    You think Romney’s position on immigration is liberal/progressive?

    This is where we’ve really lost our marbles to a degree on the right.

    This nonsense that a candidate who votes our preferences 80 to 90% of the time is ‘no better’ than one who votes our preferences 0 to 10% of the time.

    We need to get over that. And the sooner the better.

    • radicalrighty

      Romney plans on opening Federal land for drilling, repealing Obamacare, presenting balanced budgets annually.

      I also think it is a cinch Mitt will pick a conservative running mate.

      I was a Perry guy, but I’m all in for Romney now.

      • irishgirl

        Romney was not my preferred candidate, but I’m on board now. We should all have one common goal and that is to beat Obama.

    • General_Confusion

      When the chips are down you will see him solidly on the left.

      Ever wonder why his campaign staff keeps reassuring the MSM that he doesn?t really mean what he is saying? (aka etch a sketch or won?t really repeal Obamacare)

      The primary is now over, there will be a lot of heads exploding when he moves to his progressive general election positions.

      Yes he will better than Obama but don?t kid yourself into thinking he will restrain the continued growth of our Federal leviathan.

  • In The Hook

    And better than McCain. Yes, it’s unfortunate that’s where the good news ends. But it’s still halfway decent news.

    The better news is that the ’16 and ’20 crop is substantially better than what we have this time around. Do I want to run our version of John Kerry? No. But it’s an improvement over the rest of the field and our 2008 candidate. So that’s something. I look forward to the VP pick and to how folks like Jindal, Rubio and Ryan improve their standing over the next (hopefully) eight years.

  • Ender

    no endorsement, no call to unify. Barely mentioning the need to beat Obama.

    • http://www.baseballcrank.com Dan McLaughlin

      don’t do that. Usually takes a few days, at least, to heal the wounds and get on board. Supporters don’t want to hear it just yet anyway,

      • Ender

        If he does the right thing, I won’t be as upset with him. It wasn’t the friendliest of contests and the wounds are still raw.

      • Common_Cents

        He made his decision to back Gingrich at the time of ending his campaign. I think if Rick or anyone wants any leverage for whatever, money or influence, they have the most leverage before they announce.

        The longer they wait to endorse, the more irrelevant they become. Look at Cain waiting trying to milk his endorsement but nobody really cared since it took so long.

        I think Rick should have endorsed right away. What are his alternatives? However, It’d be kind of interesting if he endorsed Gingrich and got Foster Friese to donate a few million ;)

        • cheetah2

          Endorsing someone else when dropping out is such a positive move. It really made Perry look good when he did it. I think the sooner the better. The other candidates always said they would vote for whoever the nominee ended up to be, so why not endorse him now? Santorum could have used the moment to show he is serious about the real goal: beating Obama, and that he puts that ahead of any personal issues.

        • littlehouse18

          Gingrich could never have beat Obama. He was sinking a long time ago but has still not gotten out.

          It was reported that Gingrich said today that he ?finally will have Romney one on one.?

          Gingrich is a dishonorable man driven by his ego. If he had gotten out long ago, enough of his support would have gone to Santorum to win Michigan, Ohio and others and we’d have a totally different race today. Santorum should not endorse this backstabber. He is less trustworthy than Mitt and that’s reflected in his private life as well, unlike Mitt. I had started to give him a second chance but it seems my first instincts were correct. There was a reason so many who knew Gingrich panicked at the thought of his being the nominee. You did not hear the same kind of complaints against Santorum, because they know he is an honorable guy.

          Santorum did the right thing today given the cards he’s been dealt and especially after this weekend’s setback. As of today, I am now forced to be in the Romney camp. I’ll keep my eyes on the goal of defeating Obama.

          • littlehouse18

            He said he has been concerned at the thought of Santorum being the nominee because he would have been harder to beat than Romney. He attributed this to Rick’s strong conviction and passion. And he seemed impressed by Rick’s speech today.

          • Common_Cents

            When Gingrich had momentum winning SC.

            It is what it is. When you start parsing things in your monday morning quarterback chair you just get caught up in an endless loop of he said/she said.

    • Melody Warbington (rwm52)

      Apparently, Romney supporters can’t just look a gift horse in the mouth and refrain from criticizing. I’m not even a Santorum supporter, but I suspect he might be a little preoccupied with his sick daughter.

      • Repair_Man_Jack

        Some days Romney supporters on RS seem to work as hard to relect BHO as ACORN will.

      • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

        ’bout time the Romneybots figured it out before it’s too late.

      • Ender

        Though of course I am happy that he finally dropped out, I’ve long been disinterested in any help he could potentially provide Romney. He’s been a spoiler and grated on decent people’s sensibilities. I suspect it was the prospect of losing PA that finally did him in.

        • Repair_Man_Jack

          If so, continue your current mode of behavior. You’re the type of Romney fan who will make truly undecided voters want Obama to stomp Romney a new mudhole.

          • Ender

            But it seems like only anti-Romneyites can bash him non stop and compare him to Obama. Anyways, I got the point. Thanks Sen. Santorum for suspending your campaign. Let’s defeat Obama.

          • streiff

            you are the type of particularly obnoxious Romney fanboy that had some of us seriously considering a Romney presidency as more damaging than a second Obama term.

            You’d do well to tread very lightly or prepare to join Larsen boys wherever they are posting these days.

          • txpat

            It will be very hard for us to go pull the lever for Romney in November if we are treated like step children. Romney can’t afford to ignore the base because he will need every vote he can get to beat BO.

      • littlehouse18

        Like Mitt himself, a lot of Romney supporters that I’ve heard from just don’t seem to get the human dimension of all this. That bodes ill for the election; people don’t necessarily vote on cold hard arguments. I hope he picks someone for VP who demonstrates some heart, because he’s going to need it.

  • jon11

    08′ was considered an blowout and obama won by 6%

    this will be a lot closer than that.

    Washington post ABC poll today shows Romney tied with Obama on jobs and leading him on handling the economy and crushing him on the deficit.

    Obama leads in ‘likability’

    Also shows Obama with a 7 point lead in the general, but with over 30% undecided.

    Those are centrist voters.

    Romney can swing that.

    It will be damn, damn close.

    • Common_Cents

      This election will be a referendum on the future of America. If obama wins, it’ll show finally the left created too many people voting more benefits for themselves and after another 4 yrs the damage will be near impossible to undo.

      We have a chance if romney wins, which he’ll manage the decline, and hopefully we can elect a future young gun conservative to make major changes.

      • rightlane1111

        I don’t believe that this election will be close. I believe that the MSM is hyping this for rating. However, I believe that we have a very, very big problem. Conservatives. Why…because they have principles and after the election of ’08…many people will not go to the polls again to do the same thing over again.

        We, those of us that care about our country, have to do everything possible to convince those people that not only is Romney a better choice than what we currently have, but that WE MUST elect a very strong Conservative Congress to keep Romney from getting too progressive.

        Many people I know, have voiced an opinion that they will not vote because of Romney. If they don’t….it is a vote against America. I will vote for Romney. The Independents will vote for Romney and some of the Democrats will vote for Romney. However, if we do not turn out our base…we are in trouble. As Rush just stated…he hopes the Republicans do not mess this one up.

  • conservativemusician

    Now that he is dropping out. He had absolutely no chance to win and was threatening to cause problems at the convention. He came off to me like a total spoiled sport, especially when he said that voting for Romney was the same as voting for Obama – very classless.

    Add to that the health problems his daughter is having and it seemed to me he had his priorities out of whack by continuing on. Probably a few weeks late in making this decision, but it was the right one, not only for his family, but for the GOP and the country.

    I’m not a Romney fan either, but he is now the standard bearer for our party, so he will have my full support. It is time for all of us to put our differences aside and come together now, focussing our energies on defeating Obama. Now that Santorum is out, I also hope that Newt will put his massive ego aside and drop out soon.

  • rightlane1111

    Harry Reid needs to go away and we have to elect people that will stop any “progressive” concepts out of the WH….meaning Romney

    • littlehouse18

      nt

  • republitarian

    My hope is that he gets elected and we’re able to get more solid constitutionalists in the courts, especially SCOTUS. We were able to get GWB to back down on stealth crony Harriet Miers, so suspect we can keep Romney in line on this issue too.

    Presidents come and go, but judges’ decisions reverberate for generations.

    • General_Confusion

      You can check his record when he was governor to see what I mean.

      • http://www.baseballcrank.com Dan McLaughlin

        We will have to fight to influence him.

        If Obama’s re-elected, we can only hope to stop him. That’s still a big difference.

        • zachv

          We can’t afford another 4 years of Obama.

        • General_Confusion

          How do we influence the currently in control of RINO leadership?

          Conservatives made a historic difference in the House in 2010 and were immediately told to sit down and shut up upon arrival by their RINO ?betters?.

          I just don?t see how we can influence those that see conservatives as bomb throwers and perceive Democrats as reasonable.

          • http://www.baseballcrank.com Dan McLaughlin

            Go send Ted Cruz or Mourdock or Dan Liljenquist some money, for example.

          • littlehouse18

            I tell them I don’t like what they’re doing. I donate to individuals right now. Can anyone tell me why I should give to the RNC?

          • avagreen

            they aren’t being supported and the guy’s name they stonewalled to keep him from completing his run for the nomination. My husband adds a few choice words along the way.

            And, that this household supports the individuals of our choice.

      • vastrightwingconspiracy

        …of Texas.

        Good grief. Wake up and smell the coffee.

        The guy did the best he could with what he had to work with.

        • General_Confusion

          DC, that bastion of conservatism will certainly be his rock of Gibraltar! Oh, wait, never mind.

          Mitt ?That was the best I could do? Romney 2012

          • vastrightwingconspiracy

            …a better chance with a legislature that is not 85%+ Dem.

            Perhaps you should just take a breath turbo. Romney will do well.

    • colton341

      We should start a Mark Levin for the SCOTUS if Mitt gets elected. He would be a great justice, not to mention the libs heads would explode.

      • littlehouse18

        ..

    • securitymom

      ABO should be what we are concerned with. Obama with no restrictions on SARS, Exectuve powers, EPA orders and SCOTUS is really concerning.

  • Common_Cents

    He must be pissed at Gingrich for not getting out earlier.

    Gingrich just praised Rick on his campaign, and made an appeal for Rick supporters to visit Newt.org and restated that he is in til Tampa. LOL

    • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

      **no*text**

      • Aaron Gardner

        nt

    • Scope

      that soon enough he would be polling at about Paul’s numbers. He beat those expectations, he is polling below Ron Paul now consistently.

    • Remington_Steele

      Newt’s doing exactly what Huckabee did the last go around. They remain in play to get as many left over donations as possible to pay down their debts. Newt has over $4 million he owes.

      • zachv

        What are you supposed to do otherwise? Not pay your debts?

        • Remington_Steele

          there is no otherwise. It is the smartest thing to do. And note that I don’t say he is only in it for the cash, but money is part of why he continues his campaign. I’m just saying many think his motivations are purely to influence the party and that runs counter to reality. With that much in debt, he needs to continue to run and accept as much as will be donated. What he comes up short will be out of pocket.

  • http://conservativemormonmom.blogspot.com ew88

    He’s experienced in cutting budgets, for crying out loud! That’s exactly what we need in Washington right now. What’s more, I believe he’ll do it. Not a minute too soon, either. Let’s get him the help he needs in Congress to make it happen.

    I greatly respect Ann Coulter’s conservatism, and she’s written many articles clearly pointing out Romney’s conservatism. I’ve even wondered if the ‘establishment’ was behind him in the first place, or took him as ‘inevitable’ as the rest of us. The liberal media were the ones shoving him down throats. Not the GOP. Maybe the liberals think he’ll be an easy target, but I get the sense that he won’t be. You see, Obama can’t run on his record – he has to run away from it. All the GOP has to do is point out Obama’s failures (most everything he’s done) and he’s toast. The best liberal intentions consistently lead to the worst economic results.

    www.conservativemormonmom.blogspot.com

    • damianvincent

      Romney hiked taxes nearly a billion dollars, and the debt still rose on his watch. I lost my last little bit of respect for Ann the man Coulter over those articles, another sellout needing to be shown the door.

  • garfieldjl

    Look folks, Santorum’s daughter is in the hospital, I think the man deserves our sympathy and support. I hope his daughter recovers.

    Newt Gingrich hasn’t dropped out of the race yet, and Romney still doesn’t have this in the bag.

    If Romney doesn’t cross the finish line, then we are heading for a brokered convention.

    • gekster

      now I know it.
      You are dilusional.

      Explain to me how anyone at this point beats Romney.
      It just ain’t there, and the fact you fail to admit that makes you dilusional.
      I hope you are having fun in fantasy land.

      • garfieldjl

        I want them to dish out what they have on Romney, and then we blindside the left wing hacks and Obama by choosing a different nominee.

        I personally would find it hysterical, since Newt hasn’t left this, Romney will not be the nominee until he gets the delegates to cross the finish line, and it is entirely possible that he won’t.

        Furthermore, Santorum left due to his daughter being in the hospital, if she recovers he may get back in this.

        • gekster

          and go see what it gets.

          And Santorums daughter (I pray for her speedy recovery) is not the only reason he is out.
          Unlike you, he can read what is writ on the wall.

        • vastrightwingconspiracy

          …to “dish out” on Romney?

          Rick’s biggest problem with this campaign is his impending loss in PA.

          I think you are out there on this, but your bigger point is well taken that he doesn’t win until he has the delegates.

          • garfieldjl

            I’m not out to destroy the guy. If I was there is plenty there to go after him on believe me, and while not all of it would be all that effective in a Republican Primary, it would be extremely effective in the general.

            I actually ran across some videos that the Dems already have prepared while I was doing google searches.

            If you think the criticism I’ve given is bad, you’re in for a real surprise when the Dems unleash what all they’ve dug up on Romney.

            I’ve been trying to tell all of you, we’re walking into a trap.

        • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

          “…and it is entirely possible that he won?t.”

          You keep flacking this crap with no strategy as to how it happens. Produce a state by state strategy or STFU.

          Hint: Santorum and Newt are both on the ballots of all the states that are left, neither will be campaigning and neither has any money – or the ability to raise any – to buy advertising or pay an organization. Oh, and Santorum didn’t have anything resembling an organization in most of the remaining states anyway and Newt has none.

          Delusional isn’t even close to what you are. You should find a home at freerepublic or with Alex Jones, you’d fit right in.

  • txpat

    in Texas. I will vote for Rick Perry.
    I was going to vote for which ever non-Romney was most likely to win Texas, but now that things have fell the way they have I will vote for who inspired me to get involved more than I ever have.
    I only hope that Romney will pick a VP that will charge the base, because if he picks someone like himself if will be hard to motivate the base.
    My thoughts only on this, but I am sure I am not alone in my thoughts.

    • gracie

      Also agree that he needs a conservative, personable VP who will re-energize the base. Lord, we need some kind of recognition!

      Ryan has strangely seemed open in interviews the past few days. Also like West…Love Jindal but scope pointed out he was for Perry and never re-endorsed.

      Who do you like? Maybe it is time to send some tweets?

      This has been a very difficult day…seeing the last viable conservative go down as well as a brokered convention. Thanks to those who can give the non-Roms time to heal.

      • txpat

        I just feel they need to fit a certain check list.
        Knowing Romney he is running some sort survey that would provide him with the best chance to win in swing states.
        The things that are important to the base is most likely less of a consideration.
        He probably feels he will get the base to vote for him and not BO.
        The swing voters will be who he will try to appeal to.
        I hope I am wrong on this.

        • gracie

          but of course it figures. Make decsions by polling by all means.
          And of course you are right; he will likely take the base for granted.
          He certainly got here without us!

          I am not sure he might not outsmart himself though. People in my circle NEED a conservative VP; several others I know who usually vote Pub vow for different reasons not to vote for him anyway. I am almost estranged from a couple of family members who resist even though they are smart enough to know what BO can do to us.

          So, turn left or right; he had better be sure because not all of the base is sold on him anyway. I only gave up today.

          What don’t they understand about liberty or tyranny??

          • txpat

            I just figure he has all kind of folks running the numbers on different VP choices.
            He seems more inclined to pick someone that will get him the W in November, and not what may be what he would pick if he was making a choice on his own.
            That one of my problems with him, you don’t know his true core principles, and even a VP pick may not tell us any more on how he would govern.
            Lets not even talk about his previous governing record.
            I hope I can come to terms with this by November.

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