It is time for Rick to stay.
Pressure is mounting for Rick Santorum to leave the race. The Republican Establishment wants him gone so liberal Mitt Romney can be crowned.
Should Santorum leave the race?
In a word, HELL NO.
Okay, that really is two words. Santorum should not leave the race.
From the Washington Post:
He lost the Illinois primary badly to Mitt Romney on Tuesday and, in the process, fell 300 delegates behind the former Massachusetts governor. And, adding insult to injury, former Florida governor Jeb Bush finally decided to wade into the presidential race on behalf of Romney on Wednesday, a signal to the Republican political world that primary race is at an end.
The Romney campaign is also beginning to make the case more publicly that now is the time for Santorum to step aside. Erik Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, noted that the former Massachusetts governor dropped out of the 2008 race in favor of Arizona Sen. John McCain “because he thought it was good for the country.”
And Romney supporter Bob Dole was quoted on Wednesday night comparing Santorum’s position now to his own in the 1988 presidential primary; “I should have gotten out, but I just kept going out there,” Dole told the Associated Press’ Dave Espo.
For his part, Santorum seems set to continue on in the race. But focusing on whether Santorum should stay in the race sort of misses the point. The more important question — as it relates to Romney’s chances in the general election and Santorum’s political future — is how the former Pennsylvania senator will choose to play out what looks to be the end game of his presidential bid.
If the standard we are going to use for Santorum is what is good for the country, then Santorum, like Gingrich, need to stay to the very end and try to force a deadlocked convention.
Santorum is not my first choice by any means. However, he is light years better than Romney. Romney is a liberal. There is now other way to describe Romney. He is as far to the left on many issues as Obama.
Four years ago, we conservatives watched John McCain crash and burn and we said never again. Never again would we be forced to vote for the lesser of two evils. We said in 2012 we were not going to let the RINOs dominate the process and we would have a conservative to put in the White House.
My how things change in four years. Now many of my conservative friends who vowed never again are meekly lining up to buy Mitt Romney’s twin lines of bovine scatology. The twin lines of cow manure are that he is the inevitable nominee and he is the only one who can beat Obama.
Both statements are blatantly false.
Even though I support Newt and still support him, I want Santorum in the race. I want his supporters to continue supporting him with vigor. Our common enemy is Romney.
For the sake of the Republican Party and for the sake of the country, we must make certain a conservative is the nominee of the Republican Party.
Mr. Etch a Sketch is not a conservative.
Rick Santorum needs to stay in this race and keep fighting.
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Permalink Reply by Jill Clayton on -
Thank you for this post, Judson, as a Santorum supporter, I've been disheartened that yet again the liberals win by forcing the issue on pushing Santorum out. I let Freedomworks know that they made a huge mistake by "kinda-sorta" backing Romney, the guy who laid the foundations for Obamacare, one of the main reason the TEA Party burst on the scene to start with. No, we will NOT settle for Mitt - take this to the convention!
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Permalink Reply by Sue Carroll on -
Obama is enemy number one, Romney is number 2. Sununu needs to shut the heck up! Santorum needs to go all the way to Tampa, as does Newt. Who the heck cares what Bush, Sununu, Rove, or Colter has to say!
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Permalink Reply by Steven H on -
Please explain to us how Mitt supporting us becoming offically a bilingual nation is a conservative stance.
That is what he told the voters in Puertp Rico.
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Permalink Reply by Steven H on
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Mitt said he would not require Puerto Ricans to. Learn English if they became a state. If you support Newt's English as an official Language idea (and Rick's ) Mitt just kicked it 3 states south.
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Permalink Reply by Agi Yaeger on -
Barry, I do remember you telling me about your mother-in-law. It's not a pretty picture to witness evil taking over our lives. Thank you for your kind words.We just have to continue to pray to G-d for His help.
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Permalink Reply by Barry Gabrielson on
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With any luck, whoever gets into the White house will clean out government, be honest, moral, ethical, follow the Constitution and the rule of law. Support our friends around the world and be strong against our enemies. I want our enemies to fear us not laugh at us. I pray that the Senate turns Rep and the the Speaker of the House is replaced by a Conservation same with the Senate Speaker. Get progressive/Communists out of DC.
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Permalink Reply by Steven H on
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Mr Phollips is either a closet Romney supporter, or else incapable of conducting basic math. Which is it? If you have 10o votes cast Romney gets 40 Santorum gets 35 gingrich gets 15 and paul gets 10 , if gingrich drops out. You npw have romney 45 santorum 45 they both pick up the same amount of delegates roughly. With Gingrich still in the race,Romney picks up 2/3 of the delwgates,and the remaining 1/3 are split between Rick and Newt.
The point is though,if Newt has won a whopping 2 (TWO) primaries what the heck makes you think he has a snowballs chance in hell of getting theGOP to let him be on a ticket-espe ially the top spot?. with Rick you can at least point out he has won 13 primaries to date and unlike Newt is anywhere from -4 to +5 against Obama,unlike Newt who is anywhere from -7 to -15.
It is time some reality and reason sets in.
Also if a Newt voter would go to Mitt over Rick they obviously are not too worried about their conservative principle. Rick is not perfect by any means, but if you don't get your head out of your posteriorwe are going to have Mitt as the nominee after next Tuesday.
IT IS TIME TO FACE REALITY and if you really want Newt to have any position in the next administration, you better get behind Rick NOW . Rick has already said he would consider Newt as VP- though I would rather see him as ambassador to Israel,Jordan,Syria,Lebanon,and Egypt. But as VP he would actually have more direct input into the bills as tgey are written since he would be working with the Senate daily.
In a Romney admonistration, Newt would not be nominated to be dog catcher in Wheeless,OK or local mosquito magnet in Circle Alaska
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Shea on -
An Attack of the Fruit Fly
It’s not the wasps, bees and mosquitoes, though stingers all, that bedevil presidential candidates. It’s the fruit flies. Insignificant in their own right, they nevertheless have the ability to damage and even sink a campaign.
That’s the lesson for Mitt Romney, as taught by Eric Fehrnstrom, his once-anonymous “top aide” who confided to a CNN interviewer that Mr. Romney is not really a born-again conservative, that he’s only pandering to the unwashed crazies on the right. As soon as he locks up the nomination, he’ll hit the re-set button to emerge as the RINO – Republican in name only – he really is, to appeal to independent voters. Mr. Fehrnstrom didn’t say it quite like that (fruit flies never light long enough to make anything clear), but that’s the clear message he intended to send.
Read more -- http://www.prudenpolitics.com/
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Permalink Reply by Gerald V. Todd on -
Must we remember the darlings of the Establishment - Ford, Bush 41, Dole, McCain and now Romney? 2 one-termers and 2 losers. Wow! Gotta be loved on the DC cocktail circuit.
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Permalink Reply by Agi Yaeger on
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I love your analogy, Elizabeth! It's so true.
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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Shea on
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I didn't write it, Agi. Wes Pruden at the Washington Times wrote it. That was in the URL. I forgot to write 'by Wes Pruden.'
(I should not stay up so late at night.)
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