Our friends at the Washington Post report:
With two new polls showing underdog Rick Santorum gaining on front-runner Mitt Romney among Republicans nationally, the contenders for the GOP presidential nomination are taking advantage of a lull between primary contests to stockpile resources and rally supporters for the next phase of the race.
Separate surveys released Monday by Gallup and the Pew Research Center suggest that Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, and Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, are virtually tied…
Santorum’s apparent surge comes after a string of victories last week in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, and it reflects the dissatisfaction and unease that grass-roots conservatives continue to feel about Romney, who has the support of most of the GOP establishment and far superior financial and organizational resources.
Signs of continuing unease with Mitt Romney are everywhere after Rick Santorum’s momentum-swinging wins last week, as is the pushback from establishment Republicans who recognize that Romney is the only candidate left standing with any competitive chance against Barack Obama. The problem, as the GOP base seems to be trying to communicate, is that Romney can’t win either–and if none of them can win, there’s an ideological case for not compromising on your nominee, and choosing a standard bearer who will really fly your flag.
Is that kamikaze endgame where the GOP is headed with Rick Santorum?
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Put up clowns as candidates and let them self destruct. It worked so well in Colorado, let’s try it on a national level.
Colorado will continue its streak of being a harbinger of things to come nationally. Go Colorado!
It’s possibly he’ll lose by a wide margin in the upcoming Michigan primary – a state he should be able to hold just because it’s his home state (as much as any state, anyway).
after pandering to them last Presidential election claiming he was a friend of the auto industry he then penned the infamous ” Let Detroit go Bankrupt” article, which I am sure you are familiar of. Opposed the bailout of course.
Pandered, didn’t get what he wanted out of it, sold people down the river. Classic Mitt Romney turnabout.
honestly, it was the main calvacade of clowns and each buffoon had their stage time to make a case. Mitt won it (though with just 40% or so) but there in front of all the powers that be in Conservadumb world he took the straw poll — shouldn’t that have been Rickster’s?
AZ, MI & WA finish out Feb and then it’s SuperTue with AK, GA, ID, MA, ND, OH, OK, TN, VA, & VT. Predictions?
March 3rd is Newt’s money shot but there’s not a fluffer on set that can help him. GA’s got a proportional primary so there’s a chance he doesn’t get a real win. Newt’s $$ are drying up and he’s gonna be forced to fold ’em by end of March. Frothy doesn’t believe pulling out so he’ll likely take OH and contend in TN & OK and give Mitt another terribly rotten day. Mitt will get MA & VT and he’ll contend in OH & VA but he’s in for a primary marathon with Frothy.
And by end of SuperTue the blathering heads remain bewildered by Mitt’s inability to close the deal. While indies & unaffiliateds & women & hispanics & … move further away from the GOP circus.
Romney bought the CPAC win
http://www.theatlanticwire.com…
Isn’t that what Republicans are supposed to do? Meh . . . next for Santorum, complaining about to many tax cuts?
though didn’t see Newt & Paul call conspiracy?
And just so ya know, it was that durned Ms. Santorum who added that radical feminist tirade to Ricky’s book (though she didn’t get any cred or author acknowledgements and guess he didn’t proof the galleys). It’s a regular Frothy feature to fail to own anything and always blame others. Just a whiny-ass GOP coward to his core.
PA voters were blamed when they shone a light on Frothy using their tax dollars on a VA school program — which somehow the PA folks weren’t supposed to care. And the Savage Google takedown of Ricky’s name due to his virulent gay hate? Oh boo-hoo, it’s all so unfair in Frothy’s world.
heap of bloody pulp for my money. Looks like they’re doing their best. No longer a statistical difference between the way they each match up with Obama and both are behind by significantly more than the Obama/Romney virtual tie of just a short while ago.
Rs seem ready to cave on payroll tax and unemployment extension. Economic numbers are improving. Big majorities in polls agree with WH stand on birth control and other issues GOP is trying to use as the usual wedges.
Strange news out of Maine about Romney supporting GOP officials managing to find odd ways to nullify three entire and formerly strong for Paul counties’ worth of caucus votes. Romney won the state caucus by less than 200 votes so three counties are definitely a potential chunk of votes for Paul. Maine GOP refuses to change any results regardless of how missing vote problem is resolved
Iowa caucus was a disaster of incompetence which temporarily and by sheer coincidence (?) also gave Romney a win. Could bright shiny supposedly squeaky clean Romney politics be making R bugaboo “Chicago politics” look lame and harmless by comparison?
As far as I’m concerned, it’s all good and getting better every news cycle.
Is the Romney camp was so desperate for positive spin, they were out there talking about a fucking CPAC straw poll like it matters as much as a state. Romney’s “twin victories” and shit, CPAC and Maine.
Something about that makes me want to hurl.
Not just yet. May be an Iowa situation. Several county parties and city parties cancelled caucauses because of a predicted snow-storm that didn’t materialize. See anaylsis here
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.n…
while Girl Scouts had no problem meeting, said to be a Romney supporter. Last year an 8 inch snow didn’t cause any cancellations. This was three. The county went to Paul in 2008. Ditto for official in another Paul leaning county who was responsible for getting results in on time. Results were late. State GOP adamant that there will be no adjustments. Romney won by less than 200 votes.
When there are so many screw ups and they all benefit the same person you have to wonder. GOP establishment just not ready to brook defiance from little people?
persecutors of Bruce, Bradford, the evils of regulation in the Colorado gas industry and anything else that oesn’t remind him of the sad Mittens situation.
But if they do decide they may as well not get Romney crammed down their throats because he’s a loser, too, why not go for the feel good, statement making loser choice?
has now lasted about two weeks. That means it’s about to run out.
Up next: Ron Paul!
aren’t you supposed to call a doctor anyway?
Paul is about the only Republican in the country (including several who didn’t run for President) who have led the polls of Republicans.
his inability to solidify front-runner status calls into question his ability to lead in general. As an unaffiliated middle-of-the-road voter, I would like to take Romney seriously. However, if he can’t convince his own party, why should I believe that he’ll be effective in working with Congress? Why should I believe he would have any credibility on the world stage? This primary season has done real damage to his general election candidacy. (Santorum as the nominee would be a joke; no self respecting Democrat and few independents would ever vote for him against Obama).
his own troglodytes might be his very strongest argument for independents.
A lot of self-respecting Republicans won’t vote for him either. Can you say 1964? And, Goldwater is nothing compared to Santorum. Really. Will there be Republicans left outside the south and the Mormon west?
Gov. Romney continues to directly attack the auto manufacturers bailout stating over and over again (in Michigan) that it has failed and the government should never have committed the $81 billion in the first place. Both newspapers in Detroit including the more conservative one, have ripped Gov. Romney to shreds over this because, in fact, the bailouts saved the American automobile industry but as we all know: If Republican ideology says the sky is red, even though everyone knows its blue, then, if your Republican, you must say its red. Now, for Gov. Romney, as with the other Republican candidates, facts and history are meaningless in the face of ideology. Ideology has the virtue of simplicity but it rarely tracks reality and it certainly isn’t a substitute for thoughtfulness.
I don’t think they’re up for being hoodwinked twice.
http://news.yahoo.com/what-mit…
Pretty soon he will erupt over the top of the polls.