Comments on: SANTORUM SWEEPS!

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:46:28 +0000

Uh-Oh. If Mitt is beginning to lose one of his most ardent supporters, Matt Lewis, then he really is looking weaker by the day. Matt Lewis: "Romney won't be able to count on conservative media intelligentsia to bring down Santorum"[…] Former Sen. Rick Santorum's impressive victories Tuesday night don't just highlight Santorum's appeal to conservative midwestern voters; they also demonstrate Mitt Romney's perilously weak status as a GOP frontrunner.Santorum has now won more states than anybody else. Counting Iowa, Santorum has won four; Romney three (New Hampshire, Florida and Nevada); and Gingrich has won one (South Carolina). In all three states that held contests Tuesday night, Romney performed worse than he did four years ago. (For example, he won Minnesota with 41% of the vote in 2008; in 2012, he garnered just 17%.)The timing of Santorum's surge may serve him well. The next two weeks feature no debates, and just one contest, in Maine. So, there are few opportunities for Santorum's momentum to dissipate soon. The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) also kicks off Thursday – the largest gathering of conservative activists in America – and one can imagine the buzz at the conference will be all about Santorum.Mitt Romney might have been the candidate to defeat Barack Obama on the economy, but with the unemployment rate falling – and the government appearing to overreach on "values" issues – voters may sense that Rick Santorum is better-positioned to draw a sharper contrast with Obama. He may be the right man at the right time. [….]Matt Lewis is senior contributor to the Daily CallerRead: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifameric…H/T: The Dish

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:11:20 +0000

Hi Beth! Nice to see you posting again.I commend you for remaining loyal to your guy. Your guy and My guy will square off in November and may the best Man win 🙂 !

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:53:39 +0000

Back to right-wing silly world:Commenter @ The American Spectator/The American Spectacle blog:Obama's attack on the Catholic Church, and all other relgious institutions, helped Santorum because the voters in the caucuses are the active religious conservatives, and Obama's regulation focused the attention on the free exercise of religion. This favored Santorum because he is the most overtly religious social conservative.Rick's wins is good for the primary. It draws a sharp distinction between Rick and Obama and will force Romney to be more conservative. […]Read: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/08/thank-hi…Funny. I've read this same nonsense expressed by more than a few rabid right-wingers today.In fact, while getting ready for work this morning I caught about 15 minutes of Joe Scarborough (a repub but not a rabid right-winger), and he was blathering on trying to make the same silly claim: Santorum is benefiting from a soc-con base that's been fired up by recent left-wing actions that seeks to infringe upon the Liberties of all Americans. Romney might be forced to go further and further to the right. Yada..yada..yada. Here's the problem with that thinking: For a *base* that's supposedly now all "fired-up" in support of Santorum, the numbers DO NOT LIE. Yes, Santorum is viewed by a lot of right-wingers as being "authentically conservative." And Romney isn't considered "authentically" anything.And Yes, Santurom cleaned Romney's clock last night. BUT (and here's where reality kicks in) voter turnout was WAY DOWN and it's been way down since the beginning of the caucuses and primaries, the ONLY exception being South Carolina…and they voted overwhelmingly for Newt. At best Santorum may indeed be benfiting from a more ENTHUSED group of So-Con, right-wing voters(?) But they certainly AREN'T voting in large numbers even if they have added to their list yet another reason to Hate the President. Meanwhile, Romney's still on track to win the GOP nomination. But he's a weak "front-runner" who is well on his way to becoming an even WEAKER "front-runner" by the whole GOP nominating process.

By: Beth Stanton

Beth Stanton — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:49:32 +0000

Last night was not a good night for my candidate, I concur. However this race is far from over. I wish everyone, particulary fellow Republicans, would stop with the knee jerk overreactions. Mitt Romney will be our nominee, of this I am certain. It's high time we got behind him instead of tearing him down at every turn.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:25:06 +0000

And now from the more civilized, sane and intelligent wing of Conservative Repub world:Rod Dreher: "Santorum Shocks Romney"Shocked the rest of us too, I imagine, with this three victories last night. It was an utterly humiliating evening for Mitt Romney, who surely thought he was going to coast to the nomination after his powerful Florida victory. It’s still hard to see how he loses this thing, but you would have said the same thing about Goliath. Santorum was always a far superior conservative alternative to Romney, at least on paper, but he didn’t connect in those early debates. He seems to have found his voice, and, with Newt having imploded in Florida, it may be that the anti-Romney GOP folks coalesce around Santorum. Who knows? This primary race is one for the history books.We can say definitively, I believe, that Republicans really dislike Mitt Romney. A lot.If Romney gets the nomination, he will be a very weak candidate who will struggle to motivate his own base. Like Santorum or not — me, I’m with him on social issues, but can’t stand his foreign policy — conservatives will have no worries about President Santorum going wobbly in office on the things they care about. They’ll be fired up to turn out for him in November. Until last night, I would have pegged Romney as by far the most electable in the GOP field. Now I’m not at all sure. Obviously he has more appeal to the independent swing voters than Santorum does. But who gets excited about the prospect of voting for Romney? If Romney is the next president, he’s going to get no respect from Congressional Republicans, who will know how weak he is, even with his own base.There’s a sneaky little part of me that’s saying this morning, “Make him spend it all, Rick!” […]Read: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/201…