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By on 3.14.12 @ 6:11AM

Why are Rick Santorum’s victories always so surprising?

“We did it again.” So began Rick Santorum’s victory speech in LaFayette, Louisiana, where he was celebrating two victories none of the experts had predicted. The former Pennsylvania senator has now won 10 states, but his victories Tuesday in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries might have been his biggest surprises so far.

Santorum spent so many months as the hopeless underdog of the Republican presidential field that his successes always seem to surprise the experts, who counted him out of contention before the campaign ever began. The experts never gave him a chance to win the Iowa caucuses until he won on January 3. The experts wrote that off as a fluke, and another 35 days passed before Santorum won again — a triple victory February 7 in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado. That was likewise counted as insignificant, and all the experts accepted the explanation from the Mitt Romney campaign that these were insignificant “non-binding” contests which made no difference to the former Massachusetts governor’s status as front-runner. A week ago, on Super Tuesday, Santorum won three of the 10 states that held contests. The next day in Boston, the Romney campaign gathered the press corps for a briefing where top aides explained that the mathematics of the delegate count made their candidate all but certain to win the GOP nomination. As one of the aides said, it would take “an act of God” for Romney to lose.

Perhaps God overheard that remark, or maybe someone forgot to explain to Republican voters in Kansas that they didn’t matter, because Santorum won the  caucuses there Saturday. This brought Santorum’s total of victories to eight, but again, the experts dismissed the result: Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hadn’t even bothered to campaign there. None of the experts saw much significance in Gingrich’s absence from Kansas, but he had canceled his schedule there after Santorum won Tennessee on Super Tuesday, which signaled Newt’s unexpected vulnerability in the South. Gingrich doubled down in Alabama and Mississippi, which at one point last week his campaign called “must win” states for him, before deciding to lower the stakes.

Meanwhile, the experts looked at the polls, the average of which showed Santorum third in Alabama and also third in Mississippi. So, the experts agreed, the big question Tuesday was whether Gingrich or Romney would win. Once again, however, someone forgot to tell those darned Republican voters that the experts had already agreed on the outcome. And so, after Santorum had already been declared the winner in Alabama, but while Mississippi was still seen as “too close to call,” the guy nobody thought could win took the stage in LaFayette and told his supporters: “We did it again.”

Perhaps the experts didn’t notice that Santorum spoke in the first person plural: “We did it again,” the pronoun signifying a large group of grassroots supporters who kept working for victory even when the experts said there was no chance Santorum could win. “The time is now,” the winner said, “for conservatives to pull together.”

Santorum wasn’t speaking merely to the Louisiana voters in the room, but also to the night’s biggest loser: Gingrich, who evidently had no intention to “pull together” if that meant dropping out of the campaign. When Newt went onstage in Birmingham, he vowed to stay in the race all the way to the GOP convention in Tampa. The logic of Gingrich’s campaign had just become utterly implausible. He followed up his defiant speech by going on Fox News for an interview with Brett Baier, who asked: “If you can’t win in Alabama and Mississippi, where can you win?” Newt had no real answer to that question, and none of the experts on the Fox News panel — among them the eminent Charles Krauthammer — were able to discern any real “path to victory” for the former Speaker.

What happened Tuesday night was another surprise in a long series of surprises, and who know how many more times will Santorum win such surprising victories?

Don’t ask me. Go ask the experts. They know everything, right?

About the Author

Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (184) |

Mac Jehoff| 3.14.12 @ 6:22AM

Clint the TPINO-LWJ main line bum bandit Paulbot bund cheese sniffing fauxcon still fantasises about a brokered convention.

Mike Hawk| 3.14.12 @ 7:03AM

Careful there, Mac, he might challenge you to a fist fight at his Tea Party meeting. I happen to know however that they don't approve of them there and would throw his bum out if he did, so you are probably safe from his puerile ire.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 7:09AM

Careful Who You Tell To STFU, Little Micky Hawk Coward.

Your Big Mouth Is Writin' Checks Your Body Can't Cash, Keyboard Commando.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 8:42AM

Gee, Clit, did someone rub you the wrong way? You sound mad. Did some 7th grader shut you down at the mall last night, or did someone finally call you out for being the bitchboy coward you are?

How's Dr. Dementia's campaign doing? Well?

BWHAHAHAHAHA.

You're as big a joke as your perpetual candidate.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 1:19PM

That's Pretty Bold Talk For A 4-F Neo-Chickenhawk Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot. Coward Traitor Bastard, Con Job Frankel.

Call Bibi, Crybaby Con Job Frankel.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 1:22PM

Oh, no, Clint. NOT my LAST NAME. How terrifying. You're a joke, just like your candidate, Dr. Dementia, the Bought & Paid for Romney Flack.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 1:29PM

You're A 4-F Neo-Chickenhawk Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot. Coward Traitor Bastard Crybaby, Con Job Frankel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 2:46PM

Nothing original, huh, valor thief? How shocking. Funny how only the Mitt-tards & Paulistinians are talking about "brokered conventions."

Hey, Clint? When Ron Paul sells out & tosses his delegates to Mitt, will you do the world a favor & suck on a 12 gague?

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 4:04PM

Clint is the intellectual equivalent of "I know you are, but what am I?"

Mike Hawk| 3.14.12 @ 9:23AM

Did somebody pee on your new sneakers, little boy?? TPINO Islamist Firster

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 9:32AM

LOL!

Clint is back to making faux-aggressiive threats of manly violence!!!

Nice try, Pip-squeak! NO ONE here thinks you're anything but a pimply l'il teenager with a na-crush on Ron "4%" Paul.

There MIGHT be a brokered convention...But Ron "4%" Paul ain't gonna' win it, genius.

Your fantasy world is about to implode.

weaverofdreams_2000| 3.14.12 @ 9:46AM

Hey Clint,

If we ever get to a brokered convntion, it is apparent that Romney's ass-licker, Dr. Ron Paul, will throw his support behind him.

So your hero will help select your RINO-CINO.

Oh, the irony!

Oh, the horror! The Horror!

Cheers!

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 7:11AM

You Sound Very Upset This Fine Morning, Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot.

Call Bibi

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 8:44AM

Actually, most REAL conservatives, not fakeassed pukes like you, are rather happy this morning. Mittens & Dr. Dementia are falling further & further behind in the opinions of most Americans. And if you doubt that, check the vote counts.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 1:24PM

Actually, 4-F Neo-Chickenhawk Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot. Coward Traitor Bastard, Con Job Frankel.

We Tea Party Patriots Are Happy That The Ruling Elies' RINO-CINO Frontman,Mittens Romney Is Being Denied Delegates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Is Headed To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 2:49PM

"The Tea Party Rebellion Is Headed To A Brokered Convention."

Where your fake conservative candidate will toss his delegates to the OTHER fake conservative so as to secure a VP bid for his son. Again, when this happens, will you do us all a favor by offing yourself, or will you show up here, as usual, to polish THAT colossal turd?

(Awaiting scintillating response from mental giant, Clint)

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 4:07PM

Since you're soooooo tough, and since you apparently know "Con Chef (NB)'s" real name, then it wouldn't be too hard to figure out where he lives, would it?

And in that regard, Clint, since you're sooooooo tough, why don't you go to his house and try to kick his ass?

Hmmmmmmm, little-boy???

(Because you're a fraud and a coward.)

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 4:44PM

Hell, I've even posted my address on this very site. Its a short 6 hour hop on the Turnpike to Pittsburgh.

Mike Hawk| 3.14.12 @ 8:53AM

Did somebody pee on your new sneakers, little boy??

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 1:15PM

Actually Little Micky, You Ate The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Crap Sandwiches And Liked Them.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 9:34AM

So Mike Hawk is simultaneously in a "Bund" AND a fan of Bibi Netanyahu??

Do you realize how stupid and contradictory that is???

Never mind...

Dick Nome| 3.14.12 @ 9:54AM

I don't think Mr Paulbot knows what a bund is....among a lot of other stuff too.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 1:04PM

Watch & learn RINO-CINO Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 4:08PM

Clint Air.

Check out his Facebook page.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:29AM

Asked & Answered Serial Liar, Dr.Reich.

You're The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooge,Who Said He'll Vote For The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads For A Brokered Convention.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 1:11PM

Duuuuhhhhhhh !

Dr.Reich's The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooge,Who Said He'll Vote For The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney.

Do Your Homework.

" bund 2 (bnd, bnd)
n.
1. An association, especially a political association.
2. often Bund A pro-Nazi German-American organization of the 1930s.
3. often Bund A European Jewish socialist movement founded in Russia in 1897."

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Dick Nome| 3.14.12 @ 3:32PM

Being the Anti-Semite you are, I can see why you are into the Neo-Nazi Bund stuff.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:34AM

Uh Oh !

Little Dick Attempts To Play His Dog Eared Anti-Semite Card & Then His Dog Eared Nazi On Tea Party Clint.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 4:09PM

So you know how to use a dictionary...and this proves WHAT, exactly, little boy???

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:35AM

Dr.Reich's The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooge,Who Said He'll Vote For The Ruling Elites' RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads For A Brokered Convention.

Jack in Wi.| 3.14.12 @ 7:13AM

I don't believe in a brokered convention. I want a full 3rd party. The tiny minority of the American voters who have control of the Republican party, can keep it. A third party would keep the heat on both Obama and the Republicans. Ron Paul polls near 20% as a third party candidate. The people want something better then Mitt, Rick, or Barack. They have no answers for anything. But at least Obama is pretending to be against more wars. A 3rd party campaign would keep discussion of the issues I like going. It also would force Obama to be more of a peace candidate. After 12 straght elctions the Republicans can count me out. I am putting my pictures of me with George Bush Sr. Tommy Thompson, William F. Buckley, Dan Quale and oliver North where the sun don't shine. Actually I did that long ago. I really don't expect Ron to run. But I have hope someone else I can vote for will.

Alan| 3.14.12 @ 7:56AM

I don't think the Republicans give a flying F who you vote for numbnuts. Oh, by the way I'm keeping my pictures of me with ronald Reagan, George Washington, Lincoln, George S. Patton, Nimitz, Grant, Sherman, John Adams, Pope John Paul, Charleton Heston, John Wayne and Joan of Arc.

Moe Blotz| 3.14.12 @ 9:40AM

Jack, better men than you have given their lives so that you have those decisions to make.

Alan Brooks| 3.14.12 @ 12:24PM

"Jack, better men than you have given their lives so that you have those decisions to make."

That doesn't hold: after the trilliuons spent on the war- Ashcanistan is no better off, etc... the laundry list, and so forth.

Thom| 3.14.12 @ 6:55PM

Alan,
We’ve haven’t sent trillions on this “war”. The bulk of what has been spent on this “war” has gone into infrastructure for the countries involved or logistics supporting our presence there. The overwhelming bulk of our National Debt was spent on domestic spending right here and includes over 4 Trillion in Social Security Debt in IOUs for which there is no revenue stream to repay along with a permanent deficit in both Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare spending that will dwarf what we’ve actually spent on this “war” in a few short years.

As for being safer or not, well have 3000 Americans died due to terrorism in this country since 9/11/2001? There are literally tens of thousands less of the kind of people that do that kind of deeds today…. If you don’t think “war” has some influence on this you could ask the Japanese and Germans why they haven’t attacked us since WWII.

Hyperbole has its place but for it to be effective there must be an element of truth in it. Both of the legs your hyperbole stands on are demonstrated to be false.

Moe Blotz| 3.14.12 @ 11:23PM

A question for Alan and Jack: Do you believe anything in this life is worth dying for?

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 10:23AM

"A 3rd party campaign would keep discussion of the issues I like going."

Which issues would those be, Jack-boot?

Your extreme home-makeover of Hitler?
Or, your praise and defense of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists?
Or, is it your hatred of Israel and all of her citizens? (I.e., the Joooooooozzzzzz!)

I guess now you can hang all of those pictures of yourself kissing Arafat, Farrakhan, Sharpton, and Jesse, eh?

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 10:48AM

You have ALWAYS been an Obama flack. You apologize for the same groups he excuses, you despise the same groups he dispises, you laud & whitewash the history of the Nazis...

One thing everyone who's been coming to this site has known for a long time, Jackboot. You most certainly are no conservative. You are a "sunshine patriot & summer soldier" AT BEST. At worst, you're no better than the Obamatons who constantly shill for their master, despite his abysmal successes.

RCV| 3.14.12 @ 11:42AM

We Obama flacks protest mightily at your attempt to foist Jack upon us.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 12:11PM

Apologies, my friend. And you're probably correct. Jack is in a universe of stupid all unto his own.

Drunken Sailor| 3.14.12 @ 12:46PM

Poor Jack, A man adrift with his delusions and no home to rest his head. So Sad

Jack in Wi.| 3.14.12 @ 1:50PM

I am a consevative Rpublican with some libertarian leanings. I have been a pro-life activist for decades. I don't don't believe you can be pro-life and prowar. At least if Romney is the nominee, no-one can call him pro-life. Santorum is as bloodthirsty as any other neocon. I also think Romney is a little saner on the issues of war and peace then Santorum. You could not tell that by anything he says. It is just that if his lips move you know he is lying. In the end I expect the election will be about which candidate sets up the best lie and spin macihine. I fully expect Romney to be the nominee. He has the full support of the countryclub and the eastern banking establishment. I don't remember them being denied very often.

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 2:18PM

"He has the full support of the countryclub and the eastern banking establishment."

Should be read as:
He has the full support of The Joooooooozzzzzzzz!
Eh, Jack-boot?

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 2:51PM

You're as big a joke to conservatism as David Brooks. And a colossal bigot to boot. It ok, though, Jack. All us regulars know your bullshat for what it is. I've seen it for the 3 years I've posted here.

Dick Nome| 3.14.12 @ 3:35PM

Mr Jackov, if you are a conservative Republican then Bill Clinton is a monogamous family man. You BS is as transparent as air.

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 4:10PM

"I am a consevative Rpublican."

No. You're not.

Jack in Wi.| 3.14.12 @ 5:06PM

Lets see: I voted for every Republican nominee since Goldwater. I went to 2 innaugerations, Reagan 2 and Bush 1. Then I was a big contributor to the party here, for quite a few years. They used to put me up at the speakers table next to the mains peaker. That is how I got to meet and talk to Oliver North, William F. Buckley and Charleton Heston as well Governor Tommy Thompson and Senator Bob Kasten on numerous. I used to be the biggest contributor to pro-life causes in this state for a few years. I still give as much as I can. I have 2 pictures of myself with Barb and George Bush. I have a real good story about one of those pictures which I will share with you guys,soon.

I subscribed the National Review for 42 years and was a finacial contributor fro many years. I also did the same for the American Spectator for a number of years as well. I would like to know if anyone else here can match that?

Alan| 3.14.12 @ 5:24PM

Your so full of shit. Lets sum up the self centered BS here. "I voted", "I went", "I was", "I got", "I used", "I still", "I have","I will", I Subscribed", I also", "I would" Not too full of your own BS are you? Nope, nobody here can match your BS. Case closed.

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 5:29PM

You can't spell or use proper grammar, Jack-boot!

And we're all supposed to believe that you are some GOP big-wig?
Couldn't Mr. Buckley teach you the difference between the words then and than, during all those years of friendship? At least to save you embarrassment when corresponding with others?

Did all of those GOP stalwarts know that you are a nazi apologist? Or, that you defend Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists?

Alan| 3.14.12 @ 5:42PM

Hell, Nick, I bet the Nazi doesn't drink beer very often, but when he does, he drinks Dos Equis, because after all he's the most interesting man in the world, just ask him!

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 7:14PM

Ha-ha!
Good one, Alan.

I'll bet Jack-boot drinks vodka and Kool-Aid. In his sweaty undershirt and jogging suit.

Jack in Wi.| 3.14.12 @ 6:49PM

I was in hurry to do something intresting little nicky. The Rockford Files rerun was coming on. Talking to an ignorant moron like you is a waste of time.

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 7:00PM

You should be studying Hooked On Phonics, Einstein!

Being a functional illiterate is nothing to crow about, Jack-boot.

Jack in Wi.| 3.15.12 @ 12:57AM

Einstein was a Zionist. He said when Israel was born that how we treat non Jews will show what kind of people we are.
Well Israel flunks the Einstein test F-----.

By the way you are still a moron little nicky. All you do is insult people and never contribute any positive comments or defense of your very limted ideas. Well that is the MO of hasbarets who's main goal is disruption.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 4:39AM

What's YOUR main goal? Being an anti Semite douchebag who's scared of Jews?

Yes, I think it is, goy boy.

Nick| 3.15.12 @ 11:56AM

Okay, how about this, Jack-boot?
You should be studying Hooked On Phonics, Himmler!

Is that better?

Also, sounds like someone's jealous, eh Jack-boot?
What in the world is a hasbaret?
A new flavor of sherbet?

Alan| 3.14.12 @ 7:40PM

Calling somebody a moron when you can't spell every third word in a row correctly doesn't make your light shine to bright numbnuts. "intresting"?

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 8:09PM

Admit it, Jack. You had to punch it to your favorite passage in "The Turner Diaries."

Soljerblue| 3.17.12 @ 6:43PM

Do you mean in dollars, or bragging rights?

Alan Brooks| 3.14.12 @ 12:22PM

Southerners are good people:
they rejected Newt Moonbeam Gingrich.

Shamus| 3.15.12 @ 2:52PM

Rick is an idiot.

POST American| 3.14.12 @ 6:46AM

-----Rikki ---Tikki
----TAVISTOCK TTT-Ricky
Goldman Sacks linked ----'Sanitarium'

IF you fall for this CON
YOU well deserve a sanitarium
---a zealously EUGENICS sanitarium.

-------And you know what?
they've got it! ---ON STAND BY.

--------------THE REPUBLIC HAS FALLEN----------

The REAL issues are NOT being talked about.

Globalism's NUREMBERG 1934 ---is here.

Globalist RED China 'receivership' is coming.

Dick Nome| 3.14.12 @ 9:56AM

I thought after last week's full moon they would have put you back in your room, what??

Mac Jehoff| 3.14.12 @ 12:19PM

He/she/it has gotten into the chloroform huffing again, eh?

Jeff| 3.14.12 @ 6:58AM

Time to unite the 'electable" with the conservative. I would vote Santorum/Romney OR Romney/Santorum. I just hope we don't have a divided Party in August. We need to repeal ObamaCare.

Vern Crisler| 3.14.12 @ 10:36AM

Personally, I hope the Republicans crash and burn.

Mike Hawk| 3.14.12 @ 2:51PM

Of course you do. You are a flaming Liberal Socialist. GFY

Vern Crisler| 3.14.12 @ 4:29PM

No, I'm a conservative who thinks a Mitt Romney win will be a disaster for the Republican Party, which can now be called the Empty Suit Party. The Republican Party is on it's way to a slow death.

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 6:02PM

So in other words, to satisfy your own spiteful personality, you'd prefer that the GOP loses and that the country suffers?

You're an ass.

Vern Crisler | 3.14.12 @ 9:49PM

It's not a question of preference. The GOP is going to lose no matter what happens. They are the walking dead, like the old Federalist party. The handwriting is already on the wall.

Mistral| 3.14.12 @ 7:07AM

Thankfully Gingrich will have to call off his ludicrous campaign. Ron Paul has been treated by the media as though he does not exist. Effectively, it is Santorum and Romney the latter sounding increasingly like a white establishment socialist equivalent of the man he wants to replace in the Whitehouse. Santorum is the only one who sounds like a true Republican.

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 9:35AM

Actually, Ron "4%" Paul has been treated by the VOTERS as if he doesn't exist...

...and for all intents and purposes, he doesn't.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.14.12 @ 7:16AM

Santorum is simply forcing Romney to spend cash Romney needs for Obama.

Santorum sounds like an arrogant nitwit when he wins. And he did not win much.

Dai Alanye | 3.14.12 @ 12:58PM

Considering Romney's delegate lead, combined with his inept personal campaigning, it's possible some delegates to the Convention will have to revolt. That is, vote for Santorum regardless of their assignment to Romney.

It'll create a fine mess and boiling controversy, but when the future of the nation is at stake, and defeating Obama of such critical importance, true patriots shouldn't hesitate. Nominating Mitt will plainly lead to failure in November. One way or another Santorum must be selected.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.14.12 @ 1:30PM

Santorum is weak. He won't get there from here.

Thom| 3.14.12 @ 7:16PM

Bill,
I won’t argue the point that Santorum isn’t the “weaker” of the two but I will make the point that by your own admission, Romney is staying in the race simply because he has a huge pile of money to throw at the problem but isn’t getting the votes respective of that money so on what basis is Romney going to get enough votes in Nov if he can’t even break 50% in liberal Democrat states where he is expected to win? Plurality Republicrats have lost every major national election in my life time. Given Romney’s spending ratio per vote gained he will need 2 billion in reserve to overcome King Obama’s billion and free campaigning efforts by the Democrat Media. If Romney can’t distinguish himself from Santorum and Gingrich at this point I would strongly suggest he can’t do the same from Obama by Nov. What Gingrich and Santorum do represent combined at this late date is a consistent and profound difference on the role of government over and above what Romney’s records speaks to and his inability to appeal to even a majority of the people calling themselves Republicans. He has strong appeal to certain Democrat groups which speaks to a weakness he doesn’t seem willing to correct as a person running for the Republican Presidential candidate not the Democrat candidate. See any problems there on Election Day for a man that leans Democrat, has his base of support in Democrat controlled states and is running for the Republican nomination? I do.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.14.12 @ 7:30PM

Your statement is so ridiculous I found myself laughing. I hope you don't cross the street by yourself. You state by my own admission that Romney is staying in the race because he has a pile of money. No, you freaking nut, I never said anything like that. You sound like a really sick individual in need of serious psychological counselling. Have you ever beaten anyone up because of all that inner anger? Sounds like it.

Thom| 3.14.12 @ 9:47PM

Bill,
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when they make reasoned arguments but your shilling for Romney over the last few months has risen to the same level of obsession as daily displayed by Clint/Jack for Ron Paul. You can resort to name calling rather than address the central point I made if that makes you feel morally superior or such (you did suggest others drop out so Romney doesn’t have to spend money needed in the General election, you established the connection with money not I), but let’s deal with facts for a single moment.

Romney hasn’t broke the magic 30% average in the primary season thus far among Republican voters. He is consistently outvoted by two or more other candidates combined in every contest they all appear in. His spending for the votes he has gotten so far dwarfs the spending of his opponents on a per vote basis. Note plural opponents. Where he has won by the largest margins are in Blue or Purple states where large swaths of Democrats vote in open primaries. He will win his most vote totals in Democrat controlled States, that’s a given. In Virginia it was he and Ron Paul and Paul got 40% which is completely unrealistic for even Ron Paul in his home state. Look at the vote totals between Ohio and Virginia on a per capita basis and then tell me a large percentage of Virginia voters didn’t stayed home on Super Tuesday because the only choice they had was Romney and Paul. You get more votes in elections because you give people a reason to vote for you not vote against someone else by being the lessor of what many see as two poor choices.

Your arrogance in all things Romney will help him in Nov as well as Clint/Jack’s broken record platitudes and blinders have helped Paul in the primaries. Keep it up. Just what Romney needs is more elitism and arrogant condescension flowing from his most vocal supporters.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.15.12 @ 6:23AM

The only arrogance here is all yours. All you're saying is that you're shilling is somehow better than someone else's shilling. Aren't you wonderful? You're just a wonderful human being. Everyone is arrogant but you. But wait! Doesn't that define arrogance.

Take your benefit of the doubt and stuff it. You sound like a complete JACKA**.

Drake| 3.14.12 @ 7:32AM

"Why are Rick Santorum's victories always so surprising?"

Because he is such a truly terrible candidate.

Mimi| 3.14.12 @ 8:08AM

Now , now, now....Bill and Drake...be a little kind.
Did you see that beautiful family standing by Rick Santorum? What a sight of America at it's best.
He didn't know he won Mississippi until well into the speech...he actually found out while he was giving his speech. What a wonderful snapshot of America ...getting back on the go again..what an HISTORICAL moment!!! Whatever happens after this...the excitement and happiness displayed last night ...SHOWED our country at its BEST !!

Drake| 3.14.12 @ 9:42AM

I know lots of people with beautiful families - and would prefer most of them to any of the current candidates.

Teaghan| 3.14.12 @ 11:35AM

Beautiful family?
His family is creepy. He is creepy but I will get behind him if he is what we get in June.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.14.12 @ 12:29PM

Mimi: Did you learn this in some type of Panamanian hump-hump bar? Go sell stupid someplace else. We're all full up here.

Mimi| 3.14.12 @ 7:07PM

If you are FULL up there....Since when do I deserve such DISRESPECT ? You owe me an apology!

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.14.12 @ 7:33PM

That statement you made about him and his family is so ridiculous it deserved a retort. In fact, your statement that he looked so good standing there surrounded by his family is ludicrous. What has that got to with this credentials?

And his credentials are weak. His support of Medicare Part D shows he supported a top down federal program which dwarfs Romneycare. Somehow he gets a free pass at AMSPEC on that issue.

He's a phony conservative who voted for many liberal issues and that's why he couldn't get elected in his own state.

For him to stand beside his family and claim he's a conservative is a disgrace to his family.

Edward Cropper | 3.14.12 @ 9:56AM

Perfect answer !

gearjammer| 3.14.12 @ 8:11AM

Say what you want about Newt but his campaign for lower gas prices has the Obama crew really blowing their cool. Did you see Chou's or is it chu's ridiculous capitulation.? Carney's hissey fit. Obama's own goofy twisted ideas on the subject ? Alot of fodder for campaign spots. It is so obvious hard issues have them lost and losing. They want us dancing in the streets over 8.3 unemployment. How weak is that ? They are starting to bleed a little. The media is always their to patch them up, of course, but wounds have a cumulative effect. Have you seen that icy monster Fluke all over the tube. She's weird, really weird. She's their ace in the hole' they think. This controllong nasty little future commissar in training. She is not what America wants in charge of anything. We can take this Obama guy out. Too many of you want the harder road with Santorum. So many states that would be in play will not be with him-such a tighter margin of error. Mitt would be the better bet.

Mike 3/505| 3.14.12 @ 9:15AM

Which begs the question...who is the best candidate to continually bring heat on the administration by calling them out on their policies and giving specific, detailed solutions and alternatives....that is...when he isn't being drowned out by the background noise in his own party.

gearjammer| 3.14.12 @ 6:04PM

Some how Mitt-Newt seems good to me. Fire and icee, ice and fire-whatever. Or, would the media destroy Newt like Cheney ? But, let us face it-Bush did not fight back. Remember his looney first press secratary. The guy was born and bred yellow dog democrat. He left and wrote a book stabbing Bush in the back. His crazy yellow dog mother was some kind of democrat hack down there-probably working with Rather and his trashy little producer. Who knows ? Day one why didn't they just say " what is your effing problem with Haliburton ". Ya see, a Godless man like me saw Bush as too damn Christion-turn the cheek and all that weenie crap, plus his wife kept his balls in a frozen lock box. Newt's wife looksw like she'd know how to apply a shiv to a liberal Ahole. Mrs. Romney has some mettle too- put arsnic in your tea and watch die-that's what we need. Is he a weak politeness man ? He was a killer in biz, and they say took no prisoners with the olympic debacle. Oh I forgot you're all ga ga over Rick. He's so sincere.

Bill| 3.14.12 @ 8:17AM

It's 1976 all over.
GOP is heading to a brokered convention. Romney is derailed after Super Tuesday and is poised to be more vulnerable than ever. While Santorum is surging in the South and Gingrich and Ron Paul are fading away. Romney and Santorum will go to Tampa and we have to see who come up on top in the convention.
It's now a "wait and see" game.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 8:50AM

None of Santorum's victories have been surprises to me. I've said time & again on this site that those who count that guy out, do so at their peril. I knew that Santorum would be a contender when Perry, Bachmann & Cain were still in the race.

And to watch the Mitt-tards like Bill the Bigot & Paulistinians like Jackboot & Little Clit from Mommy's House on the Main Line bawl about a brokered convention is about as hillarious as an SNL skit. I guess these fake conservatives need to clutch & grasp at whatever straws they can find. Clutching at straws & polishing turds, to be exact. And its ALWAYS fun to watch idiots try to polish turds into diamonds.

Please, Mitt-tards & Paulistinians. DO continue. Y'all have provided more comic relief throughout this primary season than anyone could've ever hoped for!

Rich Fisher| 3.14.12 @ 9:11AM

I don't get on here that much but I am appalled that this site is becoming the Huffington Puffington Post II. How about a little civility here. When this is all over we are all going to have to come together and vote for the Republican Nominee, even if Daffy Duck suddenly comes out of a brokered convention the winner. Let's not forget, Obama and his minions are the enemy. They are the ones who must be deposed from their throne.

Mike 3/505| 3.14.12 @ 9:17AM

Point!

LMajito| 3.14.12 @ 9:33AM

I echo Rich's remark...

It's incredible the low level of debate here...one has to filter an awful lot of silly personal attacks just to get to a serious comment about the issue at hand (mainly the post).

disagree if you may but please take that childish and third rate attacks elsewhere...

it appears to be the same characters anyway...the target is electing a new president with different outlook, not personal character assassination.

Today is victory lap for Santorum, last week was Mitt and so on...that is why is called a 'race'...lead changes but it only matter who is at first last...

there are no seers here...we all have our favorites but that does not mean the other candidates are no good.

When looking in the mirror and one sees perfection then demand perfection for other human beings.

No doubt a debate between Newt and the president on energy would be a wonderful event. A debate between Mitt and the president on economic policy should highlight a very stark difference of financial world views. A debate between Ron and the president on the fed and treasury policies would be very vigorous or a debate between Rick and the president on ethics and morality should be interesting...

but the fact is most likely we'll never witness these events, except for one...but nobody knows which.

so lets stand back, breathe and chill the rethoric

Shadow| 3.14.12 @ 9:37AM

Please, gentlemen, the bickering is tiresome and accomplishes nothing.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 10:43AM

Good luck getting that message through to Paulistinians/Neo Nazi gasbags like Clint & Jackboot. They're treated as they deserve to be. Like vermin. I will address those idiots with respect the day I hit the Powerball.

aware| 3.15.12 @ 5:58AM

Typical. You deserve exactly the government you have.

Bob K.| 3.14.12 @ 11:01AM

Amen. Ignore them.

And it would also help to ignore the people who refuse to ignore them!

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 2:35PM

Like Real Conservative Pennsylvanians Ignored Ricky Specter-Santorum & Then Ignored Arlen Santorum-Specter.

For Now, Ricky Specter-Santorum Serves As Our Useful Dupe To Grab Delegates From Mittens Romney.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Mike Hawk| 3.14.12 @ 2:50PM

Interesting take coming from the Bob (with one 'o') Casey enabler and elector.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:25AM

You're A Socopathic Liar & A Coward Hawk.

You Know I Never Voted For The Liberal Democrap, Junior Casey.

Wanna Come To Our Tea Party Meeting And See If Ya Can Back Your Coward Lyin' Mouth Up & Make Me STFU, Like You Threatened On Your Little Keyboard Commando Keyboard, Hawk ?

Hmmmmm Liar Coward, Hawk ?

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 4:41AM

You gonna ask for a trial, like you did earlier, coward? Or will getting your ass kicked suffice?

ansonheath| 3.14.12 @ 12:14PM

Rich, your comment on the level of commentary here is right on and I compare it to young boys in a peeing contest. I have no interest in that.
The only thing I feel needs to be added to this article is that Newt's involvement is needed to keep the focus on Obama. He is the best at it and has the willingness to take it to the chief dissimulator in the WH. Rick appeals to family issues, but that has its limits. Romney's carpet bombing of GOP rivals is wearing out.
Bottom line All of them have serious limitations now and we might just have a combo ticket out of the convention. (Possibly before)
Disclaimer: If gas prices are at $2.50 or lower by election day, barring any other 'special events', Obama might just be re-elected, regardless. American politics are event oriented.

bull-gator| 3.14.12 @ 9:15AM

rick is "suprisingly" winning because the voters are "surprisingly" voting against the out-of-touch knucklehead from Mass. and the pompous gas bag from Ga.

Tina B| 3.14.12 @ 9:28AM

And that ain't bull, bull-gator.

gearjammer| 3.14.12 @ 6:08PM

he wins cause he is the most religious. I am sorry to say he will probably lose a key state because he is the most religious. Obama winning by a handful of electoral votes is my nightmare. Just show me 270 with Rick.

Soljerblue| 3.17.12 @ 6:58PM

And as to Mittens and his minions being out of touch, I would refer to the following quote in the story by one of his -- ahem! -- staff:

"As one of the aides said, it would take "an act of God" for Romney to lose."

Seems to me I recall a similar comment about the 'unsinkable' Titanic(100 years ago next month).

The fat lady ain't even warming up as yet.

PJ| 3.14.12 @ 9:30AM

It seems to me Romney is going to be the GOP candidate & eventual, elected president of 2012, not that I 'm gung ho over it. (My mantra still is "Anyone but Obama.") Romney will need a reasonable & reasonably ethical conservative VP to offset his real & perceived liberal traits. Santorum might be that person. He at least has working experience in Congress.

There are some decent conservatives as governors & other elected positions out there. Unfortunately many of them are not seasoned enough, maybe in an election cycle or 2. I'm specifically thinking of those governors from NM, NJ, WI, AZ, & LA.

And, I don't want another Bush or anyone associated with them, ever again on a presidential ticket.

Maxwell| 3.14.12 @ 9:47AM

PJ, please, Chris Christie is no way conserative. Trust me on this as I live down the street from him. If you want some good reading, google Paul Mulshine of the Newark Star Ledger. Christie is another North East Liberal that runs under the Republican heading.

Doctor Right| 3.14.12 @ 12:17PM

Chris Christie is NOT a Conservative...But neither is Paul Mulshine.

Mulshine is a crank, pure and simple.

gearjammer| 3.15.12 @ 9:36AM

No difference between him and Corzine I suppose ? You have such a thick skull.

PJ| 3.14.12 @ 12:43PM

Let's be reasonable. Compare to the rest of the NJ politicians, he's probably reactionary.

Isn't he pro-life? If you say 'yes' then that automatically discounts him as a NE liberal.

Old Soldier| 3.14.12 @ 1:58PM

Chris Christie is the best thing that has happened to NJ since I moved here 15 years ago (so I'm including Whitman). He actually fights for fiscal and judicial restraint while in office - unlike Santorum for example.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 2:30PM

RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Have A Bad Habit Of Throwing Fiscal Conservatism Under The Bus For Big Government Statists.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Dick Nome| 3.14.12 @ 3:38PM

I see you have been tuning into Mark Levin. I thought you Paulistinians thought he is an idiot.

gearjammer| 3.14.12 @ 6:58PM

He sincerely cares about the working guy and gal's hard earned money being taken and burned. He is real on that-you can see the fire.

Jabber3| 3.14.12 @ 9:38AM

Rick's chances didn't change from extremely unlikely to likely after yesterday's election results simply because Romney totaled eight more delegates than Santorum. Santorum lost ground.
Is that surprising?

martin j smith| 3.14.12 @ 9:50AM

Maybe the "experts" are not experts at all but just well paid Bull Shit artists in the media who are not worth their weight in anything for one very specific reason: They are detached from the general population of voters. That is the great unwashed--that would be us.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 10:41AM

AMEN. These fools claim to know what those of us amongst the hoi polloi "REALLY" want. They know nothing except their own NYC/DC bubble. Outside of that bubble, nothing exists.

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 10:06AM

How is O'Romney the most electable against O'Bama?

O'Romney will be McLame 2.0. In fact, he will be worse than McShame.
Why do you think McShamnesty endorsed him?

He will not attack O'Bama.
He was the father of O'BamaCare.
He's as gaffe-prone as O'Biden.
He flip-flops more than J.F. O'Kerry.
He's a mushy moderate.

For every person, like me, who will hold their nose and vote for O'Romney if he's the nominee, there will be a person who will skip the presidential part of their ballot when they vote, or, they will just stay home.

If O'Romney is the nominee, all the conservatives who stayed home in '08, because McLame was the GOP candidate, will stay home in November. And, they will also keep someone they know away from the polls.

How exactly is O'Romney the most electable again?

George Collins| 3.14.12 @ 4:21PM

However you look at it, Republican registrations are up and Democrat registrations are down. Independents are leaning more and more to the right, and dissatisfaction with Obama is on the rise. So the underlying truth is that the Republican nominee will win, whether it's Romney, Gingrich, or Santorum. Romney will win the nomination whether we like it or not right now, because he will win Illinois, California, New York, and other delegate-rich states.
We need to back the Republican no matter who he might be, and elect as many Conservatives to the Senate and the House, to temper Romney's mushier tendencies.
Without writing a screed on the topic, I think that's a good summary as to what will happen, and why Romney is in the position of most-likely to succeed Obama.

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 5:20PM

Mr. Collins,

Prognostications on who will win the remaining primaries are like opinions and certain bodily orifices: Everybody has one.
And when it comes to the soothsaying, everyone has been wrong.

Nothing in your reply refutes the facts that I laid out about O'Romney. The number of "independents" O'Romney might bring to the polls will pale in comparison to all of the conservatives who will stay home. This is precisely what happened to McLame, even with his excellent pick of Governor Palin.

O'Romney will lose worse than McShame and Dole.
We will have to agree to disagree.

gearjammer| 3.14.12 @ 6:38PM

Look pal, you can't impose rural values on the suburbs. Rick aint gonna cut it in the burbs. The women especially, I mean they get upset about stuff. They sorta like gays and the abortion issue-in their souls most hate it -but want right to get one uoheld. And, a bossy guy comes along all sanctimonious or loutish bluster(Rush) and it becomes hard for the GOP. Mitt is suburban guy. He lives in the bestg house in the best nhood, but ya run into him at the coffee shop or hardware and he's saying high and being nice. Rich is gonna do what-give tips on the rhythm method ? Let's get real.

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 7:59PM

Rhythm method?

What? Did you just wake-up from 1978?
From the looks of your typing, it sure looks like it! Come on, Gearjammer, wake-up now!

O'Romney is a disaster in the making. Mr. Santorum's conservative bona fides are well established. O'Romney's? Not so much.

As Rush always says, "Conservatism. It works every time it's tried."
You should be hanging out at the Weakly Standard with the other RINOs and mushy moderates, Gearjammer.

gearjammer| 3.15.12 @ 8:25AM

Did it work in PA last time Rick ran ? Did it work in Va. with their idiotic over reach on pre natal testing ? They are still backpeddling on that one. Rush couldn't win an election in the most slam dunk conservative district in the USA.

gearjammer| 3.15.12 @ 8:30AM

By the way this mushy weak guy was a medic in Viet Nam. You are the mushy one all sentimental about some America of the past that really did not exist. Gay marriage is here and qabortion as a right is not going away. Mind your own garden your own family, if you want to have a pro life culture-I do. Grabbing hold of the government with a true conservative and outlawing these things is not gonna happpen. A good economy and a social saftey net that has up ward bounce is what we need,

John Navratil| 3.14.12 @ 10:23AM

Gingrich is running a non-Romney campaign, a sentiment not missing from the electorate. He is also running for himself, not Santorum. As long as Gingrich is taking delegates from Romney, he is succeeding in one aspect of his campaign.

If (probably when) Romney reaches the 1/2 way point (score another for the establishment) whether Gingrich or Santorum is second or third is immaterial. It's all over but the lamentations.

Some may suggest that if Gingrich dropped out, Santorum would take the race. I would be very pleased if that were so; however I am not so sanguine.

I do not want Romney at all, let alone by acclamation. I favour those non-Romney delegates getting to the convention with something more than a ticket to the seafood buffet. Having Gingrich drop out does not further my interests.

Bill| 3.14.12 @ 10:55AM

The Southern Brawl:
1. Romney 2. Gingrich 3. Santorum
So far, 356 delegates from the South have been allocated to top 3 contenders. Romney leads with 160 delegates, followed by Gingrich with 116 delegates, and lastly Santorum trails both contenders with just 80 delegates. Even though Santorum won 4 southern states but he is far behind than Romney and Gingrich.
It ain't over yet in the South.
We have to see what happen in the upcoming contests in LA, AR, KY, and TX.
Gingrich still has chances.

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 11:10AM

"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:

http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403

You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!

Bill| 3.14.12 @ 11:59AM

NICK IS A CONVICTED CHILD MOLESTER. TOO BAD HE CANNOT VOTE. OOPS.......................

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 12:14PM

Too bad you cannot prove your baseless & childish accusations, which you make against everyone who calls YOU on your DOCUMENTED bigotry. Poor Bill the Bigot. Cannot stand being confronted with his own words.

Go troll elsewhere, bigot.

Bill| 3.14.12 @ 1:39PM

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..............

Nick| 3.14.12 @ 2:22PM

Shhhhhhhhhh.

Bill the Bigot is sleeping.
And dreaming of burning crosses and making nooses.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 2:56PM

That's what I thought. Now run along, little Billy.

Bill| 3.14.12 @ 7:17PM

I ain't going nowhere.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 8:12PM

Not with responses like, "Zzzzzzzzzz," you ain't, bigot fraud.

RCV| 3.14.12 @ 2:20PM

Bill, aside from your moronic and despicable racist rants which Nick continues to call you out on to his great credit, your prognostications on Gingrich are as laughable as your prognostications on Perry. Gingrich's inability to win in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee demonstrate conclusively the non-viability of Gingrich's candidacy. If he can't pretty much sweep the Southern states, he's dead, because he has yet to make even a respectable showing in any state north of the Mason-Dixon line.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 2:24PM

Obama LawBoy RCV Is Scared Of Mr.Newt.

Obama LawBoy RCV Is Scared Of A Republican Brokered Convention.

Dick Nome| 3.14.12 @ 2:47PM

You are a Newt fan now, what happened to Rube Paul?? Did you give up on the Romney Paul ticket??

RCV| 3.14.12 @ 4:54PM

Clint wants a brokered convention becauze of the fantasy that Ron Paul will have just enough delegates to put Romney over the top if he names Rand Paul as his running mate, which would be even more suicidal than McCain naming Palin as his running mate.

Jesus Knows| 3.14.12 @ 11:33AM

Maybe Gingrich is staying in the race to the finish because he’s decided Romney is his preference over Santorum. Of course, he can’t SAY this publicly.

So, in essence, his decision to not drop out is the way he can cast is powerful vote for Romney.

Also, as Newt approaches 70, he surely realizes this is his last hurrah, and so he wants to capture as many minutes of fame for as long as possible. He IS making a difference, in his own mind, and in truth.

The way of the Lord is mysterious.

SUBVET| 3.14.12 @ 3:55PM

I didn't know Jesus smoked dope.......cast a vote for Romney your joking right. You need to get a grip ( and I don't mean on you know what because I think it has already made you blind.) Newt and the mormon are so far apart on what they believe in.

Where have you been ??????? Oh I forgot in the closet.........

Jesus Knows| 3.14.12 @ 6:48PM

Do you know what the word "maybe" means?

I guess it's necessary to spell it out for you. What I wrote was a hypothetical, you know, a conjecture.

MAYBE you don't know what hypothetical and conjecture mean, so you're a hopeless case.

Tim| 3.14.12 @ 12:03PM

Imagine if the establishment Reps and all the Romney money and a Gingrich exit all united behind Santorum?

My oh My Santorum would be leading Obama by 15 points and on his way to a 60 40 trashing of Obama in November.

Old Soldier| 3.14.12 @ 1:15PM

And I would be a newly minted former Republican voting for Gary Johnson. Rick Santorum would be the death of the GOP.

WillianInWien| 3.14.12 @ 12:55PM

If you want another four years of Obama, then continue to support and vote for Santorum. He is the next Bob Dole (but will not do Viagra commercials). Romney will have a wider level of voter appeal than Santorum and coupled with an excellent conservative vice presidential candidate will defeat BHO. And, with a Republican controlled House and Senate, Romney will not be able to stray off the reservation. The best candidate? Not by a long shot! But I would rather have Romney and a Republican Senate choosing the next SCOTUS justices! ABO12!

Oldefarte| 3.14.12 @ 1:32PM

The only 'expert' perhaps is/was Forrest Gump in proclaiming: STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES [ie vote]!!!!!!!!!!

dan Baldwin| 3.14.12 @ 1:34PM

The so-called experts just don't get it,in many ways! Not just Santorum's success but Ginrich's victory which is contrary to the B.S that Romney says Gingrich is helping by staying in! Gingrich's VICTORY comes many forms,1) winning overall nomination 2) Denying Romney crucial second place votes and delegates in states to deny him 1,144 tally he needs 3) forcing a brokered convention all of which constitute VICTORY for Gingrich!

Ron| 3.14.12 @ 1:37PM

I am waiting for Newt to announce he is going "rogue" and running as an Independent...Oh, that would take the thunder away from RuPaul...poor Clint would have a heart attack!

BTW, Clint, I was never a 4F, I served honourably, and my wife is Jewish...So shove that you racist, bigoted puke...bring it on to Alaska if you have the guts...You would not last two seconds against me, you little worthless good for nothing troll...

Old Soldier| 3.14.12 @ 1:40PM

Please, none 0f them are leaving the GOP. Gingrich has nowhere to go, and the Republicans have Paul's kid. Gary Johnson will have the Libertarian nomination next month so Paul really has nowhere to go either.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 2:14PM

Come To Our Valley Forge Patriots Tea Party Meeting And "Bring It" Little Ronny.
Then I Can Legally Defend Myself And We'll See How Roughy Tuffy You Ain't, Keyboard Coward Mouth.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention

Dick Nome| 3.14.12 @ 2:45PM

What the hell are you talking about, first you want fist fights, now you want a jury trial. I guarantee you a Tea Party meeting isn't that kind of a forum. Boy, are you full of crap.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 2:54PM

Keyboard Kommandos like Herr Klint are quite amusing. All talk. That's all he is...

Mike Hawk| 3.14.12 @ 3:23PM

He is all flustered because he just can't admit he helped elect Casey. All he knows is he hates Santorum and he's a flack for Paul.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 4:47PM

And if he's a Paul flack, then, by extension, he's a Mitt-tard as well.

Just don't tell HIM that!

:-)

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:47AM

Actually, He Could Watch This Video 4-F Neo-Chickenhawk Israel Firster Smear Bund Cowardly Coat Holder , Con job Frankel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:42AM

Your Mommy Named You Right.

Come To Our Next Valley Forge Patriots Tea Party Meeting And Say It To My Face, Little Dicky.

We Meet Every Second Friday At 6:00 Pm At The Phoenixville Country Club.

Put Up Or Shut Up, RINO-CINO Crap Sandwich Eater, Little Dicky.

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.15.12 @ 4:44AM

Too bad you need to hide behind other people when you know you're gonna get your ass kicked. That makes you a punk little boy who's all talk.

Tim| 3.14.12 @ 1:43PM

WW

Count the combined vote totals for Gingrich and Santorum
in the States that Romney has won and you will see that Romney would be only a footnote

and may have dropped out by now.

Tim| 3.14.12 @ 1:47PM

If you want a massive victory in November you need a Consevative crusader.

The RINOS will vote for Santorum and so will most independent thinkers.

Obama is toast, the key now is how big of a victory do you want not if.

gearjammer| 3.14.12 @ 7:02PM

Dream on. At least you admit you need Rinos.

gearjammer| 3.14.12 @ 7:05PM

Women. Suburban chicks. Even their silly husbands will find some reason to vote against a person you define as a true conservative.

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 2:16PM

Watch & Learn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 2:55PM

Hey, maybe you could post this another 300 times & ONE person might give a damn!

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 7:14PM

Hey, Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot Con Job Frankel, Maybe You Could Get Your Mancrush Bibi To Watch & Learn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

Con Chef (NB) | 3.14.12 @ 8:15PM

Wow. More original mental acumen from the Mittens/Paul Cabal fellator.

Don't stop, Clint! You're Am Spec's favorite chew toy!

RCV| 3.14.12 @ 5:34PM

Plus that's quite a "rebellion". The accomplishment of the Tea Party revolt against the party establishment will be to send the nomination to a brokered convention, where the establishment can pick the nominee instead of the People? Now that's progress!

Clint| 3.14.12 @ 7:00PM

There Ya Have It.

The Obama LawBoy RCV Is Scared Of A Brokered Convention.

" A brokered convention is a situation in United States politics in which there are not enough delegates 'won' during the presidential primary and caucus elections for a single candidate to have a pre-existing majority, during the first official vote for a political party's presidential candidate at its nominating convention.

Once the first ballot, or vote, has occurred, and no candidate has a majority of the delegates' votes, the convention is then considered brokered; thereafter, the nomination is decided through a process of alternating political horse-trading, and additional re-votes. In this circumstance, all regular delegates (who, previously, were pledged to the candidate who had won their respective state's primary or caucus election) are "released," and are able to switch their allegiance to a different candidate before the next round of balloting. It is hoped that this 'freedom' will result in a re-vote resulting in a clear majority of delegates for one candidate.

Operative Words " Delegates Released-Switch Allegiance.

The Tea Party Steps On The Obama LawBoy, RCV.

David| 3.14.12 @ 3:01PM

It is NOW time for Gingrich to go. Not go completely away though. He can certainly be a big help by actively campaigning for Santorum.

The only reason that I can think of for why Newt won't go is that in his heart he prefers Mitt over Rick. No other explanation.

After all, they both have bought into global warming baloney and all the regs and restrictions that go with it.

They both believe in individual mandates for health insurance.

The both support the Wall Street bailouts.

They both are lax on illegal immigration and both would support amnesty.

The are both more socially liberal than Santorum.

Yep, that is it. Newt is staying in this contest to guarantee that Mitt and not Rick is the nominee.

How flippin' digusting. It is just like Newt to throw this stubborn, ego-driven temper tantrum. It is just like Newt to be a sore ass loser.

David| 3.14.12 @ 3:56PM

Old Farte, and who is it that you support?

I don't understand your apparent dislike of him. Could it be that you don't like his positions on social issues? If it is his votes for raising the debt ceiling several times, please recall that virtually everyone on both sides of the aisle voted for them. The debt ceiling only became a big issue the very last time it was debated.

Santorum will appoint the more originalist/strict constructionist judges than Mitt or Newt. Mitt and Newt will appoint judges like Reagan and both Bushes did. We were told O'Connor, Souter, Kennedy, et al., would be conservative, and they were not.

Recall that Bush the younger tried to shove down our throats Harriet Meirs before we rebelled and got Roberts. If Bush had succeeded with Meirs, he would have appointed what's his name, the weakling who was attorney general.

Santorum will support a National RIght to Work law as prez.

Dixon| 3.14.12 @ 4:12PM

"If Bush had succeeded with Meirs, he would have appointed what's his name, the weakling who was attorney general."

Absolutely correct. A. Gonzalez was pathetic and still is. He was on Fox today praising the traitor Holder as "doing the very best job he can".

Talk about wanting to "throw up".

Dixon| 3.14.12 @ 4:06PM

Time for Newt to pull his big, creative brain off the trail and push it into the Santorum Campaign. I expect most, if not all of his delegates would pledge to support Rick and make the race 377 for the 89% Conservative Union voting Santorum to 496 for the moderate/progressive Mittens.

It would then be "game on".

If Newt stays, all he will spoil is keeping a progressive off the ticket and BO's defeat.

Newt - you know this! Do the right thing here.

David| 3.14.12 @ 6:20PM

Another take on why Newt won't go: He is getting back at Santorum because Newt believes that he could win the nomination if Santorum were not in the race.

The problem with that is that I don't think its a given that Newt could win the nomination.

What Newt is exhibiting is envy. Envy is when a person can't have something and he/she doesn't want the other person to have it either.

I believe Newt has shown his vindictive nature over the years and he is probably punishing Santorum.

His current supporters should simply ignore Newt because he can't win. They should start voting for their second choice whether it is Mitt or Rick. I suspect the vast majority of Newt's supporters would lean toward Rick. Especially aft the unfair hit jobs that Mitt did on Newt.

Dan| 3.14.12 @ 7:16PM

It doesn't matter how many states or electoral votes Santorum wins, he will not beat even the Kenyan born Muslim in Chief in a general election. He wins in states where the primary voters only care about far right conservative policy. That will not win the independent vote needed in a general election. You can believe he will not get any cross over Democrats in the general election. In the long run he will not defeat Romney for the nomination.

Thom| 3.14.12 @ 7:32PM

"The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention."

A Brokered convention won't decide who the nominee is; it will decide if any of those in the running now end up as VP to the one with the most votes. That’s it. A person getting 4 to 6% in primary season in what is either a two way or three way race has no influence on that decision mathematically.

Clint| 3.15.12 @ 12:53AM

Do Your Homework.

Delegates Are Released To Switch Allegiance To Anyone They Choose To Support.

It's An " OPEN CONVENTION".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok

The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To A Brokered Convention.

David| 3.14.12 @ 8:10PM

Dan, are you really watching the same primary race the rest of us are watching. If so, your observations s_ck. It is clear that Santorum attracts blue collar workers and conservative democrats along with conservative repubs.

He may not win in the long run with Newt in the race. But I am certain he would if Newt would do the right thing for the country and drop out now.

John II| 3.14.12 @ 8:25PM

Am I the only one who's been noticing that, amid all the distractions of the Republican primaries, Professor Obama's poll numbers keep dropping steadily as he and his acolytes continue to shoot themselves in the feet?

This most recent flag contretemps, wrought by the idiot Demos in Tampa flying Old Glory with a mug shot of the Professor in place of the stars, is just too deliciously bad to be true.

That the Obama flags were made in China is icing on the free cake. But to top off the icing, we get crunchy sprinkles in the ghastly expression on the Professor's troubled physiognomy: I presume the intent was to give him an air of seriousness and moral gravity--but in the bannered flag-picture, he just looks annoyed and petulant, with the face of a 16-year-old whose dad has confiscated the car keys.

Ah, artists. They always tell the truth, even when they're not aware they're doing so.

And now back to "Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), undeservedly a colossal flop, coming as it did in the wake of "Cleopatra" (1963), a deserved failure, for Christopher Plummer in the role of Commodus perfectly anticipates the advent of Professor Obama when the Professor himself was only three years old.

albert constantine jr.| 3.14.12 @ 11:53PM

In the years before formally codified flag etiquette, it was not uncommon for militia organizations to adopt banners and guidons that used a U.S. flag type background. I recall depictions or photographs of a number of regiments fighting on the Northern side in the War Between the States which have emblems or mottos embroidered on the stripes.

To the extent that Obama is the most divisive President in my lifetime (and likely during the last 150 years), perhaps his campaign staff’s use of this type of flag is emblematic of the civil war it appears they wish to ignite.

POST American| 3.15.12 @ 1:23AM

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Teflon93| 3.15.12 @ 8:48AM

The "Experts" are on the Romney payroll and have been since the beginning.

His candidacy is a sham.

As are "The Experts".

sirbourbon| 3.15.12 @ 8:03PM

When Santorum entered the race for the GOP he could barely gather 20 people to hear his stump speeches. Now the crowds swell to 5,000 as evidenced by this photo:http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11713777-ron-paul-crowd-of-5000-in-illinois-but-hes-not-winning

and here is another huge crowd:http://www.dailypaul.com/220936/thousands-support-president-paul-in-missouri

Oh, wait a minute those are crowds Ron Paul has drawn. Rick is still pulling in a couple of dozen people.

POST American| 3.15.12 @ 10:29PM

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