All road maps for Santorum (or anyone) go through the GOP leadership.
Joel Send a noteboard - 03/03/2012 01:01:07 AM
The only thing more amazing than people who told me two years ago Romney was not the automatic nominee is people who still dispute it.
more than likely he is going to be but he's not out of the woods yet. A relativley bad day coming up and suddenly the narrative is about how bad he did and Santorum surges in the polls nationally and in upcoming states. There is still a road map for Santorum but not winning Michigan made it a hell of a lot harder for him
Which made Gingrich the only nominally credible alternative to Romney from the outset, but he has most of the same problems Hillary did for the same reasons, plus a lot of other baggage she lacked. He has only managed to stick around thanks to large donations from his billionaire casion owner buddy, just as Paul survives on netizenship; I have no idea how Santorum stays funded (maybe the Vatican is paying for it. )
Romney has all the insider connections to party leaders and Wall Street donors, both of whom know a perceived moderate is their only chance against Obama. Grass roots wants are irrelevant; we are talking about the Greedy Old Party, after all. The rank and file base only matter to the extent their turnout is vital on election day, but Republicans tend to see voting as a patriotic civic duty more than Democrats do, and despise Obama so deeply they will show up for any GOP nominee. Many are boll weevil Democrats now fully converted to the GOP; ironically (and tellingly) the most reliable GOP voters are those who once proudly declared their support for even yellow dogs who ran as Democrats. This race was over before it began; the only question is, as it always was, when Romney will be nominated, not if.
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This message last edited by Joel on 03/03/2012 at 01:02:57 AM
Why Romney Is (Still) the Only Republican Presidential Candidate.
27/02/2012 02:07:18 PM
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also, do we really want president "ass juice" running this country? *NM*
27/02/2012 03:06:06 PM
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Oh, I am not worried about that; Romney is also the only potential nominee who can be elected.
27/02/2012 04:12:35 PM
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Didn't you notice? We have approximately 16-20 years more of that?
05/03/2012 04:46:32 PM
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it was more of a comment on the alternate meaning of santorum not a political statement *NM*
06/03/2012 02:59:04 AM
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Why do you go to so much effort to state the obvious? *NM*
27/02/2012 05:10:14 PM
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Because many people still have the idea it is not obvious.
27/02/2012 06:42:00 PM
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But he's not
03/03/2012 12:23:45 AM
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All road maps for Santorum (or anyone) go through the GOP leadership.
03/03/2012 01:01:07 AM
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So, four more years then?
29/02/2012 06:36:03 AM
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Most likely, but Tom is almost certainly right the economy will tell the tale.
29/02/2012 10:12:28 AM
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Most likely he is the nominee, but
03/03/2012 12:18:23 AM
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Unless he comes out as a wife swapper or something, he is unstoppable.
03/03/2012 01:28:09 AM
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He isn't unstoppable
03/03/2012 10:01:51 PM
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Statistically, yes; realistically, the primary, and Romneys opponents, are all finished.
04/03/2012 12:09:48 AM
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If the election were held now
04/03/2012 08:17:34 AM
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The primary certainly helped Obamas chances, as do marginally better economic numbers.
04/03/2012 06:02:25 PM
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