With Romney out....

[Heather in WI]

my mom just said she'd vote for Dr. Paul over McCain. She hates McCain. So do 95% of the local GOP activists. I think this might be great for Dr. Paul!

 

[Mystile]

nice. I wonder if we'll also get the Thompson support we were supposed to get that got stuck in the Romney drainage hole.

 

[newmedia4ron]

yes we need to run with this
"vote for ron paul, stop mccain"

 

[Grandson of Liberty]

I'm just afraid the media has made Huckabee the conservative "protest" vote and most will go over to him. I could be wrong- it happened once before.

 

[AlexMerced]

Romney is not out of the race, he's trying to give it to Huckabee to gaurantee a brokered convention. We should probably focus on the caucus states to get more delegatea not get in the way of Huckabee in primary states... cause well... it pretty much gaurantees a brokered convention.

 

[NoPants]

There is a level of Romney supporters that stand strong for the economy push Romney made. Also, even with his "sort of endorsement" for the war, he has poisoned many of his supporters against McCain already. They feuded for quite a while. I believe many of his supporters will not vote in the primaries from here on because of this. Those strong on the economy may come to the Paul camp. Those that believe in the war could go to Huckabee. Some will just choose not to vote at all. Heck, his name is still on the ballots, they may still vote for him.

 

[jacmicwag]

Most Mitt folks will go to Huck over the war. In the end, the war trumps all other concerns for neocons. Always has, always will.

 

[blakjak]

Most Mitt folks will go to Huck over the war. In the end, the war trumps all other concerns for neocons. Always has, always will.

yup.. we may pick up a few stragglers, but the majority will flock to huckabee

 

[seapilot]

We can win by being the default candidate. Thats how they are working it now anyways. McCain= Lieberman democrat. Huckabee will not gain fisical conservatives that went to Romney.

 

[mketcher]

I'm just afraid the media has made Huckabee the conservative "protest" vote and most will go over to him. I could be wrong- it happened once before.

Only the most ill-informed or most bloodthirsty warmongers among the conservatives will go to Huck. Huck has already been dissed by many of the conservative pundits -- Limbaugh, Coulter, Phyllis Schafly and others. That's why he hasn't really been getting a lot of money coming in. Even a lot of evangelicals don't trust him. His record in Arkansas is terrible.

It's good having him in the race -- he still splits the pro-war vote. I imagine if he dropped out, a lot of his support would go to McCain.

 

[dsentell]

I think Mitt will announce his support of McCain. In his speech, he seemed to talk of unity for the party, getting out of the way, so the party could develop its plans for fighting the Dems. Thus, I sense he wants to wrap it up -- thus endorse McCain.

If that is the case, we need to encourage RP to go third party IMMEDIATELY!

The Libertarian and Constitution parties have been begging for him . . .

. . . seems voters will be as well!

 

[wstrucke]

We can get these supports to go to Ron Paul but we HAVE TO GET THE WORD OUT!!! 95% of the country either hasn't heard of Paul or think he's a kook! we have go talk to people! in real life! in person!! do it now!

 

[Blowback]

yup.. we may pick up a few stragglers, but the majority will flock to huckabee

The other candidates are neocons but the people aren't all neocons. The longer this thing goes on, the more the economy issue>war issue and correspondingly Ron Paul>JM or MH.

 

[Catatonic]

It seems like a lot of Romney supporters only wanted him because he was the most likely to beat McCain.

Now it looks like Paul is their only hope, even if that hope seems slim.

 

[sgrooms]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/07/romney-suspends-campaign-vs-dropping-out/

Romney suspends campaign vs. dropping out
Posted: 12:20 PM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) Suspending a campaign has a different meaning depending on the party.

On the Republican side, decisions on how to allocate delegates is left to the state parties.

On the Democratic side, a candidate who "suspends" is technically still a candidate, so he or she keeps both district and statewide delegates won through primaries and caucuses. Superdelegates are always free to support any candidate at any time, whether the candidate drops out, suspends or stays in.

National party rules say that a candidate who "drops out" keeps any district-level delegates he or she has won so far but loses any statewide delegates he or she has won.

Full Story

 

[Heather in WI]

Only the most ill-informed or most bloodthirsty warmongers among the conservatives will go to Huck. Huck has already been dissed by many of the conservative pundits -- Limbaugh, Coulter, Phyllis Schafly and others. That's why he hasn't really been getting a lot of money coming in. Even a lot of evangelicals don't trust him. His record in Arkansas is terrible.

+1


Baptists Not on Board

Who Is The Biggest Tax Raiser?

Huckabee Tries to Gloss Over Ark. Record

The False Conservative

 

[theczar1776]

what i don't understand about mainline conservatives/neocons. WHO ARE THEY KIDDING.
Rudy, the first anointed One, he might as well be dead. Thompson, The Second Coming, well no comment necessary. and now P-O-S-Mitt, gonzo. and McCain, - too all neo cons WAKE UP YOU MORONS!!! McCain has ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE against Shillary/Osama. if anybody cares about "THE PARTY"(i do not, there is no such thing as a party, so to speak, a party is not an entity it is just a group of people and there thoughts and choices.) Vote RP it is the Republican party's ONLY chance.