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Discord Among Conservatives as Romney Picks Up Steam
Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
Rick Santorum's campaign released its first negative advertisement against Mitt Romney hours before a debate of the presidential candidates in Myrtle Beach.
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: January 16, 2012
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. While Republican moderates on Monday moved to rally around Mitt Romney as their presidential nominee, conservatives showed new signs of fracturing, despite a vote over the weekend by religious leaders to coalesce behind Rick Santorum as an anti-Romney alternative.
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Underscoring the partys lack of unity, Mr. Santorums campaign released its first negative advertisement against Mr. Romney hours before a debate of the presidential candidates here in Myrtle Beach. The ad called Mr. Romney more liberal than Ted Kennedy on social issues and said he had inspired President Obamas health care overhaul.
It highlighted how the battle for South Carolinas evangelical and conservative voters who make up 60 percent of the states registered Republicans has boiled down to a two-man contest between Mr. Santorum and Mr. Gingrich. Neither candidate showed any sign that they were considering stepping aside.
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DCBob
(24,689 posts)I wonder if the hard core RW conservatives will ever give in and support Romney. They really do not like him at all.
babylonsister
(171,036 posts)there's no one viable imo, other than Huntsman, who is now out. I am sort of sad; this is what this country has to offer?
I love our President, but 'the other side' couldn't come up with anyone worthy?
DCBob
(24,689 posts)The GOP has sunk to new lows.
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)The great Lincoln's spirit can't be happy with what it is watching from the party that Lincoln help create.
yellowcanine
(35,694 posts)Todd Lincoln is buried in Arlington Cemetery.
BeyondGeography
(39,351 posts)The country, quite frankly, really doesn't care for the most part about the preoccupations of social conservatives. They are a distraction that even many Republicans realize they can't afford anymore.
babylonsister
(171,036 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)The media will try to hype him up like you've never seen. Coronations don't sell newspapers.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)views social conservative talking points as what they are - distractions from the fact that they have nothing concrete. You can yell all day about abortion and pick up about 10% of the wingnut vote, but if you have nothing beyond that, including beating wardrums to a war weary public, you've got nothing.
The Republican Party is running on empty, and frankly, we need to let it keep doing it for as long as it can. Conservatives are so disheartened, it THRILLS me to ask them who they are voting for. They practically break down and cry.
BumRushDaShow
(128,529 posts)Their fearless "leaders" have been paying them lip service for decades - calling them:
1.) The "Silent Majority" (Nixon)
2.) The "Christian Coalition" (Reagan)
3.) The "Evangelical/Christian/Religious Right" (the Bushes)
Their elected officials have cultivated their votes, threw them all the red-meat that they could feast on, drained them dry of $$$... and then time and time again, let their issues wither on the vine (or perhaps more accurately, the REAL majority wanted to follow the Constitution and kept these extremists at bay).
So they, with the help of the teabagger astroturf, are once more making impossible demands as part of their last stand. And in doing so, have made the jobs of the RW lunatic fringe gasbags on places like faux or clear channel, more difficult - forcing them into all sorts of twisted acrobatics to reign in this herd to appear unified.
These folks don't realize that their agenda is basically in opposition to the neocons, big biz, libertarian, and fiscal conservatives.
I can imagine the history books of the future writing about this time.
ingac70
(7,947 posts)30% of the GOP "base" sitting it out forever would be nice!
Cosmocat
(14,559 posts)They responded to the 2006/08 elections by coming out harder than ever.
they might get down ever now and again, but they are flat mean, and end of the day, the evil liberal is more than they can bear.
Skittles
(153,122 posts)yes INDEED
Mopar151
(9,975 posts)To see their worldview dissected, and rebutted, i.e. cost of antipoverty programs vs. Halliburton's looting of the treasury, who really holds US debt.........
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)brother says, and he's a Republican Christian Conservative, is that Mitten's religion is a cult, plain and simple and they (many of the Christian Conservatives) will not hold their noses and vote for him but will sit this one out and wait for 2016.
ingac70
(7,947 posts)Going by the scribblings of Brigham Young, they wish to bring the United States Government under the rule of the priesthood. For Mormons the prophecy of Daniel 2:31-45 says that the Mormon people and the resources of their corporate empire will be the prime movers in a millennial overthrow of the United States government.
To achieve this, Brigham Young stated in the 'Journal of Discourses', no more or less than the complete overthrow of the nation, and not only of this nation, but the nations of Europe".
Conservative Mormons are Theocrats and cannot be trusted.
stockholmer
(3,751 posts)Stephen Roberts