The country may think that Mitt Romney is the best Republican in the field for President, but apparently Republicans don't. Rick Santorum sent shock waves through the rest of the field and in the Republican ranks themselves by winning all three states yesterday. In fact, the GOP is painting itself into a corner.
Given Rick Santorum's three-state sweep on Tuesday, the GOP now has two choices: 1) Choose Mitt Romney and have a shot at the White House or 2) take someone else and guarantee a loss of not only the White House, but their majority in the House as well.
Santorum rocked Romney 55 to 25% in the Show-Me State of Missouri where Romney showed nothing. Ron Paul received just 12% there. Santorum earned 45% support in Minnesota to 27% for Paul and just 17% for Romney. That's a progressive state where Romney should have done well. Colorado gave Santorum 40% of the vote to 35% for Romney and just 13% for Gingrich.
Low turnout in all three states, however, signaled dissatisfaction among Republicans with all the candidates. Again, that doesn't bode well for the November elections, and there's now just nine months before those. What can they do to turn the tide?
First of all, realize the importance of a woman's Right to Choose and embrace Romney. Abortion is wrong in nearly all instances but it is still a woman's right to do what is best for her own situation. No one can pretend to know what is best for someone else. Romney is Pro Choice and stands on the right side as far as the country is concerned. Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts was a model for the rest of the country--in fact the plan that passed the Congress and was signed into law by President Obama patterned itself closely after Romney's plan.
The longer the GOP tries to divide the country, the more it will be hurt. We all know that Republicans are the party of the very rich. The only way they have attracted votes in the last two decades is by promising voters that they will do this or that on moral issues when they have done absolutely nothing. They haven't cleaned up television, the movies or rap songs. In fact, Tipper Gore did more on the latter issue than anything Republicans have ever done. They haven't stopped abortion. They haven't stopped same-sex marriage or kept any of the other promises they have made.
The reason? They don't care anything about so-called moral issues; those are just red herrings the Republicans throw out there to get your votes, all the while making themselves more rich while you--the middle class and the poor, lose your jobs to overseas corporations, lose your houses because you can't afford through-the-roof gas prices brought on by the Iraq war, lose protection from unions at your job because Republicans have weakened them, and lose disposable income. All so they can supposedly care about family values like marriage, sex and violence in the media, and abortion.
So if the Republicans truly want to win in November, they'll nominate Romney--he is by far their best candidate and the only one that is going to help them avoid a disastrous defeat.
Given Rick Santorum's three-state sweep on Tuesday, the GOP now has two choices: 1) Choose Mitt Romney and have a shot at the White House or 2) take someone else and guarantee a loss of not only the White House, but their majority in the House as well.
Santorum rocked Romney 55 to 25% in the Show-Me State of Missouri where Romney showed nothing. Ron Paul received just 12% there. Santorum earned 45% support in Minnesota to 27% for Paul and just 17% for Romney. That's a progressive state where Romney should have done well. Colorado gave Santorum 40% of the vote to 35% for Romney and just 13% for Gingrich.
Low turnout in all three states, however, signaled dissatisfaction among Republicans with all the candidates. Again, that doesn't bode well for the November elections, and there's now just nine months before those. What can they do to turn the tide?
First of all, realize the importance of a woman's Right to Choose and embrace Romney. Abortion is wrong in nearly all instances but it is still a woman's right to do what is best for her own situation. No one can pretend to know what is best for someone else. Romney is Pro Choice and stands on the right side as far as the country is concerned. Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts was a model for the rest of the country--in fact the plan that passed the Congress and was signed into law by President Obama patterned itself closely after Romney's plan.
The longer the GOP tries to divide the country, the more it will be hurt. We all know that Republicans are the party of the very rich. The only way they have attracted votes in the last two decades is by promising voters that they will do this or that on moral issues when they have done absolutely nothing. They haven't cleaned up television, the movies or rap songs. In fact, Tipper Gore did more on the latter issue than anything Republicans have ever done. They haven't stopped abortion. They haven't stopped same-sex marriage or kept any of the other promises they have made.
The reason? They don't care anything about so-called moral issues; those are just red herrings the Republicans throw out there to get your votes, all the while making themselves more rich while you--the middle class and the poor, lose your jobs to overseas corporations, lose your houses because you can't afford through-the-roof gas prices brought on by the Iraq war, lose protection from unions at your job because Republicans have weakened them, and lose disposable income. All so they can supposedly care about family values like marriage, sex and violence in the media, and abortion.
So if the Republicans truly want to win in November, they'll nominate Romney--he is by far their best candidate and the only one that is going to help them avoid a disastrous defeat.
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