Posts tagged 2012 GOP Primaries

NBC News confirms: Rick Santorum will suspend his presidential campaign.

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I hit him as hard as I could. He hit me hard as he could. It turned out he had more things to hit with than I did.
Newt Gingrich • Sounding pretty close to making a concession speech to Mitt Romnney in an interview on “Fox News Sunday” this morning. Gingrich, who previously sounded like he was banking on a brokered convention in Tampa to revive his hopes, stuck behind that manta, but says that Romney “far and away the most likely Republican nominee,” suggesting that Gingrich is seeing that possibility mostly as a pipe dream. Rick Santorum, currently running second, has said that he needs to win his home state of Pennsylvania to stay in the race — which looks like it might be difficult, as his fundraising is very weak at the moment. In other words, the inevitable is starting to look more and more inevitable. (via shortformblog)

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Desperate Republicans dream of Mitch Daniels as white knight

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Republicans are getting desperate:
Indiana GOP Chairman Eric Holcomb, one of Gov. Daniels’ closest advisers, revealed to POLITICO that “the whispers have become shouts, the knocks on [Daniels’] door have become fist pounding.”
And why are they so desperate?
“Republicans are fretting the four dancing now can’t beat Obama in the fall — so their national talent search continues,” Holcomb said, adding that the pleas had come from “the adults” in the party.
Of course, “the adults” in the Republican Party are same people who thought Mitt Romney would be a great nominee. And they’re the same people who led the GOP during the Bush years. They created our long-term fiscal problem with tax cuts for the wealthy and dumb wars, they undermined our economy with weak regulation of the financial sector, they failed to seriously address our energy and climate crisis, and they pursued an anti-gay, anti-woman social policy—and as George W. Bush’s budget director, Mitch Daniels was right in the middle of it all. So for these “adults” who are so desperate to pick up where the Bush administration left off, Mitch Daniels would be a perfect president. But they won’t get what they want, because even if “the adults” help Daniels surmount the procedural hurdles in his path, there’s still something called “the voters.” And the last thing most voters want is a repeat of the Bush years.
(Via Jed Lewison at Daily Kos)

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On Thursday night’s “Daily Show” Jon Stewart caught up with the GOP primary race in a special “It’s Still Only February” edition of Indecision 2012, this time focusing on frontrunners (we think — we can’t keep up anymore) Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum’s latest political ads.

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