Ron Paul Celebrates As Newt Wins SC

[howardroark]

both Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are not on several states' ballots as it seems maybe they were mostly running for book sales or better name recognition or possibly propping up their lobbyist credentials and speaking fees.  Oh, I know many will be upset with that analogy but quite frankly it is the only plausible explanations to ponder as Newt Gingrich was not even able to get on the ballot in Virginia which is his home state.

[...] both of them can not even compete for delegates to the tune of 564 which are in states that they absolutely are not on the ballot and can not get on the ballot at this point.

[...]The only way that Newt or Santorum could possibly win the Republican nomination would be at a brokered convention in Florida.

[...]If Newt or Santorum really had integrity, they would be the ones explaining this situation to the voters and preferrably just drop out as Huntsman and Perry did recently.  To do anything else, when they can not even compete for 564 delegates shows their failure to plan should be looked at as either a lack of organizational ability or lack of real leadership ability.  The bottomline here is that they both did not have sufficient real support or organizational ability to even accomplish the minimum things necessary to lodge an honest campaign for the Republican nomination which is being able to achieve ballot access in enough states to actually win it.

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-washington-dc/while-newt-wins-south-carolina-paul-campaign-celebrates

So both Newt and Santorum can't win the nomination. The more delegates they take, the less Mitt gets. And don't forget that the Ron Paul campaign has been planting its people as delegates - so in a brokered convention they have a shot to come out on top.

[240 is Back]

this is why Steele says it's 50-50 chance it'll be a split convention.

newt will have a ton of votes, but not enough.  romney will clean up in a lot of those states where he can spend, and newts not even on the ballot.

ron paul will keep getting his 20%.

anything goes, once the convention arrives

[howardroark]

I wonder if Newt has been saying what he's been saying about gold in order to possibly get some kind of deal with Ron Paul. I doubt Ron Paul would go for such a deal though.