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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/06/rick-santorum-gingrich-perry_n_1190491.html
WASHINGTON -- A prominent evangelical Christian said Friday that if Rick Santorum continues to surge in the polls and does well in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Christian leaders are planning to ask Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry to drop out and get behind the former Pennsylvania senator.
"There is real concern that [Mitt] Romney will win without having to face one concentrated effort of a conservative challenger," Richard Land, one of the most well-known Southern Baptist leaders in the nation, told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.
"What I hear conservatives saying is we need to keep talking about this and we need to let Gingrich and Santorum and Perry continue to make their case, but at some point, earlier rather than later, we need to try to unite all of the social conservative forces around one candidate and have this great debate that so many people want to see between Romney and the non-Romney," said Land, whose official title is president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
"Santorum has to do the convincing. He did a lot of convincing in Iowa," Land said. "He's surging. The question is what's going to happen in New Hampshire and then what's going to happen in South Carolina."
opihimoimoi
(52,426 posts)Damage throughout the years...
Insisting on Candidates with a religious flavor gave us a tainted SCOTUS...who then gave us
GOPer leaning rulings..... = W BUSH...Who Almost FUCKED THE USA INTO the Worst Econ
Depression since the 30's...It Took OBAMA to save our asses...
Fuck those Assholes who invade the Political Process with Religious crap...they make me sick...
Religion is just fine for Believers....but there are Non Believers and Agnostics Too....and they live
here too...
All I am Saying is....The Ring Kissers should stick to kissing rings and not Religious Candidates
asses...
end of rant....
work song from BS...
DCKit
(18,541 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I've always assumed that Romney would do poorly there, but if there's a three-way split between the fundie favorites, with Paul sucking a little oxygen out of the room, Mittens could indeed win that state, even though he wouldn't get more than his usual 25-35 percent of the vote.
Here's my prediction: If one of the three, Santorum, Perry, or Newt does well enough in New Hampshire to be either a strong second or third (behind Paul) then the snake handlers will publicly beg for the other two to drop out before South Carolina. Now, Mittens would only get a fraction of the delegates, but they want a clear anti-Romney by the time it becomes winner-take-all.