Santorum wins Mississippi and Alabama primaries

[Ruby the Liberal]

Last edited Tue Mar 13, 2012, 11:36 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: NBC News

Updated 11:10 p.m. -- Rick Santorum scored victories in the Mississippi and Alabama primaries on Tuesday, depriving Mitt Romney of a signature win in a conservative stronghold and raising fresh doubts about the viability of Newt Gingrich's campaign.

The former Pennsylvania senator made his case for being the lone, serious Republican challenger to Romney for the remainder of the primary by besting Gingrich in states the former speaker's campaign had previously said were essential to its long-term viability.

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Romney had hoped to score a victory in Mississippi, thereby proving his ability to win a state that composes part of the heart of the modern GOP. But he appeared to be heading to a third-place finish in both contests, failing to even surpass Gingrich, a candidate who’s weathered growing calls to exit the race.

Read more: http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/13/10670824-santorum-wins-mississippi-and-alabama-primaries

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Rmoney just racked up 2 third place shows.


Edit to update full link/title/text now that it isn't just a Call headline any longer.

[Mr.Turnip]

1. MITT ROMNEY IS THE STRONGEST FRONTRUNNER EVER!

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Teabaggers are Ecstatic Tonight.....

If you like a good teabagging, santorum is just inches away.
Go Ricky !!

[tech_smythe]

9. I could go for a nice tea bagging...

but my boyfriend doesn't arrive for a while =[

[Grassy Knoll]

15. No offense...

Enjoy.

[opihimoimoi]

3. The massive level of BS thrown about finally takes its toll on Mitt....who loses. but holds the lead

in delegate count,,,

Ricky the dog man wins both Al and Mis......Noot is moot

[2ndAmForComputers]

4. Predictable.

I could say why it was predictable, but I don't want my jury duty probability further reduced.

[newspeak]

23. oh, what a surprise!!!! NOT

This country, especially, with the new and unimproved repug party, gets scarier by the day.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Could this mean a Democratic dream come true? A Santorum nomination? nt

[LisaL]

8. It's not my dream.

[tech_smythe]

10. Honestly I'd prefer mittens

looking at the pragmatic side, mitt would be good for the gop.
hes a solid moderate... while i WANT OBAMA to win, if... god help us, IF mitt were selected, he can be bullied and dealt with.

I actually see his changing at the drop of a hat as a good thing. it means that he's open to the political winds... folks that's us!

I'm not saying there will be anything liberal coming out of DC under mittens, but it means that a democratic congress WILL be able to push through bills that will probably slow down the raping and fucking of the middle class...


that and romney will be fairly easy to beat because the base H A T E S him!

santorum... while his ONLY base are the psychos in the party (his campaign would likely be the death of the republican party actually) ... NOT large enough to beat Obama.

what we DO NOT WANT.. is a brokered convention (i think we may get one anyway... which will also destroy the party imho) because they'll pull someone out of their ass that has had no vetting... like jeb bush.

Jeb seems reasonable enough to be able to pull alot of stupid democratic votes.

/rant

[LisaL]

11. ITA.

Romney is a perfect candidate to run against.

[DonCoquixote]

13. Mittens

Keep in mind, his GOP handlers like Grover Norquist will already have his leash tighter than a hangman's noose. Any GOP is a vote for the power brokers, period.

want proof?
http://www.westernprogressive.com/2012/02/norquist-wants-a-yes-sir-republican-president.html
http://www.investorvillage.com/smbd.asp?mb=4245&mn=663805&pt=msg&mid=11493983

They want us to belive that we camn endure a light centrist GOP and then get the lioberal we want, remember a certain "compassionate conservative?"

[alp227]

17. I think the GOP definitely don't want to repeat 1976 (Ford beating Reagan then losing to Carter)

so that's why it's been speculated that a brokered convention would produce something like a Jeb Bush/Marco Rubio ticket, an autumn surprise of sorts.

[Posteritatis]

20. My dream's a deadlocked convention. (nt)

[vaberella]

29. Do you know why that run is not a dream? It says so much about the deplorable state of Americans.

That a Jesus zealot like Santorum got the nomination.

[Hutzpa]

6. Mitt just told the South

"y'all can go sanctorum yourself"

[tech_smythe]

7. nothing about this surprises me

only that the win wasn't greater.
i saw that bit on bill maher (i feel sorry for chris la voy on steph miller... he's blind to the shit hole the south is politically) and.. really it doesn't surprise me.

that tooth impaired guy summed up the poor gop perfectly.
"im on food stamps because I deserve them. and I'm voting for the gop because one day I might be one of them!"

pathetic.

yes... i'm a south basher.
I had to put up with 8 years of shrub, and the utter DEVASTATION he and his southern ilk did to this country, and i'll never forgive the south.

perhaps it was worth a shit once... once... but never again.

I'm sorry south-living liberals. but I had to live and suffer with being an american in europe during the * years and you can't imagine the utter SHAME I had to live with.

[snooper2]

22. Where do you live now?

And is this your website?

http://www.techsmythe.com/

[JoeyT]

25. So you weren't ok with Europeans blaming you for the president of your country,

but you're perfectly ok with blaming a region.

Southern liberals feel exactly like you did when you were in Europe, only we get it all the time.
So yeah, I'm pretty sure we can imagine it.

[tech_smythe]

30. if you're tired of it VOTE!!!!!

I have no respect for a group who allows their state to goto hell.
I'm sorry but until I see some blue in those HEAVY RED states, i won't change my mind.

THE SOUTH IS A COMPLETE AND UTTER SHIT HOLE!

[JoeyT]

31. Really? Vote? Holy shit, that never once occurred to me.

I bet it never once occurred to any other Democrat that lives here either. Man, wait'll I tell them about this "Voting" thing at the next meeting. I mean sure, some of the red states almost went for Obama, but we thought that was some kind of weird natural phenomenon like ball lightning or something.

Yeah, the south is a hotbed of dumbasses, but it certainly isn't confined exclusively to the south. You've proven that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[excuse not to write]

12. So what? Romney will take the vital American Samoa primary!

And maybe Hawaii which is Obama's home state!

[LisaL]

24. He did.

And ended up with more delegate gain than Santorum.

[Ken Burch]

14. The big endorsement ad from "Klansmen for Dogfucking" put him over the top.

[Julian Englis]

16. Looks like the GOP have a tiger by the tail.

They have mobilized the radical right and made it the Republican base. In doing so the Republicans have driven away many of the centrists. The radical right is in charge but appears to be incapable of winning, let alone governing in the unlikely event they do win.

[TahitiNut]

18. Prince Frothy of Dumbf*ckistan

Here, Prince. Go play in traffic, Prince.

[Pachamama]

19. Hee Haw!!!

[trusty elf]

21. Santorum comes from behind....

[IMG][/IMG]

[harun]

26. If Gingrich wasn't in the mix Santorum would be absolutely stomping Mitt.

GOP likes their candidates kerrrrrrrrrraaaaazzzzzy.

[FedUp_Queer]

27. I wonder if anyone has told these Southern Right-Wingers that their choices...

are two Catholics and a Mormon. As a Catholic, I always figured that among right-wingers we were Satan's spawn while Mormons are Satan's parents.

[Arugula Latte]

28. He did pick up some delegates from Pacific islands voting

but, wow, the stank of the "Looser" (Freep spelling) is on him today.