Should Santorum, Gingrich and Paul drop out and endorse Romney?

I actually think they should stay in the race.

My reasoning is this. Ron Paul started a ravenous barrage of attacks on Rick Santorum at about the same time rumors began to circulate from non Ron Paul supporters that Ron had been offered the VP position by Romney. Thus, Ron is acting as a blocker trying to kill support for Santorum to help Romney win.

Secondly, Romney really isn't being damaged by this like people thought he would be. In fact, the attacks on Romney are nowhere near as bad as what happened to those already out of the race except by Santorum... and even he seems to be holding back to a degree as if trying to ensure whomever wins will have the strength to remove Obama.

Thirdly, Obama's supporters and the left leaning media are assuming Obama has this won basing their beliefs on "divided" Republican support and no one can tell them the obvious that whenever the Republican primary is over... all that support then goes to the winner. That means these people have a big surprise coming and as usual, they won't see it coming even though it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Lastly, Romney has this habit of getting overconfident when he thinks he's won. This has revealed itself several times already in this primary and it took Santorum giving him a few bloody noses to bring Romney back to Earth... Obama will give him more than a bloody nose if he acts like that because Romneys too soft spoken. Being soft spoken isn't bad because you actually have a sense of confidence in someone who can talk to you in a calm manner which is exactly what the country needs. Confidence isn't bad either as if he wins, this would become a huge plus because Romney is an accomplished man no matter how you view him.

In a Romney vs Obama face off, Obama has a ton of baggage and broken promises Romney can go after whereas Romney only has one term as Governor of Massachusetts to his credit. Romney has a strong Democrat support base in Massachusetts and when he left, Mass was in very good shape... his Democrat replacement fared far worse.

Not only does this prove Romney can win Massachusetts... it proves he can win Democrat votes whereas Obama can't win Republican votes except from the slim minority of leftwing Republicans which amounts to almost nothing.

Should he choose Ron Paul as his VP, Obama / Biden are finished as Paul will solidify the Republican vote due to his popularity with the youth and military vote. California is now 22% Independent and both Romney and Paul together can gain that vote for Republicans once the primary is over... that vote is meaningless until then as it only gives Obama more time to try regaining the vote Romney / Paul can win if the primary ends now. Thus, California is vulnerable and Romney is well versed on the San Joaquin Valley situation where over 100,000 Hispanics lost their jobs, billions were added to the California debt as a result and Republicans were the only ones who fought for them... Democrats let the water be turned off that caused that environmental disaster.



Virginia and north Carolina are already basically lost to Obama, Florida, California and Massachusetts are all vulnerable... Obama isn't going to win any states he didn't win in 2008 but will lose states.

Romney also has another advantage most will not consider... he wasn't a big fan of Bush and Obama never once voted against anything Bush wanted, he even voted in favor of cloture several times giving Bush what he wanted and was the go to guy when Bush needed Democrat votes. Romney isn't afraid to paint Obama as a Bush Democrat nor to attack him for all the times Obama supported Bush who wasn't as popular with Republicans as most in the media claim since he won in 2000 on the electoral vote and in 2004 went against an unpopular Democrats but still easily could have lost had he not revved up fear about terrorism.

Romney will be better suited to let this go on as long as he can, allow Obama's supporters to continue thinking they have this won due to facts that have nothing to do with who actually will win and if he chooses Ron Paul as his VP... the shock alone will send the media in all directions.

In 2008, McCain had all the factors Obama now has working against him. Romney is coming in almost bulletproof like Obama himself in 2008 so the dynamics of this race have changed. Obama's supporters have been wrong at every turn and all they have going for them is blind faith largely based on Obama's race since it is his supporters who can't see beyond his skin color.

Attacking Obama's opposition as racists long ago lost it's effectiveness especially with them saying had they elected a white Democrat they would have been treated the same way... that's not racism, that's party politics as usual. Obama's supporters blew it playing the race card until it became completely ineffective, instead of saving the world they devolved into endless hate filled rage fests with the political right splitting their own party against itself out of sheer stupidity and attacking almost every crime they heard of as being rightwing, white, Christian, Conservative, Republicans... before they know the first damn thing about the accused who then in almost every case turned out to be one of their own.

Obama will not win unless the political left shifts away from the extreme left back to center where they can reunite the rightwing and right leaning moderate Democrats as the extreme left belongs to Obama... the rest of the Democratic Party is up for grabs and having a Republican Presidential candidate who has proven he can win Democrat and Independent votes truly gives Romney a huge advantage.

The mainstream media isn't addressing these facts because they they have to date refused to attack Obama for the vast majority of his mistakes... allowing the San Joaquin Valley to be devastated when no President in US history has ever allowed the water to be turned off even in the worst drought. California is extremely vulnerable to the Republicans if Romney wins and even moreso if he chooses Paul as his VP.

You are dead wrong about the other candidates dropping out now to endorse Romney because Obama's followers and the left leaning media are deluding themselves and it is best to allow them to feed on their own delusions waiting until at least July where they maximize the impact and send Obama's support base backwards on their heels. They just need to cut back on their attacks where they attack Romney and fight among themselves a bit like Paul is doing to Santorum.

Exactly Mike. Read my comment above as I tend to be longwinded but I have valid reasons for what you say and to date, most of the people here saying they should get out are people who supported the candidates who have already dropped out because Obama's followers vetted them out where these people refused. They don't understand that you must investigate things and offer educated support so their candidates will try harder to prove they're worth the support.

The longer this drags out, the better it will be for Republicans and they should end this around July if not a little earlier in June. Obama's supporters are like McCains were in 2008 in supporting him for all the wrong reasons and Romney is coming off like Obama... largely unknown. Obama had strong Democrat opposition until he finally won the Democratic primary and McCain gave him the election out of stupidity rather than Obama truly winning.

When Republicans finally do have their candidate, it needs to be when Obama's support base has inflicted maximum damage just as they split the Democrats against themselves and Romney has one factor going for him that the extreme left will never see coming or accept... Romney can win over Conservative, Moderate, Centrist and even some Liberal voters from the Democratic Party not counting his appeal to Independents.

Let the left leaning media falsely report Romneys support when it is divided atm... when the primary ends, the people supporting the other candidates will toss in behind Romney and suddenly boost his support past Obama with FOX News likely being the only ones who will get it right lol.