Quote Originally Posted by BigJulie View Post
From CNN:



As one poster said--evangelicals seem to think this election is about abortion.
Its weird how the conservative issues that were missing from the media's coverage of Iowa, turned out to be so very important to the voters there...

I know a lot of people that support Mitt feel that the main issue is ***s and the economy, but while there is some merit to that idea, the real truth for the conservative voter is that social issues are still at the top of the list.

abortion
prayer,
worship of God,
Gay marriage
The ability to raise children as our grandparents did..
etc.

These are the core conservative issues that drive lots of Republicans to vote for someone.

They were completely missing in Mitt's campaign but turned up all the time in the campain of the 4 conservatives in the race.

Time will tell what this means in the long run....

So far?......so far this seems to suggest that there is a huge opening for Rick to enter if he can stay in the limelight long enough to overcome Mitt's money in NH and SC.

What Rick has to do over the next few days is work the phone and get all the lower ranking guys and girls in the race to drop out and stand next to him in front of the TV cameras.

Rick needs......REALLY needs the following:

Rick needs Michele Bachmann to drop out, then give all her support to him.
Rick needs this to happen fast...very fast....

Rick needs Newt Gingrich to drop out after NH....
Im not sure it helps to get Newt's support...but Newt does have to go.

Rick needs Ron Paul to say something very crazy....

Ron Paul is just not going to go away...so this means that the best hope for Rick right now in dealing with the whole support there is for Ron Paul is for someone to dig up more dirt on Paul, or for someone to ask paul a question that leads to Ron saying something that goes too far over the line...

So what Rick needs is for Ron Paul to look crazy....and this has to happen before we get to SC.
As it stands now, Ron Paul can expect to get between 12% and 17% of the vote in SC.....
Rick needs that 12 to 17% in order to overcome the money that Mitt has behind him and the lead he may have by then from NH.

So Rick has to have Ron Paul pushed off to the side, while looking just like Ron to Ron's supporters.

Rick needs every voter that right now Ron Paul is getting.

Now....as for Mitt?
Mitt needs to appear as the winner .
Mitt should start appearing as though he was the front runner, and start making the phone calls to get as many people to stand next to him in NH as he can.

The idea Mitt needs is to mow them all down in NH....Dont let anyone in the race going into NH think that have any way to beat him or out spend him.

it's time for the Republican leaders to walk out onto the stage and put their arms around Mitt.