Posted on 01/15/2012 12:05:27 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
...“We’ll make that decision on Saturday,” [Perry] said on ABC’s This Week. “It’s our intention to win SouthCarolina and go forward from there. But to try to plan out your campaign months in advance, I think is a little bit of a stretch.” The governor, who trailed in the Iowa caucuses and in the NewHampshire primary, said Sunday that his service in the AirForce will play well with the Palmetto State’s large veterans population. He has also tried to gain votes by attacking front-runner MittRomney as a “vulture” capitalist, a phrase that conservative commentators say sounds like an attack on free enterprise. Mr.Perry said he disagrees.
“This is not something we knew wasn’t coming up,” he said. “It’s better to be talking about it here in January in SouthCarolina than it is in October.”
Also on Sunday morning, RickSantorum sought to build on some recent momentum, including new support from conservative Christian groups, saying he will beat Mr. Romney for the Republican nomination once all the other candidates drop out. Speaking on Fox News Sunday and CBS’s FacetheNation, Mr.Santorum said that he won’t drop out after SouthCarolina and said that race is all about whittling down the field to just him and Mr. Romney.
In a contest with just Mr. Romney, “I’d win,” Mr. Santorum said on Fox..
Mr.Santorum declined to ask his chief rivals for the conservative vote to drop out of the race. But he said that he is better qualified and more conservative than both former Speaker Newt Gingrich and Mr. Perry. Mr. Santorum took aim at Mr. Gingrich, who is beating him in many polls. On both shows, Mr. Santorum noted that when Mr. Gingrich was speaker of the House, he faced a coup by rank-and-file Republicans who did not think that Mr.Gingrich was conservative enough....
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Giuliani would have been a whole lot better than Obama. He is fiscally sane, a patriot, and has no delusions about Islam.
Who is your candidate and why should he be POTUS?
No, of course not, all in good fun. :)
Just watching to see what unfolds.
This is truly the sorriest bunch we've ever had.
I disagree. 2008 was the sorriest bunch we ever had. In the end, we had Mitt, McCain and Huckabee. It's hard to sink below that.
I don't think we'll ever see better candidates until we get rid of the establishment or make them a small minority.
Oh heck no.
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