Posted on 02/16/2012 10:55:59 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Sorry, didn’t realize this was a Freeper vanity or I would have not said idiotic. Make that “fallacious”. Sorry about that, Chief.
The so called “Reaganite Republican” appears to be violating the 11th commandment of Republicans, as stated by Ronald Reagan - do not speak ill of your fellow Republicans. In other words, who do these folks represent?
They said virtually the exact same thing about my congressman who was himself voted out of office in the election two years before.
He’s in office today and the former democrat incumbent is about $8 million poorer.
I love the way we’re so terrified of Obama that we’re desperately trying to mold our race to the democrats and ideology is nothing but a stumbling block.
Souls are non refundable. You sell it and its gone.
Bachmann has bigger, much bigger, kahuna’s than Santorum. Her votes in congress prove it. She is not a life long politician. She has run and currently runs private business.
She is fearless.
Santorum’s voting record:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/14/2641738/santorums-voting-record-at-odds.html
Let's worry about saving the Republic first and let Society do as it will until such time as we can get to it.
You may be right. Our country may have crossed the Rubicon.
But I'm not going down without a fight.
A polished rock can beat Obama as long as it constantly beats him up over the economy - job losses, unemployment, weeks of unemployment, bank losses, downgrades, the soaring deficit, job losses, gas prices, electricity rates, job losses, factory closings, job losses, job losses, job losses...
A frozen turd can beat Obama running this way.
“It’s the economy, stupid!”
If whoever gets the nomination doesn’t have that posted in 4-foot high letters in their campaign HQ, then they get what they deserve.
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How about the one on CNN on January 26? Several commentators, including John Podhoretz gave Santorum the nod.
Bingo!!!
And they rightly perceived Santorum to be vulnerable.
But there was another factor at play here. Santorum's senatorial opponent was Bob Casey. In Pennsylvania, the name Casey carries some magic, much like Kennedy in Massachusetts.
So here we had a vulnerable, uninspiring candidate (Santorum) against a magic name (Casey). Down went Santorum.
The same would happen if it were Santorum against the magic Obama. Except that Obama is a much, much better campaigner than Casey was.
Landslide Obama, fer sure.
“It’s the economy, stupid!”
In fact, when Carville beat daddy Bush focused on the economy, it wasn’t 1/10th as bad as it is now.
Do all of you all realize that if a Republican was president today, every newspaper in the nation would be running stories about “Depression Deepens”, “McCain Depresion sees more job losses”, “Grim Times in McCain Depression”.
The gift Obama gave us was to win the presidency at the start of an economic depression. Anybody running on Obama vs. The Economy is going to beat him. Anybody. Santorum. Ron Paul. Ru Paul. Anybody.
Interesting.
You cite Obama’s billion dollar money machine. My information says that Obama isn’t going to raise anywhere near that amount.
You state that Obama’s big money machine will destroy Santorum. Well which candidate did better against Romney’s big money machine, Gingrich or Santorum?
You state “Since the Left would love for Santorum to be the nominee, you’re not hearing a peep from them- yet”...I guess you haven’t been paying attention to the HHS mandate on contraceptives/abortificants that will affect the Catholic Church. Funny that Santorum is Catholic, and the mandate came out just after Santorum’s MN/MO/CO wins.
Others state “what about Santorum’s accomplishments?” No matter what you think of Santorum, this race will NOT be ran on accomplishments...Obama has failed miserably in that department and Obama will avoid any discussion of accomplishments.
The GOP’s insiders didn’t expect Ronnie to do well either.
But the Obama machine would play nice with Romrich? Yeah sure. Thanks for helping out Romney’s spin machine. I am sure they appreciate.
You scream and beat your chest about working day in and day out for three years but then beg like a little girl...please...
Stop whining and go buy a sweater vest, because when July rolls around and Santorum is the nominee you'll be claiming that you were for him all along.
You can't be a Reaganite anything, because you denigrate your opponent too much.
Well I'm for Newt...but you do know that it's Santorum's turn...he' the new candidate of the hour....it's simply his time to step up and defend himself on the issues he needs to clarify. He better know how to do that since the Obama machine will of course nail him on those issues.
Santorum's from my state and they booted him for one of many reasons.....one of which he goes too far right for most folks on his social issues...maybe it was just how he comes across as the "Preacher-Man" and carried such a large degree of self-righteousness and arrogance in how he presented the issues....but he sure turned the majority completely off to him. ....and we're seeing that surface now in the primary as otheers take note.
I’m sticking with Santorum. He was my 3rd choice line in the sand candidate.
Its him or the GOP is on its own.
No more compromises from me.
Secondly, when Santorum is down or behind, he gets almost childlike, whinny, snide and brags about himself and what he has (allegedly) accomplished. He also gets that sneer on his face and looks dejected.
He has no appeal or charisma and against Obama, will get so thoroughly beaten that it will take decades to recover from the damage of having him as our candidate.
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