Santorum is a nice guy, but Daniels has a point. America needs to focus on things like the economy, Obamacare, jobs, foreign affairs and the War in Afghanistan. Despite the fact that they are important, the electorate is not going to decide the next election on issues such as abortion and frankly I get bored by the preoccupation with it from people like Santorum and Ingraham.
He’s right about this, and has zero chance of winning the nomination. Santorum is right on the issues, but is stammering and inarticulate, and comes across with the personality of a baked potato with no butter. Instant turn-off when he hosts for Bennett.
Yeah Rick, we know you are Pro-Life. Now tell us why we need to ramp up Ethanol to be used in every car produced? You have to spend more time letting us know you are not a Newt Gingrich RINO before you get to start trashing everyone else. So far your non- Life issues are falling far short of what this country needs.
Santorum is correct here and Daniels is proving to be tone deaf very early in this process. The opponents of social conservativism are not going to truce, so a truce by one side is certain defeat on a host of critical issues.
I have given Daniels time to reorganize his thoughts on this, and he still sounds silly. You don’t win an election, much less a nomination by alienating one of the largest segments of your voters. Many candidates have been strong on social issues without making it central to their campaign. The 2012 campaign should not focus on these issues, it should have a strong, concise focus on the size and role of government. That does not mean abandoning other issues. This is like saying the WOT is not important because we are in a recession. Idiotic.
Daniels is already charisma deficient, but could have proven to be a good candidate despite that. He would really have to impress me in the debates to even consider his candidacy.
Santorum has been stumbling about, and hasn’t much of a chance at POTUS. But he is absolutely right about this.
First, none of our freedoms means anything if it’s OK to abandon the “right to life,” first of the inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence. The other rights are not much good if you’re dead.
Second, if you abandon moral values, then protesting against taxation is nothing more than a selfish claim, “IT’s my money.” It’s another matter if it is seen as a matter of justice, and of having the money to support family, friends, and charitable works.
Third, it’s a political loser. That’s what that jerk Rove did in the 2006 election: abandoned values and abandoned principles. So the Christian right stayed home and decided not to vote. What was the point of voting for a gang of selfish, power-drunk RINOs?
In other words, Mitch Daniels is morally wrong and politically stupid. You don’t win elections by saying, OK, I’m for lower taxes, but I think we should forget about the basic American values of life and family!
That doesn’t go over very big, and rightly so.