BUT actions speak louder than words.
Posted on 12/27/2011 10:15:01 AM PST by massmike
It was a ringing non-endorsement on a surprisingly slow day Monday, considering that Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses are barely more than a week away.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who was the only candidate in the state Monday, went pheasant hunting with Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, an evangelical conservative. The former senator from Pennsylvania killed some black pheasant and quail, but failed to bag the endorsement of the influential Republican leader.
Although Santorum is one of the most conservative candidates in the race, King said he had not yet made up his mind about whom to support.
Of all the candidates seeking the nomination, Santorum has spent the most time in Iowa, visiting all 99 counties and meeting with groups as sparse as two or three people. Yet he continues to lag in the polls and fundraising, and he has been unable to win the broad support of the considerable evangelical Christian base in the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Consider the source... Boston Herald. It’s not like they’d be likely to say anything nice about Santorum, or Steve King.
Holy Slow News Day, Batman!
I'd say that's a pretty accurate assessment.
Iowa — shmiowa! Who cares. Iowa should not be the end all of who is the candidate.
I don’t know why there is all this yakty yak about Santorum. He is going NOWHERE. Ron Paul (not that I support him-—I don’t) is the one who has been rising in Iowa lately.
Santorum was absolutely annhilated when he ran for re-election to the US Senate in PA in 2006 losing by nearly 20 points-—what a shellacking. He has since abandoned PA altogether and now lives in the Washington beltway, not far from Newt.
Mainstream media portrayal of Iowa's demographics:
"The Evangelicals" (will determine election) - 99%
Everyone else (who cares who they are?) - 1%
Actual makeup of Iowa's demographics:
Mainline protesants - 27%
Evangelical protestants - 25%
Catholics - 23%
Other (Mormon/Jewish/Agnostic/Atheist, etc.) - 25%
And it isn't. But it is part of the winnowing process.
Great selection of chaff this year.
Ron Paul is being supported in Iowa by non-Republicans. And/or dope smokers. He is a joke and the notion that he is supported by conservatives is a bigger joke.
Iowa does not matter because it can be easily gamed.
And that statement is reflective of why I won’t vote for him next week. Quit attacking your rivals and tell me what you want to do. The attack dog stuff is what has sunk both him and Bachmann.
It is not of course. Why would you think it is?
Listening to Santorum, you’d never know that the people of his (supposedly) swing state handed him an electoral beatdown and ran him out of town in the last election he ran.
why is Iowa important again?.. nobody lives there but a few white farmers and it almost never picks the winner of an election.. but hey let’s all go to a pot luck supper and pretend that Iowa is important to the national political process
BUT actions speak louder than words.
Sorry. I had my MSM hat on. It's the beanie with the propellor on it:)
The MSM acts as if it is a big deal. That it is THE deal. As we all know they are very wrong. That was my point. Which I made badly. And you pointed that out. Which I appreciate:)
Sorry. I had my MSM hat on. It's the beanie with the propellor on it:)
The MSM acts as if it is a big deal. That it is THE deal. As we all know they are very wrong. That was my point. Which I made badly. And you pointed that out. Which I appreciate:)
But that’s what’s great about the Iowa caucus. There’s an extreme vetting in all directions. It exposes wannabes, special interest heros, and cult followings, and sometimes the winner is actually the loser. Huckabee is a good example.
There are several factors which favor Paul in Iowa:
1) RP traditionally does very well in caucus and straw poll settings where the most intense and loyal activists dominate a relatively small universe.
2) Democrat mischief makers can change registration on the same day and participate in GOP caucuses. OWS supposedly intends on sabotaging the caucuses, and of course BHO supporters regard Paul as the easiest GOP candidate to beat.
3) Iowa has no military bases, and is traditionally one of the most dovish and isolationist states in the union, therefore receptive to Paul’s philosophy on foreign policy and ther military.
4) In a caucus state, groundgame is EVERYTHING, and supposedly Paul has the best groundgame and army of volunteers in Iowa.
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