My Opinion he needs to be fired up a bit more and show he has a fire in the belly for helping America return to a sound sane sensible ground of being.
Otherwise he is safe, sane, bland, and perhaps even a bit boring. It is very hard to gain an American audiences attention, and hold that attention. Voters are insatiable with their desires in one person.
Father God, help America to choose the man or woman thou knows is best for America at this time and bless this man or woman to do the job of being President of the United States, of America, in Jesus name, amen.
Here’s one more for your list.
Stopping Obama is priority #2.
Nominating any of Santorum, Bachmann, Perry or Gingrich is priority #3 but obviously inextricably entwined with priority #1.
Santorum may well be the best of the remaining non-Romneys. He was a pro-life hero in the Senate. He endorsed Specter for the apparent reasonable reason that the rampagingly pro-abort Specter agreed, in exchange, to stop no pro-life judges as Judiciary Chairman. I believe that Specter made good on that promise. Additionally, Toomey had been a pro-abort during his time as s Congressman but had, Romney-like, "discovered" he was pro-life before taking on Specter on a statewide basis.
In any event, add me to the Santorum ping list.
Please add me to the ping list.
Count me in. Go ahead and add me to the ping list.
Prediction = Single digits for Santorum.
Question = Will Little Ricky endorse Willard as he did in 2008?
Please add me to the list
I began to side with Santorum about a month ago for the reaons you eloquently express here; unfortunately few othrs have followed. Most people won’t back anyone whom the media has declared a dead duck. What is a no-brainer now to us, so many others can’t see.
Great post, Antoninus! Thanks!
The bouncing around that some people have done from candidate to candidate is reminiscent of a ping pong ball in a clothes dryer (Pawlenty-Bachmann-Perry-Cain-Gingrich-next-next-next.) I’ve supported Santorum from the beginning. I’ve contributed multiple times. I have proudly had a Santorum bumper sticker on my car for months. In spite of his low polling, he has always made me proud. I am not ashamed. I haven’t had to hold my nose.
There are quite a few others whom I would have been proud to support—Pence, Coburn, DeMint, Jindal, to name a few. But Santorum was the one who actually threw his hat into the ring. He’s all in. So am I.
Add me to the ping list, please. It’s been lonely out here in the mountains since Herman got skewered.
The man has a better grip on both foreign policy and the damage being wrought by the Department of State than anyone running. He is the only candidate with the will and stated desire to drain that fetid swamp.
Please add me to the Santorum ping list. Thanks for establishing this; it is needed with so few days left before IA.
Please add me to your ping list. Thank you.
Please add me to your ping list. Don’t know if Santorum will still be running when the Michigan primary rolls around in the end of Feb. If he is I was planning on voting for him.
Please add me to the ping list. Thanks.
I like Rick. Please add me to your ping list. Thanks.
I don’t think he has much chance at the nomination, but if nominated he is a clean slate that could be packaged well given a real good team.
1. Antoninus - Very Nice Post! Good Job, and Ping me Up!
2. Everyone, take a minute and stop by and See Leroy! - (#7)
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Among other conservative issues, Santorum is passionately pro-life from conception to natural death, and walks the walk.
“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.
By visiting the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in Florida last year, Santorum may have hurt himself with voters, but he also demonstrated that he’s willing to take political risks to promote a culture of life.
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http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/
His website is asking for as little as $10: