Santorum Giving Up on Florida?

The whole world’s out to get Newt, isn’t it?

LOL, certain ones around here seem to think so. And anyone who doesn't get behind Newt RIGHT NOW just HAS to be in the bag for Willard!

Gotta like your tagline, BTW.

You're the one that raised his Catholicism in case you didn't notice. Where exactly does Santorum diverge from the tenets of his faith? If you're referring to this canard from the Left that Santorum supposedly supports banning contraception, your argument doesn't hold up. Santorum probably follows the Church's line that contraception is a sin. It's the Church's position, not something Santorum added. Secondly, Santorum opposes the federal case that says that states can't ban birth control, because it's not in the Constitution. The states used to ban abortion too, but they found that mythical right as well at the Federal level (using the same Griswold case as the starting point I believe). Anybody that's in favor of Federalism could be tarred with the same brush. Santorum just makes a good target because he's a Catholic that claims to follow the Church's teaching. Actually, Newt could probably be accused of the same thing since he's a Catholic now. I disagree with the Church on a number of things, capital punishment comes to mind, but I don't fear a devout Catholic or a Mormon for that matter becoming president.

Judging by tonight’s debate, Rick is not dropping out of anything except maybe the scurrilous backbiting which he denounced publicly from the stage.

Rick Santorum is a very moral man. He’s doing great this evening. he has sewn up quite a few of the constituencies: the old folks (introducing his 93 years young mother, who is a Florida resident.)

The prolife people: he has had them ever since he went down there to try to save Terri Schiavo’s life.

The family people, by his good example.

The Hispanics, by ripping Obama for being on the side of Castro and Chavez.

etc.

Watch Rick jump 10 points this week. Points will be taken away from Newt and Paul.

He did pretty well in the debate. I thought CNN was deliberately teeing up some of those early questions for his benefit since some of them were in areas where I’d heard him speak knowledgeably before like Central America. I would think pounding Caribbean dictators would appeal to Cubans. He’s going to get a thumping on FR today, because I’m sure he pulled some votes from Newt last night. He nailed Romney on Romney care. Even the Newt supporters had to like that. Still, they’ll be out here calling him everything in the book.

I believe Santorum will do well next Tuesday. He was smart to make his pitch not just to the Cubans but to the thousands of Floridians with heritage from Puerto Rico, Central America, and South America.

My Hispanic friends hate to be “bundled” as if they were all Mexicans.

Whoever is running Rick’s campaign deserves the highest kudos for last night.

I agree that it was smart that the comments weren’t targeted at a specific community. I’m just saying the biggest population with the most immediate dislike for dictators in Florida are probably Cuban.

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