What matters is that this meme that is now emerging on Santorum as a fringe kook...mean to boot...will soon be dominant.
Additionally, as contributors and potential contributors judge how this is being played in the press they will hold their money close and start looking for another bet to place.
Rick is not a very good communicator on important issues and does APPEAR strident and/or mean to many people.
And I, for one, like men’s natural protective instincts towards women, I count on them, and evoke them when I can :). I replied to someone earlier, I am from a military family, and don’t support women in combat frontline positions for lots of reasons.
But there are a million more things like this that are out there, some worse, much worse from Sanctimonium. He turns a lot of republicans off with his holier-than-thou, strident rigidity and judgmentalness... the general public is going to consider him some sort of bizarre monster.
The cry here when Newt was getting sliced and diced was let
him get vetted - we need strong candidates who can withstand what obama will throw at them. It didn’t matter if most of the stuff was totally false or extremely misrepresentative...
And what this thread proves, is when Santorum supporters get the kind of stuff thrown at them that was thrown at Newt for weeks at a time, while he stayed positive, they respond with you hate, you ugly, head up your ass... this does not bode well...
I sometimes cried at the mean stuff posted here about Newt, I probably shouldn’t admit to that, but unless I was called a name first, or several times, I defended him with facts and ideas and arguments... Sanctimonium supports, most of them, can’t do that. They just fling...
“What matters is that this meme that is now emerging on Santorum as a fringe kook...mean to boot...will soon be dominant.”
The media will make ANY Republican look like a mean, fringe kook if they threaten Obama. Doesn’t matter if you nominate moderate McCain or milquetoast Romney, as soon as they are the nominee against Obama, they will be tarred as a kook. Doesn’t matter if there is not a single statement on record that makes the candidate look kooky, they will find people who knew the candidate who will say that they said something kooky, just like they’ve done with Palin. We need to stop falling for it.