Posted on 02/21/2012 1:01:15 PM PST by jimbo123
Rick Santorum was sitting at the center of the Drudge Report's homepage Tuesday afternoon looking like a religious nut. "SANTORUM'S SATAN WARNING," the headline screamed, under a black-and-white photo of the candidate standing behind a lectern with a cross on it. The conservative blogger drives mad crazy traffic, and he's using it to attack the biggest threat to his reported ally, Mitt Romney. This isn't the first time Drudge has gone nuclear on a Republican who threatened Romney's candidacy.
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Shocking! Next thing we’ll hear is that Santorum believes a carpenter rose from the dead.
Santorum sure got that one right. If it is not obvious by now who is controlling this world and this country then you are spiritually dead. Pure evil is taking over the land.
The fix is in for Romney-Christie.
If this were thirty years ago, I’m sure you would’ve said the same thing about Ronald Reagan and his Evil Empire speech. After all, he said that the Soviet Union was, “the focus of evil in the modern world”.
He was widely ridiculed for saying it, but he was right.
I never go to Drudge anymore.
That may not be a popular opinion, but it is accurate.
And I think you hit the nail on the head in talking about what he says and how he says it. I think a great many Americans might agree with some of the opinions he expresses. But I also think that a great many of them are uncomfortable with a political leader expressing them in those terms. Focusing on Christ's message as an inclusive one of love never alienates people. But using an overtly religious theme as exclusionary, "us v. them", is really going to make a lot of people uncomfortable.
Ronald Reagan and his Evil Empire speech
I was thinking the same thing today. The left and "moderates" went apoplectic over Reagan calling the Soviet Union that. They tried to scare the public about it. It didn't work. Will it work this time, or will we rally around Santorum?
I am getting more excited by Santorum the more Drudge and the rest of the establishment and left attack him. :-D
The fact that saying something so blatantly, obviously true is considered “controversial” tells you all you need to know. He’s not called “The Father of Lies” for nothing.
nor do I...
In my third week of NO DRUDGE and have adjusted well, don’t miss him a bit...
I was in college when Reagan made that speech. As I was the conservative in my group of friends, they directed their ridicule of Reagan towards me. I had fun responding:
“Is the Soviet Union an empire?”
Yes
“Is it good or evil?”
That’s ridiculous! Who can determine whether a government is good or evil!
“Ok. Is freedom of speech a good thing?”
Yes
“Is freedom of religion a good thing?”
Yes
“Is a government that denies those good things to it’s people good or evil?”
I defended him before. Not again. For the first time since 1998, Drudge is not my homepage.
I should have known he’d gone to the dark side when all the Alex Jones crap started showing up.
Bush 41 did ...
Oops ... I meant that “Bush-43” did ...
That’s why we have elections in November, not February. A few polls have the race very close and that’s with the media rooting for Obama and slamming Rick with only negative coverage. If Rick wins the nomination he will have a lot of time to present his case to the people. I wouldn’t count him out—remember, he won two senate elections in a BLUE state, not an easy task.
IMHO, a lot of people are running from Rick precisely because they know he’s right, but supporting him would mean they would have to defend the things he says.
One might even say, "Whistling past the graveyard." ;-)
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