Midwesterners, eh? hm, if only there were an area of the country with lots of swing states and a decent amount of electoral votes...
I think tea party sentiment is also strongest here in the midwest.
Praise the Lord!
Hey, about we worry about the future of near bankrupt, economically stagnant USA instead of the culture wars for once?
Well, I don’t have anything against Santo, but his tax plan of favoring manufacturing is not going to work, is more picking winners and losers in society, and will not unite republicans at all.
IOW, Santorum’s support is coming from the people who make this country work correctly.
“Santorum hails from a Midwestern state, Pennsylvania,...”
Umm...take it from this Pennsylvanian, we are NOT a Midwestern state. I live outside of Philadelphia and can drive to the Atlantic Ocean within one hour.
We are a Northeast or a Mid-Atlantic state. I’m not bragging by the way.
Man, have you seen all the bigoted attacks on Santorum by the Mormons, knocking the Christian faith as false, etc?
Me either.
Short answer: Santorum strongest in red states, exactly what you’d expect of a social conservative. I think that if he gets into the general election, he will also have support among “Reagan Democrats” who are blue-color union types with family values and he’ll also have some attraction for Catholics who might find Santorum more appealing than Obama.
Obama courts the black vote. Santorum courts the holy vote.
I am a Christian and a Conservative. So far I have kept an open mind during the primaries. I have to admit that Santorum is growing on me. I like that he is not shy about his Christianity and pro-life beliefs. I even appreciated his honesty last night when he had to defend some positions he took in support of the “team”, while he was the Senate whip. Heck, most of the Senators who say they are supporting Romney, took the same positions as Rick. You don’t see Romney disowning their support. In my mind, Santorum has not hurt himself with his honesty and actually helped himself because it is refreshing in this day and age.
It’s about time church-going conservatives had someone to speak for them.
Rick Santorum captures the essence of their beliefs and is a worthy representative of Bible-believing citizens.
Santorum’s recent rise in the polls has come mostly from those who attend religious services weekly, those who live in the Midwest and conservatives.
***Sounds like a good base to me.
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I’m a big tent republican.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821435/posts?page=6245#6245
Here’s an analogy to work with. Take a small box and fill it with some rocks. Then add some rice, filling it to the top. Now take all the same stuff, but in a different order. Put in the rice first, then add the rocks. What you’ll find is that if you put in the big stuff first, the small stuff will fit around it. But if you put in the small stuff first, the big stuff won’t have room. The republican tent is the box. The Big issues are the socon issues, to be put in first. The little issues are things that can be accommodated around the bigger stuff. A candidate who tries to focus on the smaller issues first and leave out the bigger issues has no way of getting all of us into the tent. He splits the party. The candidate who gets the big stuff right and as much of the little stuff that will fit, he can fit more into the tent. We’re often amazed at how much rice can keep fitting in. Rudy Giuliani flunks some of the big issues, and on some of the little issues it looks to me like anyone else’s rice would do just as well. All that remains for us to agree on is which are the bedrock principles and which are not. Why would there be so much invective aimed at rudy from the right? Because there are some bedrock principles that he is leaving out. Bad move. I see rudybot postings all the time saying that they would vote for Hunter, and I see socon postings that say they would not vote for rudy. That’s a BIG indicator of a few bedrock principles that are being left outside the tent in order to let in some rice.
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