Posted on 03/26/2012 6:26:21 AM PDT by Mozilla
FRANKSVILLE, Wis. — On the eve of the U.S. Supreme Court’s debate over the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s health care law, Rick Santorum declared that Mitt Romney’s support for a similar law in Massachusetts made him “the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama.”
But when pressed by reporters about the sharp statement, Santorum grew agitated, saying that his comments regarding Romney were confined to the issue of health care.
“Quit distorting my words. It’s bull——,” Santorum told a New York Times reporter who pressed the question.
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In response to repeated questions on the matter, Santorum told reporters that Romney was an unfit Republican nominee because of his work on health care as former Massachusetts governor.
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You can label me how ever you like, but I simply do not care. My support for Newt is plain to see, and your constant accusations that my side, not supporting Santantrum, is a sheer indication that we are closet Romney supporters, is ignorant and childish.
I know your intent, you are hoping we will come unglued and say things that will get us banned. But here again, those of us who faithfully support Newt, are not like your temperamental icon.
RE: "You can label me how ever you like, but I simply do not care."
I think that is a journey every Newt supporter here has had to make - being called everything from sinners to liars to lovers of evil because they don't support the "good christian candidate". It used to upset me. It no longer does because I have learned something about the quality of santorum supporters.
Whatever you say about Newt voters, they are battle-hard and have learned to keep on walking with mud and blood splattered on their faces. It is now time for them to double down, dig in and shine.
PLANT YOUR FEET, LEAN INTO IT, BEAT IT BACK.
For some reason, some people just cannot differentiate between that aspect you so plainly clarified.
>> he showed that he has the “fire in the belly” to take on the current owners of THE COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION: the Liberal Agenda Media, or LAM.
Seriously?
You mean, with statements like this one?
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“Well, ‘Stand Your Ground’ is not doing what this man did,” Santorum said Friday morning at a campaign event in Monroe, La. “There’s a difference between ‘Stand Your Ground’ and doing what he did. And it’s a horrible case. It’s chilling to hear what happened, and of course the fact that law enforcement didn’t immediately go after and prosecute this case is another chilling example of horrible decisions made by people in this process.”
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Santorum has JOINED IN SOLIDARITY with your COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION and the Liberal Agenda Media (LAM) in convicting a man before the evidence has been presented and his guilt has been established in a court of LAW.
Now tell me again precisely how he’ll use that awesome fire in his belly to stand UP to them? ‘Cause I don’t see it.
I also noticed that after Santantrum lost Illinois, the nastiness, blame, and crass accusations were flying like Iowa crows in April.
The calls for Newt to drop out were somewhat vicious. They blamed him for Romney winning. Which is absolutely false. In all reality, looking back, it was the sudden rise and appearance of Santorum, that few voters hardly knew, that jumped into his support over night with both feet and no handhold.
So, the blame for Romney's lead could easily be blamed on Santorum. Especially his inability to make it happen. God knows, Santorum has had countless opportunity, but his pathetic lack of personality and ability has proven otherwise.
If only the Gingrich camp and the Santorum camp showed even half the enthusiasm against Romney, that both direct at each other, Romney could be prevented from a first round win at the convention.
Then someone other than Romney, could end up the nominee.
I’d prefer that person to be Palin, but Gingrich and/or Santorum would seem to be in the catbird seat for a brokered convention win - since they’re already running. Frankly I could support either of them.
And yes, if it turns out we end up with Romney despite all best efforts, then Romney will have won fair and square, and I’ll support him 100% against Obama.
How about we work together? For now, that means stopping Romney’s momentum.
Attacking each other, won’t do that.
Santantrum is so far off the reservation, he is every bit as bad as Romney. Perhaps even worse, since he would be far less able to win against Obama in the General.
We can no longer play with outcomes. We absolutely have to win this election, and we need Newt Gingrich to do it. I will not falter one centimeter, until that is no longer possible.
I also noticed that after Santantrum lost Illinois, the nastiness, blame, and crass accusations were flying like Iowa crows in April.
The calls for Newt to drop out were somewhat vicious. They blamed him for Romney winning. Which is absolutely false. In all reality, looking back, it was the sudden rise and appearance of Santorum, that few voters hardly knew, that jumped into his support over night with both feet and no handhold.
So, the blame for Romney's lead could easily be blamed on Santorum. Especially his inability to make it happen. God knows, Santorum has had countless opportunity, but his pathetic lack of personality and ability has proven otherwise.
I appreciate and admire your passion. I wish we could bottle it. some of Newt's supporters, who have given above and beyond, are getting tired. I am glad to see you aren't.
Here is something TitansAFC posted a little while back, that really put it all into perspective for me, and I have been reposting it whenever I think it could lend even more clarity to someone trying to get the big picture of what is going on. It seems we are just script walking through 2008 all over again, and not just because of the Romney-McCain comparisons. Maybe there are people you know who will benefit from reading it.
Just stay true. I know we can do this!
TitansAFC
It’s Huckabee bullheadedly plowing ahead of Thompson by sheer belief in his own holiness all over again. The story always starts out the same: Conservatives get a credible alternative to the Establishment front-runner, and he starts getting attacked.
Then the SoCon who stayed under the radar (Huckabee then, Santorum now) becomes everyone’s plan B, because the guy who could have won (Thompson, Gingrich) was unloaded upon by the GOP-E money machine. Then the smug supporters of the upstart underdog all thump their chest and say “NO.....YOUR GUY SHOULD DROP OUT!!”
Then the vote is already split, the credible candidate becomes non-credible because of vote-splitting, and the upstart winds-up in second place because folks trying to beat the Establishment liberal switch to plan B because the smug voters of the only holy candidate make it loudly clear that they’re going to support the holy upstart candidate even if it means the Liberals win.
It JUST KEEPS HAPPENING.
In reality, what needed to happen was for Santorum to drop out early, when it became apparent that there was someone who could lead Romney in the polls for a long time, and when it was clear he had a friggin’ LITANY of ballot and delegate issues. Even if it was not Newt at the time (heck, replace Newt with Perry), Conservatives should have united around a single candidate with a full organization and little to no ballot and delegate issues, and there SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN A PLAN B. Conservative should have been forced to STAY united, learn to DEFEND their candidate rather than defect because the rich, Establishment Liberal was able to smear the credible Conservative with overwhelming cash.
If there had been no Santorum, Newt would be leading right now. He would be leading because we would have been united against Romney from day one, and there would have been no defections based on the fact that - by simply running under the radar - someone else rises because they haven’t been unloaded on.
We CANNOT keep doing this. We CANNOT keep Santoruming and Huckabeeing ourselves based on some sick notion of the holiness of a politician. We cannot keep some broke one-percenter in the race because they were able to show well in Iowa after living there for two years and facing almost no attacks because of their low polling. We cannot keep rewarding these guys for throwing Hail Mary passes when we have a chance to defeat the Liberals. No more “shoestring” campaigns, no more one-percenters who surge in time to do well in Iowa, no more long-shot dreams based on the notion that some candidate is the mostest Christianest candidate of them all.
No more Huckabees, no more Santorums. No more long-shots who surge in Iowa. Rule them out before they ruin another Primary season. Santorum was never going to get 1144 delegates - it was NEVER going to happen. The fact that people bull-headedly refused to waver from him KILLED us - and then they turned around and taunted Newt and Perry voters for voting for Santorum in desperation, citing the vote count as if nobody knows what was actually happening. No more Santorums, no more Huckabees. No more long shots, period.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2861639/posts?page=96#96
More likely they'll just call you and Santorum names.
You left out Mass Murders of the Innocent. Yes it has been a battle and we continue to Stand with Newt.
If Santorum wins the nomination our hands are clean his supporters were warned.
You left out Mass Murders of the Innocent. Yes it has been a battle and we continue to Stand with Newt.
If Santorum wins the nomination our hands are clean his supporters were warned.
Rick’s conduct is just not presidential. I say that in view of this incident, and also of yesterday’s eager pandering to the leftists over the Trayvon/Zimmermann issue.
I smell toast.
Presidential-wannabe Santorum lacks the intellectual agility to meaningfully and powerfully stand up to the press so he resorts to foul language like a teenager in a temper tantrum. He has the thinnest skin of any GOP candidate running.
Will the "sainted" senator's supporters praise him? Undoubtably.
Amen.
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