Can't you all hear Jim saying those very words?
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Posted on 04/12/2012 5:47:42 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
If and when Barack Obama wins another four years in the White House, one of the first people he should invite over is Rick Santorum.
That's because when the scholars chronicle the history of his 2012 race, it will be Mr. Santorum who will get credit for handing the victory to the Democrats. And if you don't believe it, just ask Mitt Romney.
Without his buddy Santorum in the contest, Mr. Romney could have taken a more moderate path to the nomination and would not have been dragged so far to the right in order to compete for the ultra-conservatives who didn't much cotton to Mr. Romney and were more comfy with the former Pennsylvania Senator.
The contrast between these two guys on the stump has also helped the president.
Mr. Santorum had a more down-to-earth style that his opponent desperately tried to immolate but just couldn't pull it off.
(Excerpt) Read more at mlive.com ...
I agree.
The best we’ll get out of Romney is a negotiated surrender.
Agree with that too....
You want to win the war then you better find a means of getting rid of Romney.
Wish we could, but it looks like we're f**ked.
2013 = obama or Romney.......What sucks the less, a commie or a RINO?
As much as I'll vomit, I gotta suck down a RINO again.
Let's work on Congress....FWIW.
If Romney loses it will be for the same reason Dole and McCain lost - the GOP'S penchant for nominating crappy candidates.
Not to worry, Newt is in it to the convention, and he assures us he’s going to get the nomination.
No, sorry.
Here on FR we will ride our ideological purity train straight into four more years of Obama.
The charred remains of the United States will greet you in 2016.
Always? The only time Santorum was consistently beating Romney against Obama was during his two week surge in mid February.
I don’t demand ideological purity, but I would like a Republican candidate who isn’t a flaming liberal.
Honestly I really have so little respect for you kneepad wearers that I feel like I should give you a napkin and walk away.
Romney Needs to Quit
The Primary was a trial,
One that has revealed,
Romney lacks the Fire in the Belly,
That thrills the crowds so frail.
On and on the Chuckle-Meister,
Repeats his scripted lines.
No soaring rhetoric, inspiring words
There is no sand for the line.
Enter Left, the Marxist orator,
With basketball in hand,
Romney dribbles as he walks,
To bow and shake his better’s hand - - - .
What stupid analysis.
That doesn't negate that what you posted was flat-out wrong.
The only Republican in the past 120+ years who has been able to oust a Democrat President was Ronald Reagan, and he didn’t do it by being a Romney-style moderate. He did it with bold colors, not pale pastels.
No serious person really believes that Mitt Romney will do anything to attempt the kind of reforms that we need. If anything, he’ll slow things down.
The big Republican victories of recent years — 1980, 1994, and 2010 — were achieved by running as unabashed conservatives. Candidates like Ford, Dole, and McCain lose — and that’s the kind of Republican that Romney is. Don’t believe it? Look around him — personnel is policy.
Let’s win this!
Seriously, ROTFLMAO.....giggle, snort and lol!
That poll was 9 days ago. A lot has changed since then.
Exactly right, and exactly the problem. Rick Santorum is a man of principle; Mitt Romney has no philosophical core. He'll change positions on a dime. He really is and Etch A Sketch. With Romney as the nominee, you have a man with no philosophical core as the opponent to a man with no moral core.
Exactly right, and exactly the problem. Rick Santorum is a man of principle; Mitt Romney has no philosophical core. He'll change positions on a dime. He really is and Etch A Sketch.
With Romney as the nominee, you have a man with no philosophical core as the opponent to a man with no moral core.
LOL, that's a pretty accurate description.
I would love to do whatever can be done to win it.
I like your thinking. Let’s work Pennsylvania hard.
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