A Gingrich-Pelosi ticket for the lose?
Posted on 01/11/2014 10:13:11 AM PST by Drew68
Republicans “live in a bubble,” former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum told the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature Thursday, and are detached from the pop culture and concerns of the average Americans whose allegiance they need to prevail nationally.
“We live in a bubble. We don’t realize what’s going on,” said the once and perhaps future presidential candidate who is now head of a movie studio based in Flower Mound that produces Christian entertainment. “How many of you watch prime time network television? I suspect none of you.”
He told his audience, which will also be hearing Thursday from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, that they also tend assume everyone shares their drive. “Republicans by and large are Type A personalities who want to climb to the top of the ladder, ” said Santorum. But, “a lot of people want to be good simple folks, go to work, 9 to 5.”
The consequence: “No one’s talking to the job holder — not the job creator. We don’t want to talk to people who want to be with us.”
He said it is a failure of empathy that has led Republicans to spend too much time talking negatively — “cut this, cut that” — focused on facts and figures, pie charts and bar graphs, while Democrats talk more compellingly in stories and images that are the way most people receive information.
“Our programs are right, our message stinks,” said Santorum.
He said President Barack Obama is right to focus on growing income inequality, though he said the president’s policies have only accelerated the divide.
The nostrum, “a rising tide lifts all boats,” means little when “there are a lot more Americans with holes in their boats … when the tide rises they just sink deeper.”
Santorum said Obama prevailed even in a bad economy and FDR won a third term after presiding over 25 percent unemployment, not because their programs worked but because they communicated to people that they cared about.
Meanwhile, he said, Republicans “have to get 50 percent of the vote from people who don’t think you care about them.”
Santorum said the American revolutionaries prevailed against the odds, because they wanted it more, reciting the final words of the Declaration of Independence – “we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
In America today, he said, it is the left that wants it more.
“They have the fight, they have the passion. Why? Because they want the power.”
When people ask him, “what can I do?” Santorum says he replies, “Something.”
“Start fighting everywhere,” he said.
Rep. Ron Simmons, R-Carrollton, said he especially appreciated Santorum’s call for Republicans to broaden their audience beyond the usual crowd of business owners.
“I hope we take that to heart,” he said.
What's the point of having a Republican Party if it doesn't espouse those values that made the US great?
For once he makes sense to me.
Just to be fair, I have to confess that I don’t like him
Me too! He reminds me of that creepy emcee in “Little Miss Sunshine!”
My Dad told me years ago, “Never trust a man who wears a bow-tie.”
He said it is a failure of empathy that has led Republicans to spend too much time talking negatively — “cut this, cut that” — focused on facts and figures, pie charts and bar graphs, while Democrats talk more compellingly .... “Our programs are right, our message stinks,” said Santorum.
Wrong, Rick.
Democrats are the ones with the "programs." Vote Democrat if that's what you want. The Republican message stinks because it's also for programs, only "better" ones.
Rick, I remember back in the primaries, examples of your priorities. You always voted to raise the minimum wage, same as the Democrats. You were so right in wanting to defund Planned Parenthood (or whatever that "program" is called) because it enables abortion, but instead of shutting it down so taxpayers keep more of their money, you wanted to use the money instead for "programs" advocating adoption. Other than the most minimal ways, the government has no more business in the adoption business as it does in the Planned Parenthood business. You, Rick, are a Republican.
We need a second party. We need a party whose message is "This party is for getting rid of government programs and plans as much as possible and relieving free people from the burden of a "moral, compassionate" tyrannical government. Both Reps and Dems are working toward a government that increasingly intruding on your freedoms in every way. The Second Party is the one that stands for moving it in the other direction."
The scenario advocated by both Republicans and Democrats envisions an America where government, through the iron hand of "insurance," rules your medical decisions and choices. Via civil rights law, it punishes you if you move against homosexuals in your kids' Scout groups or if you are a baker and refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple. It forces you to subsidize sloth and amorality in its "compassionate" EBT and other welfare schemes, and refuses the very reasonable request that a citizen on any charitable government support thereby automatically forfeits the right to vote.
Vote Democrat and get it, vote Republican and get it.
Same party principle. People want to vote for its opposite, and those people include Democrats. So America is very much in need of a 2nd party.
Coincidentally, matching with the one issue that probably unites more Americans regardless of political party or spectrum, than any other: the 2nd Amendment. You never know the politics of a pro-gun person until you ask, and a lot of the times, they're not conservative -- but they are very pro gun.
As has been said before by many fine FReepers: We need a 2nd Party.
People who want to keep the money in their own pockets already vote Republican and there may not be enough of us to win the election.
I'm not saying that's true, but it may be what Santorum was thinking.
Ping to my post 85. :^)
This suggests that government needs to fix them holes. I suggest instead that we need to fix government’s wagon. Then the people can fix their own damn boats.
AMEN!!!!!!
Pure gold.
Ask and you shall receive.
Remember the GOP isn't entitled to YOUR vote.
Make them earn it!
If they Run and Govern like Democrats and then demand your support otherwise the Democrat will win, than we are just being led into a Dog and Pony show aren't we?
Santorum is the very model of the Republican I now find transforming the Republican Party into the wrong party for me. Romney was the final eye-opener. If that guy, with his record, can even call himself a Republican, let alone run for President under that banner, then I'm in the wrong party.
:^)
Thank you, Lion!
You call Newt's space talk babble? So did the liberal media where you get your info from as the rest of non thinking, no discernment, low info voters do . NO OTHER candidate had anything to offer - they were all just useful props! That's where discernment came in which YOU LACK!! Any vote for an other candidate but Newt was a vote for the POS romney. If you were for Newt, you would have mentioned Bloodly Thursday...solely by anti conservative Romney. But some other prop 'flavor of the week' got you by then! Your recollection of how things went down is noted and exposed you. NEWT did NOT loose by himself but by fearful and idiot voters who didn't have a lick of sense but were led by the nose as they sniffed the butt of liberalism and felt 'safe' in it. They had no fight in them but cowardly 'obeyed' the liar and bowed at his altar of evil, patriots they are not!
aim your "deceived" posts at someone on another site
You are on this site and it was aimed at you - your squeal tells me I got a bullseye! And you say, Newt lost it by himself and was babbling....LOL!! and romney won the nomination. Tell us, hot shot, - what message of 'grandfather to obamacare' romney was not babble and how did he win the nomination? TELL US!! By romney and rick's (brain dead candidates) refusal to have a solo debate with brilliant Newt? Or was it because Romney was the first governor to produce the first state allowing homo's to marry? If Newt lost it by himself, as you say, then romney won it by himself! Do you see how you can't think yourself out of a paper bag by mimicking liberalism? Do you see how a 'non thinking' person you are with your response? Romney won the nomination SOLELY on FEAR. And he lost it by fear - fear of his opponent - he couldn't even bring up Benghazi - perhaps because his heart didn't give a flip about it or America. Romney has not done one thing for America. He won solely by those who do not do the right thing no matter what. He lost by those who DO the right thing ALL THE TIME, no matter what. The Romney ilk, and his rear guard santorum and butt smellers will live with the taint of what they did to America, the fearful &@$tards! And all romney's clueless pawns begging others to vote for him! Being forever tainted by the POS liberal romney must grate you that you trash Newt, like liar Romney did, so easily. Learn to live with it, embrace it for you own it! And so does liar Rick. They have you in their bubble and you retaliate as you don't want me to burst your bubble - that you've been had. Amazing that you STILL don't know that! You are ripe for a repeat.
A Gingrich-Pelosi ticket for the lose?
Newt did himself in, no one else. The so called Bloody Thursday would have been like water off a duck's back had he not gone silent in the debates, and had he not gone off in to psycho babble outside the debates.
The reason Romney won was because we had no good conservative candidate, yes, Newt was the best left, I supported him like most everyone else here, but he blew it for himself all by himself.
Go cry me a river, and spare me the nonsense you're spouting.
I suppose you're going to tell us Newt really didn't do that, it was a media conspiracy telling us he sat on that couch........
In 2007 he said: “I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good,” he said. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.”
Newt-Pelosi "we can solve it" (global warming)
Youtube Video of the TV ad
Sure, he says now that there is no global warming, but can we trust him any more than "severely conservative" Romney?
see #97
Newt was the best hope for conservatives in the election because of his experience in Washington but a lot of FReepers discounted him because he sat on a couch with Pelosi. Stupid. BTW none other than Jim Rob agreed.
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