Santorum is great.....but, I don’t think he could stand up to a debate with OBAMA....plus, I think he is more polarizing than NEWT, believe it or not.
You nailed it.
By the the time ‘they’ finish with Santorum or Romney once the nomination is sewn up, the GOP standard-bearer will have negative 29.5 also.
Santorum has no chance of winning a national election.
He’ll be destroyed by the attack dogs of the left, painted as radical, and he doesn’t have the political ability or intellect to counteract it.
Santorum is a social conservative, but he’s not got any chance of winning a national election.
He won’t win PA, nor OH, no matter what he does.
Folks outside of PA have a far higher opinion of Santorum than those of us who had him as a Senator. He can’t win a national campaign and will be destroyed quickly.
I know there are those here who believe otherwise, but being from PA, and watching Santorums Senate career, and how easily he was manhandled by the left, and a phone in boring oponent, I can say without any reservation, this guy cannot win a national campaign.
I think this is true too. There were actually only 2 candidates last night that I thought showed the fire in the belly to win, and that was Newt and Perry. Reagan was by all intents and prognostications unelectable too.
Reagan had that same clarity of message as Newt. We need someone with that same ability to articulate and tie everything back to founding principles.
If Santorum was ever ahead of Romney in the polls, I missed it. Three weeks of unanswered negative ads in Iowa against Newt had a large impact on his results. Pointing to Iowa while ignoring this impact, is an intellectually deficient argument.
Bottom-line is it ain't over till the fat lady sings. It's too early for her to be even warming up. This process may have a long way to go. It's too early to count the most articulate conservative out.
I haven't heard anyone do such a good job since Ronald Reagan. Will the nominee be a bold, articulate, passionate candidate, or not? Will we sacrifice a clear message for perceived electability shaped by LSM?
This is a center right country. There is more of us than there are of them. The clear message works every time - an uncomfortable fact that the Rockefeller wing of GOP doesn't like to acknowledge.
You've bought the media hype that the Teleprompter-in-Chief is somehow a brilliant, mesmerizing speaker. Americans quickly discovered that wasn't the case when Obama had to make his own statements and couldn't rely on a pre-written script to help him. It's fairly easy to debate Obama, even Bobby Rush and John McCain held their own and came off well. Pretty much any Republican candidate besides Perry will do fine.