You completely ignored my response to your point the first time you made it and simply restated your original point. We’ll go in an infinite loop if you keep doing that because you just force me to reiterate my response again in the hopes you won’t ignore it this time.
You are NOT using “my argument” in reference to Newt, you’re making up a completely different argument and trying to pin it on me erroneously. I am talking about Santorum’s POLICIES, not his CAMPAIGN ADS. In Santorum’s case, those groups are talking about HIS PROPOSED POLICIES AND LEGISLATION. In Newt’s case, they’re talking about A CAMPAIGN AD that proposes no policy or legislation whatsoever. That is a massive world of difference and manifestly NOT the “same criteria” as you try to say. I’m not here discussing campaign minutiae and rhetoric, I’m discussing the proposed policies these people will put in place as president.
Your trying to distinguish between the foundations and the “people who work for them” is LUDICROUS. Those people are going on record representing their organizations. They would be fired if they did that and states something the organization didn’t believe. They are spokespeople for those organizations and their views represent the views of those organizations.
You keep ignoring that the groups didn’t actually say anything about any Santorum policies, it’s just quotes from three people who work there.
And your original point did not suggest that “heat” was only bad if it was about “policy”.
And I guess I wonder how you know that Gingrich doesn’t believe what he is saying about Bain and making money; shouldn’t we presume that people tell the truth, or are we so cynical that we assume people make things up, and we are fine with it?