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Mich. voters: Santorum connects better than Romney (It's not just Michigan)
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| 2/20/2012
| KATHY BARKS HOFFMAN, Associated Press
Posted on 02/20/2012 4:35:01 PM PST by tobyhill
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:35:04 PM PST
by
tobyhill
To: tobyhill
Pee Wee Herman connects better than Romney. Romney doesn’t connect. Never has...never will.
To: tobyhill
“Mich. voters: Santorum connects better than Romney (It’s not just Michigan)”
Perhaps because voters believe that Rick might actually believe what he says, something that’s been proven highly unreliable with Slick Mitt.
To: tobyhill
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:39:08 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
MICHIGAN PING LIST
Please freepmail me if you wish to be added or dropped from the mitten ping.
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:40:56 PM PST
by
grellis
(I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
To: ReformationFan
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:44:14 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: 21twelve; Absolutely Nobama; AFPhys; afraidfortherepublic; AmericanInTokyo; ...
Santorum for President Ping List.
FReepmail Antoninus to be added or removed.
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:56:57 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: tobyhill
"Santorum's growing connection with Michigan conservatives risks embarrassing Romney in his home state."
Go CONSERVATIVES!!!
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:57:30 PM PST
by
CainConservative
(Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
To: tobyhill
I wish Santorum would ditch this “revive manufacturing” nonsense.
It makes him look like he doesn’t understand free markets, free trade, and limited government.
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:57:41 PM PST
by
rogue yam
To: cripplecreek
It sounds like Milt is severely a fan of MI. What a toad.
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posted on
02/20/2012 4:59:28 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: rogue yam
Santorum pledged Monday that, under his administration of less government and more individual freedom, "manufacturing jobs will come back here to Muskegon."
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:00:33 PM PST
by
CainConservative
(Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
To: RoosterRedux
Pee Wee Herman connects better than Romney Mitt. Romney Mitt doesnt connect. Never has...never will.I fixed that. George could connect with people. Mitt isn't his father by a long shot.
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:02:14 PM PST
by
magslinger
(Who cares if they are"electable" if they are going to govern like Democrats? -noprogs)
To: tobyhill
I’m looking at a 150’ tall Doug Fir that is obviously too tall!
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:02:22 PM PST
by
bray
(More Batting Practice for the Bambino)
To: CainConservative
Santorum’s oft-repeated proposal to tax “manufacturers” at one rate and other businesses at another does not constitute “less government and more individual freedom”.
To: rogue yam
I wish Santorum would ditch this revive manufacturing nonsense.
I disagree. Every election cycle we craft a message that leaves the folks in the rust belt without anything to interest them. It always focuses on nebulous concepts of Free Markets that don't resonate well with this segment. We are basically ceding these voters to the Rats who sell them on Big Gov't hand outs. This Manufacturing message is why he is starting to interest old Reagan Dems and some Union people who care about this. When it boils down to it, he is just lowering the taxes on this sector more than he lowers the rest. Not really a terrible sin. Ideally, I would love to see him zero all taxes on business for a couple years, but this is a good start.
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:10:38 PM PST
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: magslinger
VEry interesting! Could you expand on that?
To: rogue yam
“I wish Santorum would ditch this ‘revive manufacturing’ nonsense.”
I think that’s a key part of Santorum’s electoral appeal. Jefferson wrote of the unique American Agrarian Ideal: “Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God... etc”
There could also be an “industrial heart” of America that is a bit withered. I don’t want to get deep into how much economic sense it makes to incentivize manufacturing specifically, other that to say that it probably wouldn’t effect overall economics that much, and that there are natl security reasons for maintaining manufacturing proficiency, but the main thing is that it fits into the election meme that Santorum is on the side of the working man. So this will help your avg Joes, and Joe the Plumbers, rationalize, so to speak, votes for the republican, this time.
So I say all the more power to Santorum on this. And maybe it’s real. Maybe he really could revive manufacturing, and help the working man, and industrial (swing) states.
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:19:14 PM PST
by
Hokestuk
To: Lazlo in PA
Every election cycle we craft a message that leaves the folks in the rust belt without anything to interest them.
John McCain is a perfect example. He came to Michigan and said those jobs are gone and you folks are screwed. Vote for me. LOL
From where I sit, it appears that a lot of FReepers don't recognize what an active political fault zone the midwest has become. The 2010 GOP wave was greater in Michigan than anywhere else in the nation and few seemed to notice. Like it or not, the election will be decided in the midwest.
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:19:33 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: Lazlo in PA
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:19:39 PM PST
by
CainConservative
(Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
To: Hokestuk
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posted on
02/20/2012 5:20:57 PM PST
by
CainConservative
(Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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