To: AmericanInTokyo
Another irony is these people (they must be very young, or just new to politics), who attempt--poorly at that, to mock Senator Santorum for the crossover Democrat strategy. That's right, a Republican Conservative challenging a Moderate RINO centrist on his HOME GROUND in the state of Michigan, by appealing to crossover conservative Democrats with a marketing campaign.
It's either precisely what you have described it as being, or you have folks so angry with Santorum, that they would call him unfit to be president if he sat down to take a wee wee.
We have some folks on this forum right now that have convinced themselves that Santorum is the worst candidate, Romney ain't so bad, and it's everyone's fault but Newt that his numbers are as low as his sordid record has garnered him.
JUST LIKE GOVERNOR RONALD REAGAN DID TO JERRY FORD IN 1976.
Hey, that's a great point, but the more popular point is that doesn't cast a disparaging light on Santorum, so that means it can't be important.
They become realllll silent when you tell them those facts of history, which they probably are hearing for the very first time.
For some of them, you're probably right. We've got a herd mentality around here right now though, and rational interpretations of historical facts aren't selling too well.
177 posted on
02/29/2012 1:13:43 AM PST by
DoughtyOne
(Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
To: DoughtyOne
I'm with you, D.O.
And the absolute "bloody" (as the Brits would say) IRONY of the whole thing about "herd mentality" is that it is patently and necessarily a polar opposite, an anathema toward Conservative Thinking, which is based on logic, individualism, independently drawing one's own conclusions, and not accepting dictats for finding one's own way on such decisive matters. I have yet to figure it out. It is very puzzling and an odd phenomenon indeed. Go figure, as they say.
179 posted on
02/29/2012 1:32:24 AM PST by
AmericanInTokyo
(I liked the FREE REPUBLIC of years on end which NEVER had a problem with Rick Santorum, Conservative)
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