would be better than a Romney presidency."
(...ummm..OK Rick..help us out here...
..which one of these two quotes
are you gonna "run with" NOW???)
Posted on 03/22/2012 6:25:11 PM PDT by Nachum
Rick Santorum suggested Thursday that re-electing President Barack Obama would be better than electing Republican rival Mitt Romney, a statement that is arguably his toughest criticism of Romney to date.
"You win by giving people a choice. You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who's just going to be a little different than the person in there," Santorum told supporters in San Antonio. "If you're going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future."
Santorum was referring to Romney, whose campaign strategist said recently that they would be able to "reset" the campaign when they transition to the general election "like an Etch A Sketch."
[Related: Romney memo calls Santorum Obama's 'most valuable player']
The Santorum camp later clarified the candidate's remark, saying he didn't mean to insinuate that voters would be better off re-electing Obama than choosing Romney.
"What he was talking about was that they're just so similar. You've got to have differences to motivate people to vote," Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley told Yahoo News. "If there's virtually no difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, chances are they won't go out and vote."
Romney responded in a statement released by his campaign, saying that "any of the Republicans" would be better than Obama.
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"Laugh about it, shout about it when you've got to choose Every way you look at it you lose"
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
for later
I have been saying this for the last 6 months.
Romney would be even worse than Obama, because he wouldn’t have the Republicans fighting tooth and nail to stop him.
If we are going down, I would rather a Democrat be at the helm than a RINO like Romney.
Santorum is right.
Romney in the Whitehouse would damage the GOP brand by memorializing it as the GOP-E brand.
Without Newt or Santorum in the WH, conservatives will do better to control the Senate and House with strong TP influence.
I think Republicans in Congress would fall on their swords for Romney and then get trounced in the mid term. The country would get dragged further to the left.
They’re not exactly stopping obama either. I doubt Romney would dare to try and pull the crap obama has.
Santorum’s lost his mind. As flawed a candidate Romney is, the precious “gop brand” will be the least of our concerns after four more years of Obama.
"Laugh about it, shout about it when you've got to choose Every way you look at it you lose"
I believe the next line was "Kook, Kook, Kachook!"
Perhaps Simon & Garfunkle were prophets (not necessarily those type of prophets who wrote on the subway walls!) I wonder who the Kooks they were talking about were? Kook1 = Ron Paul? Kook2 = Rick Santorum? Kachook = Romney?
Now that's a really good reason to vote mittens. /sarc
Romney is flawed, but, everyone EXCEPT FOR DOGS, would be safer under Romney!
Romney is flawed, but, everyone EXCEPT FOR DOGS, would be safer under Romney!
Romney is flawed, but, everyone EXCEPT FOR DOGS, would be safer under Romney!
Senile Santorum ?
"Any one of us would be better then Obama. But, here is why I would be best..."
I wish Santorum had not gone there.
I fear president Obama selecting a couple more Supremes.
Would be tragic!
I don't love Romney either, but at least with a republican congress we have a better shot of getting things turned around than with Obummer.
Your conclusion is hysterical. Should a brokered convention not take place, Romney will likely be the nominee who will not have the support of the conservative base and will lose to Obama in the election.
Should Obama be elected, he will be able to do nothing with a GOP Congress after 2012. His malfeasance or obstructiveness will bring about even greater majorities in 2014.
On the other hand should Romney be elected (longshot of a longshot), he will use his ‘R’ to weaken and remove conservatives.
Santorum is right. With Obama in the WH he will be a lightning rod to consolidate and grow the TP conservatives.
Romney will not repeal Obamacare. And Romney will strengthen the RINO wing of the GOP.
Conservatives are not going to get behind Romney and guess what? Conservatives will still be around in 2014 to get in the face of Obama or Republican-in-Name-Only RINO Romney.
We have two enemies, the camp of Obama and the camp of the RINOs. We are capable of fighting and defeating both and we will.
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