Santorum is clearly showing “the real Rick”, which is a petty, egotistical, and unhinged man. At least Gingrich has the intellect behind his ego. Rick has...well, not a lot.
Being more conservative than the other guy is no excuse to act like a jerk.
The huge difference between Santorum’s tactics and Romney’s (which has been since Sarah Palin was selected as McCain’s running mate, to smear and attack every opponent) is that Santorum is willing to criticize directly, and not use puppets to do the heavy lifting.
How about you stop defending Romney.
If you support someone, then say who it is and explain why you believe that person deserves to win.
Thanks.
I am not for Santorum, but he is 100% correct in this...and unfortunately, no one has been able to make this argument stick throughout the process. Perry failed, Newt failed, and Santorum overall has failed to effective message this due to the overwhelming ad spends against each consecutive non-Romney.
The fact is, Mitt is a terrible candidate to run in 2012. He is easy to frame as the out of touch rich guy that doesn’t know what people are going through. His health care record mitigates our huge advantage on health care, and his political record in Massachusetts is not so different than Obama’s. As it stands, no one can beat him, so he’ll probably be the nominee, but his record opens up multiple opportunities for Obama to run to the left of or to the same position as our nominee, which is something he did against McCain with great success. The only thing better about Mitt is that he is stronger communicator than McCain...that’s not saying much, but it is an improvement over 2008.
“Unhinged” works for me when he pulls 49% in LA like he did on Saturday. Now if “unhinged” Rick can just win Wisconsin.