Posted on 03/27/2012 7:17:19 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
With his chances of gaining the GOP nomination slipping, Rick Santorum said on Monday that, if asked, he would consider an offer to be Mitt Romney’s running mate in the fall general election.
The former senator from Pennsylvania responded “of course,” when David Brody asked him the question during an interview for the Christian Broadcasting Network.
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I felt like throwing up too. Santorum’s recent slams against Romney followed by his wanting to be his VP do not show him in the best light.
He was asked, he answered. Santorum supporters are using Clintonian parsing to get him out of it claiming Romney’s name wasn’t used in the question when it was clear Romney was the top-of-the-ticket in the questions premise.
If Mittens gave the VP spot to Santorum, would Ron Paul come out and admit that a deal had been done between him and Mittens to have his son on the ticket and that Mittens broke it?
hmmmmm
Marco Rubio is pretty face and nothing else. He also claims to be Catholic, while attending protestant churchs.
“Marco Rubio is pretty face and nothing else. “
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Sure thing newbie.
Since youre being so dismissive of Rubio (who a lot of us happen to strongly support) tell us please what you disagree with about Rubio, and while you’re at it how about cluing readers in on who you DO support please.
Thanks.
I think Santorum just might have knocked himself out of the possibility OF a VP spot with this.
He should have barged ahead like a bull. Saying something like “VP, are you distracted or what - we’re going to win, ask Mitt if he wants a VP spot”.
He could have said any number of things. Mitt’s got ways to contact him, and Santorum’s got ways to tell Mitt things. Santorum can privately get a message to Mitt, no doubt. He gained nothing by telegraphing publicly this way.
Just look at the reaction here.
I agree with the poster who guessed Romney probably would not want Santorum as VP. He’d do infinitely better if he had the courage, and the brains, to select Palin.
99.99% of all the FReepers around proclaiming they’d (fill in the blank) before voting for Romney, would fold and probably go door to door for him, if he ran with Palin.
Including me.
Rubio would be nearly as powerful.
Santorum really doesn’t bring anything to the ticket. His chance is to defiantly try to WIN. Not look for a middle ground with the guy he’s supposed to be trying to beat.
The GOP is already full of compromisers.
Nobody likes that anymore.
Kick some booty. Stop looking for middle ground.
Rubio is too young and green in politics. Give him five more years and then talk seriously about him becoming a heartbeat away from the presidency. And what I said about him claiming to be Catholic but attending a protestant church is fact. So that means one thing. He is woefully ignorant of the Catholic faith or he does not take his faith seriously.
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