Posted on 02/07/2012 9:46:14 AM PST by mitchell001
You mean figuratively, not literally.
Santorum’s opposition to the National Right to Work Act won him no friends among real conservatives either. He now says he favors such a law. Where have we heard that song before...?
If you don’t think Newt will be demonized as a right-wing blood guzzler, than you need to wake up. He was always painted that way, except, ironically, he was far from it. I only wish Newt were half the right-wing whacko that the media portrayed him as.
That’s Foster Friess
I have to wonder, is Sheldon Adelson a “sugar daddy” too?
Rick Santorum is a stalking horse for Rick Santorum.
My daughter, who lives in PA, has told me the same thing. She says he is held in contempt there.
Believe me, I'll vote for him over Romney, but he was NEVER my first choice. So, in your opinion, why is Mark Levin, who I admire greatly, such a fan?
50 Things You May Not Know About Rick Santorum PDF
What a Big Government Conservative Looks Like - voting record
Not sure but Sheldon mentioned that if Gingrich steps out of race, Sheldon would most likely back Romney.
Personally, I think half the people who voted for Jr thought he was his dad...
Richard Nixon was also routed in his bid to become governor of California. Six years later, he was taking the oath of office as president. It’s been six years since Santorum was routed in his Senate race...
Santorum can’t beat an old lady across the street. He’s a loser. Newt is in 2nd place.
I think Santorum will do fine. He has self control.
Seems to be what Republicans do.... I have no idea why.
LOL I don’t know why but that made me laugh and I needed a laugh...thanks.
Excellent synopsis, Cicero. Thank you.
Not that Santorum is my favorite candidate, but I wish people who criticize Santorum for this would use their brain instead of simply reading a bumper sticker / headline / soundbite.
You miss my point. I am looking at Santorum to be a tool in mucking up the works for Romney’s coronation. THAT is ALL!!!
Newt, at this point, does not look to be able to overtake Romney. But he may be able to take the South, Rick to take the mid-west and Romney the purple states, thus leading to a brokered convention. An “operation chaos” of sorts if you will.
In being Santorum's #1 target that year, I suspect if there was any thing even remotely suspect in Rick's background, it would have hit the front pages then. Similarly, Rick (and by extension his family) has for well over a decade, been the target of both the pink swastika homo agenda and the pro-death crowds. Rick has withstood their attacks and stood fast.
To say he's not been vetted or is untested is simply false.
Thanks for your inciteful vanity telling us things nobody had ever heard before, as most of us dolts think Rick is still the Senator from Pennsylvania, and nobody has ever before posted here that he lost his race by 17 points.
Newt Gingrich btw has never ever in his life won a statewide general election in any state in the union, red purple or blue. He didn’t lose his congressional seat of course, because he resigned and didn’t run again.
Rick’s loss was not a surprise, although at the time I thought the margin of his loss was a shock. He was destined to lose because conservatives abandoned him to punish him for endorsing Specter in the 2004 primary over Toomey, and in a year when the democrats were hell-bent on winning and put up a liberal-leaning populist with a social conservative streak, there were no “independent” votes for Santorum to grab to make up for conservative apathy.
People might think, well Pa was conservative, it had republican senators... but one of those was Arlen Specter, and before Santorum their other senator was a Democrat, Harris Wofford, and before that the republican was John Heinz. Toomey won of course in 2010, but that was a wave year for republicans.
On the presidential level, their popular vote has gone Democratic in the last 6 elections, including John Kerry in 2004 and Obama in 2008. Obama won by double digits, in the same range as Casey won over Santorum, against a more moderate republican than Santorum.
But if you don’t want to vote for a candidate who lost an election in a purple state which often votes democrat, go right ahead. It’s a good reason to consider electability, so if your whole presidential vote is based on who you guess might be more electable, have at it. I’d rather vote for a candidate closer to my beliefs, and who I think is more likely to govern conservatively. (I do however want to vote for an ELECTABLE conservative — I just don’t see how you judge that between a guy who resigned in 1998 and hasn’t run for office since, and never for a state office, and a guy who got elected in a purple state twice before being beaten in a democratic wave year when conservatives were sitting out the election).
As hard as it was to take Santorum’s loss, it was nothing compared to watching George Allen lose to Jim Webb here in Virginia.
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