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Palin says Santorum is not a ‘threat’ to Romney
The Blaze ^ | 2-11-12 | Santerelli

Posted on 02/12/2012 2:35:54 PM PST by VinL

Former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin stole the show at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference where she delivered the event’s keynote speech Saturday. After slamming the President, shutting up some protesters, and saying that the drawn out Republican primary promotes competition and a better nominee, the former Alaska governor took a few questions as she headed for the door following the rousing remarks. When asked by Anneke Green of the Washington Times if she thought a surging Sen. Santorum was a threat to front-runner Mitt Romney; “Palin answered that she wouldn‘t consider him a threat but was still ’a good competitor.’”

Green writes that Palin praised the remaining Republican presidential candidates’ willingness to compete and appreciated their efforts as “warriors in the arena.”

While still not offering up an endorsement, Palin has spoken fondly about former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who she said she would have voted for in the South Carolina Republican primary.

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To: VinL

He is no star. Sorry.

Fonz, was cool, Newt is another pudgy gray haired old man like McCain.

He won’t fly.


41 posted on 02/12/2012 4:01:14 PM PST by dforest
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To: livius

Rick may be good about social issues but he hasn’t a clue about economics. You can’t have a president who doesn’t understand economics at a time of high recession. If you want four more years of joblessness and misery, by all means elect Rick Santorum.

Rick Santorum has a long history of protectionism and coddling union thugs, including getting the steel tariffs through (which harmed the US economy but made life gravy for Leo Gerard, the Canadian communist who heads the United Steel Workers Union and is a top advisor to Obama). Santorum opposed Pat Toomey in favor of Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Senator who provided that 60th vote for Obamacare. Most of all, Santorum voted against NAFTA - a dumb move if there ever was one, given that trade has expanded to ten times its pre-NAFTA level. He also voted against national Right to Work leislation, which right now enjoys over 70% support among Republicans in Minnesota who are scheduled to vote on a State Constitutional ammendment on that issue.

Rick Santorum also proposes centrally planned industrial policy that is government statism. All it will amount to is more crony capitalism. Santorum is a big government and big labor guy.

I don’t see how he can claim to be a TEA party candidate.


42 posted on 02/12/2012 4:02:57 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: VinL
Ricky "SOPA" Santorum the collectivist big government nanny-statist.
"This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone." [source]

"What was my vision? I came to the uncomfortable realization that conservatives were not only reluctant to spend government dollars on the poor, they hadn’t even thought much about what might work better. I often describe my conservative colleagues during this time as simply ‘cheap liberals.’ My own economically modest personal background and my faith had taught me to care for those who are less fortunate, but I too had not yet given much thought to the proper role of government in this mission." –Rick Santorum, p. IX It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (2005)

"I suspect some will dismiss my ideas as just an extended version of ‘compassionate conservatism.’ Some will reject what I have said as a kind of ‘Big Government Conservatism.’ Some will say that what I’ve tried to argue isn’t conservatism at all. But I believe what I’ve been presenting is the genuine conservatism our Founders envisioned. One that fosters the opportunity for all Americans to live as we are called to live, in selfless families that contribute to the general welfare, the common good." –Rick Santorum, p. 421 It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (2005)

"If you're a conservative, there really is only one place to go right now. I would even argue farther than that. If you're a Republican, if you're a Republican in the broadest sense, there is only one place to go right now and that's Mitt Romney." –Rick Santorum, 02/1/2008 [source]
Check out his brochure, 50 Things You Didn't Know About Rick Santorum, where he proudly defends food stamps, increasing minimum wage, stem cell harvesting, college tuition subsidies, bloated school funding, working with Bono to fight world poverty, etc.

Also see his disturbing voting record for more doozies.
43 posted on 02/12/2012 4:03:45 PM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: CAluvdubya

If you see how Santorum positioned himself in his 2006 race, you might not even do that......


44 posted on 02/12/2012 4:04:36 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Yorlik803

I have to agree with this. Palin isn’t involving herself in any of the dirty bloody work of campaigning. I disliked how she stated in the end that we have to “get behind the nominee”. Meanwhile, she only straddles the line and never commits to any particular candidate. If anything, she depresses the process by continually telling us that things should be prolonged and there are hints here and there of a certain moral equivalency amongst the candidates.

I think she secretly supports Newt, and maybe she’ll come out wit ha surprise endorsement at some point. However, I can’t really know her motivations or what she’s doing. All I see from her is half-answers, spectacular rhetoric, but no real commitments. She’s not putting herself on the line for anybody and is playing it safe.


45 posted on 02/12/2012 4:04:57 PM PST by Apollo5600
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To: livius

But for money, Newt would be able to elevate this primary issue by issue, and still take it to Romney at the same time.

With the big money freezing Newt out, he is virtually on media blackout and silenced, for all practical purposes.


46 posted on 02/12/2012 4:06:21 PM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Romnomoney buys Santorum. Newt has become a CAUSE & Rick S, a tool.)
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To: trisham

where did you get that picture ? it’s great !


47 posted on 02/12/2012 4:07:07 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: trisham; RedMDer; The Cajun; JoeProBono; musicman
“A nightstick the size of a telephone pole and the muscle to wield it effortlessly.”


Annoy liberals, Faux, Romney & the GOP-E,
Vote for Newt & Support Free Republic!


48 posted on 02/12/2012 4:10:11 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Hmmmm, I had thought that at least I could vote for him as back up. Not sure I could do that if we end up with Mitt.

I'm so scared of what Obama will do unfettered for 4 more years, not having to worry about an election.

49 posted on 02/12/2012 4:10:26 PM PST by CAluvdubya (Newt or Rick.....either one works)
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To: Apollo5600

I think Palin is between a rock and a hard place. While her support for a particular candidate might be viewed as a positive here, the MSM would latch onto it and use it to tear down that candidate because they hate Palin so much and did everything they could to ruin her and make her look ridiculous. And unfortunately they projected such a wierd image of her that most of the US probably thinks she’s one step away from the mental ward...or maybe the circus.

I think she’s aware of that, and that’s the reason for her reticence. An endorsement could backfire, in other words.


50 posted on 02/12/2012 4:11:02 PM PST by livius
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To: trisham

Impressive pic and point.


51 posted on 02/12/2012 4:13:01 PM PST by no dems (Rick Santorum: The only viable alternative to Obama that we have left.)
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To: GoCards
Wow. There is some ugliness on this site lately.

I've been reading Free Republic for many years but just recently signed up. I get the feeling remarks are not welcome if they are anti-Gingrich. While I would vote for him, most conservative women I know would not. It's Jim's site and he calls the shots. But I really don't think Gingrich is going to be president.

52 posted on 02/12/2012 4:14:04 PM PST by Arkady Orinko ("Hell is other people" - Jean-Paul Sartre)
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To: SatinDoll

Then vote for Romney


53 posted on 02/12/2012 4:14:04 PM PST by bjcoop
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To: RitaOK

I agree...they really stopped reporting on the Gingrich campaign stops here in Florida when he started drawing thousands, while Romney and his “surrogates” were lucky if they could collect a couple of hundred somewhat tepid audience members.

But out of sight, out of mind. What Gingrich is really good at is articulating ideas (not to mention coming up with them in the first place), so if the media simply ignores him and people never get to hear his ideas, that’s all it takes.


54 posted on 02/12/2012 4:14:06 PM PST by livius
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To: Utmost Certainty

Santorum has said he was against SOPA. I guess you have fun spreading lies.


55 posted on 02/12/2012 4:15:04 PM PST by bjcoop
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To: Patton@Bastogne

It’s from newt.org


56 posted on 02/12/2012 4:16:06 PM PST by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: bjcoop

Romney is a liberal Democrat pretending to be Republican.

I will vote for the person who has promised to change Washington, D.C.


57 posted on 02/12/2012 4:16:28 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: VinL
Rick openly adopts the “Richie Cunningham” persona...

Here's a brief detour down the lighter side for this post. I was recently tracking down some YouTube music videos from my college days. I came across Billy J. Kramer's 1965 appearance on Top of the Pops with a Rick Santorum look (absent the vest, of course).

I also stumbled across Creeque Alley from that same era. I was struck by Denny Doherty who really had the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad look going way back then.

Now back to the more serial bidness of this thread...

58 posted on 02/12/2012 4:17:03 PM PST by re_nortex (DP...that's what I like about Texas.)
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To: cripplecreek
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Newt lost Florida ... "but" as a Florida resident ... "Florida is not the South" ...

The East Coast is like New Jersey, because the bulk of retirees are New Yawk based ...

Miami is ... well, Miami ...

The West Coast is more conservative (just barely) than the East Coast, because the bulk of retirees are Midwest based ...



Most Republicans who voted in Florida are "retired" ...

What's that mean ?

ABC-NBC-CBS-NPR-CNN run 24/7 on their "boob-tubes" ...

Even Rush Limbaugh said that Florida's results didn't matter because Willard ran 65,000 TV Ads to Newt's 200 ...



And Romney's "legendary" ground-game in Florida ?

I only saw "one" Romney bumper sticker in 8 weeks before the primary ... and my travels take me everywhere in the Tampa-St-Pete-Clearwater metroplex ...





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59 posted on 02/12/2012 4:18:47 PM PST by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: VinL

Yep. We don’t need a Ritchie Cunningham at this point.

What this country needs right now is someone who is going to have blood and entrails dripping off his desk from all the gutting of the socialist system that’s in place right now.

And I’m just talking about day one!


60 posted on 02/12/2012 4:20:42 PM PST by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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