Posted on 04/19/2012 11:47:55 AM PDT by jmstein7
He’s got my vote, and my wife’s and mom’s. Bob
Well you are one voter who can’t be duped - TOO many can be and have been. And they got offended if they were told.
If you think Santorum is a Conservative, in any manner other than his social views you are completely ill informed.
He has no qualms expanding government intrusion in everyones lives for those views, nor spending taxpayer money for graft and endorcements etc etc.
He may not be a communist, but he’s hardly a bastion of conservatism.
Smart Politics™ is what has brought us to the brink of collective hell.
Hahaha.. Rick isn’t going to win, and wasn’t going to win PA, that’s why he withdrew when he did. The writing was on the wall he was going to lose his home state, and that would finally and without question be the end of his political career.
It should have been over when the voters of PA sent him rightfully packing by a 17 point margin, but alas a whole lot of folks who haven’t had to deal with the guy directly in the rest of the country got duped into backing him to ensure a Romney nomination.
Santorum, is, was and ever will be nothing more than useful hack. Not politically intellegent or savvy enough to know when he’s being played the fool.
We can only hope that you have a real job that doesn’t involve dealing with people or expressing cogent thoughts.
Dissatisfaction that milquetoast Romney will be the nominee is one thing we all share.
But The inability to see that Newt is a major turn off to about 80% of the people who's votes matter, with questionable conservative credentials of his own (see couch/Pelosi. Also see trough feeding: Freedie Mac), that would lose 40 states if nominated, requires willful blindness.
Obviously, you don’t, ad hominem.
Even Sarah didn’t officially endorse Newt. Santorum has no obligation, nor does he owe Newt a darn thing. Newt did pen that article about how Santorum isn’t qualified. On that note, I would tell Newt to pound sand.
Newt isn’t a popular guy. He was out of this race a long time ago. He may pick up some Santorum votes in the coming weeks. But he is done and he knows it.
You expect Santorum to endorse Gingrich when Gingrich was trailing badly and refused to drop out and endorse Santorum?
Santorum owes Gingrich nothing!!!
And your core conviction and principles are warped if you think he does.
Are you kidding? Gingrich would make a bad President, even if FReepers are so enamoured of him. He’s the best running currently, which is not a hearty endorsement. He’s a good historian and debater but he doesn’t stick to conservatism in life or politics. He just likes a good fight.
Santorum is doing the only decent thing. Not endorsing Romney.
Not conservative? What do you call balancing the budget for 4 years in a row? You do recall that he won back the house leadership after 40 years in dem. control. And the list goes on. By the way don’t you think that we need a fighter as our next President? Go NEWT.
And, here, I thought you were gonna say something STUPID!!!
We know which type of candidates that Santorum endorses.
In 1996 he endorsed Arlen Specter for president, Specter was running to remove pro-life from the republican party platform, Santorum tells us that he himself was pro-abortion until he started putting together his run for Congress.
In 2008 of course, Santorum felt that Mitt Romney was the man who was superior to the pro-life, more conservative candidates.
Nah, there was enough ‘STUPID’ in his comments about Zimmerman for all of us.
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