Posted on 11/28/2011 7:50:38 AM PST by lakeprincess
Some have not forgotten the catalyst of the tea party movement on Feb. 9, 2009, when CNBC analyst Rick Santelli went ballistic on camera over the state of homeownership and the economy, accusing the government of “promoting bad behavior,” and raising the notion a “Chicago tea party.”
Just launched on the political landscape: the Draft Rick Santelli for President 2012 Campaign for a “straight-shooting, non-politician.”
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He sounds fine to me.
Fine with me. The more the merrier, I guess. I would vote for him easily if he somehow got the nomination.
Anybody but mittens!
I think Santelli is great. I was even one of the 9 or 10 people who actually saw the CNBC tea party rant as it happened.
Having said that, this kind of sophmoric yearning is just more “love for the second string quarterback.” Always happens, and then when the second stringer gets in the game and has to face the blitz and the changing coverages, etc, reality sets in.
I’d happily buy a bumpersticker and a ballcap with “SANTELLI 2012” on it...great conversation peices..
He’d make a fine VP for Ann Barnhardt
More celebrity nuttiness. He serves a purpose where he is and what he does there is all we know of him.
His response was "I do not want to work in a job that you need to take 4 showers a day, politics is a dirty job!"
“Politics” is for people who can’t make it in the real world.
Rick doesn’t have that problem.
I’m changing my tagline to......
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