Santorum for President [plus ping list]

December 27, 2011 | Antoninus

[Theodore R.]

Please add me to the Santorum ping list. Thanks for establishing this; it is needed with so few days left before IA.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Please add me to your ping list. Thank you.

[Lazlo in PA]

Thanks for the ping. This is very exciting to have a Santorum list.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Please add me to the list. Speaking for myself I would hope that Bachmann would drop out and be his VP and a Santorum/Bachmann ticket could coalesce conservative support and gain momentum.

[Springman]

Please add me to your ping list. Don’t know if Santorum will still be running when the Michigan primary rolls around in the end of Feb. If he is I was planning on voting for him.

[MSSC6644]

Please add me to the ping list. Thanks.

[MaryLou1]

Please add me to the list too!

[Brian Kopp DPM]

There’s no difference between Obama and Romney.

If Romney is the GOP candidate, I’ll vote third party. Because the conservative base will NOT turn out for Romney.

[Antoninus]

There’s no difference between Obama and Romney. If Romney is the GOP candidate, I’ll vote third party. Because the conservative base will NOT turn out for Romney.

Me too. The GOP bigwigs are underestimating the size of the backlash against liberal Mitt. If they force him on us, they need to have their toys taken away from them and be put in time-out.

[Antoninus]

Thanks, everyone. The ping list went from 1 to 27 after the first thread. I’d say there’s some interest in Santorum on FR.

[PGalt]

I like Rick. Please add me to your ping list. Thanks.

[Mike Darancette]

I don’t think he has much chance at the nomination, but if nominated he is a clean slate that could be packaged well given a real good team.

[Mike Darancette]

Rick's a good guy, but the biggest albatross around his neck is that he couldn't even crack 40% in his 2006 reelection bid against who is arguably the dumbest male member of the U.S. Senate.

Rick has lost fewer elections than Richard Nixon had lost.

[af_vet_rr]

Executive experience?????????????

Obama now has three years of "executive experience".

Does that mean Obama would be a better President than Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, etc.?

Plenty of former Presidents didn't have much, if any, executive experience, and Obama has "executive experience" now. Santorum has problems, but trying to rule him out based on that is ridiculous.

[af_vet_rr]

The one loss came in a Dem. year to the son of a political legend in the state. Two of the wins were against Dem. incumbents. All of the wins came in a blue state.

If Al Gore had won his own state, he'd be President and Florida wouldn't have mattered. This is a big problem I have with Santorum. PA has plenty of electoral votes.

[Golden Gate]

Golden Gate; 

1. Antoninus - Very Nice Post! Good Job, and Ping me Up!

2. Everyone, take a minute and stop by and See Leroy! - (#7)

[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Plenty of former Presidents didn’t have much, if any, executive experience, and Obama has “executive experience” now. Santorum has problems, but trying to rule him out based on that is ridiculous. “

... which is why you have one vote and I have one vote.

There is a difference between winning and governing. I would accept Rick over many other Republicans running and of course over Zero. Is he prepared? I doubt it.

[EDINVA]

“...[Santorun] is capable of picking up the crucial female 29-49 demographic...”

How do you see that? My observation is that demographic is most “pro-choice.” I’d like to think you are right, but wonder what you base that comment on, is there any polling or studies to show that demographic would be open to voting for a staunchly pro-life candidate?

[Sun]

Please add me to the ping list.

Among other conservative issues, Santorum is passionately pro-life from conception to natural death, and walks the walk.

“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.

By visiting the brain-damaged Terri Schiavo in Florida last year, Santorum may have hurt himself with voters, but he also demonstrated that he’s willing to take political risks to promote a culture of life.
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http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/

His website is asking for as little as $10:

http://www.ricksantorum.com/