Posted on 01/05/2012 8:50:47 AM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Nice word play to allow for misinterpretation. Weak as opposed to strong? Or weak as opposed to large?
People are looking for a conservative who can beat Obama. They know none of the guys are perfect and many here have had problems with Gingrich and felt Santorum could not win so when he won Iowa, many felt maybe there was a chance. As for those who post all of Newts sins and the problems they have with him over and over, they think nobody has seen any of this before because some people are for Newt. The reality is..people are willing to overlook what they see if they have a candidate to beat Obama. Many felt Newt would take Obama on and although he has warts, he is not the anti-christ as some would have you believe.
Context needed.
Is he referring here to the Progressive movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, or to the present one using the same name?
If he was referring to the first one, I think most Americans would agree. The original Progressive Movement was a very diverse movement. Much of what it did we would today consider positive.
Other aspects of it were eugenic, proto-fascist and anti-constitutional.
IOW, mixed, like most things.
But I think it is difficult to argue that the Progressive movement did NOT change America for the better. Whether it would have done so, on a net basis, had it ever gained unchallenged power is an entirely different question. But it didn't gain such power, and so its primary function was to push the country in directions that were on a net basis positive.
To me that is an excuse. It may explain his slump in IA, but it doesn’t cover his decline nationally. The smartest man in the room should have known to stay on topic and keep hitting Obummer.
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You missed where Fox News who are in the tank for Romney and almost every ‘elite/establishment’ ‘conservative’ pundit in the country trashed him for the past 6 weeks.....
He should have responded to the smears earlier.
Santorum has gotten a free pass because he isn’t a threat to Romney nationally.
limited does sound a lot better than weak.. but compared to what centralized government does today, it is neither limited or weak..one thing it is responsible for are protecting the borders which it does nothing about....getting tired of hearing about what they are doing next...
Love Rick!
But he’s no fighter in the Big Leagues.
Show us a Santorum sound bite that’s received any media attention, attacking Obama....
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