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Santorum gambles on shifting away from economy amid signs of recovery
The Washington Post ^ | March 10, 2012 | Felicia Sonmez

Posted on 03/11/2012 10:56:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

One day after a new jobs report suggested that the country’s sluggish recovery may at last be getting off the ground, former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Saturday gave his strongest indication yet that he is pivoting away from economic issues and seeking to make inroads among voters on foreign policy and the issue of health care.

...“You hear now the media starting to say, oh well, looks like the economy is getting better,” Santorum told supporters Saturday night in Springfield, Mo., shortly after the Associated Press declared him the winner of the Kansas caucuses. “You know, the economy may be getting better and Republicans may lose their edge on that issue. Well, if that was the only issue in this race, that may or may not be the case, we don’t know.”

He added that “the point is that’s the point -- we don’t know what the big issue of the day is going to be when it comes to national security. It may be the dominant issue, national security with Iran on the precipice of getting a nuclear weapon, Israel feeling increasingly isolated by this administration.”

...“The issue may not be jobs and the economy,” he told the crowd. “It may be something more fundamentally important: Having someone who stood up for something called freedom.”

...“I may not have been a Wall Street private-equity-fund manager, but I served eight years on the Armed Services Committee,” Santorum said Saturday. “I led the charge identifying Iran’s nuclear program nine years ago, authored bills to put sanctions to stop it. We’re not electing a CEO. We’re electing a commander-in-chief, and there’s one person who has experience doing that.”.....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: economy; gopprimary; jobs; santorum2012
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To: Mariner
A stinking attorney/MBA who possesses absolutely NO ANALYTICAL SKILLS AT ALL. Somebody wasted a crap load of money on his education.
21 posted on 03/11/2012 12:06:14 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Romney and Santorum have already given away the economy as an issue.


22 posted on 03/11/2012 12:08:13 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Are you saying that being a Pro Wrestling lawyer does not qualify Rick to be President!? :)


23 posted on 03/11/2012 12:10:24 PM PDT by conservativejoy ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18)
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To: conservativejoy

HA!! Yeah, at a minimum that is what I am saying. :):)


24 posted on 03/11/2012 12:19:14 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: Cicero

You are absolutely right.


25 posted on 03/11/2012 12:22:29 PM PDT by Maryhere ("HE comes to rule the earth")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Santorum is so full of himself.......

“I led the charge identifying Iran’s nuclear program nine years ago, authored bills to put sanctions to stop it.”

Yea, sure, like he single handedly “authored” the Welfare Reform bill that Newt started in the house.

This guy scares me. He has the potential to be dangerous, if he ever gains the power of the Presidency.

26 posted on 03/11/2012 12:27:30 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
[...“I may not have been a Wall Street private-equity-fund manager, but I served eight years on the Armed Services Committee,” Santorum said Saturday. ]

And, especially important, He DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! LOL!

27 posted on 03/11/2012 12:30:28 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: editor-surveyor
Oh, you can bet the farm, the MSM is salivating like Pavlov's Dogs over even the remote possibility that Santo might win the nomination.
28 posted on 03/11/2012 12:33:38 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: unixfox

It is not only propaganda, it is vacuous morale support for doing the wrong thing, on top of which, the large Fed Reserve investment in the market artificialy sustain such morale support.

The whole thing is about to tank very badly on some idiots who should know better and warn people ahead instead of being caught like Bush II-McCain idiots right before last elections.

What a bunch of morons.


29 posted on 03/11/2012 12:34:45 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
;) And proudly worked with John "Crybaby" Boehner and Lindsey "Light Loafers" Graham to undermine Speaker Gingrich before becoming Bob Dole's lapdog.

Quite the judge of character, he is. /s

30 posted on 03/11/2012 12:35:03 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romney - Santorum: Twin Sons of Different Mothers...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Those of us who have acute memories from those times, are not well received by the Santo puppies here. Especially after we keep presenting them with actual facts, direct from the record. You outlined exactly, what happened. And don’t forget Trent (Can’t we all just get along?) Lott.


31 posted on 03/11/2012 12:40:26 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It will be interesting to see what happens on Tuesday. If Gingrich doesn't win both states, his southern strategy looks weaker. If Romney wins one, weaker still. If Gingrich wins neither, it's nonexistent.
32 posted on 03/11/2012 12:43:50 PM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: Guenevere
THe ComPost will lie about it.... ..and the anti-Santorum group at FR will use it to pile on more negative comments against him. Sad.

So true.

33 posted on 03/11/2012 12:44:32 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Guenevere
THe ComPost will lie about it.... ..and the anti-Santorum group at FR will use it to pile on more negative comments against him. Sad.

So true.

34 posted on 03/11/2012 12:45:43 PM PDT by Kenny
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... signs of recovery


35 posted on 03/11/2012 12:50:52 PM PDT by tomkat (FU.baraq)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

I was so into politics in the early to mid 90s.....then the establishment colluded with Democrats to destroy Newt, the very person that revived the conservative movement after Bush senior tried to drive a stake through the it’s heart. Many of those pseudo conservatives and establishment Republicans owed their careers to Newt. I was disgusted for a long time. I paid attention to the election in 2000, and to 911, but what really got me interested again was the Tea Party movement.


36 posted on 03/11/2012 12:52:40 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: trappedincanuckistan

Not me, there was NO WAY! I would let ALGORE gain the kind of power that Clinton had!


37 posted on 03/11/2012 12:56:23 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

I didn’t walk away, but I examined the landscape in the late 90s and basically gave up hope. Everyone (including Republicans) seemed to be jumping on the big government express.


38 posted on 03/11/2012 1:00:44 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Santorum gambles on shifting away from economy amid signs of recovery"

How to recognize a socialist big spender.


39 posted on 03/11/2012 1:17:49 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: rktman
Recovery my a$$. Bought gas or hamburger meat lately?

Zactly. The campagn ads can write themselves: When Obama took office the average gas price was this and is now that. When Obama took office the average price of a loaf of bread was this and is now that. When Obama took office the average unemployment number was this and is now that...Debt before and now...deficit before and now...housing values was this now that...

You get the picture. The big O can run from the numbers but all he wants.

40 posted on 03/11/2012 1:57:46 PM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Neo-communist equals Neo-fascist)
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