Santorum Suggests Obama Preferable to "Etch-A-Sketch" Romney.

latimes.com ^ | March 22, 2012 | Michael A. Memoli

[true believer forever]

Rick Santorum's latest attempt to use a Mitt Romney aide's "Etch-A-Sketch" remark against the Republican front-runner instead gave his rival a chance to fire back on Thursday, after Santorum seemed to say he'd rather see President Obama reelected than send Romney to the White House.

Speaking at an event in Texas, Santorum again made the case that Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom's comments Wednesday on CNN about a "reset" of the campaign if Romney clinched the nomination showed the former Massachusetts governor's efforts to appeal to conservatives were insincere.

"You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who's just going to be a little different than the person in there," Santorum told a crowd in San Antonio, according to NBC News. "If you're going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch-A-Sketch candidate of the future."

[eater-of-toast]

We aren’t going to get even a reasonably hip nominee in 2012—it’s come down to Santorum or Romney, both squares (and I say that as someone who prefers Gingrich and voted for him in the South Carolina primary, but let’s be realistic now). I’ll take Santorum as a conservative. Romney never.

If we want a hip conservative in 2016, better start promoting Dana Loesch for president.

[vigilo]

“If the GOP-e goes through and gives us Romney, they deserve to be on the ash heap of history, and a new political movement rises from the ashes, that would be better in the long-run.”

There IS a new political movement on the rise. It’s called FREEDOM, LIBERTY and LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. Ron Paul 2012. Why have conservatives become retarded in the last generation? When did we forget these principles? When did more government become a conservative principle?