Posted on 04/10/2012 11:05:34 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Fox Confirms: Rick Santorum to suspend Presidential Campaign. Will post link and source when it hits Fox News Website.
I agree, DoughtyOne. The worst Republican primary in my lifetime also. I cannot believe we could not come up with a viable candidate.
Thank you for your post. I only gave a few half-days of volunteering. Not that it mattered since Romney was blasting negative ads at a 20-1 ratio in Chicago.
It was almost so sad it was funny. When I would reach a Romney supported by telephone, about half said they would not vote for Santorum because he was too conservative (and some would add too conservative means he couldn’t beat Obama) and the other half said they wouldn’t vote for Santorum because Santorum was too liberal (usually on fiscal issues).
I would try to ask them how Romney care is fiscally conservative (or conservative in any way). Santorum is not perfect (I think no one is perfect, so I would disagree with you here as I think Perry has problems too, although Perry is far better than Romney too), but people are going to vote for a real flaming liberal just because Santorum is not 100% conservative.
It was no use. Even if I could convince people (and most I could not as their minds were made up) there are millions of liberals in Illinois.
But you can see how money works in politics. Romney’s two messages completely contradicted themselves (Santorum is too conservative; Santorum is too liberal), and a majority of voters fell for it. The fix is in. The big moneyed Wall Street hedge fund guys went for Romney, the GOP establishment went for Romney, and the voters (or the majority of them) did what they were told by the elite.
Now I will have to see if Romney tacks even farther left and who he picks for VP. If he moves left and picks a liberal for Vice President I will have to sit this election out (for President anyway). If not, I may vote for him while holding my nose. Urgh, not looking forward to that, but definitely not looking forward to Obama getting re-elected either.
I don’t know. Dole/Kemp was pretty lethargic. That was my second presidential and third muni race. This is pretty close though!
He exited the race at least partially because of his sick daughter. You suggested he is leaving the race so he can ask Romney “what’s in it for me”?
That is why your post was insensitive.
He entered the race with a sick daughter. His daughter has nothing to do with politics and to use her as a political pawn to me is insensitive.
Santorum gave a wonderful upbeat speech. He is a great guy. He promised to continue to fight to defeat BO. We all have to do that. Swallow disappointment and back our GOP candidate to defeat the disaster in the White House.
Thanks for your work in Florida, where Gingrich was the main Romney challenger.
I agree that the Supreme Court is overlooked by many and appointing justices probably is the single most important power a President has. After all, repealing all of Obamacare via Congress will be very hard because we will need 60 votes in the Senate to stop a filibuster (we only have 47 now, and we will not pick up 13 seats even in the best of circumstances this November). However, the Supreme Court may uphold the constitution and get rid of Obamacare, and is our best hope.
Unfortunately Romney has a history of appointing liberals, and pro-choicers while governor, including after his pro-life conversion. If Romney does not go even further left as his adviser’s Etch-a-sketch comments suggests, and if he picks someone fairly conservative for VP, then I will probably vote for him, but if not I will not vote for someone who could give us the next David Souter (or the numberous other GOP liberal Supreme Court picks).
And then accept the VP nod.
What is your problem?? This is the last time I will respond to you. His daughter was not in the hospital when he entered the race!!
He is not using her as a pawn either. He suspended his campaign months earlier when she was sick back in January or February. If he wanted to use her as a pawn he would not have suspended his campaign but rather put her picture on all his campaign material and advertisements.
Oh, I am sorry about your niece.
Santorum walks the walk on his pro-life convictions (as does Sarah Palin who did not abort Trigg with Down Syndrome as 92% of Americans do nowadays).
TrueDat but on the other hand Dole was a statesman and was well respected by his peers. One cannot say the same for Newt or Mitt.
It was said last week if Santorum might lose PA, he would drop out to spare him the humiliation and protect his place in line for the next contested GOP nominating cycle.
I'd like to believe this had more to do with Bela than his political aspirations.
I didn't say HE was. Never even thought about the possibility that a dad would use his sick daughter as a political pawn. You mean... I should start???
I agree with you on all points
Yes, it’s sad isn’t it.
It is, Doughty. And at this point, pitiful.
I don’t think Santorum had any fear of losing Pennsylvania. He could count and likely realized it was numerically impossible to catch Romney at the end of the process. Given how much he is needed by his family at the moment, he had to weigh the personal disappointment of giving up before he could compete in his home state vs. the toll his continued absence from home could have on his family.
I don’t think Santorum had any fear of losing Pennsylvania. He could count and likely realized it was numerically impossible to catch Romney at the end of the process. Given how much he is needed by his family at the moment, he had to weigh the personal disappointment of giving up before he could compete in his home state vs. the toll his continued absence from home could have on his family.
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