Posted on 05/15/2014 5:13:48 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says the GOP has a problem, and they know it.
"Areas where we should be winning, like in Ohio, and in Michigan, places where the economy is not strong, where the Obama administration policies have hurt there ... they're not voting for us," says Santorum, author of the new book "Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works."
Establishment Republicans "realize we have a problem there. I don't think they have any clue how to fix it," says Santorum.
"The tea party realizes, that's who they are, these are conservatives who don't think the establishment really understands their problems," says Santorum.
(Excerpt) Read more at thelead.blogs.cnn.com ...
Santorum and Romney decided to attack every wing of the GOP on minimum wage.
Santorum claimed to speak for all Republicans when he said “Republicans want to do something” on immigration in 2013.
Rick is sooo right. I like Rick. One problem is 55 million dead babies. How do we fix that?
GOPe has to want to fix the problem...they don’t, they want to control and grow government and make their crony buddies $$$.
Really. How did they both get republican governors who retain high approval numbers?
Maybe they just didn't like you, Rick.
Go away!
Oh, they know. They just ain’t going to leave their gravy train.
the obvious fraud that went on in ohio needs to be discussed too
They ARE the problem.
Santorum IS GOP-e.
Old Arlen Specter would agree.
That's what dependency does for you. For the GOP to attract people in these hard hit areas, the voters must be made to believe the GOP will let them continue to receive free sh!t and get on a path to a more productive life.
The message these voters hear;
Democrats will do something
Republicans will do something
Play like the Dims--appeal to their GUTS, not their heads!
Santorum lost to Mutt Romney who got 38 percent of the vote in the Ohio primary when Noot was still running to split the anti-GOP-E vote. Romney then proceeded to lose to the Caliph by 160,000 votes in the general. He beat Santorum with 41 percent of the vote in the Michigan primary, again with Noot to split the vote, and was then edged by the Caliph by 450,000 votes in the general.
It wasn't Santorum those states didn't like. It was Romney.
One of the several reasons I supported Rick in 2012.
Romney running pro-choice ads in Ohio didn’t help.
It doesn’t get anymore GOPe than Santorum, the lifelong fan of Arlen Specter, and the idiot who suffered a massive defeat, bigger than Christine O’Donnell’s, and he was the INCUMBENT.
Only Romney was worse than the union guy.
By that time, he was the best choice from a bad group. The lesson we should learn from it is to find one solid conservative and get behind him or her like the Democrats do for the dross they nominate.
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