Posted on 05/27/2015 9:52:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Reigning 2012 Iowa caucus victor and former Sen. Rick Santorum is expected to announce another presidential bid Wednesday, jumping into a 2016 Republican field crowded with candidates just like him socially conservative current and former U.S. senators.
And though Santorum was in many ways the prototype for the wave of tea party lawmakers who went to Washington in 2010 brash, unapologetically conservative, disliked by his Senate colleagues he must now distinguish himself from opponents molded in his likeness while simultaneously grappling with issues that defined the Republican establishment a decade ago but look different today, such as the Iraq War.
As a senator, Santorum didnt seem to care for Capitol decorum or what his colleagues thought of him, which at the time was rare but now is par for the course. Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey was famously overheard asking a colleague whether Santorum was Latin for the name of a bodily orifice used to describe a person you might not think so highly of. Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., reportedly had equally choice and disdainful words, characterizing Santorum as both young and a little something that emanates from that aforementioned bodily orifice.
In other words, Santorum was 20 years ago to his contemporaries what his 2016 opponents Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and (especially) Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas are to theirs now....
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Yap, too many candidates, that sums it up. They may have to rent football stadiums to accommodate all those candidates.
If I was chairing the RNC, eliminate anyone with less than 5% average votes in primaries.
Santorum was and is nothing like Senator Cruz, he is not and never was economically Conservative, he by his actions is a big government guy and probable still is.
I agree. But a number of “conservatives” fall for the “I’m so religious” jive-and-shuck of Huckabee and Santorum.
They fell for Jimmy Carter for the same reason.
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