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 didn’t 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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No, because I’ve never heard of her.
Does she know that her last name means “black eye”?
Is his Mommy going to let him wear long pants this time? Got to get rid of those pink, lace undies, also. Give us a break!!
Santorum is a bad joke.
Christie, Huckabee, Bush, Santorum, and Miss Lindsey need to go away.
Its also David Axelrod’s pen name, coincidentally.
Ted Cruz Ping! How is the GOP-e, how do they get all those clowns in that little bitty car?
Santorum could not even win reelection to his senate seat.
He is just one of many freaks in the GOP Presidential circus.
And a freak show it is becoming.
Barnum & Bailey would be envious.
So Santorum is running?
Yes.
“Santorum could not even win reelection to his senate seat.”
And wasn’t that after he supported the vile Arlen Specter in 2004?
Santorum was run out of his Senate seat by more than 17 points, he is nothing like Cruz in his politics, and is no conservative.
Santorum was almost like a member of “advancing the Arlen Specter team”, since he advanced Specter during his entire political life, until Specter finally left the party, and then died.
As would Huckabee or any of the other 'conservative' candidates.
We really have to start getting behind either Cruz, or if not he then Walker.
Arlen Specter. Mitt Romney.
It seems to me that Santorum will mostly succeed in siphoning off votes that otherwise would go to a conservative. I wonder which RINO is paying him to do that?
I am already behind Cruz. Ted Cruz is the only true Conservative in this race.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~
I thought Santorum was runner-up after Romney in 2012?
Can anyone imagine anyone confusing Cruz with Santorum? Santorum was a key man in RINO leadership before his loss in 2006. His support for Specter wasn’t accidental, it was party line. He was one of the favorites for WHIP in the next session going into the 2006 campaign. In more recent times, he not only failed to support the tea party movement, but he spent most of the early Tea Party years accusing them of being a Libertarian putsch within the Republican party. Santorum is basically a straight down the line establishment guy, who’s a bit too openly religious for their tastes.
On policy, Cruz is everything movement conservatives have always wanted, why waste time and energy splitting our votes again?
He also came in “runner up” in his own Senate race.
What did runner up get him?
Loser status in both races.
Barnum & Bailey would be envious of this developing GOP Presidental
freak show.
Has beens, losers and misfits.
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