Posted on 01/15/2012 5:30:14 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
- Rick Santorum delivered a stark warning to South Carolina voters Saturday, telling them Mitt Romney is a sure loser in November if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee.
"Don't buy all this baloney that we need a moderate to win," Santorum told about 200 people gathered at Tommy's Country Ham House in Greenville. "We need someone with strong core convictions who is going to appeal to the voters in the states we need to win and that's not him. That's us."
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, has trained his fire on Romney at stop after stop as he campaigns across the Palmetto State ahead of the January 21 primary.
But his sharp criticisms seemed to carry a fresh sense of urgency Saturday.
"The establishment is trying to ram down the people of South Carolina's and everybody else's throat Gov. Romney, as if he is inevitable," Santorum said.
He said Barack Obama would "destroy" Romney in the general election because he does not represent a "bold and courageous" contrast to the president.
Santorum cited the Romney-designed Massachusetts health care plan, which was a model for Obama's plan, as an example.
"Why would we pick someone who has had a record that as a liberal governor of Massachusetts to lead our country at a time we need fundamental change?" he asked.
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Santorum is right. If Romney loses in South Carolina, we have time to rally around a conesrvative alternative. The time is now.
Right.... and Santorum would win what exactly?
Gingrich’s water buxket, that’s what. :)
Romney? I'd have all I could do to refrain from unleashing explicative deletives against his minions and the GOP / RNC establishment when they call me on the phone this summer.
I won't volunteer, send money, and will write in Goldwater, Palin, Reagan depending how I feel that day.
Rick is right, wake up America...
A years supply of sweater vests?
I don’t think Santorum’s electoral prognosis is good either, but he is absolutely right about Romney.
Romney is basically a parody candidate. If you took all of the stereotypes that the Left promulgates about Republicans, and then amalgamated them into one man—the result would be Mitt Romney.
He’s a multi-faceted cluster of liabilities in this election. Consider:
1) Upcoming “racist Mormon church” narrative.
2) Upcoming “Wall St. corporate raider” narrative.
3) Liberal governing record in MA will turn off conservative voters.
4) RomneyCare… ’nuff said. Will look extremely hypocritical.
5) Protested in favor of the draft, yet got himself a deferment.
6) Lacks charisma, has weak force of personality.
To the headline: yea duh!
Many years ago I was angry at the way national politics was being conducted. Rather than carefully research candidates and make a decision based on facts, I went with the one who seemed morally pious and superior.
Voting for Jimmy Carter is a huge regret I carry to this day, because Carter, socially conservtive but a fiscal liberal, believed and acted upon his belief in government solutions.
I am not going to make that same mistake again by voting for Rick Santorum.
"I think there are differences between me and Gingrich but frankly there are bigger differences between Romney and I than Newt and I," he said.
Right again, Rick. That's why should accept the VP slot when Newt offers it to you.The two of you would beat Romney, obliterate Paul, and then pummel Obama in what will be the toughest electoral slugfest in our lifetimes. Two are better than one.
Which is exactly why the Mainstream Media is trying to foist Romney on us and have him win the nonimation. This is not new info.
They destroyed Herman Cain because he scared the crap out of them...he could possibly have beaten Obama.
Palin had to be dealt with because she could possibly have beaten Obama.
They are dealing with the last few stragglers to get Romney a clear path to the GOP nomination because he cannot beat Obama.
Certainly doesn't sound like a "stalking horse" for Romney as a few have posted here.
The trickle of anti-Romney ads is already starting from the Left:
Prepare to see an onslaught of this kind of hammering for the next 10 months or so if Mitt’s the nominee.
The trickle of anti-Romney ads is already starting from the Left:
Prepare to see an onslaught of this kind of hammering for the next 10 months or so if Mitt’s the nominee.
Maybe he seen my graphic.lol
He’s absolutely right.
Iowa?
Response: I tend to agree.
Comment: How can Romney argue against "Obamacare" when Romney's Massachusetts program formed the basis of "The Divine One's" program. Further, Romney has taken so many positions similar to those taken by "The Divine One's" masters that Romney is a joke.
All Romney had going for him was that people saw him as “electable.”
That illusion is quickly being destroyed...and now, the emperor has no clothes.
So you don’t see any difference between Carter and Santorum? Really?
>>>Voting for Jimmy Carter is a huge regret I carry to this day, because Carter, socially conservtive but a fiscal liberal, believed and acted upon his belief in government solutions.<<<
Me too!
The difference is Carter was a liberal asshole, and Santorum is basically, a conservative.
Not much difference, no.
Why would anyone choose “Obama-lite” (Romney) when they could have the real thing?
Jimmy Carter seemed earnest enough, but didn’t have half a clue how things actually worked. How does the saying go, the road to hell is paved with good intentions?
Santorum a fiscal liberal? Stop listening to propaganda. I’m from Pa, and believe me, the guy’s a straight arrow. But, I’m afraid that even our own folks are too gullible to understand this in time. Bob
Santorum is younger, correct? You might want the younger one to be the heir apparent to the party candidacy 8 years hence.
FReepmail “Antoninus” to be added or removed.that up.
Besides, out of Office Rick has spoke against our nation, undercut Presidents, not visited or cozied up with Castro, Chavez and other 3rd world loons like Carter has...
Carter feigned social conservatism, and apparently even some of our own Freepers still accept this lie.
Carter is an “earnest” goof.
Just because Jimmuh didn’t go screaming in the streets for abortion (say) doesn’t mean he wasn’t ready to give looie social liberals what they wanted. And it’s fortunate he only got one term, looking at how he “bloomed” afterwards.
The proper response would be to immediately begin a new political party that is focused upon representing conservatives, IMO.
Since the Republican party is basically a “moderate” version of the Democrat party, it wouldn't take many election cycles to replace the GOP, IMO.
This is the only way to reverse the leftward course this country is traveling via the ballot box, IMO.
He’s also just a smidgen opposed to Roe vs Wade.
Carter was a big supporter of Roe. He was a moral relativist. Santorum is a firm objectivist. This is a gulf wide and broad.
Consequently, he tends to support government as a solution to problems more than do other Republicans.
I really believe he should run for Governor of Pennsylvania and expand his political experience. It would be a good move for him and a political resume enhancer. If he demonstrates the ability to govern as a conservative, I would seriously consider voting for him in a future presidential election.
I want to add that I am not anti-Santorum nor anti-Perry. What I want in terms of a President is someone like Winston Churchill, only he's dead.
Santorum even brought this up himself.
“All of us have heard people say, ‘I privately am against abortion, homosexual marriage, stem cell research, cloning. But who am I to decide that it’s not right for somebody else?’ It sounds good,” Santourm said. “But it is the corruption of freedom of conscience.”
Exactly. Which is why if Romney wins the primary, I’ll leave the Presidential slot blank in November. I’m not voting for a RINO. I’ll vote to give the Conservatives a majority in both houses but I will NOT VOTE FOR ROMNEY. I’m sick of voting for lying, middle of the road, backstabbing whores.
The Republican Party is well known for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s beginning to look like they are going to do it again.
They better wake up and realize that we DO NOT WANT moderates. I will not vote for a moderate. If the Republican party wants to nominate a moderate, then let Obama win and let the Dems own the failure they’ve created. It’ll also mean that we’ll most likely have to have a revolution to fix things and if that’s the case again, let the Dems own the blame.
To the Republican leadership, I send this message. Go conservative or GTFO.
Like the $1,600,000.00 of taxpayer money that got redistributed into Newt's pocket after being laundered through Freddie Mac.
“What I want in terms of a President is someone like Winston Churchill, only he’s dead.”
You are aware that Winnie was a Lib Dem? ;)
I am of the exact opposite opinion. I think both Romney and Rick S. could beat Obama, but not Newt.
Here in SC we are getting three to four calls for Romney a day!! No others.
Face it. No Republican will beat Obama and the House will likely flip back to the Democrats.
Then our country is over as we know it. We will be the new France. A sick, sick country with a bath house Marxist from Chicago.
That is the truth!
I’ve been working on an idea all weekend, and want to run it by you to get your thoughts. I suspect I know why the Republican establishment is supporting Romney.
I suspect the Republican establishment has chosen Romney in the hope that he will attract enough disenchanted Democratic voters to defeat Obama.
For both political parties it is all about money and power.
Gov. Romney is the candidate for the elitist Republicans who are, in essense, supporters of Globalism. Democrats too, have been suporters of Globalism with a socialist tint, but then their party was hijacked.
President Obama, a Marxist-Leninist Muslim, is the champion of the Global Social Justice league (communism in one of its many aspects).
Per Wikipedia: Globalism can have at least two different and opposing meanings. One meaning is the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations. Another is viewing the entire world as a proper sphere for one nation to project political influence.
The US power players and Wall Street together have combined the two definitions in an attempt to dominate international commerce, the monetary structure, and establish a New World Order for projecting military control. This is neither conservative nor liberal in orientation and both Democrats and Republicans have been involved over the decades, until Obama arrived on the scene.
Who is the Globalist’s rival, trying to subvert and seize control to alter the eventual structure and purpose of this New World Order?
Obama and friends are Global Social Justice or you could say Communism all grown-up and combined with the quest for an Islamic Caliphate brought about through the United Nations. (Both are antagonists, and eventually will try to destroy one another).
BHO2 is the movement’s puppet. Leo Gerard, via the International Labor Unions (plus Russia, perhaps?), is one of the puppet masters and together are the driving force behind this group as it stands now.
These two groups are struggling to see who controls the U.S. government because it is in the way of establishing a New World Order. What that NWO will finally look like, fascist or Marxist/Islamic, is still up in the air.
Mind you, I’ve distilled the scenario down to its molecular level and there exist many groups playing minor roles in this struggle. And it IS a struggle, with dire results for U.S. Conservatives if they don’t choose the right champion for the American people.
Neither group gives a damn about the rights of individuals. The common man, or woman, on the street is just a “unit” to be taxed or obliterated, it matters not to them.
The last thing that either group wants is for conservatives with Bibles and guns asserting their God-given rights and demanding that Washington, D.C., changes how it does business.
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