Well, he may win the Primary in PA, but they just did a poll last month showing him losing a rematch against Casey by 8-10 points. The guys a dog. I understand why social conservatives love him, but when you look at him as a whole he’s just a dog of a candidate.
He’s VP material at best. He can go be the barking attack dog quite well, but the main guy? Its just not there folks.
Its a pathetic choice this election on the Republican side, the only one worth a damn is Newt, and the folks that will vote for Santorum come hell or high water, wont vote for Newt because of his divorces... so the GOP membership really have nothing to blame for this but themselves when we wind up with Romney as the nominee.
The whole idea was to get Newt out of the picture, they knew Romney wasn't well received as he wasn't “taking” the New England states in mass as they had expected..., and that wasn't going to change...so Santorum would do just as well for Obama to go up against. Thus the media positioned him to the forefront...and successfully bumped out Newt as time would show.
I listened to a C-span gathering of media and journalists about this. It was an eye opener .....even to the point the media will ‘call it’ for a state as early as possible in order to prevent other voters from going out to vote...if the race is too close for their guy.
Republican voters jumped on board with Santorum as the alternative for Romney, and as usual the “religious” folks could care less what his record is...they “liked” hearing his social comments and went from there...and are still focused on his “religious” stances they want to hear....
Reminds me of the “itchy ear” the Bible speaks of.
Newt's as much a Christian as Santorum is....but religious folk expect perfection and see that in Santorum only because the media has yet to really unload on him...and they won't until it's time to push Romney again.
Santorum fell for the bait from the get go....and as is his history will do and say whatever to advance his political career.
However, if he sees he's not going to do well in Pa as he wants to... I won't be surprised if he drops out in order not to have a second loss go against his career, which is most important to him...always was and will be.
The whole idea was to get Newt out of the picture, they knew Romney wasn't well received as he wasn't “taking” the New England states in mass as they had expected..., and that wasn't going to change...so Santorum would do just as well for Obama to go up against. Thus the media positioned him to the forefront...and successfully bumped out Newt as time would show.
I listened to a C-span gathering of media and journalists about this. It was an eye opener .....even to the point the media will ‘call it’ for a state as early as possible in order to prevent other voters from going out to vote...if the race is too close for their guy.
Republican voters jumped on board with Santorum as the alternative for Romney, and as usual the “religious” folks could care less what his record is...they “liked” hearing his social comments and went from there...and are still focused on his “religious” stances they want to hear....
Reminds me of the “itchy ear” the Bible speaks of.
Newt's as much a Christian as Santorum is....but religious folk expect perfection and see that in Santorum only because the media has yet to really unload on him...and they won't until it's time to push Romney again.
Santorum fell for the bait from the get go....and as is his history will do and say whatever to advance his political career.
However, if he sees he's not going to do well in Pa as he wants to... I won't be surprised if he drops out in order not to have a second loss go against his career, which is most important to him...always was and will be.