Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Rick Santorum returns
Politico ^ | 09/29/2014 | Anna Palmer

Posted on 09/29/2014 8:20:10 AM PDT by GIdget2004

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-83 next last
To: GIdget2004

he should stand aside.

jeb should stand aside

Christie should stand aside.

The GOP leadership sees themselves as a supernominating committee with the voter as mere rubber stamps.


61 posted on 09/29/2014 10:17:58 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Iron Munro

Huckabee is already pushing for spoiler job.

This is just about “pay me to lose” fundraising.


62 posted on 09/29/2014 10:19:57 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Nextrush; Vigilanteman
Santorum rides shotgun for the GOPe to take potshots at real conservatives and divide conservative votes so the GOPe candidate can win....

And gullible saps like Vigilanteman helps by calling everyone who refuses to vote against their own interests "bots" of some sort or another, never seeing their own "Santorum-bot" proclivities.

63 posted on 09/29/2014 10:20:18 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: BeadCounter
Santorum has made it so there is no shame in being totally pro-life. I don’t know when the GOP had a candidate so pro-life ...

Excuse me???? Sarah Palin?????? Doesn't get any more pro-life than her.

64 posted on 09/29/2014 10:23:13 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies]

To: Finny

She’s pro-life but her position is described more in detail here.

http://prolifeprofiles.com/sarah-palin-abortion

So, I think the above website is too strict but still has useful information.


65 posted on 09/29/2014 10:24:55 AM PDT by BeadCounter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 64 | View Replies]

To: BeadCounter
To credit Santorum for making it so that there's "no shame in being pro-life," as you do in your post #51, is hokum. PALIN did the same in a very big way.

Santorum, like Romney, is a faux "conservative." It's just that Santorum has Christian values and Romney has none at all.

66 posted on 09/29/2014 10:29:29 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: BeadCounter

I have no idea where you got this weird idea that Santorum created the pro-life republican, that doesn’t make any sense at all.

Was 2012 the first time you ever paid attention to a GOP primary?


67 posted on 09/29/2014 10:30:26 AM PDT by ansel12
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 59 | View Replies]

To: GIdget2004

He seems like a nice man, but he has no chance of being elected.


68 posted on 09/29/2014 10:34:40 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GIdget2004

I wish he’d go away.


69 posted on 09/29/2014 10:42:23 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

Paul Ryan said life begins at conception but he ran for Vice-President, it’s a bit different to actually be a candidate in the primaries and actually be winning a number of states as Rick Santorum did running on that platform.


70 posted on 09/29/2014 10:52:22 AM PDT by BeadCounter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 65 | View Replies]

To: BeadCounter

I also said “Presidential Candidates” I’m rather sure throughout my posts. I would vote for Sarah Palin, I don’t think she has actually run for President yet.


71 posted on 09/29/2014 10:56:43 AM PDT by BeadCounter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 70 | View Replies]

To: Finny
You might make a better case if you'd stick to logic rather than cherry picking and seeking for insults. The -bot suffix was only used as an abbreviated term and everybody who reads the entire scope of my comments understands this. Newt had great vision in 1994. If he'd shown a little of the same in 2012, he might have won more than two states.

Santorum was adept at defining the gulf between Main Street and Wall Street and understanding the difference between free trade as a policy tool and a Kool-Aid drinking ideology which made no distinction between China and those generally hostile to U.S. interests and Japan and other loyal U.S. allies.

Newt did himself no favors with his gratuitous attacks on other conservative candidates such as the special election in New York. There are valid reasons why he never became a TEA Party favorite. There were more than a few of us who could see that the key difference between him and Mitt Romney was that Romney had a smaller ego.

72 posted on 09/29/2014 11:09:26 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: Vigilanteman

Gingrich won the freerepublic endorsement, not Santorum.

As big an ego as Gingrich has, it can’t equal the ego of the man who claimed to have marched with MLK, and thinks that he is going to become a God.


73 posted on 09/29/2014 12:02:20 PM PDT by ansel12
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 72 | View Replies]

To: GIdget2004

Stay home Rick.


74 posted on 09/29/2014 1:31:36 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Signalman

He moves my dial into negative territory. Dude’s annoying. Reminds me of the Church Lady on SNL.


75 posted on 09/29/2014 1:34:57 PM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: God luvs America

Do you know what’s really missing on all these guys? Hats, not friggin Elmer Fudd style, or baseball caps, but an honest to God Fedor or Hamburg. Bring some style and class back to the American male!


76 posted on 09/29/2014 1:35:32 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies]

To: Cicero
I have never liked him.

There was the mess with his kids living in VA and PA taxpayers paying for their schooling...I don't remember the details but he was cheating the system.

I don't like his holier-than-thou attitude when his wife lived with an abortion doc old enough to be her father before he married her.

IMO, the Sentorums are hypocrites and I'll never vote for him.

77 posted on 09/29/2014 1:55:17 PM PDT by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Finny

I’m not here to get mad, but I have a pile of evidence including a trip Santorum made to Alaska in 2004 to help RINO Lisa Murkowski win a US Senate primary.

Santorum went out there to defuse the state’s main pro-life group from endorsing the Pro-Life opponent over the Pro-Abortion Murkowski.


78 posted on 09/29/2014 2:05:45 PM PDT by Nextrush (OBAMACARE IS A BAILOUT FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 63 | View Replies]

To: Iron Munro
Will he play the role of SPOILER again?

Actually that was more Newt's roll than it was Rickie's.

Newt could have withdrawn from a few races that he was never going to win and maybe allowed Santorum to deny Newt a first ballot win, but alas none of the contestants were praiseworthy.

I said back when there were I think 13 Candidates, that none of them would ever be President, I stand by that prediction today.

79 posted on 09/29/2014 4:13:36 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: TomGuy
field a bunch of pseudo [a.k.a., social] conservatives to dilute the voting and support so the GOPelite

That job belongs to the lbertarian wing.

80 posted on 09/29/2014 4:15:06 PM PDT by itsahoot (Voting for a Progressive RINO is the same as voting for any other Tyrant.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-83 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson