Well he keeps trying........
He may not be perfect but from a conservative perspective I haven’t found a reason to not like the guy. I hope he and Newt do really well today. My dream is a #3 for Mitt.
If he’s the nominee, then I’ll look at him. In the meantime, I’m voting for Newt.
He doesn’t waffle
It’s time for him to get behind Newt and stop playing the part of Romney’s spoiler.
Rick’s a nice guy, but that’s all. If he drops out, Newt will storm into the convention as the clear GOP candidate. We could really use a little solidarity after the way the media (and a lot of so-called conservatives - Rove, you non-magnificent bastard) have done everything they can to destroy any surging GOP candidate except Willard.
But I sure will have some things to say about Mitt Romney, that no-good RINO.
Having said that, yes, Rick Santorum is one of the best guys out there. HE IS NOT THE ENEMY. The enemy first and foremost is BARACK OBAMA--he wants to take us straight into Bolshevism with himself and his inside-track cronies at the privileged elite top. The main impediment within the GOP to getting Obama out of office is MITT ROMNEY and toadies like Fox News, Karl Rove, Laura Ingraham, Michael Medved, Juan, Cindy and Meghan McCain and their ilk.
Let us agree to have our disagreements, and let the chips fall where they may, but let us not pile on out of campaign zeal against people who have always been on our side, whom the libs and gay-agenda and Big Government types hate with a passion, and who has a number of solid conservative endorsements this time going around, in a sweater vest with not a lot of money just going from town to town in a truck and kicking up dust, winning Iowa on a budget and doing it all I am truly convinced from his heart. God Bless Rick Santorum and I hope he does exceeding well today in South Carolina.
Is there a second?
I like the guy and despite prevailing FReeper sentiment, just being the angriest guy in the room isn’t going to get the job done.
Give him a conservative congress and he could be a great president.
If he had the groundswell and gravitas that’s rolling Newt right now, there’d be no begging people to look at him. Nuff said.
He needs another look. The one he has in the debates looks like he is on the verge of tears. He can’t criticize his opponents without whining. The voters deserve another Santorum look.
I want whoever gets the nom to work for it.
Even if Ronmney ends up taking the nom at least, he has to pretend to be passionate about conservatism. He has to make crap up that he doesn’t really believe. However, later people will be able to say, “Hey,you said during your campaign, you stupid lier face, that you would repeal OCommieCare???”
Anyhow, its still way early in the process.
If by some chance Santorum is the nominee, I'll vote for him without reservation.
But...he'll be a much better choice down the road when he has a bit more seasoning.
Given our current choices, I'm going ignore some of my reservations about Newt Gingrich and support him over the others.
Gingrich was a sort of political hero to me when I came of age politically. I remember cable channel surfing one morning and ended up watching a class he was giving on American history. I hadn't heard our history explained like that and I was instantly a Gingrich fan.
Plus, he made the right people mad, including all the libs in my family, which is everyone but me.
I didn't enjoy his fall from grace, but given his enemies list, it's no surprise that they would take him down sooner or later. I just wish he didn't make it easy for them, hence my reservations.
No one knows what anyone will do once in office. My bet is that his age, his current marriage, his grandchildren and his conversion to Catholicism along with his time away from DC have grounded him and, combined with his considerable experience and education, will make him very effective restoring our Constitutional foundation and undoing the decades of progressive damage.
Otherwise, if Steven Colbert whould fall down and split his face open I wouldn’t lose any sleep.
He has been looked at, and considered, by nearly 100% of the people who are going to vote.
A few think he is presidential, most passed on him.
Tonight, you will see just how many of them favor him over the other three.
Well he keeps trying........
Either we stop assigning such importance to these first few primaries, or we close them to only registered Republicans. Until either of those things happen, we're going to end up with a RINO coming out of the gate strong, with MAYBE a consensus conservative to challenge him going into Super Tuesday.
Which, to me, suggests a highly broken system, and it's designed to support RINOs.
Santorum just doesn’t seem like the man for the job. Is he a nice guy? I’m sure he is. Does he have great “social-conservative” values? There’s no doubt he does.
But at this point in time, we don’t need a nice guy. We need someone to *drastically* address the overwhelming critical issues that are directly in front of us before the country reaches the point of no return. We aren’t looking for a spouse — we need a President who can take on the MSM (to counter their propagandizing) and who can make a compelling argument to counter the weak-kneed GOP leadership in congress and use the bully-pulpit to reveal the dem /gop statist insanity. Santorum strikes me as the nice-guy who would rather avoid confrontation, would compromise first and (ultimately) allow the dems to control the terms.
Gingrich has proven he can shame the MSM whenever they try the “gotcha” game. His command of the issues is broader than the rest. Paul has some fiscal ideas I really like, but that I also realize have no realistic chance in congress. I also agree with Paul’s general view of decreasing the fed’s powers and returning those powers to the states. Then he goes and completely blows it on national security. Romney is a greasy, scamming, used-car salesman who would quite possibly prompt cholecystectomies on a national scale.
Off the top of my head if given a genie in a bottle and one wish, my preferred better candidate might have Gingrich’s breath & depth of knowledge on the issues, Paul’s fiscal & state’s-rights agenda, Santorum’s pro-family stance & ability to keep his zipper up, Bolton’s foreign policy and Reagan’s ability to communicate it all and *LEAD*. I’d like to fit some Palin in there too somehow...
But, that franken-politician is an impossibility in this race or any other. I will *always* have to settle.
In my opinion the highest-priority and most critical issues this nation *CURRENTLY* faces are #1-Fiscal, #2-Defense and then (everything else). That prioritization is always subject to change and mid-course corrections based on how things are going. Who knows, the following election, the fiscal & defense issues may be on a good path to sanity and social issues could take the lead. That would be more fitting for a Santorum run. But right now, of the candidates running and considering the most critical issues we are facing, Newt appears to be the best (not perfect) choice remaining.
Santorum is a calm-water candidate. He’s the guy I wouldn’t mind having as President after someone more capable cleaned up most of the difficult mess we are faced with — when things are going mostly OK on the fiscal & defense issues. Right now, we desperately need a fighter and some tough-love.
Just my stinky opinion.
I wanted Perry to have a second look too. But this is just not the year for anyone who is lacking in debating skills to win. Both Rick’s are nice people and conservatives. But people are more concerned about the candidate’s ability to smack down Obama.
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YES. Santorum does deserve another look.
Santorum:
Voted AGAINST increasing the number of immigration investigators:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00201
VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS, paid for by reductions in state grants.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00179
VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00058
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00154
SANTORUM: Trim Social Security now- even if painful.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j7O34Bpp42k-IlMMNiOLBkYF2zNw?docId=b1cff9ecefe24ca6ae1764a09761e361
VOTED AGAINST FOOD STAMP REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00353
VOTED AGAINST MEDICAID REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00352
Voted to increase the social services block grant from $1 BILLION to $2 BILLION
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00302
VOTED TO RAID SOCIAL SECURITY instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=2&vote=00056
Voted to impose a uniform federal tax mandate on states to force them to allow convicted , rapists, arsonists drug kingpins and all other ex-convicts to vote in federal elections.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00031
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Santorum; Big government spender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6XCZz2X1Y&feature=player_embedded
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2087812/Rick-Santorums
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Santorum needs to put his ego aside, place his country before himself, drop out and go back to wherever he came from.
Rick Perry is twice the Conservative Santorum is!
He deserves the VP slot.
Since 2000 he has led the second largest state in the union on to be the most successful economically.
Perry stated that in his administration he would start all countries getting U.S. foreign aid at ZERO, until they proved to be our allies.
He was also the first to bring the war on religion to the forefront.
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Rick is an OK candidate, but just OK. He is not a fighter. He is not aggressive. To be President you need to know how to be a prick. Nice guys don’t even get to finish. Obama would play smear-the-queer with Rick. If he wants to be a President he needs to learn to make a fist. Let’s see if maybe in 2016 he can do all that.