Actually, it is sad and sorry attempt to rebuild the image of a throughly defeated candidate and make him relevant again. If Gingrich were to withdraw, like what Bachmann, Cain, and Perry, so honorably did before him when they start to lose elections and their poll numbers plummet, he’d be relegated to the officially irrrelevant. Now he stays in the race, makes glib comments on FoxNews, and Voila, the genius has spoken. Voters in La roundly rejected the pie-in-the sky $2.50 gas/gallon and permanent lunar colonies. So he says something about Trayvon and immediately this becomes the Gospel for his followers on FR. To be sure, there has been a lynch mob mentality but that has more to do with the race-baiting Sharptons and Jacksons of this world. Santorum spoke to the act of killing an unarmed individual, black, white, yellow, or brown, and it shouldn’t matter. The excessive use of deadly force, no matter the context, is the taking of human life without due process and is prohibited by our constitution. As strong constitutionalists, we must speak up to violations and not simply on occasions where our own ox is being gored. Gingrich needs to remain relevant and so he continues to remain in the race courtesy of his sugar-daddy casino mogul whose real intent is to stop Santorum from being a credible alternative to Romney.And he sure appears to be succeeding.
Why should a Presidential candidate even comment on a local case, where there hasn’t even been any arrests yet....he’s basically implying that the Sanford PD is racist, because Zimmerman hasn’t been arrested yet.....a simple “I don’t have enough knowledge of all of the facts in the case, and I am confident that ultimately the truth will come out”, should be the most they should say.....but NOOOOOO!
Besides, it’s not as if he will convert a single black voter with this statement.
Nice try but you sound like someone who’s never been in a street fight or had to fight for your very survival. There’s no such thing as fair fight. If you feel your life is threatened, whether your assailant is armed or unarmed, you do whatever is necessary to preserve your own life. The assailant be damned. The fact is Santorum was not armed with the facts but shot-off his mouth nonetheless!