Posted on 03/01/2012 4:17:46 AM PST by techno
ok, have it your way. Good luck.
Yes, I’m a troll, who’s hung out here for 12+ years, just waiting for this moment to say something about the milk toast that is Santorum.. be serious.
Oh wait, I must be a liberal, after all I’ve voted for someone like Alan Keyes in presidential primaries, because he and I have such a bleeding heart and believe the government should be the solution to everything.
Do you people ever look at yourselves when you start throwing around stupid flames at folks who don’t share your opinion? I’ve lived in PA throughout all of Santorums Senate Career, he lost in 06 BIGTIME for a very fundamental reason, and it had nothing to do with Spectre, It being a democratic year, or his oponent being named Casey. He may have lost with those things, but those things are not why he lost by 17 points, those things might have given him a 5-7 point loss. He lost by 17 points because frankly he is MILK TOAST, pure and simple.
He was very effectively painted by the left as too extreme, largely by using his own words against him, and Santorum never was able to counter any of it effectively, and nothing has changed between 06 and now.
Again I ask you, how do you feel Santorum backers, that your guy was out there openly appealing to democrats to come vote for him in the republican primary? Does that sound like someone who is going to hoe the row?? You need to do more than simply listen to what Santorum says, he’s real good at telling folks what they want to hear, even if he is telling someone else what they want to hear that is the complete opposite. IN 06 his own re-election web site was full of anti-illegal immigration on the english version and pro amnesty on the spanish version.
This guy won’t win a national election because he just doesn’t have the intellect or political prowess to do it. I know social conservatives like the guy because he takes stands they agree with, but he isn’t able to defend or articulate those stands very well, and every time he tries he winds up giving another sound bite that will be used against him. Lets not even get into the fact he’s a big government compassionate conservative, not a small government get out the way conservative, because those nuances won’t even matter. The play book to route Santorum was written and executed effectively in 06 and nothing will need to be changed in it to take him out in 12, because nothing has changed about Santorum.
Another reason why Santorum may NOT be toast:
“A Smart Politics tabulation of voting through the first 11 Republican primaries and caucuses of the 2012 presidential cycle finds that Rick Santorum has won more than twice as many counties (360) as Mitt Romney (145) and nearly 60 percent of all counties to date.”
“...Newt Gingrich in third with 79 (all but two from South Carolina and Florida), Ron Paul with 31 and Rick Perry with two.”
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/01/romney-wins-wyoming-caucus-santorum-poised-for-washington-win/
Yes folks the party is over for Santorum and Gingrich:
Rasmussen national poll:
Romney 40%
Santorum 24%
Gingrich 16%
Paul 12%
“Turn out the lights; the party’s over.
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