Posted on 03/14/2012 6:10:12 AM PDT by tcg
...This was blue collar vs blue blood. The pundits tried all evening to sound intelligent as they attempted to explain the vote. They failed miserably. In his victory speech, Rick Santorum nailed it, "This campaign is about ordinary folks doing extraordinary things, just like America."
As he ended his speech he told his supporters the campaign was about "Free people, a free economy, the integrity of the family and the centrality of faith in our lives". Just as he finished that line, a campaign worker informed the candidate that he had also won Mississippi. The entire room broke into an uproar. FOX news had just called Mississippi for Santorum.
Earlier in the day, Mitt Romney told CNN's Wolf Blitzer "Senator Santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign." Last week, he boasted that it would "take an act of God" for Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich to derail his nomination. Well, it appears that God had a southern strategy this evening. The Rick Santorum for President campaign is anything but desperate.
As the evening began, the pundit class gave the former Senator from Pennsylvania little chance of winning either State. Even Matt Drudge had a headline banner on his aggregator site, "Romney Set for Mississippi Win". It was quickly changed as the evening progressed.
The pundits dissected what they thought were the demographics. They used exit polls in an attempt to call the event. They also provided fodder for their chatter. What became clear as the evening progressed was just how clueless they are about the real America - and how little they understand about the appeal of this candidate. Rick Santorum is the Real Deal. He has taken the South. Blue Collar beat Blue Blood. The Republican Primary Race is on...
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That’s another big story here: Santorum has a large number of small donors, as opposed to Mr. Romney with a small number of large donors. It’s difficult to find actual humans who support Romney, though they must be out there somewhere. My daughter and I chuckled while in line at the Santorum rally in Kalamazoo in front of an “undecided” couple. The man complained about all of Romney’s negative ads. Then he proceeded to list all of the “concerns” he had about Santorum, which were all manufactured hype straight out of those ads that he hated so much. My daughter wouldn’t let me talk to them! We saw them later during the rally looking bewildered when the crowd started reciting the Declaration of Independence by memory.
Just tweakin’ ya.
BTW was that you in Costco yesterday with an ‘Obama Bin Lyin” message on your shopping bag??
Nope, but I was in Walmart this morning in my Free Republic t-shirt with my name on it.
“I am still hoping that a scientist will invent a cure for leftism and we can secretly add it to the water instead of flouride.”
How about if leftism is added to the list of sicknesses maintained by the American Psychological Association.
(It is, after all, a form of psychosis.)
IMHO
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