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Posted on 04/13/2012 6:30:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said he ultimately suspended his campaign because it became too difficult to raise money, especially since the media had declared the race for the Republican nomination essentially over. But the former Pennsylvania senator said he didn't want to place blame in his decision to exit the race.
"After Wisconsin it was very, very difficult to raise money but one of the reasons for that was the media narrative that the race is over," said Santorum in an interview with Fox News
Santorum said at a point, nearly every question he received was about the long odds he faced in the race.
"And it was just this — the entire week leading up to Wisconsin was, When are you getting out of the race? Why are you still in the race? It's over," Santorum said. "And so — and that was what was continually reported on every network, every network was this narrative that it was impossible and that it was just a matter of time. And it's hard to cut through that. And we were finding it very, very difficult to do that."
[SNIP of absolving the media]
....Still, Santorum made the media a frequent target of criticism during his time on the campaign trail, suggesting that Fox News was "shilling" for rival Mitt Romney and that popular news aggregation website the Drudge Report similarly favored the now-presumptive nominee.
That sentiment was echoed by presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich earlier this week.....
Yes, to me that became apparent...just too many waving his flag..and they still are.
It's a very sad day when radio and tv pundits climbed on board ,early on, with Romney and just hammered until every Conservative but Newt was outed.
But it's especially disturbing seeing Freepers now rise up supporting Romney and promoting him here on FR
I will not yield to the media and the Gop'E...Romney will never have my vote....if they want to say it's over than I vote down ticket and do a write in...No Romney.
Until this Primary is truly over I remain with the Conservative standing, Newt,....and if he goes then we're done altogether and time to prepare for what's coming.
This whole farce going on, by claiming Romneys win beforehand, is to prevent people from voting any further. The media acknowlege they do this throughout elections.
I'm so afraid, not that we've lost our country....but we have lost our people to deception and manipulation...and willing so have chosen to be mis-lead.
This is the last chance and they're doing the same thing McCain did...they're handing this election over to Romney/Obama.
If Santorum supporters ever had the least concern over conservative values, they will do what they can to defeat Romney. If that means supporting Newt, then that’s what they should do..... Anything less means they were never serious about it to begin with.
Your comment about Romney backers “and so it becomes their job to excuse Mitt” is going on right now. I’m listening to a Milwaukee talker Charley Sykes doing that very thing defemding Romney .
What FR critics don’t understand is how hectic these campaigns really are . If ypu have a limited staff and somebody falls down on the job that can really screw things up. I don’t know what he expected in Illinois but I think that defeatist attitude carried over into Wisconsin
In Wisconsin’s case I was very frustrated. Santorum made dozens of personal appearances but nobody knew about them .The WI media very lightly covered him . He had a website Wisconsin 4/3 which was the date of the primary.His first appearance was posted and that was it. It was never updated I sent a bunch of emails to it alerting them about this and they never replied.
He had a respected state senator as his chair. Catholic churches passed out a brochure about voting on Palm Sunday the Sunday before the election. Were there any Santorum bumper stickers or signs sighted in those parking lots let alone leaflets being distributed ? With exception of myself at mine and my age has caught up with me I’m 80 I doubt it.
It was always my policy to go with the non-Romney conservative who had the best shot.
So here we are with the longest of longshots. My conscience is clear because I refrained from ripping at other good candidates because they didn't happen to be my choice at the time.
Thanks for the link...long article but a wonderful read.
Note to all...about three quarters through it, politjim accidentally refers to Marianne as Jackie. Not once but I think it was three times in a single paragraph.
Don’t let it confuse you.
Thanks for pointing out that!!
Riiiiiight.
CW, and myself, were accused of being for Romney by being for Rick Perry.
Then not being for Cain caused us to be accused of being for Mitt.
Then being for Newt, and still being for Newt, means we’re for Mitt.
Riiight.
For sure psycho-freep is for Mitt. We know that because he was always for Newt. He never changed, couldn’t stand Perry or Cain or Bachmann or Santorum, it was a dead giveaway.
Seriously, surely there are some who played a game here, but you have chosen to omit that some diverting off into Santorum could have been among them, and you name psycho-freep because you would like to make him a scapegoat.
I believe you said you now will support Newt over Romney.
Thanks for that, and I take you at your word.
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