If it wasn’t for Newt, Santorum would have won Michigan and Washington. Thanks to Newt and his dismal 4th place win in most states, we will be stuck with Romney instead of the most principled, moral, family values candidate in 30 years. Newt knows this and is working with Romney to ensure he wins.
Rick had Michigan wrapped up. He bombed the debate, had a series of foot in mouth moments and backtrack moments, and then couldn’t get enough liberal Democrat union votes to pull it out.
How about Rick’s team up with Romney that cost Newt Florida?
“If it wasn’t for Newt, Santorum would have won Michigan and Washington. Thanks to Newt and his dismal 4th place win in most states, we will be stuck with Romney instead of the most principled, moral, family values candidate in 30 years. Newt knows this and is working with Romney to ensure he wins.”
But Santorum isn’t the most principled, moral, family values candidate in 30 years. In fact, my opinion of him is the exact opposite. You’re talking about Rick Santorum who endorsed Specter for both President and Senator, a guy who ran a platform on “changing” Republican culture to be specifically more tolerant of pro-abortion views. You’re talking about Rick Santorum who voted against Right to Work, who supported the Unions, and with whom I can find no significant bill or issue ever sponsored by him. In fact, in 2006 he ran on a platform of “working with Barbara Boxer to write “Open Space” legislation. I’m working with Hillary to write legislation aimed at targeting violence in video games.” He also once put in an amendment with Ted Kennedy that would have given a Catholic Church the right to take a local property belonging to a Veteran’s Group. In his book, “It Takes a Family.” Santorum wrote that liberals support individualism, and that conservatives prefer collectivism. It seems he thinks the government’s role is to promote morality and “the family,” but not necessarily to have a smaller government. He insulted what he viewed as “libertarianism,” which is THE (on most domestic issues) philosophy of the Tea Party.
But what first got me on Santorums tail was nothing of this. It was his bashing of the other conservative front runners when they were front-runners. He did this without anybody really commenting on it or noticing. He even did this after Florida when he began to surge, but none of you really cared. It’s his dishonesty and his willingness to attack other conservatives that broke the deal from stage one.