Wall Street Billionaires and Michigan Workers;
By Jay Nordlinger
February 28, 2012 4:07 P.M. Comments
46In his robocall to Michigan voters, Rick Santorum is saying, “Romney supported the bailout for his Wall Street billionaire buddies, but opposed the auto bailout. That was a slap in the face to every Michigan worker.”
For almost 60 years now, National Review has worked against this kind of crudity — crudity of thought and crudity of expression. And this is our guy? Santorum is the conservatives’ guy?
Many conservatives supported the bank bailout and opposed the auto bailout. You can look up arguments within NR editorials. Conservatives all over the country, in all sorts of forums, made arguments for and against — for and against either bailout. Those arguments continue now, retrospectively.
But is there any thinking or respectable conservative who uses Rick Santorum’s language — the bank bailout was for Mitt Romney’s “Wall Street billionaire buddies” while Michigan workers got their faces slapped? (Santorum opposed the auto bailout, too. Was he slapping workers’ faces?)
Ladies and gentlemen, this isn’t conservatism. It’s more like street-corner Marxism. What a strange and tragic pass we’ve reached.”
“Pantorum (As in Pander) tritely revealed his true colors in Michigan.”
I’m afraid we haven’t seen anything yet. Santorum is capable of selling his delegates to Romney for a VP slot, if it isn’t already done in the backroom.
Normally he should have stepped down in Florida. Ask yourselves WHO has kept his candidature afloat?
It’s useful to mention that although not competing in Florida, Santorum’s campaign ran there negative ads against Gingrich (with whose money?), and he did the same thing in Missouri, where Newt wasn’t even on the ballot.
Mitt&Rick, the underground team? Everything is possible.