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Rick Santorum: Electing an amateur in 2016 is unthinkable
The Washington Post's Right Turn Blog ^ | January 12, 2015 | Jennifer Rubin, Queen of the NeoCons

Posted on 01/12/2015 8:16:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Rick Santorum may have his faults as a potential presidential contender, but he is dead right about Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.): “Do we really want someone with this little experience? And the only experience they have basically — not [Sen. Marco] Rubio, but Cruz and Paul because I don’t think Rubio is going to go — is bomb throwing? Do we really want somebody who’s a bomb thrower, with no track record of any accomplishments?”

Cruz may suffer from a lack of consistency, an erratic foreign policy and a grossly inappropriate temperament, but he does, to his credit, understand that we are engaged in a war for our civilization. Not Paul, however.

Just days after the streets of Paris ran with blood, Paul’s camp declares that he is going to New Hampshire to focus on guns and Common Core in the election. Really — that’s a presidential agenda? It is indicative of the negative and small-ball sort of issues that he focuses on, assuming that the base is so dim as to care most about these issues. As for guns, no one really imagines that the Second Amendment, which made it unscathed during six years of President Obama, is unscathed....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: 2016gopprimary; backstabberromney; heisastupidhead; lping; randpaul; romneysurrogate; romneyvscruz; santorum; teamromney; tedcruz
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1 posted on 01/12/2015 8:16:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why not? They elected a worse amateur twice.


2 posted on 01/12/2015 8:18:51 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We need a strict-constructionist conservative that can educate the country...Ted Cruise is one of the few possible solutions...that from one who thinks it is already way too late.


3 posted on 01/12/2015 8:19:33 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rick, You ain’t the guy.

Support Cruz.

He knows how to fight.

You don’t.


4 posted on 01/12/2015 8:19:35 PM PST by G Larry (Daesh - Obama's future dream for his friends in the Muslim Brotherhood)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t like Sanatorum. He looks and acts smarmy. Women don’t like that. He has no charisma.


5 posted on 01/12/2015 8:20:01 PM PST by Cry if I Wanna
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, because Obama had such a deep resume.


6 posted on 01/12/2015 8:20:16 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Santorum has zero chance. How does a guy as boring as Santorum have the ego to think people will vote for him?


7 posted on 01/12/2015 8:20:38 PM PST by Dr. Thorne ("Don't be afraid. Just believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would prefer a governor with at least a term and a half....who is currently serving. When did Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, or Mitt Romney last hold office?

As for the senators, they usually get knocked out in the primaries. There is an obvious exception, but I don’t think the voters will make that sort of mistake again.


8 posted on 01/12/2015 8:21:28 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Santorum is always going after the conservatives in the field. It’s what he does. He dismantles them like the little scumbag that he is, and then he hands things off to the RINO because the little turd in the sweater vest is unelectable and only good for attacking others. I still remember when this scumbag was agreeing with others that we shouldn’t be “attacking conservatives,” and yet he was still running disgusting ads against Newt.


9 posted on 01/12/2015 8:22:25 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

For those who haven’t read the article, it isn’t really about Santorum or Cruz. It’s about Rand Paul.


10 posted on 01/12/2015 8:23:43 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amateurs built the Ark.

Professionals built the Titanic.

I rest my case.


11 posted on 01/12/2015 8:25:11 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sick Sanatorium


12 posted on 01/12/2015 8:25:23 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better a so-called amateur than a has-been.


13 posted on 01/12/2015 8:25:33 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Dr. Thorne

Because he won Iowa...


14 posted on 01/12/2015 8:27:22 PM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: Cry if I Wanna
Condescending too. It's good to be assertive and self-confident and Santorum started out that way, but eventually, he began to look down his nose at the “little people.” His personality became tiresome.
15 posted on 01/12/2015 8:28:22 PM PST by fatnotlazy
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16 posted on 01/12/2015 8:28:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Newt was GOP-E all the way. He was the one who told New York to vote for deedee Scozfava because she was a solid Republican, and then she endorsed her democrat opponent a few days later. And did you hear the tongue bath he gave Boehner on Hannity’s show? No way Newt!


17 posted on 01/12/2015 8:30:08 PM PST by chae (The Lannisters send their regards--Game of Thrones)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Go away, Rick.
18 posted on 01/12/2015 8:30:31 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Agreed. We need someone who has put in a term or two as a governor of a significant state to run. That does NOT include RINO’s Bush or Romney.


19 posted on 01/12/2015 8:31:05 PM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No problem with Santorum’s advice, which he should follow.


20 posted on 01/12/2015 8:31:43 PM PST by Reno89519 (For every illegal or H1B with a job, there's an American without one.)
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