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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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To: chae; Dr. Thorne
"Because he won Iowa..."

He actually tied with Romney at 25%, but okay. So did Mike Huckabee, Dick Gephardt, Tom Harkin, Bob Dole, Edmund Muskie, Fritz Mondale, Al Gore and John Kerry. How many of those men were presidents?

41 posted on 01/12/2015 8:56:21 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: 2ndDivisionVet

Time for Rick to dry up and blow away.


42 posted on 01/12/2015 8:56:42 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (quod est Latine morositate)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

“Santorum 1990: I’m not a Reagan Republican
The Reagan line echoes Romney’s own memorable remark from his 1994 Senate campaign, when he said that he didn’t “want to return to Reagan-Bush.”

Santorum reportedly made a similar statement on a separate occasion. According to an October 28, 1990 piece in the Pittsburgh Press, the afternoon newspaper that eventually became part of the Post-Gazette, he described himself as a “progressive conservative” in his campaign manual…”

Santorum comparing Romney to Reagan, (Romney really despised Reagan and left the party because of him).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMy5J_UJw4U


43 posted on 01/12/2015 8:58:37 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: EternalVigilance

And the case was exquisitely made, if I may say so.


44 posted on 01/12/2015 9:04:27 PM PST by definitelynotaliberal (Go, Cruz! Go!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Santi should talk! Sheesh he may have put in years but effectiveness nada! He couldn’t hold a hand to Cruz’s effectiveness and further he’s not a traitor rhino like Santi was here in Pa...and why we kicked his butt out.


45 posted on 01/12/2015 9:08:31 PM PST by caww
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To: ansel12

Santi will be or say whatever he thinks he needs to to retain his seat at any given moment....he loves to wheel and deal like a gambling man...always to “look” right for the moment. He’s a cad and that’s all there is to it!


46 posted on 01/12/2015 9:11:08 PM PST by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sweater-Vest man!!!!ROTFLOL...lolol...


47 posted on 01/12/2015 9:14:36 PM PST by caww
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To: headstamp 2

Look how that has turned out.

Senators don’t know how to do anything but talk.

I would much prefer a Governor, or someone who has run a large company. Otherwise you get stuck in the BS. Governors know how to move things along.


48 posted on 01/12/2015 9:15:13 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Olog-hai
And who said Noah was an amateur besides?

Yep, it is reasonable to assume that Noah was a professional ark-builder, and that he had had plenty of experience building previous humungous arks. /s

Regards,

49 posted on 01/12/2015 9:21:53 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: EternalVigilance
Amateurs built the Ark.

Professionals built the Titanic.

The Titanic was lost because of bad seamanship, not faulty construction.

50 posted on 01/12/2015 9:24:17 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don't forget my personal favorite, democrat beauty queen and well known intellectual heavyweight, Sheila Lee!

51 posted on 01/12/2015 9:25:16 PM PST by chris37 (heartless)
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To: caww
It appears so, he gives me the willies, and now that I have done so much research on him, I know why.

Here he is supporting Arlen Specter for President.

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52 posted on 01/12/2015 9:27:07 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: Fiji Hill

Yeah. That captain was a real pro.


53 posted on 01/12/2015 9:27:26 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: chae
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!

Newt's quirky behavior includes

I hope he's through with politics for good.
54 posted on 01/12/2015 9:36:51 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The obvious question is what particular duties in the office of the Presidency would Cruz be unable to perform?

Obviously his critics can’t answer this, because the answer is there are none.


55 posted on 01/12/2015 9:40:23 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ll take a patriotic amateur over an anti American amateur any day.


56 posted on 01/12/2015 9:52:24 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So stay home then, Rick! Find a hobby,grow herbal medicines.


57 posted on 01/12/2015 9:57:55 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Kickass Conservative

Slammed Cruz without any reasoning. Just a hit piece without factual discussion.


58 posted on 01/12/2015 10:00:25 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I keep hearing that we don’t want another inexperienced President like Obama.

Can someone point out to me how a lack of experience is his problem instead of his ideology? I think he’s done exactly what he (Valerie) wanted to do, experience be damned.

I’ll take a conservative with the exact same level of experience who’ll move the ball as far in this direction.

And that’s the problem, isn’t it? Name me any of the potential GOP nominees willing to play offense. I can only think of one.

Experience be damned. I want a fighter, not a squish.


59 posted on 01/12/2015 10:00:57 PM PST by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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To: chris37

Bet she buys that new bling iphone.


60 posted on 01/12/2015 10:11:13 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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