Incumbency no help to Santorum

PennLive.com ^ | 11/21/2005 | BRETT LIEBERMAN

[fieldmarshaldj]

How does that reconcile itself with his Specter debacle ?

[Edit35]

How does that reconcile itself with his Specter debacle ?

Rick Santorum's support of Spector was the one thing in his current term with which I disagree. (I sort of understand why he did it, but was still ticked)

On the other hand, Santorum is one of the few GOP leaders who is not afraid to stand up and speak out for conservative principles. (remember Terri Shaivo? Whatever your position, you gotta give Santorum props for being unafraid to speak his mind)

He is the same strong advocate on Life, low taxes, business issues, the war against Islam loonies, etc.

I simply cant believe Pennsylvanians would turn away such a strong, young, principaled leader.

[Cboldt]

The first thing Rick has to do is shut up with his Bush bashing comments on Imus.

I hadn't heard about him Bush bashing. In fact, hadn't even heard about him making an appearance in Imus' radio program. So I googled it. OMG, LOL funny. Below snippet from a liberal website, not my views, but made me laugh.

Wednesday, November 2. 2005

WHOA. We're not sure where to even begin with this one. Rick Santorum called in unannounced to Imus today after Imus apparently referred to Rick as a "suit dummy." Rick wanted to refute Imus' characterization of him. We don't believe he was successful.

Here's the audio of a large chunk of the interview.

In the clip Rick does the following:

• Says Libby, Cheney and Chalabi are all honest and didn't lie.
• Claims Joe Wilson is a liar.
• Says the CIA has a grudge against Chalabi and tried to destroy him.
• Snaps out on Imus for challenging his claims (a recurring theme we've discussed before).
• Compares not being able to safely drive from the Baghdad Airport into Baghdad today to conditions in Philadelphia in 1778 - to which, Imus points out there was no airport in Philadelphia then.
• Says that Imus' wife called him and said she wanted to "do a threesome."
• Calls Bill Frist, "a really decent, honorable man."

Besides pointing out the problem with Rick's comparison of Baghdad to Philadelphia in 1778, Imus has at least two great lines during the interview. Almost 5 minutes into the audio clip, in response to Rick's analysis of the situation in Iraq Imus says, "you have an IV of the neo-con Kool-Aid, don't you?" One minute later in the clip Imus accuses Rick of being "so misguided it's almost disturbing."

"Suit dummy" sounds much nicer in comparison.

http://santorumexposed.com/serendipity/index.php

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Nov 2, 2005
By: Phil Singer, DSCC

This morning, Rick Santorum appeared on Imus in the Morning and defended the Bush Administrations motivation for going to war in Iraq. When pressed by Imus to comment on whether Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney and the rest of that crowd lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Santorum launched an all out defense of the Bush Administration. These misguided comments come just days after Libby was indicted for his role in the CIA leak case and after the total number of U.S. casualties topped the 2,000 mark.

http://www.dscc.org/news/roundup/20051102_santorumbush/

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When Rick Santorum went on Don Imus' morning show on MSNBC this week, he received an unlikely de facto endorsement. Imus, who is known for disliking Republicans, particularly incumbent politicians, said: "I like Senator Santorum and I think you ought to be re-elected."

Imus' co-hosts, Charles and Bernie, backed up Sen. Santorum as well, with Charles saying the Imus team should all "hang" with the Senator. Bernie questioned Bob Casey, Jr., the likely Democrat opponent in the race, "I think we ought to stick with our guy [Santorum]. Just because he's [Casey] the governor's son, he's going to be a senator? That's nepotism." (MSNBC's "Imus in the Morning," 9/28/05)

http://richardksimon.redstate.org/

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I wont vote for Santorum. He needs to look for another job.

If by some miracle, the democrats take the House and Senate, they will vote to impeach, and Casey will vote with democrats to convict.

My Republican brothers told me yesterday they're not voting next time here in PA, and they don't care if Bush gets impeached.

[cynicom]

I am now and always have been a conservative, never a party member or follower.I have been voting in Federal elections since Eisenhower. With the exceptions of Goldwater and Reagan, voting has been for the lesser of two evils.

This sad state of politics exists because there are few differences in parties.

Bush and Santorum choose to thwart a conservative in Pa. for the Senate. Now the party has the gall to ask for conservative votes for Santorum. That is the height of hypocrisy.

I will vote but the office of Senator will remain blank.

[AdamWilliams]

A saw recently where there are new ads praising Santorum's tax cuts in PA. Casey is rightfully upset about this b/c it seems to be the first major ad buy by an outside group. It looks like Santorum is benefitting from ads from people who don't have to identify themselves. I know this is somewhat normal, but it just gets under my skin that it's being initiated by Santorum.

[Wolfie]

PA has a lot to lose by voting out Santorum in the way of clout.

Damn straight. If you can't win on the pork, what can you win on?

[b4its2late]

The presstitutes are starting early. Notice how they aren't even talking about Mrs. Clinton and her senate run? They feel it's in the bag and they are probably right. But I can only hope.

[steve-b]

I wrote Santorum on his legislation to deny public access to public weather data. It so happens that AccuWeather is in his district, and they had ponied up big time. The response that I received was more hostile than any than I had ever received from any Senator, including Barbara Boxer. I had once been a polite fence sitter, but I sure am not now. The arrogance from this guy's office reveals a remarkable sense of entitlement, and, sadly, this was no isolated incident. Vote the bum out!

This is a particularly squalid example of corruption, and uncomfortably similar to the "crony capitalism" that has derailed attempts to introduce a free market into the former Soviet vassal states.

[steve-b]

In the clip Rick does the following... Says that Imus' wife called him and said she wanted to "do a threesome."

I figured that since you can square Santorum's various government projects with the notion that he is a "conservative", you were the go-to guy for an explanation of how this statement squares with the notion that he is an advocate of "traditional morality".

[MikeA]

Want to help Santorum? Go to http://www.teamvolunteer.com/Login.aspx?client=santorum/ and sign up to make phone calls using your free cell long distance to registered Republican voters in Pennsylvania and work to get out the vote for Santorum! You just sign up with the "register" link, then afterwards you'll get an e-mail approving you with a login and password that then allows you to go in and get phone numbers and names of Republican voters. They provide a script and for each number you call you just check off the result and you're given another.

I did 30 on Monday 30 again today and it was fun! People were nice and seemed really open to hearing a plea on Santorum's behalf. Most were glad I was calling and a few sounded like they may not have been planning to vote but now will.

If enough of us make these calls, we can change the state of play for Santorum. Please help and don't be shy! Let's prove the media pukes wrong and really stuff it in their faces when Santorum shocks the hell out of them and wins!!

[Nancee]

So, now who is growing desperate??

Nancee