How about Rick Santorum as McCain’s VP?
A good man & I think he’d pull in Pennsylvania for the win.
If Santorum couldn’t manage to get himself re-elected to his Senate seat, how would he help carry Pennsylvania in the Presidential election? (I agree he’s a good man, and was very disappointed when he was defeated, but I’m just trying to be realistic.)
Santorum is another example of how the Conservative movement is dead, for now. McCain wouldn’t take him (My money would be on Lieberman) and Santorum lost his re-election bid in PA to a Liberal Democrat by 18%.
Santorum has gone on many radio shows in the past few weeks opposing McPain ....with good reason ...
“How about Rick Santorum as McCain’s VP?”
Santorum hates John McCain . . no way they would team up.
“How about Rick Santorum as McCain’s VP?”
Uh huh. ... Hell will freeze over first.
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/g/9e163793-59da-4b2c-88ae-be7f8f4ec09d
Rick Santorum on how awful the RINO John McCain was in the Senate:
“RS: Well, I mean, because John McCain was the leader on the other side of the aisle. John McCain was the guy who was working with Ted Kennedy to drive it down our throats, and lectured us repeatedly about how xenophobic we were, lectured us, us being the Republican conference, about how wrong we were on this, how we were on the wrong side of history, and that you know, this is important for his…because having come from Arizona, knowing the strength of the Hispanic community, that we were going to be seen as racists, and he wasn’t going be part of that, that he was not a racist, and that if we were for tougher borders, it was a racist thing. Look, John McCain looks at things through the eyes, on these kind of domestic policy issues, looks at it through the eyes of the New York Times editorial board, and accepts that predisposition that if you are not, if you stand for conservative principles, there’s some genetic defect.”
“RS: Well, number one, John McCain will not get the base of the Republican Party. I mean, there was a reason John McCain collapsed last year, and it’s because he was the frontrunner, and everybody in the Republican Party got a chance to look at him. And when they looked at him, they wait well, wait a minute, he’s not with us on almost all of the core issues of…on the economic side, he was against the President’s tax cuts, he was bad on immigration. On the environment, he’s absolutely terrible. He buys into the complete left wing environmentalist movement in this country. He is for bigger government on a whole laundry list of issues. He was…I mean, on medical care, I mean, he was for re-importation of drugs. I mean, you can go on down the list. I mean, this is a guy who on a lot of the core economic issues, is not even close to being a moderate, in my opinion. And then on the issue of, on social conservative issues, you point to me one time John McCain every took the floor of the United States Senate to talk about a social conservative issue. It never happened. I mean, this is a guy who says he believes in these things, but I can tell you, inside the room, when we were in these meetings, there was nobody who fought harder not to have these votes before the United States Senate on some of the most important social conservative issues, whether it’s marriage or abortion or the like. He always fought against us to even bring them up, because he was uncomfortable voting for them. So I mean, this is just not a guy I think in the end that washes with the mainstream of the Republican Party.”