Posted on 12/14/2009 3:24:49 PM PST by pissant
IS RICK SANTORUM running for president of the United States, or isn’t he?
I caught him by phone on a people mover at Dulles Airport and posed the question: He’s not running, then again, he’s not NOT running.
En route to South Carolina Tuesday to stump for gubernatorial candidate and Republican Rep. Gresham Barrett, Santorum wasn’t being cagey, just practical. Whether the former Pennsylvania senator can raise the millions needed for a presidential bid remains to be seen.
In the meantime, he has some things to say. For starters: “I have no great burning desire to be president, but I have a burning desire to have a different president of the United States.”
Santorum doesn’t see anyone in his party who energizes the three legs of the stool, as Ronald Reagan described the Republican issue clusters — the economy, national security and social conservatism.
Santorum is no mystery man. He left deep footprints on Capitol Hill, where he served 16 years — 12 in the Senate — before being defeated in 2006. Since then, he has been at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, primarily pumping out op-eds on national security and terrorism.
In fact, Santorum’s “Gathering Storm” e-blasts to journalists and others at one time were so frequent that they began to feel like Chicken Little or Cassandra warnings of doom. You can leap for cover only so many times before you grab an umbrella and say, “I’ll take my chances.”
Though he has tempered the pace of his caveats, Santorum is still deadly serious about growing threats to America’s security, the greatest of which, he says, is Iran: “Afghanistan is important, but Iran is more important and we’re fumbling.”
President Obama, he says, doesn’t have a plan other than talking,
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“functional retard...”
Ok, what part of the Keystone are you from??? LOL
Warrington, Bucks County.
Santorum is a beltway-fevered fraud.
I can’t remember all the reasons I don’t trust him, and I’m not going to bother unless he weasels his way into the 2012 race.
There is really only one reason...but it was a doozie. The sellout of Santorum’s ppolitical “twin” Pat Toomey to support a failing Arlen Specter. If Santorum had NOT done that Toomey would have won; Santorum would have won re-election (read the above from a fellow PA FReeper—Casey IS barely functional) and PA would have TWO Republican Senators. Two less votes for Reid...oh...
Go back to NoVa Ricky...work at the think tank and make your fortune. And stay away from microphones...and shut your trap Ricky about Sarah Palin...you just sound whiny.
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