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Rick Santorum To Launch Presidential Campaign On June 6 In Pennsylvania
ABC News ^ | 05/26/2011 | Susan Archer

Posted on 05/26/2011 2:46:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Rick Santorum will announce his candidacy for president on June 6 in Pennsylvania, a source close to the former Pennsylvania senator told ABC News on Thursday.

Santorum will be the sixth major candidate to declare his candidacy in the wide open race for the Republican nomination.

The announcement will take place at a location in southwestern part of the state, near where his grandfather worked in the coal mines after arriving in America from Italy.

A social conservative, Santorum served as a Pennsylvania senator for two terms until 2006 when he was defeated by 18 points. However, this loss has not deterred him from a 2012 run.

Well before many of his contenders, Santorum was out campaigning heavily in battleground states. Last week he completed his 14th visit to Iowa. He's visited the Hawkeye State far more than any of the other Republican presidential nominees. Earlier this week, Santorum was in Sarasota, Florida meeting with supporters and local Republican leaders.

According to a campaign source, the location of Santorum's June 6 announcement "is significant because when Senator Santorum's grandfather left fascist Italy, he came to this country for America's freedom and the opportunity our nation afforded him."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2012; potus; ricsantorum; santorum

1 posted on 05/26/2011 2:46:22 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

“Santorum will be the sixth MAJOR candidate to declare his candidacy...”

Satorum, major? Really???


2 posted on 05/26/2011 2:51:03 PM PDT by Above My Pay Grade
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To: SeekAndFind

YAWN!


3 posted on 05/26/2011 2:52:24 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Could Sarah’s bus tour have made him feel the need to pre-announce by two weeks?


4 posted on 05/26/2011 2:54:29 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Above My Pay Grade

OK, I realize that Santorum does not excite many people here... but he looks like a DECENT, ARTICULATE candidate.

There are two beefs against him that I can think of... which I am ready to overlook in light of his sterling Senate Record, so let’s spell it out :

* He supported the double turncoat and fake Republican, Arlen Specter when Pat Toomey challenged him.

* He LOST his Senate seat by a HUGE margin in his most recent attempt.

Other than that, I can’t think of any other flaw that he has POLICY WISE.


5 posted on 05/26/2011 2:54:46 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (u)
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To: R. Sanctorum

Please don't.

6 posted on 05/26/2011 2:57:10 PM PDT by I see my hands (Embrace misanthropy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Brilliant, Rick! Launch your campaign in a state that threw you out last time by 18 percentage points! Santorum is a case where the classic Dem playbook of “Conservative = Dumb” actually does apply.


7 posted on 05/26/2011 3:05:57 PM PDT by Reo
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To: SeekAndFind

Give me sanity, not Santorum! I vote for no man who dyes his hair!


8 posted on 05/26/2011 3:10:43 PM PDT by WellyP
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To: SeekAndFind

Rick’s about to be run over by Sarah’s “One Nation” bus.


9 posted on 05/26/2011 3:10:53 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: SeekAndFind

His name is not Obummer...Check

His name is not Romney...Check

Looks good to me.


10 posted on 05/26/2011 3:15:50 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: SeekAndFind
* He LOST his Senate seat by a HUGE margin in his most recent attempt.

Over looking that 'beef' when he is running for higher office is a big mistake.

11 posted on 05/26/2011 3:29:06 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sixth major candidate? More like, he joins five other retread wannabe’s, to challenge the front runner, who hasn’t announced yet. None of these six will ever become President.


12 posted on 05/26/2011 3:38:17 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Santorum is a jackass.

This loser is running for money just like Newt.

He has zero shot.
13 posted on 05/26/2011 3:39:51 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Minus_The_Bear
I had two years covering him in Southcentral Pa. He's an arrogant nut bag.
14 posted on 05/26/2011 3:51:41 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Now I have to pay my bills since we are still here after the 21st. Just darn.)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Satorum, major? Really???

Well yes really!
Santorum is a well known CONSERVATIVE with a proven record.
He has campaigned numerous times and can raise money


15 posted on 05/26/2011 4:09:19 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: AGreatPer
I had two years covering him in Southcentral Pa. He's an arrogant nut bag.

I got that from seeing him in the first debate. Defensive with theocratic tendencies is not a temperament I want in the White House.

The AlGore orange face wasn't something I want to see either.

16 posted on 05/26/2011 4:33:59 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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Santorum can’t possibly win. He’ll never get over the ‘google problem’.


17 posted on 05/26/2011 4:34:43 PM PDT by Behemothpanzer (You are entitled to your own opinion. You are not entitled to your own facts.)
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To: newzjunkey
theocratic tendencies

Talk like a radical, left wing, delusional, paranoid, nut bag much?

18 posted on 05/26/2011 8:56:54 PM PDT by Minn
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