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Rick Perry's Intriguing Idea for Bi-National Health Insurance …“Contrary to Sen. Santorum’s impression, the idea here was to explore the possibility of allowing private insurers to cover health services provided in either Texas or Mexico. It was an attempt at studying the deregulation of the provision of health insurance by private entities.”…...
At the rate we’re going, the run up for the 2016 election will begin before all the ballots are counted for 2012
He’s right. It’s absurd we’re running elections a year ahead of time just for a primary (and at this rate, we could hold the national conventions in February). They ALL need to be pushed forward back to where they used to be in the late Spring or Summer.
Santorum’s correct, completely correct. The purpose of the primaries is to vet candidates and is part of the electorates discovery process. Speeding that up benefits the insiders over the outsiders, the known over the unknown, and the deep pockets over the shallow. It isn’t good for our country.
Ronald Reagan 1975 CPAC speech:
“I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?”
Screw Santorum.
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Hadn't heard that. If Nevada is on January 14, Iowa and/or New Hampshire could be in December.
Texas holds our primary in March..I hate these early primaries.
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Rick Santorum couldn’t catch up if the primaries were all held in April
It’s a Romney Cain Perry race IMO
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To keep the order of early primary/caucus states intact, as determined by the RNC, if one shifts the date than they all need to revisit the schedule.
I doubt it was Romney himself as much as his supporters or state operatives...not putting anything past the man himself, of course, But it is a good opening for Huntsman and Santorum to see the weakness in his armour and keep it up with the ethics charges.
Which doesn't say much about the Senate.
There have been several credible media supports suggesting ROmney’s well-entrenched election campaign has influenced the dates of primaries and caucuses.
There is NO evidence that Rick Perry, who just entered the race 2 months ago, has had any influence at all on the primary schedule.
But Facts don’t seem to bother Santorum, as seen by his lumping every frontrunner together in his attack on early primaries, and also his willingness to buy into the false, baseless attack about the stupid rock.