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Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum ^

Posted on 11/19/2011 5:49:39 PM PST by Indy Pendance

I took this quiz, and I was 92% in favor of Rick Santorum for president, which surprised me. It's a short, twenty question quiz.

My question, we're going through all the candidates, will we give Santorum his day in the sun?


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I'm not advocating, just inquiring. Does he have a chance? We all wrote off Herman Cain in the early days, then he surged. Will Santorum surge? I like him a lot, but I'm realistic. So, what do you all think?
1 posted on 11/19/2011 5:49:40 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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2 posted on 11/19/2011 5:51:07 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Indy Pendance

“Does he have a chance?” No
“Will Santorum surge?” No


3 posted on 11/19/2011 5:52:11 PM PST by Mountain Mary (Awaken Oh America.)
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To: Indy Pendance
Santorum lost any possibility of getting my support when he chose to back that RINO-turncoat Arlen Specter over a TRUE conservative, Pat Toomey.

FURS!!!!

Santorum needs to pack it in and stop being a nuisance. He's not going anywhere except into the history books as a footnote.
4 posted on 11/19/2011 5:52:45 PM PST by mkjessup (I stand with Herman Cain, a God-fearing, Jesus-loving, Constitution-honoring PATRIOT.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Don’t know much about him but having watched the last few debates only - I thought he did great and wondered by he was at only 1 or 2%.


5 posted on 11/19/2011 5:54:22 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Mountain Mary

Why? No is incomplete.


6 posted on 11/19/2011 5:55:47 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: presently no screen name

Same here, I don’t know a lot, but isn’t this someone we should look into?


7 posted on 11/19/2011 5:56:40 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: Indy Pendance

He was awesome at today’s debate. I was crying.


8 posted on 11/19/2011 5:56:44 PM PST by Yaelle (Still helping the Cain train wheels go round.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Santorum comes off as a poorly on TV. He just has zero “it” factor. Does not come off as a leader at all. I interviewed him in person for 20 minutes. Comes off better in person.


9 posted on 11/19/2011 5:56:44 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Moderator of Florida Tea Party Convention Presidential Debate)
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To: mkjessup

Santorum endorsed Specter, Newt endorsed Scozzafava, Perry endorsed, I think, Rudy? Any other lousy endorsements? Who has Romney, Cain, Bachman endorsed?


10 posted on 11/19/2011 5:56:49 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Indy Pendance

Doomberg came out on the bottom of my list, below Zer0.


11 posted on 11/19/2011 5:56:59 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Indy Pendance
As a resident of PA, I have several problems with Santorum:

1) his backing of Specter over Toomey in 2004

2) His continued support for earmarks.

3) His absorbtion into the Beltway culture

4) And the fact that he got his arse kicked in 2006 - as an incumbent.

12 posted on 11/19/2011 5:57:46 PM PST by dirtboy
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To: C. Edmund Wright

We posted the same second. He was good today.


13 posted on 11/19/2011 5:57:54 PM PST by Yaelle (Still helping the Cain train wheels go round.)
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To: Indy Pendance

Lost his home state of Pennsylvania by like 18 points last time around. It really undermines his claim that he can win PA and rust belt states. He also just doesn’t come across well. I can’t put my finger on it, but I guess he just seems too uptight and not very presidential. Finally, Santorum is sort of known as big on social issues and this election will likely be far more about the economy.

Santorum is a good man, but I don’t think he is going to see a poll boomlet like Cain and Gingrich have. Actually, I’d be thrilled to have either Santorum or Bachmann is President, but I really don’t think they have any chance. For whatever reason, they just don’t project the presidential image I guess people are looking for.


14 posted on 11/19/2011 5:58:40 PM PST by Longbow1969
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Santorum is not my first choice for president. But my first 50 choices aren’t running for president. So I am strongly considering him. It’s laughable to dismiss Santorum and at the same time talk up one of the other candidates running. They all have serious shortcomings.


15 posted on 11/19/2011 5:59:42 PM PST by Crichton
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To: Yaelle

Can you dig up and post the you tube or equivalent? I’m just inquiring. I hadn’t considered him, but, the last day or so, he’s been popping up on my radar screen.

I think a surge might be happening.


16 posted on 11/19/2011 6:00:45 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: mkjessup
when he chose to back that RINO-turncoat Arlen Specter

True...but all candidates are showing their warts.

Is the Toomey thing the litmus test as opposed to, say, speaking out in favor of global warming?

17 posted on 11/19/2011 6:00:53 PM PST by Siena Dreaming
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To: Indy Pendance

he comes across as having a chip on his shoulder—as if he’s owed public office.


18 posted on 11/19/2011 6:01:11 PM PST by ken21
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To: Indy Pendance
Santorum is a RINO cheat. Just because he spews the right sound bites does not make him a conservative. He earmarked money for community block development programs, voted for subsidies for ethanol supposedly to prevent global warming, demanded money for Amtrak projects to help unions, endorsed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey and triangulated his position on abortion in 1990. He repeatedly voted to raise the debt limit.

Right now, he is positioning himself to be the running mate of Mitt Romney so that in case Romney gets the nomination, the frauds can come and tell us that we should support the ticket since the VP choice is that of a conservative.

Santorum is also acceptable to Karl Rove which makes him yet another crooked politician whose rhetoric is conservative but whose record is liberal.

19 posted on 11/19/2011 6:01:53 PM PST by JimWayne
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To: Indy Pendance

Something is screwy with that survey. I changed some answers and it keeps putting Santorum at the top. Even changing some to liberal answers as an experiment. (I even changed answers to things like supporting Obamacare, etc and Santorum always ended up on top..)

I wonder if that site is owned by a certain campaign’s camp?


20 posted on 11/19/2011 6:02:16 PM PST by mnehring
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