Posted on 01/05/2012 5:25:15 PM PST by mdittmar
Republican presidential upstart Rick Santorum found himself under increasing scrutiny on Thursday as front-runner Mitt Romney tried to chip away at his credibility ahead of the key New Hampshire primary. Santorum's surge in Iowa, which held its nominating contest on Tuesday, was so quick that his record as a U.S. senator and strong conservative views against abortion and gay marriage escaped close attention from his 2012 presidential rivals and the media. His entry into New Hampshire was rocky. College students booed him at New England College over his position against gay marriage and he was forced to explain a remark he made in Iowa that appeared to single out blacks as recipients of federal assistance. A Suffolk University tracking poll showed Romney on cruise control in New Hampshire ahead of its primary next Tuesday but that Santorum had risen to a distant third. It gave Romney 41 percent support, Ron Paul 18 percent and Santorum 8 percent, and Romney spent the day campaigning in South Carolina. After finishing a close second to Romney in Iowa and bursting into the limelight, Santorum is under the microscope, drawing fire from Senator John McCain, a Romney supporter who clashed often with Santorum over government spending when they were Senate colleagues.
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GO PERRY GO!
Go, Perry, Go!! Go, Santorum, GO!! Go, Newt, GO!!
FUMR!! FUKR!! FUAP!! FUBO!!
Oddly, not a critical word about Willard, who's been a front runner for months now.
Could these a**holes be any more transparent??
College students booed him at New England College over his position against gay marriage
So what?
People that support perverts getting married are not likely to be voters for a conservative anyhow..........
“GO PERRY GO!”
So the baby killers and gay activists don’t like Rick Santorum. So what? Does that mean we should get back to killing babies and bringing gerbils into churches, as Reuters clearly wants?
“Oddly, not a critical word about Willard, who’s been a front runner for months now.”
Is there any criticism about Romney that hasn’t previously been explored or isn’t already widely known? I’m pretty sure that’s why he’s not been able to expand his support.
People that support perverts getting married are not likely to be voters for a conservative anyhow.
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Exactly. And as far as his “Blacks and Welfare” remarks: Blacks will vote for Obama 95% anyhow.
SPEAK THE TRUTH RICK!!!
Wow! Didn’t see that coming!
/s
I have the feeling the MSM is overplaying their hand, though. Given Obama's low approvals people are certainly hoping for an alternative, and they have to be noticing how the mainstream network news media is acting as political assassins on his behalf.
How they can retain any credibility at all is beyond me.
Voter ID, for one.
Santorum never said "black". CBS put that word there, in front of "people's lives". Inside the quotation marks. But he never said it. And the video of the event proves it.
They lied.
Again.
After our caucus here in Iowa, and the 2008 general election, I've finally had to face reality. The reality is that the vast majority of the general public are uninformed dunces.
Meaning they're not dunces, they're voting their own pocketbooks.
Maybe that makes you feel better.
Then again, maybe it doesn't - after all, stupid people can be informed.
Santorum is about to see how it feels to be standing under a waterfall of Manure coming down on him.
He has never experienced the Horse biscuit battle coming his way.
If he survives I may vote for him.
He could let them use their college ID cards.
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