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Posted on 01/31/2012 3:37:09 PM PST by VinL
Fresh on the heels of announcing January fundraising numbers in excess of $4 million, Rick Santorum's presidential campaign announced a new television ad that will begin airing Tuesday in Colorado and Nevada.
The ad attacks Newt Gingrich as being too liberal for the GOP nomination by arguing that he shares many policy positions with President Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
"All three supported radical cap and trade legislation that would destroy American jobs and drive up energy costs. All three supported giving illegal aliens some form of amnesty. All three sported the government health mandates which take away our freedom and is the core of ObamaCare. And all three of these politician's supported the Wall Street bailouts that was a slap in the face to the Tea Party," the narrator says.
It goes on to refer to the trio as "cap and trade loving, bailout supporting, soft on immigration, big-government mandating politicians."
The commercial is a sharp indictment of Gingrich, with whom Santorum has split more conservative voters in early primary contests. But the ad does little to attack Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican front-runner who is expected to lead in Nevada polling.
"Rick Santorum for President: he doesn't just talk a good conservative game, he lives it," the narrator says.
Nevada will caucus Feb. 4, with Colorado voters gathering 3 days later at caucus sites across that state.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Something tells me Santorum is gonna turn out to be a big time, hard core establishment RINO who doesn’t really believe in conservative principles.
Something tells me he won’t have an elected office to be a rino from. He wants an appointment. If he wants VP he needs to be sucking up to someone besides Romney
I have been told it is because they are so pure, that a divorce turns them away from Newt.
Evidently while being so deeply Christian, they didn’t notice that Romney is a prohomosexual, proabortion, leader in an anti-christian cult.
Which in my case is not true. I am actually for Newt first and Santorum second. However, the Newt people are pissing me off with their nasty treatment of Santorum. It is so uncalled for.
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You are a minority sharing a candidate choice with a majority, who are going to switch to Romney.
“In the House of Representatives, Santorum played a key role in exposing the House Banking Scandal. That scandal cost incumbent Republicans reelection, but Santorum was rock-solid on integrity.”
excerpt http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/04/santorum_2012.html
But wait, WAIT, he’s not perfect.
Who is?
What I resent most is liberal publications, such as the Hill, Politico, et al, writing articles to divide Republicans, and we play right into their hands. Just read this thread.
WoW!
Well, all of your good work for the Santorum effort against Newt, will be given to Mitt Romney after Rick has squeezed everything out of it that he can on his end.
You have a good point, maybe I will vote for Obama and then at least he can’t come back later, still being young. Plus it beats Mitt. Yes, I may vote for Obama too. Hmmm, interesting.
We’ll see. Four whole states have gone by. 46 states to go. Why you want it to end now is beyond me.
we play right into their hands
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Well, that’ the point, isn’t it? When Newt speaks of Rick, Newt says positive things, but then says that he has more experience, etc.—Nothing wrong with that.
In reply, Rick could simply respond in kind- I like Newt, but he lacks the energy and the vigor— whatever.
But, that’s not what he’s doing with this negative ad. Here, it’s Rick that spawning conservative division. Now, I have nothing against the guy- but here, he’s just acting in derogation of the cause. .
Yep. He has no chance to win so the only reason he is staying in is to try to force himself on Mitt as the VP. Fortunately I am fairly sure he is almost out of money and hopefully will have to drop out after Fla.
I'm sorry, but the question is completely irrelevant. Negative campaigning is a fact of life. If Newt wins the nomination he is going to have a billion dollars of largely negative ads directed his way. It is what it is. It's part of campaigns. Are you so sure Newt hasn't run negative campaigns against conservative challengers in his political past? I'm not, and really it doesn't matter. Whining about negative ads doesn't accomplish squat.
Romney can not run 17 million of negative ads in every state. Newt survived this and had a good showing. We move on. Strong candidates can and do over come this sort of thing. Just anyone can't shake things up, it requires an exceptionally special candidate for the moment. I sense a lot of momentum building behind Gingrich, but it is left to be seen if he is going to be that special kind of candidate that can buck the establishment "safe option" group think. Reagan did, I hope Newt can do it as well. It will make him a stronger candidate. At the state level we've seen strong conservative challengers topple the establishment time and time again - it happened many times in 2010 actually.
Think of this. Harry Reid ran an entirely negative campaign against Sharon Angle in 2010. His entire campaign was designed to sully her so much she'd look as filthy as him. Angle lost. But why? Was it really the negative ads? No, a good candidate would have overcome them. Angle was a bad candidate. Period.
Newt is becoming a more and more impressive campaigner. He is coming into his own. His sincerity shows more and more clearly. I switched my support to him when I saw Perry's inability to debate - very reluctantly at first, but now I am more and more enthusiastic. He may really be the man of the moment, but overcoming negative ads by his competitors - whether it be Romney, Santorum or Paul, is part of the process. Let them throw mud and lets see how he responds. In the end, if Newt wins it will have made him a far stronger nominee - one largely insulated against what much of Obama will throw at him.
That was weird, for a guy who claims to be a Newt supporter, your posts are the opposite.
I t doesn’t bother you that the Santorum voters are going to switch to Romney against Newt?
Flawed thinking on Santorum's part if he thinks that Romney has any integrity. Romney will use him & then dump him out with the trash.
If Romney is elected, he has no use any longer for Santorum.
Possible working for Romney. Pretty sad the state of American politics.
Forgive me, you’re first sentence indicates that you don’t wish to address my initial query- so I didn’t read further.
Yeah it looks like he has sold out. I thought Newt was great tonight though and I’m still ready for the fight. Florida had a lot of early voting, now let’s see how it goes in the other states. The media new they had to push their boy over the top in Florida or it was curtains for him. Go Newt Go !
Rick was totally in joy over Romney winning, you could see it all over him. Maybe it was because Newt lost, but I seriously doubt that.
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