Posted on 02/10/2012 5:20:51 AM PST by Josh Painter
Rick Santorum has backtracked from his 2008 endorsement of Mitt Romney by saying he was for “anyone put McCain.” But in this 2008 interview with Laura Ingraham Santorum praised Romney at great length — contradicting some of what he says today. In the interview, Santorum calls Romney a “true conservative” and says he “is someone we can trust.”
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I cannot fault anyone for choosing Romney over McCain in 2008.
Once again, the “conservative” base is a ship of FOOLS. The GOP Titanic. And the Iceburg is named Rick “me too” Santorum.
I suggest conservatives fall in behind Santorum rather than taking shots at him that just help Romney. Newt will NEVER, NEVER win the nomination. Your choice is Santorum or Romney. It is up to you.
Forget about trashing your opponent. Especially if your opponent is someone you've promoted in the past. It will only come back to bite you in the Biden.
Instead, focus on Conservatism. Focus on freedom. Focus on what you want to do as President to make America great again.
Also, forget about patting yourself on the back for all the wonderful legislation you authored, co-authored, helped push through, etc.
To us (at least to me), "passing legislation" means bigger government.
Your head will explode from all the nice things Romney will be forced to say about Santorum after Santorum wins the nomination.
Be sure to capture it on tape and e-mail it to me.
I mean, you won't be around to collect the 10,000 dollars anyway so......
Interesting question, what would Putin do to ____.
Let’s compare the next imminent struggle we face, to the last fight for civilization. Putin is Stalin, who was less of a threat than Hitler and against the Nazis.
Putin, even with his horns and hooves and tail, hates the Islamists and recognizes the danger they present.
There are but two candidates with the fortitude and common sense to see the threat of Islam and they are Gingrich and Santorum.
Putin would not even want to sit down with anybody else, and unfortunately we are going to need his cooperation in the next war.
Following Duncan Hunter’s dropping out of the 2008 race, I decided Mitt was the best candidate remaining, and donated.
That was before I came to conclude, that it was Romney’s machine which sabotaged Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, and was the problem in the GOP.
Romney does not seek to do what is right. Romney seeks the presidency as an end. I no longer trust the man.
Ever think maybe Santorum in his own way, traveled that same decision loop about Romney?
How about we stop tearing down Santorum. After all, that helps who exactly?...
Barack Obama, or Mitt Romney. Take your pick.
2007/2008 wasn’t exactly a prime choice of Conservative options, just like now. At the same time and before this was going on, Newt was gaga over Rudy- not much different than Romney on the issues.
Just one example.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2008/01/15/4430824-newt-gives-rudy-credit
Maybe we can focus on what issues they bring to the role of Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces and not stuff like this which isn’t part of the Constitutionally mandated role in the job.
The way I see it, we have two halfway decent options, Newt or Santorum. The other two are completely out of the question. So why would we help destroy either Newt or Santorum? Let’s deal with cleaning the overt RINOs out.
[I mean, you won’t be around to collect the 10,000 dollars anyway so......]
Are you threatening me?
I wouldn't and didn't. To compress it into a nutshell, I weighed Romney's facility in saying where he stands on abortion, against McCain's facility in saying what the North Vietnamese wanted him to say in exchange for a first-class ticket home. Romney found it easy to deliver the lines; McCain did not.
Romney, who never wore the uniform, and who has endorsed the slaughter of infants, finds it easy to say what people want to hear: I'm conservative, I'm pro-life, I'm pro-2A.
McCain was going slowly into senile dementia, but he still hasn't ever sunk as low as Mitt Romney.
Santorum deserves scrutiny and has much in his past that contradicts the claims being made by many here. Especially after the rigid unforgiving scrutiny towards Newt, and the only one who deserves latitude is Santorum in that same regard.
Seriously, I still have faith that you are a better thinker than that.
I too think Newt would be someone with backbone. Santorum on earmarks doesn’t bother me as much as it does some. I do not know where you learned your history but the Declaration does NOT guarantee us anything....it is a statement of principles
For Gingrich? You? You’ll tear down conservative candidates for Gingrich? Newt Gingrich? How far we have fallen.
BTW, who did Newt Gingrich endorse in 2008? Did he do anything for any candidate in 2008? I haven’t found it on the web, maybe you know, since apparently it is critically important to you.
Santorum’s the only one left, but Herman Cain endorsed Romney in 2008 at about the same time as Santorum, and also said he was a conservative, and said other really nice things. And there was a time Cain was the one that was going to save conservatives in this election, and a lot of people here loved him, and then moved to McCain.
Clearly you aren’t one of them, if endorsing Romney and calling him conservative is this important, you would have never supported Herman Cain, and would have been a Gingrich supporter a long time ago.
BTW, did Sarah Palin actually endorse any candidate for President in 2008?
How about Newt’s idolizing of Progressives like Woodrow Wilson ? FDR ?
It's been that way since the day this country was founded and it will continue until the end of time......
This is such a non news story......
Uhhhh, no. If you go back and read my entire post, you'll notice that the first sentence contained what is commonly known in the business as "a joke".
Typically this is abundantly clear to those who posess what is known as "a sense of humor". Apparently yours was violently sucked out moments before birth.
To wit, "Your head will explode from all the nice things Romney will be forced to say about Santorum after Santorum wins the nomination. Be sure to capture it on tape and e-mail it to me."
You see, there's this TV show called "America's Funniest Home Videos in which the winner of each episode wins 10,00 dollars. If and when your head explodes, you won't be around to collect.....oh, forget it....when you have to explain it, it looses all its funniness.
What does that mean?
I can tell you with certainty that she did not endorse Romney, a few years ago a romneybot tried to claim that, but I cured him of that.
I wasn't, I don't recall Jim Robinson being pro-Romney. I do remember an almost Paul like cult movement of Mormon/Romney freepers who drove a lot of Romney stuff here, but as liberals, most of them have either been banned for various liberalisms, or quit posting after he dropped out of the primary, since they were not really interested in conservatism.
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