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Posted on 02/10/2012 3:59:14 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative
Please don't make names out of Newt Gingrich.
Rick Santorum has had to deal with “Mr. Sanctimonium,” “Saintorum,” and “Mr. Rogers” comments from Republicans and far worse allusions to gay anal sex from the leftists.
The fact that opponents of Rick Santorum do that to our candidate doesn't mean we should do it to their candidate.
Mariner, I get the point that economic and military conservatives often are uncomfortable with social conservatives. I get it — I really do. We need all three legs of the stool to win, and I don't want to torque off my colleagues who are conservatives of a different stripe than me.
But look at the buzzsaw President Obama ran into over the mandated contraception coverage on the Roman Catholic Church. Apparently even VP Joe Biden opposed that.
Social issues make religious voters very, very, very angry... enough to get out and vote in ways that demographics say they shouldn't vote.
That means key swing states turn Republican that should be Democrat.
If Obama keeps antagonizing Hispanic Roman Catholic voters, he has lost the race if Santorum is the nominee, and he may lose it if Gingrich is the nominee.
Also remember that the incredible vitriol the left wing of the Democratic Party will pour out against Santorum won't go down well with reasonable Americans. Code Pink and ACT-UP may win votes in San Francisco, but they make the Democrats look like crazies. Go google “Santorum” and “gay anal sex” if you want to see how bad those people get.
Most middle-of-the-road Americans will take a Roman Catholic who sounds a little crazy over pink boa-wearing half-naked homosexuals running around the streets in leather thongs bashing Santorum’s stance on gay marriage.
116 posted on Friday, February 10, 2012 8:41:23 PM by gov_bean_ counter: “Santorum’s appeal is more limited than his supporter will want to admit. Florida aside Santorum will not win the Right to Work South.”
That's not a minor issue.
My read is Santorum believes in state's rights on union matters. I support that.
You may well be correct that Gingrich, with his anti-union history, can win the South more easily in the primary. But where will those anti-union voters go if Santorum is the nominee? Certainly not to Obama. Where will pro-union workers in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and other key industrial states go if Gingrich is the nominee? I'm afraid Obama starts to look a lot better to a socially conservative ethnic blue collar worker who usually votes Democrat if the race is between Obama and Gingrich, or (even worse) between Obama and Romney.
Again, that is **NOT** defending unions. Freedom of association is a constitutional right, and while I don't have a problem with workers joining unions if they want to do so, I have a big problem with forcing them to join unions. On the other hand, if a company owner wants to say that as a condition of employment you have to join a union, I am very hard-pressed to say the government should tell companies what their employment rules should be.
My point is that right-to-work legislation isn't as simple as it might appear to be at first. I don't support companies telling workers they have to join unions, but I'm not sure I like the government telling companies they can't make their own decisions on that matter. I can see both sides of the issue and I think the best solution is to have open shops with employees making their own decisions based on whether they think the unions are helping or hurting them.
And I won't cry any. I'm grinning from ear to ear at the news of this zot.
Minn was a known blogpimp apologist.
Yep. And just plain mean too. I will not miss him one bit.
STOP THIS PEOPLE!!
Thanks for the link.
Well said, your entire post - and dead on. I so fear we’ll throw away our only hope for making a real start to turn the Republic around.
I’m being coldly objective here - you’re right that he has the experience, knowledge and ability to accomplish the well thought-out plans he lays out in detail. He deeply believes in our country, but for those skeptics out there - he also has a burning drive to create a historical legacy as the man whose plan undid a lion’s share of the near-fatal damage committed by the most radical, anti-American president in our lifetimes.
I thought his FL speech was pretty good. But the not congratulating the winner thing was a tactical error, he did not need to create that story.
“Once the vetting comes out on Santorum and it will before Super Tues..”
How do you figure? Hope you’re right, but if the #1 goal is to eliminate Newt, then they’ll all leave Santorum alone until it’s too late, I fear.
I just couldn’t believe that Mitt, after that hollow, phony speech, won the CPAC straw poll and Newt finished third. Newt (as always) gave a stellar, impassioned speech. It’s a shame that he made so many powerful RINO enemies because they were threatened by his mover/shaker style going way back. Romney, on the other hand, is a classic example of the wise adage “if a man stands for nothing, he’ll fall for anything”. Santorum? Can’t stand up to Romney in the big picture, much less BHO, on several levels. He’s young, he’ll have other times when he matures. But he’s just not ready for the big-time, and this election is far too important to get it wrong.
We need a proven, driven leader with a detailed, well thought-out plan who can make it happen. Mitt doesn’t care enough and Rick doesn’t know how.
Riddle me this, Batman.
Did the press bother to fellate themselves over Santorum not congratulating Romney over Iowa when it first appeared that Romney had won there?
Was there a journalistic front over Romney failing to congratulate Newt over his momentous, "unexpected"ly large win in South Carolina?
If not, why not?
Cheers!
yea... he was a REAL trouble-make that one.. Thank GOD I don’t have to read his pro-Santorum comments anymore... WHEW!
You people need to get over yourselves and your odd enjoyment at zotting conservatives who don’t comply 100% with you doctrine.
You need to find out who does the zots and who doesn’t.
Whoever it is...I wish they’d spend LESS time ZOTTING,and more time working on keeping servers running... :-(
Prokopton
Since Nov 11, 2003
Also gone zot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2845115/posts?page=200#200
Prokopton
Since Nov 11, 2003
Also gone zot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2845115/posts?page=200#200
Prokopton
Since Nov 11, 2003
Also gone zot.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2845115/posts?page=200#200
I neither spend time zotting nor keeping the servers running. You really should take your complaints up with the people who do those things. I am not a mod, not an IT person.
Then, why do you spend your time posting extravagant visual post CELEBRATING the ZOTTING of members who've been here for 14 years?
YOU THINK.. THAT'S worth CELEBRATING?? I think, it's a damn shame.
You can go ahead and forward this to JimRob and Admins... I hate snitches about as bad as anything. And, I really don't care about this, anymore....
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