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Santorum? Really? He's atop the GOP heap. Are they nuts?
philly.com ^ | February 20, 2012 | John Baer

Posted on 02/21/2012 7:12:42 AM PST by Marguerite

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To: Marguerite
Because I want to.

Really? I would be ashamed to. Usually articles by liberal scum are only posted for counterpoint arguments...not to support our own views. It looks to me like a desperate move to smear a good man. Shameful.

41 posted on 02/21/2012 7:40:56 AM PST by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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To: 2nd Amendment

Romneybot post.

Big hair boy Trump must have written this.


42 posted on 02/21/2012 7:41:40 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Little Ray

at the end of the day it boils down to that.


43 posted on 02/21/2012 7:43:07 AM PST by RitchieAprile
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To: Marguerite

Did you catch Santorum on Hannity’s TV show last night? Sean had him on to help him “explain” his recent remarks concerning phony theology, contraception, etc. Sean did his best, but the problem is that if a candidate has to go on a friendly TV show and spend 10 minutes or so explaining remarks that the media can play over and over in sound bites, well, he has a big problem. I see that in one poll, Romney has caught up to him in Michigan. If Santorum falls in Michigan and Arizona, I don’t believe he has time for another comeback. Newt seems to be positioned perfectly, as Rush said, to step in as the non-Romney once Santorum falls back.


44 posted on 02/21/2012 7:43:29 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: Marguerite
Hey, Baer...if Santorum is so insignificant, why did you devote a whole column to write about him? Me thinks thou (and the rest of the liberal media) doth protest too much.

Many of us have not really decided on our favorite candidate in the GOP...but we sure don't want you guys telling us who to chose, or why. Especially since you obviously picked the wrong guy last time and he is in the WH now destroying our country. Y'all ain't too smart! LOL

45 posted on 02/21/2012 7:44:42 AM PST by CitizenM (Obama's legacy will be to be remembered as The architect of the decline of the USA)
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To: pgkdan

Me thinks that the article poster is a Newtbot.


46 posted on 02/21/2012 7:45:50 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: nuconvert
I think the post is actually a Willard ad, so you must be correct.
47 posted on 02/21/2012 7:45:59 AM PST by org.whodat (Sorry bill, I should never have made all those jokes about you and Lewinsky, have fun.)
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To: Marguerite
The problem is that women vote in national elections.

That's not a problem for me—or for Santorum. Most women are pro-life, by a bigger percentage than men.

48 posted on 02/21/2012 7:47:02 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

You have 4 or 5 choices. St. Rick, St. Newt, St. Mitt, or St. Paul. And you already know the 5th is Dear Leader.

That is it. Two are okay, one is not, and one is only half okay. One is horrible.

The two that are okay are all we have left against the one that isn’t, and the one that is horrible. The fact we still have two that are okay is a good buffer.

That is reality. A brokered convention will give you St. Mitt.


49 posted on 02/21/2012 7:48:19 AM PST by dforest
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To: pgkdan
Shameful? But when you pathologically smear Newt it is ordained by God or something, and therefore exalted as necessary, as well as justified? (Just curious)
50 posted on 02/21/2012 7:48:38 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Dr. Sivana

From 2001 to 2004, the Pennsylvania district school paid $38,000 per year as tuition for five of his children living in Virginia all around the year, on a cyber-home school program to Rick Santorum.

Do the math yourself.

Santorum told KDKA Radio that his niece lives in and “looks after” the Penn Hills house when he’s not there. He also admitted that when he goes to Pennsylvania, where he spends “about a month per year” there, he and most of the family usually stay somewhere else — with his in-laws — while his niece and her husband keep “watching” the house:

“We have a nice arrangement there. It works out well. Candidly, we just sort of work it out. Sometimes, a couple of my kids stay over there with the niece and her husband.”

But $100,000 paid for by local property taxes isn’t nothing. So under public pressure Santorum withdrew his children from the cyber school, but refused to reimburse the Penn Hills School District, who had to go to court to get back the $100,000 – spending even MORE time and MORE taxpayer dollars to get back money Santorum never should have pursued in the first place.

The Department of Education decided to end the dispute in 2006 by paying back to the Penn Hills District School a sum of $55,000 (federal funds from taxpayers’ money as well).


51 posted on 02/21/2012 7:49:24 AM PST by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity
We are pointing out that Rick will certainly lose and cost us Congress, too.

Absurd.

52 posted on 02/21/2012 7:50:21 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity

And who is this “we”? You and this Marg are a team?


53 posted on 02/21/2012 7:51:22 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Scythian; All

I’ve seen Marguerite on other threads. She’s a Newt supporter.


54 posted on 02/21/2012 7:53:25 AM PST by no dems (How did we end up with such an inferior GOP slate of candidates for President this year?)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

When do I ‘patholgically smear’ Newt? I merely point out that Newt is undisciplined and can’t be trusted. I can point to his climate change rhetoric and commercials as examples. That’s not a smear. That’s an argument. Posting drivel from liberals is a smear.


55 posted on 02/21/2012 7:53:25 AM PST by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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To: apillar
Maybe conservatives (and Republicans in general) are finally fed up with the mainstream media telling them what kind of candidate they HAVE to nominate to win and have finally decided to say, screw the main stream media, screw the so called "moderates" and "independent women", we're going to pick the most conservative candidate and the one that closest reflects our values, then let the chips fall where they may. After all, we allowed the media to pick our, so called "perfect" candidate in 2008, who was "moderate" and appealed to women and independents and checked all the right boxes that the media wanted checked...and of course he got creamed in November.

What you said! I get sooo sick of people like Neal Boortz saying the same thing, that we've got to bow to the precious moderates and independents. Funny how Comrade Zero doesn't have to come across as a "moderate".

56 posted on 02/21/2012 7:54:04 AM PST by Marathoner (In the 80s we had Reagan, Johnny Cash and Bob Hope. Now we have Obama, no cash and no hope.)
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To: Marguerite

so this reporter is upset the MSM did not “take out” santorum.

This just goes with what Brit Hume is saying, the MSM is so out of step with the real world that when someone makes a statement about the obvious, the MSM freaks out.


57 posted on 02/21/2012 7:54:27 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: KeyLargo
Me thinks that the article poster is a Newtbot.

Yep. And a frustrated, desperate one at that.

58 posted on 02/21/2012 7:55:15 AM PST by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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To: pgkdan

That may be the worst analysis I’ve seen on FR in days. That is not at all what happened. You may be technically correct about his comeback, but your reasoning is beneath specific reply.


59 posted on 02/21/2012 7:55:37 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Marguerite
How in the name of all that's holy is Rick Santorum atop national polls for the Republican nomination?

I have a better question.

How the hell did a common grifter become President of the United States?

ML/NJ

60 posted on 02/21/2012 7:57:08 AM PST by ml/nj
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