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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?

...namely, that Santorum's core beliefs and personal traits are untenable in a general election.

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.

For that matter, why do I never really hearing all these stories that Obama was too liberal to attract women and independents, he certainly wasn't a wishy-washy middle of the road candidate.

24 posted on 02/21/2012 7:26:58 AM PST by apillar
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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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