[trisham]

Good question.

[x]

If Santorum wanted to protect and foster American manufacturing, he's just doing what Republicans tried to do for most of their history -- especially Pennsylvania Republicans.

You can argue that it's the wrong policy, but not that it's somehow not conservative.

Whether it's the right policy or the wrong one in any given case, I wouldn't want someone who automatically excluded all protectionist measures or all "tax credits for procreation" because of ideological fervor.

We can certainly argue about policy, but I'd hope that Wall Street and libertarian think tanks weren't the only ones with a voice in the debate.

Also, Tamney seems obsessed by this "a future president could undo that" argument.

Well, d-uh, a future president or Congress could undo just about everything a president or Congress does.

That's the nature of the political system, and it's not an argument for voting against someone you agree with about the issues.

[Irish Eyes]

Each one of the Republican had their 10 minutes of fame. RS just happened to be the latest in the bunch. He was lucky only that his turn was during the primaries. Mitt Romney will be our candidate and it is beginning to be the time to rally behind him

Rick Perry was my first choice Newt was my second choice but, it is not going to happen. We need to get rid of obama, that needs to be our objective.

[Irish Eyes]

Each one of the Republican had their 10 minutes of fame. RS just happened to be the latest in the bunch. He was lucky only that his turn was during the primaries. Mitt Romney will be our candidate and it is beginning to be the time to rally behind him

Rick Perry was my first choice Newt was my second choice but, it is not going to happen. We need to get rid of obama, that needs to be our objective.

[dforest]

He is not Mitt, he is not Newt, and he has better character.

Easy

[Darren McCarty]

Anyone but Romney or Obama then.It was a Santorum vs Romney fight here. Santorum was pro-life and pro-2nd Amendment. Romney sucked ass on those issues.

If Perry stayed in, I'd vote for him. Santorum wasn't perfect, but better than Romney, and Newt's changed his mind too much for me although if he lead the state polls, I'd vote for him.

[Darren McCarty]

the very investors whose capital creates those jobs feel it’s yesterday’s news. That investors no longer value factory work explains why they migrated to China, and why a rising China has begun to similarly shed those jobs. For Santorum to then say he’ll bring them back not only smacks of a controlling, central planning gene, but it also speaks to a candidate divorced from reality in the economic sense. If Santorum were to actually succeed in reducing the manufacturing tax rate to zero, this wouldn’t alter the all-important investor perception of work that is no longer valued from a labor-intensive point of view.

Now I'm getting pissed off. This little fairy doesn't get it. Factory work isn't glorious. It's hard work, and this John Tammy elitist ass wouldn't last a day in the factory. Factory jobs are a way for high school grads to make a living and take care of their families. It's not a way to get rich, although it's possible with multiple jobs and good investment decisions with the money earned from the factory. I wouldn't be where I am at as a business owner if it wasn't for the hard work of factory workers like my dad.

Those "investors" also have no loyalty to this country what-so-ever.