Posted on 03/21/2013 4:28:46 AM PDT by God'sgrrl
Santorum voted how he voted. You asked for proof and I gave it to you.
Paul has won one election to US Senate. Santorum did the same years ago.
I thought that was one of my better ones!
Is the 2014 SC senate primary not evocative of a bad sitcom rerun?
(On your side, I especially liked ‘adMITT’.)
So, who is this magical candidate? Someone who is a media darling? A person that is not a true conservative? We have been down this road of puttiong up the Rhinos and we got our asses kikced. so wwehn you come up with a real conservative who is not part of the establishment let me know.
We just ran two guys who couldn’t carry their own home states. Let’s not make that mistake again.
Santorum is a loser.
Right! The stakes are way too high to think otherwise.
If he wasn't before, Santorum was toast after his "take one for the team" response to why he voted for the prescription drug giveaway.
And I really don't care about "this party". The Republicans are useless & getting more so every day.
“Hillary simply can’t win”
Don’t fool yourself. Like it or not, all the polls show that she is one of the most popular politicians in the country. As a former secretary of state with the name recognition that she has she will be very hard to beat, especially if her opponent is a boring white male.
oh yeah, a Sanford and Son reference is always a goodie. BTW, what do you know about the SC senate primary and Lee Bright? I met him a few days ago, but don’t know anything about his career, etc.
Yep -- read it, especially the sentence that absolutely rules out this candidate:
If Santorum can add the bold limited government/tax reform message to his repertoire that he lacked in 2012
He has never stood for the one indispensable conservative cause -- rolling back Big Government -- and indeed has called for more Big Government in service to his personal hobby-horses. Time for him to go home and leave the field to the real conservatives.
+1
So I suppose that her previous polling of showing her as having huge negatives were all false and now these are correct? I’m amazed at how some polls are ignored and others are jumped on, especially those show (damaged goods) Dems as being unbeatable. People that should know better fall for it every time.
Don’t really know anything, but this excerpt from Wikipedia makes him sound like kind of an odd duck—a secessionist backer of Sanford:
“Bright is also a member of the William Wallace Caucus, a group of deeply conservative senators who favor a laissez-faire approach to government policy and are outspoken supporters of former Governor Mark Sanford.[1][2]
In 2010 Bright sponsored legislation that would make any firearm produced in the state exempt from federal regulations, but the legislation stalled while being processed by committee. On December 13, 2012, the day before the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, Bright re-filed to reintroduce the legislation.[3]
In 2011, Bright introduced legislation that would give the state of South Carolina its own currency, stating that “if folks lose faith in the dollar, we need to have some kind of backup.” He was also quoted as saying, “If at first you don’t secede, try again.”[4]”
Santorum was kicked out of his Senate seat in a bigger loss than Christine O’Donnell, and she was running for Biden’s seat.
A massive, history making rejection of an incumbent.
Dewey, Stevenson and Nixon rose from the dead. I don’t put it past Romney at all.
He and Clinton were both born in 1947 (Year of the Pig) and she is in bad shape, while he is not.
We shall see, but I believe there will be a whole new crop of rats in 2016, if indeed there’s a republic left to lead.
The 2016 candidates don’t scare me near as much as the sheeple.
I think both Rand and Rick have some positions that are not widely popular, and Rand is the more likeable guy. But he has so far only once run for and won office—not a reason to give him credit as a ‘winner’ over a guy who won two House and two Senate elections before he lost anything.
Santorum is a punchline to election politics, a history making loser, far worse than Odonnell’s loss, Santorum lost by a larger percentage and was a sitting incumbent, not a rookie.
Santorum’s Romney like history is a very ugly thing (switching to pro-life for his first campaign, being anti-Reagan, describing himself as a “progressive conservative”), for instance while people may know that Santorum supported Specter’s presidential run in 1996 based on removing the pro-life plank from the party platform, and they may try to explain away Santorum’s fight against Toomey replacing Specter in 2004, many don’t realize that Santorum was still fighting for Specter in the 2010 election, right up until Specter switched parties.
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