Posted on 03/21/2013 4:28:46 AM PDT by God'sgrrl
I expect several of the retreads from the 2012 primaries to jump in and see how they do.
They were, after all, such a stellar group. [/s]
Huckabee is hinting.
JebB is hinting.
Ryan is hinting.
Paul is hinting (and not to subtly).
Rubio is hinting.
Christie is hinting.
Carson is hinting.
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Every cycle, we seem to start out with a dozen to a dozen-and-a-half of wannabes.
Too bad that none of the names that have ‘hinted’ so far for 2016 are very stellar candidates.
Not that there are necessarily any PAT answers, however...
Still a long time until the field begins to emerge. I’m hoping there is someone out there that emerges that wasn’t even in the race in 2012.
Santorum won the GOP poplar vote in 11 states during the primaries. He’s got a long way to go to become the go to person, imo.
I’ll have to adMITT, the problem involves NEWTering our opposition and maybe raising some CAIN.
(your turn)
and in most of those states, the voting populations were tiny, and most were after the process was over, which it was after Florida.
Running against Reagan is not going to get you far on FR - and to compare RS to RR is not going to be helfpul either. While your Weekly Standard piece makes some good points, I would suggest you Google “50 Things You Don’t Know About Rick Santorum” - which is a Santorum campaign document from his campaign for the Senate. Most of those “50 things” are trying to convince PA liberals that he too, is one of them. In other words, in his last campaign, he very much acted like a Democrat.
Hey, I’m just the messenger here......Santorum’s people wrote that thing....
It is called vetting. That is part of what the debates do.
Just jumping on the current high-flier bandwagon doesn’t work.
Look at 2012 at the number of ‘frontrunners’ who fell from grace.
+1000.
Ummm...he also lost to Willard. 'Nuff said?
West was gerrymandered by the GOPe into a district they were sure he couldn't win. He almost did anyway.
You were saying?
I absolutely didn’t compare Santorum to Ronald Reagan. I don’t believe you can do that - unlike some people in here I’m a realist. Read the original post I responded to. I would suggest that all of you take a step back and think about how all of these candidates are REAL men and so are you sitting behind your computer screens at least half the time falsely accusing them. Until the party unites and ceases to bow down to Karl Rove, the Drudge Report, and crazy Paulbots (currently posing as conservatives), it will implode soon. Rush was right. The left loathes the word “Republican”, not the word “conservative”. Republicans are allowing code words in 2013 like: “liberty” and “freedom” to be thrown around by paulbots to rebrand the party and they are letting the party slip away. Voters will be duped again, and conservatives will lose their grip. Do not settle, stay true, stop looking for something NEW.
Well, I’m with Santorum until someone better comes along. People say he’s “unlikable”, but it seems when he went into enemy territory (MSNBC, CNN, etc.), the host of the show would come away liking him and actually agreeing with him on certain points — or at least respecting his views.
I just checked and Reagan hasn’t run for office in 29 years. Santorum is not Reagan. Our problems will not be solved by a “process guy” like Santorum or Gingrich who spent decades working the machine instead of trying to dismantle it.
I liked what I heard from Rick. Sent him $100 after he appeared here.
Sadly, I think his time has come and gone.
And it’s retreads like this that will keep the GOP the stupid party and getting trounced in national elections. Good grief...
Except he makes the Christian’s appear ugly with his mean and hateful talk. I am a believer, and it turns me off! There is such a thing as ‘truth’ in love.
Plus he is too much into having another war. No.....easy for him to do, but about 5000 men lost is enough for a long while.
JMHO’s: Palin will never run for office again. Santorum is squishier than you think, and widely perceived as a sourpuss. Romney will try again. Jeb will run. Romney and Bush will kneecap Santorum and the media will roast him on a spit. Voting doesn’t work anymore; we’re just going through the motions, like a bad marriage appearing at holiday dinner.
Oh, and Hillary won’t run.
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