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NEVER FORGET!!!

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However, despite his initial problems with McCain, a recent incident played a large part in instigating Santorum’s recent endorsement. “Something happened a couple of nights ago to me right after the Florida primary. I ran into someone who was with the McCain campaign and I know had spent some time down in Florida, that walked up to me at an event and before I could even say hello said, ‘We beat you.’ And I thought that to be a rather odd statement because I wasn’t on the ballot. So who is ‘you’? Who did they beat? They surely didn’t beat me, Rick Santorum.”

During the Ingraham interview, Santorum said that when the person who reveled in Romney’s defeat said “we beat you,” the word “you” meant “conservatives.” Asked if the person taunting him simply said “we beat you” as a McCain supporter speaking to a McCain critic, rather than a general indictment, Santorum said he still believes the comment was intended as an attack on the conservative base.

“This is how I took it: They [the McCain campaign] really are fighting against the base of the Republican party, the conservatives in the Republican Party, that’s what they see this as. Because certainly that’s what I represented in many respects,” Santorum said. “So I sort of said, ‘Wow, this really is a battle for who we are going to be as a party.’”


169 posted on 02/05/2008 8:50:45 AM PST by SharpTalons
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To: SharpTalons

That really shows McCain’s mindset and that he hasn’t changed one bit.

If he wins the presidency, I’d be willing to bet my house but he will do all he can stick it to Republicans and conservativism. He might even switch to the Democratic Party, just so he could be in the Guinness Book of World Records.


175 posted on 02/05/2008 8:56:52 AM PST by CottonBall (The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 ))
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To: SharpTalons
If McCain wins steals the nomination, I will be writing in Santorum's name on the ballot in November.
477 posted on 02/05/2008 12:43:17 PM PST by Hoodat (The whole point of the Conservative Movement is to gain converts, not demonize them.)
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