Posted on 11/04/2011 5:55:04 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
Rick Santorum has announced his "Faith, Family and Freedom" tour in Iowa.
Santorum may be dragging the rear in the line-up of Republican presidential candidates, but I am grateful to him for being the only candidate who insists that the so-called "social issues" remain an integral, explicit part of his agenda.
That's not to say that the other conservative candidates disagree with Santorum's take on these issues -- traditional values, abortion, marriage -- but Santorum has been the only one to insist that you cannot consider the economy independent of the way the individual human beings who make up the economy behave.
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Santorum would make a good president. I hope he hangs in there.
(sound of crickets: chirp, chirp, chirp)
isn’t santorum’s 15 minutes over?
yes, he would make a good president
Santorum ping
Best case he'll be the GOP's nominee. And you'll be voting for him.
Tell me I'm wrong.
He may be right on the issues (he is), and I liked him at first. But with each debate and appearance, he’s come across more and more yappy and manic, just spewing words in a whiny way. Not presidential.
He needs to run for Senate and beat Casey in a rematch.
If he’s right on the issues why do you care what he looks like?
He reminds me of that kid in the third grade who no one would play with.
It's mighty hard to run on principles when you've already demonstrated you'll toss them for political expediency.
The guy he backed lost his seat. The guy he threw under the bus subsequently won that seat. He lost his own seat. Now, despite all that, he's bringing up the rear in a presidential race no one wanted him in.
What's it take to get through to this guy?
Santorum is the Eric Cartman of politics
“Santorum would make a good president. I hope he hangs in there.”
Win, or lose, he’s one of the few (or less) that is not putting the social conservative issues on the back burner, and the longer he stays, the better it will be for social conservatism.
Over one million unborn children killed by abortion, in this country, year after year. Santorum is a very important voice for them.
So Santorum’s problem can be summed up as he once towed the party line for George Bush and lost the PA seat? Or is there something more?
In a word: yes.
Santorum postured himself as what one might call “proto-tea party.” He then let himself be co-opted by the same people he was supposed to be an alternative to...
He WOULD have been had he not raised that voice in support of the most notorious RINO in the Senate....
Santorum gets better looking all the time. I haven’t decided who i like most, but there are a couple that I’d rather see drop out before him.
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