Posted on 12/21/2011 11:25:00 AM PST by Antoninus
His personality.
What’s not to like?
Almost everything about him screams anti establishment...that’s what I love about him!
Joe Biden says He’s well spoken and clean too! I love Rick Santorum for President and would bet dollars to donuts Sarah endorses him if he gets more steam.
Santorum is decidedly the most dedicated Christian of the three: pro-family, pro-life, and pro-morality. But he is a Catholic, and it depends whether the Evangelicals are willing to recognize what he stands for.
Newt is also Catholic, now. But, I must say, not my kind of Catholic. I cannot judge his private life, but I will say that he does not strike me as having a firm moral foundation for public life.
Perry says he is a good Evangelical. I rather doubt it, from what I have seen. But he could suck votes away from the other Rick.
I think Santorum is the best of the bunch, unless Palin returns. But I don’t know if he has the polical strength necessary. Still, you can trust him, and I don’t trust any of the other current contenders.
This is going to be Huckabee all over again, all he is doing is getting Romney the nomination.
Let’s be honest. Bachmann, Santorum or Perry are the only options.
NewtRomney is unacceptable. Their main difference is hair and religion.
I think I’ll send him some money........he’s at the top of my list among the “lower tier” of candidates. Hope to see him rise to the tippy top!
I am a Pennsylvanian, he began his POTUS tour in Somerset, Pennsylvania, I was there, small crowd, he does not have the votes he will need..he is very weak politically, he didn't even try fighting for his Senate seat...nice guy, not Presidential.
Santorum is the textbook definition of “Nice Guys Finishing Last”
Sad to say, but it is true.
I think what we really need is a complete “B@$t@rd with a heart of Gold”.
Not sure who fits that ticket... yet...
Newt comes close but he is too much of a progressive for my taste.
I don’t know, I think Toomey is a pretty solid conservative who helped to author a pretty good sentate bill for reducing the deficit. The DADT statements was just an admission of reality unfortunately. In any case, he is infinitely better than Specter.
Rick refusing to endorse the much more conservative Pat Toomey over RINO Senator Arlen Specter during Pat’s first run for U.S. Senate, Rick’s bad defeat to, now, Senator Bob Casey, and his personality (”I’m the only one of the candidates for ‘12 President to do ...!” “I was the first one to do ... on this issue!”)-making Rick appear as arrogant and rude-are problems for Rick.
Santorum has two really big things going against him.
First he was a ‘senator’ and is still called as such. Obama & McCain saw to it that the senate is no place to find a president whether it’s earned or not.
Secondly he was also pro-Arlen Spectacle (see first point) for which many will never forgive him and he’s still paying an awful price for that in flyover country.
I like Santorum. Really I do. But I think he isn’t going anywhere in the polls because he lacks the money and political machinery to compete with the big guys - right now Romney and Gingrich. The same is true of Bachmann.
Like it or not, and I don’t particularly do, we will have to choose between ROmney and Gingrich unless someone better suddenly appears and I DON’T mean Chris Christie.
But this has been a roller coaster of a race and who knows. Stranger things have happened and we may be chosing between Santorum and Romney - and THAT is NO CONTEST and a no brainer in my opinion. See my tagline.
Nice guy, conservative, so he has to be trashed like the rest of the conservatives running.
3-2-1.......start trashin’
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