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To: VanDeKoik
I’m sorry, but what merits Santorum needing people to get behind him? Because he tied Romney in Iowa?

I agree. Santorum has said exactly nothing about his ideas, his track record is basically big spending and big government, and he seems to be most like Huckabee (a social conservative who had basically RINO ideas about economy and government). Granted, that's better than Romney, but Santorum has got to prove that he has better ideas and more capacity to carry them out than the other GOP candidates before he gets a coronation like this. One early win in a weird race certainly doesn't mean that he has been annointed.

19 posted on 01/05/2012 2:45:19 PM PST by livius
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To: livius
If people want to know a lot more about Santorum, here is a 74 minute, 142MB .mp3 wide ranging audio interview of him by the Quad City Times from Dec. 30th. It starts out with Santorum talking about how he was doing things in Iowa, but includes long stretches of him talking not just about what he did in Congress, but why and how he did it there.

You rarely hear people talking about behind the scenes stuff there in this detail. I was fascinated by it and suspect there are others here who would enjoy it. Santorum did play a significant role in several of the good congressional actions back around Newt's golden age. Those who like Newt in part because of his ability to get things done, but don't know much about Santorum may find this useful in evaluating what Santorum might do, how he'd go about it and whether you believe he'd succeed. By all means use your own judgement. BTW, be warned that the audio quality is serviceable, not perfect. Sometimes it gets pretty soft and once you could hear a train passing outside.

If you like this it appears to be part of a series. They also have audio interviews with Perry (12/21/11), Gingrich (12/19/11), Romney, Bachmann (12/8/11) and Pawlenty (7/25/11). I haven't yet listened to any but Santorum's but will be downloading more to listen to when I find the time.

39 posted on 01/05/2012 5:38:51 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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