The difference between Santorum and those two is that he's smart enough to let the public figure out that Gregory is an idiot without needing to appear combative. It's like Reagan saying, "There you go again."
Look at how "combative" wore on the public perception of both Palin and Newt. Look at the distraction Romney's lies have been to Newt, forcing him to spend his time "fighting back" instead of advancing his agenda. Inasmuch as "fighting back" is needed, it is important that a President not be seen as stooping to doing so. It's better to leave such battles to others. Newt didn't have the money for that, which is why a squeaky clean record is so important in a conservative candidate.
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I think so too and by his poor performance with David Gregory, the other day shows he cannot even understand nor handle when the left wing anchor referred to some of his ideas as bigoted and sexist. Rick just giggled and smiled. It was very telling. Newt would not have allowed Gregory to got away with that nor Palin.
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You could probably fill a small auditorium with the number of people who ever even watch David Gregory’s dull and boring program. In fact, I didn’t even know Rick Santorum appeared on his show until reading your post. So if Santorum would’ve wasted his time and energy lashing back at Gregory, it would’ve been the equivalent to the analogy of a tree falling in the woods with nobody around.
That was a great performance with Gregory! He was polite and kind to those stupid gotcha questions, but he mocked them with laughter. It was perfect.
The same thing happened to Santorum a couple of months ago on Fox News Sunday in an interview with Chris Wallace.
He is the only candidate on the map that will stop the colonization of USA by Mexico & beyond. His record proves it. NEWT is an amnesty schemer & Romney is a socialist liar that will bring us tons of H-1B visa workers to displace yet more American workers.
Santorum is getting on my nerves recently. Especially his goofy family behind him at CPAC.