[cripplecreek]

He was my 3rd choice line in the sand candidate.

I think he’ll be a good president but we can make him a great president.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Rick/Newt or Newt/Rick.

[petercooper]

He’s the weakest of the 3, and Obama will decimate him in a debate, and we will lose again.

[skeeter]

I'm happy with Santorum. True his congressional record was conservative but not as much as it could've been, but he was serving a swing state.

He certainly is saying all the right things now. Unlike Willard.

[Buckeye McFrog]

He was really a solid Conservative as my Senator. He takes a lot of heat over 2 things.

-His support of Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2006. I chalk this up to “being a loyal party guy”, much in the way Sarah Palin felt compelled to campaign for McCain in Arizona. I think this will now benefit Rick as it will give the GOP establishment some second-thoughts about taking him out at the kneecaps. If they do this to such a loyal soldier, odds are they will never convince anyone again to ever do that for them in the future.

-His blowout loss to Bob Casey, Jr. whose IQ would place him somewhere in the legume family of vegetables. People outside Pennsylvania do not understand how this happened. It happened because Casey deliberately mislead the huge pool of senile voters in this state into believing that he was his dead father, a very popular Governor. And the #1 priority issue in any statewide election in PA has always been FREE STUFF FOR SENIOR CITIZENS. Casey ran around telling seasoned citizens that the reason they did not have more free stuff was that the Eeeeeeevil Moron George W. Bush was flushing all that money down a rathole in Iraq.
Sadly, most of them bought it.

[Yaelle]

I think he’ll be a good president but we can make him a great president.

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This is my thinking. He will rise to the occasion. He will know his place as the Representative of the American people. He doesn’t seem to be doing this for his hurt ego. He seems solid and secure but knows what this country needs: to clearly change back toward our constitution.

[thedrake]

I Like Rick Santorum.

I will have no problem voting for him if he is the GOP candidate.

But, something is bothering me about the timing of the sudden announcement from the HHS secretary re: the mandate for religious institutions to cover contraception, etc.

Every pundit seems to agree that it was a stupid fight for Obama to pick at this time.

The consensus is that the Catholic vote went for Obama in 2008, and pissing them off now makes zero political sense.

But, this "surprise" mandate seems to coincide with the rise of Santorum.

I think that the Obama team wants Santorum as the GOP candidate. And I think that they used the HHS announcement as a way to help Rick's chances.

Or, maybe they just don't want Newt.

In which case helping out Santorum is an effective strategy.

Either way, I think the announcement by the HHS secretary was not at all about appeasing the liberal base.

It was about getting the opponent they prefer.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I'ts happening. It is truly happening. How exciting.

In my case, I shifted 6 weeks ago.

I went from Cain. To political Wilderness. To RICK SANTORUM.

Glad I did and haven't looked back a bit!!

[AmericanInTokyo]

I'ts happening. It is truly happening. How exciting.

In my case, I shifted 6 weeks ago.

I went from Cain. To political Wilderness. To RICK SANTORUM.

Glad I did and haven't looked back a bit!!