I agree. I watched that interview and thought here it comes, the trap on the social issues. Will he trick him into saying something that can be clipped into a sound bite and used against him. Will he get Santorum to sound snarky and combative. It didn’t happen, and they cut away with Gregory joking with him about his sweater vests. So far Santorum strikes the line just right. Unlike McCain he doesn’t get people to like him by agreeing with their ideas, but he doesn’t scream his ideas in their face and call them names either. He tries to argue people to his side, and he does it better than anybody I’ve seen in a while. Persuasion is the only thing that will win this election.
I think you are exactly right at this point in Rick’s progression. His team HAS to know that the SOCIAL issues will be THE issues as he moves closer to potentially upsetting mittens. First mittens will nail him on it, and then, if nominated, President Obama’s team will make Social issues THE issues.
He needs to get EXCELLENT on his answers to Social Issues and NOT be surprised, or caught off guard, by them. The Media will not care what he has to say about the economy...even though we all know it “is the economy stupid”...they will say it’s the social issues stupid, and if Rick is not ready a good percentage of independents will believe it, get scared and vote for the O all over again.
Get schooled Rick! Study! Be ready! The next debate we will see if he has studied, if he has prepared, because look out they are going to try to do their best to nail him and make him look like a far right wing social conservative wacko.