Posted on 02/20/2012 5:27:44 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has a commanding lead among Republican presidential candidates in Texas, according to a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
Santorum would get the votes of 45 percent of the respondents if the election were held today, according to the survey. The other three candidates in the GOP race — former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas — are clustered well behind. Gingrich got 18 percent, Romney received 16 percent and Paul garnered 14 percent.
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“Santorum is the only one of the four who is not afraid of the MSM or of Obama. Rick feels free to say what he thinks. That is such an awful offense to RINOs!!!!!”
What an embarrassingly silly comment.
As you know, the issue of Obamacare is far more complex than individual mandates and I hope whoever debates Obama knows that issue backwards and forwards and wraps it around Obama’s neck in a noose. Dang, did that sound Racist?
Wonder if we’ll have a Supreme Court decison on mandates before the election. The controversy with the Catholic Church and Obamacare is one that I would like to see Scalia and Alito sink their teeth into. I think this is a clear violation of religious freedom and is unconstitutional. Gives our side some Red Meat going into the election.
Once the primaries are over, maybe there will be some time spent pointing that out.”
May it be just so.
I think Newt/Rick/Ron Paul would do just that.
I am not so sure that Romney would do so anymore than Dole or McCain pointed out the obvious flaws of their opponents.
(I suppose Romney to his credit has proven to be rather ungentlemanly in the primary...so would he take that fight to the general? Maybe. Then again, McCain was ALSO tough on other Republicans. Then he rolled over in the general. I see the same pattern with Romney happening....when Mike DeWine (!) of all people says that it is obvious that Romhhey would lose the general, then, well, it is obvious that he would lose the general).
Once the primaries are over, maybe there will be some time spent pointing that out.”
May it be just so.
I think Newt/Rick/Ron Paul would do just that.
I am not so sure that Romney would do so anymore than Dole or McCain pointed out the obvious flaws of their opponents.
(I suppose Romney to his credit has proven to be rather ungentlemanly in the primary...so would he take that fight to the general? Maybe. Then again, McCain was ALSO tough on other Republicans. Then he rolled over in the general. I see the same pattern with Romney happening....when Mike DeWine (!) of all people says that it is obvious that Romhhey would lose the general, then, well, it is obvious that he would lose the general).
Well, I don’t agree. As long as Santorum sticks with anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage, he is on solid ground with conservatives and most people in general.
When he veers into talking about sex being for procreation and seeming to be against birth control, he will alienate all the women voters, even conservative ones.
Even the majority of Catholics use birth control.
Now, I know Rick didn’t actually say that, but he is giving that impression and needs to put a lid on it and sit on that lid.
The public crusifixion of Newt Gingrich by Mitt Romney, the Media and establishment republicans.
I agree with this HOWEVER, Newt has done nothing to try to change this. The only thing he has done is fund raise in Cali. Last Sunday, when all the candidates were on the talk shows, Newt was no where around. It is up to him to change people’s perceptions of him. Yes he was given some negativity in FLORIDA but why are people in the rest of the country turning on him? It is something he is doing wrong. He let Romney of all people to dictate Newt. That alone is kinda sad. Newt has ONE MORE CHANCE and that is Wednesday. If he does not, I think he is over.
Also, Texas has an interesting republican primary race going on for retiring Senator Kay Baily Hutchison’s seat.
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Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz is the BEST Conservative in the Race to replace Ted Kennedy’s girlfriend, Kay. I hope to goodness the Establishment, RINO, David Dewhurst does not get the GOP nomination.
Here’s something else for all the negative doom-and-gloom hand-wringers here to chew on... Rick Santorum has moved back into a statistical tie in a hypothetical presidential matchup against Obama, according to the latest Rasmussen daily tracking poll released this morning.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/archive/2012_presidential_election_matchups2
The poll currently has Obama leading 47% to 44%, but bear in mind that any politician who polls below 50% during an election year is considered VULNERABLE, not to mention we haven’t even yet begun to campaign against the Marxist Leader!
Actually, this election has to be about more than just the economy. You can already see how the State run media is cranking out a false picture of an improving economy. So far what they are doing kind of works because people listen to the media and even FOX plays along.
This election has to also be about liberty and what will happen not only to our money, but our basic freedoms if Obama isn’t booted out.
As you can see, the person who is President, and the people he surrounds himself with, can very much so affect the attitude and culture of a nation.
I remember back to how I felt when Carter was in the White House. I felt ashamed of our country and was tired of hating what we were becoming.
When Reagan was elected, it was wow. After a period of time it felt so good to have a positive attitude, patriotism, and respect again. God and Country didn’t embarrass him.
He was on Fox News Sunday.
I hope you are right. I would really love to be able to say President Rick Santorum said......
I do think he is a long shot, and why I am publically supporting Newt Gingrinch for president.
Rick has yet to satisfy me to his loss in PA. Why did he move to Virgina? Why did he use PA. funds to educate his children and then when confronted refuse to pay the state back when he clearly lived somewhere else? Why did the voters sour on him and vote him out by 18 per cent. Those are important questions, and not about being a hater. They need to be answered better. It is not enough to say it was a bad year for republicans, it was NOT that bad. Having said all that Rick is one of the candidates I will get behind and support if he wins the nomination. Newt would be a more engaging and successful candidate against Obama, IN MY OPINION. I think I can still have an opinion. I would like to be wrong.
Unfortunately, you are not wrong.
I am trying hard to like Rick Santorum as it looks like he may get the nomination.
-—Obama is as good as BURNT TOAST in November, though that COULD change if the hand-wringing Negative Nellies on our side don’t stop with all the damn self-defeatist talk!-—
Right on, right on!
he (Santorum) has no discerning ability to know when to keep certain matters to himself until the right time...or not speak them at all.
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Exactly!!! Rick being a religious man needs to familiarize himself with James 1:19 and “be swift to hear, slow to speak....” Check out this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2848296/posts
Altura, I hope we are both wrong. I hope Rick Santorum does not get the nomination and if he does I hope we are both wrong and he wins.
Having said that the worse thing that can happen if Rick does not win the nomination is that Mitt Romney does. I could not pull the lever for him.
My prayer is that Newt when turn the corner, run a better campaign and surge again.
Obam will have a built in 47% and only needs to move the dial 3 to 4 points to win.
Our side will start at around 45%, and will need to move the dial about 5 to 6 points to win.
This is a very GOOD place to be win facing an incumbent President. The right candidate can beat Obama, but it will be VERY close. Been around a long time and I have seen this played out for over 60 years over and over again. We can win, but we need a strong candidate with solutions. Even if those solutions are found by allow the public to succeed, and knocking down the obstacles the government has placed in our way.
Freepers who are dissing Santorum on this site look foolish, angry and spiteful....providing little in the way of real reasons to not support him.
Those who know him have said that to meet him is to like him..and everywhere he is going where he gets to talk to people one on one or address a crowd, his numbers are improving.
Romney needs to be defeated at all costs..and if Rick is the one to be able to do that, then we should all be supporting him.
I’m going to Michigan on Friday from Wisconsin. Other supporters are coming in from all over the country to work for the Santorum campaign. Polls indicate that this could come down to a very narrow victory for either Rick or the dishonorable liberal from Massachusetts.
If it was Newt that was ahead and needing grassroots volunteers, I would do same.
No Romney/No way.
since judges can’t over ride elections the way they do legislation, those are issues that will propel santorum to the nomination.
Social conservatives are not going to compromise this time around. If you personally are okay with the left getting its way on those issues, I personally am okay with the left getting its way with your wealth, your parents wealth, my wealth, and everyone else’s.
As Howlin said, the Christians have oir boot on the neck of the party. we get a social.conservative, or everyone gets the Democrat. There is no compromise here, and that is why Santorum is surging.
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