Tricky Rick is becoming quite a flip-flopper in his own right, he seems to say whatever the moment requires to achieve his ends... and he steals all Newt’s ideas on top of that...
Santorum, on voter call, January 29th:
“We want the activists of the party, the people who make up the backbone of the Republican Party to have a say in who our nominee is as opposed to a bunch of people who don’t even identify themselves as Republicans picking our nominee,” Santorum told voters on the call held January 29. “I don’t like that. I believe that states should only allow Republicans to vote in Republican primaries.”
In stark contrast to his campaign’s more recent courtship of Democrats, in January Santorum told Democrats that if they wanted to vote for a Republican, they should switch their party affiliation.
“It’s the Republican nomination, not the independent nomination or the Democratic nomination,” he said on the call. “If you’re a Democrat and you want to be a Democrat, then vote in the Democratic primary, not the Republican. If you want to vote in the Republican Party then become one.”
At the time, Santorum’s main criticism was of Romney’s success in the New Hampshire primary, where 53% of Republican primary participants did not identify themselves as Republicans. In the weeks following Romney’s win in the Granite State, Santorum repeatedly cited that statistic in arguing that his rival’s supporters was out of step with the mainstream GOP electorate. Now Santorum is hoping non-Republicans will help give him the edge in Romney’s home state.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/28/santorum-flips-on-dems-voting-in-gop-primaries/
I don’t object to a candidate going after Democrat votes, but it should be from a conservative position. We should be trying to convince them that liberal policies don’t work and that they should at least give us a chance since Obama has failed. I agree with Newt that you don’t write off California or the black vote, that you at least talk to these audiences and convince as many as you can.