... signs of recovery
Posted on 03/11/2012 10:56:56 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
One day after a new jobs report suggested that the country’s sluggish recovery may at last be getting off the ground, former senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) on Saturday gave his strongest indication yet that he is pivoting away from economic issues and seeking to make inroads among voters on foreign policy and the issue of health care.
...“You hear now the media starting to say, oh well, looks like the economy is getting better,” Santorum told supporters Saturday night in Springfield, Mo., shortly after the Associated Press declared him the winner of the Kansas caucuses. “You know, the economy may be getting better and Republicans may lose their edge on that issue. Well, if that was the only issue in this race, that may or may not be the case, we don’t know.”
He added that “the point is that’s the point -- we don’t know what the big issue of the day is going to be when it comes to national security. It may be the dominant issue, national security with Iran on the precipice of getting a nuclear weapon, Israel feeling increasingly isolated by this administration.”
...“The issue may not be jobs and the economy,” he told the crowd. “It may be something more fundamentally important: Having someone who stood up for something called freedom.”
...“I may not have been a Wall Street private-equity-fund manager, but I served eight years on the Armed Services Committee,” Santorum said Saturday. “I led the charge identifying Iran’s nuclear program nine years ago, authored bills to put sanctions to stop it. We’re not electing a CEO. We’re electing a commander-in-chief, and there’s one person who has experience doing that.”.....
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Romney and Santorum have already given away the economy as an issue.
Are you saying that being a Pro Wrestling lawyer does not qualify Rick to be President!? :)
HA!! Yeah, at a minimum that is what I am saying. :):)
You are absolutely right.
“I led the charge identifying Iran’s nuclear program nine years ago, authored bills to put sanctions to stop it.”
Yea, sure, like he single handedly “authored” the Welfare Reform bill that Newt started in the house.
This guy scares me. He has the potential to be dangerous, if he ever gains the power of the Presidency.
And, especially important, He DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night! LOL!
It is not only propaganda, it is vacuous morale support for doing the wrong thing, on top of which, the large Fed Reserve investment in the market artificialy sustain such morale support.
The whole thing is about to tank very badly on some idiots who should know better and warn people ahead instead of being caught like Bush II-McCain idiots right before last elections.
What a bunch of morons.
Quite the judge of character, he is. /s
Those of us who have acute memories from those times, are not well received by the Santo puppies here. Especially after we keep presenting them with actual facts, direct from the record. You outlined exactly, what happened. And don’t forget Trent (Can’t we all just get along?) Lott.
So true.
So true.
... signs of recovery
I was so into politics in the early to mid 90s.....then the establishment colluded with Democrats to destroy Newt, the very person that revived the conservative movement after Bush senior tried to drive a stake through the it’s heart. Many of those pseudo conservatives and establishment Republicans owed their careers to Newt. I was disgusted for a long time. I paid attention to the election in 2000, and to 911, but what really got me interested again was the Tea Party movement.
Not me, there was NO WAY! I would let ALGORE gain the kind of power that Clinton had!
I didn’t walk away, but I examined the landscape in the late 90s and basically gave up hope. Everyone (including Republicans) seemed to be jumping on the big government express.
Zactly. The campagn ads can write themselves: When Obama took office the average gas price was this and is now that. When Obama took office the average price of a loaf of bread was this and is now that. When Obama took office the average unemployment number was this and is now that...Debt before and now...deficit before and now...housing values was this now that...
You get the picture. The big O can run from the numbers but all he wants.
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