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Santorum Says He Dropped Out Because He Ran Out of Money
National Journal ^ | April 12, 2012 | Jonathan Miller

Posted on 04/12/2012 10:57:27 AM PDT by Brown Deer

Two days after leaving the Republican presidential-nomination race, Rick Santorum said on Thursday that the main reason he dropped out was that the campaign simply ran out of money.

“We were just burning through cash at a rate we couldn't maintain,” the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania said on Tony Perkins’s Today's Issues radio show, noting that the campaign for the first time started to go into debt. “Super PAC money didn't pay the bills on the campaign.”

Santorum suspended his campaign one day after his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, who suffers from a rare chromosomal disorder, was released from the hospital. On Thursday, he did not mention his daughter or her health issues as a factor in his decision.

Santorum said the decision to suspend his campaign came after the primary loss in Wisconsin, which he and his team felt they had to win.

“In the week after Wisconsin, we basically raised no money,” he said, noting that the campaign had sent out requests for donations. “People were e-mailing back saying the race was over.”

In Pennsylvania, Santorum said, he would have had no money to spend on advertising against front-runner Mitt Romney’s millions.

“We were probably looking at not being able to spend a penny on advertising,” he said. “You want to compete, but we felt we couldn’t.”

The campaign also looked ahead to what was deemed as a favorable calendar for Romney. “It seemed unlikely — reaching the point of impossible — to stop Romney,” he said. “We thought, ‘Maybe it’s time to stand down.’”

That said, Santorum said he did credit his rival with shaping the media narrative.

“I give Romney a lot of credit in that he was able to more effectively spin the media,” he said.


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To: Brown Deer
His own polling showed him losing PA.

He stayed in long enough to secure the momentum to Romney.

I can't stand the political opportunist.

21 posted on 04/12/2012 12:55:40 PM PDT by Christie at the beach (I like Newt and would love to see political dead bodies on the floor.)
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To: Brown Deer

Actually he dropped out because he ran out of other peoples money. These uber egotists would never step out of the spotlight no matter how hopeless their chances as long as they had donors.


22 posted on 04/12/2012 1:15:57 PM PDT by csmusaret (I have kleptomania, but when it gets too bad I take something.)
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To: Brown Deer
The Romney campaign stopped propping him up.
23 posted on 04/12/2012 1:16:42 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!-Sam Adams)
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To: Christie at the beach

Yes indeed.


24 posted on 04/12/2012 1:18:35 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!-Sam Adams)
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To: Christie at the beach
His own polling showed him losing PA.

He stayed in long enough to secure the momentum to Romney.

I can't stand the political opportunist.

Gee. I watched his dropping out rally, and he didn't say one word about polls or money. It was all about leaving to be a better parent. I thought I had watched the whole thing, but apparently I missed some parts of it.

25 posted on 04/12/2012 1:26:43 PM PDT by true believer forever (GO NEWT! On to Tampa - hang tight - we can do this!!)
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To: Brown Deer

What would have happened if the liberal media had correctly reported Rick the winner of the Iowa caucus?

Would he have gone into SC & Florida with a lot more cash and momentum?

Could it have made a difference in states where it was close like Michigan, Alaska and Ohio?


26 posted on 04/12/2012 1:50:17 PM PDT by proudpapa
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To: Mountain Mary

I keep wondering what would happen if the folks in Pennsylvainia decided to ignore Santorum’s decision to suspend his campaign and choose to vote for Rick and his delegates and carried PA ?


27 posted on 04/12/2012 2:03:27 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (The best way to punish a - country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great p/p)
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To: Christie at the beach
His own polling showed him losing PA.

He stayed in long enough to secure the momentum to Romney.

I can't stand the political opportunist.

 
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28 posted on 04/12/2012 3:45:19 PM PDT by wolficatZ ("We are no longer accepting comments on this article")
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To: mosesdapoet

Officially PA is a loophole primary - all delegates are officially uncommitted. Voters have to research which delegates have declared for which candidate.


29 posted on 04/12/2012 4:18:30 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: Brown Deer

That’s what drunken sailors do. Real politicains go on spending.


30 posted on 04/12/2012 4:32:13 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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To: scrabblehack

Because Santorum’s “suspension” was late in the game it’s quite likely that information got passed on. When I was a Reagan alt delegate in Illinois the ballot had the names of the delegates and who they were pledged to alongside in (paranthesis). I don’t know about all the 50 but most states the delegate elected is committed to his pledge on the 1st vote and that usually goes to the candidate who carried the district


31 posted on 04/12/2012 4:37:53 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (The best way to punish a - country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great p/p)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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Santorum dropped-out because Mitt was about to spend $ 9 million in negative TV ads in Pennslyvanmnia ...

And apparently ... Santorum was provided the "blistering, scorched-earth" ad to watch in advance ...



Here's where Ricky's youthful inexperience and massive-ego failed him ...

Had Santorum been an "experienced candidate" or frankly, just a little more intelligent, he would have teamed-up with Newt Gingrich to effectively STOP Romney ...

Because Ricky would have known that Mitt would eventually apply the "Kill Newt At All Costs" treatment to Santorum himself ...

All the above is "theory # 1" ...



Theory # 2 ?

Santorum was Romney's "stalking horse" candidate to cripple Genuine Conservatives ... in this case, Newt Gingrich ...

Pastor "Little Rickey" served his Master ("Ego") very well ...



Fortunately ... Romney "does not" win the 2012 GOP nomination ...

Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin do ...




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32 posted on 04/12/2012 5:54:41 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: JCBreckenridge

I half heard someone on Faux talking about a new national poll that has Rom. two percentage points ahead of Hussein...???

Not a great believer in polls, but where have you seen these state results, JC?
I live parttime in CO. and would be surprised if Obama didn’t carry this state.

I’m surrounded by granola munchers up here in the NW part of the state: LA transplants, dontcha know.


33 posted on 04/12/2012 6:18:51 PM PDT by Mountain Mary ("This is OUR country and WE will decide"... Mark Levin)
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To: Mountain Mary

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_CO_041012.pdf

O+13 in CO.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/04/obama-at-a-high-in-north-carolina.html

O+5 in NC (with 29 percent favourability), and 59 unfavourables.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/ohio/election_2012_ohio_president

Ras has O+8 in Ohio.

These are swing states and he’s not even competitive.


34 posted on 04/12/2012 6:37:38 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: Christie at the beach

He was beating Romney at his own game. Imagine what would have happened had Gingrich backed out so that Santorum could beat Romney?

Then we’d actually have options at this point. Now, the man who couldn’t get 40+ percent anywhere is going to be the republican nominee vs Obama.

Well done, Newt supporters. Well done. The only way that Romney could win the nomination, and you delivered it for him in spades.


35 posted on 04/12/2012 6:40:53 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: Patton@Bastogne

“Santorum was Romney’s “stalking horse” candidate to cripple Genuine Conservatives ... in this case, Newt Gingrich”

Wrong, Gingrich was the staking horse for Mitt. OH, MI, WY and AK prove it. He delivered more states for Mitt than he won himself.


36 posted on 04/12/2012 6:43:01 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge
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To: JCBreckenridge

I’m not a big poll follower but interesting.


37 posted on 04/12/2012 7:58:54 PM PDT by Mountain Mary ("This is OUR country and WE will decide"... Mark Levin)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Watched the ever gracious Rick on Greta.

What a loss...and what a class act.


38 posted on 04/12/2012 8:03:12 PM PDT by Mountain Mary ("This is OUR country and WE will decide"... Mark Levin)
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To: JCBreckenridge

Blaming Santorum when he was the closest thing we had to stopping Romney, is ridiculous. Further ridiculous is the fact that the vote split courtesy of Gingrich denied Santorum the win, not vice versa.


39 posted on 04/12/2012 9:44:08 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Rick Santorum For President (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89LGhm-Ztc))
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To: Brown Deer

I’ve seen a lot of pols run up debt in elections and pay them off much later. He ran out of backers, not money.

I also applaud him for keeping his personal life just that. We all know as he “dropped out” he and his family had another heart wrenching moment with their poor three year old.

He wasn’t my choice but God Bless him and his family.


40 posted on 04/12/2012 10:04:10 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Democrats are dangerous and evil. Republicans are just useless.)
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