Posted on 02/03/2016 3:04:48 PM PST by iowamark
Tonight Rick Santorum will be on Greta Van Sustern’s show on FoxNews. Donald Trump will also be on the show. Do the math.
If it happens, this is too bad. I’ve never been a Rick Santorum fan but I’ve always respected his passion for his beliefs. Hopefully, I am reading too much into the tea leaves here. But if he endorses Trump it will mean that he has effectively jettisoned the social conservatism that has been his raison d’être in order for whatever pottage Donald Trump provides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mess_of_pottage
“A mess of pottage is something immediately attractive but of little value taken foolishly and carelessly in exchange for something more distant and perhaps less tangible but immensely more valuable. The phrase alludes to Esau’s sale of his birthright for a meal of lentil stew (pottage) in Genesis 25:29-34 and connotes shortsightedness and misplaced priorities.”
Ditto.
Trump is finished. He’s over. Might as well quit now.
after all he’s down 7 delegates to 8...
Things are looking good for Cruz. First Jimmy Carter and now Sweater Vest.
Another Trump hit piece.
Sad if true. Makes it seem that his pro-life, conservative persona was just a convenient shtick to fool the rubes. Or that he got his feelings hurt that social conservatives preferred Cruz over him, so he will support the liberal. In any case, I doubt that many of his supporters will follow him down that path.
We suspected the Veteran Rally with Trump was the endorsement of Rick and Huck.
They can not stand Cruz.
I wouldn't bet on it. If the exit polling was close to accurate in Iowa Trump lost support because conservatives don't believe he is a conservative. Carson is a conservative. He is a social conservative. I don't believe he will support someone with NY values.
Trump will probably do well in NH, but I think his NY values won't play well in the SEC primaries. Rubio will get the media support and establishment support. Cruz will get the support of conservatives. Hopefully, Trump will fade and his supporters will go to Cruz, if not the GOPe will win again.
Yes lots of conservatives give money to Reverend Al...
And Harry Reid
And Hillary Clinton...
Combined with Yankee disdain for the rubes and kooks from flyover country. That's why it's incomprehensible to me that Palin could endorse Trump.
Sounds right by me. Next Huckabee endorses. So let’s see all the Palin, Santorum, Huckabee bashers on FR.
ROFL. I remember.
Boy, do I remember.
Someone on twitter said that IF Rick does this, all of a sudden the oh so loyal Conservative base will fry him as NOT Conservative enough.
Lo and behold, Red State does that in their article.
Predictable.
Indeed.
Trump resembles Reagan in that their ancestors were from Northern Europe. Apart from that, they are nothing alike.
Why would Santorum back a man that gave Reverend Al, Harry Reid and Hillary money???
How soon I forgot
Cruz lives in Texas. He is not FROM Texas.
Big difference.
Jimmy Carter endorses Donald Trump … over Ted Cruz. Scott Brown endorsed him.. both true conservatives.
you meant Trump, not 10Mountainman
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