I mean no disrespect-—I just have a question for Santorum supporters. Do you think Santorum might have been better off to try and win back his Senate seat, like George Allen is doing in Virginia?
Why is it O.K. to profess that Allah is your only God right before you ram airplanes into buildings and not O.K. profess your love for Jesus and then pray (which is somehow offensive). Santorum is just fine, this country could use more people like him in government. Why is freedom of speech reserved only for non-christians? Why are you judging him by his religion? Where were you when Reverend Wright spewed his hate? I would imagine that you were not asking for Obama to just run for senate again? Can you answer some of those questions for me?
A few months ago we all thought that Santorum and Gingrich would drop by the wayside early. As it turns out, Santorum is our main hope of getting a conservative nominee, and Gingrich is just hanging around picking up the odd delegate here and there.At this point to say that Santorum should get out is tantamount to saying that Romney should be the nominee. Do you think that Romney - who has what signature conservative accomplishment or even conservative leadership posture on a significant issue - should be the nominee?
If you knew for certain that Romney would win if nominated, you would certainly have a case for considering him, even if he’s not the second coming of Ronald Reagan. But you don’t know that - or, if you do, you know that any Republican nominee will win because Obama so richly deserves to be unemployed. But frankly, nominating “electable” moderates is highly overrated - as people like Dole and Gerald Ford amply illustrate.
The trouble with nominating moderates is that they will sometimes take perfectly defensible conservative positions on issues, then retreat at the first sign of criticism from a tenable position to an indefensible one. Such as W retreating from the plain truth - “the British have learned that Saddam has made inquiries about buying uranium from Africa” (quote approximate) to an apology. And like W allowing the naming a “Special Prosecutor” to learn what his own Secretary of State already knew, and then to hang around generating negative headlines for months and persecute Scooter Libby for the crime of working for the vice President.
Romney won the Florida primary by aggressively telling half-truths -and as Benjamin Franklin put it, Half the truth is often a great lie” - about Gingrich by quoting spurious charges that the Democrats slung at Gingrich before he was speaker. All lies, and to quote them as if they presumably were true!! I’m surprised Gingrich didn’t threaten to bolt the party and run on another ticket if Romney were nominated!