Great speech by Santorum at Yale yesterday.
Zip adds: “Anyone else get the feeling Santorum reads blogs? The way he’s talking shows he has a much deeper knowledge base than if you just read the MSM….”
Yale Daily News
Amid a chorus of condemning hisses, supportive banging and outright laughter, former Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum argued [...]
Sununu is being blown away in New Hampshire.Even if Shaheen doesn't get into the race...Portsmouth Mayor Steve Marchand is only four points down, as is Katrina Swett and Jay Buckey is down 16, but his name recognition is nearly zero in New Hampshire.My prediction is Shaheen will get into the race and santorum Sununu, perhaps worse.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review has a rather troubling interview with former Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. It seems the man is going through a severe case of denial. I guess that's understandable when you lose the popularity contest that is an election. Here's the first bit of craziness:"I still believe that this country is a center-right country and not like Europe which is left or center-left," he said during a telephone conversation on Monday. "And the Republican Party still by and large is the majority party."Riiiiight. Notice how he used the word "believe". So instead of actually looking at the data of the last election--which is available, I promise--he chooses to believe that everyone still unconditionally loves the Republican Party. What a nice, comforting fantasy. So why does he think the Democrats won in 2006?"It's the war, it's the war, it's the war," he said. "We have an obligation to be more honest with the American public about the nature of
When I suggested after the midterms that Pennsylvania Repubilcan Senator Rick Santorum's presidential hopes - always faint to begin with - had now completely evaporated, a few people suggested to me that I had underestimated Santorum's star quality with conservatives.
Perhaps they were right, but Santorum himself does not plan to test the theory. According to the Philadephia Inquirer, the
"For Rick Santorum, getting steamrolled on Tuesday by Democrat Bob Casey Jr. may prove to be liberating in a strange sort of way," suggests the Philadelphia Inquirer. That's right - the conservative Republican Pennsylvania Senator isn't defeated - he's free. Free to be the outspoken conservative he wants to be. Free not to worry about political considerations. Free to run for president, even.
I can't say I noticed Santorum ever feeling terribly constrained in his political expression while he was Senator - that, surely, was what made him so unpopular in moderate Pennsylvania. Anyway, the conventional wisdom that you can't lose a Senate election and go on to seriously contest a presidential election two years later may not apply to Santorum, according to some commentators.
"You will see a movement to draft Rick Santorum to run [in 2008]," former education secretary and drug tsar William Bennett told CNN on election night, the Inquirer reports. "The conservatives are strong
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Andrew Sullivan, among others, has exposed future former Senator Rick Santorumt necessarily liberal, either.
By no means do I want to discourage anyone from voting Democrat in the tight Congressional races next week. The more powerful that Democrats become in Congress, the more the libertarian wing of the party can
"If we are not successful here and things don't go right in the election, there's a good chance that the course of our country could change. We are in the equivalent of the late 1930s, and this election will decide whether we are going to continue to appease or whether we will stand and fight while we have a chance to win without devastating consequences. “- Rick Santorum
That’s right friends and neighbors. If it weren’t for good and noble public servants like Rick Santorum these past five years, America would certainly be just a shell of it’s former self.
Wait for it………
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He actually voted for it, before he voted against it. Our old pal Rick Santorum threw everyone into a tizzy when he signed a pledge circulating around Washington that he wouldn't discriminate against gays and lesbians in his office.Of course his signing shocked the world considering that this was the same man who felt allowing gay marriage would lead to bestiality, he also still thinks there are WMD's in Iraq.Santorum, who has an out gay man on his staff, has never before come anywhere near doing anything but hate on the LGBT community. This move seemed to signal at least a politically motivated acquiescence in a token effort. Alas it was not to be.It turns out that an aide to Santorum signed the declaration on his behalf thinking that the pledge was constant with the employee handbook. Oh how wrong you were! Apparently Rickey-boy doesn't want to have to protect the rights of transgender citizens in his office. I guess some animals are still more equal than others.This does no
