This is a GUEST POST, at my invitation, by commenter Karen Sacandy in response to my post Where’s Rick?
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Criticism has been leveled at Sen. Rick Santorum, that he’s not doing enough for Gov. Romney to defeat Obama. From my vantage point, that view misses a lot.
Political junkies are a small percentage of total...
If this reopens old wounds, too bad.
Rick Santorum’s hiding act is wearing thin.
Newt is out there all the time helping to pound on the Obama record. The supposedly bitter Newt is proving himself to be the class act his supporters always knew him to be. He’s put a fairly brutal beating...
I have tweeted about this before, but tonight there were at least two anti-Santorum ads run on Fox News by Restore our Future, the pro-Romney PAC.
It’s the Big Spender ad which now has been taken down from YouTube, but still plays on national television:
Will you stop already.
I realize you probably made the...
Rick Santorum has endorsed Mitt Romney via an overnight e-mail sent to supporters. Here’s the link to the e-mail (h/t Politico).
Is there an endorsement in there someplace?
Yeah, I guess there is, but it’s buried in paragraph 13 and half-hearted:
Above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated. The task...
Just breaking, via NY Times:
Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, according two of his advisers, bowing to the inevitability of Mitt Romney’s nomination and ending his improbable, come-from-behind quest to become the party’s conservative standard-bearer in the fall.
Mr. Santorum is due to make the...
Rick Santorum is running robocalls in Michigan urging Democrats to vote in the Republican primary for Santorum and against Romney because … wait for it … Romney opposed Obama’s auto...
Contrary to what many are saying, Mitt Romney didn’t specifically attack Santorum on No Child Left Behind at the Arizona debate (here’s the transcript).
In fact, Romney defended Bush’s motives:
And with regards to No Child Left Behind, the right answer there — President Bush stood up and said, you know what? The teachers unions...
Anyone who has had even a cursory interaction with this blog knows that I have had some harsh criticisms for the way the Romney campaign has been run.
But, um, even I didn’t accuse Mitt of acting like Occupy Wall Street:
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Rick Santorum endorsed Arlen Specter because he was a good establishment Republican in 2004, and that’s what the Republican President wanted. The precursor to the Tea Party movement backed Pat Toomey.
Santorum’s endorsement was no crime. It was a pure political calculation, one which many others in Santorum’s place would have made.
I only focused on...
Last Friday, I posted that if it came down to a choice between Romney and Santorum, “I’d have to think about it” because “[m]ost of all, I find [Santorum] to be the least scrutinized of the candidates so far.”
That post was taken as being “anti-Santorum,” but it was not.
Unlike Romney (with the exception of...
Oh, how times have changed.
They built up reasonable solid conservative Rick from the Northern Virginia suburbs when it was necessary to stop Newt, but now that he’s a threat to Mitt, he’s Ricky Bobby from Deer Hunter, PA.
The Drudge headline today, linking to this:
All those nice “right” things (masterfully cataloged by this commenter at...
Supporters of Rick Santorum are on Day 3 or 4 of the type of distortion and character assassination which was unleashed on Newt beginning in mid-December, and only paused when Newt dropped in the polls.
In Newt’s case, almost all of it came from Republicans, in the form of Romney’s carpet bombing negative...
When Foster Friess, a funder of a pro-Santorum SuperPAC, made a joke about birth control in the old days (that women kept an aspirin between their knees, meaning they kept their legs closed and were not promiscuous), there was outrage (on the internet pronounced OUTRAGE) from various quarters.
In responding to questions,...
I still support Newt, but I’m not oblivious to the challenges currently facing his campaign.
So what if ….
Should the race come down to Santorum or Romney, I’d have to think about it, as shock...
