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03-23-2012, 05:33 AM   #1
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Santorum: Obama better than ‘Etch A Sketch’ Romney

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Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday said Republicans should give President Barack Obama another term if Santorum isn’t the GOP nominee and for a second day compared rival Mitt Romney to an Etch A Sketch toy.
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03-23-2012, 02:04 PM   #2
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That probably cost him some funding.
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Wow seriously? Ahahaha.. Santorum is burning some bridges here!
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Wow seriously? Ahahaha.. Santorum is burning some bridges here!
id say so. he is real cocky. all that statement is going to do is give more votes to Obama. he doesn't seem very intelligent to me. I don't want such a cocky president. that a bad combination when combined with a country like this. really scary when you think about it.

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Santorum added: "we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future.”
This doesn't fit with the Republican narrative that Obama's some sort of antichrist... oops! The angry mob will now be on the lookout for a new demagogue... time for Sarah Palin to step in as the anti-Obama candidate? Palin v Obama 2012... wow that'd be awesome! I think the Republicans really have to sink right to the very bottom before they start to rebuild themselves as a respectable political party.
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I think the Republicans really have to sink right to the very bottom before they start to rebuild themselves as a respectable political party.
thats actually good news if you think about it, because they are so close to rock bottom, they can't possibly get any worse, and we may see a republican party worth respecting sometime in the near future. of course, it won't come before Obama is re-elected, because at this rate thats all but assured, I would think.
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id say so. he is real cocky. all that statement is going to do is give more votes to Obama. he doesn't seem very intelligent to me. I don't want such a cocky president. that a bad combination when combined with a country like this. really scary when you think about it.
It's scary to live beside, BTW.

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Rick Santorum: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid. | Addicting Info

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As of last weekend, an ABC / Washington Post poll had Santorum within three points of Barack Obama in the general election. Let me repeat that just in case you weren’t paying attention, or perhaps were choking of your phlegm. RICK SANTORUM IS WITHIN THREE POINTS OF BEATING BARACK OBAMA IN THE GENERAL ELECTION!
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RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - General Election: Santorum vs. Obama
RealClearPolitics - Election 2012 - General Election: Romney vs. Obama


RCP Average 3/7 - 3/22 -- 50.7 42.0 Obama +8.7
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The Romney campaign presents modern-minded Republicans with an agonizing dilemma. We are Republicans and want to see Barack Obama replaced in 2012. Of the candidates who entered the field, only Jon Huntsman, Tim Pawlenty, and Mitt Romney had any hope of either winning or governing effectively. Now we're down to Romney. The other "choices" aren't choices at all.

But there's no getting around the fact that Romney is a weak challenger, running at a time when the economic tide has begun to flow in the incumbent's favor. Romney has lived a life too disconnected from the struggles of ordinary Americans, and he shows no sign of the imaginative empathy that allowed other candidates from privileged backgrounds—Teddy Roosevelt for example—to overcome the separation of privilege.

Making the problem worse, the activist base of the Republican party has demanded—and Romney has often acceded to—a very off-putting platform. The activist base has spent the past three years branding the Republican party as extreme, angry, and exclusive. They've picked fights over birth control. They've elevated frauds, buffoons, bigots, and maniacs to equal footing with the governors and senators who ought to represent the party in the public mind.

Yet if Romney loses, that same activist base will blame—not themselves, for imposing their platform; not themselves for three years of peevish, obnoxious, frightening carryings-on—but Romney, for not being radical enough.

In other words, the most conservative Republicans have done everything possible to lose this election. Then, if it is lost, they will cast all the blame on those who unsuccessfully struggled to prevent them from losing it.

So what's to be done? There's no choice but to hit the ball from where it lies—and to hope (in the event of a defeat) for a wiser mood to settle on the party after the first outburst of recrimination.

As to your question about the 2016 field: I always resist such questions. I think it's a big mistake to imagine the Republican question is a question about "who?" It's a question about "what?" What should a modern conservative party stand for, under the circumstances of our time?
Answering Your Questions - The Daily Beast
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Well, sounds like that's settled, then.
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