Rick Santorum has been called many things over the long months of the presidential campaign. How about this? Rick Santorum, the anti-Reagan.
What could that mean?
Rick Santorum is certainly no Ronald Reagan, at least on some of his policies, but that is not what makes him the anti-Reagan.
Ronald Reagan was the great communicator. He could say anything and make it sound good. Rick Santorum seems to be just the opposite. He makes some good points but too often makes a bad sound bite for a good point.
Most recently, he did that yesterday. Trying to capitalize on the Romney campaign screw up of saying the campaign would be reset like an etch a sketch as soon as the campaign was over, Santorum said, "You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there. If you’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.”
Santorum was immediately pilloried for suggesting that Barack Obama would be a better choice that Mitt Romney. Even Newt Gingrich piled on.
However, despite the gaffe by Santorum, he makes a good point. Romney is scarcely any less liberal than Barack Obama.
Yes, Obama is an anti-American Marxist, but that is the difference. While Romney probably would not unilaterally disarm America, and we hope he would not reveal some of our most important secrets to the Russians, Romney is as liberal as Obama in most policy areas.
Romney is the father of Obamneycare as Tim Pawlenty called him in during the early debates. He gave Massachusetts cap and trade. He raised taxes and increased welfare spending and when he had a chance to give Massachusetts residents a break on high gas taxes by suspending the Massachusetts gas tax, he refused. He said he wanted to see high prices drive consumption down.
Anyone know who else has said something like that?
Barack Obama.
The point Santorum was trying to make was that we gain nothing if we nominate a Republican who is as far to the left as most of the Obama Regime.
He is right about that.
This is why we must fight Romney’s nomination and still find a way to stop him. If Romney is elected, we will not see any meaning cuts in spending or in the entitlement sector of the budget. Romney claims he will be able to manage it better.
No he won’t.
You cannot manage big government. Either you dismantle big government or big government consumes freedom and prosperity.
It is an either or proposition.
Newt Gingrich understands this. Although he seems to express it badly, it looks like Rick Santorum understands it too.
Mitt Romney does not and will simply keep America on the Barack Obama road to fiscal collapse.
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Permalink Reply by Debrajoe Smith-Beatty on Romney will say anything to get the nod.
Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Traylor on YOU are WRONG!!!!!! Romney is nothing like BHO.... I hope all Tea Party groups are not buying into this idea...
Permalink Reply by Judson Phillips on Romney is just like Obama. His policies are mostly the same.
Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Traylor on Are you anti business and anti drilling as well? You better rethink things.......
Elizabeth, you're right. In fact, all of the recent exit polls show that TEA Party supporters favor Romney over Santorum or Gingrich.
Perhaps it has something to do with the way Santorum flip-flops. Here this guy is, saying that Romney is worse than Obama. But only four years ago, he was endorsing Romney as the only conservative in the race.
But this stupid statement by Santorum just turned Romney's win from moderate win into a tremendous win. Though I refuse to tell candidates that they should exit the race, I notice that on several other TEA Party sites, there are a number of calls for Santorum to drop out. I mention this, as even more evidence that you are right in your claim that other TEA Party groups are not buying into the idea that Romney will be a disaster.
If we have a good conservative Congress, I think that Romney can still be a fairly good president and far better than Obama, regardless of how Congress turns out.
Permalink Reply by Agi Yaeger on I can speak for my state, only. Since I'm involved in our regional tea party and got the chance to know many others. I was asked to be a delegate in FL, therefore I have knowledge of the state voting preferences. The majority of tea parties in my state are Newt fans. Who the public votes for is their business, but conservatives know that Newt would deliver what he promises.
I collected signatures for Newt at our meeting of about 100. I received about 60% for Newt, three people signed for Santorum and none for Romney. The rest already signed before. Even Rasmussen would say that would be significant. Make what you want from it, twisted how you wish.
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Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on And the huge number of Romney negative ads caused low turnout, as best I remember.
Even less than the mid-term, I think!
Romney has done nothing for enthusiasm!
Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on "more important than the Presidency."? No, co-equal, by definition.
Low enthusiasm, low turnout bodes ill for Congress as well.
I'll not proudly have a Romney bumper sticker, nor have I noticed a single one!
Permalink Reply by Doug Nicholson on I haven't seen any bumper stickers other that those for Ron Paul...and one for Odumbo.
Permalink Reply by Vern Shotwell on John, you've been berating the conservatives here for months. And perhaps you are correct: the liberal Romney can perhaps be elected, even without enthusiastic support from conservatives: they will hold their noses and vote for the lesser of two evils!
And I completely agree with your final sentence!
"If we have a good conservative Congress, I think that Romney can still be a fairly good president...."
But wouldn't it be better to have a conservative President as well? Take what we can get, I suppose.
Permalink Reply by Perry Read on John,
Wake up and smell the coffee man. You call Rick a flip flopper because he endorsed romney 4 years ago and now he is running against him, Maybe Mitt should not have run this time because after stepping out of the race last time he endorsed Mcain.
Romney was pro-choice and now pro-life, pro-gun control now pro gun rights, pro mandate for the country now only at the state level. He will teach Obama how he should have distributed wealth to his friends thats what he will do.
Maybe not stupid, maybe just traitorous. They don't want their hard-won power to be dissipated by someone who would actually begin dismantling their socialist networks. Romney wouldn't disturb them very much.
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