Michele Malkin: For Santorum

[pissant]

Rick Santorum opposed TARP.

He didn’t cave when Chicken Littles in Washington invoked a manufactured crisis in 2008. He didn’t follow the pro-bailout GOP crowd — including Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich — and he didn’t have to obfuscate or rationalize his position then or now, like Rick Perry and Herman Cain did. He also opposed the auto bailout, Freddie and Fannie bailout, and porkulus bills.

Santorum opposed individual health care mandates — clearly and forcefully — as far back as his 1994 U.S. Senate run. He has launched the most cogent, forceful fusillade against both Romney and Gingrich for their muddied, pro-individual health care mandate waters.

He voted against cap and trade in 2003, voted yes to drilling in ANWR, and unlike Romney and Gingrich, Santorum has never dabbled with eco-radicals like John Holdren, Al Gore and Nancy Pelosi. He hasn’t written any “Contracts with the Earth.”

Santorum is strong on border security, national security, and defense. Mitt the Flip-Flopper and Open Borders-Pandering Newt have been far less trustworthy on immigration enforcement.

http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/30/for-santorum/

At least one pundit sees that Newt Romney is a liberal squish.  Santorum ain't great, but he's an improvement. 

[SaintLouieWoman]

I respect both Malkin and Santorum, even gave a little donation to Santorum. If Santorum gets the nomination, we happily support him. I'll support Newt, will hold my nose and vote for Romney over Obama. I'm just getting sick of holding my nose and supporting the candidates.

[pissant]

I respect both Malkin and Santorum, even gave a little donation to Santorum. If Santorum gets the nomination, we happily support him. I'll support Newt, will hold my nose and vote for Romney over Obama. I'm just getting sick of holding my nose and supporting the candidates.

I haven't had a presidential vote since 1984 that didn't make me queasy.  All the guys I was excited about in 2008 didn't get the time of day.  Bachmann was the only conservative this time out and people dumped her for these guys?  Zoinks.  I'll plug my nose with industrial pliers for whomever, but I have that sinking feeling they'll have as much success against the boy marxist as McCain did.

[JakeStyle]

I agree with her that Rick Santorum is the most conservative of the three, but I don't believe he has a snowballs chance in Hell of getting the nomination.  He does not have the dollars required to compete with Romney and Newt.  I am really starting to think that Obama 2.0 is inevitable.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I agree with her that Rick Santorum is the most conservative of the three, but I don't believe he has a snowballs chance in Hell of getting the nomination.  He does not have the dollars required to compete with Romney and Newt.  I am really starting to think that Obama 2.0 is inevitable.

+1 on all that.  

Santorum is hated with the fire of ten thousand suns by Teh Gheys, basically for nothing more than making factually-correct observations about going down the gay marriage trail, which their beloved Obama didn't even support despite failing to articulate any intelligible reason,  logic, or apparent thinking about the outcomes and consequences to support his own position.  They have an overpowering hold on the media and disproportionate disposable wealth (Due to generally being 2-income-no-kid lifestyle types), all of which would be turned against Santorum and represent an almost insurmountable problem for his candidacy in the general election, on top of the vast wealth and media bias that would already be pitted against him.

I do like him in general, I just don't think he could win against a headwind like that.

[SaintLouieWoman]

+1 on all that.  

Santorum is hated with the fire of ten thousand suns by Teh Gheys, basically for nothing more than making factually-correct observations about going down the gay marriage trail, which their beloved Obama didn't even support despite failing to articulate any intelligible reason,  logic, or apparent thinking about the outcomes and consequences to support his own position.  They have an overpowering hold on the media and disproportionate disposable wealth (Due to generally being 2-income-no-kid lifestyle types), all of which would be turned against Santorum and represent an almost insurmountable problem for his candidacy in the general election, on top of the vast wealth and media bias that would already be pitted against him.

I do like him in general, I just don't think he could win against a headwind like that.

I'm sure that you're right. Isn't it a shame in our country that there truly isn't free speech.
Anyone giving his or her opinion is punished if they're not politically correct in every way. I saw a bumper sticker the other day, "Born original, died a copy".

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'd love to see him go as Newt's VP though - Biden demonstrated just how little critical attention gets focused on that race in the general, plus if they won it would get gay dudes to volunteer in droves to protect Newt at all costs, and more concretely it would consolidate the anti-Romney vote.  I'm not seeing any signs that either one of them could put aside their own egos and personalities and do that, though. 

[delilahmused]

I agree with her that Rick Santorum is the most conservative of the three, but I don't believe he has a snowballs chance in Hell of getting the nomination.  He does not have the dollars required to compete with Romney and Newt.  I am really starting to think that Obama 2.0 is inevitable.

He doesn't have enough passion, either. I feel like he's just going through the motions. And he's very self-focused. I think he says "I did it first" or "I thought it first". The other thing is, he's got a daughter with a very serious (and life-threatening) genetic disorder. He had to leave the campaign trail to be with her at the hospital which is absolutely what he SHOULD have done. What's going to happen if he's in the WH and something like that happens? The reality is, Bella has lived much longer than most children with it. It's one thing to be in the congress, but as a parent I think he's making the wrong decision. It's not that she has a disability, it's the fact that it's seriously life threatening. Granted, things happen all the time but he wants to be hired for the most critical job in the free world (made more so by the dangerous world 0bama has left us with) with a daughter he knows has a critical disorder with an extremely small survival rate.

Cindie

[Rebel]

I like Rick, but he's WAY too socially conservative for me. If he wins the primary, I'll vote for him in the general. I won't be voting for him in the primary though.