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New Rick Santorum SuperPAC Ad Seems To Say Conservatives Can’t Normally Be Trusted

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On the heels of his near-win in the Iowa Caucuses, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum is already looking past New Hampshire, to the South Carolina primary. According to ABC News, Santorum SuperPAC The Red, White, and Blue Fund has made a $190,000 ad buy in support of a campaign commercial with a tagline that might need some tweaking: “Rick Santorum: The Conservative We Can Trust.”

From ABC News’ The Note:

ABC News has learned that a SuperPAC which supports Rick Santorum, the Red, White and Blue Fund, is going up with TV ads in South Carolina. This will be the first time the SuperPAC is on the air in the “First-in-the-South” state. The total outlay is $190,000, according to people familiar with it and it will air in Greenville, Charleston and Columbia.

Aside from that unfortunate choice of the definite article, which seems to imply that conservatives, by default, can’t be trusted, the ad reminds me a lot of Mitt Romney‘s first big “attack” ad against Newt Gingrich. That spot was a seemingly innocuous bit of gauzy happy-talk about Romney’s family and faith, but was seen as a vicious attack on Gingrich’s personal history.

Santorum’s ad never mentions Romney, and similarly consists of some pretty cliche´”positive” messaging, but that tagline, ”Rick Santorum: The Conservative We Can Trust,” also comes off as a glaring attack on Mitt Romney and his propensity to flip like a meth addict’s coin.

While he still trails significantly in New Hampshire, Santorum has passed Gingrich, and is right on Romney’s heels, in the most recent South Carolina poll. His fundraising success since Iowa could spell real trouble for Romney in the weeks ahead.

Here’s the ad, via YouTube:


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  • Anonymous

    Tommy, you’re seeing what you want to see, per usual.

  • Anonymous

    Man, did you see that kid trippin’ out on the flag?  That’s compelling television.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MYZXJSARZPS3IVKW37SWCHKLCQ Sean

    A conservative we can trust to dictate to us what we can do in the privacy of our own homes.  No thanks on Santorum.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    The Republican party is composed of three radical factions. Nothing conservative about federal devolution, intervention in matters of personal freedom or handing the functions of government to private capital.

  • Anonymous

    Spreading more Santorum can only help Obama.

  • Bill T.

    You can trust Santorum to follow the marching orders of the Vatican.  Anti-woman.  Anti-gay.  Anti-charity.

  • Anonymous

    test

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kris-Smith/100000135417264 Kris Smith

    I don’t think there is anything to this ad….but he is no conservative. He is a Neo-Con. That is a huge difference who voted for earmarks and has been listed as one of the most corrupt congressmen in 2006.

    Link: http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/mostcorrupt/entry/most-corrupt-2006

  • Anonymous

    A flithy religious maggot is somehow trustworthy now?  

  • shonangreg

    Santorum stands for everyone, except gays, muslims, atheists, and bla people.

  • Anonymous

    HAHAHAHAHAHA….WHAT AN IDIOT!!!!!

    This is funnier than when Herbert Cain called himself a “real” Black man.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    This is a correct assumption!! Look what happened when Conservatives trusted Bush and then he doubled the national debt!!

  • http://www.IndiaCurry.com Yogi Gupta

    Rick Santorum is a ‘big government-conservative’ in the same fashion as George W Bush. Romney is a Moderate. Romney has no core principles, he is a moderate because he has moderated all his principles. Ron Paul is a ‘small government conservative’; however, he is a isolationist. All these three candidates are compromised. Obama is a hardcore principled ‘progressive/liberal’. A principled candidate will always beat a compromised candidate. Dole, McCain, and Bush I (re-election) ran as moderates and lost. GOP needs a ‘small-government conservative’ who is not an isolationist. Obama will get re-elected. GOP’s only hope is to keep the house, take senate, and find a right candidate for 2016 .

  • Anonymous

    yes i did notice that. My original first thought was….. Man, if that was an african american boy the lefties would go haywire nuts. Because the kid was white, now Al Sharpton will criticize the fact that the kid was not african american. There’s no way to make a lefty happy regardless of what you do or don’t do.

  • Anonymous

    Nobody knows what you’re trying to say. You’re in some kind of racist trance.

  • Anonymous

    It was off topic, I’ll give you that much. But try reading it again, maybe slowly and then you MIGHT get the point. Just an observation was all it was.

    Santorum was saying his plan included everyone in america and made reference to the disenfranchised as the little boy you referred to was being shown. Make a little more sense in context?

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is not an isolationist, who put that idea in your mind ? You are probably listening to the corrupt media which is endorsing Obama, the worst president the country has ever had. Our country is going bankrupt because of all the unnecessary wars, regulations and social programs both parties have supported. I have lived in this country for 70 years and our present government is the worst ever, it is totally corrupt. Government officials lie, cheat and steal and they think it’s normal for them to do it. Ron Paul is the most sensible and honest politician this country had since Truman and Ike.

  • Anonymous

    But George didn’t just DOUBLE the national debt.  He also saddled future administrations with HUGE INTEREST – almost $500 BILLION a year.  Add the $1 TRILLION per year for his Medicare Part D Drug program which made the drug companies thrilled and the 2 wars which will end up costing us a couple TRILLION and the lack of revenue from his tax cuts which have cost us around $3 TRILLION in lost revenue, and they wonder why the national debt has gone up $5 Trillion since Obama’s been in office?

    And did I mention the $1.3 TRILLION budget deficit that he left Obama in January 2009 after quickly spending the $268 Billion budget surplus that Clinton left him?

  • Anonymous

    I think we have learned from the Republicans GRIDLOCK this past year that they are not willing to work with anyone.  It is time to put the House, Senate and Presidency into the hands of the Democrats.  History has shown that the Democrats are more fiscally responsible than the republicans.  We don’t need politicians who sign pledges to lobbyists like Grover Norquist.

  • Anonymous

    I think what you’re saying that Al Sharpton would get on the white boy’s case because he isn’t African American.
    Would like to know  what  do you think of  the term Sub Saharan African American.  The nations of the Sahara, ie Egypt, Morocco,  Algeria, Libya etc are just as much part of the African continent as any other nation of Africa.

  • Anonymous

    Wow Is Rick Santorum saying the entire bunch of Conservatives are not to trusted?  The Conservative you can trust.  Okay the  ex PA  senator is targeting his tag line.  But geesh did Santorum realize he’s saying that the other right wingers are not to trusted?   What ever his policies, viewpoints he’s saying his ultra right wing brand of  conservatism is the only right one.  Personally I don’t care for his biased opinions on  everyone who isn’t a white person.  Especially disapprove of his view s on Bla people.  Yeah right.  He never said bla.  He said black.  Three words for Santorum Blah, blah, blah adnauseum

  • Anonymous

    I think Santorum has a good change of taking the Froth in the Nation Primary.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum is right. What I learned in my 67 years is that you can’t trust conservatives and they don’t keep their promises.

  • Anonymous

    We are
    closing schools, laying people off. Families are being foreclosed on and being
    put out in the streets. And all Santorum, running for President can talk about
    is who is Gay. We need to start looking at what is best for the country. We are
    not in high school any more.  Hello!!!  Yes it is a good way to raise money. But I
    think the Republicans have a “gay agenda”, more than the gay community
    has.  They have nothing to say, so they
    go for the gay! It will be a dark day for ALL of us if this man wins.  It is not just a Gay thing; Santorum has
    frequently stated that he does not believe a “right to privacy”
    exists under the Constitution, even within marriage.  The boy and girl kind!

  • Anonymous

    Santorum lost the election for senate in Pennsylvania by a whopping 17%. The people in Pennsylvania know him best and rejected him, this must tell you something about him.

  • Anonymous

    There are no conservatives we can trust today, none.

  • Anonymous

    Straight men don’t talk about gay sex as much as Santorum(Google it) does.  Something’s fishy and Santorum doesn’t like the smell of it.

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