Santorum is only polling two percentage points higher than I am for the Republican nomination.

I think Santorum can bring Democrats, Republicans, and Libertarians together alike when we say “Go Away”.

Rick Santorum is a complete closet case!

Google: Santorum

darned funny

Rick Sanscrotum better not criticize Herman Cain’s excellent idea of a tax plan, Rick should come up with his own first.

Well, he is certainly in a frothy mood!

It is disgusting how many people like this little attack dog get ahead in the business world.  Always hoarding the credit and distributing the blame.

I have no idea why he’s still in the race.  Who are his supporters?  Most of the evangelical Christian right wingers I know hate him–and you would think they’d be his base.  So it’s kind of perplexing to me why he is still hanging on.

Do you honestly think Democrats want this guy gone? Santorum is to Democrats what Jesse Jackson is to the KKK.

He has nothing else.  He has no accomplishments to speak of so they only thing he has left is to attack others. 

Time for him, Bachmann, and Huntsman to go.  Anyone below 5% polling needs to leave the stage.

That’s stil 2% points too high.  What kind of sick and miserable human beings would support this scumbag?

This is the very last person alive that I want to see become the president.  

Rick Santorum is one very angry nutjob. He has absolutely, positively zero chance of becoming the Republican nominee so he thinks his only chance is to blast the other Repub candidates. Trouble is he is turning everyone off. He was a terrible Senator and got swamped in his try for re-election so what makes him think he has a chance with the whole USA and not just Pennsylvania? He is a wacko that needs to drop out now!

We all feel the same way  about Obummer…that is why we are voting him OUT.

Santorum is a strong voice for the conservative movement – he’s got more experience in government than most of the rest, certainly more than Cain. People who HATE him (like the first few posts on this article) usually do so b/c of some comments he made in haste about the gay community. Thing is, you talk about 2 percent – that is the gay population in this country – two percent… But man, that two percent do a lot of posting on the Internet! Santorum is the best candidate in a lot of ways, that’ s my educated opinion.

That’s very juvenile – how about a more productive comment – bashing Santorum b/c he made some comments about gays is old now… Have you read his proposals? He has plans to revitalize the manufacturing sector of this currently stalled economy that no other candidate is talking about.

Why do you care then? You must “hate” him for a reason – fess up…

So clever – but meaningless drivel – the same person posting using several “accounts”.

Thank you Mr. Santorum.

Mr. Cain, would you be willing to pick Mr. Santorum as your VP iof you were to be so lucky as to get the Republican nomination?

Well Mr. Moderator, no I would not. Mr. Santorum is a very angry man. He would remind the American people of that old snobbermacbee, Dickie Cheney or as Chrissy ‘Tingles n’ Thrills’ Matthews likes to call the former VP, Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeeeeey! But, let me talk about my 666, errrrrr, I mean 999 plan for America.

I think he’s holding out for the gay vote.

DADT is not backward for Santorum. It’s backward going forward. His rating within his own party is pretty low and about as appealing as Michele Bachmann.

I guess he’s going on the offensive, rather than just being offensive.

‘Comments he made in haste’

You mean the comments he made in haste over and over again. The ones that include bringing back DADT?!? He’s flogging a dead horse there…

The gay population, may be only 2%, but they are entitled to rights of expression. He has about as much chance as Betty White joining an NFL draft.

Good luck with increasing the Santorum appeal. He’s a man in denial.

‘Comments he made in haste’

You mean the comments he made in haste over and over again. The ones that include bringing back DADT?!? He’s flogging a dead horse there…

The gay population, may be only 2%, but they are entitled to rights of expression. He has about as much chance as Betty White joining an NFL draft.

Good luck with increasing the Santorum appeal. He’s a man in denial.

I don’t hate him.  I honestly don’t think he’s important enough to hate.  I’m more just kind of sad for him as his time has very clearly come and gone, but he hasn’t realized it yet.  He kind of road the rebirth of the Christian right in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but now that the Christian right is dormant as a political force (although, not completely out of the picture) his time is clearly over.  In the post DADT Tea Party era he’s a bit of a sad anachronism.

Most evangelical Republicans I know, for example, dislike him because while they see him as a sound social conservative, they also see him as a key player in the “big spending republicans” of the Bush era.  
Plus, I just think they are kind of sick of him.

Jesus teaches that we must love everyone. Santorum doesn’t follow Jesus’ teachings. He is, therefore, and by simple 1st grade logic, an anti-christ.

He can plan to ‘revitalize the manufacturing sector’ all he wants. His own damn party, which recently and effectively voted DOWN a bill to curb offshoring, will not support him. (You people just don’t know what the hell you want to do, and I really wish you would just go away.)

I haven’t seen his latest poll numbers. I’d better Google him.

Excellent analysis…like a breath of fresh air on this site

What earth do you live on? Made in haste….so if he had more time to think about it….he would have given a humane and coherent answer?

Your self-righteous opinion more like it.  I could see why you like Santorum so much.  Anyways, enjoy the froth. 

Who is we?  Parry?  Romney?  Cain?  Paul? Bachmann?  Gingrich?  Santorum?  Palin?  If I were to place a bet, I would bet that Obama gets re-elected.

Nobody ever accused you of being very bright.

you forgot to add, “Cannot win the primary in his home state of Pennsylvania.”

I’m new to this site and don’t know about anyone, but you can jack your polling numbers up because I’d vote for you before I’d vote for Santorum.

Evangelical Christian, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, found herself
in the odd position along with her Roman Catholic competitor, Sen. Rick
Santorum, of attempting a desperate ‘Hail Mary’ tactic of denouncing Herman
Cain’s 9-9-9 tax reform strategy.  While
one may argue that like Coach Bill Billechek of the Patriots who attacks his
opponents’ strengths, that this is the only logical tactic, it is,
none-the-less, a huge gamble. 

Americans inherently know that a tax code that has many
times over more regulations that the Almighty Himself has codified is
ineffective, unfair, manipulative.    A
plan such as Cain’s 9-9-9 appeals to our American sense of fair play and transparency.   We
also realize that a behemoth bueracracy that is the IRS has with its confiscatory
penalties as they say “the power to destroy” as the onerous sister to their “power
to tax”.  No American will shed a tear
for muzzling the IRS.

The Mantle of Reagan?

Optimism in a word has been the tenor and flavor of Cain’s
quest.  A bold proposition eliminating
all loopholes, deductions, as well as all other taxes, fees, levies and many soon
to be bankrupt social programs is not to far from the types of visions sought
and fought for by Ronald Reagan.  Though
a long-shot to win in 1976, Reagan sought and fought to slash the tax rates
across the board at all levels, and it was not until the 1980’s that he realized
the vision. 

In grandstanding to the audience’s sense of pragmatism
regarding the likelihood of 9-9-9’s passage, Senator Santorum and
Representative Bachmann have placed them selves on the side the ‘trim-around-the-acceptable-edges’
candidates, foremost, Governor Mitt Romney. 
 Speaking of pragmatism, they have
also placed themselves in a very potentially awkward position of needing to
support 9-9-9 should businessman Herman Cain become President Cain.  (Does anyone really believe that Rep.
Bachmann would actively fight  the
legislation in Congress if presented?)

A Crossroads Moment

Our nation is at a seminal moment.   The populous is feed up with business as
usual in Washington DC and the numbers show that it cannot be sustained.   The call for each candidate in this election
should not be “how can I gain in the polls”, but “what must I do for my country”.
  We will either with unyielding
determination set upon a course for reversing the cancer that has morphed
federal government into a nearly unrecognizable shadow of its Constitution or
we will dabble around the edges only succeeding in slowing the slouch towards
Gomorah. 

If nothing else, you cannot say that this campaign season
has been lackluster.   This once again
shows that politics begets strange behavior, if not making strange bedfellows.

Kevin Meyer

Omaha, Ne