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Rick Santorum Responds To Calls For Him To Quit, Tears Into Gingrich And Romney

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Rick Santorum made a quick appearance on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning — sporting his signature sweater vest — and came out swinging against both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

Prompted to talk about Newt Gingrich’s comments from Tuesday, suggesting Santorum and Rick Perry should both drop out, Santorum pointed out that Gingrich hailed from one of the most conservative districts in Georgia (making his elections virtual cake walks), while he’s won in two Democratic districts and wide senate elections in Pennsylvania as a conservative.

“I’ve put together much, much bigger campaigns than Newt Gingrich ever conceived of doing,” Santorum said. “And by the way, let’s look at the record of his campaign. I’m 2-0! I beat Newt Gingrich in Iowa by a lot — I doubled his vote total — I beat him in New Hampshire where he had the Union-Leader endorsement and spent millions of dollars. The proof is in the pudding.”

Santorum then went on to suggest Gingrich had irresponsible policies and has made irresponsible statements:

“You want someone who is solidly conservative, who you’re not going to wake up in the morning and look at the newspaper and say, ‘Oh my gosh, he didn’t say that, did he?’”

Host Brian Kilmeade then brought up Romney, and while Santorum used the opportunity to talk about tax code improvements, he interrupted a follow-up question to add, “The thing that is the difference, Brian, is to make a statement that, ‘I made a couple of extra bucks giving speeches,’ when that ‘couple of extra bucks’ was over $300,000. That, to me, says a little bit more about Governor Romney and his connection with the American people than his tax rate.”

“You’re saying because he made a lot of money, he doesn’t understand what the American people go through?” Kilmeade asked.

“No, but,” Santorum responded, “to refer to three hundred-some-thousand dollars as ‘a few extra bucks,’ to me… $300,000 isn’t a few extra bucks to me!”

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  • Gloves Michael Donahue

    Romney is a successful businessman. Shame on him !

    Obama was a successful street agitator, railing against capitalism, business and profit, who plans to accept the Dem nomination in Bank of America Stadium. No ego there.

  • Anonymous

    Stay in it and fight for what you believe in Rick, perhaps your detractors hate democracy, they want anointment without the peoples voice. 

  • Anonymous

    What have these got to do with Santorum. Loosing it? 

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

    Absolutely nothing… and hence Grammatico’s “raison d’être”.  He eats, he sleeps and he craps only in the hopes he might continue to distract.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for regurgitating Romney’s talking points. Too bad for you that they bear no connection to reality. Romney isn’t being criticized for being “successful,” he’s being criticized for being an out-of-touch Monopoly man who’s enjoyed the largesse of Republican tax policy that redistributes the wealth to the super rich while shifting the tax burden to ordinary middle class Americans. And it’s all the more obscene because of how he built much of his wealth on the backs of those same Americans by gutting their companies, killing their jobs and walking away with insane profits.

    Have fun spinning this over the next ten and a half months. The fun really begins when he’s finally forced to release his tax returns. It will be like Anthony Weiner’s photographic tweets: impossible to ignore and devastating to his ambitions.

  • Anonymous

    Similar to the DNC’s “super delegate” concept in 2008?

  • Anonymous

    Then Hillary should be the President now, because it was a done deal before the primary began. 

  • Anonymous

    So based on the results in 2 or 3 wacky State primaries,  Romney wins? What about the other 47 some odd primaries? Meaningless? That’s strange.

  • Anonymous

    Who won the primary is not the point, the point is that the DNC reserved the power to circumvent the “voice of the people” to annoint who they wanted…which you are against..right?

  • Anonymous

    Re-write history to suit you, not my business.

  • Anonymous

    Not happy with Romney for being a goldman sachs guy – it’s his top campaign contributor for crying out loud. Whose interest is Romney going to serve if he is chosen president? You think yours?

    Santorum wants to force gay people to be un-gay, he wants to massively involve government in your life, and wants to blow up the middle east with peace bombs that spread a pixie dust of american exceptionalism; bombs mind you designed in such a way that when dropped from 30 thousand feet in the air or launched from an unmanned ariel drone, and explode in someones kitchen, they inspire instant democratic osmosis. Holy bombs that actually teach people to be American, un-gay, and Christian.

    Gingrich is a big government liberal. He’s flipped back and forth between so many issues he can’t define what side of the issue he stands on this week. Politifact gives him the lowest accuracy score of candidates when fact checking his statements. Only 39% of what he says is truthful. In other words 60% of the time he is lying to us. If I lied 60% of the time at my job, I’d be fired and sued. But for some odd reason American give their elected officials a pass.

    Everyone of them wants to provoke a war with Iran who’ve done nothing to threaten the United States.  All 3 are the extreme hard edge of the right and the left. Romney is more diplomatic and attractive which gives his a broader appeal. But all of their policies are in line with one another.

    Some mandate this, others mandate that, either way someone’s trying to shove a shit sandwich down your throat while telling you in advance that it’s not at all a shit sandwich, but a steak dinner and that you’ll love it. Don’t hold your nose – take a big bite.

    Do I have a solution? Yes. Vote none of the above. And impeach Obama while you’re at it. Indefinitely detain all who voted in favor of the NDAA, including the President [after his impeachment], and replace our law makers with ordinary law abiding people. Our government has gotten entirely out of hand.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks for regurgitating Obama’s talking points..

    How is 1% of the population footing 37% of the tax burden redistributing wealth to the “super rich”

    As for gutting companies and killing Jobs…here’s a news flash for ya.  His company did not make money unless the business is ultmately successfull.  So don’t you think that gutting companies and firing an over staffed orginization would be better than letting it remain as is and then go bankrupt?

    He basically did in the private Sector what Obama did with the Automotive industry….where GASP!……people were fired and orginizations were gutted as well to secure the survival of the the whole….

    So what else?

  • Anonymous

    Ignore history to suite you, not my business..

    http://uspolitics.about.com/od/2008elections/tp/super_delegates.htm

  • Anonymous

    You sound like a Ron Paul guy…am I right?

  • Anonymous

    I’m a pissed off guy.

  • http://twitter.com/TheMorningSpew The Morning Spew

    I agree Santorum should get out and let Newt Gingrich do his job.
    http://themorningspew.com/2012/01/18/a-romneyobama-debate-will-go-something-like-this/

  • Anonymous

    Your handle really should be A_backwards_nonsense-spouting_conservative.

    If you’re so incapable of seeing how the tax policies of the last thirty years haven’t disproportionately enriched the top few percent at the expense of the working class, you’re beyond the reach of facts and data.

    Go ahead and nominate Romney. In fact, do it with my blessing! It will be fun to watch this guy have to defend many of the worst practices of capitalism, including buying companies at fire sale prices, borrowing sh!tloads of capital and then walking away with obscene profits, while leaving behind mountains of debt. He can’t even talk about his tax returns without stammering and equivocating.

    It’s going to be a blast to watch Obama run circles around this caricature of a One Percenter.

  • Anonymous

    It is. The primary system is a mess and plays to the vanity of a handful of privileged states. But then so does the whole electoral college. The whole system needs an overhaul.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Right. A Ron Paul guy.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

    Rick Santorum would cause the Republican Party to implode if he were nominated. Same goes for Perry.

    But he does have a point. He has beat Newt twice in fair fights. And he has far less baggage other than the stupid, homophobic and racist things he says. He’s not stupid or a racist, but he does pander to stupid and racist voters.

    In all fairness, Newt should be the nominee because he best represents the reprehensible thinking and flawed ideology of the current Republican Party. And he’s not saddled with the social conservative ideology that Santorum wears like a sweater. Newt can talk the social conservative talk, but then just like Clinton he can switch gears depending upon the reaction of whomever he’s talking with. Santorum, though, is stuck in positions he has outlined, which for the most part are not attractive to most voters.

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes….the predictable “your too stupid so I don’t have to explain myself” response.
     
    Also, do you have any comment regarding your disdain for firing and restructuring of corporations in order to save them from insolvency like Bain Capital did, or are you too smart for that too?

  • Anonymous

    Santorum doesn’t tear into anything, he ooozes out from it.  He’s a quack.  His staff thinks women shouldn’t be president, and we’re surprised that he’s a freaky sexist?

    http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2012/01/bible-bans-female-presidency.html

  • Anonymous

    Who else do I choose?

    All their positions suck. Romney sucks plus he just said he agreed with NDAA. Santorum sucks, he wants to annihilate the middle east. Gingrich is not even a conservative.

    They have put such crappy candidates on stage to be elected for nomination, I am forced to a guy like Ron Paul.

    Look, I see the same crap about Ron that you do. He stammers, is little, is old, has ideas about foreign policy that scare a lot of people.

    If you took Ron’s position on the issues, his consistency & authenticity, with Newt’s speaking ability, and Mitt’s looks, then you’d have a landslide win.

    We don’t have that, so you go with whats left and what is most important to you as an individual.

    Speaking & looks don’t write policy, ideas do. So I’ve gone with the one with the best ideas & credentials.

    And yes, I’m pissed. America should be doing much better job as far as delivering us candidates – all these cowboys and chameleons on stage just make me want to kick the tv screen.

  • Anonymous

    Why can’t Santorum accept himself and find a nice man and settle down?  He doesn’t have a moth’s chance in a candle filled church of not being drawn to the largest phallic symbol there.

  • Anonymous

    Obama did run a sucessful Prez campaign, Not to mention the ass whoopin he will give the GOP candidate. What ever cat they drag up to run.

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