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Rick Santorum Takes On Newt Gingrich’s ‘Worrisome Moments’: ‘These Are Not Cogent Thoughts’

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Have you been watching this debate, people? Hoo boy. At one point, moderator John King asked Rick Santorum to respond to Newt Gingrich‘s assessment that he and former candidate Rick Perry would do well to drop out of the race, citing their lack of “knowledge” to do anything on a grand scale.

“Grandiosity has never been a problem with Newt Gingrich,” Santorum replied. “He handles it very, very well.” The crowd ate it up like candy. “For him to suggest,” he continued, “that someone who was tied for first and eventually won the Iowa caucuses and finished with twice as many votes as he did and finished ahead of him in New Hampshire in spite of the fact that he spent an enormous amount more money in both those places, plus had the most important endorsement in the state — the Manchester Union Leader — and I was 10 points behind him in the week before the election and finished ahead of him. So, I was ‘two and oh’ coming into South Carolina, and I should get out of the race? These are not cogent thoughts.”

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He added that Gingrich has the odd “worrisome moment” from time to time. Later, he attacked Gingrich for not being able to follow through on “grandiose” projects, as a president should, citing how “undisciplined” he’d been as House Speaker before having been tossed out.

“[T]his freshman congressman,” he continued, “who wasn’t supposed to win a race, came and did something you never did, which is blew the lid of the biggest scandal to hit the Congress in fifty years. You knew about it for ten of fifteen years because you told me you knew about it. And you did nothing.”

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  • Anonymous

    Have to agree with Rick here. Newt’s confusion concerns me. If any of my SuperPACs are reading this, I think this would be a great topic for an attack ad.

    Not coordinating ;)

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t Rick fail with his socialist ‘grandiose’ projects such as building the bridge to nowhere and providing government-funded trust funds for every child in the country?

  • Anonymous

    Santorum just owned Newt.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum comes across like a petulant child, whining, complaining, attacking. The head shakes, the interruptions, he is not presidential.  And Rick should know that since he never made it to the top tier, he really hasn’t been vetted. Why hasn’t anyone asked him what experience he brings to the presidency besides being a congressman and a failed Senator. No executive experience. We already tried that and look where we ended up. Also, no one asks about his statement comparing homosexuality to beastiality. He is out of his league and I can’t believe he is still standing. Besides Romney, this field has been so weak.

  • Anonymous

    If Santorum had really wanted to crush Newt, he could have mentioned Newt’s own 22 checks that he kited/bounced at the House bank.

  • Anonymous

    My, my, my the Republican men are quite b!tchy!!

  • Anonymous

    You need a history education, rockyroad.  Probably the single most important “executive” decision that was taken in the last 50 years was the work done by X-Com under Jack Kennedy, seeing how the wrong move might have ended, oh, civilization.  As far as I know, Kennedy had no “executive experience” and the only thing he was ever responsible for running was the crew of a PT boat.

    And Santorum didn’t “compare homosexuality to beastiality” (although they were both listed as paraphilias in the DSM until the APA was bullied into removing it in 1973).  It was Justice Scalia who made the comparison in Lawrence v. Texas, in the minority opinion, saying that if laws against sodomy were overturned because there is a “right to privacy”, then laws prohibiting beastiality, incest, prostitution and other “private” sexual behavior were also invalid. He was joined in that opinion by Justices Roberts and Thomas.  http://www.healthyandactive.com/le701.html?utm_source=Fetlife&utm_medium=banners&utm_campaign=FL1Hitachi

    Willard (Romney) is easily the worst candidate for president I’ve seen in my lifetime.  Besides his inability to exude any level of warmth or welcoming nature (he reminds me of an undertaker and a used car salesman in a single, creepy, “gotta take a shower after meeting” kind of way); he’s been all over the lot on his positions. Its no suprise he’s never won an electoral majority for public office (MA was a 3-way race and he won in a plurality) or that people hate him once he’s in office (he had only a 35% approval when he left office, which is why he didn’t seek re-election.)

    If Willard is the nominee, Obama will pretty much run the table.  And we’ll have establishment Republicans like you to thank for it.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Santorum – Sloppy seconds to the abortionist who delivered his used wife.

    How’s that for “cogent” Rick?

  • Anonymous

    You are correct that Romney is a deathknell for the republicans, but Fox News has ordained it, Ann Coulter has approved it, and Glenn Beck has been assured by the Almighty that Mitt is going to be the nominee. It will probably mean a third party, or even four, a sure Obama win, and perhaps crushing republican losses in the Congress. And it will be the fault of Fox News.

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

    Rick Santorum is a blind, self-righteous, sanctimonious, double-talking, big government (in the your personal life) ideologue.

    but he clearly won this debate

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

    he did crush Newt

    but Newt’s votes will go to Paul not Santorum

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Resigned In Disgrace

    Gather round all you children, gather round, hear this story
    About the fall of a politician at the height of his glory
    He resigned in disgrace
    Now he’s back in the race
    And if we fall for his lies, it’s America’s Momento Mori!

    Let’s harken back to the year 1994
    When Republicans won like they hadn’t before
    He was Speaker of the House
    (and a horrible spouse!)
    But his ethics were something no one could ignore.

    In those days the congress just did as they please
    Graft and check kiting were a rampant disease
    They all wrote bad checks
    And had scurrilous sex
    Without any fear of the authorities

    Now our subject, the Speaker, was quite the hypocrite
    He campaigned against corruption, while reveling in it
    He took the bold stance
    To audit Congress’s finance
    And that’s where Newt Gingrich, stepped in his own $#!+.

    The Ethics Committee looked into Speaker Newt
    To try to find out just how he fenced all his loot.
    They saw thousands of pages
    Of Gingrich outrages
    And when they asked why, the Speaker lied, or went mute.

    There were epic proportions of Newt’s tax evading junk
    The more they dug into it, the more that it stunk!
    But Congress  sanctions their own
    When they’re bad to the bone
    ‘Cause if they didn’t, Newt would be a cellblock punk!

    Newt got slapped on the wrist with a $300,000 fine
    For his  multiple scams that were over the line.
    It was “intentional and reckless”,
    Newt had proven himself feckless,
    And after the next election, he was forced to resign.

    It’s hard to imagine the size of the balls it would take
    To run for the Presidency as sanctioned ethical snake.
    He needs to be scorned,
    And now you’re forewarned
    That nominating Newt would be a disastrous mistake!
    _______________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney 

  • Anonymous

    And that’s a fact.  Newt is low on brain tissue.

  • BooBoo Bear

    Barry…so you know. The Evangelicals actually are FOR Santorum and believe me..the evangelicals are not going to vote for Paul or Romney, and after Newt’s ex-wife’s revelations they aren’t going to be voting for him either. So that leaves South Carolina to vote for either Santorum or Cain/Colbert.

    *If you aren’t aware of the fact. Most evangelicals do not believe Mormons are Christians but a cult, Moonies, whose leader owns the Washington Post. Rev. Moon is also a Republican backer.

  • BooBoo Bear

    Barry…so you know. The Evangelicals actually are FOR Santorum and believe me..the evangelicals are not going to vote for Paul or Romney, and after Newt’s ex-wife’s revelations they aren’t going to be voting for him either. So that leaves South Carolina to vote for either Santorum or Cain/Colbert.

    *If you aren’t aware of the fact. Most evangelicals do not believe Mormons are Christians but a cult, Moonies, whose leader owns the Washington Post. Rev. Moon is also a Republican backer.

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