Why I'm backing Santorum for the Republican nominee...

[MarkCharles]

HOLD IT!!! I'm an Obama supporter and will vote for Obama! But let me explain.

Rick Santorum is the best gift to Obama since, well, Newt Gingrich, or certainly since Mitt "Rmoney"! BETTER than "R-Money"!!! A better gift than "R-Money"! Here's why!


Santorum: his key issues:

Birth Control, Pre-natal testing, public schools

I bet 99% of Americans support at least one or more of those 3 as a valid way of managing their adult life! I'd bet 75% of Americans support two of those 3!!!

Need I say more?

Let's get to the basic problems most Americans are looking at in this election: JOBS!

What is Santorum wasting our time talking about, NOT a SINGLE THING about JOBS!

It's like Jeremy Lin going out on the court and spending his time praying instead of practicing or actually producing scores. Sure, Jeremy loves his religion, but even Jeremy knows that there is no purpose in prayer and obedience to his god on the Basketball court. By the way, Obama goes out there and tries to score, and gets a few and misses a few, (Jeremy Lin, versus Barack Obama on a court, truly wonderful contenders, and Obama, for sure, would lose, but Jeremy wouldn't use his religion to get a victory on the court, he'd use his skill to deliver scores!)

Santorum, by contrast, only prays and preys upon any court he's given. No score, just prayer, and preying upon those that would love to see him praying. I'm more in the camp that wants people to score on the court, they can pray before and after the game.

But I'm supporting Santorum in my state Republican Primary, as should you, if you have that option.

Bottom line:

Santorum offers Democrats the best reason for ANYONE NOT to vote for him in the general election!

Getting the Republican Party relegated to a place as a fringe religious party, that's the best possible place to put them in America, given their tawdry array of 2012 candidates, not one of which has a chance of becoming President.

Santorum all the way! All the way to the final destruction of the modern Republican Party, a new and more vibrant non-Republican Party by 2016, something that will demand individual rights to free speech above corporate free speech, demand women's equality above men's institutionalized, centuries-old superiority, demand racial equity in the justice system over any other model that seems to put only black and white men in key positions to run this young and experimental nation in equality. Finally, senseless religious dogma will go down to ultimate defeat as rationalist, humanistic viewpoints prove, once and for all, that Judaeo-Christian philosophies have outlived their usefulness and that a religion or concept of absolute equity in governance trumps any other concept and influence in politics.

Government, as in Jeremy Lin land, it's all about points scored, not anything that got you here, nor any prayers you do to some god, without producing anything of value on the ball courts.

[LisaL]

1. I think those are very silly and dangerous games to play.

[FrodosPet]

11. Bingo!

Be careful what you wish for.

Some consider an Obama reelection a lock if Slick Rick or Newt ("The Reptile&quot Gingrich gets nominated. It may be probable, but it isn't granite solid.

[ecstatic]

16. we really don't know what Rmoney is capable of

So many dems see him as harmless, but I see a dangerous, blank slate phony who will do anything to prove he is "severely conservative."
The truth is that the repub party has moved so far to the right that we need to do everything we can to keep them from gaining in the Congress, senate, and the white house.

[KamaAina]

2. Because that way lots more people will Google him?

[NNN0LHI]

3. George W. Bush once had a +90% approval rating

Not sure I would trust my fellow Americans to do the right thing when the election comes around next November.

Don

[LisaL]

4. Exactly.

Suggesting that somehow "supporting" Santorum makes sense actually makes no sense whatsoever. And Romney isn't a strong candidate, I believe all national polls pretty much show Obama beating him. So, it makes no sense whatsoever from that side either.

[dimbear]

5. It makes no difference who we want. Sadly, it makes no difference who Republicans want either.

It's who corporations want that will determine the Republican nominee.

[DCBob]

6. Dont get greedy.

We can beat Rmoney. He is boring, predictable, uninspiring, a major flip-flopper and tremendous gaffe machine.. what more could you ask for in a political opponent.

[Jackpine Radical]

7. Stealth crap always contaminates the perpetrators,

even if they "win" through their sleazy tactics.

[AndyTiedye]

8. The Teabaggers Love Him So Much They'd Steal the Election For Him

[MarkCharles]

9. It's so amazing how the media has created 3-5% of our stupidest ....

people as actually powerful since they got a computer with internet connection, somewhere between 2004 and 2010.

Now we all fear these idiots?

PLEASE!!! Follow the polls, do some research, no one over-estimates the Tea Party like democrats that don't do the research, and don't show up to vote because they fear Republicans are too strong in the polls.

[AndyTiedye]

17. They Get to Count the Votes in 27 States with 270 Electoral Votes

The teabaggers won big in 2010 at the state level, while we focused all of our efforts on saving our Senate majority.
That is going to cost us dearly.

They get to count the votes in all those states.

[customerserviceguy]

10. I'd love a divided convention

and the way things are going, Santorum may just win this thing outright. I sure hope nobody here helps him do that.

I'm sure there were a lot of reich wingers out there four years ago hoping that Obama would get the nomination, because they just couldn't see enough people in the US voting for a black man with such a thin resume.

[LisaL]

12. Exactly.

Be careful what you wish for.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. Rmoney's money makes him the odds on favorite

I doubt Frothy can win outright


Backing Santorum is, in effect, backing a brokered convention.

[LisaL]

14. Are you willing to bet your house on it?

[Motown_Johnny]

15. against your house.. straight up?

sure

[MrSlayer]

18. But he does talk about jobs.

That's what makes him dangerous. He talks about jobs in a different way than the other idiots in the Republican party. He talks about outsourcing and revitalizing manufacturing, his "blue collar" upbringing and other shit that can fool the gulliable "Reagan Democrat". And of course, he's white.

Every time they run a whacko for President, they win. Reagan, H.W., W. Whether or not President Bush actually won is irrelevant because he served as such.

I'd rather go against the Dole and McCain type, which is Willard.

Newt would be the easiest of the three in my opinion. Santorum could be dangerous.