Fight! Santorum accuses Pawlenty of ‘class warfare,’ ‘prejudice’

[babylonsister]

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/111467-santorum-accuses-pawlenty-of-class-warfare-prejudice


Santorum accuses Pawlenty of ‘class warfare,’ ‘prejudice’
By Eric Zimmermann - 07/28/10 03:51 PM ET


In an early 2012 GOP skirmish, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) took a swipe at Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) on Wednesday, accusing him of “class warfare” and “prejudice.”

Santorum, who has been quietly gauging support for a presidential bid, criticized Pawlenty for playing up his working-class roots and contrasting himself with “country club elitists.”

“I’m not a class-warfare guy,” Santorum told National Review's Robert Costa.

He continued:

“That’s the Democrats’ gig. They like to divide and play the class card. We don’t have classes in America — I don’t even like the term ‘middle class.’ People are lower income or middle income, and the dynamism of this country is that you can rise, and sometimes fall, but you are not stuck in classes. We should not get into that kind of rhetoric, or showing some sort of prejudice.”

[Arkana]

1. Uh oh. I see these two in pissing matches during the GOP primaries now.

[Catshrink]

2. Ricky isn't going anywhere

once people find out how weird he is he'll get laughed out of the running. I still can't get over his bringing the dead baby home so the older siblings could bond with him. Gives me the creeps - and no doubt scarred those kids.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Santorum sometimes has difficulty expressing himself.

He said "We don’t have classes in America," but of course he meant to say "Republicans have no class."

[Curmudgeoness]

8. I second that comment. LOL. nt

[tanyev]

4. "We don't have classes in America"

:spray:

[babylonsister]

7. I laughed, too. So what's all this about the * tax cuts if we

have no class distinctions? :shrug:

[howaboutme]

9. We have both a class and caste system

and their role is to strip the money and power from average Americans. It has nothing to do with Party because the role is not Party but instead power.

The higher you are on the pecking order of the totem pole, the more you will gain as a result of the perpetual war mongering corporobanksterfascist policies. Conversely the lower you are, the more you lose.

This has always been about the redistribution of American wealth to the over class from the middle, lower and under class. Politics and Parties are there to make you think you have control. You don't and Carlin nailed it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

[rocktivity]

5. Rocktivity accuses Santorum of 'irrelevance,' 'egomania'

:boring:
rocktivity

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. Please, oh please! let this moron get the nomination for 2012.

:popcorn:

[rustydog]

10. Mr. Man-on-Dog , you have your own issues to deal with

Leave Mr 42% approval ratings to the voters, you have man on dog sex worries, remember?

[txlibdem]

11. The Rethugs don't like the term 'middle class'

After all, they destroyed the middle class. It no longer exists.

[babylonsister]

12. Good point! nt