Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Santorum wins a three way



Missouri




Santorum 55% Romney 25% Paul 12%




Minnesota




Santorum 45% Paul 27% Romney 17% Gingrich 11%






Colorado




Santorum 40% Romney 35% Gingrich 13% Paul 12%




Rick Santorum was smart to bail out on the expensive race in Florida that turned into a Newt/Mitt slugfest that Romney was able to tear Gingrich to pieces with paid media. Instead he headed to states that would have lower voter turnout that was more receptive to his "true conservative" message and it paid off. He didn't win any delegates in these races but the optics are good. Missouri was a primary that the other candidates ignored because the delegates will be selected later but a win is a win and Ricky won every county. Minnesota was a caucus with lower turnout than 2008 that Rick and Ron Paul did well. The most interesting result of the night was Colorado, Mitt Romney pulled 60% last time but lost by 5 points and Gingrich got buried everywhere.




Maybe the Tea Party is not dead after all according to the Denver Post:




"This harkens back to 2010, when the Tea Party essentially upset the established Republican candidates for the Colorado governor and Senate races, and it clearly demonstrates that the grass roots of the party remains very conservative and is unwilling to unite behind the presumptive front-runner,"




I'm not sure that this is an affirmation of Rick Santorum as it is a rejection of Mitt Romney. The guy is such an obvious phony as many of my local Republican friends tell me. He will say anything to win an election.




Santorum now has some wind in his sails but we can now expect the whirlwind. Just like dealing with Newt the Romney camp and others will go after Rick on policy and personally.




I'm sure the oppo research staff of the Romney campaign will be able to go after Santorum but I will give them a few helpfull hints.




Santorum favors caps on malpractice awards but his wife got a big settlement








On serving our country in the Armed Forces








Not supporting our veterans








Ripping off the taxpayers of the Penn Hills School District








Earmarks!




And God said 'Let there be pork' Plus he dissed New Jersey




Santorum's "charity"








Santorum's mortgage raises interest

And the just plain wierd




5 comments:

Mean Old Man said...

To Hell with Gort!!!!!

I always said that the Sainted SEn. Santorum would be our next President.

Take that commies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PoorRichard said...

Santorum has yet to be taken on. When they do go after him, the things Gort points out are as he said, just a taste. Hey, does anyone remember that he went after the Williamsport School District to pay for his children's education in VA? By the way, he never did move back to PA so why does he hold onto the story that he is from PA? How do you spell phony?

Big Dan said...

RADICAL RICK Santorum on contraception:

contraception 'license' to do bad things in bed

Anonymous said...

"Santorum Wins a Three Way"???

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, he sure did. I heard he surged up the polls, coming from behind the other candidates to come out on top.

HAHAHAHA

Google Santorum for more information.

I hope he at least made Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado breakfast the next morning!

Anonymous said...

If Santorum was the top in MN, CO, & MO, I wonder who was the bottom!