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Subscribe to RSSRick Santorum today picks up the first -- and probably only -- endorsement from a statewide elected official in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa. Secretary of State Matt Schultz announced Friday that he will support the former Pennsylvania senator for president this cycle.
"Sen. Santorum is a strong advocate for faith, family, and freedom. He has a solid track record as a social and fiscal conservative from his time serving in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives,” Schultz said in a written statement. “As a Republican from a blue state, he has the experience to win in tough elections.”
Schultz is of Mormon faith and endorsed Mitt Romney during the 2008 cycle. But for 2012, decided to back Santorum, a Catholic.
“Sen. Santorum shares my core conservative principles, and I believe he should be the Republican candidate to take on President Obama,” Schultz added.
Santorum, who has visited all of Iowa’s 99 counties and frequents the state more than any other candidate, is polling at just 5% in Iowa according to the recent NBC News-Marist poll. Schultz also has visited all the counties in Iowa and beat a sitting Democratic incumbent himself back in 2010.
Schultz will join Santorum in Johnston, IA Friday evening during a campaign stop the campaign billed as a “major announcement.”
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You never know, Jan 3 is still 3 weeks away. If Newt implodes sooner than the establishment republicans expect, Santorum could win Iowa by default. Well, maybe not but Ron Paul could.
Jody,
You know I am praying for a blizzard to hit Iowa the evening of Jan3.:o) Make them work for every vote on Jan 3.
The message is on the wall folks: Slavery In America Isn't Just For Colored People Any More! This is the great vision these people have for America. Given what the GOP has to sell its no wonder they're reduced to telling stupid lies about Obama.
Leave it to the GOP to put up a candidate who brought a miscarried baby home in a jar for his brother and sister to play with. And strangely enough when I double checked on google to make sure I had the right guy on that (Santorum) stories came up about Barbara Bush doing the same thing to W. (W was looking at the baby in the jar. W was not himself the baby in the jar. Sorry if that confused you conservatives.) So apparently this is considered normal behavior in Republican homes. These people are probably descendants of those who used to bite the heads off chickens in circus sideshows.
Ya know Marq, sometimes it's OK just not comment. You are disgusting.
And sometimes it's easier to post useless comments that do not require any thought, right, White Collar? I mean, if you had to post a comment that was sensible and reasonable your head would probably explode from the sheer effort of marshaling your few thoughts.
White Collar to paraphrase another Republican candidate, "If your political candidate brings home babies in jars for their brothers and sisters to play with blame yourself!" Don't blame me because YOU vote for sociopaths.
I guess its also common for conservatives to blame those who REPORT on sick behavior for the sick behavior THEIR side engages in. Remember when they got upset with the MSM for reporting on Lyndie England?
I don't know who Lyndie England is, so I don't know who this "they" is that you are referring to.
These people are probably descendants of those who used to bite the heads off chickens in circus sideshows
I didn't say what side I was on. I said your comment was disgusting.
And it was.
Lyndi was that model/poster woman for "American Exceptionalism" in Irag that paraded nude Iraqi soldiers on a leash, I think.....
So you think Marq's post was disgusting, but you're OK with a candidate bringing a baby home in a bottle to play with. WCA you and the tea people GOP republicans are the sick ones for supporting anybody this demented.
Are people in Iowa that stupid? Santorum (our ex-senator here in Pennsylvania) is the biggest joke this state has ever produced. I wouldn't vote for that a$$h0le as dog catcher. He is off the scale on the right.
The middle class is already serving as a group of helots to the wealthy...but excuse me, Santorum got this endorsement at 5am today?
White Collar it wasn't my comment that's disgusting. What's disgusting is that its TRUE. But I can understand how someone of limited intellect would confuse the two. Maybe it would help if you'd learn to operate google. Try looking things up once in a while.
Quite the elitist snob there, eh Marq?
Maybe you should learn how the "reply" button works on this site so that your comments show up in the correct place.
Limited Intellect, indeed.
"Maybe you should learn how the "reply" button works..."
DAMN, Marq- I guess he told YOU!
"elitist snob, WCA? REALLY??
"Sanitarium Santorum" is a GOP Clown with a very Sadistically Social agenda. Now this very Right Wing Radical Religious "Zombie." Spews views of racial intolerance, religious intolerance, and is very Cognitively Disabled. This GOP Lobbyist has no new economic ideas, individual thoughts, policy suggestions, or moral compass. "Sanitarium Santorum" is no economic friend to the Middle Class, the Working Poor, the elderly, and the disabled. He supported the House vote to destroy Social Security, and is a big time Union Buster. Now "Sanitarium Santorum" is very tolerant of social intolerance, spewing racial hatred, and always staying very loyal to the "Goofy Grover" Tax Pledge. "Sanitarium Santorum" is intolerant of intellectualism, reading, independent thinking, and thorough research. Sick of hearing to these GOP Clowns yet America??? I hope so!
"Sanitarium Santorum" also picked up endorsements from the KKK, the Nazis Party, North Korea, and Iran. This individual would fit right in at any cross burning, or other Radical Right Wing Tea Party events. Leave it to "Sanitarium Santorum" to bring his "Crazy Conservative Caasserole Of Crap" to the next KKK Pot Luck Dinner.