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Subscribe to RSSWASHINGTON -- Alice Stewart, who served as communications director for Michele Bachmann's failed presidential campaign, has been named national press secretary for one of her former boss' chief rivals – Rick Santorum.
The hire comes at a time when Santorum's campaign is touting a spike in momentum and money after winning races in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri on Tuesday.
The Republican presidential hopeful has pulled in more than $3 million in contributions since the three-state victory.
"He's right on the issues and hasn't flipped flopped on the issues," Stewart said of the former Pennsylvania senator. "People are starting to recognize that. He didn't come to the game like Romney did with the name ID that Romney had."
Stewart will serve under the direction of national communications director Hogan Gidley. In the previous campaign cycle, they both worked for 2008 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's political action committee, HuckPAC.
Santorum often jokes that he runs his campaign on a "shoestring budget," and even when money began to come in after his Iowa caucus victory, his staff remained small compared to those of his rivals.
The candidate frequently travels without any members of his communications staff, which has on occasions led to logistical problems and miscommunication between media and the campaign.
"We always planned to staff up when the time is right, and the time is right," said Gidley. But he also cautioned, "We'll never be the bureaucratic, DC behemoth that Mitt Romney's campaign is … that's not what Rick Santorum is. He won’t surrounded by handlers."
The development reflects a split among senior veterans of the Bachmann campaign, who have remained friendly while being hired in separate directions.
Two members of Bachmann's staff went to work for Mitt Romney in the days after Bachmann left the race – including high-profile debate coach Brett O'Donnell.
(O'Donnell apparently split abruptly from Romney's staff last week.)
Reached by telephone Saturday night, Stewart said her move does not indicate that her former boss will endorse her new one.
"She's made it clear she's not in any hurry to endorse," Stewart said about Bachmann.
Bachmann dropped out of the race Jan. 4, one day after finishing last among the candidates competing in the Iowa caucuses.
Stewart will likely begin her new job next week when Santorum travels to Michigan.
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Meanwhile, inside a Republican's mind:
"That is terrrrrific news!! She can do the same thing for Santorum's campaign that she did for Bachmann's."
"Errrrrr,.......wait a minute."
who cares?
I just think it's funny that the crazies are trading teammates.
GOP,
Now that's laugh out loud funny, I don't care who ya are!
PS: Good to see you out & about! I've missed ya! ☺
Missed U 2 Shuggah!
Hi Feisty! **X0 ** I see the "A" team is on the field this morning!! :o)
We will need to muster all hands in the first election to be bought by the Citizen's United Decision! I feel privileged indeed to fight by your side. :o)
Repubs did a cannonball early into the CU cash pool. Pres. Obama has a whole lot of catching up to do. Unfortunately, Michigan is next in line for the truth perversion machine known as the repub candidate clown parade. We can expect the lie tsunami to be hitting our fair shores soon. They're coming.
Through it all it will be a tough sell for a party that wanted to exterminate Detroit and its uncounted millions of jobs. I don't expect that line to play well here. Even repubs would'nt have the stones to stand on a stage and say,..."Hey,...vote for me cause I,...uhhhhh,...wanted to wipe you out and sell your kids for medical experiments,...whadye' say,...deal?"
**crickets** torches and clubs appearing,........
If ANY repub candidate wants to campaign in this state they'd better keep the effin' engine running on the armored tour bus!!
Just saying.
Good to "tussel it up" with you again shuggah. xo
It's always a good day when I see you on board & can stand by your side!
Care to join me for a pomegranate martini? ☺
Sounds damn yummy to me. With a cherry and a hunk o' pineapple.
Do you think they would have used the title " Newt Snags a Woman " from anyone else's campaign ?
lol
I thought republicans were crazy when they pretended to be pro-life and pro-war at the same time.
But this, Sanatorium is against birth control. Republicans seems to think it is their right to limit women's health care and then have the nerve to call it freedom.
Look at what they are doing in Michigan. Taking away your rights of voting for representation and replacing it with a republican governor appointed all powerful city dictators that have no responsibility to respond to needs or wants of the people.
Just some more of that good old freedom the republicans love to talk about so much.
Michigan's Tea Party governor took a right turn into Soviet style governing. His team of bureaucrat czars are now attempting to overthrow the elected officials of the states largest city. They already grabbed power over other municipalities. In one case they decided too take away Benton Harbor's lake shore beach park, the only park the city has, and give the land to developers to construct a PGA golf course and luxury summer homes for Chicago's millionaires. Club membership dues per year are 50% of the average annual income of resident families. The property was donated to the city in perpetuity in 1917 by a couple that wanted the land to be the city's permanent recreation park in the name of their deceased daughter. For 95 years city residents used the park for all the typical events a community normally has, as well as swimming beach in the summer.
Stealing from the relatively poor and giving to the rich is a Tea Party thing. Dismissing the elected mayor and city council is also an earmark of Tea Party democracy and local government control. Hitler could not have been more helpful in his early days.
It's a great story. If only it were that simple. Or true.
There's much that Maddow didn't mention, beginning with the fact that Harris was appointed not by Pscholka or Republican Gov. Rick Snyder, but by former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, a Democrat.
That occurred, incidentally, after a state review found the city's pension system was underfunded by $4 million, its cash reserves dwindled from $1.7 million to $300,000 in three years and the city was spending between $80,000 to $100,000 annually in overdraft fees. The same week that Benton Harbor officials forcefully told state officials at a hearing that they didn't need an emergency financial manager, they had to ask the state treasury for an advance on funds to make their payroll.
What happened last week: Harris notified the Benton Harbor City Commission and other city boards that he's using the revamped law to assume dictatorial powers over city operations.
www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index/.ssf/2011/04/column.html
Ah always two sides of a story.......you think Madow told the whole truth?
Santorum already has enough problems. The first time he says something about Napoleon's defeat at Gettysburg, the Bachman thing will have begun. His armor is badly dented from his Crusade against women's contraception and cancer prevention. He barely stopped short of calling for an Inquisition.Purdue University would have been tried for heresy, along with 28 states that have been living with the same coverage requirement for many years. However, the governor of Wisconsin, one of those states, will be politically excommunicated as soon as the recall election is over.
Scott Walker is the winner of the Miss Conception crown. Calling school teachers thugs and outsiders is like stepping on apple pie.
That doesn't change the fact that he won primaries, even with his voting record as a Senator. That there are people terrified enough of the bogeyman threats Republicans perpetuate with their daily lies to legitimately vote for a man as un-American as Rick Santorum should give us all reason to stop and consider the dire straits the country exists in.
5 posts in 8 hours. Must be an important article.
Gingrich talks a good game, but Santorum's the only true fundamentalist left in the race.
But Santorum is to anti American .His rhetoric proves it !
oh, he's a flipping fu cking fundy - that's FOR SURE!
What a great rousing speech Palin gave at CPAC! Brought the crowd to it's feet with applause several times! But for me she summed it up with a big "WTF"to Obama! WTF are you doing to the country with your idiotic ideas, Mr Obama? The country can't take it anymore!
I hope carrot top listened to the speech! If so, I bet she pounded down several boilermakers to forget, lmao!
ABO 2012, more than ever!
Face it BenSnead, if Palin would have called you personally a horses a$$, you would have said she gave a great rousing speech. You know it's true, love is blind.
She did get quite a few zingers in against obama. Easy to do when you look at his record! It would impossible to find another president that has caused so much misery in America!
The fact that he's the first president in history to resemble Alfred E Newman, a comic book character didn't hurt her monolog either!
Free Market, I agree America needs a laugh right now! Maybe Barry's handlers will use slapstick comedy as a campaign strategy! ...... ya think? lol
Bill, you betcha! hehehe!
No MO1852..'
Palin could have killed his dog, raped his wife, cut her throat and wiped the blade off on his shirt, drained Snead's bank account and then set Snead ablaze and that robot would still be enthralled by Caribou Barbie and her brain draining tour at one of her fleece the idiots rallies.
Hilarious!!
gopisextinct..... such venom, such anger, such nonsense.... perhaps you can see that the future is not looking good for the liberal cause and you are distressed, eh?
Say goodbye to your meal ticket my friend! ABO 2012
YES newt mitt and santorum....wow what a field..
"Free" market fan:
In fact I'm getting ready to order the champagne for when the Democrats retake the House. America's seen what the repubs have done with it, and they aren't pleased.
President Obama is a re-election shoe in. Once people get a good look at the contrast between him and the Kooks running on the GNOP side it'll be over quick. At least it'll be fast and merciful for you right wing ding-a-lings.
Romney wants to outsource your job to countries he can't even pronounce, think companies are people and belongs to what evangelical repubs think is a cult.
Gingrich is a one-eyed trouser trout who is morally bankrupt even for Washington, and was kicked to the curb once by his own party.
Santorum prays over dead fetuses, and got "unelected" by his party in Pennsylvania as well.
Not much to choose from there dude. There is no there there. I think America will figure out who was driving the last time the United States crashed as bounce you freaks out of office just like 2006 and 2008.
Just a matter of time peanut. Just a matter of time now.
say gopdude....
Did you know that in the human body there is a nerve that connects the
eyeball to the anus?
It's called the Anal-Optic Nerve, and it is responsible for giving people
a @!$%#ty outlook on life.
You must have pulled a hair from your ass and found out it does
bring a tear to your eyes!
Your wish for an obama repeat brings a tear to our eyes as well.... be careful what you wish for... you may not like it, dude!
I don't know people that order champagne anymore, can't you just go to the liquor store?
I think this election is going to be the two of less evils. Do people want four more years of what's going on or something fresh and if Romney is nominated that it would be a fresh start. If Newt or another person is nominated, I'm sitting this one out.
It's pretty sad when 1 out of 5 receive some type of Government assistance. That average is around 34K a year. I guess if you're one of the five that receives the free money you wouldn't vote against the person that is giving you a handout.
Snead: way to deflect!
May not like it?
You picked the wrong guy to spout that one to.
I (still) work for Chrysler,.....no thanks to the GNOP.
Thanks to Obama I am still in my house, pay more in taxes than the auto loans would ever be worth, and our nation is dragging itself out of the swamp the GNOP mired us in. It has taken us this long to get back to zero.
Open comment to America: REMEMBER WHERE YOU WERE IN 2007 AND WHO BROUGHT YOU THERE!! THINK!! REMEMBER!! WAKE UP!!
Reagan asked the question, and so will I: "Are you better better off than you were 3 years ago?"
I am.
Umm GOP, who took control of the Senate and Congress in 2007? I remember Barney Frank saying that Freddie/Fannie were sound. Hey, Bush wasn't the best, but Nancy/Harry took us down a path of no return.
What do you mean you pay more taxes?
Why George W. Bush with his veto pen,...thanks for the reminder, Paulie,..
And I pay LESS in taxes thanks to President Obama thwarting the tax and spend ways of the GNOP.
And as far as who drove the mortgage crisis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYvtvcBKgIQ&feature=related
Educate yourself sweetie.
Breaking News:
Santorum - I am the Ritchie Cunningham Candidate
Richie Cunningham - "I endorse President Obama" - watch and see:
Richie Cunningham grew up to be Ron Howard...another snotty entitled liberal Hollywood millionaire, which is pretty much Obama's base..
Ron Howard no doubt takes full advantage of special tax breaks given to millionaire Hollywood producers, whilst claiming he is for higher taxes on millionaires....other millionaires, not him!
Ron Howard looks down from his mansion and spits on the Richie Cunninghams of the world.
Link did not show up - Ritche Cuningham endorsing President Obama
santorum is running for COMMANDER AND PRIEST...NO THANKS...keep your religion out of politics especially your extreme brand rickie boy.....you say you dont want goverment telling the people what to do that is because you want to..... no thanks....remember religion is about faith which pratically defined is the absence of logic ...and so is your campaign...
Totally agree Marc, but in turn keep your politics out of my religion.
you guys bashing obama when your owe party has newt , mitt and santorum...right we're all listening you your crock of @!$%#.....no ones listening to you conservatives when the canidates you have reflect your wants and needs...which means your out there plain and simple..
don't you hate obama
ended two trillion dollar wars
cutting the defense budget 500 billion
letting bush tax cuts go back to clinton era yes those bad old clinton days 22 million jobs longes sustained period of econ growth ever....4 trillion saved over 10 years
saved g.m
killed bin lade
killed a pirate and 23 of the top 30 terriorist in the world
offered up 4 trillion in cuts to spending ohh spending you turned it down...
stopped the 750,000 jobs being loss bushes last month added 243,000 last
nasdaq higest in 11 years
dow up highest level in 3 1/2 years
khaffi gone... farmed that out one american boots on the ground...
unemply down to 8.3 from alm 10
yes the econ steps could if the gop would have taken obama's 4 trillion in spending cut....ouuccch guess you gop types are n't really interested in getting rid of the debt...all talk fiscal conservatives in name only....party firster's...boo,,,i bet clint eastwood hates you too.
Some of those numbers are off and some statements are false Marc.
A lot of those numbers are off and several statements are total fabrications Marc.
... grammar, spelling, and syntax below 2nd grade level. You are a liberal!
Good Kelly,...now square your shoulders and address the actual SUBSTANCE and facts in Marc's entry. Diversion is a poor response.
C'mon,....you can do it.
Were we losing 750,000 jobs per month when Obama took office or not?
Check one box sweetie.
You're obviously a "Connie". Maybe Palin can tell you all about Paul Revere. LOL
of course compared to your man bush obama record hardly shines
9/11 warned but couldn't tell sercurity guard to not let people with box cutters on a plane
two wars
lied about one..
two trillion
thousands soldiers dead
no energy policy
no immigrantion reform
no healthcare bill
and had the house and senate in gop hands 2001 2007
deregulated banking
subprime crisis
banking meltdown
losing 750,000 jobs a month
and wanted to privatize social security which if done would have bombed the country after the banking fiasco into bankrupcty
quite a record........
3.9 trillion debt
gave away the 500 billion surplus clinton gave him
gave 4 trillion tax cut to the job creator that created 3 million jobs to clinton 22 million with clinton 38 percent rate....great job job creators' what a lie
Marc huff, you don't get out much do you?? Ref post 12 & 13.
blah blah blah american 2051576 is that your prison number....what did i color outside the lines....shower time......
american 783832 whatever dispute the facts mr. its not opinion....what is there anything wrong in those post of obama and bushes career...?
you guys focus on richie cunnigham , because anything that kepts your mind off your party's record and the truth about what obama trying to do and you the gop are trying to prevent him from doing which is getting our economy back after the disaster of bushenomics....mitt and rickie boy wow...
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Marc,
keep drinking the moonbat koolaid.
Obama's stewardship of the economy was worse than the Captain of the Titanic...
Worst economic recovery since the 1930s...epic failure.
Here you are booby - are you going to answer WHY you have multiple accounts?
Or will you continue to run around with your little tail tucked between your legs?
♥
Your #1 Moonbat!
facts bobby boy he took on a sinking ship and with the gop already in the lifeboats decided to stay on board...you're party the gop decided in our the u.s.a. time of need to let the passenegers drown so as you're party could be the next captain problem was that you throw these facts on a bumper sticker and compare and constrast to bush....you lose romney will lose by 10 points and santorum 20 if he is nominee....neither romney or santorum are in bushes tier and after bush hack job...a republican is a 40 percent her....and bob the coolaid i had to drink for 8 years under bush damn near took us all or are you denying his presidency
And they had to throw Cheney out cause he was in the lifeboat dressed as a woman again.
Had something to do with 5 deferments.........
So a supporter of one right wing extremist Fascist wannabe supports another right wing extremist Fascist wannabe. No big deal.
you can call names all you got but obama facts are what stand.....he's killing foreign policy plain and simple usually you're strong hold....the markets up big big big....jobs coming back 8.3...gm damn he saved it against people in you're party wanting to kill it....bin laden kahaffi...all the terrorist leaders gone dead...obama's a cold bastard ...hell bob seal team is starring in an f739874983ing movie...bob just get out of the way you can't nor can your party lead....the party is dead you stand for hardy anyone or anything... a religious zealot that wants to make this a christian nation oh that will work or mitt pork chop around his neck so someone will play with me romney.....fix your party ...dude. it sucks...pulled to many directions you have three republican party's
notice bob doesn't dispute the facts...or even address them ...thank you bob obviously there right ....bring the facts fellow nongopens.....when they mention smaller goverment cut where how much when....they don't have answers only bull@!$%#....worst president why because he's a dem that's bob answer no facts just non fiction...thanks for playing bob...
First of all you have to post the facts marc along with their proper conclusions.
You mean like the old GOP conclusion: "tax cuts create jobs"? Conclusions like those?
Bush's tax cuts have been operating for over 10 years now. So when's the "jobs" part kick in?
All they've produced is richer rich people, fatter Cayman Islands bank accounts and fewer U.S. jobs.
GOP,
Why do you think vehicles are made outside of the USA? Heck look at Chrysler, who owns it? I know you know the answer. Why didn't Ford take the money? GM stock has to be at least $53 a share to break even with the American tax payer. I think GM stock is at around $26. So my money his spent and gone for nothing except to let the UAW live for a few years more.
Things are turning around but the recession ended in 2009, why are we still hurting in 2012? It's never taken this long to get out of a recession. It's all about the policies in place now.
Table was set by the GNOP decades ago. Ford did take $7 billion from a little-known fund that helps distressed companies,...fact.
If Chrysler and GM were not saved how much $$$$ do you think 2 million unemployed people would drain from the social safety net and unemployment every year? Who would gain from that? Would you pull over for a Toyota cop car?
Ignorant people have no awareness how crucial the domestic Big 3 are to this nation, its economy, and it's defense capability.
Think you'd be unaffected? Think again. How many Michigan / Midwest snow birds do you think spend those Union-negotiated wages on Florida vacations? There now,....starting to dawn on you now isn't it? Thought so.
Michigan's Big 3 holds the rest of the Midwest together sonny. Face it. Embrace it. Personally, I think the entire Midwest should boycott the South and go to California for a vacation. Let you people freeze in the dark on your oily beaches.
S'cuse me. I gotta' hit the sack so I can go to work and support more republican billionaires.
dispute any of the facts bobbie please.......just because you don't want them to be true doesn't mean there're not.....sorry bobbie obama ended the wars,,,mccain acutally wanted to stay...obama cutting the defense budget 500 billion a year....obama letting the 4 trillion over 10 years tax cuts to the rich expire almost another 500 billion a year...(yes they have to go back to the clinton rates the ones that created 22 million jobs not bush an his 3 million...)and did he or did obama not propose 4 trillion in cuts to spending that the gop turned down........did he not kill bin laden did he not get nato to get khaffi...did he not order the execution of 23 of 30 top terrorist leaders...did he not order the pirate killed by seals.....is nasdaq not at a 11 year higt is dow not at a 3 year high,,,did obama stop the 750,000 people that were losing there jobs a month bushes last month in office and make 243,ooo last month....
oh all you gop basher's of ron howard he's that freemarket captialism guy that has made more money in exporting his goods than 95% of mulitnationals....he is what american is about ideas and excellent.....
You repubs are dead meat in November. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012 !!
Op-Ed Columnist
We Need a Second Party
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: February 11, 2012
WATCHING the Republican Party struggling to agree on a presidential candidate, one wonders whether the G.O.P. shouldn’t just sit this election out — just give 2012 a pass.
Josh Haner/The New York Times
Thomas L. Friedman
You know how in Scrabble sometimes you look at your seven letters and you’ve got only vowels that spell nothing? What do you do? You go back to the pile. You throw your letters back and hope to pick up better ones to work with. That’s what Republican primary voters seem to be doing. They just keep going back to the pile but still coming up with only vowels that spell nothing.
There’s a reason for that: Their pile is out of date. The party has let itself become the captive of conflicting ideological bases: anti-abortion advocates, anti-immigration activists, social conservatives worried about the sanctity of marriage, libertarians who want to shrink government, and anti-tax advocates who want to drown government in a bathtub.
Sorry, but you can’t address the great challenges America faces today with that incoherent mix of hardened positions. I’ve argued that maybe we need a third party to break open our political system. But that’s a long shot. What we definitely and urgently need is a second party — a coherent Republican opposition that is offering constructive conservative proposals on the key issues and is ready for strategic compromises to advance its interests and those of the country.
Without that, the best of the Democrats — who have been willing to compromise — have no partners and the worst have a free pass for their own magical thinking. Since such a transformed Republican Party is highly unlikely, maybe the best thing would be for it to get crushed in this election and forced into a fundamental rethink — something the Democrats had to go through when they lost three in a row between 1980 and 1988. We need a “Different Kind of Republican” the way Bill Clinton gave us a “Different Kind of Democrat.”
Because when I look at America’s three greatest challenges today, I don’t see the Republican candidates offering realistic answers to any of them.
gopie, my conservative columnists are smarter, more relevant, more knowledgeable, and get invited to more parties than your trolls! Being carrot tops lapdog is turning your mind to mush.... (not that it was very solid before carrot top, lol!)
So now that your done bragging "left is fuzzy " did you have an actual idea? or was that yet more gop rhetoric ?
left,
"conservative" and "smart" are never used in the same sentence.
Carpenter7 is right. Did you have a relevant comment? If you want I can help you with some of the bigger words.
And I would rather be in Feisty's lap than the lap of an obvious re-reg who is trying to evade detection. You sound like Booby.
Please come back here on November 8th, 2012 so I can spend the day laughing at you. :o)
left, ignore gop, he's nothing but a weak clone of his president, flip flops and mis information. And, as you say, he is so confused that he has to look up to carrot top! A meaningful discussion with him is not possible!
I do Miss Michelle and Herman though , can you folks bring them back ? the HILARITY was great .
They were great carpenter7!! Wouldn't that be hilarious if Bachmann lost re-election? Then she can go back to her baby farm. Just another repub on the government dole.
So another GOP Clown/Zombie moves from one GOP Circus Tent of "Bitchy Bachmann." Which is folded up already. To another GOP Clown, who is so intolerant of others that he could never be President. The GOP Elephants are still dancing in poltical, economic, and cultural circles. Again!
Well, there goes the Santoram campaign !!!! It really goes to show just how bad Santoram is as a politician. Having anyone from the Bachmann side should be a sure sign of problems !!!!
LMAOOOOOOO,,,oh what a snag Rick, do you normally chase losers?