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Subscribe to RSSUpdated 10:58 a.m. - TULSA, Okla. -- Aiming to snag a key win in Oklahoma's Super Tuesday contest, Rick Santorum on Sunday barnstormed in the conservative state, painting his chief rival as a moneyed but uninspiring politico whose rarefied air allows him "five home states" and possible tax breaks.
"You know, I don’t have my home state up on [Super] Tuesday like Congressman Gingrich or Governor Romney -- though Gov. Romney has about five home states," he quipped to laughter during a rally at Grace Church outside Tulsa. "I don’t know how that works, but I don’t live that kind of life. I have one home state."
(Santorum does own a home in a Super Tuesday state -- Virginia -- but he did not qualify for the ballot there. He was criticized during his 2006 re-election run for living with his family close to Washington, D.C., rather than residing permanently in Pennsylvania, the state he represented.)
Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, said in response: "Sen. Santorum's base is Obama supporters. The last thing the White House wants is to have to face Mitt Romney in a general election, so Sen. Santorum is relying on them to throw the primary in his direction. Mitt Romney has won five contests in a row and won in every corner of the United States with Republican voters. It's going to take a businessman who is not a creature of Washington to change the status quo."
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Indirect digs at Romney's "kind of life" -- and his cash-laden donors --were sprinkled throughout Santorum's two-stop visit to Oklahoma.
"Guess what, rich people can move their money other places," he said in Tulsa, using presumptive frontrunner Gov. Mitt Romney as an example to illustrate a point of tax policy. "As we saw from someone who went out as I did and worked. My tax rate was about 27, 28 percent. Gov. Romney's was half that amount."
Santorum paid double Romney's tax rate in 2010, records show
"Gov. Romney has never won a state in this country where he was outspent," he told a crowd in Oklahoma City after referencing big dollar contributors to a major pro-Romney super PAC. "Think about that. Think about the fact that every state he has won he has outspent his opponent at least 4 to 1 or 5 to 1, and he's barely won."
"What does that tell you about his ability to motivate and rally the people of America for the big change we need coming into the general election?" he asked.
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The former Pennsylvania senator, who himself reaped a significant income from his tenure as a consultant after he left Capitol Hill, hopes that a common-man approach will boost him over Romney in key Southern states like Oklahoma and Tennessee.
"You go out and give us a win," he said Sunday. "And we will go on past Super Tuesday, we will go to Alabama and Mississippi and win there and this race will turn around and we will go on and be the nominee.
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Hey Rick - quit whining! You're losing; you can't handle it and I'm sorry your feelings have been hurt. The reality is you can't beat the Boy King and we must have someone on the ticket who can de-throne the Boy King. It's not your time.
As a student of history (college) but including all the other behavioral sciences, these blogs are fascinating. Mr. Santorum might refer to me as a snob but my "snob degree"would be less than his though I daresay I may have paid more attention in class than he. College taught me to think and connect dots. I suspect not so much in his case. You don't have to dig very deep to see how much these guys misrepresent themselves. Now with the convenience of money-raising pacs they are almost not responsible for the claims made therein. Thankyou Supreme Court. Does anyone know the definition of impartiality? In this thinking person's mind it is almost inconceivable that any of these guys has a snowball's chance in hell...and then I remember two terms of W.
Santorums state is Fascist.
It seems to me that the Republicans really want Obama to remain as president though they pretend otherwise. It can't be a mistake that they offer their trash candidates seriously.
Obama is a tough guy on foreign policy. His Obama Care is a good start for the country and for the same people that were doing fine before it became law as it is still run and operated mostly by the same institutions and they are doing well with it. Obama is conciliatory and does try to get the country out of this insane division we experience.
For me, personally, I think Obama has made many mistakes but there is no way in hell I want the dumb-nuts of the Far Right running the country.
I am old enough to remember (80) Eisenhower who I voted for, a real moderte conservative and great leader. Find another one of him and I'll vote for him regardless of what party he is in.
Pippo,
They don't make 'em like General Eisenhower anymore. The Republican Party has been hijacked by extremists and moonbats. They got the Tea Party curse in the 2010 midterms, and that wing is driving the party...straight to Hell.
Pubbies? The roaring silence about my post pretty much says it all.
The Pub party became a party of extremists starting with the 1980 election and the President who, though not an extremist himself, enabled the extremists to brab hold of the party and GW Bush finished the job of enabling them.
Snappa I agree any church that speaks politically should lose ALL tax exempt status. Rick Santorum's policie's are idiotic, then again Romney has switched position on every issue where he used to be moderate which scares me. IF he ran as a moderate and actually defended his health care plan I may like him more, however pandering to the far right is stupid. CONSERVATIVISM is NOT the answer. A conservative philosophy will not help us in the long run. America needs a massive amount of change, only way that's going to happen is with a LIBERAL supreme court, senate, house and president. We need campaign finance reform, we need a way to clear out all lobby groups a tax code that makes sense, incentives for companies bringing jobs back, penalties for companies with more employees overseas than in US, GREEN ENERGY, and all that is just a start. Ideally I'd also like to see an end to the political parties entirley as well as the Electoral college but probably never going to happen.
If Rick Scrotum says one more time he has courage for talking about issues, I swear to God I'm going to punch him right in his pu--y and I don't ever hit women!!! :)
Let's pass a federal law requiring Presidential candiates to only have homes in one stste just like the rest ofus!
Yea lets all be the same and live in a socialized world where we are told who what how where when and why and have everything handed to us with no effort and there is no incentive to be successful and help others.Thats right, HE pays more in charity than in taxes but the press largely ignores that.
He has a point. From Mass, to Mich. and even the mansion in California. So it is 5 down and 45 to go. Doesn't everyone have several home states? Shall we fly to the house in Miami, Honolulu, Malibu or one of the places in the colder country like, perhaps Park City or on Cape Cod. Such a tough decision I just can't decide. Oh woe is me, I just can't decide which of my 5 homes or 10 cars to use today and tomorrow. I mean, doesn't everyone have that problem?
As for cars we could drive one of the Canadian made Cadillacs or German made Mercedes, BMW or a Japanese made Lexus. Oh I Know we could drive the Jaguar from England or the Bugati from Italy. Maybe we'll just thake the English made Rolls Royce to the air port to board our private jet. Do we want to take the big jet or the smaller one? Decisions, decisions. Such decisions for everyone in the country right Mitt?
Rick,your just an ENVIOUS class warfare warrior,dividing our nation along economic lines.Envy is a SIN and a good CHRISTIAN like you should have no part in it.I would expect this kind of rhetoric from that SNOB OBAMA but not a good little ALDER BOY like you.What's the matter Ricky you see your dream of being the FIRST AMERICAN POPE in CHIEF slipping away? WHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What is wrong with this country that Santorum even has a chance.
I didn't know Santorum was a OWS supporter, Looks like he is bringing their message to Romney
"Guess what, rich people can move their money other places," he said in Tulsa, using presumptive frontrunner Gov. Mitt Romney as an example to illustrate a point of tax policy. "As we saw from someone who went out as I did and worked. My tax rate was about 27, 28 percent. Gov. Romney's was half that amount."
As much as I despise Santorum and there is NO way he could get my vote, I have to admire this quote
Bain Capital made big fees from companies that failed. (I have no problem with its making big money from its successes.)
SAILCAT, The president of the United States really should know that their are 50 states, not 57. And Seeking SANITY, Where should Romney deposit his money? Where he can pay more taxes? Yea that is the president we want, one who cannot manage his own money. Or should he give it to whining people like you? Look up obama and his aliasHarrison J. Bounel. and his several social security nuimbers! The guy is a fraud and committed real estate fraud and tax fraud. He is a criminal period. And how do you like how WITCHKING thinks the answer to our problems is to force Romney and other rich people to pay higher taxes because well, they are successful and why should he have more than me? Pathetic. He is successful and that is why he should be POTUS. He is not like most of us. I will never get two degrees from Harvard at the same time and neither will most of us.
Reply To WITCHKING, Romney saying he would not change the law in MA if elected to Gov. hardly qualifies as pro choice. Gays do have rights but Romney who is against gay marriage does not mean he thinks they do not have rights, they do and he said so. And there is a diff. between owning a gun and assualt weapons which he is against. But people like you say he changed his mind. And thank God he changed his mind on stem cell research! We need a president who can see a mistake and change his mind, thank you very much. He NEVER supported the stimulus only hoped it would work and gave obama the benefit of the doubt but it FAILED! and he never supported the auto bailout and no he did not change his mind on the bank bailout. He supported it as a succession of bank failures may hve continued and ruined the country all on obamas watch. Obama should thank Romney.
Santorum and Gingrich will all be but done by the end of Super Tuesday - but will hang on for a brokered convention.
Why don't they ever live in their home state?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc