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CARNEGIE, PA -- If there was any question about how important Pennsylvania is to Rick Santorum's presidential campaign, the former Keystone State senator put it to rest today: It's a must win.
Speaking to reporters after a stop here at Bob's Diner, Santorum nodded his head as he faced a question about whether or not he needs to defeat rival Mitt Romney in his home state for his campaign to continue. "We have to win here," he stated. "As I said last night, the people of Pennsylvania know me."
After losing Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, DC (where he was not on the ballot), Santorum's long-shot chance at the GOP nomination became even longer Tuesday night. He has guaranteed a win in the state he represented for 16 years in Congress. But now, with his back against the wall and calls for him to exit the race growing louder, he acknowledges the need for a victory on April 24.
Hours earlier, campaign aides were more measured when addressing the importance of Pennsylvania. Moments after Santorum exited the stage on Tuesday night as results from the Badger State showed a Romney victory, Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley told reporters the state would be just as important to Romney as it is to Santorum.
“Pennsylvania is pivotal to our campaign. But it’s pivotal to Romney’s as well because it's – if we head into May with that win, we have momentum going into the states that swing back in our direction. And that’s his worst nightmare, because he wanted this thing to be over a long time ago," Gidley said.
Campaign aides point to the delegate-rich Texas, which holds its primary at the end of May, as the light at the end of a tough tunnel. But Pennsylvania is the only state Santorum has a realistic shot at winning in the month of April, and going into next month without momentum could cost the lead in even his most favorable of states.
On top of that, the state that Santorum calls home is also the one that delivered him a nearly 20-point loss in his 2006 Senate re-election bid. While his presidential campaign has largely been viewed as an underdog success story, a loss in Pennsylvania could mean he exits the race with another tough loss in his home state.
But Santorum feels times have changed, and so have the wants of the electorate.
“It’s a whole different world this time around. First of all, I’m running for president, not running for the Senate," he said. "It’s a whole different environment."
"The contrast we can provide in this election, someone from a blue-collar, working-class town in Butler, Pennsylvania, grew up in government housing, who clawed his way ... through the political process, never being anybody’s favorite, always being the underdog, always being someone that that was discounted, and I think folks in Pennsylvania have, for a long time, admired that story and can relate to that story. And I think they will again in this election cycle," he said.
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Well DUH!
I believe little Ricky should be able to stay in this
raceblood-bath for as long as he wishes to!One side effect of him going no-where anytime soon is the amount of heartburn it causes Willard!
THAT alone is worth the price of admission... lol
Don't you remember that dubbing you took in that Senate race Rick? Pennsylvanians hate you! You are looking to soothe your bruised ego in the keystone state, but you will find no solace there. It all goes back to that google problem of yours. Heck, I gave my sweater vest to Good Will! I don't ever want to make that fashion statement again!
Just tell me that Newt is not dropping out. I would so hate to think my vote was in vain.
And I would so LOVE to see Newt preen at the convention, thinking he still has a chance to play kingmaker.
Well, actually, that's just like any other day with Newt.
But maybe he'll be handing out little blue Tiffany's boxes to buy delegate votes.
And maybe that line of credit has been his contingency plan all along.
Well? Maybe.
Didn't Pennsylvanians already tell Santorum what they thought of him when he lost his Senatorial race?
Anna Molly
And I would so LOVE to see Newt preen at the convention, thinking he still has a chance to play kingmaker.
Seeing Newt Toon is always hilarious. Then there is Callista too whose even more of a cartoon. She used to scream in this cartoonist image. I had no idea why it has been removed.
http://www.osborneink.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/callista.gif
OMG That's SO scary, Beverly. And it made me recall that there's a lot of old Cindy McCain material out there just waiting to be recycled. The resemblance is pretty uncanny.
Oh, well. If we can't have the Tiffany
twitgirl, it will probably work for Ann Romney, too.Together the Romneys will make a pretty good American Gothic, you think?
It might help if Ricky told the truth: his dad was a PhD Psychologist at the V.A. which provided housing for the family. His mother was a nurse. Santorum makes it sound like he grew up in the projects, rather than a guy who came from a fairly privileged background.
He has criticized a recent poll (and vilified the pollster) that shows him losing ground to Romney in his home state:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybowyer/2012/04/04/problems-with-the-truth-confessions-of-a-22-year-rick-santorum-observer/
Fun Fact: If Santorum wins 100% of the Pennsylvania vote, no Republican delegates are bound by that vote. So, Ricky Retardo could see Mittsy take it all, because the delegates are bound to the Republican apparatus and not the popular vote.
Somebody got some 'splainin' to do.
Only Santorum could pi$$ off the Dutch! The Dutch!!! And no apologies from Ricky about lying - nice Catholic you are, Santorum. I don't understand how anyone who supposedly is educated can be that stupid and/or ignorant. Santorum is a total embarassment.
And just in case someone forgot about how bad he lost his Senate race.
Popular vote
Casey 2,392,984
Santorum 1,684,778
Percentage
Casey 58.6%
Santorum 41.3%
"As I said last night, the people of Pennsylvania know me."
Yes, we do. That's the whole problem.
Speaking of Pennsylvania, with the primary now less than three weeks away, I finally saw the first sign of enthusiasm for it in my neighborhood this morning - just like that first dandelion, there was the first lawn sign.
It was for Ron Paul.
JoAnne--my next-door neighbor is a very active Republican (went to the convention in 2008) and has NO signs out for any Presidential candidates. She does have a sign out for our Congressman (who follows the party line 100% of the time).
JoAnne in PA
And that is why the people of PA don't want Ricky. Just like the people of Massachusetts don't want Romney.
You would think that this would be a huge warning sign to the rest of the country: the home states of these two (although Romney has like 15 home states) don't want them because of their records in those states so why would the rest of us want them?
There's a good Pennsylvania polka joke in here somewhere.
Pennsylvanians reserve all of their jokes for New Jersey.
You liberals will miss Santorum and Gingrich when they drop out.
After all, how many lame "Willard' jokes are left in your depleted arsenal?
Feisty is already on her "B" material....(and her "A" material was "B" material, if you know what I mean)
How many Willard jokes do you need. I'm just getting started.
Although, I do confess that my own "material" is neither "A" nor "B."
Not sure Bob, but there are plenty about you & vaginal probes...
For some reason they seem to write themselves! ☺
Virginia
ProbeBob: There are plenty of Willard jokes left in the arsenal. The guy is one big giant joke. Let's see, we have etch-a-sketch, dog, love firing people, waiting for a pink slip, Cayman Islands, Bain, cardboard cutout, unemployed, wife has two cadilacs, car elevator, cold war mentality, and on and on and on.Feisty:
I am not surprised you havent let up in calling me a nasty name, even though the issue is resolved and informed consent is now the law in Virginia and many other states .... was it funny? maybe one time...but by all means, keep embarassing yourself.
So here is a prediction: soon you will go deeper down in the gutter to Mitt's Mormon religion, like the dirtbag MSNBC show host Lawrence O'Donnell did last night.
Little Boob, you sure have some balls talking about nasty name calling... lol
Does moonbats, Soro's Monkeys, etc. ring a bell?
Unbelievable... do you dolts even proof read what your write?
Sorry buddy, you're in for a long hard ride between now & November - might be a good idea to swap the daily 'probe' for a colonic, sounds like you could use one... ;o)
You haven't been right so far, why would this time be any different? lol
Riddle me this, Bobby.
If religion is a topic that is supposed to be out of bounds when talking about Presidential candidates, then why do they all talk about their religious values? Shouldn't they just shut up?
And once they bring it up, doesn't that qualify as opening the door for scrutiny?
If they don't like having their religions discussed, then they should stop talking about Barack Obama's religion, and they should stop telling women what they should do with their bodies just because THEIR religion says so, and they should stop telling gays they can't get married just because THEIR religion says so.
Don't forget, Bobby, that the rest of us have First Amendment rights, too. Which makes Mitt's religion, and Santorum's religion HIGHLY relevant, especially when they are advocating -- as Santorum certainly does, and Romney, too, nowadays -- to have their own religious views imposed by force if necessary on the rest of us, even if we don't share those views. And even in cases of rape and incest.
No one is infringing on anyone's religious rights, Bobby. If you don't want your woman to have an abortion, don't impregnate her. If you don't want her using birth control, buy her some aspirin and leave her alone. Buy her some aspirin because she'll need it whether you leave her alone or not. If a woman doesn't want to have an abortion, she shouldn't have one. If she doesn't want to use birth control, she shouldn't use it. But if those things don't conflict with her religion, then she has every right. She has a right to choose her own religious values, and you have no right to impose yours on her.
I'm sick and tired of authoritarian cowards like Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney, who are trying to have it both ways. Whine, whine, whine. If they don't want their religion discussed, then they need to stop talking about it. Otherwise, their religious values and practices are fair game.
Period.
BRAVO - Anna Molly!
You got my vote! ;o)
I for one, am fed up with the double standards!
One more thing, if certain posters want to continue the Obama 'cult' members meme - then all bets are off...
There is no bigger cult in America then the Mormon Church!
Oh, I don't know, Feisty. I think the Evangelicals, and nowadays, even the Catholics, give the Mormons a good run for it.
I'm fed up with their using their religion as a sword when they want to take someone else's rights away -- primarily women and gays -- and a shield when someone takes them to task for it.
So sorry. The cry persecution strategy no longer works, at least not with intelligent folks. Like us, of course. ;-)
"There is no bigger cult in America then the Mormon Church!"
Just another thing you don't know what you're talking about. I bet someone on MSNBC put that notion in your little head. By the way Red, do you think Harry Reid is in that "Cult" too or do you think that only applies to GOP Mormons? On second thought, don't answer something you don't know, I'll bet it's something stupid.
Hey Anna, why was Obama's church off limits in 08? I must had miss the part that Romney used his religion for anything. Care to enlighten me? It might be out there, I never seen it.
Well said, Anna Molly.
Now Mitt Romney is saying that President Obama wants to destroy mainstream religion by creating a "secular religion"---he knows because he's heard "reports" of this. My first thought---for someone who doesn't want to bring religion into the race AND who belongs to a religion that can hardly be called mainstream, he's got a lot of nerve. We'll hear whining from him when people call him out on it because he doesn't like it when he is challenged.
Those laws can be repealed, Bob. They certainly should be, as they limit the rights of women. Women can vote now, you know.
"Informed consent" indeed! What an Orwellian name for something that no woman willingly consents to. "Forced probe" would be the accurate name.
Paul --
Exactly where did you spend 2008, Paul? Some alien planet?
Don't you remember Reverend Wright?
Or don't you want to remember because that directly conflicts with the right wing's ongoing campaign of insinuation that President Obama is a Muslim?
We wouldn't want to be confined to one principled position, now would we?
As for Romney, he has now adopted the same viewpoint as Santorum with regard to abortion. I assume that's founded on his religious beliefs. Please correct me if I'm wrong and it's merely political rhetoric.
That's equally possible, of course, if you're talking about Romney.
I am sick of politics from preachers, and preaching from politicians. Mitt Romney is the biggest liar I have ever seen. Republicans know it, that is why he can't wrap this up, he is dishonest, he contradicts himself from day to day, week to week and election campaign speech to election campaign speech, he lies and everybody knows his many positions on the same issues and that is why he is not trusted. If this guy is so religious what religion have you ever heard of that condones lying. Ha as far as Santorum is concerned this guy talks about gay sex more than gay people talk about gay sex, what's up with that.
He's not getting any and they are? ;-)
I don't know why he is so concerned with gays having sex, it's not like they use birth control.
Maybe that's not his experience. Well. Maybe. ;-)
"After all, how many lame "Willard' jokes are left in your depleted arsenal?"
I have no doubt Romney will give us plenty more in the coming months. After all -- he's made a fool out of himself and so far he only faced 3rd rate competition.
And if Santorum doesn't win; will he stay home?
Probably not. I believe IL and WI were also 'must wins' for Santorum.
He can run but he can't hide.
Forrest, you're on fire!
Ooops...that might not be a good thing... :)
Rickey,
Look Homeward... but which home??
The house in PA with your voter registration address that you have rented out for years to family member? Or all your rental property that is a business? or your mansion in Louden County, Virginia, down the highway from old Newt's mansion?
I want to take this opportunity to thank Rick Santorum for pushing Mitt Romney to the hard right and for depleting a large part of the Romney war chest in the primary campaigns and caucuses.
2008: Obama admitted the tough primary fight with Hillary helped him get elected in the fall.
2012: Similarly, Mitt Romney will thank Santorum and Gingrich, after he is elected President this fall.
@ Bob
Paul was on Fox this afternoon, sounds like he is staying in.
Sarah Palin was on Hannity last night said Romney should pick Rep. Allen West for VP.
Willard is not the nominee, yet.
They have not had the GOP cannibal convention.
Bob, that sounds like the plot of a bad made-for-TV movie that will never get the green light.
Prepare to go down in defeat in November, Bobby.
And this is why you are no longer a Senator representing the "keystone state".
Keep on truckin, Lil Ricky! Ya just gotta love it! The more he does win, the less chance willard has of getting the magic number. I would just love to see that, the delegates split just enough! Mitty would sure have egg on his face then! I am loving this circus, and i dont want it to end. Then what fun will i have? OH yea, i almost forgot, the debates where President Obama hands Mitty his ass! This is gonna be good! The party of NO must GO!!! OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Just out of curiosity, is it Spencer, Iowa?
Stay in till June. I want the circus to come down to TX. The GOP is not going to win this Fall, they should save their energy and focus on 2016.
Go Obama!
"As I said last night, the people of Pennsylvania know me." >>>
Oh, indeed we do! We ran you out of here once, and I suggest you get ready to slink away again.
What do Pennsylvanian's need to do? Tar and feather, and run him out of the State on a rail before gets the hint.
Will MSNBC be covering the Muslim Brotherhood visit to the White House? Will it be a State's Dinner?
serving pork chops?
I don't know who or which party, still waiting for the candidate that discusses making the "too big to fail" not "too big to fail", or I guess we can just wait for the next time?
You can say that again and again and just once more for good measure! Stay the hell out of PA Santorum, we had more than enough of your theocratic BS!
17 Reasons Why A Vote For Mitt Romney Is A Vote For The New World Order
Once again, the Republican Party is being tempted to vote for "the lesser of two evils". A lot of Republicans are actually considering voting for Mitt Romney because they have bought the lie that he has "the best chance" of defeating Barack Obama in 2012. But just because he is the Republican candidate that is most like Barack Obama does not mean that he has the best chance of defeating him. The truth is that no self-respecting Republican should ever vote for Mitt Romney. A vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the New World Order. Romney comes from the financial establishment, he is being showered with money from the financial establishment and he supports all of the goals of the financial establishment. This year, millions upon millions of dollars are being funneled into Romney's campaign and into pro-Romney organizations. The New World Order is literally trying to buy the 2012 election for their dream candidate. Romney would be the ultimate Wall Street puppet, and if you cast a vote for Mitt Romney you are playing right into the hands of the financial elite.
If you do not believe that a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for the New World Order, just consider Mitt Romney's positions on the issues....
#1 The Federal Reserve
To the financial elite, there is no more important financial institution in the United States than the Federal Reserve, and Mitt Romney is a huge supporter of the Federal Reserve.
During one Republican debate, Romney actually tried to explain to all of us why "we need to have a Fed ".
Not only that, Mitt Romney has stated that he is not really concerned about what is going on over at the Federal Reserve. Mitt Romney has publicly stated that he is "not going to take my effort and focus on the Federal Reserve ".
That kind of talk is music to the ears of the financial elite.
Also, Romney fully supported the reappointment of Ben Bernanke as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve despite his absolutely horrific track record.
#2 Money From The Bankers
Mitt Romney is getting far, far, far more money from Wall Street bankers than any other Republican candidate.
In a recent article entitled "The Big Wall Street Banks Are Already Trying To Buy The 2012 Election", I detailed how numbers compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics show that Mitt Romney is getting more money from the employees of the "too big to fail" Wall Street banks than all of the other Republican candidates combined.
The following is an excerpt from that article that shows how much money employees of those banks (and their spouses) gave to various candidates for president during the first 9 months of 2011....
Mitt Romney: $813,300Barack Obama: $198,874Tim Pawlenty: $101,515Rick Perry: $58,900Jon Huntsman: $28,250Ron Paul: $13,104Herman Cain: $2,715Michelle Bachmann: $1,500Newt Gingrich: $1,250
Even though Romney's poll numbers have been in the mid to low 20s most of the time, employees of the big Wall Street banks gave him $813,300 during the first 9 months of 2011 and they only gave $105,719 to the rest of the Republican candidates that were still in the race at the end of the third quarter combined.
#3 The Wall Street Bailouts
During the last financial crisis, Mitt Romney was a very enthusiastic supporter of the Wall Street bailouts.
Back in 2009, Romney delivered a speech in which he made the following statement about bailing out Wall Street....
"I know we didn’t all agree on TARP. I believe that it was necessary to prevent a cascade of bank collapses. For free markets to work, there has to be a currency and a functioning financial system."
During the Wall Street bailouts, gigantic mountains of money were transferred from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers into the hands of greedy Wall Street bankers.
Wall Street would definitely like to have someone in the White House who will bail them out once again when the next great financial crisis strikes.
#4 Health Care
Republicans are supposed to be against Obamacare, and yet millions upon millions of them plan to vote for someone that came up with the plan that Obamacare was based upon.
Barack Obama has admitted that much of his health care plan came directly from what Mitt Romney did up in Massachusetts. In fact, a recent MSNBC article brought to light some new information about the relationship between Romneycare and Obamacare....
Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”
The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts.
Conservatives all over the country have been loudly denouncing the individual health insurance mandate in Obamacare, but Mitt Romney has had the gall to claim that the individual health insurance mandate that he signed into law as governor of Massachusetts was based on "conservative principles".
So how has Romneycare worked out for residents of Massachusetts?
Well, according to the Daily Caller, health care costs and health insurance premiums have gone up dramatically in Massachusetts ....
Since the bill became law, the state’s total direct health-care spending has increased by a remarkable 52 percent. Medicaid spending has gone from less than $6 billion a year to more the $9 billion. Many consumers have seen double-digit percentage increases in their premiums.
That doesn't sound good.
Romney now says that he wants to "repeal" Obamacare, but what he means by repeal may not be what you and I mean by repeal.
Someone should ask Romney what he meant when he stated that he wants “to eliminate some of the differences, repeal the bad, and keep the good” in Obamacare.
#5 Free Trade
One of the key goals of the New World Order is to create a one world economic system. That is why so many of our politicians continue to push "free trade" even though tens of thousands of U.S. businesses and millions of U.S. jobs have gone overseas.
Of course Mitt Romney is a huge advocate of the "free trade" agenda.
The following quote comes directly from the Romney campaign website....
Access to foreign markets is crucial to growing our economy. We must reassert American leadership in international negotiations, follow through on commitments we have already made, and push aggressively for advantageous new agreements.
But the results of this "free trade" agenda have been absolutely nightmarish for the United States. According to U.S. Representative Betty Sutton, America has lost an average of 15 manufacturing facilities a day over the last 10 years. During 2010 it got even worse. That year, an average of 23 manufacturing facilities a day shut down in the United States.
In all, more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities in the United States have permanently closed down since 2001.
Globalism is ripping our economy apart a little bit more every day, and if Romney is elected the globalist agenda will only accelerate.
#6 Taxes
The New World Order loves to extract taxes from the American people. It was not a coincidence that the Federal Reserve and the individual income tax came into existence at nearly the exact same time nearly 100 years ago.
During his time as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney significantly raised taxes. The following is an excerpt from a CBS News article ....
Mitt Romney's Harvard MBA and gold-plated resume convinced many business leaders he would follow in the tradition of corporate-friendly Republicans when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
Within three years, some had a vastly different opinion, after Romney's efforts raised the tax bill on businesses by $300 million
That same article also notes that Romney jacked up "fees and fines" on Massachusetts taxpayers substantially during his tenure as governor....
Romney and lawmakers also approved hundreds of millions in higher fees and fines during his four years in office.
Many in the Massachusetts business community were quite disgusted with Romney by the end of his term. Peter Nicholas, the chairman of Boston Science Corporation, says that "tax rates on many corporations almost doubled because of legislation supported by Romney. "
#7 Government Spending
The New World Order loves big government and big government spending.
And let there be no doubt - Mitt Romney is a big spender when it comes to government money.
Government spending in Massachusetts increased significantly under Mitt Romney. This was especially true for the last two budgets passed under Romney. In fiscal year 2006, government spending in Massachusetts increased by 7.6 percent . In fiscal year 2007, government spending in Massachusetts increased by a whopping 10.2 percent .
#8 Global Warming
It turns out that Mitt Romney is a believer in the theory of man-made global warming. In fact, Al Gore recently praised Mitt Romney on his blog. In a post entitled "Good for Mitt Romney -- though we've long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis ", Al Gore lavished the following praise on the former Massachusetts governor....
"While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party"
Not only that, it is also very important to remember that while Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts became the very first state to pass a law to regulate carbon emissions.
#9 Cap And Trade
If Mitt Romney becomes president, he is going to cram the radical green agenda right down our throats.
While campaigning for president in 2007, Mitt Romney said that he would fully support a global "cap and trade" carbon tax scheme as long as the entire world goes along with it ....
“I support Cap-and-Trade on a global basis but not the USA going alone. I want to do it with other nations involved and on a global scale.”
#10 Illegal Immigration
Mitt Romney is very, very soft on illegal immigration. Back in 2007, Mitt Romney made the following statement ....
“But my view is that those 12 million who've come here illegally should be given the opportunity to sign up to stay here”
Of course that will only encourage millions more to come here illegally, but Mitt Romney does not seem too concerned about that.
#11 Gun Control
One of the key goals of the New World Order is to disarm the American people, and Mitt Romney has been a huge supporter of gun control laws. When he was running for governor in Massachusetts, he made the following statement ....
"We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts- I support them...I believe they help protect us, and provide for our safety."
#12 Abortion
Mitt Romney has a long record of supporting the population control agenda of the global elite.
He claims that he is "pro-life" now, but Mitt Romney also once claimed that he was more "pro-choice" than Ted Kennedy .
Not only that, Romney once forced Christian hospitals and Massachusetts taxpayers to subsidize abortions in the state of Massachusetts. You can see evidence of this right here .
If he becomes president, Romney will be just like George W. Bush - a president that gives lip service to the pro-life crowd but that does next to nothing to actually stop abortion.
#13 The Pharmaceutical Industry
Just like the banking industry, the pharmaceutical industry is almost completely dominated by the New World Order. And the pharmaceutical industry has been absolutely showering money on Mitt Romney.
According to the CDC, the percentage of Americans that say that they have taken a prescription drug within the last 30 days has risen to almost 50 percent .
If Mitt Romney becomes president, it will be a new "golden age" for the pharmaceutical industry and that number will likely go even higher.
#14 The TSA
It recently came out that very elderly women are being strip-searched by TSA agents at U.S. airports, but Mitt Romney continues to fully support the TSA.
So if Romney becomes president we will continue to have to endure incredibly dehumanizing searches before we are allowed on to our flights.
#15 The Homeland Security Apparatus
Mitt Romney has stated repeatedly that he wants to make "homeland security" even stronger.
I have previously written about how Bush and Obama have turned America into a giant prison where virtually everything we do is watched, monitored, listened to, tracked and recorded in order to keep us all "safe".
Well, Romney believes that all of this is necessary as part of the "war on terror", and if Romney becomes president he will almost certainly push the envelope even farther.
#16 Guantanamo Bay
Mitt Romney has publicly stated that he would like to double the number of prisoners in Guantanamo Baby.
Just check out what Romney said during one Republican debate ....
Now we're going to -- you said the person's going to be in Guantanamo. I'm glad they're at Guantanamo. I don't want them on our soil. I want them on Guantanamo, where they don't get the access to lawyers they get when they're on our soil. I don't want them in our prisons. I want them there.
Some people have said, we ought to close Guantanamo. My view is, we ought to double Guantanamo.
#17 NDAA
Barack Obama just signed a law which allows the U.S. military to arrest American citizens on U.S. soil, detain them indefinitely and ship them off to Guantanamo Bay for endless "interrogation" sessions. Mitt Romney has not taken a position against this horrible new law.
The truth is that if you look at the history of what he has done (not what he now says), Mitt Romney is virtually a clone of Barack Obama.
If the 2012 election is Romney vs. Obama, it really does not matter which one of them wins. Either one of them would do the bidding of the New World Order.
But millions of Republicans are being fooled. They don't realize that Romney will say just about anything to get elected.
Mitt Romney's wife, Ann Romney, once made the following statement about her husband....
“He can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he’s really believing his argument, but he’s not.”
So how do we know if he is telling the truth now?
The following is an epic video which demonstrates very clearly how dramatically Mitt Romney has flip-flopped over the years ....
Sadly, most elections in America are not determined by the voters.
Rather, most elections in America are determined by money.
Republican candidates spent more than $10 million on television and radio ads in Iowa in the month of December alone.
Those ads have a huge impact on voters.
So who is spending the most money?
Well, according to a recent article in the Des Moines Register , pro-Romney forces are spending the most money even though Romney is not even really campaigning in Iowa....
Together, Romney and the super PAC going to bat for him had over half the ad buys in Iowa in December among the spending the Register examined.
If you can believe it, one pro-Romney "super PAC" actually spent $2.85 million in Iowa during the month of December.
$2.85 million can buy quite a bit of propaganda.
Sadly, in federal elections the candidate that raises the most money wins about 90 percent of the time, and Mitt Romney has raised far, far more money than the other Republican candidates have.
It would be nice to stick it to the establishment for once, but the reality is that it is really hard to go up against a candidate that is backed by millions upon millions upon millions of dollars.
But even if Mitt Romney only wins 30 or 40 percent of the delegates during the nominating process, that is still going to make it nearly impossible for any other candidate to win the nomination before the Republican convention.
In a previous article, I described how the new Republican voting rules are going to make a "brokered convention" much more likely....
The key is that most Republican primaries and caucuses will now allocate delegates using a proportional system rather than a "winner take all" system. Back in 2008, John McCain did very well in early "winner take all" primaries and wrapped up the Republican nomination very, very quickly. Nothing like that will happen in 2012. In fact, if the field remains crowded it is going to be very difficult for any candidate to accumulate more than 50 percent of the delegates by the time the Republican national convention rolls around.
If Mitt Romney wins more than 50 percent of the delegates during the primary season, the Republican establishment will let him have the nomination of course.
But if he is unable to do so, the Republican establishment will move heaven and earth to make sure that a candidate that they do not like does not accumulate more than 50 percent of the delegates.
Either way, the Republican establishment is going to do everything that they can to end up with a candidate of their choosing to go up against Barack Obama.
So can a miracle still happen?
Of course it can.
But just realize that it is going to take an all-out effort to overcome the power of the establishment.
A half-hearted effort simply is not going to get the job done.
It's already happening George -- I saw a black helicopter just yesterday.
Let's face it ... Rick Santorum, like every other coward, will soon be dropping out of the race because the polls are turning against him in Pennsylvania... and he CERTAINLY Won't be able to Live down Losing his own state... but when you're as sorry a candidate as Scrotorum is, you are only speaking to a very few conservative people and most conservative would prefer the electable integrity ( giggles in background) that Ken doll williard brings to the circus ...
bob in virgina get ready for a dem sweep, it'll take a few years after to right all the distruction the pubs have caused in this country, but put it back together we will.
by the way, you and fiesty need to get a room.
Dream on Ricky...we Pennsylvanians aren't forgetful people! You're nothing more than a Bush wantabe!
Obama's a shoe-in in November! Now if the Dems would just drop Pelosi they could take the House back also!
You won't win there either! The 99% American People know you're nothing but a Republican Corporate Puppet! They don't want corrupt corporate government rule!
It's time for corporate to give back to the SAME PEOPLE that made them SUCESSFUL! We, the 99% American People, have no more to GIVE! Corporate has stolen EVERYTHING from us! Enough is enough! It's time for change, and that time is NOW!! Not later, but right NOW!!!
Anyway corporate SUPERPAC money goes to ETCH-A-SKETCH, not you!!!
MSNBC, where is the story about how NBC edited a George Zimmerman story on the Today show to make Zimmerman look like a racist, and their apology today for doing
it?
Santorum and the evangelicals are a bunch of bigoted, hate mongers!!