Rick Santorum ended up with 35 percent of the votes in the Illinois primary last night. Mitt Romney now has more than twice the number of delegates as Santorum; yet, Santorum is still moving forward with his attacks on Romney.
He was accused of "parroting" the Obama administration's concerns about Romney. This isn't a very smart move. For one, Obama will use these comments against Santorum if he does become the nominee. Secondly, Obama will be more than happy to use these sound bites to continue to divide the Republican party. Don't you think it's about time for the other GOP contenders to throw in the towel?
Santorum is making things worse for himself and his party by regurgitating the Obama administration's attacks on his opponent. It's not smart politics. And it's going to continue to get dirtier the longer this contest continues.
Santorum watched the Illinois primary results from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Fitting, considering he began a "Civil War" within his party when he started throwing his running mates under the bus. During his speech last night, he went on the attack again, accusing both Gingrich and Romney of flip-flopping. Earlier this week he even went so far as to use David Axelrod's comment about Romney from a previous "Meet the Press" interview saying Romney has "no core."
This guy is so delusional that his team even says the delegate counts are much closer to Romney than what is being reported! What kind of math is this guy using? Is he planning on winning over all the unpledged delegates? That's not even enough for a win.
According to CNN, Romney is almost half way to the nomination with 529 pledged delegates and 595 to go while Santorum only has 239 pledged delegates. CNN did report during the evening that many of the voters in Illinois expressed a level of discomfort for their chosen candidate. Perhaps Santorum is trying to woo delegates away from Romney with his magic fairy dust.
All in all, this is good news for the Democrats. The more dissention within the Republican party, the better. The GOP really is the party of war. Carry on your war, Rick Santorum. Tear your opponents to shreds!
Here's one Illinois voter showing their opinion of Rick Santorum.
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Comments: 32
As a sub note for thinkers, I offer the following;
After months of hearing the simi veiled discrimination and questionable lessening of a woman's worth espoused by Rick Santorum in his campaign speeches, wording which allude to the female genda as being second class citizens and subservient to men.
It would be my opinion that Rick Santorum must have been a past leader within the Evangelical movement which was known as, " Promise Keepers". A self adoration group of self proclaimed Christian men formed in January 1990, which held "male only" conferences and large stadium size rallies around the United States. Conferences which began promoting the chauvinistic idea and agenda, that a woman had no place in open society and only limited presence within the home. Having no say-so in decision making, with her main purpose in life to be a Christian mother to her children and a subservient wife to her husband.
BTW, the movement is still in existance and has expanded it's message worldwide. Another reason to be suspicious and to question the real agenda behind the Evangelical Christian movement.
Just one man's observation.
I had never heard of the "Promise Keepers" but it sounds like it's right up Santorum's alley.
But New York is likely a win for Romney, as is California and many of the other large States. Santorum will likely take Pennsylvania (if he doesn't it would say something important) and possibly Texas.
However, Romney has already taken half of the delegates needed and Santorum doesn't even have 25%.
All Santorum can do now is waste resources...
Never fear, you are not required to follow our country's elected leader, only to show a reasonable amount of respect for that which he is, The President of the United States
Certainly there were plenty of people who want me to believe I must -- most of whom did not feel any obligation to show respect to his predecessor... who I also disliked.
But I disagree with the conclusion these resources are wasted. They exist only for their purpose, the advocacy of the man and his belief system. However repellent The fellow may be, it's no dishonor to continue the race, the opposite is true. If he, or Paul(yay),or even Gingrich hold their platform to be worthy, it's befitting to see the race (which ISN'T over,dammit!) through.
If the convention is brokered, and the men with the stamina and following can convert these things to meaningful influence or victory, where's the waste?
You have my sincere sympathy, as does any other fellow American who does not have respect for the Office of the President of the United States, regardless of what political party holds that office.
It was my mistake when wording my response to wrongly state that you should be {required} to have respect, that was not my intention and you have my honest apology.
As to President Bush, although he was frequently the blunt of jokes, most of which referred to his lack of the higher personal intelligence normally expected of a President, he nevertheless served two full terms in office and was not during all that time ever shown the utter open disrespect which has become all to commonplace by far right conservatives towards President Obama.
I did not say I did not respect the Office, I said I am not required to respect it.
When you need an opponents delegates to put you over the top, you deal. Platform adjustment is the currency. Appointments aren't (supposed to be)on the table. Either way, you don't get kissed if you ain't at the dance.
It certainly played no role in 1864, though.
When you need an opponents delegates to put you over the top, you deal. Platform
But this does not appear to be the case here and I am dubious as to the role of the platform in the 21st Century, as almost no one pays any attention to it unless it is fully supported by the Candidate.
I don't know if Santorum's core values are any greater or lesser than Romney's as I do knot know either of them well enough. But I do know that Santorum is highly unlikely to win the nomination as he would need to win 74% of the remaining delegates and his current tactic seems to be to merely ruin any chance Romney would have to win the election.
Apparently, Mr. Santorum would prefer 4 more years of President Obama.
I have no belief that said God did any such thing. If God has been involved in any way with Obama, we need to change gods.
Neither Party has lived up to their obligations. We entered Afghanistan (a place William Shirer once said was "not worth a single drop of foreign blood) to get bin Laden. Okay, he's dead. Time to leave the place and let it rot.
We have a President who encouraged Egyptians and others to rise up and destroy regimes that were somewhat friendly and replace them with hostile ones. AND IS STILL SUPPORTING THEM.
On top of that, our "Dear Leader" has issued an Executive Order allowing him to take over the entire US economy and run it as a dictatorial regime.
At what point does this stop? When they start putting up the 9 foot tall pictures of him?
Santorum it would be a very close race.
Moreover, Romney will likely take NY and CA, putting him even further ahead.
Santorum knows it is nearly over. He just doesn't want to know it.
So, he is a megalomaniac who believes only HE can save the country.
Perhaps it is best he is going to lose...
So, he doesn't even have any loyalty to his own party - and he thinks the Republican party is going to give him the nomination?!
Perhaps he is HOPING Obama will win so he can again bless us with his bid for the 2016 nomination?
It is unwise to burn all the bridges behind you, or to attempt to climb the ladder by stepping on others.
As for my thoughts on Rick Santorum, eeh. Like pretty much every guy currently running for the Republican Nomination I neither support nor trust him. Mitt Romney has flipped flop a lot but Santorum has gone out of his way to alienate one group and then turn around and try to get their votes at the same time.
After vocally standing against Gay Marriage (no surprise there most Republicans candidates are against it) and homosexuality in general he then tries to appeal to homosexuals and get their vote. Not gonna happen, buddy.
He also hasn't spoke all that kindly about liberalism in the past but in Romney's home state he tries to appeal to them and get their vote. Again, not likely to happen.
Then of course he makes the worst argument for being against abortion in cases of rape you could possibly make, stand against contraceptives (again they're all pretty much doing the latter) and then tries to appeal to them and actually made a comment implying that men AND women wrote the Declaration of Independence.
And now, I have no idea how he's done it, but now he has people saying, "Don't vote for him he's Pro-Obama!" Rick Santorum is a lot of things but "Pro-Obama" isn't one of them.
I was disappointed when he won my state and can't understand how he can still have any supporters left but free country. Different people, different views.
I do remember that Clinton v Obama battle -- I was a Clinton delegate and it got really nasty, right up till June 7.