Little Ricky BLOWS AZ--- Blames Bush For His Mistakes - & - Drags GOP Down WIth Him
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Five Ways Rick Santorum Blew It in Arizona
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• Tried To Blame President Bush For His Mistakes
Why did Santorum do things that conservatives hate in the Senate? Well, the obvious reason: President George W. Bush was asking the GOP to do it at the time and they mostly went along with his proposals. But saying in the Tea Party age, “hey I was just trying not to hurt the establishment” isn’t exactly the smoothest argument and Santorum seemed to step on it with an answer on his support for No Child Left Behind, which he says he now opposes. “You know, politics is a team sport, folks,” he said. “And sometimes you got to rally together and do something.”
Ron Paul sensed weakness immediately, going back to that exact quote as “the problem with Washington” a few minutes later. “It isn’t an oath to the party, it’s an oath to our office to obey the law and the law is the Constitution.”
• Dragged The GOP Down With Him Conservative pundits sympathetic to Romney have been making the case this week that, whatever Santorum’s conservative merits, he drags the whole party down with his extreme rhetoric. They got plenty of evidence for their case on Wednesday after the GOP received a question on whether they support birth control. Gingrich and Romney practically fell over themselves to condemn moderator John King for daring to even bring it up, insisting that it was an irrelevant distraction from the important issues of the day and their only concerns with contraception were really about religious freedom.
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