Rick Santorum's 'Snob' Lob Against Obama Brings GOP Governors To President's Defense

[Judi Lynn]

Rick Santorum's 'Snob' Lob Against Obama Brings GOP Governors To President's Defense
Posted: 02/27/12 03:45 PM ET | Updated: 02/27/12 03:48 PM ET

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Some of the leading Republican governors are coming to President Barack Obama's defense against charges from former Senator Rick Santorum that the president's push for universal higher education amounts to intellectual and political snobbery.

Speaking to reporters outside of the White House after a meeting between the nation's governors and the president, Gov. Bob McDonnell went out of his way to praise the administration's education policy, calling it one of the few areas of bipartisan consensus. He added that the pursuit of a college education was something that all lawmakers should push students to consider.

"I wish (Santorum) had said it differently," said the Virginia Republican. "I'm pushing in Virginia this year 100,000 new degrees over the next 15 years. I want more college graduates. But that means community college and four-year universities, but not to the exclusion of realizing that some people are going to graduate from high school and be in the trades. What we say is we want somebody to be career ready or college ready. If we haven't done one of those two things for the young people, we have failed you."

McDonnell's comments represent the second time in as many days that a surrogate for former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney sided with the president over Santorum. On CBS' "Face the Nation," Gov. Chris Christie was characteristically blunt in downplaying Santorum's criticism of Obama as a "snob" for wanting "everybody in America to go to college."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/gop-governors-defend-obam_n_1304805.html

[asjr]

1. I hope this is not just a ploy to make Republicans appear human so people

will vote for them.

[underpants]

8. No this is racism

snob sounds like uppity to the Fox News crowd

[angel823]

16. have to agree, at least anecdotally (sp?)

My teaparty parents said much the same thing ("nose in the air&quot about Obama, just generally, not in regards to college education, about why they didn't like him.

My read on them was: they mean "uppity".

Angel in Texas

[sofa king]

2. Too late for you, McDonnell!

You can try all you want to sound moderate and Presidential, but you can't carry Virginia for your ticket now that you have landed on both sides of the birth control issue.

We won't allow anyone to forget that.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. Hey rickie, he's so fine

an education's out of line!
Hey Rickie, we're so dumb
a new degree will make us glum!

[chelsea0011]

4. Telling children that anyone can grow up to be POTUS is for elitist losers.

There. I said it.

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. So Rickie is calling his own self a snob; that elite college grad, sanitorium.

[existentialist]

9. Ricky doesn't see it that way

No, no, in Rick Santorum's opinion it is just fine for upper class white Republicans to ensure that their children are educated--how else would they maintain control.

It's just those other people that think they need an education too, (you know, those not quite us other people). After all, if they get educated too they might expect to get elected and participate in running the country too, or something like that.

Now that is truly snobbish isn't it.

Or in the bygone, no longer PC jargon, "uppity."

Don't you think???

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

6. Notice it's all the governors who support Mittens and/or want the VP slot.

They think we're stupid!

[existentialist]

10. You have a point, of course.

Never the less, I welcome these comments.

These comments will, to some extent help Obama. They may be specifically aimed to hurt Santorum--that's OK.

They may be intended to help the specific Republicans making the comments in their own states. I guess that we have to live with that.

Irrespective, I welcome any Republican of note agreeing with Obama on any policy issue as aagainst the Republicans running against him. It does help Obama's stature with independents, and it might even be a point on which, sometime after the elections, Democrats and Republicans might even learn to cooperate.

Given the last three years it is fair to require the Republicans to make the first moves on such points.

Besides, Santorum is just batshit crazy.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

11. He's batshit crazy and that's why I want him to beat Mitt Romney in Michigan tomorrow... :)

[Beartracks]

12. Yes - far better for Obama to beat Santorum than Romney.

Romney represents a more managerial-type conservative, and Santorum the bat-shit wing. If Romney gets the nom and loses to Obama, the wingers will simply conclude "Romney just wasn't conservative ENOUGH! We should've run Santorum!" And they'll keep moving further into crazy town. However, if Santorum gets the nom and loses to Obama, then the GOP is going to have remake itself more toward the center, since a Santorum defeat would -- at last -- represent a national repudiation of what the wingers stand for. I just pray Obama wins regardless, but I'd expecially like to see him beat the pants off Santorum.

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[Cobalt-60]

15. Simply whipping Santorum at the polls should do

I don't care to see him sans pants regardless of how they were removed!

[underpants]

7. "snob" = "uppity" and McDonell knows that Va is THE battleground state in 2012

Unless somt magical voters turn up in the Shenandoah Valley (and they often do) it is going to come down to turn out in eastern Henrico, specific NoVA districts, and Norfolk.

The only reason our "McDonald" governor would consider a VP spot is to beat Tim Kaine and to win Va back - we won it in 2008.

[fightthegoodfightnow]

14. McConnell is Just Lobbying to be Romney's VP

...first it was his damage control for Virginia's abortion law......and now it's this.

[Fozzledick]

17. What a slob!!1!