A G.O.P. Leader and Star Struggles for Traction

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/us/politics/31penn.html?ei=5088&en=7287a97b94945d8b&ex=1319950800&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

October 31, 2006
A G.O.P. Leader and Star Struggles for Traction
By ROBIN TONER

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 27 — There is no better snapshot of the brutal political climate facing many Republicans in these final days than this: Senator Rick Santorum, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, stubbornly behind in the polls, warning with anger and growing frustration that voters should not — must not, for their own good — reject him for his Democratic opponent, Bob Casey, the state treasurer.

Assailing Mr. Casey’s national security credentials, the Santorum campaign has run a television commercial that shows a mushroom cloud, missiles streaking through the air and the faces of North Korean, Iranian and terrorist leaders. It concludes, “We just can’t take a chance on Bob Casey.”

Mr. Santorum began the final stretch of his campaign with a series of speeches on “The Gathering Storm,” offering a dark, Churchillian vision of the threats facing the United States — like the threats, he said, that faced England in the years leading up to World War II.

But Mr. Santorum all but acknowledges that the national security issues that proved such a fundamental strength for the Republicans in 2002 and 2004 are far riskier for his party this year.

FULL story at link above.

[niceypoo]

1. A man of substance...

...THIS substance, to be exact!
http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/

[msongs]

2. problem is that BUSH and Santorum are NOT anything like Churchill

and ricky knows it.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

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3. BOO! Fear, fear. Be afraid. Only I can make you safe. BOO!

pardon my language, but fuck him. I'm glad to see the state's voters evidently agree.

[TXDemGal]

4. Oh how I am going to love seeing this particular Repug

go down in just one short week! How sweet it will be.