Santorum in 2012?

[PADemD]

These authors have got to be kidding.

"It was only a matter of time. Apparently that time has arrived. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, once the U.S. Senate's resident enfant terrible and more recently think tank habitué and op-ed columnist, is making news again. He's doing so by logging highly publicized trips to early 2012 presidential primary states, including Iowa and New Hampshire, suggesting he might run for president in 2012."

http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/anotherview/all-yv_madonna-young0406.7230584apr07,0,2214332.story

[Drunken Irishman]

1. LOL! I'd love to see a Santorum-Palin ticket.

[saltpoint]

15. I'd love it too, although the two of them would be at each other's

throats the whole way:

"Damn it, Sarah, I'm the crazy one on this ticket."

"Are not. I'm just as crazy as you are, and then some, also."

"Nyuh-uh you aren't."

"Nyhuh-huh I am too."

"Fetus flogger!"

"Wolf murderer!"

"Psycho Sarah!"

"Refractory Rick!"

Etc.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

2. Fecal Matter (or is it Man-on-Dog?) may run, but he stands no chance of winning. (n/t)

[Bobbie Jo]

3. Obligatory Santorum family pic.

Yes...more of this, please.

[MUAD_DIB]

7. Dissapointment, fear, sadness...

The only thing missing in that photo is the gnashing of teeth. Well, there is always 2012 to look forward to. :)

[Subdivisions]

4. Please? n/t

[tridim]

5. Bob Dole should run again.

He has as much chance as anyone else.

[MUAD_DIB]

6. Santorum always seems to have the expression that he just krapped

in his pants. Now that's not to say that krapping one's pants doesn't make you Presidential in some way, but his policies (anti-gay for one) have also the same krap-pants dynamic going on. That's just not acceptable.

[Kievan Rus]

8. Rick, please run. It'd be a bigger landslide than either Johnson/Goldwater '64 or Reagan/Mondale '84

[old mark]

9. Santorum has been drooling for a year or so to run for president.

Somebody finally noticed.

He is a dismally ignorant, amoral, egtoistical piece of trash...a perfect Republican candidate.
He is also mean, and hates the middle class.
He looks good in an expensive suit.

I can see Santorum with Palin, or with Jindal, or with any one of the GOP small brain brigade...They are marching toward disaster again.


mark

[saltpoint]

10. It's scary enough that Santorum actually sees himself as presidential

material. That alone is unsettling.

The Republican field for 2012 is a series of trap doors on the deck of a rickety houseboat over a shark pond. If Obama wants a second term the Republicans don't have anybody who can defeat him, IMO.

Is Romney their frontrunner? I guess he is. But it's hard to say because the fundie nutbags don't generally cotton to Mormons, and they comprise a huge chunk of Puke primary votes. Is Huckabee interested in the job? He doesn't seem to be.

There are some massive egos at play. Newt Gingrich would love to be the nominee but he's too yucky.

Barbour is a smarmy good ol' boy.

Jindal is tied up with public speaking lessons for at least a decade.

Giuliani is still smarting from his disastrous primary campaign in 2008 and wants to be the president but has just been offered the part of the Red Skull in the new Captain America flick. If there's a sequel, he's out for 2012. "No, Mr. Giuliani, you can't use the bullhorn for this role."

Palin seems more likely to run as a Bagger than as a Republican, a third party stunt aimed at voters who are drawn to wolf-hating secessionist morons.

Mike Pence. Tim Pawlenty. George Allen. George Pataki. Duke Cunningham. Franklin Graham. Lou Dobbs. They're interchangeably repulsive.

Santorum is as bad as any of them and more ambitious than most of them. He could make the Pukes' nomination race real interesting.

[Hawaii Hiker]

12. As far as Romney goes:

He's going to have a real difficult time explaining how the health care bill he signed in MA. differs from the bill President Obama signed, especially when Repubs are going to be running AGAINST health care (Repeal)...

Plus he has serious flip-flopping issues, namely on abortion...

Maybe they'll run a Romney/Rubio ticket....Two empty suit R's..

[saltpoint]

13. Yep. Sounds like just the sort of thing the GOP would do -- take

those two and forge a ticket.

I enjoyed reading the health care conundrum Romney's in now. Obama took away a big issue for the Republicans. Romney must have been hoping for McConnell and Boehner to prevail. When they didn't, he needs to get himself another issue.

I still think Romney wants the nomination awfully badly but he just doesn't seem all that inevitable to me.

[LeftinOH]

11. He can take the family fetus on the campaign trail with him:

"...In 1996, their son Gabriel Michael was born prematurely and lived for only two hours (a sonogram taken before Gabriel was born revealed that his posterior urethral valve was closed and that the prognosis for his survival was therefore poor). Karen Santorum wrote a book about the experience...In it, she writes that the couple brought the deceased infant home from the hospital and introduced the dead child to their living children as "your brother Gabriel" and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum#Other

[Sub Atomic]

14. That whole incident is so creepy.

And why weren't they arrested for molestation of a corpse? Why did they get to take a dead 'baby' home?

Why on God's Green Earth would they want to?

[HughMoran]

16. Let the turd run

I welcome it.

[Renew Deal]

17. Another one that I hope runs.

:D

[saltpoint]

18. If it weren't so excruciatingly anti-Constitution, it would be fun to watch

Santorum and Palin rip each other to bits trying to agitate the nutbag contingent.

At one point or another they'd have to be at each other's throats competing for the same demographic and donor base.