Tag: Rick Santorum

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Santorum 2016?

The Weekly Standard is reporting that Rick Santorum is considering another run at the presidency in 2016.

In 2012, Santorum won nearly 4 million votes and 11 GOP primary contests — the same number of states, Santorum points out that Ronald Reagan won in his failed 1976 presidential bid.

“I’m open to it, yeah. I think there’s a fight right now as to what the soul of the Republican party’s going to be and the conservative movement, and we have something to say about that. I think from our battle, we’re not going to leave the field.”

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Rick Santorum on Mitt Romney’s job creation record

Yep – you knew this was coming, didn’t you? A whole primary season’s worth of material custom made for the Democrats and President Obama.

Thank you Rick Santorum for doing our homework.

Btw – Rick Santorum will be campaigning for Mitt Romney soon. At that point I’ll be very confused on who the “flip-flopper” is…

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Rick Santorum may – or may not – endorse Mitt Romney in next couple of months

I notice the former campaign staffer for Rick Santorum says Mitt Romney and Santorum will meet in the next month or so, and will discuss an endorsement but nothing’s guaranteed.

Should be quite the cocktail hour:

“Hey, remember that time you outspent me 10-1 in  – what state was that?”
“Ah,… good times….”

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Breaking: Rick Santorum suspending his campaign

The Associated Press is reporting Rick Santorum is suspending his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination, clearing a path for Mitt Romney to become the nominee.

A campaign spokesman says the former Pennsylvania senator was to make the announcement Tuesday in his home state of Pennsylvania, two weeks before the GOP presidential primary there. Santorum faced a tough fight in his home state against Romney.

NBC’s David Gregory reports Romney has called Santorum – however Santorum did not endorse Romney in his speech today.

Newt Gingrich wasted no time going after Rick Santorum’s backers.

“I humbly ask Senator Santorum’s supporters to visit Newt.org to review my conservative record and join us as we bring these values to Tampa,” Gingrich said in a statement. “We know well that only a conservative can protect life, defend the Constitution, restore jobs and growth and return to a balanced budget.”

Gingrich commended Santorum on his presidential run, saying the former Pennsylvania senator “waged a remarkable campaign.”

The former House speaker repeated his promise to stay in the race until the nomination is clinched, even if that means taking it to the national convention in August.

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Stephen Colbert on Rick Santorum and teaching history in California

Rick Santorum recently “read something out of California” that indicated how bad colleges there have gotten. They don’t even teach American history anymore, Santorum asserted.

“That is an outrage,” Stephen Colbert said on Tuesday. “The only thing that would be more outrageous is if this were true.”

Well, it’s not. Public colleges in California do offer degrees in American history. Well, the University of California in San Francisco doesn’t — but it happens to be a medical school. Santorum just pulled that fact out of his … heart, Colbert said.

“I certainly hope that when Santorum moves on to the California primary June 5, he does not get an intestinal blockage,” Colbert added. “Because I don’t think the doctors out there are as qualified as Santorum to pull things out of his ass.”

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Rick Santorum won’t tolerate pink bowling balls

Today, at an event in a bowling alley, presidential candidate Rick Santorum told a young man bowling with him, who apparently had reached for a pink bowling ball, “You’re not gonna use the pink ball. We’re not gonna let you do that. Not on camera,” according to Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.

The Human Rights Campaign’s vice president for communications, Fred Sainz, struck back.

“This is another example of Rick Santorum intentionally making ignorant statements that have a real impact on LGBT people,” Sainz said in a statement. “Kids have enough to worry about. They don’t need Rick Santorum telling them that using a pink bowling ball is a bad thing. In this case, he’s advancing tired gender norms by implying a boy should be ashamed or embarrassed to use a certain color bowling ball.”
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New CNN/ORC poll: Obama leads Romney 54%-43%

According to a new CNN/ORC poll:

• President Obama leads Romney 54%-43%
• President Obama leads Santorum 55%-42%
• 56% of the public have a favorable view of President Obama as a person
• 37% have a favorable view of Romney
• President Obama has a solid lead among independents
• Only 35 percent of independents now have a favorable view of Romney
• Santorum’ unfavorables outweigh his favorable rating by a 42%-35% margin
• 56% of Americans continue to blame former President George W. Bush and the Republicans for the country’s current economic problems
• 29% blaming Obama and the Democrats.