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Polls: Rick Santorum up by 4 points nationally
Rick Santorum says President Obama is a “snob” for wanting everyone to go to college
Rick Santorum criticized President Barack Obama’s call for all Americans to go to college in a speech to the Americans For Prosperity Michigan Forum.
“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob,” Santorum said, to raucous applause from the audience.
An indignant Santorum continued: “There are good decent men and women, who go out everyday to put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. I understand why he wants you to go to college — he wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his.”
This from a man who has a B.A., M.B.A. and J.D — more than that “snob” President Obama.
God forbid someone aspire to higher learner so they might improve their lives.
Statistic show, over and over again, that those who go to college and earn a degree earn more income and do better in the work force.
How can anyone say aspiring to going to college makes you a snob?
And by the way, remember Rick Santorum doesn’t like divisive politics – even though he’s now doing some class warfare himself by drawing a line between those who go to college and those who don’t.
Just saying…
GOP Sen. Alan Simpson on Santorum: he is “rigid” and “homophobic”
Rick Santorum got no love from former Wyoming GOP Senator Alan Simpson regarding the current competition for the GOP presidential nomination:
“He is rigid and a homophobic,” Simpson, a Mitt Romney supporter, said. “He said, ‘I want a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage,’ and they said, ‘Well, what about the people who are already married?’ And he said, ‘Well, they would be nullified.’ I mean what is, what’s human, what’s kind about that? We’re all human beings, we all know or love somebody who’s gay or lesbian so what the hell is that about? To me it’s startling and borders on disgust.”
Simpson also said that Romney was likely to emerge the nominee from the Republican presidential primary.
“I think Romney’s had the assault. He’s been shelled from coast to coast. He will not be there,” Simpson said. “Santorum, as they peel the onion, will not receive the support he thinks.”
Rick Santorum: Democratic Party is about “homosexuality”
During a 2008 “Press & People of Faith in Politics” forum, Rick Santorum described the Democratic Party as “the party of Woodstock.”
Asked to name a couple of words he’d heard attached to religion and politics in his years in the Senate, Santorum listed “moderate,” “ultra-conservative,” “liberal,” and “zealous” before launching into a full-on tirade against Democrats:
“Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has become. They have become the party of Woodstock. The prey upon our most basic primal lusts, and that’s sex. And the whole abortion culture, it’s not about life. It’s about sexual freedom. That’s what it’s about. Homosexuality. It’s about sexual freedom.”
Of course, Santorum will position Republicans as the “anti-homosexuality” party if he wins the nomination, and has pledged to to annul all same-sex marriages and personally campaign in every state against marriage equality.
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Donald Trump on the electability of Rick Santorum
Michigan votes one week from Tuesday, and Trump is scheduled to take to the state’s airwaves daily this week to speak on Romney’s behalf.
“There’s nothing – there’s no gift, no Christmas gift, that could be given better than Rick Santorum to the Democrats,” Trump said in a radio interview which aired in Michigan. Democrats, he continued, “are just salivating at that. And, you know, I don’t think they believe it’s going to happen. But boy, would they like it to happen because that would be an easy election.”
The perception of electability was a major factor in deciding to endorse Romney, Trump said, and Republicans would be foolish to put forward Santorum as their nominee because “he basically has no chance” of winning.
Rick Santorum challenges President Obama’s Christian beliefs
Rick Santorum challenged President Barack Obama’s Christian beliefs on Saturday, saying White House policies were motivated by a “different theology.”
A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using “political science” in the debate about climate change.
Obama’s agenda is “not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your jobs. It’s about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology,” Santorum told supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement at a Columbus hotel.
“He is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values anyway he wants. I’m not going to,” Santorum told reporters.
A social conservative, Santorum is increasingly seen as a champion for evangelical Christians by opposing Democrats over issues like contraception and gay marriage.
“This is just the latest low in a Republican primary campaign that has been fueled by distortions, ugliness, and searing pessimism and negativity – a stark contrast with the President who is focused everyday on creating jobs and restoring economic security for the middle class,” said Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt.
Fox News Poll: President Obama leads GOP contenders in swing states
President Obama leads each Republican contender in swing states according to a Fox News Swing State Poll that also suggests a significant shift in the battleground landscape.
The new poll, released Wednesday, shows Obama leads Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich in the all important swing-states.
The registered-voter poll was conducted across 10 states where Obama had small margins of victory in 2008 and are considered decisive in the upcoming presidential election.
These swing states fall into three regional tiers:
• the Rocky Mountain tier includes Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico
• the Rust Belt tier includes Iowa, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
• the Dixie tier includes North Carolina, Florida and Virginia
The swing-state voters back President Obama over Romney by 8 percentage points, and over Santorum by 9 points.
President Obama tops Ron Paul by 12 points in the poll.
Gingrich lags farthest behind Obama, as voters in these key states prefer the president to the former Speaker by 20 points.
Overall, swing-state voters look much like the national electorate.
Obama currently holds a 14-point lead over Romney in the Dixie states, and an 18-point edge over Santorum.
Compare that to the more cautious mood in the Rust Belt states where Santorum ties with the president, and voters are almost evenly split between Romney and Obama (+1 point).
Rocky Mountain voters give Obama a 7-point edge over Romney.
Nationally, voters approve of President Obama (48 to 45 percent) — his highest approval rating in more than seven months.
Santorum backer Foster Freiss suggests women put “aspirin between their knees” for contraception
I’d read about this all day, but just saw the video.
My mind literally blanked when I heard him say this, much like Andrea Mitchell.
THIS is what a Rick Santorum backer looks like folks…
Stunning.
Bill Maher on Rick Santorum: “He thinks life begins at erection”
Bill Maher on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
“Rick Santorum thinks life begins at erection.”
Rick Santorum leading Mitt Romney in Michigan
From NBC News: A poll out today shows Santorum leading in Michigan.
This one conducted for the Detroit News/local NBC affiliate WDIV shows Santorum leading Romney 34%-30%, with Gingrich at 12%, Paul 9%. (Poll was conducted by the Glengariff Group – margin of error of +/-4.4%)
A Public Policy Polling survey found Santorum leading Romney, 39 to 24 percent, among likely GOP voters in Michigan — the state where Romney was born and where his father served as governor.