It appears after his caucus sweep last week, Senator Rick Santorum is finally getting what he wanted all along - a two man race against Mitt Romney.
Santorum has surged, tying Mitt Romany in the Gallup polls and Pew shows Santorum actually beating him in Michigan.
Also helping to move Senator Santorum into a solid position was a successful appearance at CPAC, as opposed to Governor Romney awkward characterization of himself as a 'severe conservative.'
As I mentioned a long time ago, Rick Santorum is a likeable man of high character who is also a big government style conservative, and one whose insistence on pushing social conservative issues is going to hurt him badly with the electorate:
One of the things I will talk about that no president has talked about before is I think the dangers of contraception in this country, the whole sexual libertine idea … Many in the Christian faith have said, “Well, that’s okay … contraception’s okay.”
It’s not okay because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, for purposes that are, yes, conjugal … but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act. And if you can take one part out that’s not for purposes of procreation, that’s not one of the reasons, then you diminish this very special bond between men and women, so why can’t you take other parts of that out? And all of a sudden, it becomes deconstructed to the point where it’s simply pleasure. And that’s certainly a part of it—and it’s an important part of it, don’t get me wrong—but there’s a lot of things we do for pleasure, and this is special, and it needs to be seen as special.
Again, I know most presidents don’t talk about those things, and maybe people don’t want us to talk about those things, but I think it’s important that you are who you are. I’m not running for preacher. I’m not running for pastor, but these are important public policy issues.
No, senator,these are private matters, not public policy issues. The idea is to get government off our backs and out of our lives to the degree possible, not to bring them into our bedrooms. There's far too much of that already.
I admit to being a bit dispirited over the events of the last few weeks. Given how both front runners have handled themselves, I almost think that the movers and shakers in the GOP have already conceded this election and are setting their sights on 2016. I hope I'm wrong.
Given that the budget for the first two years of the next president's term has already been spent and squandered, their thinking just might be to let President Obama fully inherit and own the abysmal mess he has made for us all rather than saddling a Republican president with it.
The problem there is that Supreme Court justices go on for a long time, that I'm not certain how the country will weather four more years of misgovernment and that if the Republicans blow this election, it might just end up being their last.
I was starting to think the same thing you mentioned. I was thinking the GOP actually wants to lose this election but if they've conceded, then their actions make some sense.
ReplyDeleteI certainly hope they have not conceded. Such an action would be evil and wrong on so many counts its hard to know where to begin. First of all to be blunt America cannot survive another four years of Mr. Obama's policies. Either the country will be conquered by its enemies, the economy will completely fall apart and the states will secede from the union, or Russia will destroy the country in vengenance for its defeat in the Cold War. Either way there will not be a country with an election for them to win in 2016 if Mr. Obama wins reelection. That is unless Mr. Obama can change course which does not seem likely.
America should be worth fighting for. As such, we don't go around concedeing elections. Such an action would be unconsionable.
Unfortunately even with the right leadership the damage done by Mr. Obama and Mr. Bush before him may already be to extensive for America to be saved. In this case, the fall should be properly managed to get the best outcome for America and its people that we can.
At this point the loss of the dollar as the world's reserve currency is likely inevitable. Having the dollar serve this role has been a huge advantage for us. How do we manage this situation when the dollar is not the world's reserve currency any longer. Any President worth his or her salt needs to have a plan in place to deal with this. Its likely inevitable at this point.
If the Republicans have conceded, then the only hope is for a divine miracle or for Mr. Obama to somehow change course. Given Mr. Obama's history a course change for him does not seem likely.
Even if the Republicans prevail and we get top notch leadership, the chances of the nation's survival over the next four years is, at best, 40%. With the current policies the chance of survival is less than 1%. In other words, you concede here you won't get another opportunity!! Also, you will have decided our country is not worth fighting for. If true, this is truly dispicable behavior on the part of Republian leadership.
I don't know if the establishment Republican leadership has made an actual decision to concede the election but this election was theirs to lose & it looks to me that that is exactly what they're doing. I stopped paying attention to the campaign a few weeks ago.
ReplyDeleteAdmittedly, my main source of information is Fox News (which has moved Left it seems to me) but the Republican campaign is a great disappointment.
I'd say that Obama has a greater than 60% chance of re-election.
Barring a major event in which Obama is over-taken by events (such as the collapse of the Euro & a major down-turn in the economy or a large regional war in the Middle-East), it looks like Obama will win.
Terry, Eilat-Israel
Santorum time?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds frothy. I'm in.