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DeWine: 'Abundantly Clear' Romney Would Lose to Obama
Michael Warren
February 17, 2012 4:55 PM
Why did Mike DeWine, Ohio’s Republican attorney general and a former U.S. senator, shift his endorsement from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum? “When I endorsed Governor Romney, I thought he was the best candidate to beat Barack Obama. As this campaign has played out, it is abundantly clear he is not, and I believe he [would] lose in November,” DeWine told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in a phone interview. “It’s abundantly clear that Governor Romney’s campaign is no better than it was four years ago.”
DeWine says he worries most about Romney’s electability, particularly in appealing to blue-collar voters and the traditional “Reagan Democrats.”
DeWine initially endorsed Romney last October, but he tells TWS he’s had “little” interaction with the Romney campaign since then. Romney has campaigned several times in Ohio over the last few months, though the former Massachusetts governor never met with DeWine.
On a conference call, Romney surrogate John Sununu said that DeWine's switch was likely explained by an ad from Romney’s super PAC Restore Our Future that criticized Santorum’s support for a bill to restore voting rights to ex-felons—a bill that DeWine also strongly supported during his time in the Senate.
“I do understand that the criticism that has been levied on this vote, restoring voting rights to felons, by some of the supporters of the Romney camp is one of the reasons, if not the biggest reason, why Mike DeWine has decided to now be a supporter of Senator Santorum,” Sununu said. DeWine says he’s never seen the ad.
Sununu also downplayed suggestions that Romney’s argument that he’s the most electable candidate has been tarnished by Santorum’s recent rise in the polls nationally and in key swing states like Ohio and Michigan.
“We’ve always said, right from Day One, even when we’re winning aggressively, like in New Hampshire and in Florida, that this is a long slog,” Sununu said. “It’s earning and winning 1143 delegates, and it’s not going to be decided early. Nothing has changed in terms of strategy or tactics as we move forward. And the fact that the Governor is so far ahead in delegates means that so far he’s demonstrated he’s the most electable.”
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February 21, 2012
Rick’s Religious Fanaticism
By MAUREEN DOWD
WASHINGTON
Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola.
That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.
“Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.”
When, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice? Next he’ll be banning Barry White.
Santorum is not merely engaged in a culture war, but “a spiritual war,” as he called it four years ago. “The Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country — the United States of America,” he told students at Ave Maria University in Florida. He added that mainline Protestantism in this country “is in shambles. It is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.”
Satan strikes, a Catholic exorcist told me, when there are “soul wounds.” Santorum, who is considered “too Catholic” even by my über-Catholic brothers, clearly believes that America’s soul wounds include men and women having sex for reasons other than procreation, people involved in same-sex relationships, women using contraception or having prenatal testing, environmentalists who elevate “the Earth above man,” women working outside the home, “anachronistic” public schools, Mormonism (which he said is considered “a dangerous cult” by some Christians), and President Obama (whom he obliquely and oddly compared to Hitler and accused of having “some phony theology”).
Santorum didn’t go as far as evangelist Franklin Graham, who heinously doubted the president’s Christianity on “Morning Joe.”
Mullah Rick, who has turned prayer into a career move, told ABC News’s Jake Tapper that he disagreed with the 1965 Supreme Court decision striking down a ban on contraception. And, in October, he insisted that contraception is “not O.K. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
Senator Sanitarium, as he was once dubbed on “The Sopranos,” sometimes tries to temper his retrogressive sermons so as not to drive away independent and Republican women who like to work, see their kids taught by professionals and wear Victoria’s Secret.
He told The Washington Post on Friday that, while he doesn’t want to fund contraception through Planned Parenthood, he wouldn’t ban it: “The idea that I’m coming after your birth control is absurd. I was making a statement about my moral beliefs, but I won’t impose them on anyone else in this case.”
That doesn’t comfort me much. I’ve spent a career watching candidates deny they would do things that they went on to do as president, and watching presidents let their personal beliefs, desires and insecurities shape policy decisions.
Mullah Rick is casting doubt on issues of women’s health and safety that were settled a long time ago. We’re supposed to believe that if he got more power he’d drop his crusade?
The Huffington Post reports that Santorum told Philadelphia Magazine in 1995 that he “was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress.” Then, he said, he read the “scientific literature.”
He seems to have decided that electoral gold lies in the ruthless exploitation of social and cultural wedge issues. Unlike the Bushes, he has no middle man to pander to prejudices; he turns the knife himself.
Why is it that Republicans don’t want government involved when it comes to the economy (opposing the auto bailouts) but do want government involved when it comes to telling people how to live their lives?
In a party always misty for bygone times bristling with ugly inequities, Santorum is successful because he’s not ashamed to admit that he wants to take the country backward.
Virginia’s Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, touted as a vice presidential prospect, also wants to drag women back into a cave.
This week, public outrage forced the Virginia Legislature to pause on its way to passing a creepy bill forcing women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound, which, for early procedures, would require a wand being inserted into the vagina — an invasion that anti-abortion groups hope would shame some women into changing their minds once they saw or heard about traits of the fetus.
Democratic Delegate Lionell Spruill hotly argued that the bill would force “legal rape.” “I cannot believe that you would disrespect women and mothers in such a way,” he chided colleagues. “This legislation is simply mean-spirited, and it is bullying, bullying women simply because you can.”
While the Democratic-controlled Maryland House of Delegates just passed a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, the Republican-controlled Virginia Legislature passed a bill allowing private adoption agencies to discriminate against gays who want to be parents.
The Potomac River dividing those states seems to be getting wider by the day.
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SANTORUM DEFINITION:1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
2. Senator Rick Santorum.
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N2K Presidential Race: Rick Santorum's 'Death Valley'
It's been a good few weeks for Santorum. He needs two more.
by National Journal Staff
Updated: February 21, 2012 | 8:48 p.m.
February 21, 2012 | 8:41 a.m.
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AP Photo/Gerald Herbert Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
Ron Paul’s new 30-second spot excoriating Rick Santorum as a “fake” fiscal conservative—and chronicling Santorum’s votes in favor of conservative anathema like foreign aid, the debt ceiling, and Planned Parenthood—must’ve made the former senator from Pennsylvania cherish his campaign’s fiscally prudent January.
While Mitt Romney, according to Federal Election Commission filings released Monday night, cruised through the month at a 3-to-1 burn rate, Santorum raised more than he spent, though his cash on hand lagged Romney's by more than $6 million.
Santorum’s parsimony has worked; he’s up 10 points over Romney in the most recent Gallup national tracking poll. But that doesn’t mean that, with money and organization, Romney—with an evident assist from Paul—isn’t likely to eclipse him.
The calendar poses challenges for Santorum; it's the political equivalent of the venture capital world's "death valley," the cash-gobbling gap between innovation investment and market. The three weeks between his last victories and the primaries in Arizona and Michigan a week from today is a maw into which the Romney money machine, well-versed in such economies, can and will shovel opposition research. Today, Romney implied that such data had been in short supply this cycle, saying Santorum hadn’t “been carefully viewed by the public.”
That’s code for: Duck, Rick.
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LOL @ PEA BRAIN! :D
No substance, so out come the usual catalog of photo shopped Obama pics...PATHETIC.
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LOL @ PEA BRAIN! :D
No substance, so out come the usual catalog of photo shopped Obama pics...PATHETIC.
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well newsweek , hardly a conservative mag, has romney beating obama in their poll by 3 points.. so....
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2012 will be entertaining. obama/romney are pretty close on a lot of issues. romeny signed an anti-gun bill, for petes sake, an assault weapons ban lol.
santorum is out there, but he's way more conservative.
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Tragedy if Obama got re-elected. The country would go to shit in a handbasket. Oh well, when negotiations with a nuclear wielding Iran go south, and they will, and their "reasonable" leader bomb us all I will say is "told you so."
Obama is not a bad human being, but he is a worthless leader. Reagan and Clinton were leaders. Bush was even good, until Cheney brainwashed him into bombing Iraq unprovoked. Huge mistake and led to us electing the current individual to office.
Unfortunately, regardless who you are rooting for, they are politicians through and through and will fuck the country to save their jobs. ;)
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Tragedy if Obama got re-elected. The country would go to shit in a handbasket. Oh well, when negotiations with a nuclear wielding Iran go south, and they will, and their "reasonable" leader bomb us all I will say is "told you so."
Obama is not a bad human being, but he is a worthless leader. Reagan and Clinton were leaders. Bush was even good, until Cheney brainwashed him into bombing Iraq unprovoked. Huge mistake and led to us electing the current individual to office.
Unfortunately, regardless who you are rooting for, they are politicians through and through and will fuck the country to save their jobs. ;)
Great comedy! ;D
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Repubs are doomed.
U.S. is doomed.
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Tragedy if Obama got re-elected. The country would go to shit in a handbasket. Oh well, when negotiations with a nuclear wielding Iran go south, and they will, and their "reasonable" leader bomb us all I will say is "told you so."
Obama is not a bad human being, but he is a worthless leader. Reagan and Clinton were leaders. Bush was even good, until Cheney brainwashed him into bombing Iraq unprovoked. Huge mistake and led to us electing the current individual to office.
Unfortunately, regardless who you are rooting for, they are politicians through and through and will fuck the country to save their jobs. ;)
Iran is not a threat to the US. Their "reasonable" leader actually wields very little power. Iran also has a huge younger population that are very pro-western.
Under Obama, Bin Laden, Gaddafi, and Kim Jong Il are no longer here. I understand that outside of OBL, Obama had little to nothing to do with two dictator's deaths. However, perception >>>>>> truth.
Also, Cheney did not brainwash Bush into bombing Iraq. The Israeli lobby and their evangelical backers did that...Cheney was merely an accessory to that in addition to having vested interests within the military industrial complex.
Presidents have always gotten too much credit or too much blame when things go well or awry. Obama is not the evil Muslim dictator plotting the downfall of America nor is he a great leader that all should aspire to.
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Repubs are doomed.
U.S. is doomed.
Do you really think that? What's with all the gloom and doom and paranoia. If Obama is elected for a second term the world is not going to end. I don't understand why people have such a dislike for the guy and think he is such a radical when in reality he is a pretty average to mediocre president. He has to be because that is how Democrats get elected. They can't appeal to their radical base the same way the republicans can and do.
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Politics is fixed. Obama was chosen to be president by the owners of this country, so they will run a half twit against him to make the fix less obvious... Next case
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I think the US is twirling the drain right now, and Obama's just making it worse.
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Iran is not a threat to the US. Their "reasonable" leader actually wields very little power. Iran also has a huge younger population that are very pro-western.
Under Obama, Bin Laden, Gaddafi, and Kim Jong Il are no longer here. I understand that outside of OBL, Obama had little to nothing to do with two dictator's deaths. However, perception >>>>>> truth.
Also, Cheney did not brainwash Bush into bombing Iraq. The Israeli lobby and their evangelical backers did that...Cheney was merely an accessory to that in addition to having vested interests within the military industrial complex.
Presidents have always gotten too much credit or too much blame when things go well or awry. Obama is not the evil Muslim dictator plotting the downfall of America nor is he a great leader that all should aspire to.
The Israeli lobby wanted an attack on Iran. George Bush made a mistake and attacked Iraq instead. I am all for Sadam Husseins death, it's just bombing Iran should of been a higher priority.
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Santorum is acceptable and seems to be a good guy but my favorite of the all is Mike Huckabee. A Huckabee Gingrich Ticket would be perfect.
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Anyone would be better than the Occupier-in-Chief.
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Fuck it, Ron Paul. Let Israel handle foreign policy.
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DeWine: 'Abundantly Clear' Romney Would Lose to Obama
Michael Warren
February 17, 2012 4:55 PM
Why did Mike DeWine, Ohio’s Republican attorney general and a former U.S. senator, shift his endorsement from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum? “When I endorsed Governor Romney, I thought he was the best candidate to beat Barack Obama. As this campaign has played out, it is abundantly clear he is not, and I believe he [would] lose in November,” DeWine told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in a phone interview. “It’s abundantly clear that Governor Romney’s campaign is no better than it was four years ago.”
DeWine says he worries most about Romney’s electability, particularly in appealing to blue-collar voters and the traditional “Reagan Democrats.”
DeWine initially endorsed Romney last October, but he tells TWS he’s had “little” interaction with the Romney campaign since then. Romney has campaigned several times in Ohio over the last few months, though the former Massachusetts governor never met with DeWine.
On a conference call, Romney surrogate John Sununu said that DeWine's switch was likely explained by an ad from Romney’s super PAC Restore Our Future that criticized Santorum’s support for a bill to restore voting rights to ex-felons—a bill that DeWine also strongly supported during his time in the Senate.
“I do understand that the criticism that has been levied on this vote, restoring voting rights to felons, by some of the supporters of the Romney camp is one of the reasons, if not the biggest reason, why Mike DeWine has decided to now be a supporter of Senator Santorum,” Sununu said. DeWine says he’s never seen the ad.
Sununu also downplayed suggestions that Romney’s argument that he’s the most electable candidate has been tarnished by Santorum’s recent rise in the polls nationally and in key swing states like Ohio and Michigan.
“We’ve always said, right from Day One, even when we’re winning aggressively, like in New Hampshire and in Florida, that this is a long slog,” Sununu said. “It’s earning and winning 1143 delegates, and it’s not going to be decided early. Nothing has changed in terms of strategy or tactics as we move forward. And the fact that the Governor is so far ahead in delegates means that so far he’s demonstrated he’s the most electable.”
Mmm, it's not too late for someone else to get into the race. Think about that for a minute dummy. Anyone but Obama!
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Romney is beating ghettopofsbama in the USA today poll and would destroy that commie thug once the party unites to rid ourselves of the black plague Obama.
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Personally I think both Romney and Santorum would tear Obama apart in a debate. But since blind liberals like Benny and JT can't see (nor debate themselves) that. It makes no difference. What's Obama going to run on.....his record? hahahahahahaha
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Half our retards will vote for him regardless.
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Half our retards will vote for him regardless.
Those on welfare love Obama, those who work for a living hate Obama.
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Hail satan!
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I dont follow politics much, but seriously, is someone like Rick Santorum a better option? Dude is a crazy, religious freak who wants to make abortion illegal. I for one do not want to live under a theocracy.
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Personally I think both Romney and Santorum would tear Obama apart in a debate. But since blind liberals like Benny and JT can't see (nor debate themselves) that. It makes no difference. What's Obama going to run on.....his record? hahahahahahaha
Obama is going to win 8)
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I dont follow politics much, but seriously, is someone like Rick Santorum a better option? Dude is a crazy, religious freak who wants to make abortion illegal. I for one do not want to live under a theocracy.
as opposed to a communist regime as envisioned by thugbama ?
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as opposed to a communist regime as envisioned by thugbama ?
So, basically its choosing the lesser of two evils? :-\ Doesn't give voters much hope or choice in the matter :-\ :-\
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So, basically its choosing the lesser of two evils? :-\ Doesn't give voters much hope or choice in the matter :-\ :-\
Unless Ron Paul vis on the ticket, that is the choice. 4 more years of communism by Obama or a chance of something different, which ,sy be worse or better.
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Like I said , Ron Paul (economically), let Israel handle the Middle East.
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Fuck it, Ron Paul. Let Israel handle foreign policy.
Israel doesn't dictate foreign policy. You obviously haven't read the Koran or Hadith or you would know better than to make such a stupid statement.
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Iran is not a threat to the US. Their "reasonable" leader actually wields very little power. Iran also has a huge younger population that are very pro-western.
Under Obama, Bin Laden, Gaddafi, and Kim Jong Il are no longer here. I understand that outside of OBL, Obama had little to nothing to do with two dictator's deaths. However, perception >>>>>> truth.
Also, Cheney did not brainwash Bush into bombing Iraq. The Israeli lobby and their evangelical backers did that...Cheney was merely an accessory to that in addition to having vested interests within the military industrial complex.
Presidents have always gotten too much credit or too much blame when things go well or awry. Obama is not the evil Muslim dictator plotting the downfall of America nor is he a great leader that all should aspire to.
Great post !!!!!
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Fuck it, Ron Paul. Let Israel handle foreign policy.
x2, Muslim's will reclaim their holy land and oust the jews after this illegal nation has been around long enough.
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Israel doesn't dictate foreign policy. You obviously haven't read the Koran or Hadith or you would know better than to make such a stupid statement.
What does the Koran have to do with Israeli nukes?
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x2, Muslim's will reclaim their holy land and oust the jews after this illegal nation has been around long enough.
Yeah, just watch.
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Moooooooosluuumsssss will get slaughtered like cannon fodder
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Muslims are dogshit. A first-grader knows that.
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LOL @ the uninformed christian idiots on this board
btw Islam is the fastest growing religion in the USA :D
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LOL @ the uninformed christian idiots on this board
Charles Martel disagrees with you oh camel semen receptacle.
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LOL @ the uninformed christian idiots on this board
btw Islam is the fastest growing religion in the USA :D
Team Dogshit?
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Iran is not a threat to the US. Their "reasonable" leader actually wields very little power. Iran also has a huge younger population that are very pro-western.
Under Obama, Bin Laden, Gaddafi, and Kim Jong Il are no longer here. I understand that outside of OBL, Obama had little to nothing to do with two dictator's deaths. However, perception >>>>>> truth.
Also, Cheney did not brainwash Bush into bombing Iraq. The Israeli lobby and their evangelical backers did that...Cheney was merely an accessory to that in addition to having vested interests within the military industrial complex.
Presidents have always gotten too much credit or too much blame when things go well or awry. Obama is not the evil Muslim dictator plotting the downfall of America nor is he a great leader that all should aspire to.
OBL = Thank God for the Bush policies
Gaddafi = all of the sudden Obama is taking credit for it when he originally said he basically wanted nothing to do with it?
Kim Jong Ill = Died of a heart attack. The only ones who mourned him was reppingfor20 and some people in that country.
As for Bush going into Iraq, it was a unanimous decision from both parties to go in.
Obama does not and has never intended to have his decisions in the best interest of the country. He sees other socialist countries failing in every way yet he still wants model us after them....go figure. The man PURE evil.
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OBL = Thank God for the Bush policies
Gaddafi = all of the sudden Obama is taking credit for it when he originally said he basically wanted nothing to do with it?
Kim Jong Ill = Died of a heart attack. The only ones who mourned him was reppingfor20 and some people in that country.
As for Bush going into Iraq, it was a unanimous decision from both parties to go in.
Obama does not and has never intended to have his decisions in the best interest of the country. He sees other socialist countries failing in every way yet he still wants model us after them....go figure. The man PURE evil.
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Isn't it about time for your martyrdom, dummy?
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LOL @ the uninformed christian idiots on this board
btw Islam is the fastest growing religion in the USA :D
No remarks needed ;D
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Mohammad chews foreskin like bubblegum.
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No remarks needed ;D
LMFAO!
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x2, Muslim's will reclaim their holy land and oust the jews after this illegal nation has been around long enough.
ياتك ضربة في قلبك
ابن الحمار
هو عاوز الضرب بستين جزمة
جاتك داهية
ابن الشرموطة
You stupid fucking idiot. Your "people" failed even when the Zionist jews only were equiped with handguns in 1948. Lol at you for thinking that stupid fucking Iran can harm Israel with its 1960 planes. The can't even get parts for their Iran Air Fleet, you stupid fucking baking in the arabian desert peace of shit.