All of a sudden, Rick Santorum, former senator from Pennsylvania, is surging in the Iowa polls. In fact, he may even win the Iowa caucus. I suppose that would mean that the mad-hatters at MSNBC will be looking for dirt on him as they did with previous front-runners. Unfortunately for them, Santorum has no obvious skeletons in his closet. My question is whether Santorum can take a strong showing in Iowa and become a serious candidate as a real conservative.
This morning, Santorum was interviewed by Fox's Shepherd Smith, who grilled him on his opposition to gay marriage. Santorum's answer was based on his religious opposition. That would not have been my answer, but I am not Santorum. Could that hurt him with independent voters in a general election? I don't have the answer for that, but, on the other hand, I don't view it as one of the major issues.
As a conservative, I think Santorum is in many ways, the most attractive candidate. Come the California primary, I won't be able to vote for anyone since I am not a registered Republican. I guess at this stage, I would have to weigh my preference on the one I like the most and who can beat Obama. I guess that means I am leaning toward Romney and Santorum. Whoever it is, I hope the VP pick will be Marco Rubio.
At any rate, I expect the little rascals at MSNBC will be talking a lot about Rick Santorum and what a bad guy he is by the end of the week.
"Wait till you hear the latest about Rick Santorum, folks. Let's get to work."
Why do the characters at MSNBC care who is the Republican front-runner anyway? Are there any they would endorse? There was a plausible speculation at The American Conservative about the greatest conspiracy theory ever: Someone from the Democratic National Committee has infiltrated the Republican Party and created this slate of bozos competing for the GOP nomination.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised to learn that Santorum lined up with my preferences on issues with relative weight assigned to issues the first time and then it happened again. There are several sites on the Internet that asks about a dozen issue questions and then at the end you can see who you are most in synch with based on their published policies and previous statements.
ReplyDeleteI was in favor of Gingrich and thought the first site might have been a Santorum slanted site because he was at 5% at the time. Now I think he may have a real shot at the nomination. I haven't given up on Gingrich yet because there is still a long race yet and there is an intangible element involved.
I personally wouldn't vote for Ron Paul but beyond that, I would vote for an empty beer can before I'd vote for Obama.
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After Obama is re-elected Miggie, I will gladly send you an empty beer can.
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