Presidential candidate Rick Santorum won decisively in Minnesota's GOP caucuses on Tuesday, clobbering rival Mitt Romney in a state Romney had won easily just four years ago.
With most of the Minnesota vote in, Santorum won 45 percent of the GOP straw poll, followed by Ron Paul at 27 percent. Romney placed a distant third, while Newt Gingrich placed last.
"Conservatism is alive and well today in Missouri and Minnesota," a triumphant Santorum said in a victory speech from Missouri. The former Pennsylvania senator contrasted himself not with his GOP rivals, but with President Obama. "I don't stand here as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney," Santorum said. "I stand here as the conservative alternative to Barack Obama."
Don't have a problem with that at ALL!!!
GREAT STATEMENT TOO!!! "I don't stand here as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney," Santorum said. "I stand here as the conservative alternative to Barack Obama."
Question: Has he attacked Newt or Mitt, like they've been going after eachother?
So Romney got rick-rolled? Have to expect the liberal media and mitt's team to dig up a lot of stuff on santorum. I was at caucus last night and Romney won my district. Last week I was gettinge anti-santorum robo-calls. Romney's people must have been aware of the groundswell.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I heard something on the radio this morning that made me stop and go hmmmmmmm.
Romney was favored heading into the evening, at least here in Colorado. Could the sudden momentum shift towards Santorum be linked in any manner to the recent attack on Catholicism by Obama and Sebilius?
I LOVE IT... Santorum has as much chance at the nomination as Elmer Fudd...
Red State Endorses 'Meteor of Death' Posted: 07 Feb 2012 02:59 PM PST
Conservative Red State publisher Erick Erickson wrote on his site that he'd prefer a "sweet meteor of death" over any of the remaining Republican presidential candidates. "My sincere and honest hope is that both Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich stay in the race as long as possible to deny Mitt Romney enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination," he wrote. "God help us if any one of them is the nominee."
PrintSmith wrote: I heard something on the radio this morning that made me stop and go hmmmmmmm.
Romney was favored heading into the evening, at least here in Colorado. Could the sudden momentum shift towards Santorum be linked in any manner to the recent attack on Catholicism by Obama and Sebilius?
I suspect it was not a sudden momentum shift. IMHO it is more a failure of pollsters to get it right. Personally I usually do not answer political calls or hang up on them. On occasion when the whim strikes, I will pick up and lie.
It was just that Santorum had more wingnuts turn out for him than did Romney.
Santorum, you just can not make his views up. His latest outrage? That Obama does not have sufficient tolerance for bigots.
Santorum, speaking at a campaign stop Wednesday in Texas, said the administration’s view of advocates of Proposition 8 is that their “belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on irrational hatred and bigotry. Where’s the tolerance in that?”
Attendance at caucuses and primaries has continued to go down compared to 2008. Colorado had 6% less GOP caucus goers than four years ago. People are just not excited about the current choices, and anytime a front runner emerges, those still in the bucket pull him back down.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
I didn't go because I couldn't decide who I'd rather vote for. They all suck. The Republicans could have had an easy win in the upcoming general election if they had run a decent candidate, but they keep putting these idiots forward. Obama will win regardless of who wins the primary.
