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Is Santorum Quitting?

MattusMaximus said:
I think Santorum will likely hold out just long enough to make himself a serious contender for the VP nod.
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I doubt that. Santorum couldn't even deliver his home state. Besides, more than 50% of Americans now are in favor of legalizing Gay marriage.

While it is true that the GOP has not always made brilliant picks for VP, picking Santorum would set some sort of record for stupidity.
 
Tricky said:
While it is true that the GOP has not always made brilliant picks for VP, picking Santorum would set some sort of record for stupidity.
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Stupider than Palin? If so, only by a tiny bit. By drips and drabs, one might say.
 
Quinn said:
Stupider than Palin? If so, only by a tiny bit. By drips and drabs, one might say.
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Palin was at least popular (at the time) in her home state. According to Wickipedia, "In the November 7, 2006 election, Santorum lost by over 700,000 votes, receiving 41% of the vote to Casey's 59%, the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent senator since 1980."

Santorum cannot draw votes from anyone except evangelical right-wingers, and the GOP mostly has those votes anyway.

Though I admit Palin was a head-scratcher, she was, for the most part, an unknown. Rick is a known loser.
 
Tricky said:
Palin was at least popular (at the time) in her home state. According to Wickipedia, "In the November 7, 2006 election, Santorum lost by over 700,000 votes, receiving 41% of the vote to Casey's 59%, the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent senator since 1980."

Santorum cannot draw votes from anyone except evangelical right-wingers, and the GOP mostly has those votes anyway.

Though I admit Palin was a head-scratcher, she was, for the most part, an unknown. Rick is a known loser.
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Regarding Palin's popularity in Alaska:

By 2008, her 15 minutes were up in her home state. Investigations into governorial shennanigans were starting, and her popularity was dropping like a rock. When McCain picked her for VP, the collective 'whew' from relieved Alaskans could be heard across the state.

Santorum didn't get such a remarkably lucky opportunity to bail out and Pennsylvanians were able to document how they felt at the polls. I suspect that Palin's record in a re-election bid would have rivaled Santorum's poor showing.
 
My own suspicion is that Santorum will eventually fade out. He'll bow out gracefully in a few months, then get a new gig on a news channel as a talking head which will pay him pretty well until he retires permanently and spends his remaining days in a nursing home slapping at his strained peas.

Truthfully, I don't think he had a chance. On the other hand, if Romney gets the nod, he won't win simply because there's enough hatred of the Mormon belief that it won't override any negatives Obama's got.
 
Roadtoad said:
My own suspicion is that Santorum will eventually fade out. He'll bow out gracefully in a few months, then get a new gig on a news channel Fox as a talking head which will pay him pretty well until he retires permanently and spends his remaining days in a nursing home slapping at his strained peas.

Truthfully, I don't think he had a chance. On the other hand, if Romney gets the nod, he won't win simply because there's enough hatred of the Mormon belief that it won't override any negatives Obama's got.
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Almost right. Just one little fix.
 
jhunter1163 said:
Does anyone think that Santorum and/or Paul will hang on long enough and siphon off enough delegates that neither Romney nor Gingrich will get a majority and the convention might actually be something besides a coronation this year?
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I'd say it's unlikely, but enough weirdness has happened over the years that nothing would surprise me. It might be enough for them to force some discussion of the Republican platform.

That would ultimately shoot them down; Paul is getting further and further beyond "wingnut" status.
 
Bikewer said:
Santorum has about as much chance of being nominated as I do. He has a solid core of "social issues" followers, but nothing else whatever so far as I can tell.
Question is, to whom do those social-issue types turn when he drops out? Romney, the not-quite-a-Christian? or Gingrich, the oft-divorced and morally-suspect...

Will Obama-hatred make them hold their noses and pick one or the other, or will they just sit on their hands in disgust?
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Fun with word replacement:
Obama-hatred will make them pick their noses and hold one or the other (tightly but in a faux hetero way) forcing them to wash their hands in disgust?
 
Quinn said:
Stupider than Palin? If so, only by a tiny bit. By drips and drabs, one might say.
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Thank you, I was about to say that.

When choosing Palin and passing up Christie Whitman, they showed just how far they've jumped the shark.
 
jj said:
Thank you, I was about to say that.

When choosing Palin and passing up Christie Whitman, they showed just how far they've jumped the shark.
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Harmonic convergence! I just saw that episode of Happy Days today.

As a Republican, I think my party jumped the shark 12 years ago with the election of the "Nation Builder" who swore he wouldn't be a nation builder, however I do admit the choice of Palin was definitely a puzzler.
 
LSSBB said:
Harmonic convergence! I just saw that episode of Happy Days today.

As a Republican, I think my party jumped the shark 12 years ago with the election of the "Nation Builder" who swore he wouldn't be a nation builder, however I do admit the choice of Palin was definitely a puzzler.
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So you wanted to leave Iraq to fend for itself after Saddam was overthrown? Same with Afghanistan after the Taliban were overthrown?

I never interpreted that phrase to mean those things, but YMMV. I took it to mean throwing gobs of money at developing nations we weren't at war in.
 
WildCat said:
So you wanted to leave Iraq to fend for itself after Saddam was overthrown? Same with Afghanistan after the Taliban were overthrown?

I never interpreted that phrase to mean those things, but YMMV. I took it to mean throwing gobs of money at developing nations we weren't at war in.
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No, to never go into Iraq in the first place. Afghanistan, I grant you, we had little choice with.
 
"The American public does not want to see [santorum in] two or three mud-wrestling matches in which everyone gets dirty," said Santorum...
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It's official. I have a filthy mind.
 
Santorum is apparently hoping that Newt will crash and burn, and that he'll be the only "reasonable" conservative left to counter Romney's moderation. Could he be right? Aside from the "reasonable" part, I mean?

-Bri
 
Bri said:
Santorum is apparently hoping that Newt will crash and burn, and that he'll be the only "reasonable" conservative left to counter Romney's moderation. Could he be right? Aside from the "reasonable" part, I mean?
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That is the silliest thing I have seen you post in a long time. What good would being "reasonable" do him among the GOP decision-makers?
 
leftysergeant said:
That is the silliest thing I have seen you post in a long time. What good would being "reasonable" do him among the GOP decision-makers?
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The use of quotation marks around the word "reasonable" made it clear that he was using the term loosely, as in, what would be considered reasonable to a rabid teabagger.
 
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