@1 I kinda like what Mustaine said about Ron Paul. Other than that, what a loser.
@3 Maybe not with us. They might be trying to associate the santorum "smear" with Romney, in essence, transferring the "blame" for it. Not a bad move. Lemons, lemonade...
I saw one of the Romney super-PAC ads against Santorum, and it was nothing more than an exercise in, "Let's see how stupid the voters of Michigan really are."
First, they nailed Santorum for voting five times to raise the debt limit. So Mitt, if you were in the Senate at the time, you would have voted against raising the debt ceiling? Seriously?
Then they nailed Santorum for voting for all kinds of spending, including Alaska's bridge to nowhere. Senators have to vote on trillions of dollars of spending on thousands of programs and projects. You're always going to be able to find some stupid project that some responsible Congressmember voted for. It's a function of being in the Senate and the House. The alternative is either always voting no or just not voting.
But this is all in line with Mitt's "severely conservative" Freudian slip. He and his advisers are dripping with contempt for the very voters they have to win over.
This is the first really interesting ad of the 2012 campaign. I like it -- it kind of Mondales Romney by showing the dapper plutocrat in toting a gun. It tags him with existing perceptions of his floundering campaign: that he can't get the job done, that he's just dumping ads on opponents, that he's tone deaf, and that he's a political moderate. It also inoculates him some against the inevitable Romney carpet bombing. It even highlights the Santorum advantage: that he's the squeaky clean altar boy in the race, untouched by mud or moderation. If Santorum can take Michigan, I'm seeing a brokered convention, with social conservatives pitted against libertarians and moderates. Maybe we'll get lucky and Palin will get drafted from the floor.
@3 Maybe not with us. They might be trying to associate the santorum "smear" with Romney, in essence, transferring the "blame" for it. Not a bad move. Lemons, lemonade...
First, they nailed Santorum for voting five times to raise the debt limit. So Mitt, if you were in the Senate at the time, you would have voted against raising the debt ceiling? Seriously?
Then they nailed Santorum for voting for all kinds of spending, including Alaska's bridge to nowhere. Senators have to vote on trillions of dollars of spending on thousands of programs and projects. You're always going to be able to find some stupid project that some responsible Congressmember voted for. It's a function of being in the Senate and the House. The alternative is either always voting no or just not voting.
But this is all in line with Mitt's "severely conservative" Freudian slip. He and his advisers are dripping with contempt for the very voters they have to win over.
Santorum hijacked your meme.
Now it looks as if Romney is behind a Spreading Santorum smear.
Brilliant.
Can't think of a better metaphor for Republican politics.
But the slam against Romneycare goes by so fast, it's almost subliminal.