You gotta’ love how easily Mitt Romney says things that everyone knows are not just untrue but loony. Romney said today that he couldn’t possibly pick Santorum to be his vice president because Santorum’s waaaaaaaaay too liberal.
Look, Santorum has his issues but does anyone on the planet actually believe this? I don’t even think Romney can believe this.
Yahoo reports:
If Mitt Romney wins the Republican presidential nomination, he’ll have many options for a running mate. His current rival Rick Santorum probably won’t be one of them.
Romney said as much Tuesday when Neil Cavuto asked him on Fox Business if he would choose a candidate to his right in order to win the election.
“Well that would preclude, of course, Rick Santorum,” Romney said. “Because I mean look at his record. I find it interesting that he continues to describe himself as the real conservative. This is the guy who voted against the right to work, this is the guy who voted to fund Planned Parenthood, this is the person who voted to raise the debt ceiling five times. …It’s my way of saying that Rick Santorum is not a person who is an economic conservative, to my right. I’m saying I’m a conservative, I give him credit for being a conservative, but not a fiscal conservative. His record does not suggest he’s got the fiscal conservative chops that I have.”
I guess he has to tear down Santorum as a political strategy but the critiques have to be at least believable, don’t they? And, actually, I think this kind of talk actually hurts Romney because it feeds into the belief that he will say ANYTHING if he thinks it’ll help him get elected.
March 13, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Maybe, he thinks that Ron Paul supporters (loons) assure his victory.
I would ask: what about Ron Paul?
March 13, 2012 at 8:11 pm
Rick Santorum voted to fund Planned Parenthood?!
March 14, 2012 at 12:15 am
Santorum voted on a federal bill called “Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.” It contained funding for training, Center for Disease Control research, and services for the elderly. It also funded the Title X Family Planning Program which Planned Parenthood draws on to fund “contraceptive related reproductive health care services to low-income women,” according to its web site. The money can NOT be used to fund abortions.
By the way, Romney, as Governor of Massachusetts, threatened to fire any justice of the peace that refused to perform gay marriages, forced Catholic institutions to provide abortifacients to rape victims, and thanks to Gov. Romney, marriage licenses in Massachusetts now have “Party A and Party B” instead of “husband and wife.”
March 14, 2012 at 4:01 am
Silly Romney. Good on Santorum to best him AND Gingrich in Mississippi and Alabama tonight. Imagine the thumping Santorum would administer Romney if only he had Gingrich's votes. Hey, Newt, I like you as a close second to Rick, but now is the time to bail out for the good of the party and deprive Romney the nod. Rick is clearly the choice of the conservatives.
March 14, 2012 at 12:22 pm
It must be a campaign strategy. At least he said more than "Santorum can't win" Romney has no substance in his record to criticize any conservative on any issue. Romneycare is not fiscally conservative and he does not know what a social conservative is… the man's hopeless if he runs on the issues.
March 14, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Hilliarycare, Romneycare, Obamacare, there's no difference. Penalties, impositions and rationing. Obamacare is not about healthcare, it is about having your money. Medicare is to rise to $214.00 per month. Obamacare could end Social Security as we know it. You will be a digit and your check will go straight to the government.
@Anonymous 8:15 Thank you for clarifying the facts about Romeny and Santorum.
March 14, 2012 at 1:40 pm
For once I agree with Romney…
March 14, 2012 at 2:04 pm
I have been following GOP Politics for a long time. The real issue is this—no one wants the Social Conservatives. Period. I have dubbed this "Left at the Altar." The GOP wants the social conservatives to vote for them because they know they can't win without them. But the GOP doesn't want to become the Social Conservative Party. In other words people, they are courting you but will leave you at the altar holding your bouquet of Calla Lilies and crying like a baby—-again. Their agenda is to humiliate each and every social conservative candidate out there. They thought they could slide Newt by you–that Social conservatives would vote for him because they despise Mitt Romney so much. This was their strategy. That is why Sarah Palin supported him–to get her base, the SoCons, to rally around Newt. But why choose the wind-bag Newt, when you can have the personable, devoted family man Rick?? Their strategy did not work. I predict two possible scenarios in the weeks to come—either Newt stays in to siphon off votes from Rick giving Mitt the edge to rack up more delegates, or he pulls out and endorses Mitt with Mitt giving him the VP slot. Either way, I do hope Social Conservatives wake up really soon and just abandon the GOP all together.
March 14, 2012 at 10:58 pm
LOL! Santorums not going to "thump" anyone. The GOP will just start "flipping" HIS votes the way they do Ron Pauls when the time comes. It's all a show, people! The fix is in.
March 15, 2012 at 5:11 am
Romney is a hypocritical liar and a fraud. When it comes to not being conservative, Romney fits the bill more than any likely Republican nominee since Gerald Ford. He is especially liberal on the issues that should matter most to Catholics and social conservatives.
He will NEVER, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, EVER receive my vote. Not even if my swing-state-of-Ohio vote were THE decisive vote that would keep Obama from winning re-election.
And neither should anyone else considering themselves to be conservative vote for that fraud. If the GOP can win the White House with Romney, they'll never again even bother going through the motions of pretending to nominate conservatives.
March 17, 2012 at 3:01 am
"Romney: Santorum Too Liberal to be My Veep"
Why does it matter what Romney says, does, or stands for? Pat already admitted he would vote for him and beyond that, seemed to question anyone who wouldn't. (After his little article about how Romney supposedly "still needs to win" him, that is.)