Rick Santorum 2012 Campaign: Repeating Missteps Of The 2006 Calamity

[jaxx]

Rick Santorum 2012 Campaign: Repeating Missteps Of The 2006 Calamity
Posted: 03/30/2012 12:03 am Updated: 03/30/2012 1:46 pm

WASHINGTON -- Ryan Miner remembers watching a fat piece of sausage splatter with a thud against a picture of Sen. Rick Santorum adorning the side of the senator’s campaign RV.

<..> The actual responses were painful. "He's a very arrogant person," said one Johnstown woman. Santorum's deepening religiosity troubled some. "I think he's going off the deep end," said one senior Pittsburgh woman.

<..> "I'll say this emphatically -- there was a seething, vehement hatred of Rick Santorum," says Miner, who was attending Duquesne University at the time. "We would go door to door. They would tell us to go fuck ourselves."

<..> "At one point, Rick said, 'You know if I don't have the people in this room passionate about me, then I've lost already,'" High recalls. "And I looked at him and I said, 'Rick I don't know anyone else who will tell you this to your face, but I'm telling you -- I'm not passionate about you.'"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/30...tml?ref=tw

A very interesting read. What we see today, the arrogance, the borderline intense rhetoric, was well on it's way back in 2006. The man is nuts.

[janedrake]

Very interesting, indeed!

So, fiscal conservative Santorum's basic strategy to win in 2006 was to promise Pennsylvania that if they voted for him, he would guar-un-tee them that he would bring home the pork:

Quote:Santorum began the ‘06 campaign with a simple enough strategy, according to his campaign manager at the time, Vince Galko: draw stark contrasts between himself and Casey. He would emphasize his seniority in the Senate, arguing that being third in line in the GOP leadership meant a wealth of federal dollars for the state. Casey was blessed with a famous last name, Santorum would argue, but he'd be entering the Senate as a powerless freshman.

Now, I don't give a toss about "pork," but I find that to be a very interesting approach from a "true conservative."

[Hekate]

Looks like Pennsylvanians figured that out awhile ago. I have to say: losing by 18 points takes real talent.
A good read!

[KonaKane]

Doing the same thing over and over again, without analyzing the results, without thinking: Otherwise known as "conservatism".

[SeattleGirl]

(03-30-2012 01:41 PM)KonaKane Wrote:  Doing the same thing over and over again, without analyzing the results, without thinking: Otherwise known as "conservatism".

Or insanity, but I repeat myself......

[Ikonoklast]

God is on his side, so everything he says and does is Righteous and Holy.

Keep it up, Rick.

Good job.