Rick Santorum’s stirring speech, invoking the Founders’ pledge of “our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” to the cause of liberty, neatly encapsulates the problems of the Republican primary field: Romney has no life, Santorum no fortune, and Gingrich no sacred honor.
Or, you might say, we can get 2 of 3 - money & honor, life & honor, or money & life.
I'll go with life & honor. We can always find money someplace else.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseActually, given that Sheldon has pulled the plug, I think Newt is now down to one out of three.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGiving Mr. Santorum's stance on a host of social issues, I'm not sure if he in fact does have honor. Consistency to an awful principle isn't something I admire.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAnd what would that be?
SInce the Bamster has decided that the federal govt will now dictate morality, what's your beef?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSantorum simply wants to dictate it his way. I have no more interest in being condemned by a social conservative than by a politically correct professor who's out of his depth. He can raise his family as Catholic as he wants, but leave me alone.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTo borrow from great SF Giants announcer Duane Kuiper:
"Williamson hits it high. He hits it deep. It's outta here!"
With Romney on first, Santorum on second and Gingrich on third that's a grand slam.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePerhaps Rick should have pledged Gingrich's Life, Romney's Fortune and his own Sacred Honor.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHonestly, I don't think any of these people quite understand what those words mean.
Santorum and Gingrich are able to mouth the words wrapped in the sort of safety our founding fathers never had imagined. Perhaps when they find themselves putting their names to a sheet of paper that, in all likelihood, represents their own death sentences they can then mimic the words.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRomney = George H.W. Bush
Santorum = Richard Nixon
Gingrich = P.T. Barnum
We = Screwed
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDidn't we hit Newt for much the same line, back in Florida or SC? Maybe that was a different site.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'd like to ask Mitt Romney how much of his personal wealth he's willing to spend on his Presidential campaign if he's our nominee.
If the stakes and his motivation are what he's been saying they are, then I would not be satisfied with an answer of less then 95%. That would add another $235 million to his campaign budget, a very signficant, perhaps decisive sum.
Just how important are the stakes he's described to him, himself?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseToo good, Kevin, and too funny. But face it, your guy, Gov. Perry, is out. At this point, don't you think Santorum is the best candidate? Not most likely to win, but the best candidate?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf someone is not the most likely to win, he is not the best candidate.
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