The Santorum campaign, anticipating a wave of negative attacks from the Romney campaign and super PAC, releases a new ad the features a Romney clone shooting mud at a cardboard cutout of Santorum:
However, the most recent numbers, per ABC News, show that Santorum is being badly outspent in Michigan: his campaign has bought $41,000 worth of airtime in the state, while the Romney campaign has purchased $824,000.
This new Santorum ad is just great. I love it. I have been hard on Rick lately for being a nanny scold driving potential supporters away (I worried he was heading in the wrong direction). But if he can sell his points like this and stay focused on big economic issues (and not let the left drag him into a fight over contraception) he will be this Rick.
I'm amazed at what whiners the GOP field has been.
Romney's reputation for "mudslinging" were the "brutal" ads where he told people Newt Gingrich was a lobbyist for Freddie Mac that was paid over a million dollars.
Oh the horror! How dare a Republican point this truthful fact out.
Rombots specialize in the lie through omission.
1) Gingrich was never a lobbiest.
2) It was paid over 10 years.
3) It was paid to a company that Gingrich owned, a company that had expenses, not all of that money ended up in Gingrich's bank account.
Mitt would NEVER use a paint-ball (mud-ball?) gun that looked like that. After all, he Happily signed legislation in Massachusetts that banned semi-automatic, so-called "assault weapons" that look just like that.
Mitt can spend $1 million on ads in Michigan, and still not get my vote in the primary.
However, I would still vote for him in the general, over the nascent tyrant currently in the White House. Yes, limiting Obama to one term IS that important.
An improvement that really gets to the heart of the matter would be to have an Obama lookalike raising the water level in the building so that they'll both drown (along with the rest of us) as Romney wastes his time and ours taking his mud shots at other Republican candidates rather than our opposition.
(Maybe they could borrow the footage from McCain's old ad with Obama as Moses splitting the Red Sea.)
If a candidate withers and whines because of strong ads from Romney allies, he's obviously not tough enough to stand up against what's coming down the pike from Obama and Company this fall.
SNL did a parody of Eastwood's Chrysler ad and in it they described Santorum using a locker room term for weakling. That's exactly how he comes across. External Link
Conservatives usually decry the mandate from youth athletic associations that scores not be kept because it's mean to have winners and losers. That attitude has now seeped into the conservative mindset. It's so unfair that Romney has raised more money , it's so unfair that his allies are running tough ads .
They demand that everyone mutually disarm and play nice apparently naively believing that Obama will want to play nice, too. When did Mr Rogers take over the spines of all these complaining conservative men ? Gingrich and Santorum are acting like spokespersons for anti bullying campaigns instead of selling themselves on their merits .
" Mommy make him stop " is not a winning campaign slogan. Especially for a candidate running for Commander in Chief.
I would be nice if Rick would give us some insight into just exactly what type of leadership experience he has for the job or president? a guy who has been a legislator and "cause" leader for so long and has never built anything of substance wants to run a $14T economy?? seriously? this is also the same guy who claims his taxes are "on his home computer" and had to go home to work on them. he does not have an accountant doing it? sorry. Rick may be a great "cause" guy but he has never really led an enterprise and built a business of any sort whatsoever
I hate to borrow, but it's funny 'cause it's true.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseThis new Santorum ad is just great. I love it. I have been hard on Rick lately for being a nanny scold driving potential supporters away (I worried he was heading in the wrong direction). But if he can sell his points like this and stay focused on big economic issues (and not let the left drag him into a fight over contraception) he will be this Rick.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI'm amazed at what whiners the GOP field has been.
Romney's reputation for "mudslinging" were the "brutal" ads where he told people Newt Gingrich was a lobbyist for Freddie Mac that was paid over a million dollars.
Oh the horror! How dare a Republican point this truthful fact out.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseRombots specialize in the lie through omission.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse1) Gingrich was never a lobbiest.
2) It was paid over 10 years.
3) It was paid to a company that Gingrich owned, a company that had expenses, not all of that money ended up in Gingrich's bank account.
An actor portraying a candidate doing something ugly in an Ad reminds me of the Ad pushing granny off the cliff. And some people think this is good?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMitt would NEVER use a paint-ball (mud-ball?) gun that looked like that. After all, he Happily signed legislation in Massachusetts that banned semi-automatic, so-called "assault weapons" that look just like that.
Mitt can spend $1 million on ads in Michigan, and still not get my vote in the primary.
However, I would still vote for him in the general, over the nascent tyrant currently in the White House. Yes, limiting Obama to one term IS that important.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSantorum doesn't really need to spend money attacking Romney. Not when you have a sitting president's campaign spending millions to attack Romney.
And don't worry Rick, Obama's union thugs will get out the vote for you in Michigan, sit back relax let the incumbent POTUS machine work it's magic.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseTHAT was a great ad.
An improvement that really gets to the heart of the matter would be to have an Obama lookalike raising the water level in the building so that they'll both drown (along with the rest of us) as Romney wastes his time and ours taking his mud shots at other Republican candidates rather than our opposition.
(Maybe they could borrow the footage from McCain's old ad with Obama as Moses splitting the Red Sea.)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf a candidate withers and whines because of strong ads from Romney allies, he's obviously not tough enough to stand up against what's coming down the pike from Obama and Company this fall.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSNL did a parody of Eastwood's Chrysler ad and in it they described Santorum using a locker room term for weakling. That's exactly how he comes across.
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Conservatives usually decry the mandate from youth athletic associations that scores not be kept because it's mean to have winners and losers. That attitude has now seeped into the conservative mindset. It's so unfair that Romney has raised more money , it's so unfair that his allies are running tough ads .
They demand that everyone mutually disarm and play nice apparently naively believing that Obama will want to play nice, too. When did Mr Rogers take over the spines of all these complaining conservative men ? Gingrich and Santorum are acting like spokespersons for anti bullying campaigns instead of selling themselves on their merits .
" Mommy make him stop " is not a winning campaign slogan. Especially for a candidate running for Commander in Chief.
Sorry, but what a stupid ad. Lame.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI would be nice if Rick would give us some insight into just exactly what type of leadership experience he has for the job or president? a guy who has been a legislator and "cause" leader for so long and has never built anything of substance wants to run a $14T economy?? seriously? this is also the same guy who claims his taxes are "on his home computer" and had to go home to work on them. he does not have an accountant doing it? sorry. Rick may be a great "cause" guy but he has never really led an enterprise and built a business of any sort whatsoever
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