Daily Kos Sends Email to 8,500 Michigan Dems to Vote Santorum
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 6:01 AM
Daily Kos hate website sent out an email to 8,500 Michigan democrats yesterday to vote for Rick Santorum in the open primary elections today.
Via @jmartpolitico
The 8500 MI’anders on Daily Kos email list got note today: “Please vote for Rick Santorum…”
Republican Rick Santorum is also asking democrats for their vote today in a robocall.
The Detroit News reported:
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum hopes Michigan Democrats can help him earn a victory in Tuesday’s primary.
That’s right. The former Pennsylvania senator’s campaign paid for a robocall asking Democrats to vote for him in Tuesday’s primary.
Recent polls show chief rival and Michigan native Mitt Romney and Santorum virtually even heading into the primary.
“We know that if we can get a Reagan Democrat in the primary, we can get them in the fall,” said Hogan Gidley, communications director for Santorum. He confirmed the campaign paid for the call.
Political observers say the move is just another sign of how close the GOP race is — and a “logical ploy.”
As Santorum has done during numerous Michigan visits the past two weeks, the call attacked Romney’s stance on the auto bailouts, saying the former Massachusetts governor’s opposition “was a slap in the face” to Michigan workers, according to audio obtained by online political news outlet Talking Points Memo.
Santorum also opposed the auto bailout, but said his consistent stance against all bailouts, including the Wall Street bailout, sets him above Romney.
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valerie commented:
Just to let you know the depth of contempt Mitt Romney has for Republicans.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-im-not-willing-to-light-my-hair
I have never heard a Democrat denigrate his party in this fashion.
shibumi commented:
This has been going on forever. A number of years back, Dems were encouraged to vote for McCain in the primary, because the then governor of Michigan promised Bush a win.
/and that’s why this should be a closed primary
olm commented:
I’m so sick of this race, I could care less who wins.
john commented:
Ron & Mitt are ahead in the polls. Rick isnt.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=08a_1330437358
Militant Conservative commented:
#3 February 28, 2012 at 10:20 am
olm commented:
Congratulations the MSM got to you. Pretty weak
willed and un American of you. Sure hope I never
share a fox hole with you, a quitter.
MoreLiberty commented:
Didn’t Rush do the same thing during the primaries in 2008 – AKA Operation Chaos?
Kate commented:
I just want the candidate that can beat Obama and get that marxist out of the WH before he succeeds in destroying this country. I think Romney has a better chance.
Multitude commented:
This officially counts as an endorsement by Kos. Santorum is actually a great fundamentalist choice for the progressives. He brings all the big government fiscally liberal positions, while also being a social reactionary much like the Islamists in Yemen, Egypt and elsewhere that the Kos crowd idolizes.
“DailyKos: Proud to be a reactionary left-wing Evangelical blog”
olm commented:
No, Militant, these candidates got to me.
I desperately want Obama out of office. But when Mitt and Rick start trying to out Democrat each other, I’ve had all I can take.
Anyone is better than Obama and it looks to me like that’s what we’ve got.
The Democrats gave us McCain. It looks like same old same old at this point.
I wouldn’t want to be a foxhole with a GOP’er.
Got Billy Ayers on Speed Dial commented:
Last night’s source was lefty Talking Points Memo. Today’s source is DailyKos.
Gee, I wonder if the lefties have a hidden agenda here?
If so, Gateway Pundit has swallowed whole.
Mikey commented:
Wow. For once I agree with Daily Kos. UNBELIEVABLE. If I can’t have Gingrich, I will go with Santorum. I DO NOT trust Mitt – to me, he is NO BETTER than Obama. I love chaos in the morning. GO RICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Voice of Reason commented:
Dirty liberal political hijinks. If they would do this, do you think for a moment they wouldn’t try voter fraud to win elections for their guy/gal? Look at how the Democrats come up with political spin and nonsense on voter ID claiming disenfranchisement etc.? The ends justify the means.
Dittogirl commented:
Just voted for Santorum in Michigan,,I agree with Mikey! Romney is Obama lite..and if I cant have Gingrich (which I pray I can vote for in November!) I will make sure that Romney does NOT get the state of Michigan!
Go Rick!
FurryGuy commented:
And in Seattle in 2000 it was exactly reversed. The Stranger, an online radical Leftist rag in Seattle openly advocated Progressives vote for Bush because McCain was likely to win the general election if he were the nominee and Bush would EASILY lose.
So yeah, DKosers, PLEASE vote for Santorum. You may get more than you bargain for.
valerie commented:
#9 February 28, 2012 at 10:41 am
olm commented:
The Democrats did not give you McCain. Republican voters gave you McCain, but perhaps you will recall that other Republican voters continued to tear McCain a new one at every opportunity, using the negative campaign (lying) themes promoted by the Mitt Romney campaign during the primaries.
I was amazed at the vehemence against McCain after he became a candidate, and it didn’t do anything for other centrist voters, either.
I was willing to vote with the Republicans to get John McCain, because the Republicans presented a real candidate that was so very much better than the photoshopped halo offered by the alleged leaders of my own party.
A lot of the anger against John McCain and Mike Huckabee in the base was triggered by the Democratic lies picked up and amplified by the Romney campaign, and those lies stuck with people who refused to vote for him. If Republicans want to vote for that dishonest, damaging campaigner, Mitt Romney, out of party loyalty, that’s their decision, but I see no reason why I should vote for a person who has worked so hard to ruin his own party.
Mama Grizzly commented:
It was wrong of Rush to do that in ’08.
Obama fears Romney–NOT Santorum.
FurryGuy commented:
McCain was an atrocious choice, period. I researched his history and positions long before 2008 and saw he was more willing to be a pandering maverick that would stab fellow Republicans and conservatives in the back given the slightest provocation if it would make him look good with his buddies in the MFM. His campaigning for Barry only broadened my disdain for the man, his staff savaging Palin was unconscionable.
valerie commented:
Mike Huckabee, from 2008– Romney lied about me and McCain
http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blogspot.com/2012/01/video-huckabees-attack-ad-against.html
Dittogirl commented:
Obama does NOT fear Romney..the libtards will tear Romney to shreds over his record. The libtards fear Gingrich..
Anyone but Obama
Anyone but Romney!
valerie commented:
#17 February 28, 2012 at 11:01 am
FurryGuy commented:
The atrocious choice was Obama. I had big disagreements with McCain about some of his legislation. I thought he truly needed better help with writing the stuff.
FurryGuy commented:
Rush was only doing what Dems had been doing and openly advocating for years.
Jimmy Carter and the Dems in 1980 didn’t fear Ronald Reagan, the conventional wisdom is Reagan was easy to beat because he was a mediocre actor out-acted by a chimpanzee, and look at the results of that thinking. Reagan’s poll numbers right up until the election in no way, shape, or form ever reflected the reality of the actual election. Pollsters and media talking heads were caught flat-footed.
I’m not saying beating Barry will be easy, it most definitely won’t be. This will be one of the most corrupt and dirty campaigns ever.
Mama Grizzly commented:
Valerie: please give some concrete examples of what you’re talking about. Thx
FurryGuy commented:
I don’t determine who the Dem candidate is, so as to Barry being atrocious or not is a moot point. I had a voice about McCain and his unsuitability, and was ignored.
But hey, keep letting the Left choose the GOP candidate, I won’t genuflect to who I consider a poor candidate just because they have a certain letter after their name.
valerie commented:
Mitt Romney likes to take a candidates actual words to a reasonable answer, and then cut them up to give a different answer from the one intended. This is not just negative in the sense of criticism, this is lying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3jYsdSSamk&feature=related
John McCain calls Mitt Romney for lying.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV5UWGS4Pkw&feature=related
Mama Grizzly commented:
Valerie:
Right — Romney isn’t trying to score points bashing. Probably a good strategy. He’s building on who HE is–not on fighting Captain Zero.
Mama Grizzly commented:
Not on fighting only I meant to say.
StrangernFiction commented:
“It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative, attacking of President Obama, that you’re going to jump up in the polls. I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am.”
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/romney-im-not-willing-to-light-my-hair
Why any conservative would vote for this man is beyond me.
StrangernFiction commented:
http://bostoncatholicinsider.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/did-romney-lie-about-cardinal-omalley-to-the-nation-during-the-wednesday-debate/
valerie commented:
#22 February 28, 2012 at 11:10 am
Mama Grizzly commented:
#22 February 28, 2012 at 11:10 am
Mama Grizzly commented:
This is, of course, not the only issue, but it’s typical of Romney.
Romney’s claims about Newt’s ethics charge are false
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/romneys-claims-about-newts-ethics-charge-are-false-and-misleading/
Gingrich ethics case
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/what-really-happened-gingrich-ethics-case/336051
Multitude commented:
McCain was a dreadful choice. Beyond politics, average Americans can smell a loser. McCain, who finished three away from the dead bottom of his Academy class, is known to be a terribly stupid, close-minded but arrogant jerk by those who have had to work with him. He’s a bitter, angry jerk to those in his party and suffers from the need to continually associate with his presumed political enemies.
It doesn’t matter that he was tortured in Vietnam. Many were and we don’t automatically make them President. It’s a sad tale and many of us respect his service and the great suffering he and many others went through. Some of us lost family members altogether.
What the RINOs don’t understand is that they’re at the end of their era of relevance. The decay in the Mint Julep Party is so profound that the mush they advance and back with their money just isn’t electable at all. They’re stillborn candidates. Many empires suffer this fate; some allege lead poisoning caused the Roman elites to regress intellectually to a stupor that led to the collapse of an empire. I blame a culture of unaccountability in the rich, combined with profoundly flawed epistemological models in their Ivy League programs, for much of the failure in the progressive country-club RINO elites.
I was at Harvard again last week and saw the disease first hand. They’ve closed the gates to the Ivory Tower and work hard to keep all but the privileged elites out. Their science is so obscure, they pursue completely useless and irrelevant research. Consider this: your university may have had a department of zoology. Harvard not only promotes it to a College (complete with a maze of buildings and overpaid administrators), but makes it exceptionally narrow by defining it as the College of Comparative Zoology. Imagine the fun comparing frogs and not frogs.
The college is locked off to the general public with signs warning “No Public Exhibits!” The entire culture is one that restricts the general public, rejects the common man, and entitles privilege and exclusivity.
This is your RINO’s education. This is why they fail to reach regular Americans. They’re educated incorrectly, raised on a false believe that irrelevant knowledge akin to measuring skull sizes and collecting butterflies on boards with pins, matters in the real world. They’re raised without accountability; they crash a car and daddy buys a new one.
This is why they push losers like Mittens and John “Captain Queeg” McCain. And this is why they’re driving the Republican Party into the ground. The opinion markets know it and have Obama strongly favored to win, and I fully expect a 2012 Obama victory will be the final end of the Republican party. The blame belongs to those who back Mittens and McCain, Jack Kemp, and both Bush presidents.
Gary commented:
Mama Grizzly 16
Right again.
If anybody thinks the WH fears Santorum and not Romney, how do you square that with this news?
And if Romney is the perceived liberal and Santorum the perceived Conservative, why would the left want to stick it to the liberal and help the Conservative?
Answer: They don’t want Romney to win. The media cleverly planted the “non-Romney” seed and let you think that you came up with it. Obama, with the help of the media, can beat Santorum in a walk.
There is not one nationwide poll from last Summer until now that shows Santorum beating Obama. Romney is ahead of Obama in about half the polls.
Reference Realclearpolitics.com
retired05 commented:
Comment deleted and user banned for impersonating a fellow commenter. This was not written by retire05.
Gateway Pundit Administrator
olm commented:
I think the left thinks that they can easily paint RS as a right wing nutjob religious zealot. To do that they would have to understand what they are accusing, which they don’t.
My original point is that I could care less which of these 2 take MI. They are destroying each other and in the process destroying themselves.
Gary commented:
Dittogirl 19
You can’t have it both ways. You’re saying Romney is a liberal just like Obama and the liberals will tear him to shreds over his records. Huh?
What does that ad look like:
“Romney voted for programs just like Obama. Don’t elect Romney….. I’m Barack Obama and I approved this ad”
Doesn’t make sense.
You’re right that Romney has a record as a moderate, but that actually makes it harder for Obama to go after him.. How can he criticize Romneycare without undercutting Obamacare? and so on.
As for Santorum, if he wins (and the odds of that are very slim), it will be a long summer and fall of 30-second ads showing a red-faced angry Santorum saying things that require a five-minute explanation to clarify. Most voters aren’t going to do the homework or seek clarification. Santorum would be toast as the MSM paints him as a radical in story after story.
Not saying it’s right, that’s just the way it is.
Maybe by 2020, Santorum will have tempered his message so that he can convey Conservative ideals without sounding like an angry zealot.
Gary commented:
StrangernFiction 28
You posted this the other day.
Santorum also lied in Wednesday’s debate:
http://www.breitbart.tv/specter-santorum-lied/
Gary commented:
retired05 #32
Is that really you? That doesn’t sound like you.
Gary commented:
olm 34
That’s right.
The left is drooling at the chance to run cool-faced Obama against seething red-faced Santorum.
It won’t matter about the issues for millions of people. They only perceive winners and losers, and Santorum looks like a loser even when he’s making perfectly valid Conservative points.
I’m not faulting him for this. I just think he will be a better candidate when he learns to articulate his message with charm and grace, rather than with a whiny child face.
mitch commented:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNiwE_rBNI
Moore said that a defeat of the “Romney legacy” in Michagan would be a “death knell” for the campaign.
“The people have to understand this and please understand this as coming from us Michiganers,” said Moore, “If Romney does not win tomorrow or he wins by a small margin, in other words he’s lost, you can’t overstate the importance of this in the state of Michigan, the Romney name, the Romney legacy in Michigan, it would be like voting against a Kennedy in Massachusetts.” he said.
Moore added that a lot of his Democratic friends were voting for Rick Santorum.
“I have to tell you a lot of my Democratic friends will vote for Santorum in something they are calling Operation Hilarity.” Moore delightedly reported, referring to the left-wing plot to disrupt the Republican primary.
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/michael-moore-my-friends-are-voting-santorum/398626
mitch commented:
Michael Moore: My friends are voting for Santorum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNiwE_rBNI
Mimi commented:
It is so funny to hear Romney whine. The guy who has accused all the other candidates of whinning and saying this “isn’t bean bags.” Wahhhhh! The Missouri primary was open too. When you went in to vote you had to choose a Republican or Dem ballot. That’s it!
Romney flat out lied about talking to bishops and they okay’d his mandate on the morning after pill. They NEVER okay’d it. The fact the RomneyCare and ObamaCare are similar, the fact that Romney voted for TARP, the fact that Romney was for Climate change, the fact that all of a sudden Romney changed stances on life and gay marriage is enough for the members of my church and me never to vote Romney. Romney won’t have the base in Nov just like McCain didn’t.
GO RICK!!!!!!
Patty commented:
Our real Goal is to see that Obama is defeated. It won’t matter a twit what the liberals have to say. Of course, REPORT FRAUD at polling places.
Economist: Barack Obama will lose 2012 election – maybe
Anderson’s model accounts for income growth, unemployment, inflation, war and third-party candidates, ignoring polls, strategy and policy proposals. The theory is that people vote with their wallet over anything else.
All the factors studied trend negative to neutral for Obama’s chances. That means pocketbook voters, who account for about 75 percent of the popular vote, will cast ballots against the incumbent.
pla compressed for web.jpgCourtesyPatrick Anderson
But unemployment numbers are improving and voters tend to weigh the final year of the incumbent party’s term over the first three.
“There is a good news factor,” Anderson said. “Things that happen recently are going to be more vivid for them.
“It could swing voters back.”
http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2012/02/economist_barack_obama_will_lo.html
“Obama’s Gonna Lose”; The Numbers Show “Obama Can’t Get Re-Elected” – Video 2/27/12
http://freedomslighthouse.net/2012/02/28/dick-morris-obamas-gonna-lose-the-numbers-show-obama-cant-get-re-elected-video-22712/
The swing voters in these swing states are not the redmeat loving base of the GOP; the swing voters who will decide the outcome of the election are the independents and moderates in the swing states – voters who could swing either way.
SANTORUM MIGHT GET A HIGHER PERCENTAGE OF THE BASE IN A PRIMARY IN A CONSERVATIVE STATE, BUT HE WILL NOT GET THE INDEPENDENTS IN THE SWING STATES THAT WE NEED TO GET IN ORDER TO DEFEAT OBAMA.
WE NEED MORE AMERICANS TO ACCEPT THE FACT THAT LIBERAL POLICIES ARE A FAILURE AND CONSERVATIVE POLICIES WORK.
SHRILL ATTACKS AGAINST MITT — BECAUSE HE WAS A LIBERAL 20 YEARS AGO, AND HAS GRADUALLY AND STEADILY MOVED RIGHT EVER SINCE — ARE ONLY GOING TO TURN OFF THE VERY VOTERS WE NEED IN ORDER TO DEFEAT OBAMA.
WE WANT MORE PEOPLE TO MOVE TO THE RIGHT AND ATTACKING MITT FOR MOVING TO THE RIGHT WILL NOT MAKE THESE PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO DO THE SAME.
http://astuteblogger.blogspot.com/2012/02/who-is-more-likely-to-attract-and.html
Mimi commented:
Sorry Patty not voting for terribly dishonest Romney. Romney lies so much he doesn’t know what the truth is.
Militant Conservative commented:
#6 February 28, 2012 at 10:28 am
MoreLiberty commented:
Wrong. Not waisting my time explaining this.
I think it’s great Romney is vetting done to him that
He did to Fred Thompson and HuckPhoney.
By the democrats no less!! Miracles come in
Times of need. We need moral leadership not
Obama. The black socialist has to go.
God moves and uses idiots, Thanks Dems.
Militant Conservative commented:
Getting
Patty commented:
#44 February 28, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Mimi commented:
Never said I was, as a matter of fact. I just post them as I see them. And not really the point.
Point is Obama needs to be defeated. I will vote for who our nominee is. Just information I post no more no less.
Scope commented:
Santorum is really turning into one big crybaby when things don’t always go his way. What would he do when Kim Jong Un points a nuke at our bases in South Korea, just start crying and stamping his feet.
mitch commented:
A longtime liberal radio host asking Democratic listeners to vote for Rick Santorum in Michigan’s Republican primary told CNN Tuesday he loves making mischief.
After spending nearly all of his three hour program encouraging Democrats to get out and vote for Santorum Tuesday, Tony Trupiano makes no apologies for his mischief.
“Because Rick Santorum is doing as well as he is doing here in the polls, we could actually take some serious delegates away from him [Mitt Romney],” Trupiano said. “What that really does is it gives America a little more time to get to know these candidates. And don’t for a minute tell me we haven’t learned a lot more about all of them in the last six weeks. What more can we learn six weeks from now?”
It turns out many Democrats in this state don’t need a lot of convincing to engage in this kind of strategic voting.
At a polling station in Dearborn Heights, Crystal Larson said her vote for Santorum made her “feel like I made a deal with the devil.”
“Voting for Santorum goes against everything I believe in and everything I’ve ever stood for in my life and to vote for him takes a lot of guts I think,” Larson said.
She said she hadn’t received any of the robo calls, but heard about the Democratic effort in the media and decided to vote for Santorum at the last minute.
Gary Zulinski, also voting in Dearborn Heights, said, “I was listening and Democrats were asked to us come and I said ‘Why not, this is my way of voting.’ That’s my right. There are so many people who don’t exercise that right. This is my way of saying ‘Hey, I’ve had enough.’”
Democratic stagiest Joe DiSano has been on an active campaign to get Democrats out for Santorum in effort to hurt Romney. He recorded a robo call and has sent tens of thousands of e-mails to Democratic voters encouraging them to go to the polls.
“We are turning them out and feel we can provide a massive jolt and scare to the GOP establishment here in the state and in Washington, DC. When we are done they’ll be taking Pepto Bismol by the gallon at the RNC,” DiSano told CNN Tuesday.
“If Romney we’re able to close the deal, a religious fanatic like Rick Santorum would not have a chance in a state like Michigan. And I’m going to do everything I can to make sure Santorum turns out to be the winner tonight,” he said.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/28/democrats-in-michigan-explain-crossover-vote-campaign/
Mimi commented:
Scope it’s Mitt who is crying this morning not Santorum. Interesting that you ignore that! Ha!
Hey Mitt to quote you it’s not bean bags!
Mimi commented:
Mitch that is music to my ears. Thanks so much!
an observer commented:
#1
Valerie, when you cite TPM as a source for ANYTHING , you are buying propaganda from Kapo George Soros, the father of lies and the enemy of the American Republic.
If it comes from TPM or that other Kapo Soros operation, Media Matters for America, it’s a lie.
myohmy commented:
This will be pretty hilarious to see liberals get stunned when Santorum become president 2012.
Go Rick.
Sandy commented:
The Daily Kos wants Rick that says it all. Santorum and the Social Issues will destroy the Republican’s chances this year and the Dems are salovating at the thought. Rick’s a sanctimonious boob. He can’t seem to understand that the economy, gas prices and a potential war in the middle east are the issues that concern us most.
If he gets the nomination Obama will win because even Republicans like me believe in a woman’s right to choose and that the devil won’t get me if I fail to go to church. Not that I will vote for Obama — NEVER. But for the first time in my life I will sit out an election.
Duke DeStefano commented:
OK GANG…USUALLY I’M A BIT LONG WINDED BUT THIS TIME…RIGHT TO THE POINT…
RON PAUL, 70 % AN OK, HEARTFELT GUY…30% CIRCUS CLOWN….
ROMNEY, 100% RINO obamaLITE, FLIP FLOPPER WHO WANTS A JOB,NOT TO BE A HELP….
SANTORUM, HE JUS’ WANNA BE PRES E DENT…..WILL COMMIT TO **ANYTHING**
GINGRICH, HAS A PISSED OFF EX WIFE AND HAS MADE A FEW MISTAKES…..BUT……
HE IS SMART..KNOWLEDGEABLE…INTELLIGENT…HAS DONE WHAT WE NEED DOING–BEFORE
HE HAS THE EXPERIENCE TO DO IT (CUT SPENDING,BALANCE THE BUDGET,REAMERICANIZE AMERICA, RID US OF LEFTIST OPPOSITION +++)…AGAIN
HE KNOWS WHO OUR REAL ENEMY IS ..AND WILL NOT BOW BEFORE THEM…
HE CAN KEEP AMERICA FROM COMPLETE DOWNFALL…
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY…..CAN WHIP THE HELL OUT OF THE MUSLIM IN THE WH….
AND ALL YOU GUYS ARE ARGUING OVER SMILING FACES..
OK… BOTTOM LINE… WHOMEVER IS NOMINATED, NEWT OR ONE OF THE CLOWNS…..
WE **MUST** GRIT OUR TEETH -LIKE IT OR NOT -AND VOTE HIM INTO OFFICE – - – -
OR AMERICA HAS SEEN ITS L A S T DAYS…………………..TRUTH…
Mimi commented:
Newt is the clown Mr. Destefano. I’ll give you he is intelligent but Newt will do anything to become President. Anything. If he won’t bow to anyone why did he quit the Congress. Why didn’t he fight.
Go Rick!
Mimi commented:
Sandy I’m a conservative and a woman as well. I too have never sat out an election but I will NEVER vote Romney. He is a very dishonest person. What choice are you talking about? Ending a life or not ending a life?
Sandy commented:
mimi — I didn’t become a Republican so that I could get to vote for the other side of Obama. Both want to control our privacy and neither will get my vote.
myohmy commented:
Pro-choice women wants their pills and abortion paid for by somebody else. Talking about personal responsibilities,huh. Of course, dim wits will fight for you. They are gladly to oblige because it is a way for them to have perpetual power.
Nobody is stopping any women to have multiple partners and get as many abortions as you want. Just pay for your own pills and abortions.
DavidC commented:
If I was a Santorum supporter I would have two independent thoughts on the robo call thing.
1. He is trying to win and using every tool at his disposal. Good for him.
2. He is lining up with DailyKos, Union Leadership, MoveOn, Obama Re-Elect team to recruit committed democrats who will vote for Santorum in the primary but will reliably vote for Obama in the general. By doing this, Santorum is engaged in an overt attempt to help Democrats sabotage the Michigan Primary by agreeing with the democrats that he is the weaker candidate in the general.
Once I had both of those ideas firmly planted in my brain, my head would explode.
Sasja commented:
To an observer #52, in response to your comment to Valerlie:
RUSH: This morning in Livonia, Michigan, Romney held a press conference, and there was a Q&A and a reporter said, “What would you say to Republican Party members who say that Michigan should never have been this close, and the greater concern that you have yet been able to excite the Republican base as a whole, what would you say to that?”
ROMNEY: It’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen throughout the campaign that if you’re willing to say really outrageous things that are accusative and attacking of President Obama, that you’re gonna jump up in the polls. I’m not willing to light my hair on fire to try and get support. I am who I am. I’m a person with extensive experience in the private sector, in the economy.
Rush played this little jewel on his show today. This is from Mittens’ own mouth.
Sasja commented:
Sorry, mis-spelled Valerie’s name.
DavidC commented:
Please stop the whole “I’m not voting if my guy doesn’t get in” comments. First of all, no one cares. Second of all, it is the opposite of persuasive. I discount anyone who says that. So does anyone else. Third of all, no one believe you. Anyone who cares enough to post on a board like this is going to vote for the Republican nominee.
Also please stop suggesting that Santorum, Romney and/or Gingrich are character flawed. They are all politicians. They are going to have their moments of over stating things to the point of approaching dishonesty. But they are all three men of solid character who believe in what we believe in. I like Romney, but I also gladly voted for Santorum three times for senator. I was also rooting hard for and supporting Gingrich when he was at his best as a conservative warrior some 14 to 18 years ago.
DavidC commented:
To Sasja: Mitt is right. What do you see wrong with what he said? I think Santorum made a bit of a comeback when he called Obama a snob. I think some of the conservative base does get revved up when someone makes a personal attack on Obama. Mitt is also right that he does not do that. I happen to like that he doesn’t to that. I happen to think that a lot of people (me included) find childish name calling offensive. There is plenty of substantial reasons to attack Obama. Name calling will be counter productive in the general. At least I think so.
Sasja commented:
If pointing out the truth of who and what Zero is, is considered incendiary, than we might as well hang it up and nominate McCain 2.0. Mittens, and the rest of the RINO’s have let it be known more than once, what they think of the republican base.
Mittens has already said he will not criticize Zero. McCain waited until his nomination before letting it be known he was not going to run a serious campaign. I guess we are lucky Mittens has let it be known during the primary process.
Stating the truth about Zero is not name calling, nor is it childish.
mitch commented:
Santorum flip flops on democrats voting in gop primary. Just last month he said only republicans should vote in the gop primary.
“We want the activists of the party, the people who make up the backbone of the Republican Party to have a say in who our nominee is as opposed to a bunch of people who don’t even identify themselves as Republicans picking our nominee,” Santorum told voters on the call held January 29. “I don’t like that. I believe that states should only allow Republicans to vote in Republican primaries.”
In stark contrast to his campaign’s more recent courtship of Democrats, in January Santorum told Democrats that if they wanted to vote for a Republican, they should switch their party affiliation.
“It’s the Republican nomination, not the independent nomination or the Democratic nomination,” he said on the call. “If you’re a Democrat and you want to be a Democrat, then vote in the Democratic primary, not the Republican. If you want to vote in the Republican Party then become one.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/28/santorum-flips-on-dems-voting-in-gop-primaries/
DavidC commented:
People carry on endlessly about the drop in party registration. I can see why. The single largest reason to be a party member is to be able to have a say via primary elections for your party’s nominees. As nearly as I can tell (I might be missing something), open primaries make party membership completely unnecessary.
Michigan did this in 2000 as well. Huge numbers of Democrats crossed over to give McCain the win over Bush. Here’s hoping the various state party organizations get a clue. Let this be the final end of open primaries. If you don’t want to be a member of the Party, you don’t get to vote. Membership closes six months in advance of presidential primaries so late deciders don’t move for the purpose of mischief.
bg commented:
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Ousted Daily Kos Writer Speaks Out More On Radical Islam
Eric Allen Bell, who was banned from The Daily Kos and defamed by
Loonwatch.com to the Islamic world for his investigations into radical
Islam, discusses how initial support for the Arab spring was thwarted
when: “I started to pay attention to the news coming out of the Islamic
world, and follow what was happening with the Islamist winter, looking
at Egypt, Tunisia, other countries starting to go the way of possibly Iran
in 1979. So I started to take a deeper look at the truth about Islam and
that just kind of turned my whole worldview upside down.”
taqqiyah, split personality, kos..
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Paddy commented:
I am concerned that the Daily Kos may email many thousands to vote often for Obama in November. Is he a radical puppet master?
bg commented:
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Mama Grizzly #25 February 28, 2012 at 11:19 am
ROTF
MBO!!
Mitt Romney is crying because he can dish it out but
heaven forbid he gets a little back, lying hypocrite..
can’t believe i supported him vs McCain.. gah!!
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bg commented:
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they play the same game over & over again, smae issues over & over
again, their gig is up, and they know it.. but since when have Marxists
backed down, not to mention the Islamists who are holding them up..
Earth to Dhimmi USA aka Ummah States
of Allah to your great grandchildren..
Marx is Islam & Nazism is Socialism
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