By Kate McCarthy

Jun 6, 2011 7:11am

Exclusive – Rick Santorum Will Run for President: ‘We’re In It to Win’

And with that another Republican challenger jumped into the 2012 race this morning on "GMA."

"We're ready to announce that we are going to be in this race and we're in it to win," Rick Santorum told me.

Santorum, a former two-term Senator from Pennsylvania, will formally kick-off his campaign in his home state later this morning near a coal mine where his grandfather worked after immigrating from Italy.

The father of seven has been a frequent sight in the early voting states. This week is no exception with a trip to Iowa tomorrow followed by another trip to the first in the nation primary state on Wednesday.

Santorum won two straw polls in New Hampshire and South Carolina but he’s trailing in the polls. The latest Gallup poll has him at 2 percent behind Romney’s 19, Palin’s 15 and Ron Paul’s 13.

Santorum rose to the third seat in the GOP Senate leadership but lost his 2006 bid for a third term to Senator Bob Casey by 18 points.

A viewer – Charles from Los Angeles – asked “why, after being rejected by the people of Pennsylvania 59%-41% in his last Senate race, he thinks Americans would want him as their president.”

“In 2006 by everybody’s estimation was a pretty bad time for a republican and particularly for a conservative in states like Pennsylvania. And I stood up and I didn’t back away. I didn’t back down on trying to reform the social security system,” Santorum told me.

“I did some things that were very unpopular but if you look back at what I did and when I did it people can say ‘You know what, he may have lost but he didn’t flinch, he stood by what he believed in and continued to fight to the end,’” he said.

Since leaving the Senate he has served as a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and as a Fox News analyst, until they suspended his contract on March 2 while he debated his 2012 plans.

I asked Santorum about his fellow Fox News analyst Sarah Palin and whether her she got it right about Paul Revere.

“You know what to be honest with you I’ve been sort of hunkered down. I have no idea. I haven’t really been paying attention to this one George, I’ll pass,” he said.

Watch the interview here:

George Stephanopoulos

User Comments

LOL…LOL…Just another right wing, religious idiot who is out of touch with reality. Just what the GOP “needs”. LOL…LOL

Posted by: CND FOX | June 6, 2011, 7:37 am 7:37 am

Good, the more choices the better. No self respecting person who loves the country would put the country, the citizenry or future generations through another Obama term. Personally, I don’t think any would survive.
I admit, I was duped in to voting Obama in 2008. Well, I will NOT be making that mistake again.
It feels so good not to be one of those mindless sheep following the others off the cliff.

Posted by: Juice | June 6, 2011, 7:49 am 7:49 am

To quote you from 2008 about another candidate, Rick Santorum as president… “That’s not going to happen.” But for some reason I’ll bet you are more courteous to Rick.

Posted by: Avery | June 6, 2011, 7:51 am 7:51 am

Romney is far from the perfect candidate but I’ll have to vote for him unless someone better comes along. Palin is the darling of the right but she doesn’t appeal to the rest of us. Paul has some great ideas but he talks like he’s in a panic all the time. Panicy people scare me. Any of the three are better than Obama.

Posted by: oonogil7 | June 6, 2011, 7:59 am 7:59 am

I think Santorum could make a good president, but something he will inevitably say will make my gut wrench. Who are you to call gay people inferior? How can you selfishly say that gay people cannot get married at their local City Hall? Do you realize that the majority of Americans support marriage equality? The sanctity of marriage is between the two spouses, their higher power, and their own consciences. Why do you have to impose your own form of discrimination into your run for the White House? There are many Republicans who are pro-gay, my parents included. If they were alive today they would want me to have all the same benefits as they had in their life-long marriage. Please drop the discrimination and focus on jobs, including marriage planners and divorce lawyers, ha ha. Seriously, I hate to be the pawn used for vote-getting and money-raising. I’m sick of it.

Posted by: William Holahan | June 6, 2011, 8:07 am 8:07 am

LOL…LOL….and with all the “internal discord” on the “Right”…how do any of you who think that “Obama is bad for our country” think he can be beaten in 2012? It just proves how “out of touch” you all are. LOL…LOL He will win again and in his 2nd term will change this country EFFECTIVELY for the future of EVERYONE in this country…not just the RICHEST FEW.

Posted by: CND FOX | June 6, 2011, 8:13 am 8:13 am

Yippee! Another Fox Fear Factory candidate!
So why would anyone want this guy as our president? And don’t say ‘because he’s not a democrat’. Can anyone give us some solid reasons why he should get any consideration at all?

Posted by: Searambler | June 6, 2011, 8:17 am 8:17 am

I love Mr. Santorum’s comment about how Iran thinks President Obama is weak. This is the diference between President Obama and all the Republicans: he actually has a handle on how diplomacy works. Instead of going off on half-baked theories that later don’t hold up, President Obama actually thinks things through, and then acts. Ten years to get Bin Laden?

Posted by: Mike | June 6, 2011, 8:20 am 8:20 am

ITHOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT WHO CAN TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND,NOT ABOUT WHO CAN BEAT OBAMA.

Posted by: josephine shoemate | June 6, 2011, 8:20 am 8:20 am

@ CND FOX – Are you for real?
Were you in a coma during the 2010 elections?
I’ll tell you this much. If you want to keep your man (you’re a pure partisan – it shows) you are going to have to really work your butt off to keep him there.
You can’t ride the anti-Bush bus or the anti-war wagon and ride in to the White House on easy street.
Your man (Obama) is in trouble. Independents are running from him and so are Blue Dog Democrats. I don’t know if you can light the fires in those same people who normally never vote. They feel duped. “Hope and Change” to them meant “Obama money” (as the one lady put it). They all thought that electing Obama would be an instant thrust into the middle class for them.
I can see why in your first post on this blog that you name-call. You are upset and realize that Obama has lost millions of supporters, if not more. It is also very evident that you completely slept through 2010 elections.

Posted by: Kate | June 6, 2011, 8:28 am 8:28 am

America has NO place and NO time for ANYONE, including Santorum who is openly discrimantory. Filling the country with HATE adds is moral bankruptcy. We left this kind of idiocy behind. And his nonsense on health care is well out of date. As a Pennsylvanian and a Republican, we were very HAPPY TO SEE THE END OF SANTORUM. Get him off the national stage and send him away FOREVER.

Posted by: frank wade | June 6, 2011, 8:29 am 8:29 am

Can’t you interview a candidate without automatically attacking him “George”? What kind of back handed questions is this” Well, the people of PA didn’t elect you to the Senate why would American want you as president?” We see your liberal horns sticking up through your thick locks of hair!
Then you ask him about Palin just another attempt at attacking the right and making every single candidate other the Obama look bad in the public forum. Why not report the truth about our economy and why we need so desperately to replace the current President to save the country?

Posted by: Wayne Mich. | June 6, 2011, 8:30 am 8:30 am

I met this guy to discuss healthcare issues, he was uninformed and dumb as a box of rocks. Holy roller from hell.

Posted by: IckyIckyicky | June 6, 2011, 8:39 am 8:39 am

Seriously..Santorum another bible thumping, gay hater from the Repub party…I don’t think so…..

Posted by: Marsha | June 6, 2011, 8:41 am 8:41 am

…Just another right wing, religious idiot — he got trounced last time he tried to run for the Senate, and since he lost, he thinks he’s qualified for the presidency. What is it with republicans, that they think failure is a precursor for the presidency? SO, Palin can’t finish her term as governor…quit, and think the logical next step is being president????? This guy gets firmly trounced by the people who know his best, so he thinks, lost the senate..yup, i should be president.

Posted by: herewego again | June 6, 2011, 8:48 am 8:48 am

He’s on record for saying not ONLY goes he support the Ryan plan, he’d institute it NOW for ALL seniors AND he’s overhaul social security as well. So……he pushes for war with IRan, for Israel of course, we all know Jesus is coming so we have to get the Holyland ready, and while we do this, we throw all the seniors under the bus.

Posted by: herewego again | June 6, 2011, 8:51 am 8:51 am

Wow. He looks so normal.

Posted by: Christine | June 6, 2011, 8:52 am 8:52 am

Google problem.

Posted by: Bob Mugabe | June 6, 2011, 9:07 am 9:07 am

So this is where news of Sanctorum leaked out? How appropriate: Bottom Line! Santorum is always leaking out of my bottom line too!

Posted by: Judas Gutenberg | June 6, 2011, 9:08 am 9:08 am

Seems the Republican Platform is:
1) End Medicare
2) End Social Security
3) Dumb down Americans (cuz after all, Santorum says it’s the poor, uneducated seniors that will love not having Medicare)
4) Start war with Iran
5) Start war with Syria

Posted by: kclark | June 6, 2011, 9:08 am 9:08 am

He was a joke as a Pennsylvania Senator (hence the 18% LOSS against Casey). He’ll be an even bigger joke on the campaign trail (and that’s as far as he’ll get). Intellectually, he’s on par with Bachmann and Palin, and that’s somewhat insulting to those two.

Posted by: Bob | June 6, 2011, 9:13 am 9:13 am

George
I really wish you would have had the chance to ask Santorum why he said, over the weekend, that “America was only exceptional before the mid-60′s”
You know, BEFORE: Civil Rights Act was fully implemented into law.
I often wonder if Santorum, and people like him, are missing 98% of their brain cells and the 2% they have only allow them to walk and blather

Posted by: kclark | June 6, 2011, 9:25 am 9:25 am

LOL ANOTHER LOSER STIFF

Posted by: swl2010 | June 6, 2011, 9:28 am 9:28 am

he makes an announcement and supporters in the background. hmmmmmm.

Posted by: swl2010 | June 6, 2011, 9:29 am 9:29 am

There is a pretty good chance that in 2012 many voters will have had their fill of the petty name calling coming from the terrified lefties. Oh yes. They are terrified that their great liberal hope has been exposed as true small fry on the world stage and in U.S. economics. He sure can talk, though. Gotta give him that.

Posted by: n'erdowell | June 6, 2011, 9:35 am 9:35 am

Google Santorum. Hahaha! Jon Stewart is the man!

Posted by: Cece | June 6, 2011, 9:51 am 9:51 am

No surprise here. Another right-wing religious zealot totally out of touch with the rest of us. Santorum’s primary goal is to turn the U.S. into a Catholic theocracy. The man is a dangerous fanatic.

Posted by: Dr. Bubba | June 6, 2011, 9:52 am 9:52 am

Republicans continue to go after the elderly, middle-class and the poor, and all the while they continue to give the rich tax break after tax break. It’s easy to see which party works for the average American. For over a decade, we’ve been running our politics on fear and it’s disguising the actual problems we have as a nation, the four industries strangling our freedom are health care, banking, defense and energy. The GOP continue to yell and scream we have to cut Social Security and Medicare or the sky will fall! These are programs that the majority of the American people want; so why is the GOP not listening? Because they don’t have to worry about their health care or feeding themselves or putting a roof over their head as they grow old, their federal pension will take care of them for the rest of their lives. Republicans spent like crazy for 12 years now their solution is to defraud the American people. Go for it Rick; we need another con man in the race for president.

Posted by: T Trump | June 6, 2011, 10:41 am 10:41 am

LOL, yet another wack-job tossing their hat into the ring.. Obama must be loving it.

Posted by: JoshA | June 6, 2011, 10:43 am 10:43 am

move along NOTHING NEW TO SEE HERE.

Posted by: a sane txn | June 6, 2011, 10:55 am 10:55 am

I’d say the current GOP field is like the Seven Dwarfs but that would be insulting to cartoon characters everywhere.

Posted by: Diogeron | June 6, 2011, 11:01 am 11:01 am

Rick is a psychopath and stands no chance at winning the presidency. Wait until the whole country gets a load of his ‘holy war’ it’s ‘us against them,’ ‘believers vs non-believers’ rhetoric. He is as toxic a politician as I’ve ever seen. One of the few rebublicans (besides Palin) whose potential ascension to power is actually scary. This is a guy who would attempt to legislate morality on levels that even the right-wing in this country wouldn’t be comfortable with…

Posted by: Dr. Bubba | June 6, 2011, 11:03 am 11:03 am

Frothy!

Posted by: Von Cracker | June 6, 2011, 11:04 am 11:04 am

Add one more nut to the GOP fruitcake.
.

Posted by: us1776 | June 6, 2011, 11:10 am 11:10 am

LOL. Frothy-Mix is in the mix.

Posted by: ted | June 6, 2011, 11:14 am 11:14 am

Why is it the Republicans can’t accept any responsibility for their actions. If they same something stupid, (which is most of the time) it is always the presses fault. If they don’t know the answer to something, (which is most of the time) it is always a “gotcha” question. Then when they get caught re-writing history, (which is most of the time), they are being picked on and smeared by the liberal press. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Posted by: Archibald | June 6, 2011, 11:17 am 11:17 am

Apparently, intelligence isn’t a prerequisite to being a Republican candidate. Sure, he can quote partisan rhetoric, but this guy just isn’t bright. The same can be said for Bachman. Where do they find these calcified idiots?

Posted by: DaveM | June 6, 2011, 11:29 am 11:29 am

What a joke. Its either dopes like this or gimmicky idiocy. Obama has no competition that I can see.

Posted by: Angelgroove | June 6, 2011, 11:40 am 11:40 am

No thanks – he is just mudding the waters

Posted by: JNH | June 6, 2011, 11:41 am 11:41 am

This nutty man could not clear my credit report up when they declared me BANKRUPT. 6 months of trying and he could do nothing. I called Paul Kanjorski-the NEXT DAY Chase apologized to me, and the report was cleared up. He is an idiot in my view.

Posted by: Janice | June 6, 2011, 11:53 am 11:53 am

Wait…what? Another crazy republican running for president? Can’t the republicans field a sane candidate?

Posted by: Chupacabre | June 6, 2011, 12:17 pm 12:17 pm

The only upside I can see to this is that his so-called “Google problem” is about to get a whole log bigger!

Posted by: SAVAGEFAN | June 6, 2011, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm

Kate…in reply to youir 8:28…LOL…LOL…Time will tell won’t it? LOL…LOL…Anyone with a brain understands the “rtesults” of the 2010 mid-terms (initial change backlash). And the GOP will never ever be able to “recreate with lies” what they did over that two year period. And the “divisions” of the “Right”…have only grown deeper and wider and it will “manifest” itself in the 2012 election. LOL….Maybe I should ask you…if you are in a “coma” (or cocoon). LOL…LOL

Posted by: CND FOX | June 6, 2011, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

There are certainly a lot of Republican candidates throwing their hats in the ring. The jury is out on what this all means. My perspective is the GOP is trying to find a candidate who will best appeal to its broad spectrum of constituents. Rabid, right wing religious isn’t working for the highly populated bi-coastal states. Moderate candidates do not appeal to the Bible Belt. It will be interesting to see who the Republicans run for 2012. I do not see a Republican taking the presidency away from Obama, though.

Posted by: RohnertPark1 | June 6, 2011, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm

Rick Santorum did NOT get re-elected In PA for a reason HE did NOT listen to the voters of our state. Why he thinks he is presidential material is something this PA resident does not understand. He does what HE wants NOT what the voters want. Long before the election to be senator for Pennsylvania he had moved his family to another state to be close to his friends he was scared to be near the people who voted for him.

Posted by: Ohwhyme2002 | June 6, 2011, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

Rohnert Park 1….don’t be surprised if the “extremuists element” of the right doesn’t “run” their own candidate that will make that “loss” even more collosal. Then the GOP will have to make a choice….how do they ‘remake’ themselves. Because their “pander” to these extremes….surely isn’t working.

Posted by: CND FOX | June 6, 2011, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Another wing nut. Is there anyone in the Republican party besides the freaks anymore? Wants to get rid of social security AND begin the Ryan plan now for ALL seniors! Is the entire republican party TRYING to get obama re-elected?

Posted by: justsayn | June 6, 2011, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

Yippee, skippee, yawn.

Posted by: jan | June 6, 2011, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

Seriously, republicans usually have their fringe,but usually, there is at least ONE moderate normal person. Not so this time. NOT ONE. It’s pretty sad when the most normal republican is a mormon!!

Posted by: justsayn | June 6, 2011, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm

Baloney on the medicare D stuff. My mother who was an excellent money manager when she was younger was having a horrible time trying to figure out which Medicare D program to go with the first time she signed up. That might not be so bad but inevitably as people age their mental abilities start to weaken. Signing up for Medicare D and private insurance instead of Medicare for health care puts the elderly at a disadvantage that can be quite severe at times. And that is why Santorum, Bush, Obama, and all the rest of the D.C.’ites are wrong when they start talking about privatizing healthcare for the elderly. They are deliberately putting the elderly out in the open market to be preyed upon.

Posted by: jan | June 6, 2011, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

You mean the others aren’t out to win?

Posted by: Thomas | June 6, 2011, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm

“We’re ready to announce that we are going to be in this race and we’re in it to win,” Rick Santorum told me.
Who is running with him?

Posted by: kcbrady | June 6, 2011, 1:19 pm 1:19 pm

Rick Santorum doesn’t have the maturity and discipline required of someone who is supposed to represent all the people of the USA.
He’s just another radical crazy in an expensive suit.
Ron Paul sometimes comes close but then he back-steps and says something embarrassing.
Sorry, but I just don’t see any well-reasoned, diplomaticly mature choices from the GOP yet.

Posted by: KsDevil | June 6, 2011, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

No contenders here.

Posted by: naturalcuriosity | June 6, 2011, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

I had rather put lassie in the white house then another 4 years of Obama..we need change and not his kind of change we need change in the white house….the woman that said in the interview that Obama was going to pay her mortage…did yu receive your check yet????lol not in a million years …
I have to admit I feel for those lines also..but we all make mistakes

Posted by: Sadie | June 6, 2011, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

My mom is elderly, and she’s not exactly mentally sharp enough to be told to ‘shop around’ for healthcare and compare plans and here’s your voucher, and your copay and compare plans and out of pocket expenses, oh, and he wants to cut her social security, and as she ages, more and more plans will not cover her unless there are insanely high deductibles, or they’ll have a million and one reasons for denying coverage, here is your 30 page handout explaining what we cover, or do not, and all the little crappy things we’re going to try to weasle out of covering you. YOu’re only, what, 85? Think they’ll be able to pull one over on her??? I can see her staying home sick and refusing to go to the doctor because she wont understand her medical insurance and is afraid to use it. And if things cost moer than the voucher, well, then, you die. What human being would ever think throwing the elderly under the bus is the way to save a buck??? Sick.

Posted by: justsayn | June 6, 2011, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

had rather put lassie in the white house —-really? Well that says you’re willing to throw the country under the bus. last time we had a complete idiot in the white house the economy fell, off the cliff and unemployment was going up a percent PER MONTH, our largest 6 banks were going down in net 30, we were nanometers away from bank runs, and DEEP DEEP Depression. maybe you’d prefer 30% unemployment to 9%, but not the rest of us. Republicans do not get in the white house until you actually present the country with a candidate who has a brain.

Posted by: justsayn | June 6, 2011, 1:38 pm 1:38 pm

Republicans have this delusion that nothing can get worse, so put in the biggest bible thumping radical wing nut you can find and spend your entire time obessing about abortion and gays. You dont think 25% unemployment happens????? It does. It did. Hoover took 9% unemployment, obessing over the same thing the republicans are now, and he turned it into 25% unemployment while KILLING the banks and just sitting there and doing NOTHING while they fell, and then the bank runs ,and everyone lost everything they had. ya think that isn’t worse???? and what is the difference between Herbert Hoover and today’s republicans????? Nothing.

Posted by: justsayn | June 6, 2011, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Rick “man on dog” Santrorum has about as much chance of becoming President as … well, my dog.

Posted by: mcflyer54 | June 6, 2011, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Oh, please, another career Republican seeking to exploit imagined and unreasonable paranoia simply because he is too scared to make a living off the market forces he constantly shoves down the throats of the rest of us.
And if Bush were still in office, I’d have just landed on some government watch list for making that comment.
Secede already, red states. The American people are SICK of you, and the blue states are tired of funding you.

Posted by: Chantel | June 6, 2011, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

You do realize the only sane republicans candidate..is a mormon. boy does that say volumes about what has happened to the republican party.

Posted by: justsayn | June 6, 2011, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm

Secede already, red states.—no kidding, huh???? We dont have that moral dilemna of knowing if you go, you take legalized slavery with you, so by all means, dont let the door hit you in the arse on your way out! We dont need you, we dont like you, and you only drag us down.

Posted by: justsayn | June 6, 2011, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

One good thing – Pretty soon FOX won’t have any contributors left ;D Seriously, I have tried to look into this guy – not with Google. He is so uninformed on so many issues. His Ultra conservative, positions are crazy [umm he lost because Penn voters saw he was nuts and held positions on foreign Policy, Gay Rights, Abortion, etc] that even some conservatives can’t match. I am not sure even the Puritans could pass this man’s litmus test! Medicare D is a prime example of being out of touch.

Posted by: kay | June 6, 2011, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm

I bet all the people out there that are unemployed right now had jobs when Bush was president…now do you want to be unemplyed 4 more years?

Posted by: Sadie | June 6, 2011, 1:53 pm 1:53 pm

It is amazing to see this many fools post in support of Obama…Tell me 3 things he has done since he has been in office….

Posted by: Sadie | June 6, 2011, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

Obama has done nothing good. He spent Trillions in his first two years, on what, nothing. Cash for clunkers??? LOL! LOL! LOL!
Oh how about that “we have to pass it to find out what’s in it” health care fiasco? LOL! LOL! LOL!
Did he end the wars? Nope. Don’t hear much about the death toll with Obama in office do we. Hmmmm How about those pinko America haters and their war protests? where are they now? LOL! LOL! LOL! War protesters are nothing other than partisan hacks. The proof of that is right now, or has been Obama’s entire term.
Let’s see….what else has the One done? Oh yeah, held a beer summit and called the cops stupid. He thanked himself for being invited to the white house. He used a teleprompter to speak to 6th graders. This list is but just the tip of the iceberg with that clown.

Posted by: Kate | June 6, 2011, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm

CND_FOX…so what is “reality” to you, CND? Continued high unemployment, $4+ gas, anemic growth, zero foreign policy direction, three wars. This is a reality most Americans can do without. I guess conservatives who believe in limited government (i.e., fiscally and socially responsible) are just whack jobs, right? I just don’t see how wanting to preserve the Republic is a bad thing.

Posted by: s | June 6, 2011, 2:56 pm 2:56 pm

In June 2006, badly trailing in the Senate race he lost that year, Rick held a press conference in which he declared that he had found the WMD…

Posted by: MikeW67 | June 6, 2011, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

“S”…how “high” did you want the unemployment to go? How can the unemployment rate go down as long as the “unfair tax structure” that the GOP supports allows their biggest contibutors to subjugate cheaper labor? Have you talked to your GOP reps and asked them why they keep supporting oil subsidies when these ******** are reporting record profits?
I’d say there is a vastly “other” side
to the story than you are willing to
admit or relate to.

Posted by: CND FOX | June 6, 2011, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Mr. Santorum seems to think all low income seniors are not well educated. Let me tell you many of us are well educated.
He also thinks the Medicare Part D was not forced upon us – we all had to enroll or pay a penalty. And we don’t all love it as he says. It helps, that is true, but the way it is set up is a big headache.

Posted by: Martha | June 6, 2011, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

T Trump, your 10:41 comment was right on the mark. Republicans must think American voters have the shortest of memories and don’t care about the elderly.

Posted by: Lydia | June 6, 2011, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

momma always said stupid is as stupid does run ricky run .when pigs fly santorum will have a shot at president!

Posted by: herbert juarez | June 6, 2011, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm

It’s way to early for all of this campaign crap. One year is enough time to make a point. Two years is rediculous.

Posted by: howdymo | June 6, 2011, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm

Shame on George for allowing Santorum to blatantly lie about Medicare Advantage and the Ryan Medicare Plan. The federal government pays a premium over standard medicare rates to insurance companies for medicare advantage (and has found that it is a waste of money). The Ryan plan cuts the voucher amount and never increases it.What is the use of having an interviewer if he isn’t capable of basic fact checking?

Posted by: GailT | June 6, 2011, 10:40 pm 10:40 pm

Rick Santorum is a decent and principled person and he has something to contribute to this country. Unfortunately, he won’t be able to get the GOP nomination or win in the general election against Pres. Obama. He’s been vilified and ridiculed by the media and the left for far too long, it would take tremendous effort for him to make any headway beyond the prevailing memes about him.

Posted by: The New Conservative Journal | June 6, 2011, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

Duck, Duck, Duck, Duck goose…(: This guy I saw last week at my cousins church. & he tried too be so prim & proper during the service. Sarah Palin & her Paul Revere story. I definitely think she is a loose -cannon. Sincerely, concerned Republician

Posted by: Faceman | June 8, 2011, 1:50 am 1:50 am

A HUGE number of the hundreds of thousands who become US Citizens this year are registering to vote as DEMOCRATS! That happened with 2008 and will again continue in Obama’s favor ( myself included in 2012 ).

Posted by: Songstar | June 28, 2011, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

The Republican Caucus of the US House of Representatives is guilty of High Treason. They all took an oath of office: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God. ” If the Republicans in Congress allow our Country to default on our debt obligations they should all be arrested and tried for High Treason!

Posted by: Dennis | July 25, 2011, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm

Hey, why can’t I open your page in Safari?

Posted by: makeityourring diamond engagement rings | October 2, 2011, 11:31 am 11:31 am

Продам краску ПФ-115, эмаль, и лаки.

Posted by: AMBUMBPLEATLY | October 19, 2011, 4:07 am 4:07 am

Awesome article! I’m now starting out in social media optimization and now we’re wanting to understand how to fully capitalize on Facebook Marketing for our small business.

Thanks for the information!

Posted by: ThurryCrolo | February 13, 2012, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Leave a Reply

Do you have more information about this topic? If so, please click here to contact the editors of ABC News.