Rick Santorum Says Mitt Romney Is ‘Desperate’; GOP Contest Will Be ‘Two Person Race’ By March
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Still riding high off of his three-win streak in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado last week, Rick Santorum blasted Republican rival Mitt Romney on Sunday, saying the GOP frontrunner was getting “desperate” by trying to paint Santorum as anything less than a true conservative.
“For him to suggest that I’m not the conservative in this race — you know, there’s — you reach a point where desperate people do desperate things,” Santorum told me on “This Week.”
Santorum’s comments were in response to statements Romney made earlier in the week that both Santorum and his fellow GOP rival Newt Gingrich are “Republicans who acted like Democrats.”
“That’s pretty funny for Mitt Romney saying I’m acting like a Democrat,” Santorum said Sunday. “Another candidate has come up to challenge him, and this time he’s having trouble finding out how to go after someone who is a solid conservative, who’s got a great track record of attracting Independents and Democrats and winning states as a conservative.”
Santorum said that despite his third place finish in the Maine caucus on Saturday, he expects to “do exceptionally well” in the Arizona and Michigan primaries the end of the month. The former Pennsylvania Senator his strong showing in the next two contests would make the GOP nomination a “two person race.”
Santorum credited Romney’s success thus far not to his policies or record, but to his fundraising prowess. Romney currently leads Santorum in the delegate count 105 delegates to Santorum’s 71 delegates.
“He’s been able to win in these early primary states by, you know, beating the tar out of his opponents by four- and five-to-one on television,” Santorum said. “Well, of course, in the fall, he’s not going to have the most money.”
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LOL…this sounds a lot of same stuff Newt was spouting a few weeks agao?? A Bigot will not win nomination!
Posted by: Rick | February 12, 2012, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
And how does this “conservative” plan to do anything in Washington if the House and Senate are not? One has to remember that Mitch McConnell’s infamous December 2008 “…we will do everything to insure that this is a one-term President and oppose anything he initiates…” can be a real “ball buster” to anyone. Republican spin is spin and so is Democratic spin – but reality is clearly showing that the Washington collective does not have it’s eye on America. It has it’s eye on winning is everything when it really is nothing. Zilch, zero.
Posted by: ICanTellYouTheTime | February 12, 2012, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
i8 would like to know why santorium lost his bid to be re-elected to a third term.he got beat by the biggest lopsided margin that any incumbant in history.did the voters in penn. catch on to what he had been upto?
Posted by: guy | February 12, 2012, 3:12 pm 3:12 pm
“Romney currently leads Santorum in the delegate count 105 delegates to Santorum’s 71 delegates.” Lol, Santorum has about 9 delegates confirmed last I heard (yesterday). These numbers are baseless projections, don’t get goofy on us, abc.
Posted by: Matthew | February 12, 2012, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm
If he is so honest, and his wife helped write the book “It Takes a Family,” why is she not listed as a co-author. The man to beat Obama will not be using anyone as a shield for his opinion’s.
Posted by: chachito | February 12, 2012, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
Pro-union, pro-earmark, pro-Washington. . . Yep sounds like a conservative to me.
Posted by: Michael | February 12, 2012, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
Face it.
Mitt Romney is according to Jack Welch former CEO or General Electric “The Most Quailified Candidate in my Lifetime to run for President”.
The Real “anybody but Romney” is BIGOTRY toward Mr. Romney’s Faith. Evangelicals meet privately in Texas before the South Carolina primary to try to derail him….That was Bigotry. South Carolinain’s selecting a Morally bankrupt Newt Gingrich over Romney was another attempt to derail him. Santorum who was nowhere until a week before the Iowa vote was the beneficiary of the Iowa attempt to derail him.
Republican’s Ann Coulter is Right….to beat Barrak Obama you MUST win the Independant Voters. Santorum who may sound your Social platforms IS NOT ELECTABLE. Newt Gingrich is FLAWED and not ELECTABLE.
Stop the Bigotry and get behind Mitt Romney or get 4 more years of a Closet Muslim who hates Jews and Wall Street.
Posted by: ron | February 13, 2012, 2:33 am 2:33 am
The one thing I don’t really understand is why the GOP doesn’t understand that they have a major, major internal problem within thier Party with the ‘conservative extremist’ fault line. I don’t see how they will ‘bridge’ that gap for this November. And then…they will be faced with an ‘extremeless makeover’ of major proportions after the election. They simply ‘pandered’ too long to the wrong element in our country. The ‘extremes’ of the social, religious and fiscal world’.
Posted by: CND FOX | February 13, 2012, 8:16 am 8:16 am
Make Obama a one-term President, vote Rommney 2012!!
Posted by: Gunner_1959 | February 13, 2012, 8:26 am 8:26 am
LOL…I just saw the poll numbers and I was going to say “I just can’t believe” that GOP supporters would support this clown….and then I started thinking about what I have blogged for almost 2 years. That there is a ‘definite fault line’ in the GOP that will tear their Party apart at the seams. And LOL….along comes Santorum. A candidate with virtually NO chance in a national election. And ZLOL…a sizeable size of the Party is supporting him! LOL….go figure.
Posted by: CND FOX | February 13, 2012, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm
Sorry Mr Santorum!! I’ve figured out your strategy!! Don’t you know that only the really “desperate” candidates make a statement like that about the other people that they are running against. Mitt Romney is my choice this November!!
Posted by: rev1981 | February 17, 2012, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm