So, with my only 45 minutes of free time today, I watched Meet the Press and was left speechless after the Rick Santorum interview. I really can’t believe that the GOP seems to be turning to that clown. I don’t know what made me feel that way today more than before. The talking points were largely the same, but he sounded more confident and determined than ever.
Maybe it’s this string of southern primaries and caucuses? Or maybe it’s the fact that one only has to drive through the state of Kansas, observing the hyper religious pro-life signs all over the sides of the roads, to realize that, yes, there is a religious-right in the Republican party who really thinks Mitt’s religion is so untenable they’d vote for a washed up Senator who couldn’t post a win in his own district or a deluded old Speaker who seems to be marauding the countryside looking for a second shot in the post-neocon era, despite what any numbers seem to say.
And that same religious right would go so far as to make this election about social issues – when the winning strategy was clearly to make this about economics.
Look, I think Mitt is a clown in his own way as well, but much less of a clown than those two. I even consider Ron Paul less of a clown than Santorum and Gingrich.
But here’s my real question when it comes to this whole process: When is the Republican party going to stop shooting itself in the foot and start making President Obama run for reelection? The longer this draws out, the more rope the challengers are giving the President to hang them with, and the more President Obama goes laughing to the bank.
It’s a well-known fact that independents and moderates in a few critical states (which BTW, Santorum is terribly weak in) are the only way to win in the fall. The GOP needs to realize that they aren’t getting that vote with Santorum; the guy who has completely alienated that demographic AND the women voters as well.
Right now, I see very little chance for a GOP win in the fall. People are talking about how the GOP convention will be a “reset” for the nominee, but I don’t think so. I think in Romney you have a base that will be less motivated to turn out, and in Santorum or Gingrich you will have a critical group of voters completely turned off from them as a Presidential candidate.
…Just my humble opinion…
I find this funny because I just said this exact same thing to my husband last Thursday. All that matters are the moderate conservatives/independents/swing states and Santorum and Gingrinch are not going to get their vote. Let’s end this, pick a candidate and start running against Obama instead of each other.
A1’s friend here (don’t you just love it when random people blog hop onto your blog!). My hubby and I feel the same way. I really don’t know if either of us can vote Repub. if it isn’t Mitt or Ron. The economy should be a completely winning issue for the Repubs, but the Dems were smart enough to distract with the social issues. During the debate when George Steph… asked the question about birth control we were scratching our heads. Gotta hand it to the Dems…they did a great job changing our focus.