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GOLDEN, Colo. -- Rick Santorum is fighting back after a barrage of attacks from rival Mitt Romney ahead of three primary season contests that could give the former Pennsylvania senator his best day on the campaign trail since winning the Iowa caucus.
"Gov. Romney, on that vitally important issue of ObamaCare, is in fact the weakest candidate that we could put up," Santorum told reporters after a speech here at the Colorado School of Mines. "Campaigns are about ideas, and on the ideas that matter most to the American people right now, he's on the wrong side."
Santorum traveled to Colorado after a morning speech where he delivered a blistering critique of the health care law Romney signed as governor of Massachusetts. A policy, Santorum says, that forced individuals to become dependent on government and was the basis for the law President Obama signed in 2010.
For a candidate who has not finished better than third since winning Iowa, Santorum has received an unusually high amount of attention from the frontrunner. Opposition emails from the Romney camp and conference calls with surrogates have bashed Santorum for his record on earmarks and his 2008 endorsement of his now rival.
It is no coincidence that the attacks come just one day before the Colorado and Minnesota caucuses and Missouri primary -- all states where Santorum is showing strength and may even have a chance to win.
He'll watch returns Tuesday night in Missouri, whose non-binding contest will not have Newt Gingrich on the ballot, and where campaign advisers say he'll show his strength against Romney in a field without Gingrich.
"Our hope is that conservatives who are stepping back and looking at the race and making the same calculation that I've just made that a Romney nomination would not be in the best interest of us winning the general election and we need to have a conservative alternative," he said.
"My feeling is that Speaker Gingrich sort of had his chance in the arena and came up short in Florida and Nevada and now it's our turn hopefully to get a one-on-one in Missouri, which we have."
Monday's address on health care was the second time in as many weeks that the Santorum camp has billed a campaign stop as a major health care speech. The former Massachusetts governor's support of a health care bill containing a mandate has been a term the GOP presidential hopeful brings out almost daily on the campaign trail. It's a message that has not been received well since the Hawkeye State, but Romney attacks show neighboring states like Minnesota may be tuning in.
But Santorum dismissed any criticisms that his attacks could do nothing more than bring down the eventual nominee.
"Let me assure you that the president will do a much better job and a much, much, much more caustic job of doing that than I will, which is just basically talking about his record and that's all I talk about and I suspect the president will embellish that quite a bit more than I have," said Santorum.
But he did not rule out sharing a ticket with a man he has fiercely criticized throughout his campaign. "I'm not going to run as a third party, but I will do whatever I can to make sure Barack Obama is not the next president of the United States," he said.
~~~Rick needs to light a fire under his ass but he clearly has some family concerns he has had to deal with and I commend him for that. He is now my favorite GOP candidate although some of his views on gays and contraception are far too right for me.
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Just Google his name.
Rick Santorum Electrifies a Black Church Audience
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I think it is to late for Santorum to come back. Romney has the momentum and more importantly the money. The way he buried Gingrich in Florida is his blue print for future states if the race gets tight again. I don't think anyone in the GOP field can topple him when he outspends them 5 to 1.
Not so fast....
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/...medium=twitter
Mitt Romney may be the GOP frontrunner, but Rick Santorum is all set to have a great night in Tuesday’s primaries. A new poll by Public Policy Polling shows Santorum with a large lead over Romney in Missouri (45 to 32 percent) and a significant lead in Minnesota (33 to 24 percent). Santorum trails only in one of Tuesday night’s three states, Colorado, where Romney leads by 10 percent. “Rick Santorum has the potential to firmly establish himself as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney today,” said Dean Debnam, the president of the polling group.
InSaneTorum won't ever be the nominee, just like Noot and Ayn Rand's Man. The Repug powers don't want them, the 1% won't finance them.
It's media fluff trying to up viewership (ad buys). America is for sale, and elections are businesses.
Santorum wins Missouri and Minnesota. This is not good for Willard.
Santorum, at least in some photos, reminds me of Tim Donaghy. [/randomness]
Santorum and Willard are neck and neck in Colorado. He is also changing his tone and is now going to attack Obama in his speech.
The biggest beneficiary of the latest job numbers isn't President Obama...it's this guy. If the economy is less of an issue going into the general election, then the nominee needs to be able to draw stark contrast on others issues. Both Paul and Santorum accomplish that, but only Santorum has a foreign policy view that's acceptable to the Republican base.
We may be seeing a real shift in the direction of the Republican electorate.
Republicans are still stupid. At least in the Midwest.
"real shift in the direction of the Republican electorate."
Polls show that poor (registered?) Repugs think govt should be doing more to help them, not less. Richer, sociopathic Repugs are the ones that want less help for the poor (Repugs).
iow, "we got ours, all y'all"
Repug people want the EPA untouched, Repug politicians want the EPA disbanded.
Frankly, Barry just needs to say "I killed OBL" and that just s on anything foreign policy these guys can throw at him.
Ultimately, whoever wins the GOP nomination will have to lean to the middle, and that's why Santorum is less of a desirable candidate than Romney.
But Santorum can say he made sure we looked all over Iraq for Osama.
Looks like he nailed Colorado too...
Looks like Bush is the gold standard Republican since Santorum is no different.
I'm not sure Santorum is worse than Romney. They'll just bankrupt us for different reasons and at different rates.
I think Obama will bury either of them. I hope. And at this moment that's like hoping for a group of bees in your pants instead of a rattlesnake.
Bush sucked ass and he ed up America pretty bad but at least he got done when he was president. When he had an idea even if it was a stupid idea, he got it done. The same can't be said for Obama.
2012 will probably be like 2004 with both candidates sucking ass and voters will use the lesser of two evils or which one will up the country less.
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What a stupid statement. What Dumbya got done screwed America for years to come.
Did you take a xanex before you posted this?
Santorum would be worse than Bush.
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