Santorum's problem is that he's not nearly extreme enough for the current GOP, but he's still way too insane for the average voter.

Domage writes: "t he's not nearly extreme enough for the current GOP,"

-And that's exactly why, at the GOP conrention, ex senator (In)Santorum picks, as his Vice President. . .wait for it. . .ex-governor Sar-. . .

i'm a duck man myself -- how they do against purdue last night?-- but that beaver could probably take out santorum nicely...

The highlight of the 2006 election for me (a Pa. resident) was the networks calling Casey the winner over Santorum at 8:30 p.m., a mere half hour after the polls closed. The thought of little Ricky being the GOP nominee in 2012 is hysterical. He won't be able to win his home state or his hometown. I'm sure the fact that he ripped off his home school district outside of Pittsburgh for his homeschooled kids living in Virginia will be brought up during the campaign. As a Democrat, I look forward to a Santorum campaign. The GOP just gets crazier.

My personal prediction: Santorum's (potential) run will end as well as Palin's. The actual heavy hitter GOPer, come 2012, will be (former) Gen. Betrayus.

The impetus will be thus: Iraq is degenerating fairly nicely of late but the REAL kicker will be Afghanistan, which is a total lost cause. It is going to be a big anchor tied to Obama (it really is going to be for him LBJ's Vietnam). The fact is that Afghanistan is NOT going to go well. The other fact is that the GOP is going to blame Obama for "losing both wars". The automatic magic GOP candidate will be Betrayus and it will be under the argument that "Obama lost the wars that Betrayus won!"

It will only be 50% accurate but that is going to be the argument and Obama is stuck with it. BUSH lost both wars by 1) Blowing off Afghanistan almost immediately so he could go off and 2) initiate an illegal and total bullshit war in Iraq. BUSH'S doing this produced the inevitable result that both wars would quagmire and go south regardless of who was subsequently in office. Obama blew both by making both his own. In spite of running in opposition to the Iraq Debacle, he has taken full ownership of it and as the violence escalates with US withdrawal, he is inevitably going to take the heat.

As for Afghanistan, Bush totally destroyed any chance of any real claim of success there by blowing it off to begin with and then simply stretching it out, which now Obama is happy to do indefinitely. Obama COULD simply declare "victory" in Afghanistan because Al Qaeda is not a big player there anymore but he wont because he has now placed the Taliban on an equal target pedestal with Al Qaeda. We cannot win against the Taliban anymore than we could the combatants in the CIVIL war in Vietnam.

Obama is going to eat lots of shit on both Iraq and Afghanistan and this will play, falsely and unfairly, in Betrayus' favor. Obama will have "lost the war(s) that Betrayus won" and that will be that. Combined with Obama's neoliberal love affair with Wall Street, big bankers, big pharma, and big insurance, and he has nothing of value to stand head and tail above his future opponent. Obama is (deservedly) fucked.

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Subtle innuendos follow
There must be something inside

We don't follow fashion
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When they saw you kneeling
Crying words that you mean
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Pretending that you're Al Green Al Green

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I hope that Republicans either entertain us wonderfully with the entire asylum running for president or let one of their three or four sane folks become the nominee. I'm not worried either way. Republicans are doing everything possible to assure Obama's re-election.

I hope that Republicans either entertain us wonderfully with the entire asylum running for president or let one of their three or four sane folks become the nominee.

Not gonna happen! Since the party is now down to the Rush Limbaugh/Glenn Beck core, it is no longer mathematically possible for a non-insane Republican to win the primaries and thus become the candidate.

Sanctorum is just what the coalition of theocrats and plutocrats want.

ex-senator frothy mix to run for president?
he'd have my prayers... if i prayed.

Gotta have a real religious whack somewhere in the ticket, maybe Coburn for VP behind Romney

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Mackinnon says Santorum represents much of what's wrong with the Republican party today--which implies that he has many potential supporters in its ranks, He also says that he's concerned most about Santorum's lack of character. But that's a deficiency that didn't stand int the way of the nomination of a presidential candidate in 2000 nor a vice-presidential in 2008.

In today's Republican party, especially among those likely tot turn out today to demonstrate and in spring 2012 to vote, Santorum may have a pretty good shot.

Of COURSE Santo's keeping his terminally-silly presidential election hopes alive--after all he's the guy who brought the corpse of his still-born child home for a few days so the family could get to know it.

The "hate-mongering" style embraced by the Republicans in the August town hall meetings must have turned Rick on again.
He would fit in well with those wack-jobs.
He should bring Palin back as his VP candidate.
I once wrote a letter to his office on a serious issue. I received the most wordy response avoiding the whole issue.
Rick gives religious beliefs a bad name.
I could NEVER understand how he was elected Senator in the first place.
Rick STAY with your right wing job; that is where you belong !

Of course santorum is dangerous -- who knows what kind of bacteria is in that frothy mix?

Sorry, I couldn't resist!

Oh come on...Santorum may have some chance of getting the nomination, I don't have a clue what goes on in wingnut-land, but worrying about him actually being elected president is absurd. He has a trail of crazy so long that even the average voter would find him suspect.

Speaking to a room full of prominent US Catholic leaders Friday night, Senator Rick Santorum

So man-on-dog was talking to men-on-boys.

The man brought a miscarried fetus into his home in order that his children be "permitted" to say goodbye to it. Not even republicans could fail to be creeped out over that.

I wonder if he buckled it in a car seat.

Santorum is very scary. He's stupid, amoral, in love with himself, and incapable of holding a real job, not to mention his negatives.

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