Did Santuorum just end his political career This morning?

[Justice wanted]

I wasn't able to play the clip until a few minutes ago. (I posted a thread about Santorum doesn't believe in an absolute seperation of church) I manage to hear it on this link.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/26/santorum-jfks-secularism-makes-me-throw-up/


Can anyone - ANYONE-actually take him as a serious candidate?

[Faygo Kid]

1. If the GOP nuts haven't dumped him by now, they're not likely to do it.

As Ed Koch said today, he's nuts. That makes him one of them, which can only help his chances.

I think he loses my home state of Michigan, though. It's not normally a state that goes heavily for nuts, although in a GOP primary, who knows?

[ananda]

21. A great majority of Reeps who are still Reeps . . .

are nuts... and very very stoopid.

[pubsrpigs]

2. Ricky, Mitt, Paul, Newt can spew what they want

it does not matter the base will lap it up.

Whom ever wins the Repuke Nomination will get a minimum of 43-48 million votes guaranteed.

Obama Derangement Syndrome is very strong this year.

[unblock]

3. how is this different from anything else they've said about it in the last decade?

or arguably since the 1950s?

[DCBob]

4. Santorum was already looking like a defeated candidate this morning.

I think he knows the jig is up.

[MADem]

5. Yes--he touched the third rail--he shit on JFK! But vote for him anyway in the MI open primary!

We want Mittsy panicked and exhausted by the time he hits the convention...

[Autumn]

6. No. the pukes will lap it up like cream.

It will increase his standing with the idiots.

[GoCubsGo]

8. Yep, sad to say.

Had he been that vocal when he was here in South Carolina, he very well may have beat out Newt.

[saras]

7. Have you never HEARD of Santorum? He's ALWAYS been this way, and that IS his success.

Why do you think he got named after a mixture of shit and anal lube anyways? He's been a raving idiot in office for a long time, and he's not saying anything very far from what he's always said.

[Justice wanted]

12. Yes. He unfortunately was my Rep (PA) I've just never heard him THIS crazy before.

[ibegurpard]

9. if only

[Peregrine Took]

10. He sounded crazed - like he was out of control. Constant motormouth wouldn't stop

for a second and listen. He is so defensive.

[RebelOne]

11. Yes, he just seemed to go on and on.

Especially when he said he wanted to throw up at Obama's stance on college education and at JFK's speech.

[The Genealogist]

13. When does he NOT sound crazed and out of control

Remember when the media ended Howard Dean's campaign due to "the scream?" And the Ayatollah gets away with saying all sorts of heinous things.

[AlinPA]

17. I've watched him here in PA for a long time; he was more out of control than ever this morning.

It's like something snapped in him.

[grantcart]

14. He just pushed it to minute 13

[Initech]

15. If he doesn't believe in separation of church and state, he's not fit for office.

[The Genealogist]

16. I imagine this morning's little outburst will not change things much

Shitting on JFK is probably going to make Dems, especially those who lived through his presidency and his assassination, angry. It will probably bring more support for President Obama from those same people. But others? It'll turn off moderates and independents who respect JFK's memory and what he stood for. It will probably rankle even some moderate Republicans. But the angry base? The ones who despise people like JFK and what he stood for, will be empowered further. Lots of RWers hated JFK.

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. Some GOPers would love him even more

[fascisthunter]

19. all sane people.... a very small but deep pocketed minority

feels, a majority isn't necessary to win elections, thanks to Bush.

[DefenseLawyer]

20. Santorum is enjoying the ride on the gravy train to Fox News

He's seen the numbers, he knows it's a goddamn miracle that he has made it this far and due to a perfect storm of incompetence and lunacy he's got a shot at the nomination. But nobody that can read is telling him he can win. There's no upside for him to move to the center and to stop saying crazy things. His long term future lies in getting rich being a guy who says crazy things, not in being leader of the free world.

[Zambero]

22. It ended in 2006

It's becoming abundantly clear why a lopsided majority of Pennsylvanians no longer wanted this freak representing them in the U.S. Senate. Santorum is now providing a larger national audience with even more reasons to steer clear of him, and doing so on a daily basis.

[wandy]

23. Rick Santorum is a raveing mad man. n/t

[Odin2005]

24. No, there are plenty of ignorant people that agree with him.

[sarcasmo]

25. The clown car is going to have a flat tire at the convention.

[LynneSin]

26. Are you kidding? Santorum isn't in this to be president. Seriously!

There is big money in being a political hotshot for the rightwing groups like the Tea Party and Fundamentalist Xtians. But being a failed senator who lost by 18 points his last election won't get you the big speaking fees or book deals.

Santorum is going to become plenty rich after this GOP primary is finished. He knows that being a politician will never get him rich but being a crazy republican candidate for president will rake in the big bucks.

I swear everytime he gets ahead in the polls he finds even crazier things to say. Proof he doesn't want to win this but unfortunately not too many candidates left in the GOP field and they are all whack

[reACTIONary]

27. I was hoping S. would end his political carrer AFTER getting the nomination! (NT)