Two Republican groups bypass Santorum's campaign (Giving up on Lil'Ricky)

[jefferson_dem]

Two Republican groups bypass Santorum's campaign
Friday, October 13, 2006

BY BRETT LIEBERMAN
Of Our Washington Bureau

National Republican leaders remain hopeful that U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum can turn around his struggling campaign, but they might have already written off the Pennsylvania race to Democrat Robert P. Casey Jr., if their checkbooks are any indication.

Neither the National Republican Committee nor the National Republican Senatorial Committee has reserved time at Pennsylvania television stations for "independent expenditure" ads supporting Santorum, R-Pa. Neither committee has spent any money on such ads for Santorum, the GOP's No. 3 leader in the Senate.

Independent expenditures are advertisements done without the knowledge or approval of a candidate's campaign.

The national committees' spending in Pennsylvania is only a fraction of what is being spent in Ohio, Tennessee and Missouri in what they are calling a firewall strategy to limit Democrats' gains next month.

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In contrast, the RNC and NRSC have spent more than $8 million to help Sen. Mike DeWine in Ohio, and $3.3 million for Sen. Jim Talent in Missouri.

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http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1160706338241210.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

[modrepub]

1. Nobody loves me

WAAAAAAA!

[Selatius]

2. Santorum did it to himself

The entire system sucks. The rules of the game have been so stacked that I hear the incumbency rate is as high as 98 percent, so if you are given that kind of odds, and you still lose, you truly are pathetic excuse of a public servant.

[central scrutinizer]

3. BTW - the Santorum google bomb still works

google santorum and hit "i'm feeling lucky"

[AlinPA]

4. Santorum will be into the slime and will go negative more than he is now;

he looked almost rabid last night and appeared very frustrated in his closing remarks in the debate.