Santorum: "It's the most important election since Abraham Lincoln..."

[Skidmore]

That's what he told Iowans yesterday. New dogwhistle to racists everywhere?

http://easterniowagovernment.com/2011/04/26/gop-hopeful-santorum-woos-cedar-rapids-republicans/

I want that jerk out of my state.

[Bicoastal]

1. Sigh, they're ALWAYS "the most important election"...

Whatever. Santorum was Santorum in 2006, and was promptly bounced out of office in spite of--or perhaps because of--such fire-and-brimstone talk.

A loser, in other words. Republicans hate losers. Guy doesn't have a prayer.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Is he suggesting/threatening

"Civil War remedies" if Republican rule isn't restored after the next election? :shrug:

[SpiralHawk]

3. Abe is a D this time around

[OHdem10]

4. For Democrats it will be the most important. We have now seen

the Republican's hand. Should they win, we will not
recognize this country.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. I'm not sure it will play down south, they are still pissed about that whole Lincoln thing

[cordelia]

7. Broad brush much?

[Motown_Johnny]

8. you are right, I should have said it would not play with Republicans

but I assumed that was implied.


My apologies

[Enthusiast]

11. It happens to be true.

Unfortunate but true. Any polls on how the Southern people of today view Lincoln? I bet over 50% feel he was a terrible president. Most Southerners today refer to the American Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression. I think this reveals the Southern sentiment.

I do wonder how long slavery would have lasted if we had not waged the civil war. I wonder if we would have still been debating the Southern State's right to own slaves around the time of the civil rights marches of the 1960s. What would have happened if George McClellan won the presidency? Would slavery still exist?

[Smarmie Doofus]

6. That's the great-grandmother of all political cliches.

Did he also say that the country was at a "crossroads"?

[elocs]

9. For those thinking of sitting out the 2012 election: you don't want what we now have in Wisconsin

on a federal level. If the Republicans were to somehow take the White House with any of their scary cast of potential candidates and they hold the House and take the Senate (not unlikely) they would this time move as swiftly as they have here in Wisconsin and it would be a nightmare.

The next president will either be Barack Obama or the Republican candidate. No matter how pissed people are at Obama or the Democrats, handing over power to Republicans would set this nation back 100 years. Governments are formed, laws and policies are made as a result of those who choose to take part in the process, those who take the time to vote. We learned that lesson here in Wisconsin last fall the hard way.

[tanyev]

10. Um, Ricky, I don't think the people you're playing to would have voted for Lincoln.

And the women wouldn't have been able to vote.

[liberal N proud]

12. They are having trouble hiding their racism

[madinmaryland]

13. That is funny to hear from someone who has become totally irrelevant.