{"id":6659,"date":"2012-01-05T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T08:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2012-01-05T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T08:01:46","slug":"santorum-unvetted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/santorum-unvetted\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum Unvetted"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess this is one of those \u2018When I\u2019m wrong, I say so\u2019 moments, because I never even imagined that Rick \u201cGoogle Me\u201d Santorum would end the Iowa caucuses in a dead heat for the lead?  How could such a thing have happened?  As I see it, there are two reasons.  First, he is not Romney.  Second, he is the only \u2018not Romney\u2019 candidates left that has not crashed and burned, except for the perennial candidate who has never mattered and never will. The reason Santorum has not crashed and burned is that nobody else took him seriously, so re remains unvetted.  Given Santorum\u2019s proclaimed fixation on connections between men and dogs, it\u2019s time for a trip to the vet.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"SantorumHat\"<\/a>…This is an embarrassing state of affairs for Romney, who outspent Santorum by nearly $4 million. And it’s the culmination of a clownish early primary campaign that’s seen 3 out of 4 GOP voters desperate for anyone-but-Mitt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Indeed, for all of the Warholian drama, in which everyone from Michele Bachmann to Rick Perry to Herman Cain to Newt Gingrich to Ron Paul has been a frontrunner for 15 minutes, the one constant in Iowa and the GOP race nationally has been Mitt Romney’s inability to crack 30 percent support<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Call it The Romney Ceiling. And its durability nearly led to an astonishing victory in Iowa by the raging mysogynist, racist, Islamophobe, and gay baiter Santorum<\/strong> \u2014 who was last seen on the national stage getting trounced by 18 points in his failed 2006 senate reelection bid in Pennsylvania<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Rick Santorum is the bottom of the GOP’s not-Mitt barrel \u2014 a C-Lister<\/strong> par excellence. Yet he lost to one of the best funded candidates in the history of politics by a mere eight votes.<\/p>\n

It seems impossible that the detestable, unvetted Santorum won’t crash and burn in the coming days as the media dredge up his inflammatory declarations denigrating women<\/a>, blacks<\/a>, gays<\/a>, and Muslims<\/a>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Rolling Stone<\/a>><\/p>\n

Who could possibly be better at vetting Santorum that Rachel Maddow with Eugene Robinson.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

What a vile hypocrite he is!  He put his criminal pal, Ensign, ahead of his so-called family values, but saying a Democrat in a far less heinous situation should resign.  He is a poster child for corruption and earmarks.  He supports torture.  He supports banning birth control.<\/font><\/p>\n

The beauty here is that Santorum\u2019s most hateful traits will likely cause him no problem with the rabid Republican base.  Nevertheless, I will not predict that he will get the nomination.  We should be so lucky, but the other jackals are about to savage him.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess this is one of those \u2018When I\u2019m wrong, I say so\u2019 moments, because I never even imagined that Rick \u201cGoogle Me\u201d Santorum would end the Iowa caucuses in a dead heat for the lead?  How could such a thing have happened?  As I see it, there are two reasons.  First, he is not […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}