Santorum considers presidential run in 2012
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a leading conservative, says he is thinking about running for the Republican nomination for president in 2010, calls Obama administration "injurious" to country.
Santorum considers presidential run in 2012
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum says he is considering seeking the Republican nomination for president in 2012, calling President Obama vulnerable to a challenge from the right and his policies “injurious to America.”
“The dynamic has changed,” Santorum said Tuesday on a RNC conference call with reporters to discuss Obama’s fundraiser for Sen. Arlen Specter (D.,Pa.). “A lot of folks who wouldn’t have thought about running against an incumbent president” are thinking about it. “If you’d asked the question a couple of months ago…”
Santorum cited Obama’s declining poll numbers and the furor over his plans to overhaul health care and the huge federal spending on the stimulus package and bank and auto-industry bailouts. Most of all, Santorum said that Obama has “failed to deliver on what he promised, to be a transformative president” who would unify the country.
A lot of people are going to take a look and see what they can do to confront this presidency, which many of us –as you are seeing from the tea parties and the like – which many of us believe is injurious to America,” Santorum said. He said a 2012 race is “something that I think I would consider.”
Santorum was responding to Commonwealth Confidential’s question about his recent statement to a national group of Catholic leaders that he was thinking about running and asking for prayers. He was answering a question from a member of the audience at the group’s convention when he said he had thought about a presidential run. Santorum said Tuesday that he was trying to make the point that the political climate had turned more favorable to any conservative challenge to Obama.
“I went from not considering it at all to saying I would consider it – and that’s as far as I’m willing to go 3 ½ years out,” Santorum said.
If an ultra left wing democrat can become president, what's wrong with Santorum trying to become president?— Joe Gonnelli- Oh one can only hope. He should choose Palin as his runningmate. I'll make the popcorn for the debates.— voiceofreason
- And I thought it was September, not April 1st. I say let him run, let him run the Prez right back in for 4 more years.— jfl229
- And I thought it was September, not April 1st. I say let him run, let him run the Prez right back in for 4 more years.— jfl229
- Now I find that downright scary.....Haven't we divided this country into Left & Right long enough? The Republican party will be destroyed if they back that Neo-Fasist. And I am a member of the Repulican party.— unbelieveable!
Hey, it'll only make obama's 2nd term that much easier to win, and provide most of america with some comedy. i say go for it santorum.
Comment removed.- Oh my GOD! that would be so funny. He is a glutton for punishment.— sadtruthis-
- They said an unqualified minority could never win too...— JerryCurlan
- Ricky was for privatizing Social Security in 2004 (sorry, just partially and just for younger people; but eventually for all) Let's see him defend that after the meltdown we are still recovering from.— TomH1
- HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! Too funny, Ricky, too funny! Oh, and Shabba Rommel? You're a bigger idiot than I previous thought if you believe what you wrote in your post. I mean, really, from out of which turnip patch did you just spring?— wb2nd
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- Santorum is another no-brain, right-wing, Radical-Rush-Republican with no heart. He is, perhaps, the most ignorant man to have ever served in the US Senate. Always a disgrace to his own party, Santorum is also a disgrace to democracy. It was bad enough to have had him representing the good people of Pennsylvania - can you imagine that we wants to be the leader of the Free World? It's laughable!!!— JohnnySak
- Santorum is another no-brain, right-wing, Radical-Rush-Republican with no heart. He is, perhaps, the most ignorant man to have ever served in the US Senate. Always a disgrace to his own party, Santorum is also a disgrace to democracy. It was bad enough to have had him representing the good people of Pennsylvania - can you imagine that we wants to be the leader of the Free World? It's laughable!!!— JohnnySak
- Santorum yea right. He needs to go sit down some where. We need some new blood. How about Bill Maher ???????
