It Might Just Be Santorum’s Time
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 5th, 2012 5:31 am by HL
It Might Just Be Santorum’s Time
Charles Hurt, Washington Times
The reason that the overtly religious Rick Santorum has never been taken seriously as a presidential contender isn't just because the media is made up of mainly Godless heathens. That, of course, is a large part of it, but not the whole reason.The other big reason he has been written off from the start is that most political reporters have covered the former Pennsylvania senator in the Senate for the better part of a decade and have reached the conclusion that he is about as lovable as a porcupine with the charm of a possum. He is not your average back-slapping, jovial politician.Â
Rick Santorum Revels in Iowa Triumph
Scott Conroy, RealClearPolitics
JOHNSTON, Iowa — As votes from a few remaining precincts were still being tallied more than three hours after the Iowa caucuses had closed, Rick Santorum realized that he did not have to wait any longer to declare victory.Not only that, he didn't even have to say that he won.”Game on,” the former Pennsylvania senator told his crowd of supporters at his Iowa campaign party as he beamed onstage while flanked by his wife and a half-dozen of his children.Santorum's message was clear: whether or not he squeaked out a victory over Mitt Romney, the night would largely belong to…
What’s Great About Great Society
Joseph Califano, Washington Monthly
If there is a prize for the political scam of the 20th century, it should go to the conservatives for propagating as conventional wisdom that the Great Society programs of the 1960s were a misguided and failed social experiment that wasted taxpayers' money.Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, from 1963 when Lyndon Johnson took office until 1970 as the impact of his Great Society programs were felt, the portion of Americans living below the poverty line dropped from 22.2 percent to 12.6 percent, the most dramatic decline over such a brief period in this century.
No Serious Rival Emerges to Threaten Mitt
Mark Barabak, LA Times
Mitt Romney may not have scored a huge victory in Iowa, but he still walked away a winner. Elections are often as much about subtraction as addition, and what didn't happen in the caucuses was more important than what did: No giant-slayer emerged as a potent alternative to the former Massachusetts governor whom many voters can't seem to love.The two contenders who once seemed most likely to pose a threat to Romney — former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry — fell flat and their campaigns are probably over, for all intents, barring an…
