8% of Pensylvanians think Santorum is too Liberal???

[rpannier]

According to the latest Quinnepac poll, 8% of Pennsylvanians think Santorum is too liberal? That's just insane.
Voters say 44 - 37 percent that Santorum deserves to be reelected, down from 53 - 30 percent February 16. He is too conservative, 25 percent of voters say, with 8 percent who say he is too liberal and 44 percent who say he is "about right."

They must have thought the poll was talking about Morris Santorum, the guy who lives two blocks from Santorum.
On a positive note:
Sen. Santorum also has been targeted in press reports for his strong conservative stands, and for appearing to moderate those stands in an election year.
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11379.xml?ReleaseID=676

[Sandpiper]

1. If Santorum is too liberal, who would be conservative enough for them?

Torquemada?

[rpannier]

3. Darth Vader maybe.

Or Mussilini

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Maybe thats the Amish vote...

after all he *does* embrace electricity

[Zynx]

4. Remember, a lot of Freepers slammed him for Specter.

[TahitiNut]

5. 8% of Pensylvanians think the earth is flat, too.

You can get 8% of any group to answer like whack-jobs.

[punpirate]

6. Difficult to pin down which splinter group...

... that 8% might be, but I feel reasonably certain that some of them believe that private ownership of nuclear weapons is permitted under the Second Amendment.... :)

More likely, though, it's the bottom 8% of Pennsylvanians who are actually dumber than Santorum.

[Ian David]

7. How to defeat Santorum

See related threads:

How to defeat Santorum
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1547903#1547915

Would you ever run as a repuke? If you wanted to run for local
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1733090

Santorum in cross hairs for 2006
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1501059

Santorum shifts left for '06 run
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=175&topic_id=3800


MY IDEA (Someone dubbed it "The Demcurian Candidate):

1) Register to run in his district as an independent candidate.

2) Campaign on the most fundamentalist, anti-gay platform you can imagine. Wake-up in the morning and say to yourself, "Today, I am going to pretend to be Alan Keyes."

3) Reach-out to fundamentalists, evangelicals, and other un-enlightenment types.

4) Your platforms are going to be "protecting" marriage, denying civil unions, keeping gays out of the military, making sure that private companies are not allowed to extend domestic partnership rights, gay people can't file domestic abuse cases against their partners, banning gay-straight alliance groups and tolerance training from public schools, forbidding gay pride events, etc.

5) Here are some other things you will promise:

a) You're going to say you want to make sure the government can fund charter schools, even if they are religious schools.
b) You want the 10 commandments posted in every courthouse, classroom, police station, and in the passenger seat of every police cruiser where handcuffed suspects can read them.
c) You want rooms set aside in public schools for "voluntary prayer."
d) Students will have the option of adding the words, "We ask these things in Christ's name o Lord, Amen" to the end of the pledge.
e) The pledge will always be followed by the song "God Bless America."
f) Gay people will not be allowed to name one another as beneficiaries.
g) Gay people will have their "medical proxy" rights weakened, so that "blood relatives" can over-ride the instructions of their partner.

6) You are going to run as the most godwhacked fundamentalist theocratic fundie that Pennsylvania has ever seen. This will split Santorum's vote, giving the Democrat a better chance.

7) You are going to liberally quote Fred Phelps and Alan Keyes, and perhaps even invite them on your campaign trail.

8) On the off chance that you're elected... well, politicians never keep their promises anyway, do they?

Remember: The goal is to split the bigot-fundie vote between Santorum and yourself.

[hippiepunk]

8. Wow, just wow.

:wtf: