Rick Santorum to CPAC: cut the “class-envy leftist language” like “middle class”

[DonViejo]

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JOSH EIDELSON

Rick Santorum knocked unnamed fellow CPAC speakers Friday afternoon, opening his speech to the conservative confab by saying he’d been hearing “a lot of ‘we have to win.’”

“They actually mean we have to lose,” he warned the crowd. “We have to lose those currently unfashionable stances on cultural and limited government issues that have been proven over time to give Americans the best chance for a happy, healthy life.” In a stretch of his speech that, like a State of the Union address, appeared to consistently draw applause from the same sections of the audience, Santorum charged that GOP leaders “keep apologizing for the principles they believe in, and then they wonder why they lose.”

The 2012 presidential candidate said the media had erred in attributing his appeal (winning “more states than any second-place finisher since a guy…named Reagan”), to just being a cultural conservative, when in fact “everybody in that race was a cultural conservative.” Instead, Santorum – and his billionaire funder Foster Freiss, who introduced his speech – argued that what set him apart was his ability to connect with working Americans. “All we’re talking about is cutting taxes for high-income people – it doesn’t exactly connect emotionally,” said the former Pennsylvania Senator, offering his campaign plan to cut taxes on manufacturing companies as a policy with more blue-collar appeal.

“We are the party who has the policies that will work best for these folks,” Paul told the crowd. But he said that Republicans were “out there talking as if everybody who’s a voter is like us: sort of high-energy, “Type A” folks who want to reach for the brass ring… We also need folks who are going to work 9 to 5, and coach little league.”

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http://www.salon.com/2014/03/07/rick_santorum_to_cpac_cut_the_class_envy_leftist_language_like_middle_class/

[tularetom]

1. Might as well quit talking about the middle class, it doesn't exist anymore

[Rex]

2. Translation - "we have to stop hating on everyone but rich white people."

[reformist2]

3. They are hopelessly trapped by their stupid ideas, and billionaire donors. They are doomed.

[hatrack]

4. It wouldn't be CPAC without Senator Frothymix, now would it?