Santorum: GOP loses when it picks moderates

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Source: AP

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Former Sen. Rick Santorum says Republicans lose elections when they nominate moderates.

Santorum ran for president in 2012 as a social conservative and is weighing another bid. He said Friday the GOP should not sacrifice conservatism in an effort to expand the party's appeal.

The former senator says John McCain and Mitt Romney were moderate nominees who still lost.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/santorum-gop-loses-when-it-picks-moderates

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Politico goes in depth about Santorum's CPAC speech.

[truthisfreedom]

1. Slight correction for more truthful accuracy:

"He said Friday the GOP should not sacrifice extremism in an effort to expand the party's appeal."

[Nanjing to Seoul]

2. Keep choosing unelectable wingnuts, asshole. The GOP will go the way of the Whigs!

[yeoman6987]

27. Let's hope

November 2014 will be very telling. This could be the end forever for the Republicans or it could be a renewal. Let's hope for the end.

[StoneCarver]

28. Whigs, Federalists, Republicans, ...

It's the left wing order of things. Society always marches to the left -eventually! But it's not linear and the road is hard. Who will replace the Democrats or progressives? Green Party, Independence Party? Who know, But the republicans are finished and the democrats are the new right. Mark it!

[TeamPooka]

3. So the perfect GOP candidate is one who will condemn women, gays, blacks, immigrants, the poor

and still get the majority of the country to vote for them.
hahahahahahahahahaha

[Journeyman]

4. Of course the GOP loses when it turns to moderates: They have to go outside the party to find one...

All snark aside, whenever the Republicans lose an election or their office holders are turned out, they always explain that it was because the candidate/politician was "insufficiently conservative."

Criminy, they dumped on George W. as being deficient after he left office -- not deficient as a human (which he most definitely was) but deficient in his conservative bonafides.

Ever the same with these slime balls: they won't own up to their own self-responsibility (much as they claim its a core of their beliefs) and always denigrate their losers and their disappointments as being insufficient ideologues, as though can reset the clock by denying their core.

[truebluegreen]

26. Ding ding ding!

[JohnnyRingo]

5. Sure hope they listen to him.

Throw Herman Cain in as Veep and they'll have a winning ticket.

hahahahahahahahahaha

[lostincalifornia]

6. Santorum is a sick person, as his his party. If this were hundreds of years ago, they would be the

first in line to burn people at the stakes. There time has come and gone, and they are essentially obsolete

[Uben]

7. When they elect moderates, people like him lose....

...that's what he really means.

[davidpdx]

8. There are very few moderates in the GOP anymore

[Helen Borg]

9. weighing another bid?

That's the fun part. To see somebody like Santorum keep banging his head against reality.

[Shrike47]

10. Yeppers, the way to win is to nominate right-wing ideologues. Proven strategy.

[William Seger]

11. So, McCain and Romney were too moderate

... so more people decided to vote for Obama instead? What a fucking idiot.

[yurbud]

22. In reality, DLC Democrats are as far right as most swing voters are willing to go

When the last people who remember Jim Crow fondly die, the GOP will no longer be a viable second party, and the Democrats will either become the equivalent of the PRI in Mexico, or split into a progressive New Deal party and a corporate party without the GOP nuts.

[NickB79]

35. They still believe their Silent Majority bullshit

Somewhere in America, hidden from all the polls and surveys, there are tens of millions of white, middle-class Teabag patriots just waiting for the day they can finally cast their votes for a REAL American conservative candidate.

All they have to do is run a candidate so batshit crazy it will bring them out of the spiderholes and doomsday bunkers they've been living in since Clinton won office, like a wave of rats emerging from a sewer grate overflowing with shit and piss.

[Divernan]

12. "Weighing another bid"?What an ego! He'll be campaigning from his coffin!

The man's ambition is completely out of control and out of touch with reality.

[calimary]

32. Reminds me of Harold Stassen.

Perennial candidate for public office - ran many times including at least twice for President. Lost pretty much every race except a couple of terms as governor of Minnesota. He became a running joke - always the political bridesmaid. I remember reading that in Mad magazine of all places - where some cartoon character's line was - "…sure, just like I believe Harold Stassen will be president some day." And funny enough, he too was a GOPer.

http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1900s/stassen_harold_edward.html

[SkatmanRoth]

13. When a bunch of losers pick a loser to represent them, what do you expect to happen?

When every player on the bench is stupid, there is no way to put a 'smart' one up for consideration.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. How does that really work out for the Republicans, Ricky?

Let's ask Senator Sharon Angle and Senator Christine O'Donnell about it.

[hatrack]

15. But how will he engage blah people? What is his strategy for getting blah votes?

Judging the the minority outreach crowd at CPAC, this is something they're really working hard on!

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[brooklynite]

16. And Rick Santorum is an expert at losing...

[SunSeeker]

17. Yes, PLEASE run extreme candidates, GOP!

[olddad56]

18. No, they lose because they are lying assholes and nobody (except Texans) are buying their bullshit.

[Paladin]

19. As if the scourge of extremist Republicans is limited to one state.

Be happy in your hatred. This Texas Democrat could give a shit.

[yurbud]

20. they can't hang on to their base of old angry white men AND attract anyone else

the minute they reach out to minorities, those who remember the Jim Crow era fondly howl like stuck pigs.

On some issues, the right's outrage is manufactured by right wing media, but the racism is real and visceral for a large chunk of their base, and doesn't need to be fanned into a flame--it's always burning.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

21. What would you expect an extremist (Santorum) to say??

[underpants]

23. "the GOP should not sacrifice conservatism in an effort to expand the party's appeal"

You know that the NUMBER of votes is what counts in each state, right?

[Skidmore]

24. It never occurs to them that their "conservative values" are the problem

with voters.

[angrychair]

25. YAY!!!

Three cheers for Santorum!!!! I see a Santorum/Cruz or Cruz/Santorum run in our furture. Please! That would be so great!!!




For us....

[blkmusclmachine]

29. Irrational.

[TroglodyteScholar]

30. Who?

I don't pay attention to nobodies....

[jmowreader]

31. Consider where he was when he said that

CPAC is not the place to find squishy-soft people; they probably pull Ted Nugent over when he shows up and ask him, "are you sure you're really a conservative? You DO make your living playing hippie music..."

I would really like to see Rick Santorum and Rand Paul on the GOP ticket. It would be the easiest 450-vote Democratic victory in the history of the Republic.

[cstanleytech]

33. No rick, you all lose when your moderates try to embrace the massive number of nutjobs in your party

in order to secure the nomination.

[Auntie Bush]

34. Hey Santorum, When did a righty ever win?

The only ReThugs that ever won were moderates, dummy!