It’s late, I know, but surf’s up and I really had to flag — for the benefit of South Carolina’s true conservatives — Hugh Hewitt’s interview with former Senator Rick Santorum. The electoral storm’s headed your way and Huckabee’s no haven.
Santorum, whose conservative credentials are unimpeachable, has essential Senate-insider intell on McCain — what every conservative needs to know but was afraid to ask. Here’s a teaser:
HH: Now you know, I think pretty much everyone on our side of the aisle believes you know the media just about better than anyone, and you know how they can manipulate a race. They’re trying to force Mitt Romney out. Should the Governor go?
RS: No, absolutely not. I think this race is wide open. I think Mitt Romney still has a very good chance of winning. You know, I think right now, we’re looking at the media trying to make Barack Obama the president, and make John McCain the shill for him. And I don’t see, I think they know that John McCain can’t win this election, and they know…it’s probably the best chance for them to do it. . . .
HH: Why can’t John McCain win this election?
RS: Well, number one, John McCain will not get the base of the Republican Party. I mean, there was a reason John McCain collapsed last year, and it’s because he was the frontrunner, and everybody in the Republican Party got a chance to look at him. And when they looked at him, they wait well, wait a minute, he’s not with us on almost all of the core issues of…on the economic side, he was against the President’s tax cuts, he was bad on immigration. On the environment, he’s absolutely terrible. He buys into the complete left wing environmentalist movement in this country. He is for bigger government on a whole laundry list of issues.
Who ya gonna call? Not McCain, I hope. Surely not the NEA’s Trojan Huckabee. Thompson? Or maybe . . . Romney? Think about it?
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sanfransam 01.13.08 at 1:13 am
McCain’s domestic record, as succinctly outlined by Mark Levin at NRO Online, is “a disaster.” In one situation after another, McCain’s judgment, like that of Brutus, is open to question. McCain is an angry man, and frankly, a loose cannon aboard ship. We can in no way afford to see this man elected to govern this nation. There is deceptive logic in the left media’s soft treatment of him, and their eagerness to see either him or his boon companion, Huckabee, win the Republican nomination, since if either is nominated, Democrats will have a romp getting to the White House.
Which, more than any other reason, is why Romney is alternately trashed or ignored by the media. As Santorum suggests, he can win the general election. The day after coming in second in New Hampshire, Romney, with 500 volunteers working as many phones, raised over $5 million from 10,000 donors across the country. Hillary Clinton, who came in a blazing first on the other side of the ticket, raised only $750,000. Fundraising is a poll of sorts, the kind where you put your money where your mouth is, and Romney walked away triumphant.
ErinA 01.13.08 at 3:19 pm
As a dues paying member of HSLDA, this really saddens me. In my opinion, there is no way, save religion, that Huckabee should have gotten this endorsement. He is not supporter of parental choice. He is against charter schools, he is against vouchers, he is ENDORSED by the NEA for Pete sake…..
Erin
Bambi 01.13.08 at 7:12 pm
As a grandmother of wonderful home schooled children, I couldn’t imagine that the home schoolers were in his corner.
I have no idea why his record in Arkansas is not being examined by the media. I guess they want to wait until he gets the nod and then spring it on all those who haven’t been involved so their party can win. My concern is that the huckster and mccain will team up and then we might as well elect the dems. I am so sorry about the years mccain spent in a prison camp. He certainly has my respect for that part of his life. However, he has spent too long in the Senate and has never run anything, anything at all. Yet we put him up for election because - why - he is a libertarian. And a man who can give us one liners because he has had that experience but knows nothing about foreign policy and has an actor supporting him, and an advisor who wants to punch another candidate in the face. He also registered for wedding gifts when he left the governorship. Give me a break!
It must be part of the water in Arkansas, since the clinton’s did the same thing when they left the white house.
We are in serious trouble in our country - we don’t need another jimmy carter.