Another Clown Enters the Clown Car
A crowded field for 2012 may get even more crowded. Everyone’s favorite crazy ex-Senator is thinking of running for president. Yes, it’s Rick Santorum!
They were not, however, ended permanently. Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum is apparently taking the possibility of a presidential campaign seriously.
Speaking to a room full of prominent US Catholic leaders Friday night, Senator Rick Santorum was challenged to run for President. Responding to a room already thick with applause, Santorum revealed that he was indeed “thinking about it” but asked for prayers and detailed his thinking on the matter. […]
The last consideration in favor of his run was on the practical level. He said: “Six months ago I would not have spent ten seconds on your question, but it’s not six months ago. I see that, I hate to be calculating, but I see that 2012 is not just throwing somebody out to be eaten, but it’s a real opportunity for success.”
Now, here’s the quiz – can you name all the Republicans who have been mentioned as possible 2012 presidential candidates?
Tags: 2012 Presidential, Rick Santorum
Romney, Huckabee, Pawlenty, Palin, Paul, Jindal, Barbour, Sanford, Ensign, Gingrich, Huntsman, Pence, Santorum, and Bachmann are all the ones I can think of.
I don’t know how you go from losing re-election by 17 points to running for President, but sure, go for it, Rick.
LOL, Santorum.
They need to take this show on the road, if it had a beat you could dance to it. I suggest The Funky Chicken. Seriously, thier giving the other freak shows a bad name.
The more crowded the GOP field, the more likely it is that Sarah Palin will be the nominee. The base loves her.
If it is a small field of Pawlenty, Palin and Romney, then sanity, relatively speaking, prevails.
As for the really long shots, and the gifts that keep on giving: Guiliani keeps making noise in New York; Crist, who wants a national platform and doesn’t care which one; Jeb Bush; John Thune; and a red state favorite, Jim DeMint.
Can’t we consider Ensign scratched, along with Sanford? Or is all forgiven as long as you insert Jesus’ name frequently enough in your rhetoric?
Yeah, both are done.
Sanford is having trouble holding on to his current job. I don’t think Ensign can recover, but we shall see.
I don’t think Huntsman is in. He’s serving in the Obama administration. No one mentioned Huckabee yet.
I see the real contenders right now as Jindal, Palin, Pawlenty, Huckabee and Romney. Even if Palin doesn’t win the nomination I’ll bet she’s on the VP ticket again. She’s got too big of a fan base not to be.
Of course, 2012 is a long way off and things can change a lot between now and then.
Yeah, UI, between now and 2012 we might find out WHY Palin resigned. Still seems fishy to me…
Jindal – He may have won over Louisiana, but I don’t see how he can take the rest of the White Supremacist States with Huckabee in the race.
Romney – Same problem – Southern Evangelicals won’t go for a Mormon.
And can anyone see a candidate winning the GOP nod without most of the South? Heh.
lol
Graduated from the same Chicago-area high school as Rick Santorum, and many of the Carmelite Fathers and Brothers compared me to him in a complimentary fashion when I was in high school just a couple of years behind him.
He’s not my first choice, but I could be quite happy with him on the ticket.
Of course, my first two choices are Romeny and Jindal (either order) because they would make a formidable ticket espousing principles i generally support.
If Palin runs, she wins the nomination. For all the derision of cults by the right wing, she has a cult like following that will not accept any criticism of her.
If Palin runs, she is, at best, 2012’s GOP equivalent of Howard Dean.
That is a tremendous insult to Howard Dean. No, she is the 2012 equivalent to Barry Goldwater.
No — because Palin will NOT get the nomination. Instead, she will be the focus of media attention about her dedicated supporters and how she is the face/future of her party — right up until she tanks in the early primaries, losing to someone like Mitt Romney.
You keep dreaming about Romney, RWR, unless you’ve figured out a way to win without your christian base.
Palin is not in the same universe with Howard Dean.
1) You are right, UI — Dean is so far out of contact with reality that he does inhabit another universe.
2) Romney is popular among Christian conservatives, pandora — and it isn’t like that part of the base will jump ship to Obama. But it could be Jindal or one of several other good solid conservatives who plays John Kerry to Palin’s Dean.
Palin is more of the Jesse Jackson of the Right. There is almost no reason why she is qualified to hold the office she is running for, but there is a small core of people who get really fired up about her. Unfortunately for Jackson, the Democratic Party is too large and diverse for his small core to have ever made him a real threat. As the GOP shrinks, distilling itself down to only that Palinite-type core, she actually might have a chance to win in closed primaries. In a general, national election, she’d be shown as the joke she is.
As for Romney, I agree that I can’t see the Protestant God fearin’, rural Southern boys (and girls) getting behind a rich boy Mormon. No, RWR, Obama has nothing to do with this — we’re talking primaries and nomination. I think he’d probably be their best general candidate, but I don’t think the GOP is smart enough to figure that out right now. As for Jindal, his chance ended 2/24/09. After that speech, I don’t see how anyone can take him seriously. Did he seem Presidential to anyone?
Scott, in open GOP primaries, watch out for a Reverse Limbaugh Payback. With no Democratic primary, Democrats will vote for Palin in those primaries just to screw the GOP.
Palin is Giuliani in drag – well, no, Giuliani is already Giuliani in drag. Anyway, how many primary delegates did he, the 2007 repub front-runner get in 2008? 0. How many primaries will Palin win? 0.
Yes, Howard Dean was so horrible, what with his 50-state strategy and the takeover of the House, the Senate and the presidency as he led the DNC. What has Palin done besides quit?
Like Howard, I’ve heard that Sarah is also a “screamer.”
I can’t think of a better man. I would love to see Rick on the national ticket. He is a true visionary and will be rewarded when President Huckabee and Vice President Palin makes him their Sec Def on Chief of Staff Gingrich’s advice.
Pawlenty sounds too much like a side dish you serve with boiled squirrel. I can’t imagine he would have a chance with the average republican joe.
BTW, I think you should change that clown picture to something more like Krusty. The one you display looks too smart to be republican.