What happened to Rick Santorum?

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look, I am tired of kicking a dead horse, but Santorum ruined his career by being an intellectually dishonest troll.  He needs to come forward and apologize to the American people.

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"Updated: The commentators are probably right: it must have been Santorum’s toxicity within the gay community that deprived him of his hope of administration patronage after his defeat in 2006. If so, that’s a fascinating glimpse of the actual balance of power within the GOP as it stood five years ago–as compared to today."

Still, one supposes a cushy law firm job, which would carry zero public limelight, would've been appropriate.

dude, it wasn't his opposition to homosexuality that turned the GOP base against him

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It was a lot of things, "dude", but that doesn't mean it ruined his reputation too much among the GOP establishment, base, and the Bush Administration.

his 2006 WMD press conference was the last straw.  after that, no one wanted to get within 50 feet of him.  it pissed a lot of people off, bigtime, including the jmfcsts.  and we haven't forgotten.

but the jmfcsts are willing to politically forgive, if Rick apologizes.  but he is not fit for office.  period.

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It was a lot of things, "dude", but that doesn't mean it ruined his reputation too much among the GOP establishment, base, and the Bush Administration.

his 2006 WMD press conference was the last straw.  after that, no one wanted to get within 50 feet of him.  it pissed a lot of people off, bigtime, including the jmfcsts.  and we haven't forgotten.

but the jmfcsts are willing to politically forgive, if Rick apologizes.  but he is not fit for office.  period.

Enough with the faux outrage, Jm. Seriously. You are one of the few people that still mention that and your "disgust" with it is so overplayed.

the jmfcsts will determine when it is enough:

Supersoulty,

Santorum played the clown too many times.  Just a couple of months ago he held a press conference claiming the US had found WMD in Iraq, though it was only a couple of old mustard gas shells.

As long as he didn’t do something stupid, like Santorum’s 2006 press conference declaring we had found the WMD we were looking for in Iraq, Brownback is a viable candidate.

As far as Santorum goes - I just can't get over Santorum calling a press conference last summer and announcing that the US had found the WMD in Iraq we were looking for.  He lost my respect with that one incident.

I found his WMD press conference highly highly offensive.  1) it was intellectually dishonest – we didn’t invade Iraq because we were looking for some rusty canisters of mustard gas, 2) it belittled the viewing public to think we would buy into such a crap claim, 3) it belittled the service of the soldiers that either had already died in Iraq or who were risking their lives in Iraq.

And even though I am probably aligned with Santorum on 95% of the issues, I can’t remember a politician who has ever made me so angry with a single act, and I am still angry about it today.   I consider Santorum to be the lowest of the low of politicians.  And to top it off, he dresses his kids funny.

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Phil must have jinxed Rick's chances.

Phil refuses to be believe what I've been telling him for the last 5 years.  But what else explains Rick not getting a turn at flavor of the month?  

Bachmann, Romney, Cain, Perry, and Newt have all been given a chance...and Paul has been given at least half a chance if not more...

the only ones who haven't been given a chance are Huntsman and Santorum, and between the two, Huntsman is outpolling Santorum.