Rick Santorum seems like a nice guy and I know a lot of conservative activists would like to see him win the nomination but I just don't think I can go along with that.
Does he say lots of the right things?
Sure.
Has he been sabotaged by the press?
Of course. He's a Republican.
But I'll be honest. I am uneasy about him for a number of reasons.
For one thing, he keeps stumbling in his Dad sweater vests and pleated pants into all those social issues, like some well meaning bumbling youth group leader who's sincere but hasn't a clue what it's like for today's kids.
Numerous of my younger voting friends will run away from Santorum as fas as they can.
Which is not a reason for ME not to vote for him.
My reason is that Rick Santorum is a lightweight. A second tier politician. Probably honest but out of his depth.
But he just doesn't seem to have the depth necessary to deal with issues on a global level. I can't even imagine him trying to deal with the whole Israeli/Palestinian conflicts without getting into all kinds of trouble by saying something about the Pope or how mean it is to kill people.
He seems like the default candidate for people who were burned with old RINO John McCain, who's certainly proven to be the inept politician we always thought.
As we approach this election, the economy is going to be the primary focus of the populace. In that sense, Romney, also a bumbler and not a very good debater as Krauthammer described him, is the better candidate because of his business experience.
But Bush wasn't the greatest either, and he won because the idiots he ran against were worse.
Sure, Obama can talk a good game, but it's pretty obvious by now that his whole campaign is based on division, nastiness and resentment.
He's an ugly candidate for reelection and even some of my Dem friends are willing to admit that he's not what he promised he'd be.
He's offering taxpayer money in exchange for votes and in exchange for promoting businesses that can't stand on their own.
His solution for everything is to lull the public into sleeping in the hammock while the world goes to hell around them.
The financial mess he's created will come home to roost in just a few years. He might even not be out of office when it does but he doesn't care.
Considering the economic and social mess this country is in right now, suffering from the effects of an absolute Howdy Doody who doesn't know what the heck he's doing, I don't think we need another one like that in office.
It's a Howdy Doody time!
It's the Puppet Playhouse!
with a Circus of Fun for Everyone!
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