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It's Game On in New Hampshire

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January 4, 2012 RSS Feed Print

Iowa did not so much select a winner as it did pick out some losers.

Texas Governor Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann suffered the first fatal blows of the 2012 GOP campaign and may well exit the race in the next few days. Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum showed Republican voters are still looking for an alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. And snarling Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, signaled he won't go quietly.

So will the non-Mitts all gang up on Romney? It will come down to a fight of organization versus passion—and if passion can get a little fund-raising help, then the race will remain volatile. Even former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman could have something to say in the Granite State next Tuesday.

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Romney will aim for a bounce today with a reported endorsement from Arizona Sen. John McCain, but in many ways that just reinforces the perception among conservatives that Romney is the candidate of the Grand Old Party while Santorum and others are the choice of the Grand New Party.

But Iowa has spoken. Now the ball is in New Hampshire's court.

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Sounds like he wants to establish a Theocracy. Fundamentalism in the Evangelical circles as in any western religion looks pretty much the same. How is this not a form of government intrusion? Santorum represents one of the most ignorant segments of American society.

Case in point - I'd like to know where there's a country that practices Santorum's level of theocratic ideals that America doesn't currently brand as a terrorist nation and the people enjoy life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

tenbones of TX 1:15PM January 05, 2012

Rick Santorum is against personal freedom and is for big government.

"One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right.

You know the left has gone so far left, and the right has, in some respects, gone so far right,

that they touch each other. And they come around in the circle. And this whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don't think most conservatives hold that point of view, some do.

And they have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down, and keep regulations low, that we shouldn't get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn't get involved in cultural issues. You know people should do whatever they want.

Well that is not how traditional conservatives view the world. And I think most conservatives understand that individuals can't go it alone, that there is no such society, that I am aware of, where we've had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture."

Rick Santorum

August 4, 2005

Radio interview on NPR Morning Edition with Steve Inskeep

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=4784905&m=4784906

Indrep of CO 3:39AM January 05, 2012

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