Four years ago, Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses and ended up as the final challenger against Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination.
But on Sunday, with a week to go before this year's Iowa caucuses, he stands at just 1.2% in the RealClearPolitics average of recent statewide polls, the 11th among 11 candidates. In an impromptu interview with USA TODAY and The Des Moines Register after attending services at New Hope Assembly of God here Sunday, he acknowledged what he previously has refused to discuss: It may soon be time for him to think about folding his campaign.
"You reach a point when you realize that you aren't going to accomplish what you're going to accomplish and you have to look out for the greater good," he responded a bit ruefully. "And I've always believed in the greater good. I'm a person who believes in a cause and trying to make this country better, not about Rick Santorum and my own aggrandizement. I'll go through that process, whether it's after Iowa or whether it's after Super Tuesday or whenever it's happening. We'll go through that process and determine if we have a pathway to get there, and if we believe we do, trust me, no one will fight harder, no one will work longer. And if we don't, you have to work out what's in the best interest of our country."
I am not one of those assholes who claim to speak for all Americans, but I think I can safely state that it certainly in the best interest of the country that Santorum ends his campaign.
What's more I think it is also in our best interests that he never try to run again and slips quietly into obscurity.
Oh oh, and before he goes I have a list of people he should take with him.
Guess who's at the top.
"...you aren't going to accomplish what you're going to accomplish..."
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't make sense.
Bye, bye, Rick and please take Carly Fiorina with you...as a parting gift.
ReplyDeletePoor Carly now has nothing to shriek about, with the Planned Parenthood lies now out in the open.
DeleteCarly makes me want to barf every time I see her ugly face! She has one awful personality too! She's hardly a representative of the majority of women in America. Plus, she was a proven disaster as a business leader! Her company went in the tank!
DeleteTime she follows Santorum's lead ASAP!
Carly's personality is what makes her so ugly.
DeleteSome people are ugly inside and out. The ugly may start inside. but it permeates. Example? Look at the "Witch from Wasilla".
DeleteHas Carly always been so strange looking, or did all the cosmetic surgery make her this fugly?
DeleteRick who?
ReplyDeleteFrothy Mixture. :)
DeleteSuper Tuesday?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteWhy postpone the inevitable.
If it's santorum, it will run. Not much you can do to stop it.
ReplyDeleteIt is as it should be, Santorum will soon be nothing but a disgusting dictionary entry
ReplyDeleteAll that energy spent spreading hate about people you know nothing about while the wheels of progress inexorably flatten you. And for what? The political boneyard. Nobody likes you, Ricky. Time to face it.
ReplyDeleteX1000
DeletePolitics assuredly ages people - it's way past time Santorum got out of it!!! It's taken him a long time to get the message.
ReplyDeletePoor little Ricky. His first clue should have been when he lost re-election to the Senate by double digits in good old Pennsyltucky. But like others who have over stayed their time on the stage (looking at you, Palins), grifters gotta grift.
ReplyDeleteWhen you lose your senate seat by a whopping 18 points, and you decide the best response is to run for president twice, you're not a member of the reality-based community.
DeleteOT: How many people are knowingly covering up babygate? Fewer than 125?
ReplyDeletehttp://phys.org/news/2016-01-equation-large-scale-conspiracies-quickly-reveal.html
The people who know (McCain, probably; Schmidt, certainly; the upper-level fundie folks, yup) have created excellent plausible deniability stories, so they don't know. Kind of like becoming a virgin again. Or unringing a bell.
DeleteSo there are not that many.
"Did anybody else know that Santorm was still running?"
ReplyDeleteWho is Rick Santorm?
Just don't Google him unless you have bleach handy.
ReplyDeleteRachel Maddow once interviewed Santorum and she asked him, "Is that all that you do, run for President? Do you have any other job?"
ReplyDeleteFrothy mixture is weak tea.
ReplyDeleteOf course it's been about his own aggrandizement. This guy could give Sarah Palin a decent challenge for Worst Parent of the Year award. He's got a young daughter who's already passed her life expectancy. Instead of spending every possible precious moment with her, as normal parents would, he's spent years on the road and away from home in a quixotic quest for the presidency. What an asshole.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Presidency is not the reason he does this every 4 years, maybe he wants to get away from home and responsibilities? He looks like a whiny kid, spoiled brat.
DeleteSad for the Rickster. Poor layabout has been running for prez for so long but fails again. Who will feed and educate his brood with no more donations and matching funds coming in. Can't even collect unemployment cause he doesn't know what kind of work he's out of.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, Rick. You're still young, you can try again in eight years. Nobody likes a quitter, but sometimes you just gotta fold em and go home. Just think of it as God telling you what everyone else already knows. You're a loser.
ReplyDeleteIdiot needs to give up. The good people of Pennsylvania fired him in 2006--that should have been his first hint to get out of politics
ReplyDeleteI've never heard that "santorum" runs, but it may drip though.
ReplyDeleteAs long as men love men Santorum will run or maybe ooze.
ReplyDeleteWow! Ricky will have to get a real money-paying job and quit living off the teat of the government. One of those pesky "takers" that Paul Ryan warned us about in the '12 election.
ReplyDeleteAh shucks, I forgot to 'google' Santorum. Lol.
ReplyDeleteRicky should have run for POPE, not President. Holy speeches are so fake. He is one that runs each time to sell books, schedule speeches and just make a living off grifting. Much like others in the gop. I wonder why Newt Gingrich did not run this time? Maybe he is about to get his 4th divorce? Huckleberry might as well pack up his tent also. too, along with Jebby.
ReplyDeleteHe needs to retire from politics and get a job somewhere, preferably somewhere he can wear his fuzzy sweater vest. What a nincompoop. Actually I thought he had stopped running months ago.
ReplyDeleteBeaglemom
Google him NOW!!!!
ReplyDeleteHe'll leave the race only when God tells him to. When the time is right, God will give him a sign. Because we all know that God, if there even is one, has nothing more important to do than advise Santorum on when to quit the race.
ReplyDeleteIt's all about the $$$$$$$$ anyways, and when Santorum sees that it's no longer coming in, he'll quit.
If he really thought he EVER had a chance to win the nomination, he's dumber than he looks and is.