Let me finish tonight with this.
Rick Santorum is no longer a candidate for president in 2012. He hopes, he made clear today, to be a candidate for president in 2016.
Imagine the contest! Imagine Santorum coming back after the defeat of Mitt Romney demanding the nomination on the grounds that the false prophet--that would be Romney--had failed to deliver the goods, that he had led the party down to defeat and betrayed the conservative cause in the bargain.
Imagine the moral indignation that Rick Santorum would be able to splash across the conservative firmament, the personal right he would claim to blast away at any other candidate, especially one that would call for anything short of all-out ideological warfare, an all-out cleansing of the republic of any spec of liberal intent.
This is the prospect of what happened today. By leaving the campaign before the April 24th Pennsylvania primary, the former senator from that state has maintained his political viability. Had he stayed in the race and lost there, on his home turf, he would leave a deep record of defeat: that the commonwealth that "fired" him, as the new Romney ad put it, would have rejected him once more.
But now Santorum can march on. He can pretend to root for Romney this November all the while remembering that ad Romney had ran against him, the one about him being "fired" from public office by his home state. He can say all the right things about Romney all the while hoping that his main chance will come next time when Romney has paid the price for his perfidy, has been shown the insincere conservative that he is, that he has lost to Obama.
Now comes the good part. Can you imagine a presidential campaign in which Rick Santorum is the Republican candidate and Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Democratic candidate? Do you think we would even have to read the newspapers to know where we stand, to not even need a set of TV political debates to appreciate that vast Grand Canyon that separates the two?
All I can say is, "Wow." This would be the campaign everyone watching right now would hope for, root for, give up their vacations to watch.
Think of it: former Senator Rick Santorum vs. former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Let's dream of it together.
Oh, and thanks, Rick, for saving yourself for the Big One.
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i am reading your book on Kennedy. I have followed you for years. Tonight, your statements regarding Castro, were juvenile and beneath you.I thought you were one of the people who researched facts and formed opinions.Well, the fact of the matter is that Pres. Kennedy was ill-served by a group of cabinet members and "monied, interested exiled members," who fled Cuba when THEY lost control. Castro was very popular in the darker, amongst the less connected people of Cuba, when he led The Coup. Italians, Jews and a select few of Cubans benefitted from the exploitation of Cubans. Castro became a Communist because he was ostracized, and the Russians gave him support. It is up to the intelligent members of the Media to tell and report the truth. Compare Cuba's literacy to ours.Compare Cuba's mortality rate to ours-let's discuss these "cradle to grave," basic human rights, and the service requirements in place for Cuba's defense. I am what would be considered a Cubana Negrita. My great uncles were arrested by Bautista when he was a police sergeant. They were trying to feed their families with the sugar that was stolen from their lands. I'd love to have this debate IN CENTRAL PARK,so that Americans will know, what the World knows. The facts are the facts. The Miami-Cuban-Republican community will throw you to the wolves to buttress, protect and serve, their age-old whining and complaints.
Yes. NOBAMA on 2012, HILLARY ON 2016. I am down.
i see theres a scandal involving prostitutes and the obama admin lol bye bye obama
Chris, let Hillary go....not many would vote for Hill and First Man Bill. Though most WOULD if Santorum ran.
Besides, I seriously doubt she'll go for it, especially at almost 70 y/o. Let her enjoy her family and grandchildren yet to come. And Santorum? Do you honestly think he would win the nomination after this circus? Ha, maybe Romney will try again. He may be even more tone deaf than we think. Hell, I'd be enjoying a cold one on the gorgeous La Jolla Beach if I was him.
This is the silliest scenario I've heard in quite awhile. Perhaps jet lag from your Paris trip still in effect?
I'm not sure I agree with you. Bill still remains extremely popular. Despite the rights past efforts to trash Hillary she has been an excellent Sec of State and that's the professional right wing talking. They concentrated the whole of their hate machine on Obama.
Of course if she ran the Republicans would go back to hating her again simply because she would run as a Democrat but if she ran against Santorum I think even right wing women would vote for her (despite what they might say publicly).
obama wh laughing at romney reminds me of carter wh laughing at reagan.carter led reagan by double digits until about a month before the election. resulting in a reagan landslide. war on women is a joke. dems point at abc showing ob ama beating romney by 16 points with women. rcp poll average shows him beating romney by 7 points. by the way abc poll finished 17th in accuracy in 2008 election. lol are they just polling their newsroom? im feeling charitable tonight so ill give you dems some advice. sitting back and thinking obama has it made in nov is a huge mistake. romney has basically been out in the open taking hits by himself for months. in a few days karl rove will unleash 300 million$ in attack ads on obama . the rep party will circle around romney. obama now has a super pac, which he said is bad for politics. can this be possible? is obama the 2nd coming chris said he is or is he politics as usual. is he the 2nd term of carter? as obama campaign ran more negative ads in 2008 than any politician in history, this election will make that look like childs play . so if youre sitting back thinking this will be a easy boring election, i say put on your seatbelts. this one will make past elections pale in comparision. the fireworks are about to begin.
I like this post. Keep posting.
You've been listening to Republican talking points. Obama ran a very positive campaign. It was the Republicans who ran the negative campaign. But that's how the R's think. The truth is negative to you.
While it is true that Mitts super Pacs are huge and will be incredibly negative that might have an affect. We'll see. Personally I think it will just affect the Republican base. I think it will be the same as it was last time. The American public will respond to Obama positive campaign in a positive way and respond to the Republicans negative campaign in a negative way. That has been the national trend over the last 15 years despite the Bush results because they weren't valid.
As for your comment on women being a joke, well again just keep believe Republican talking points. 1100 pieces of legislation nationwide attacking women's rights are not a joke and are not imaginary. You may not believe it and the guys at News Corp and Clear Channel may not believe it but even the female leaders in your own party believe it.
Finally polls. I don't believe polls either. I believe statistics. These jokers who say "its all about the economy" are clueless. There are 15 to 20 statistical categories that matter to every American whether they know it or not. Any incumbent has to "win" in the minds of the public in at least half of those categories and Obama easily does. In far more than half. Romney on the other hand is too weak to "poll" strong in even three of those categories. Obama will crush Romney.
You're hilarious Chris. While everyone else is quick to tell everyone to ignore the polls regarding the 2012 outcome if they don't favor their candidate, you're not only already guessing who's going to run in 2016 but anticipating the battle.
I can't blame you. Obama is going to cream Mitt, and I sure all you guys in the media are not looking forward to trying to keep everyone excited about such a lopsided event for six months.
You should concentrate on the efforts to suppress voting and of course the Citizens United followed by the Affordable Care decisions by the SCOTUS. The direct and indirect efforts of the right to influence the election in ways other than policy are the real story here.
I think a show on Republican labeling would be funny as well. I love how they love to label things. For example I've heard at least 8 Republican's call themselves "small government conservatives" in the last 24 hours. I'm guessing that means they believe in government that works for the upper 1% only right? The lower 99% can vote and pay tax but that's all the government they need. We know that's what Romney, Cantor, McConnell and the Tea Party believe in anyway.
Chris, I very much like your persona and show, I am a fan! Please do not take this wrong, but when coming to JFK, I beginning to wonder if you have homo-erotic fantasy's, look it's weird?
He had a good come-back politically with Cuban Missile Crisis, it showed great leadership ability, but he is mainly known for being Catholic and getting his ass shot!
He also like Clinton (whom I think was good president) had very sordid sexual tastes, Clinton cigar, JFK watching subordinate banging young female staffer, whom he was banging!
Now I do not care whom either screws (better screwing some bimbo than the country), but I do care both of them so reckless with sexual behavior, they could not put "getting a nut" off by having coitus in front of and poor places that led to great appearance problem with critics, it truly hurt democrats by laying their sins on rest of us!
Do you think Gore would would have maybe won Tennessee (and election) if he did not have to contend with sexual nonsense that in turn gave ammo to holier than thou types? I know you want sell books, but timing is bad!
This is what i believe sed,Chris Atimes allowed FAST comments to the PUBLIC/What is the + whose? Running 2016?what is important is what you just said,about concentrate on voting suppression..In 1876 democrats loudly complained of the interference of the Federal Executive in southern election,and the Republicans in turn denounced the wrongs which were said to be inflicted on the COLOURED population.@
If Santorum's hatred for Gays were directed toward Blacks or Jews, his campaign would have been over the first week. He's just HITLER in a sweater vest. HATE is HATE !
guess youre forgetting obama is against gay marriage? why does obama hate gays?