While it’s a great ad, and should be used again, this jumped out at me…
Disappointed in @ChrisChristie. Taking my words completely out of context. Expected so much more from my friend. #TeamMarco
Christie doesn’t have friends, you dullard! He only sees people as objects to be jettisoned if it helps his ambitions. That’s why he’s a giant piece of shit.
didn’t you mean preperation H?
Actually, Christie was doing Santorum a favor taking it out of context.
The right asks the same question about Hillary.
Santorum is done politically. He got blown out of the Senate after just one term, and he massively misread his 2012 campaign. It had nothing to do with his ability to attract voters…he was merely the last “not-Romney” left standing. Largely because he was the least considered and least threatening. Once the sights were finally turned on him, he wilted and died like all the other under the Romney money bombs.
Sadly though, he is far too young to ride off into the sunset of retirement, and a little too stupid and lacking in meanness and charisma to get a gig as a regular pundit. So I am guessing lobbying for some religious group.
This was my favourite part of his campaign, and provides a lot of insight into the hubris of some of these folks. To any thinking person it was obvious – obvious – that Santorum’s success was a flash in the pan, and his natural equilibrium was somewhere between political obscurity and pop culture laughing stock. To Santorum, though, his brief period atop the polls was the only noteworthy part of the experience.
Reminds me of when I was quite young and desperately wanted to be a great tennis player. Each shot I hit into the net was dismissed in my head as an aberration, whereas the great shots showed “my true ability”. Never mind that the former greatly outnumbered the latter, and that you’re going to hit a few good ones just by random chance if you play enough. I grew out of that mindset when I was about eight… but that’s still Santorum’s take on his political fortunes. Totally convinced of his greatness, totally lacking in self-awareness of his mediocrity.
“My friend.” Isn’t that political PC for calling him a M’fer?
The political ramifications of being the party of “No.” are coming home to roost. For eight years the GOP has had one goal. Obstruction. The consequence being that in that time they achieved nothing.
I’m not surprised the Christie campaign would sink this low, but you have to question their ability to foresee how this will play out. You couldn’t have drawn up a much better ad for Democrats. Whether it is Cruz, Trump or Rubio*, this is the theme the Democrats should pick up and run with toward the endzone. Sanders could create some vicious attack ads against Clinton, but he knows that in the long run if he doesn’t get the nomination, a severely weakened Clinton campaign would be disastrous for the Dems down ticket and for the country. Christie? Not so much. If the GOP really believed what they stand for was best for the country, and not for special interests and their own aspirations, they would have found a way to come together around a standard bearer to challenge Cruz and Trump.
*(I have thought it would be Rubio since the first debate, and continue to think so. I really think the delegate math will not allow Cruz or Trump to win),
More like Desperation H