in 2000, when we saw very similar sort of situation lay play out, if you remember george w. bush, essentially people thought he had put the nomination away. he was in a better position than mitt romney is today. but he was the establishment favorite. he had all of the endorsements lined up in michigan. it was supposed to be the end. john mccain beat him in 2000 in michigan, largely with the help of independents and democrats who voted for mccain. santorum is nothing like the candidate john mccain was for sure. but trying to enlist the other side. we ve seen this talk about this a couple of cycles ago when rush limbaugh talked about operation chaos in 2008. so it s not unheard of before that people have thought along these lines. rick santorum is trying to run a campaign that is a working-class campaign. put this culture war stuff aside. on economics he s been trying to campaign appealing to blue collar voters. argue about the effectiveness of this campaign. but he is trying to run a
the workforce. and for santorum to then come out and make fun of the idea of getting something beyond just a high school diploma, i mean, santorum and these kinds of candidates don t even notice their own inconsistency in these things. not only that. i think what you see there is he s clearly out of the mainstream what was most people think. he s making this easy for you democrats, isn t it? that is such an alien thing that he s saying, it s alien to the american dream, american expectation. alien to the reality today that when you look at who s disproportionately out of work the longest? it s folks that don t have a high school degree. then after them, it s folks who only have a high school degree. the people who are getting back to work the quickest are people with a college degree or some college, some skill. so it doesn t reflect where we are in terms of unemployment it ser and where we are in terms of the new economy. mitt romney was just on fox news kind of echoing santor
of which have been discussed on this program in great depth. my argument at the end piece is simply to say that if the republicans lose this race to barack obama, and one of my main reporting points in the piece is to say that most elite republicans now believe that they are consigned to defeat this fall with either of these candidates, that there will be a reaction to that loss and the reaction will be counter to trying to learn the lessons of what happened in 2012. if mitt romney is the nominee and his brand of republican conservative is seen as having blown this election you ll see the republican party veer even further to the populist right the. if santorum were to blow the election or lose to barack obama you might be able to see the republican party realizing that it s gone way too far into culture warrior, grassroots populism and try to make itself way back towards a more constructive brand of conservatism and one that would serve the country well if they were to find their wa
when he spoke at the national prayer breakfast, spoke about the way that his faith sort of informs his character, certainly. but it is not that in that his role as president, but he s not beholden to his faith. and that sort of balance of church and state in that line in a way that who knows what santorum s really talking about. you know, i do agree with rick santorum that everyone should read that speech. i read it today and i wish i could just keep playing long pieces of it. it s really an amazing speech. bill o reilly is now saying that santorum has gone a little bit too far. he just said this tonight on his show. if santorum would simply pull back a bit and say to the federal government, hey, leave religious institutions alone, don t interfere with them, he would be on the side of the angels, pardon the pun. so while rick santorum is rallying some evangelical voters to his cause he s making a major mistake in trying to link religious belief with public
every kid doesn t want to go to college but i think we should aspire to let every child reach his maximum or her maximum potential. if senator santorum s against that, i don t think that makes my sense and i certainly don t think the president s a snob for saying that. i think that s probably over the line. and just minutes ago on fox news, here is rick santorum repeating his lie about what president obama said. and then he comes out and says, everybody should go to college. i mean, this is the kind of stuff that i think people have had enough of. we can manage our lives very well, mr. president. just give us opportunity. joining me now is los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa, national co-chair of the obama 2012 campaign and the 2012 democratic national convention chairman. mr. mayor, it seems whenever we hear a republican candidate begin a line with the president said, the audience should assume what they re about to hear is a lie.