Santorum summons former aides for 2016 meeting

[William Tell]

[h=2]Santorum summons former aides for 2016 meeting[/h]By Peter Hamby, CNN
Updated 3:51 PM ET, Mon January 5, 2015

Washington (CNN)Rick Santorum has invited former aides to Washington next week for a "private briefing" on his plans for a possible 2016 presidential bid.

The "Personal Invitation from Senator Santorum," provided to CNN by a Republican who received it, was sent by a Santorum aide to more than two dozen "friends and former colleagues" from past campaigns and his time in the U.S. House and Senate.
"As you probably know, RJS is seriously considering a run for the White House in 2016," Santorum adviser Matt Beynon wrote in the email, using Santorum's initials.
"With the midterms and the new year behind us, he is beginning the final stages of preparation and consideration of another campaign," Beynon wrote.
Santorum, he wrote, "would like to give you a personal update on his plans" at a "private briefing" on Jan. 13 at the offices of the American Continental Group, a lobbying and public affairs office in Washington.
Among the Santorum alumni invited to the session are a number of top lobbyists and political strategists who once worked for the former congressman and senator from Pennsylvania, including former George W. Bush spokesman Tony Fratto and former Republican National Committee finance director Rob Bickhart.
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Asked about the invitation, Beynon did little to elaborate on Santorum's thinking.
"The senator is gathering his former Capitol Hill senior staff to give them a personal update on his thinking and preparation for a potential presidential campaign," he told CNN. "He's very much looking forward to catching up with them."
At the meeting, Santorum will likely face questions about his path to victory should he seek the GOP nomination again, especially in the wake of Mike Huckabee's decision to quit his Fox News show in possible preparation for another White House bid. Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses in 2008 with support from social conservatives, the same voters who propelled Santorum to his Iowa win in 2012.
A field packed with conservatives like Huckabee, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and neurosurgeon Ben Carson could complicate Santorum's chances.
In the invitation, Beynon said Santorum was also underestimated in the 2012 race.

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[presence]

lolololol

 

[Cap]

Is it wrong to say that I get a warm feeling down my leg with the prospect of Santorum running?

 

[jjdoyle]

lolololol

It might be funny, if he didn't actually get more votes and win more states than Ron Paul did.
He is still paying off his campaign debt from 2012 though, so I'm guessing he'll run to raise more funds to help pay off that debt...if that is possible. If not, running to simply keep his name and fundraising efforts in the public light to pay off the debt eventually is probably one goal.

But, I don't see him as being a threat to anybody but someone like Mike Huckabee, MAYBE. Santorum benefited by coasting to victory not really attacked in Iowa, and that gave his campaign some breathing room and wind to further it later on. If he gets in, I would guess he might go heavily against Mike Huckabee in Iowa, but I have no clue why he would think Huckabee would lose the state. Huckabee seems like he has a more likable personality than Santorum, and Huckabee definitely knows how to "tickle the ears" of his base much better than Santorum ever did.

 

[Crashland]

I would say Santorum is to Huckabee, as Ted Cruz is to Rand Paul.

 

[TaftFan]

Is it wrong to say that I get a warm feeling down my leg with the prospect of Santorum running?

He makes you pee yourself?

 

[Jeremy]

If Huckabee runs, Santorum will struggle to get more than even a dozen votes.

 

[otherone]

Santorum summons former aides for 2016 meeting

 

[presence]

Is it wrong to say that I get a warm feeling down my leg with the prospect of Santorum running?

Excuse me? Why do you feel the need to tell us about the warm feeling you get when santorum is running down your leg?

 

[Mr.NoSmile]

Santorum and Huckabee, should they both run, would easily take most of the Solid South.

 

[r3volution 3.0]

We're going to have at least one of these socially conservative Bolsheviks.

Hopefully, we'll have two (or three or four) to split the vote.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

wow this jerk is still calling himself "Senator?" I didn't even like the fancy titles when I had one. Whatta freaking narcissist.

 

[jjdoyle]

wow this jerk is still calling himself "Senator?" I didn't even like the fancy titles when I had one. Whatta freaking narcissist.

Do you remember his ad, touting his "military" type experience in 2012? I forget what the claim was, but it was incredibly worded for the stupid sheeple.

 

[Kords21]

He has to stock up on sweater vests somehow. Gathering is former aides for a shopping trip.

 

[fisharmor]

The "spreading santorum" site no longer shows up on the first page of hits when I google his name.



Someone oughtta fix that.


It's certainly the most appropriate way to deal with him.

 

[William Tell]

The way to deal with Santorum is to pound it into every ones heads that he voted to give money to Planned Parenthood and North Korea.

 

[jjdoyle]

The way to deal with Santorum is to pound it into every ones heads that he voted to give money to Planned Parenthood and North Korea.

They don't care, he apparently hates the gays to them. And, that's enough for these idiots. Yes, I know some of them. Hypocrites, the lot of them.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

They don't care, he apparently hates the gays to them. And, that's enough for these idiots. Yes, I know some of them. Hypocrites, the lot of them.

I wish this were not true, but in my experience it is. Satan himself could step up and so long as he said he hates gay people the "Christians" would vote for it in droves.

 

[William Tell]

I wish this were not true, but in my experience it is. Satan himself could step up and so long as he said he hates gay people the "Christians" would vote for it in droves.

Whatever you guys think. But most I know would gravitate towards another candidate if they knew theirs funded planned parenthood. Maybe not to Rand Paul, but away from Santorum. I certainly don't know many who would pick Santorum over Carson or Cruz as things stand.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Whatever you guys think. But most I know would gravitate towards another candidate if they knew theirs funded planned parenthood. Maybe not to Rand Paul, but away from Santorum. I certainly don't know many who would pick Santorum over Carson or Cruz as things stand.

I raised this issue in the 2012 campaign with some seriously hard core anti-abortion people and they said it can't be true, it's all lies. The media is trying to make him out to be something he's not. Any quotes are doctored. Any voting record demonstrates that there must have been something else in the budget he was voting for. He's the only real Christian because he's the only one right on the gays.

I mean, I will not hesitate to use it again, because if they are going to be hypocrites, I am going to make their hypocrisy HURT. As in cognitive dissonance. In 2012 though, I lost every illusion I ever had that it would actually change a Santorumite's vote.

Mind you 2016 could be different. 2012 was different for Ron than was 2008, so it could work in 2016 where it didn't in 2012. But it sure as hell didn't work in 2012. I tried.

Like I said though, even after it was shown not to work I kept doing it just to twist the knife in the hypocrite pieces of crap. They may have cast their vote for this 'abortionist christian' but I like to think I helped to make casting that vote at least hurt a little. :-/