Election 2012

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

Buzzfeed
9/15/12
Rick Santorum Says "Smart People Will Never Be On Our Side"

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Ironically demonstrating a high-water mark of his own intelligence.

Yes, but he was speaking sarcastically. There are smart conservatives. I don't consider Santorum one of them, but taking his words out of context is just as bad as anyone else doing it "I like to fire people" (actually true in Romney's case) or "you didn't build that" from Obama, not actually what he said.

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by BigV

Yes, but he was speaking sarcastically. There are smart conservatives.
I don't consider Santorum one of them, but taking his words out of context
is just as bad as anyone else doing it "I like to fire people" (actually true in Romney's case)
or "you didn't build that" from Obama, not actually what he said.

Ummmm....

This Huffinton Post link has the video of Santorum's talk.

The link I posted above was not a word-for-word transcription, but
IMO it certainly did not take his remarks out of context.
And IMO, he was not speaking sarcastically.

I feel he was being very serious, and knew exactly the point he was making.

[glatt]

He said that his job “is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Is he saying that his job in the campaign is not to worry about half the country, or his job as president is not to worry about half the country?

If it's the former, that's too bad, but it's just basic strategy of figuring out which votes you can win and focusing on those. If it's the later, and he's writing off half the country that he'll bother with as president, that's very serious. If he got elected, I'd call for his immediate impeachment. You can't have a president writing off half the country, regardless of politics.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by glatt

Is he saying that his job in the campaign is not to worry about half the country, or his job as president is not to worry about half the country?

Don't be stupid. He is saying that his job in the campaign is not to worry about half the country. We all know his job as president is to not worry about 98% of the country.