What’s wrong with Santorum? This

(H/T Hot Air)

The following reasons are why Rick Santorum is not working as a potential for the white house:

  1. Santorum is what I like to call, “A Soft Statist.” When it comes to big business and business in general, he is all down with the federalists. However, when it comes to the libertarians he is totally against them and has made some very disparaging comments about them too.
  2. Santorum is Catholic and the Middle America and the Midwestern states are not that trusting of the Papists like Santorum. It goes back to the protestant/catholic mistrust thing that goes back a very long time. I mean, there were them things called the inquisitions  in which many of my Christian and Baptist forefathers were horrifically slaughtered by the Roman Catholic Church.  Many people have not forgotten about that. It was big issue when Kennedy ran for President.
  3. Populism – Santorums Sarah Palin style populism is just not going to play out those parts of the Country. As it says below, many of the people in that part of the Country are small business owners, farmers, and just plain folks who are simply not interested in hearing about how horrible some people have it.

Basically, Rick’s old hat. He ain’t got a prayer.

Rick Santorum was the returning champion at the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition forum on Saturday. But inside Waukee, Iowa’s Point of Grace Church, it certainly didn’t feel like it.After his upset victory in the 2012 Iowa caucus – driven largely by the state’s powerful evangelical voting bloc – many expected the former Pennsylvania senator to be welcomed back with open arms. But compared to the other eight Republican candidates present at the Des Moines-area conference, Santorum’s speech fell strangely flat.The audience didn’t clap much, and when they did it was usually polite and perfunctory. Lines that felt like they were meant to be showstoppers were at times met with awkward silences.Part of that may have been due to his choice of subject matter. While speakers like Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal emphasized Christian credentials and Rand Paul and Scott Walker pushed muscular foreign policies, Santorum was selling a populist economic message that didn’t seem to land.He called the Republican Party’s supply-side, free trade message outdated and pushed for a minimum wage hike. “We’re keeping down the wages of American families,” he said. “We need to say we’re on the side of American workers.”Observers believe Santorum may be misreading his audience this time around. “It didn’t resonate,” said Dennis Goldford, a professor of politics at Des Moines’ Drake University. “Santorum sort of moved to that blue-collar conservatism, populist kind of approach . . . That’s not what will sell this particular crowd.”

Source: Santorum Falls Flat with Iowa Evangelicals, Despite 2012 Caucus Win | National Review Online

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