Little Ricky won the Kansas caucuses today. When I read this I wanted to throw up.
In Wichita, where thousands gathered for what was called the state’s largest caucus, Karen Santorum spoke on behalf of her husband, who was campaigning in Missouri. Mrs. Santorum emphasized her husband’s dedication to limited government and to being “a greater fighter for life.”
But the speech was most notable for how personal it was, with Mrs. Santorum offering embarrassed “thank you’s” when the crowd applauded and choking up while describing the couple’s daughter born with severe birth defects.
She said she had not wanted her husband to run for president. “Eventually Rick said, ‘Honey, can you pray about this? I believe God is calling me.’ ”
“What did it for us was two things,” she said. “No. 1, believing this was God’s will for our family. And No. 2, Obamacare.”
She used a biblical reference to describe his campaign, calling him the David facing off against many Goliaths.
“He’s not blown and tossed by the wind of political correctness,” she said. “He is who he is.”
If God is calling for Rick Santorum to be the president of the United States he must be done with that whole blessing thing.
The blessing thing never had much traction. He seems to be back in his element, sending plagues, fire, and floods. I just thought of a new game: match the 7 plagues with the 7 dwarfs, who were presumably also called up by the post-Jesus Christians’ god. Except I don’t recall the Egyptians having to endure assaults of psychopathy, tedium, or mendacity.
In that model, I guess the US has already felt the ravages of the Grumpy, Dopey and Sleepy plagues. Oh, and depending on how you feel about Obamacare, maybe Doc.
But he lost Guam.
and Santorum lost North Marianas Island and Virgin Islands and some Wyoming delegates shifted in favor of Romney.
The whole day was close to a wash with Romney and Santorum winning about the same total of delegates.
Romney is in the running for AL and MS (incredibly) plus he will do well in HI and American Samoa this week.
Then Illinois coming up fast.
Looks like Santorum is running surprisingly well in IL at this point. The state still has something left of a traditional GOP base that may or may not have the heart to go to the polls for this primary.
This is entirely possible, on the evidence of the last…ohhhh, say 50 years or so.
“God” is big, baby…big as the universe. Big things seem to move very slowly to us little things. 50 Years? Just an instant between “I’m done wif y’all” and “KA-POW!” as far as the universe is concerned.
Bet on it.
AG
I think we’ve finally solved the riddle, “What’s the matter with Kansas?” Answer: “something.”
wichita, imnsho, is one of, if not the most racist, bigoted and bible thumping cities in kansass.
it’s ground zero for kansass teahadists: a mega church on every corner, blacks [still commonly referred to as ni**ers…amongst the right people…wink, wink, nudge, nudge] de facto segregated into the northern part of the city in what is essentially a ghetto, and an underlying level of violence normally associated with the much deeper south. not to mention it’s the home base of the uber conservative…nee: fascist…koch family as well as any number of outre anti-abortion/gummit/taxes/etc zealots.
hell, they elected brownback governor.
frothys’ like a homey to these yahoos.
Yet the same state elected Kathleen Sebelius not once but twice for Governor. Kansas is a veritable land of contradictions.
You Progressives are pathetic, you parade around, pretending you are ‘for the little guy”, but then you proceed to tell the ‘Little Guy” how he is a victim of the “big guy”…you m-fers are the biggest obstacles to “poor” people becoming “Rich”…Get Out Of The Way! We Will make everyone Rich…leave us alone!!!
this outburst is confusing.
And weirdly amusing.
It’s been 30 years since the Reagan Revolution and I ain’t “rich” yet. Y’all better hurry up!
Well…I was once really poor…dirt poor…I had to donate my blood plasma to pay for groceries…now I am “Rich”, an Evil one-percenter…I really want every human being to experience this transformation…I want everyone to be “Rich”…
I guess he rode Brownback’s support into the caucus.
So, some hokey shit about a calling and affordable care for all made him run? Wow. Not a formula for success when one considers the things with which he would be entrusted.
OT, but every time there’s a pic of Santorum on the podium with his family, I see that one daughter of his standing behind him and I always wonder, was she the little girl in that famous pic taken from his concession speech in 2006, the one clutching the teddy bear and crying, or is that a different daughter? Even 6 years doesn’t seem enough to account for the age disparity, but the face sure is the same.
Didn’t God also call Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann? I hate to say it, but God seems a bit…promiscuous.
Little Ricky is not polling too badly in the Land of Lincoln. Romney will have to spend a lot of money in Illinois for the March 20 primary. He started with negative ads against Santorum the day after Super Tuesday.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-illinois-poll-20120311,0,1617767.story
I live in Illinois and just last week I was very certain that there was no way that Santorum could take Illinois. Now I see that he and Romney are virtually tied in the polls for the Illinois primary. I am flabbergasted.
Illinois’s GOP is more split than elsewhere between a fairly potent base in the George Ryan/Kirk/Percy tradition and an strongly insurgent extremist contingent. I think the primary result will largely depend on whether the traditionalists have the heart to turn out for somebody as uninspiring as Romney. Ron Paul may well turn out to be the savior of Romney’s plurality, though.