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Saying he'd look for a "strong and principled conservative" as a running mate should he win the Republican presidential nomination, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum tells Newsmax that he certainly would consider rival Newt Gingrich for that vital role.
When asked if he would consider the former House Speaker as number two on his ticket, Santorum said Gingrich had been "tested" by the bruising GOP race and that makes him an attractive vice presidential candidate.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Santorum to Newsmax: I'd Consider Gingrich for VP
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http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/santorum-gingrich-runningmate-alabama/2012/03/08/id/431942
Now that's a winning ticket.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Just what America needs.
GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)A turd sandwich and a glass of steaming piss myself.
Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)Beavis and Butthead. Which is which?
Enrique
(27,461 posts)President Santorum, with VP Gingrich and Speaker Louie Gohmert (Boehner's days are numbered) behind him.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)He'd need to hire a food taster and someone to cover his back 24/7.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)...and I still don't.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)since odds are Rmoney won't have enough to win the nomination.
cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Santorum could deliver the South in a contest with Obama.
Come to think of it, he probably wouldn't need Newt or Santorum for that. The South will vote for anyone but Obama.
GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)The trouble right now with voter flip flop is this- Obama promised results and so far hasn't been able to deliver. I believe that's because he has a Gopper Congress fighting everything he tries to do tooth and claw. So now, after just four years and Obama hasn't fixed eight years of Dublya's royal fuck-ups and voters want to turn right back over to the Gopps. You have to LEAVE a bandage in place long enough for it to fix anything. Tear it right back off and the sore just festers. It will take longer than four years of Democracy to fix eight epic years of having the GOP drop load after load of runny shit on us. It may well take decades....the problem won't be solved by flip-flopping back and forth.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Someone has not been paying attention.
This was my standard response to these types of posts. It is outdated now but still is valid, as far as it goes. I don't see any reason to update it at this point since President Obama has done a stellar job and everyone paying attention knows it.
Two great choices for Supreme Court.
The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
The Matthew Shepard Hates Crimes Prevention Act (which they said could not be done)
Children's Health Insurance
Tobacco Regulation
Credit Card Reform
Student Loan Reform
The Stimulus (including the largest tax cut ever, the largest investment in clean energy ever, the single largest investment in education in our country ever)
Health Reform
Wall Street Reform
The New G.I. Bill
The Food Safety Modernization Act (the most expansive food reform bill since the 1930s)
The Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal
The New Start Treaty (even when the (R)s said he would never be able to get it passed)
Locking up over half the loose nuclear material in the world in less than half of his first term, something most (R)s thought impossible.
Most of that list is from The Rachel Maddow Show and is included in this clip
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#4077 ...
In that clip she also estimates that ~85% of what President Obama said he wanted to accomplish in his first term had been accomplished in the first half of his first term.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Two guys who want to be King of the United States, running on the same ticket.
GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)Never heard of a king and a vice king, have you?
Initech
(100,088 posts)IcyPeas
(21,894 posts)GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)SANTORUM makes me want to throw up.
GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)I would consider forgetting about whom I would consider for V.P. That presupposes that you have some kind of astronomically unlikely chance at getting into the White House in the first place!
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)would they cancel each other out?
julian09
(1,435 posts)He can't say that Gingrich can't be president, in one breath then in next say he would want him as VP.
EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)At least for us.
nolabear
(41,987 posts)I'd give him six months, tops, before a terrible accident made Newt our first amphibian president.