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Related: About this forumSantorum seeks to rebrand himself ahead of 2016
The Des Moines Register:
By Josh Hafner
The day after a forum of Republican stars unofficially kicked off the presidential campaign season in Iowa, Rick Santorum traveled to the place that helped launch him to caucus victory in 2012: northwest Iowa.
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2015/01/25/santorum-rebrand-ahead-campaign/22329969/
Frothy Saintorum - bigot, racist, theocrat... Just what we need in the White House...
merrily
(45,251 posts)According to Colbert, lots of googling helps ensure that the reference will come up first when Santorum's name is googled.
Talk about your painless activism!
If people succeed in rebranding themselves via campaign rhetoric, especially people who ran before on different rhetoric, Americans are dumber than I thought.
Panich52
(5,829 posts)Forgot about making sure Frothy was pg1 Google (he bitched abt that in 2008).
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Freddie
(9,267 posts)McCain: candidate in 2008, "first runner up" in 2000
Romney: candidate in 2012, "first runner up" in 2008
Frothy: "first runner up" in 2012
CincyDem
(6,363 posts)Freddie
(9,267 posts)But it would be kinda fun to have him be the candidate.
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)Man-on-dog Santorum.
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)davidpdx
(22,000 posts)is to screw the pooch on national TV.
beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)I frankly don't believe the Republicans will nominate him; I think they'll go with another plutocrat like Romney. But if he happens to come out on top (pun intended), and the Democrats run Hillary, Frothy could have a serious shot at being president.
Why? Economic issues. Santorum's always posed as an economic populist, and as long as he stays on that message, while Hillary sucks up to Wall Street, you can forget the votes of about millions of unemployed workers who Hoped for Change in 2008.
By all means, ridicule Santorum. He's ridiculous. But we write him off at our peril.
sakabatou
(42,158 posts)blue neen
(12,322 posts)From the article: "Rather, Santorum 2.0 plans to push Republicans to unify as "the party of the worker."
What a joke.