The GOP’s medieval contender Rick Santorum has surged past the GOP’s wannabe Conservative candidate Mitt Romney for front-runner status in four national presidential polls. The Republican nomination that at one point looked to be a Romney rout but has devolved into an ugly, lengthy battle. So far the big winner in all of this is President Obama as the President has opened up his biggest lead in months over these two extremely weak GOP contenders.
President Obama now leads Romney, 52% to 44%, in a potential presidential matchup, according to the Pew Research Center and also has a 10-point lead on Santorum in the survey. A separate CNN survey found Obama’s favorable rating jumping to 53%, with Romney at 34% and Santorum at 32%. The President has seen his popularity rise amid a series of political victories including yesterday’s big victory in outflanking the GOP on the payroll-tax cut extension.
President Obama has benefitted by staying under the radar during this nasty Republican primary battle. These two guys are their own worst enemies. Mitt Romney is seen as your stereotypical rich guy who stashes money in the Cayman Islands. Romney’s biggest achievements to date are Romneycare and paying a 14% tax rate on $42 million in income last year. His real Achilles' heel is that he has no connection at all to the middle class at all. His disloyalty to the middle class in his own home state of Michigan can be summed up in a New York Times op-ed that he wrote that carried the headline "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt”. Mitt Romney felt the bailouts that saved jobs in Michigan should not have been made. How quickly Mitt forgot about the people back home that depended on the auto industry to put food on the table, pay mortgages, send the kids to college.
Then you have the most extreme right-wing ideologue in Rick Santorum to ever run in a presidential primary. Santorum’s social views are beyond extreme. Despite the fact that 95% of women have used one form of contraception or another, Rick Santorum believes “contraception is not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm but not to procreate.” That was Rick Santorum a few months ago not in 1950. Santorum even opposes abortion in cases of rape. In an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan he tried to clarify his reasoning. Insisting that “it’s not a matter of religious values,” Santorum explained that sexual assault victims should “accept this horribly created” pregnancy because it is “nevertheless a gift in a very broken way” and that, when it comes down to it, a victim just has “to make the best out of a bad situation”.
Santorum’s medieval views do not stop with women. In an interview with the Associated Press (AP), Santorum went on record saying mutually consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts. He described the ability to regulate consensual homosexual acts as comparable to the states' ability to regulate other consensual and non-consensual sexual behavior, such as adultery, polygamy, child molestation, incest, and bestiality. He believes that decriminalizing homosexuality would threaten society and the family, as they are not monogamous and heterosexual.
Rick Santorum is unelectable because of his extreme social agenda. He basically wants to shove his moral compass down the throats of every American. There is no separation of church and state with this guy.Romney’s negatives are his vulture capitalism, Romney care, and his inability to relate to the average American. In this writer's opinion, both of these guys have a snowball's chance in hell to beat President Obama.
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