Santorum v. Tim Russert
Junior Was There In Body, Absent In Mind. Russert Stood In For Him.
By Erick Posted in 2006 — Comments (6) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Junior was such a poor debate opponent in the Meet the Press debate, Tim Russert wound up standing in for him. SantorumBlog liveblogged the debate, which once again proved Santorum is underestimated and Junior is a lightweight.
This is a good time to bring this back up:
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Santorum not a natural? He is bar none the most important republican in Congress because he IS A NATURAL at articulating conservative policy. Laffey is not nearly as charismatic
Hey, I'll also give, so far, Russert some credit - he has attempted to corner both Casey and Santorum. Although, it is much harder to corner Santorum, since he knows and understands why he does things.
If there is any doubt in a voter's mind that Bob Casey, if elected, is just going to go to Washington and become another nondescript, do-whatever-the-Dem-leadership-tells-him-to-do- Senator, then the voters of Pennsylvania are dumber than I thought.
But, if that's what your electorate wants up there, so be it. He will never distinguish himself, but he'll probably provide pretty good pork back to the state, and he'll be a reliably Liberal vote for Hillary, Schumer, et.al. And if you're a pro-life voter who leans D, and you're voting for Casey b/c of his pro-life stance, I'll bet you a weeks salary that in a few years, his views will "evolve" and he'll be just another former pro-life Democrat.
While Santorum may lose this election, he at least can do so honorably, and knowing that he stood up for what he believed in. Because you can tell that Santorum actually believes the things he says, it's easy for him speak in a debate. It's obvious Casey has to think about the talking points he's been given and must try very hard to stay on the D point.
I don't know what Casey believes in here any more than any other Democrat.
santorum beat the hell out of casey on debate points but he came off as to aggresive and a warmonger. i doubt this will help him much with Pa. voters, Casey seems intelligent but not articulate, seemes like he was on valium.
last poll i saw (usa today) had rick down between 14-18 points.
Seems like all casey has to do is shut up and say as little as possible until the election to win .
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...Steve Laffey, Rhode Island, was excellent on "This Week." What a natural. Watching Laffey was just refreshing. Santorum is less of a "natural," but he does his homework and knows the facts--something increasingly rare these days.