During the week that ended Sunday, Newt Gingrich held eight campaign events and Mitt Romney held nine. Rick Santorum held 15 events last week, and that may ultimately explain why Santorum continues his otherwise inexplicable surge in the Republican presidential race: He is simply out-working his opponents.
Ever since Iowa, where he famously visited all 99 counties before surging to an upset win over Romney in the final week before the Jan. 3 caucuses, Santorum has consistently appeared at more public events than either of his chief GOP rivals. Excepting only the last weekend of January — when he returned home to get his tax returns and stayed to visit with his ailing 3-year-old daughter — Santorum has almost always held more events each day than either Gingrich or Romney. Some days, Santorum appears at more campaign events than the other two combined. Monday, Santorum did two events in Ohio and two in Michigan. Tuesday, he traveled to Arizona for two more events, and today he will speak at a Tea Party rally in Tucson before tonight’s debate in Mesa (8 p.m. Eastern, CNN).
The national media, while spending the past week hopping from one Santorum-related “controversy” to another, have paid little attention to the former Pennsylvania senator’s unsurpassed diligence as a candidate. If all you knew about the Santorum campaign was what you learned from the media, you might be excused for believing that he has surged to the top of the Republican presidential field because (a) he’s a scary religious kook, and (b) so are GOP primary voters.
Day after day, ever since it became clear that Santorum is the last man standing between Romney and the Republican nomination, a drumbeat of hostile media coverage has followed Santorum everywhere. When he described President Obama’s allegiance to radical environmentalism as a secular “theology,” this was seized on as evidence that Santorum was questioning Obama’s professed Christianity. After draining the last ounce of outrage from that controversy — which they had, of course, created — the media then evidently decided that the public should be alarmed because of something Santorum said at a Catholic university four years ago. His August 2008 remarks during a speech at Ave Maria University in Florida, to the effect that Satan was especially targeting the United States for destruction, were a banner headline all day Tuesday on the Drudge Report, and even so staunch a conservative as Rush Limbaugh said, “Santorum will have to deal with it. He’ll have to answer it.”
It should not be necessary to explain the recording and transcript of Santorum’s Ave Maria speech did not make its way into the media by mere happenstance, but was in all likelihood unearthed by opposition researchers for some other campaign. The shadow of suspicion would naturally fall on Romney’s well-funded operation, but one cannot rule out the possibility that Obama’s own re-election campaign was responsible, because there is good reason to believe that Santorum’s rise in the GOP field has alarmed Team Obama.
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Of course, no mention of Ron Paul who outworks them all. You can see in the many videos taken of many of the events the candidates hold where the three amigos’ crowds range from a handful of supporters to a couple hundred as compared to Ron Paul’s crowds ranging from 5-6 hundred to 5-6 thousand enthusiastic supporters. But don’t expect any mention of this fact in the MSM. The R3VOLution is not being televised, but that doesn’t mean that it is not happening. GO RON PAUL! 2012
Of course there’s no need to mention Ron Paul because the man is a complete disaster and the voting public knows it which explains why he hasn’t and won’t get any traction for this presidential campaign just as he failed before when he ran as a third party candidate. You have to have a suicidal death wish to back Ron Paul because that’s exactly what would befall us and our allies if he were President given his adamant isolationist worldview. And of course there’s his infamous newsletters which bespeak so eloquently of the man’s moral turpitude vis-a-vis racism and anti-semitism. He’s just about anti-everything that America has stood for in the past. I give him credit for wanting to audit the Federal Reserve and that’s it. I suppose when he doesn’t get the nomination those who support him now will immediately join the Obama camp. That would figure. His outlook for America can best be characterized as no shining city on a hill rather just another trash dump that needs cleaning up and swept out.
I got some news for you smoki, Ron Paul just won Iowa and the proof is out there that he’s won the other debates also. Your trash dump is what Obama is trying to make of America, it won’t happen, ever. Watch the debates and caucus from now on, we’ve learned. Videos will now record all the voting and the ballots will be read aloud. No more secrets and slime maneuvers. Vote Ron Paul 2012. End these unconstitutional wars, bring the troops home and protect our borders. Audit the Fed and balance the budget. Vote all the Dems and RINO’s out. It’s gonna happen smoki, if you like it or not.
I meant to say in the poll taken exactly a year later with the same demography, Ron Paul was the outstanding winner.
“Now comes word that a poll (Iowa Poll, the match-ups 2-19-12) in the key swing state of Iowa shows Paul besting Obama over all other Republican candidates. Paul leads Obama by seven points, according to the poll conducted by the Des Moines Register” (http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=66551250&msgid=2062623&act=EDO1&c=934234&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.desmoinesregister.com%2Fdmr%2Findex.php%2F2012%2F02%2F19%2Fiowa-poll-the-match-ups-paul-does-best-vs-obama-then-santorum-romney%2F).