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Rick Santorum, the socially conservative former Pennsylvania senator, has made a surprise return to the front of the pack in the GOP presidential nominating contest, winning resounding victories in Minnesota and Missouriand taking the shine off of Mitt Romney's frontrunner status.
Mr Santorum's strong showing on Tuesday in the non-binding Minnesota Causus an Missouri Primary will not help him win the delegates needed to secure the nomination, but it will give a much neededpsychological boost, following weeks of speculation that he would have to pull out after poor perfomances in other states since his opening victory in Iowa. It will likely trigger a new wave of of donations to his floundering campaign.
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this is quite the struggle between the eisenhower
wing and the goldwater wing of the party…but here is the rub…barry goldwater was NOT a social conservative
he was a foreign policy true conservative and a fiscal
conservative..(read conscience of a conservative by
barry m goldwater) Santorum and his fellow travelers
on the right want to get the government out of your
pockets…and into your bedrooms…barry used to say
you don’t have to be straight to shooot straight.and
that is the singularly most important reason that distinguishes the goldwater/reagan wing of that day
from the religious zealotry wing of today…romnney
may or may not be able to defeat obama..but santorum
gingrich paul and anyone else holding far right social
views looses big time