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Santorum whines and gets Secret Service protection
Mopeder ~ Proud American
2012/03/03 12:20:22
By Amy Oliver
27th February 2012
They are neck and neck in the polls.
And now Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is catching up with rival Mitt Romney in the security stakes too.
The 53-year-old is expected to get Secret Service protection from tomorrow, according to an administration official with knowledge of the plan.
Secret Service protection is granted to each major party's presidential nominee but can be provided earlier if the Homeland Security Department approves a campaign's request.
Federal law allows candidates to seek protection if they meet a series of standards, including public prominence as measured by polls and fundraising.
The campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich requested Secret Service protection last week and is awaiting word on whether he will receive it, a person close to the campaign said yesterday.
Former Massachusetts Governor Romney is currently the only candidate to have Secret Service protection, which was granted on February 1.
Santorum has stormed ahead in the last month to nose just ahead of Romney in the polls.
Currently he leads 32.9 per cent to Romney's 29.0 per cent, according to data from RealClear Politics.
In back-to-back speeches over the weekend Santorum hit out at Barack Obama calling him 'a snob' for saying every American child should be able to go to college.
'Why does Obama want everybody to go to college? So his liberal college professors can be indoctrinating people like he has,' Santorum said, drawing a long ovation.
He also condemned the idea of a separation between the state and the church.
President John F Kennedy had made the idea a key part of his 1960 campaign with an impassioned speech. This weekend Santorum said that speech had made him 'feel sick'.
Santorum laid in to President Obama too, slamming his apology for the burning of Korans at a U.S base in Afghanistan.
He added that Afghanistan should apologise to the U.S. for the deaths of four U.S. soldiers during six days of violence sparked by the incident.
'There was nothing deliberately done wrong here,' Santorum told ABC's This Week.
'This was something that happened as a mistake. Killing Americans in uniform is not a mistake. It was something that deliberate.'
Both Santorum and Romney are gearing up for a close race in the Michigan and Arizona primaries tomorrow.
dailymail.co.uk
27th February 2012
They are neck and neck in the polls.
And now Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is catching up with rival Mitt Romney in the security stakes too.
The 53-year-old is expected to get Secret Service protection from tomorrow, according to an administration official with knowledge of the plan.
Secret Service protection is granted to each major party's presidential nominee but can be provided earlier if the Homeland Security Department approves a campaign's request.
Federal law allows candidates to seek protection if they meet a series of standards, including public prominence as measured by polls and fundraising.
The campaign of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich requested Secret Service protection last week and is awaiting word on whether he will receive it, a person close to the campaign said yesterday.
Former Massachusetts Governor Romney is currently the only candidate to have Secret Service protection, which was granted on February 1.
Santorum has stormed ahead in the last month to nose just ahead of Romney in the polls.
Currently he leads 32.9 per cent to Romney's 29.0 per cent, according to data from RealClear Politics.
In back-to-back speeches over the weekend Santorum hit out at Barack Obama calling him 'a snob' for saying every American child should be able to go to college.
'Why does Obama want everybody to go to college? So his liberal college professors can be indoctrinating people like he has,' Santorum said, drawing a long ovation.
He also condemned the idea of a separation between the state and the church.
President John F Kennedy had made the idea a key part of his 1960 campaign with an impassioned speech. This weekend Santorum said that speech had made him 'feel sick'.
Santorum laid in to President Obama too, slamming his apology for the burning of Korans at a U.S base in Afghanistan.
He added that Afghanistan should apologise to the U.S. for the deaths of four U.S. soldiers during six days of violence sparked by the incident.
'There was nothing deliberately done wrong here,' Santorum told ABC's This Week.
'This was something that happened as a mistake. Killing Americans in uniform is not a mistake. It was something that deliberate.'
Both Santorum and Romney are gearing up for a close race in the Michigan and Arizona primaries tomorrow.
dailymail.co.uk
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Hmmm. Considering Wolowitz's creepy sexuality....
Imagine the foofooraw there would be if he got himself shot and there was NO SS coverage on him! The radical conservatives would instantly make out that the Obama Administration had left Santorum hung out to dry.
Of course, should anything happen to Santorum they'll scream and moan about something or other anyway.
If you remember there were several VERY incompetent "attempts" on his life shortly after he won the election.
Incidentally, I don't recall him getting SS protection in mid-2007 but more like the first quarter of 2008. Are you sure about the timing?
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I sorta recall you telling me that the Koch brothers were the ones funding Herman Cain and the Tea Party. Now you are saying they aren't gonna help anyone but Romney?
Am I being nit-picky or are you suffering from that liberal progressive ailment known as SMS (Selective Memory Syndrome)?
Okay Thanks Luv...
Yeah, he is entitled, but those who like to shoot at people are the ones who support him!
And drunk? I said "a" beer, he said "a" glass of wine or champagne.
I do not drink, at all, but still I am sure I could handle "A" beer, or glass of something else, and not be drunk. Besides, I would be in my home and my friend would be in his. Are you getting this?
And still, this is just fun chatting on an open blog between 2 folks who do not even know each other. Just fun teasing about how much fun it would be to see that idiot Santorum make as ass of himself, again.
Get a clue, maybe a life? What a worthless soul you are.
50% of the people in this country are of the opposite sex and if you can not have a friendship with any of them because you have no ability to control yourself... well, I am sorry for you.
Santorum is a failure himself. No one has helped push him in that direction. He lost re election in his own state after only 1 term. Every time he opens his mouth he get support from complete extremist nuts, but everyone else looks at him like he and they are psycho. I hope he gets the nomination, and if I could vote GOP when the primary is in our state... Oh you can bet he would get my vote. He is such a disaster for your party, we would love to see him on the ticket.