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Gay-bashing ex-campaign chairman to spread Santorum across the state

by: Eric B.

Thu Feb 09, 2012 at 07:37:41 AM EST


MIRS:

Glenn CLARK, the former 9th District GOP Chair, told MIRS today that he would be the statewide grassroots coordinator for Republican presidential candidate Rick SANTORUM, making him the point person for the Michigan campaign.

Santorum -- fresh off wins in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota on Tuesday -- said on MSNBC this morning, "We think Michigan's a great place for us to plant our flag." Michigan's Feb. 28 presidential primary is next up in the schedule with Arizona, which also has a Feb. 28 primary.

That would be Glenn Clark, the man most closely fingered as the source for the campaign literature accusing Leon Drolet of supporting legislation that would make it legal to use public bathrooms for sex. The implication was that Leon Drolet wanted to turn public parks into gay bath houses.  I'll let you, dear reader, come up with your own wise cracks involving this and the man he now works for, Rick Santorum, whose name has its own "associations."

Eric B. :: Gay-bashing ex-campaign chairman to spread Santorum across the state
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Not in front of the children: (0.00 / 0)
http://badlipreading.tumblr.co...

And don't forget Spreading Santorum,the blog that picked up Dan Savage's idea and made it even more fabulous.


I think (0.00 / 0)
I think it's cute that Santorum thinks he can just come in here and take this from Romney.  I really want to think that the Michigan GOP is a bit classier than the state parties in the South and the Plains, I really do.  If Santorum wins by waging culture warfare (particularly if he wins Oakland County Republicans), I'll totally cut them off. lol

I don't think his primary goal on Feb 28 is beating Romney (0.00 / 0)
The February 28 primaries in Arizona and Michigan are likely to be solid Romney victories. Romney curiously holds an edge with Latino voters while simultaneously running as the most hawkish anti illegal immigration candidate. Additionally, Arizona has a fairly sizable Mormon population. All three of these factors serve to make Arizona a very favorable state towards Romney. And Romney's advantage in Michigan is known.

As such, I think Santorum's realistic goals are twofold. First of all, he wants to come in second in both Arizona and Michigan, in the hopes of knocking Gingrich down a peg, if not out of the race entirely, before the March 6 primaries. Doing so would serve to substantially further his argument that he is the best hope the ultra-conservatives have of beating Romney.

Secondly, I believe he wants to make Michigan competitive so as to build momentum by exceeding expectations in a state that most have written off as a Romney blowout. This is quite possible, as Romney's opposition to the auto bailouts will hurt him in the state and Santorum's appeal to blue collar social conservatives will net him a fair amount of these voters. He can't win here, but he might be able to prevent Romney from a sweeping victory like he had in Minnesota.


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