While Mitt and Newt were throwing big bucks negative ads at each other, and remaining aloof form the people.Rick Santorum, ( who had a practically empty war-chest at that point ) was out in the streets, shaking hands and talking ‘kitchen table issues’ with the voters.
And they responded.
Of course, Santorum isn’t doing that any more, now he’s preaching fire n’ brimstone from the Mount…which I consider to be the most spectacular squandering of political capital since Watergate.
Consider if you will, the Santorum surge.
While Mitt and Newt were throwing big bucks negative ads at each other, and remaining aloof form the people.Rick Santorum, ( who had a practically empty war-chest at that point ) was out in the streets, shaking hands and talking ‘kitchen table issues’ with the voters.
And they responded.
Of course, Santorum isn’t doing that any more, now he’s preaching fire n’ brimstone from the Mount…which I consider to be the most spectacular squandering of political capital since Watergate.