If someone has to constantly apologize for always saying the wrong thing, should they perhaps reconsider their readiness to be President of the United States?
If that person is Rick Santorum, YES they should reconsider!
Santorum, who has found a knack for saying exactly the wrong thing at exactly the worst time, pulled another doozy out of his mouth just before the Illinois primary yesterday.
“I don’t care what the unemployment rate is going to be. It doesn’t matter to me. My campaign doesn’t hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates,” Santorum said to the shock and surprise of everyone. “We have one nominee who says he wants to run the economy. What kind of conservative says the president runs the economy? What kind of conservative says, ‘I’m the guy because of my economic experience that can create jobs?’ I don’t know. We conservatives generally think government doesn’t create jobs.” HUH???
Needless to say, Santorum’s disinterest in the unemployment rate did not play well in Illinois, where he was walloped at the polls. But what exactly was he thinking to make such an odd statement?
Santorum later went on to explain that he meant to say he doesn’t care about the unemployment “numbers,” but rather about the causes behind those numbers. Hmmm…
Too late, Rick — damage done!
<span>The irony of this (Santorum's habit of shooting off his mouth and costing himself lots of votes) being Santorum's OTHER habit of criticizing the President for using a teleprompter. It's clear what Santorum_and ALL the other Repub presidential candidates_ are doing. Pandering to the GOP's right-wing base who craves any form of denigrating the President 24/7. But it's also clear to anyone of sound mind, reasonable intelligence, AND CLASS that that sort of attack on the President is DUMB and just plain ignorant. To say nothing of the fact that IF anyone is in dire need of a telepromter it's Santorum …and Romney too for that matter. I've never heard so much foolishness flow from the mouths of candidates (male and female) who somehow think themselves fit to be President as I've heard coming from the GOP's crop of flawed Presidential candidates this year. Really. They are such a sorry lot.</span>