Rick Santorum, with ‘tingles down my spine,’ can smell a GOP sweep

Source: washington post

Santorum said he “had tingles down my spine” when Mitt Romney debated President Obama in Denver two weeks ago. “I debated Mitt Romney about 20 times and I’ll be honest with you, I never debated that Mitt Romney,” Santorum said. “America was looking to see whether we had a leader we could trust at a critical time in our nation’s history,” he said, and it saw “a magnificent job” from his primary opponent.

Santorum, with words that resembled a crusade more than a campaign, urged the enthusiastic crowd to “get this country back in the direction not of European socialism but as an American republic that believes in free people,” to “rewrite that narrative” from four years ago, he said, when candidate Obama racked up an early vote margin that carried him through a North Carolina 14,000-vote victory. Do it, he said, “by getting on your phones, by getting on your social media, and by encouraging people to go out and vote now.” Santorum, who hopes North Carolina will be called for Romney early on election night so it can have an impact on Colorado, Nevada and other states, predicted Republicans will control the Senate, “and will control it by a very healthy margin.”

Bob Diamond, 68, didn’t need convincing. The retired pharmacist said he believes in “paying our bills, getting the government to pay its bills,” and that “God is the source of all of our blessings.” His “huge issue is pro-life,” he said, with a belief that abortion is only permissible to save the life of the mother. The retired pharmacist said he is glad he never had to dispense medicine that went against his moral code, but he is worried about the direction of the country.

“God might have given us Obama to teach us a lesson,” Diamond told me, “that we’ve strayed so far from His teachings.” He was on his way to the polls.

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