Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By W. James Antle, III on 4.5.12 @ 12:49PM If this report is any indication, Rick Santorum seems as likely to double down as to drop out. That certainly fits in with his recent pattern of increasing the sharpness and frequency of his attacks on Mitt Romney. Santorum [...]
The Rick Santorum Democrats
April 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By W. James Antle, III on 4.4.12 @ 12:42PM Here’s a big question that the exit polls don’t quite answer: Who are the Rick Santorum Democrats? Are they liberal mischief-makers, social conservatives in the mold of the Reagan Democrats, or some combination of both? In Wisconsin, 11 percent [...]
Update: Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Has Not Endorsed Rick Santorum
February 17, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Via NY Daily News: Megadeth front man Dave Mustaine is still a political free agent. A day after causing some head-banging over his seeming endorsement of GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, the 50-year-old heavy metal singer/guitarist said he’s still undecided about which Republican would get his vote. “Contrary to how some people have interpreted my [...]
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine Backs Rick Santorum
February 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Via Politico: Dave Mustaine, leader of the heavy metal band Megadeth, is ready to rock out for Rick Santorum. “Earlier in the election, I was completely oblivious as to who Rick Santorum was, but when the dude went home to be with his daughter when she was sick, that was very commendable,” Mustaine recently told [...]
Michelle Malkin Endorses Rick Santorum
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By W. James Antle, III on 1.30.12 @ 12:06PM Newt Gingrich has effectively called on Rick Santorum to drop out of the presidential race, yet the former Pennsylvania senator continues to poll in the double digits and shows no sign of quitting. Why are so many conservatives dissatisfied [...]
‘Momentum’s Name Is Rick Santorum’
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By W. James Antle, III on 12.31.11 @ 8:10PM The last Des Moines Register poll before Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses was just released. Conducted from Tuesday to Friday, Mitt Romney leads with 24 percent, followed by Ron Paul at 22 percent, and Rick Santorum at 15 percent. Newt Gingrich is [...]
Rick Perry’s Peculiar Ad
December 9, 2011 By 1 Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 12.9.11 @ 10:46AM Rick Perry’s ad in Iowa strikes me as more odd than offensive. Perry laments that there is “something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.” [...]
Rick Perry’s ‘N-Head’ Problem and the Fourth Estate’s Hypocrisy
October 6, 2011 By 1 Comment
Rick Perry and the Quest for a Consensus Conservative Candidate
August 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
AmSpecBlog By W. James Antle, III on 8.13.11 @ 1:11PM As Texas Gov. Rick Perry announces he is getting into the Republican presidential race, the straw poll in Ames, Iowa is likely to splinter between GOP candidates representing different flavors of conservatism: the Old Right conservatism of Ron Paul, the New Right/Christian Right conservatism of [...]