Rick Santorum: "If the campaign is about issues, we win."

[YoungDemCA]

"If the campaign is about issues, we win. If it's about Mitt Romney's record as a businessman, then we don't win. If it's about Mitt Romney's tax returns, then we don't win. If it's about whether people like Mitt Romney more than Barack Obama, then we don't win."

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/08/22/quote_of_the_day.html

Is that a challenge, Rick?

What do the members here at DU think? I for one, would LOVE to talk about "issues."

[Atman]

1. Huh? Romney refuses to talk about "issues" until after he's elected.

I'm sorry, but "You didn't build that" is NOT an issue, no matter how much Romney wants it to be so.

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[marmar]

2. SpreadingSantorum.com hasn't gotten any smarter since leaving the campaign trail, I see.

[Canuckistanian]

3. Oh, good

Romney HATES talking about ANY issue.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Issues?

Economy: What has the GOP House produced in terms of legislation to help create jobs and how many anti-abortion, Planned Parenthood defunding, and ACA repeal bills have they instead passed since 2011? How many votes on American Jobs Act did Senate Republicans NOT filibuster? What have THEY proposed to help create jobs?

Medicare: Do elderly people (and people growing up) want a voucher to buy private insurance policies that will provide coverage at exorbitant prices or do they want to keep the current Medicare system as it is (with a few tweaks here and there to help keep it solvent)?

Taxes: Do middle-class people want to lose tax deductions that they enjoy so that the wealthy and uber-wealthy can have a few more tax cuts?

Seems like "issues" are a problem for Republicans too.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Really? When does Mittwit start telling the public exactly what he will do on those issues? Oh,

that's right, he said he won't release those pesty little details until after he's elected. Like what deductions he would eliminate, how much debt his budget will rack up, how he's going to create 4 million jobs, etc.

[RobertEarl]

6. Issues?

Bombs vs food

$$ vs environment

Controlling women vs independence from big brother

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Sadly, too many in this country would argue for more bombs, $$ rules, and big brother controlling the mass of vaginas by statutory rape.

Hopefully the common person can see through the fog and realize which issues really matter. But that has happened so infrequently these past 40 years that i am doubtful it will happen anytime soon.

[Johonny]

7. was it the promised war on PORN or the voting rights for those on the moonbase

that most touched GOP primary voters this year?

[longship]

8. Yes indeedy! Bring it on!!!

Let's talk about Medicare, Social Security, women's rights, tax cuts for the 1%, the jobs bill, the number of Republican filibusters in the Senate, the lack of substance in the Republican run House, etc.

Is that alright with you Republicans?

R&

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

9. Is there an expanded quote?

Did he clarify what he meant by "issues"? I would assume, lacking further specifics, that he meant (and was perhaps offering one of those coded statements to the effect) that if the election is about the culture wars, they win. If the election is about one or more of the topics where they've spent years already confusing issues and indoctrinating people, we could have a harder time making our case. If the election is about matters which are wedge issues for both sides, perhaps they could benefit from the confusion.

[Zoeisright]

10. InSanitorium is a fucking liar.

Repukes lose on every single issue because they're fucking WRONG.