Santorum drops out!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 2:21pm

Good...
Watch it live!

[iflip4musicals]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 2:22pm

There's hope for America after all!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 2:26pm

You mean drips out?

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 2:35pm

Santorum gets left behind.

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 2:35pm

THANK GOD. I love how the decision was made "at the family kitchen table."

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 2:38pm

He sure left a mark, though.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 2:48pm

"He was a long-dormant volcano due for a surprise eruption."

I am tucking this one away for when the gay sex tape emerges.

[cordialcherry]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 3:16pm

Thank Christ!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 3:17pm

Roscoe,

Skid marks don't count.

[wexy]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 3:21pm

would've been better if he stayed in so they could fight amongst themselves spend more money against themselves and hilight how crazy they are..

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 4:19pm

I agree. Still, it's great seeing this thread alternating with the Goatse one.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 5:53pm

"This is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes"
Psalm 118:23

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 6:15pm

I love how the decision was made "at the family kitchen table."

Where all them babies was birth-ed but the campaign were aborted.

[Icehouse Life]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 6:46pm

Goodbye and good riddance to one of the most brain-dead politicians ever this nationa has ever produced!!!

[Kad]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 7:43pm

The best comment I've seen was on Facebook: "Not fair! He should have to carry his dead campaign to full term!"

[justoldbill]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 9:45pm

Placing the needs of his ill (possibly dying) three-year old daughter above the chance of being president shows he at least practices what he preaches, like it or not.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 9:49pm

I think the truth hurts.

He couldn't win if he stayed in the race. The fact that he used his sick child to justify it is laughable.

[justoldbill]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 10:16pm

A seriously ill child is NEVER laughable.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 10:25pm

The cynic in me questions wheter the child is actually ill or if this is a ruse to have him bow out to something other then defeat so he can rise again in 2016.

Updated On: 4/10/12 at 10:25 PM

[justoldbill]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 10:31pm

I suppose you don't keep up with the world beyond 57th Street. His child was born with a developmental disorder that kills many children within their first year. If you can possibly keep informed on events, do so. There's more out there to read than the Sondheim Quarterly or old copies of After Dark.

Updated On: 4/10/12 at 10:31 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 10:42pm

Speaking of reading, if you read the post you took exception to, you'll see it said that Santorum's using the sick child as an excuse was laughable; not that the sick child was laughable.

You can agree with that or not, but you don't need to rewrite what the poster said.

[Kad]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 10:48pm

Dismount your high horse.

No one is making fun of his daughter's illness.

However, I do think that this was an absolutely savvy move. His daughter, by his own words, has a life that was measured in days and weeks. It seems as though her death due to the illness (Edwards syndrome) is an inevitable fact; it is going to occur sooner than later, or some other health crisis in relation to it.

If Santorum had the majority of votes, he would not have dropped out at this time. But it was clearly a lost cause, in the fact of Romney's recent victories and the uphill battle ahead- a battle Santorum most likely would've lost.

His daughter's illness provided the perfect opportunity for him to drop out without having the stigma of having been truly beaten yet.

I don't doubt his daughter's illness or his love and concern. But it was opportune.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 10:56pm

Exactly. With projections showing that Santorum is likely to lose his home state to Romney what else could he do? I seriously don't think we have seen the end of him. Looks for him again in 2016.

[justoldbill]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 10:59pm

Why don't we all just draw back our talons and gracefully fly away from the subject?

[romantico]

Posted: 4/10/12 at 11:01pm