In case you thought Santorum’s JFK/vomit line was spontaneous, an off-the-cuff misstep … he’s used it before. From Nov. 21 of last year:
Santorum is a Roman Catholic, but that didn’t stop him from criticizing the country’s only Catholic president. Santorum commented on John F. Kennedy’s 1960 speech, in which Kennedy laid out his belief in the separation of church and state.
“I had an opportunity to read the speech, and I almost threw up,” Santorum told a crowd in October at the College of Saint Mary Magdalen in Warner, N.H.
via Santorum: Early Political Work Influences Him Still : NPR.
Now, why he chose to repeat that line when he was pretty close to winning a major state … I don’t know. Anyway, tonight it looks like the GOP is going to go with the phony rather than the true believer. Fall in love, then fall in line … (sigh)
Ryan says
the throw-up line, combined with the ‘wanting kids to go to college = snobbery’ quackery cost him Michigan. Those two things, happening within 48 or so hours of the election, had to have cost him a few points (ie the difference) in the polls.
All that said, people forget things really fast and the news cycle will move forward for Super Tuesday, with completely new Republican Primary Reality TV moments. There’s a lot of states then which could swing Santorum’s way. We’ll see if the party that’s well known for falling in line will do so come Tuesday.