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Rand Paul and Ted Cruz attacked as failures by successful superstar Rick Santorum

By Robert Laurie ——--January 12, 2015

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Last time we heard from former Senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a high school in the Detroit suburbs was denying him the right to speak. That was way back in April of 2013 and, since then, he's been pretty quiet. His name pops up every once in a while, but it's pretty clear that he's ready for a room at the "used to be a politician" retirement home.
However, in what appears to be a last desperate bid for relevance, he's decided to come out swinging - just in time for the 2016 race to begin. Unfortunately, he's decided that his first targets are Republicans. ..Oh, and at least two of them just so happen to be conservative favorites as well. As the New York Times reports, Santorum doesn't care for Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, or Marco Rubio, and he's not afraid to let you know it:
Rick Santorum sharply criticized a group of potential rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in an interview that indicated he intends to reclaim conservative primary voters ahead of another White House bid in 2016.... “Do we really want someone with this little experience?” Mr. Santorum asked, referring to Mr. Paul, Mr. Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who is also in his first term. “And the only experience they have basically — not Rubio, but Cruz and Paul because I don’t think Rubio is going to go — is bomb throwing? Do we really want somebody who’s a bomb thrower, with no track record of any accomplishments?”
He also took some time to tear into Mike Huckabee, though the rhetoric there was not nearly as sharp.
Discussing Mr. Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and winner of the 2008 Iowa caucuses, Mr. Santorum raised four policy issues that he said would prompt questions about Mr. Huckabee’s fealty to conservative principles.
Those issues are The Dream Act, Common Core, taxation, and climate change. Now, I know I've been harshly skeptical about Mike Huckabee's ability and his 2016 chances. Yes, he has, at various times, been wrong on all of those issues. However, compared to a failed old school social-con like Santorum, Huckabee looks like a shoo-in. If Santorum really thinks that his brand of politics is what people are going to be looking for at the presidential level of the next cycle, he's due for a very - very - rude awakening. Oh, and by the way, challenging the accomplishments of people who are still in office, when you were kicked out of your Senate seat in a landslide... That's perhaps not the best idea. It opens you up to completely valid replies like this:
“Senator Santorum lost re-election in his home state by 18 points nearly a decade ago, and has spent the time since then trying to convince people to elect him to an even higher office than the one he was booted out of,” said Doug Stafford, senior adviser to Mr. Paul. “We will pass on responding to his alleged wisdom.”
Ouch. That's got to sting, but seriously. Santorum was a two-term Senator. What, exactly, were his achievements? *crickets*

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