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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By Dick Morris on March 2, 2012
The best way to win in politics is to choose the right opponent. When your
opponent is making a strong effort to get one particular candidate nominated
to be his adversary in the general election, it is worth paying attention.
Clearly, in Michigan – where Democrats could and did vote in the Republican
Primary – there was an orchestrated effort by the unions and Democratic
leaders to get people to vote for Rick Santorum. Democratic activist Michael
Moore openly urged support for Santorum in Michigan. It is beyond dispute
that Barack Obama wants Santorum, not Romney, to be his opponent in November.
I am not taking sides in the Romney-Santorum-Gingrich primary contest. But
it is worth noting that Obama’s people believe – passionately – that
Romney would be the toughest one to beat. They feel that he has an appeal to
independent voters and women which could rob Obama of his chances for a
second term.
By contrast, they are eager to face Santorum. They believe that his
positions on social issues will give them a steady diet of negative sound
bites to use against him, distracting voters from the economic issues that
could lead to Obama’s defeat.
They would feature Santorum’s claim that birth control is bad for women and
bad for society in that it precipitates out of wedlock births and sexual
promiscuity. They can’t wait to pounce on his opposition to amniocentesis
on the grounds that it leads to abortion. And they will probably use against
him his opposition to the separation of church and state articulated by
John F. Kennedy in Houston as he ran to be the first Catholic president.
Of course, Obama doesn’t fully realize the extent to which Santorum would
mobilize the Republican base and how vigorously he campaigns, but Obama’s
desire to face the former Pennsylvania Senator in November should give pause
to each of us as we cast our primary ballots. |
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