Santorum: "I don't care" about unemployment rate

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Steve williams

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Is this man somewhat out of touch with reality :confused:

Before we get too far out on a limb, let's just talk about whether the unemployment rate factors into the presidential election and not the candidate, please


MOLINE, Illinois (Reuters) - Republican White House hopeful Rick Santorum said on Monday he did not care about the U.S. unemployment rate, perhaps the nation's most closely watched economic indicator, despite being embroiled in a campaign largely focused on the still-sputtering economy.
"I don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be. It doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates," Santorum said during a campaign appearance in Illinois, which on Tuesday holds the next contest in the state-by-state battle for the Republican presidential nomination.
Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania known mainly for a strong religious conservatism, is battling Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and the frontrunner in the race to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election.
Santorum used his economic comments to attack Romney as not being a true conservative.
"We have one nominee who says he wants to run the economy. What kind of conservative says the president runs the economy? What kind of conservative says, ‘I'm the guy because of my economic experience that can create jobs?' I don't know. We conservatives generally think government doesn't create jobs," Santorum said.
Romney, who is also a former private equity executive, has made his business experience the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, contending that it makes him the best candidate to steer the economy. His campaign leaped on Santorum's remarks, by saying it added to Romney's contention that Santorum is an ‘economic lightweight." Santorum walked back from his comments later in remarks to reporters. "As far as my political campaign ... of course I care about the unemployment rate. I want the unemployment rate to go down, but I'm saying my candidacy doesn't hinge on whether the unemployment rate goes up and down. My candidacy is about something that transcends that; it's about freedom. It's not about Governor Romney's idea that he is going to fix the economy," he said.
The U.S. unemployment rate is currently 8.3 percent.
 
I thought we weren't supposed to have political threads. Didn't you shut the last one down Steve that you started because Amir said something? Wasn't that the Newt thread that got killed?
 
Mark

Read my OP. I merely asked if unemployment should or should not be considered in the election. I also asked not to attack the person but rather the issue. Rather than trying to stir up the pot I thought it strange that a presidential candidate would say such a thing. If it does get too poignant it will be closed.
 
Steve-Personally I’m fine with discussing religion and politics if people want to. I thought the Newt thread was off to a good start and then it got shut down because it was political. If that is the litmus test for this forum, I don’t know how you can talk about a politician without talking about politics. I personally hate to see interesting threads get shut down because it crosses some line that someone has deemed un-crossable. Thus my surprise at you starting a thread about a politician.

Newt wasn’t even a politician, but he is a mouthpiece for the Republicans and you had to shut that thread down. Now you are starting a thread about the super Catholic (which crosses religion and politics) and I just see this thread coming to a quick end which is why I didn’t comment on the subject of the thread itself even though I have something to say.
 
Steve-You are dancing on the head of a pin my friend. We can either talk about politics on this forum or we can’t. Asking questions about what you would do if you were a presidential candidate is talking about politics. I just don’t want to get a thread started that I find interesting only to have it meet a sudden death because it was deemed potentially offensive to the easily offendable like the Newt thread you started.
 
well Mark, the thread is still open and as long as we dance on the head of a pin :) and avoid mud slinging some engaging conversation might result

What I have noticed today is back stepping in the Santorum campaign and saying he "didn't mean it" however it is there for everyone to see and hear
 
so guys for proper reasons I have taken the liberty of sanitizing this thread. Mark you're right we shouldn't be discussing politics and/or religion here even in a forum such as this as it typically degenerates. I just felt that my question transcends all political beliefs and I was curious to know whether if you are a candidate would you feel unemployment would be an issue or not? As far back as I can remember following American politics and I hate to say that was the Eisenhower era unemployment has always been an issue regardless of which political political party. Believe me when I say I have followed many administrations and have lived through more from birth until Ike and have always thought that it was an issue of all parties.

Now if this gets political then we best close it but at the very least what I could do is start a poll with just a yes or no. ID of voters would not be revealed to the viewer. Any thoughts or comments
 
Steve-Again, I’m not saying we shouldn’t discuss religion or politics on this forum-that was Amir’s and your decision. I was just confused because you started a thread about Newt which invariably turned to politics and the thread ended up getting shut down. I didn’t want to see a repeat with a thread that started off being about a politician.

As for the topic of the thread, of course unemployment is fair game in a presidential election.
 
Thanks Mark

As someone who has to administer the forum I rarely take a one side or the other position in any thread but I thought his comment was so curious that I asked the question so with that let's all agree to close it and we will all be better friends as a result of it :)
 
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