Excuse, if you please, our dust. While other candidates are busying themselves spending lots of money from SuperPACS and major campaign funders, we are waging a fight for delegates on a shoestring budget with volunteers consisting of everyday people. Everyone who is working on the Tennessee for Santorum website, blog, Facebook page,and other media has volunteered their time and energy and, in some cases, even paid for domain names, webspace, and even signs and other campaign materials. Each person is doing this because for some reason, they believe in Rick Santorum.
Some people are a part of Senator Santorum's effort here in Tennessee because they see him as the only chance to prevent someone being nominated who they do not believe adequately or accurately reflects a conservative voice in the Republican Party. Other people have gotten on board Senator Santorum's Tennessee campaign because of his strong commitment to the sanctity of human life, and the dignity of every human being. Still others appreciate Rick Santorum's consistent opposition to the TARP bailouts. Whatever the reason, all have volunteered to help because it is the right thing to do.
There is reason for hope. Rasmussen tells us that that other Republican candidate--you know, the Frontrunner--is polling six points behind Barack Obama in a national one-on-one matchup. Both Rasmussen and Quinnipiac put Rick Santorum within the margin of error against Obama--that would be a statistical tie. Who is supposedly more electable?
Has it occurred to some of the talking heads who declare the Frontrunner so electable that people seek a candidate of principle, one who is, as Rick Santorum himself has said, not a conservative alternative to the Frontrunner, but a conservative alternative to Barack Obama?
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