Santorum: Out of a job? I got nothing for ya

Posted on January 15th, 2012 by ecthompson md

Candidates practice questions all of the time for these “debates.” There is almost no question which these guys haven’t seen and answered. Getting a question about jobs should be a lay-up. Let’s see how Republican candidate,  Rick Santorum, dribbles this one off his foot and watch the ball roll out of bounds.

From TPM:

At the Huckabee forum a voter asks Santorum what as President he could do to help people like her, and goes on to outline her situation. Four years ago her husband lost his job. They’ve run through their IRA. They’ve run through most of their 401k. They moved from their large house in the north of the state to a smaller house in the south of the state where it’s cheaper.

Santorum starts his answer by noting that she and her husband “have moved to a beautiful part of the country.”

“My wife and I love vacationing here,” he continues, before going on to outline his desire to ramp up the American manufacturing industry.

UPDATE: Towards the end of the forum the questioner is asked whether she was satisfied with Santorum’s answer. She’s not. She notes her husband, and many others like him who’ve been affected by the recession, are in their sixties, and so “I’m not sure manufacturing is going to bring him back his job.”

Tags: Economy, Elections // 4 Comments »

  • Jeff

    What his real position is – too bad so sad.  Survival of the fittest. 

  • margaret

    And pray about it.

  • JESTER!

    “Don’t answer the question you are asked; present the response you have prepared.”

  • http://www.whereistheoutrage.net/wordpress/about/ EC Thompson, MD

    This is one of the big problems with politics today. Nobody answers questions. If we really and truly want our democracy to work for us then we need to get money out of the process and we need to get politicians to actually answer the questions that we ask.

    Thanks for your comments.

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