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Skip to main content Skip to main menu Skip to search Skip to footer. Search for:. Manage subscription. Standing at a podium in a nightclub on the outskirts of town, Santorum outlined a vision of American greatness driven by the workers who he says built it. Bottom up. Bottom up has built a great country," Santorum told a crowd of about on Sunday. Many were still dressed in their church clothes; others wore Detroit Red Wings jackets and camouflage hunting caps.
He spoke for nearly an hour before taking questions, the crowd following him the whole time, whistling and cheering and shouting back, running through the Declaration of Independence like a call-and-answer sports cheer. When a young girl standing near the stage piped up: "You should be president! And when a reporter mingled with the crowd and approached him after the event, Santorum stopped to answer a question about whether he supports raising the minimum wage along with inflation, as Romney has said he does.
That's inflationary and doesn't make any sense," Santorum said. He spoke for about 20 minutes, offering his standard campaign speech with some added focus on his Michigan roots. He cited the "pioneers and innovators" who helped America thrive and said: "Their success did not make us poorer. Their success made us better off! The hometown crowds are more at ease with Romney than those in other states, but his interactions with voters throughout his events are shorter and much less frequent than Santorum's.
Romney barely mentioned religion, stopping only to emphasize the reference to the creator in the Declaration of Independence and citing the motto, "In God We Trust. He focuses on his general economic message instead. Story highlights Gloria Borger says now it's the Republicans who are playing class warfare She notes that the GOP criticized President Obama for "class warfare" on taxes Rick Santorum is trying to make the case that he represents middle class, she says Borger: Santorum trying to differentiate himself from Romney, who is much richer.
For months now, the GOP has been complaining about Barack Obama's class warfare: He's pitting the wealthy against the middle class. He's unfairly asking the rich to pay more taxes. He's dividing the country along economic lines for his own political agenda.
But wait. Has anybody looked at what's going on in the GOP lately? Can it be that class warfare is alive and thriving among Republicans? Sure looks that way. How else to explain Rick Santorum calling the president a "snob" for emphasizing the importance of a college education? And when Santorum says that John F.
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