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Thursday, March 1, 2012

After strong debate performance, Santorum says ‘our time will come’

Coming off a widely praised performance in Thursday
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum participates in the Republican presidential candidates debate in Jacksonville, Fla. (Matt Rourke - Associated Press) night’s Jacksonville Republican presidential debate, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum insists he is in the Republican race for the long haul.

Despite a win in the Iowa caucuses, Santorum has struggled for attention since — particularly in Florida, where media attention has centered on a behemoth battle between former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Speculation that Santorum might not be fully committed to the race was fueled when his campaign indicated he would leave the campaign trail for fundraisers in Virginia and Pennsylvania. His current schedule shows no campaign events for Saturday, just three days before the Florida vote.

But Santorum says his strategy is designed to best marshal his resources for a long effort. He believes conservatives will return to him as an alternative to Romney after an inevitable Gingrich flameout.

“We’re running strong campaigns in several states right now,” Santorum told CNN following the Thursday debate. “We now have the resources. We have raised over twice as much money in the last three weeks as we did in the first nine months. So we’re now having resources to be able to spread our wings a little bit. And we’re going to engage in this campaign”.

“And as we have seen here tonight, there’s a lot of baggage, a lot of problems with the two, quote, front-runners. And I think, as you saw tonight, we’re going to start moving up again. But our time will come,” he said.

Santorum was widely praised by Republicans for pressing the case against Romney and Gingrich in the Thursday debate. He was especially aggressive in arguing that Romney would have trouble challenging President Obama on health care in a general election because the Massachusetts health insurance program implemented under Romney is too similar to the new federal program.

And he drew loud applause by claiming the moral high ground after a long and bitter exchange between Romney and Gingrich over Romney’s wealth and Gingrich’s work for Freddie Mac.

Santorum’s campaign also released schedules showing Florida campaign events through Monday — a long lead time for a campaign that has typically offered guidance on the candidate’s schedule for only 24 hours at a time.

That may be designed to signal Santorum’s intention to quickly return to the trail after a trip to Pennsylvania.

And there is new indication that an independent political action committee running ads on Santorum’s behalf — the Red, White and Blue Fund — has no intention of backing off in coming days.

Investor Foster Friess, a lead contributor to the PAC, told The Wall Street Journal that he plans to fund ads for Santorum in states that vote after Florida.

“I’m committed to Rick Santorum, and I’m going to be giving more to Rick Santorum,” Friess told the Journal. “It’s just a matter of when and how much.”

On Bloomberg TV Friday, Friess said he believes Santorum will become a front-runner soon. But he also said he had “high admiration” for Romney and Gingrich — and suggested that if Santorum becomes president, he should appoint Romney to head his economic policy.

“Anybody who’s going to run against Obama, I’ve got an open check book for,” he said when asked if he would contribute to a Republican nominee other than Santorum.

By Rosalind S. Helderman | 11:42 AM ET, 01/27/2012

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Sunday, February 12, 2012

Florida Republican debate: Where and when to watch

Debates matter. That was one of the major takeaways from the South Carolina primary, which Newt Gingrich won handily on Saturday.

Republican presidential candidate former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reacts to a question at the start of the Republican presidential candidate debate at the North Charleston Coliseum in Charleston, S.C., Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012. (David Goldman - Associated Press)

With the primary shaping up to be more competitive than it seemed just a few weeks ago and the winner-take-all Florida primary just eight days away, Monday and Thursday night’s debates will matter quite a lot.

Here are the details you will need to tune into Monday night’s Republican Candidates Debate sponsored by NBC News, National Journal, and the Tampa Bay Times.

The debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, will air on NBC at 9 p.m. ET in the place of “Rock Center” and will be livestreaming on NBCNews.com, NationalJournal.com TampaBay.com.

As usual, The Fix will host a live chat throughout the debate starting at 8:30 p.m. and Felicia Sonmez will live-blog all the events starting around 8:30 p.m. in Election 2012.

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.), U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney and former U.S. senator Rick Santorum (Pa.).

Rock Center host Brian Williams will host his second debate of the 2012 cycle. National Journal’s Beth Reinhard and the Tampa Bay Times’s Adam Smith will also question the participants.

@NBCPolitics is using #FLDebate on Twitter.

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Thursday, February 9, 2012

Joe Paterno dies, leaving a record for others to debate

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View Photo Gallery — Joe Paterno died Sunday at age 85. Paterno won 409 games in 46 years as the head football coach for Penn State. He was fired dismissed as head coach by the Penn State board of directors in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Sandusky, his former assistant coach at Penn State from 1969 to 1999, is charged with more than 50 counts of sexually abusing young boys over a 15-year period.

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Joe Paterno could outtalk anybody in that Brooklyn beat cop’s voice of his. But the lung cancer and the chemo had left him breathless, and what emerged in two days of conversations with him, the last interview he would give, sounded like a series of sighs. Some of them satisfied, some of them regretful, all of them aware that his life was drawing to a close and 85 years were being relentlessly and reductively defined. ¶ Paterno studied his own end, and knew it wasn’t going to be storybook. So much for the old-fashioned narrative he had built, of bookish yet vigorous young men filling a stadium in the Alleghenies, men he had uplifted such as Franco Harris and Lydell Mitchell and Brandon Short, autumn leaves swirling softly over their heads. ¶ “There’s the kind of stories I wish we could tell,” Paterno whispered. ¶ But a modern grotesquery intervened, and there were too many other boys who allegedly had been damaged.

For most of his 61 years as a football coach at Penn State, Paterno built a record of thorough decency and good intention. He loved his wife, reared five nice children, taught his students well. He turned down big money for the role of a tenured professor, and strolled every day from his modest home to his unpretentious office. He acquired real power, and generally tried not to abuse it, and if he sometimes he did, he covered for it by insisting on paying for his ice cream cones. He set out to prove that staying in one place could be as rewarding as climbing to the next rung. He meant to walk away sooner. He stayed too long.

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Joe Paterno, who racked up more wins than anyone else in major college football but was fired from Penn State amid a child sex abuse scandal has died. He was 85.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

At South Carolina GOP debate, four survivors spar; Gingrich adds host to the fray

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View Photo Gallery — ?Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul take the stage for the 16th debate of the campaign.

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — In an electric debate here Thursday night, the four remaining Republican presidential candidates clashed sharply over who has the temperament, character and know-how to lead the party into a general election as they clamored to take advantage of the race’s changing dynamic.

Newt Gingrich said it was “despicable” of the news media to raise questions about a previous marriage. A feisty Rick Santorum offered himself as the only true conservative in the race and accused his two main rivals for “playing footsie with the left.”

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