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Author:  Michael J. Gaynor
Bio: Michael J. Gaynor
Date:  April 6, 2012
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Actually Romney's More Reaganesque than Santorum

Actually, Santorum's more like President George Herbert Walker Bush's Vice President, Dan Quayle than Reagan.

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum can't win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, but Santorum is no Romney. in 2008 Romney stopped his presidential campaign when he realized he could not win the Republican presidential nomination and focused on supporting the Republican nomination, surely preferably to either President Obama or Hillary Clinton, the realistic Democrat possibilities when Romney stopped campaigning for himself.

In sharp contrast, Santorum's selfishly staying in the race in the hope of winning the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

Sadly, the Santorum campaign has become all about Santorum, and he's helping President Obama both by attacking the 2012 Republican presidential nominee-to-be, Romney, and making it necessary for Romney to spend money wrapping up the nomination instead of campaigning against Obama.

If Romney doesn't beat Obama, count on Santorum NOT to blame himself and continue his own version of the Clintons' perpetual campaign.

Santorum apparently has not noticed that unsuccessful Republican presidential nominees whom he criticizes as not conservative or not conservative enough (President Gerald Ford and former Senate Republican leader Bob Dole) were Washington insiders like himself instead of Washington outsiders like Romney.

Amazingly, Santorum is claiming the Reagan mantle, but Romney is more Reaganesque.

Like Reagan, Romney became more conservative over time while Santorum became more of a go-along guy. (Reagan signed the law legalizing abortion in California before Roe v. Wade, but learned from his mistake and became pro-life.)

Like Reagan both as Governor and President, Romney as Governor had to work with a Democrat-controlled legislature. Neither got all her wanted, but each did the best he could in the circumstances.

Santorum is comparing himself to Reagan in 1976, challenging then President Ford for the Republican presidential nominee, and reminding folks that Ford lost to Carter and Reagan then won the Republican presidential nomination and the election in 1980.

America could recover from one term of Carter, but two terms of Obama may be too much.

Reagan came very close to winning the Republican presidential nomination in 1976, much closer than Santorum has come this year.

I remember Ronald Reagan and Santorum's no Ronald Reagan.

Reagan was a Washington outsider when he became President.

Santorum is a Washington insider determined to become President, while Romney is a Washington outside with the same goal, plus much better preparation to become America's Chief Executive Officer.

Reagan was a movie and television star, who turned to politics after a very successful career in the private economy.

Romney was a very successful chief executive officer of a very successful private business who later turned to politics.

Reagan served two terms as Governor of California before he won on his third try for the Presidency.

Romney served a term as Governor of Massachusetts before running for President and will win the Republican presidential nomination on this his second run.

Actually, Santorum's more like President George Herbert Walker Bush's Vice President, Dan Quayle than Reagan.

Like Quayle, Santorum went to Congress as soon as he could. Quayle was elected at age 29, Santorum at 33.

Like Quayle, Santorum served two terms in the House of Representatives.

Like Quayle, then Santorum was elected a United States senator twice in his home state.

Santorum rose to no. 3 in Senate Republican leadership and unwittingly enabled Obamacare to be passed by supporting pro-abortion Senator Arlen Specter for re-election in 2004 instead of pro-life now Senator Pat Toomey, finally elected in 2010. (Santorum's support of Specter in 2004 wasn't a fluke. Other than Specter himself, Santorum was the only United States Senator to support Santorum's quixotic presidential bid.)

Quayle reached a higher rung on the political ladder than Santorum, become, Vice President of the United States and President of the United States Senate.

Both Quayle and Santorum ran for President, but neither could win the Republican presidential nomination.

Quayle came to realizer that, but Santorum stil doesn't.

Michael J. Gaynor

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Biography - Michael J. Gaynor

Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.

Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.

The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.

Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.

Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.


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