“I don’t care what the unemployment rate is going to be. It doesn’t matter to me. My campaign doesn’t hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates.”
Republican White House hopeful Rick Santorum said on Monday he did not care about the U.S. unemployment rate, perhaps the nation’s most closely watched economic indicator, despite being embroiled in a campaign largely focused on the still-sputtering economy.
Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania known mainly for a strong religious conservatism, is battling Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and the frontrunner in the race to oppose President Barack Obama in the November election.
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Source: reuters
Actual, and interesting, CPAC event titles
The following are actual CPAC event titles:
- “How to Raise Money…the Easy Way” (ellipses in actual title)
- “Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity”
- “Conservative Dating”
- “Is the ‘Arab Spring’ Good or Bad for America?”
- “Obama’s Agents Are Reading Your Emails”
- “Sneak Peek of ‘Runaway Slave’”
- “Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department”
- “I Want Your Money”
- “Why are U.S. taxpayers spending billions to promote abortion and homosexuality worldwide?”
- “Social Media Mastery”
- “Why Am I Living in My Parent’s Basement?”
- “CPAC Blogger of the Year Award”
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