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March 4th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
As the establishment favourite, Mr Romney received a major endorsement Sunday
from Eric Cantor, the number two Republican in Congress.
But while the former Massachusetts governor appealed to voters’ heads with
proposals to cut taxes and regulations, Mr Santorum was trying to tap into
the emotions of working-class conservatives who feel America has lost its
way.
“We need to stop listening to the siren calls of what government can do for us
and ask what we can do for ourselves,” he told a buzzing hall in Lima, Ohio,
putting a Republican twist on John F Kennedy’s famous line from his 1961
inauguration speech.
Lima, a conservative town that was once home to America’s largest bus maker,
has lost 8,000 manufacturing jobs since the 1970s and is a must-win for a
candidate in Ohio.
Largely skipping over economics, Mr Santorum invoked the values of the
Founding Fathers and the pioneering spirit of those who had settled America.
“I believe in the power of faith, families, local communities and small
businesses to rebuild America from the bottom up,” he said, to standing
ovations.
Prof John Russo, head of the Centre for Working Class Studies at Ohio’s
Youngstown University, said neither candidate offered a credible programme
for Ohioans, who care more about rising petrol pump prices than rising
stock-markets. “I tested a group of working class people… they think of
(Romney) as effete and a member of the Wall Street elite that caused this
latest crash. They don’t even like the way he walks,” Prof Russo told The
Daily Telegraph.
But neither were white, working-class voters, who made up 50 per cent of the
Ohio electorate in the 2008 general election, impressed by Mr Santorum’s
claim to blue-collar roots. “It won’t fool anybody in the general election,”
said Prof Russo, before predicting a narrow Santorum win.
Whatever the result in Ohio on Tuesday, it cannot hide the broader
disgruntlement with America’s politicians whose constant in-fighting and
inability to “get things done” was a constant refrain in Ohio
among ordinary voters.
In Moe’s Dugout a tiny saloon bar in the windswept and crumbling township of
Dunkirk, where average incomes are $10,000 a year below the national
average, the air was blue with cigarette smoke and profanities uttered
against the political classes in Washington.
“It’s all bullsh*t, the politicians is just out for themselves. They
don’t care nothing for us,” said Jack Alexander, a 48-year-old trucker
who is only getting 40 hours a week work, with no overtime, which is better
than a year ago, but still not enough.
Does he prefer any candidate? Governor Romney? Senator Santorum? “They
both suck,” he says, over the clack of pool balls and blaring country
rock music. And what about President
Obama? “Him? He sucks too.”
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