I just heard Rush criticizing Newt for fighting like a Dem, not that I necessarily agree with Rush. I love Santorum, but Newt and Perry are OK, too.
But anyway, here’s what Red State won’t tell you:
“Full-spectrum conservative: While perhaps best-known as a social conservative, Santorum has bona fides in all areas of conservative philosophy — economics, foreign policy, etc. Put simply, he’s versatile. And in a field that will likely have no other senators and correspondingly limited foreign policy experience, Santorum can point to his eight years on the Senate Armed Services committee as proof that he will be prepared to handle an uncertain situation in the Middle East from day one. While other candidates may have tax increases in their past as governor or have not always been hard-line on social issues, it will be tough to paint Santorum as insufficiently conservative in any facet of his record. And he can point to specific evidence of his conservatism no matter what the issue du jour is.
* The fighter: Put simply, almost nobody is more willing to engage in a political fight than Santorum. He’s already mixing things up in the GOP primary, hitting Mitt Romney for the health care bill that Romney signed as governor of Massachusetts and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels for his social issues “truce.”. And in a day where the Republican base will be looking for the most anti-Obama candidate out there, Santorum is trying to position himself as that guy. Santorum rarely minces words and generally isn’t afraid of being painted as too conservative, and that means a lot in a primary where the major candidates will have at least one eye trained on the general”
AND
“Santorum has consistently supported broad-based tax cuts and opposed tax increases either by sponsoring key legislation or by casting votes on relevant bills. Some high profile votes include:
•Voted NO on the Clinton tax hike in 1993
•Voted YES on the capital gains tax cut in 1997
•Voted NO on a cigarette tax hike in 1998
•Voted YES on repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax in 1999
•Voted YES on the 2001 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to repeal the Death Tax in 2002
•Voted YES to the 2003 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to extend the Bush tax cuts in 2006”
excerpt http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=902
Santorum probably won’t be able to carry the state of Pennsylvania. He is a light weight and should have more experience, such as being governor of Pennsylvania for a term and managing it like a “full-spectrum”, true Conservative. Then I would consider voting for him.
As for Rush Limbaugh, he used to talk about how beneficial illegal aliens were to our economy. What a pant load! I listen to him very rarely or not at all.
The candidate we must have right now is someone who has been fully vetted with no surprises waiting in the wings. That means either Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich. Both are fighters, neither will tolerate BS or lies, and both are capable of political strategic and tactical thinking.
Sarah Palin has made it clear that she won’t be running in this election cycle.
In this last debate, Newt Gingrich took the political arguments ‘to the mat’, both with the moderators and the big liberal, Romney. He led the way, and it was quite clear, that others followed.
Newt calls it like he sees it, just like Winston Churchill, and both men were labeled madmen who took political stances not wholely popular with their contemporaries. But both men, Churchill and Gingrich, showed leadership, determination and the courage to speak truth to events. That is what I want and believe this nation needs now.
As for Gov. Perry, Texans seem to like him, but the Texas way of politics to power isn’t what we need now. Perry practises crony captialism, the old pay-for-play as governor.
I want to change the way Washington works. The only one who has said he will do that is Newt.
Note: there is a reason Romney has so much elitist and establishment support - he won’t change a thing about how Washington, D.C., goes about its business.