Why did Rick lose in 2006? That’s EASY, George W. Bush AND Arlen Spector.
Someone posted at the Townhall site, which would be informative to those on this site as well:
Rick Santorum’s Wife: Rick “Loves” Gays.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/rick-santorums-wife-rick-loves-gays/politics/2012/01/17/33307
A gay man served as a top-level senior aide to Senator Rick Santorum for ten years. That the virulently anti-gay Santorum — who has also this week taken heat for remarks that appeared to be racist — would hire a gay man who also happens to be black no doubt will leave many Americans scratching their heads.
Santorum supported the RINO pro-abortion Arlen Specter and sold pro-life conservative Pat Toomey down the river; Specter’s vote gave us Obama care. PA conservatives were disillusioned by this and stayed home. That is the real reason he lost. We will not forget.
What isn't the truth about what Rick I said if people really knew what is going on they would all agree with him..Satan has his demons in the white house with his top devil Soros calling the shots..Obama the pea brain has Soros for a mentor and sits back and takes vacations while the devil is trashing America..Pay attention to what has been and is going on..We sure do not want Obamas handy man(Romney) that is paving the way for Obama to get reelected..
What isn't the truth about what Rick I said if people really knew what is going on they would all agree with him..Satan has his demons in the white house with his top devil Soros calling the shots..Obama the pea brain has Soros for a mentor and sits back and takes vacations while the devil is trashing America..Pay attention to what has been and is going on..We sure do not want Obamas handy man(Romney) that is paving the way for Obama to get reelected..
Trump. Go back to firing people on tv.
Santorum lost, in no small part, to election fraud.
I saw, with my own eyes, an electronic voting machine cast a Casey vote when the straight Republican ticket was selected. I brought over the judge of elections over and showed it to her. We went through it five times. Finally we had to vote individual selections to get it to accept the Santorum input.
Several hundred machines in the same county wouldn’t start on election day, because the machine thought the vote had been conducted already - I guess there was a hash sum designed to protect it. When whoever it was tampered with the machines, I think they upset the hash sum in a lot of them and locked the machines out. The county tried to blame it on the vendor and the whole thing disapeared in a day. This precinct was an “R” stronghold in an otherwise 2 or 3 to 1 “D” county.
I called Santorum’s campaign office immediately, imploring them to get an injunction and said I would be available for an immediate deposition. I waited all day and the campaign never called back. Suit yerself Rick.
There are a few more factors Byron probably didn't have time for, starting with possible Philly vote fraud.
Santorum even ran disappointingly on values issues, his usual strength, splitting the vote 50-50 among those who said values were extremely important.
. . . And the fact that no one knew anything about pro-life socialist Gov. Bob Casey's son—who, it turned out after the election, is not only a dim-bulb socialist like his dad, but is willing to vote pro-abortion.
Eyewitness report from Ground Zero:
- Bob Casey did everything he could to delude and mislead our massive legions of elderly voters into thinking he was actually his late father, a very popular Governor. You always heard about him but rarely ever saw him. I suspect a large number of our older voters thought they were voting for the late Governor.
- He reassured the huge number of Catholic voters that, like his father, he was pro-life, and he would never ever ever ever EVER EVER vote to pass a health care plan which would force us to pay for that. (suckers!)
- He ran around telling all our Seasoned Citizens that the reason they did not have even more free goodies from their Government was that the Eeeeeeevil Warmonger George W. Bush was taking all the money that should have been used to buy their prescriptions and free bus passes, and was flushing it all down a rathole in Iraq.
- The teachers union camped out on the lawn of Rick’s home and documented that he was rarely there. Then they, with massive amounts of help from the mainstream media, built up this big, ridiculous Potemkin Village issue that he no longer really lived in Pennsylvania, and, as a result, was ripping off the taxpayers in his school district for the online schooling of his kids.
- A lot of white, working class Pennsylvanians are just genetically pre-programmed to pull the lever for the Democrat, cause “they’re for the Workin’ Man!”
I realize little of that makes sense if you’re not from around here. Keep in mind this region kept sending a treasonous criminal back to the US Congress for 3 decades, simply because he brought home the pork. For the Workin’ Man!
Life goes on, the current year is 2012.
York also misses that young Casey was the son of an endangered species: a pro-life, Democrat Catholic politician, former Governor Casey. A nationally known governor who had been ditched by the DNC as Convention speaker. Catholic dems, who had been uncomfortable with other (spell that pro-choice) democrats felt completely comfortable voting for Casey the Younger. They owed that to his father.
Make that $72,000, a nice bit of change. Regardless of the technical legality, this representative of the People ripped his local Pennsylvania taxpayers off. But, of course, Santorum's a lawyer-politician is well skilled in abusing the spirit of the office while hewing to its legal bounds.
Add this "me first" behavior to the enrichment of aides and lobbyists, rather than actually doling out grants via his "Good Neighbor" charity (only 38%), the appalling lack of "leadership PAC" funds that ever made it to candidates (18%). He has considerable baggage and the Pennsylavia press know it well.
He helped give us Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, Sotomayor, by voting to confirm her Circuit Court appointment from Bill Clinton. What about his insanity of personally introducing and voting for a half-billion over-and-above the $900 million Amtrak budget.
There's a host of other very questionable things that helped Pennsylvania voters decide to fire him by a huge margin.
A real conservative must look at Santorum and ask, what's so great about this guy? Looking deeper than his religious rhetoric, what's he really all about? How would he truly govern?
Reference:Santorum amendment to Transportation funding bill; Bill S.Amdt.3015 to S.Con.Res.83 ;vote number 2006-052 on Mar 15, 2006
Did he say after losing, “You won’t have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore”? :) just askin’