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Santorum Claims Ted Cruz isn't a Conservative. Um, What?
Last Resistance ^ | December 31, 2015 | Rob Knowles

Posted on 12/31/2015 11:28:34 AM PST by Isara

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The Constitution Strikes Back
1 posted on 12/31/2015 11:28:34 AM PST by Isara
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To: Isara

Santorum is a statist. Always has been.


2 posted on 12/31/2015 11:29:48 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines (Obama loves America the way OJ loved Nicole's)
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To: Isara

Santorum is one of those weasels who likes to tell other people how to live. That’s pretty much it.


3 posted on 12/31/2015 11:30:14 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Isara

Lil’ Ricky has been eating his sweater lint again.


4 posted on 12/31/2015 11:30:18 AM PST by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: Isara

Rickie is jes upset that almost all of his former supporters have jumped ship to Ted.


5 posted on 12/31/2015 11:34:23 AM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: Wolfie

I pray this is Santorum’s final presidential run.

He’s tedious and tiresome and now vicious.


6 posted on 12/31/2015 11:34:36 AM PST by onyx
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To: Wolfie

Well, God is the only being that has a right to tell people how to live.

I can’t see treating “gay marriage” and marijuana on the same plane. I just can’t see it. Your marijuana doesn’t ask me to smoke. Your gay marriage asks me to call something marriage that isn’t, asks me to dumb down my own speech before God.

I’d vastly sooner have the marijuana.


7 posted on 12/31/2015 11:34:46 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Isara

Looks like the GOPe is writing some checks out in Iowa.


8 posted on 12/31/2015 11:36:49 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Isara

“...and attacked Ted Cruz for being too constitutional...”

Too Constitutional? Could someone define that for me in real terms?? Other than just Santorum, a big government statist, spewing his hate for the rule of law and America’s founding origins....


9 posted on 12/31/2015 11:37:04 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Isara

My question is, why is Rick even putting forth the effort? Does he seriously think he has a chance?


10 posted on 12/31/2015 11:38:50 AM PST by CatherineofAragon (("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz))
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To: Isara

11 posted on 12/31/2015 11:38:55 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: Wolfie

... And so, in a way, both Cruz and Santorum are missing what matters.

I don’t know that Trump has any policy at this point beyond accepting that a constitutional feature has delivered up to us the status quo. If his deal making is to be taken seriously, offering larger America a voice, then it is going to have to use its voice more wisely. I really get the idea that it, too, would rather have the marijuana than to make people call something marriage that isn’t.


12 posted on 12/31/2015 11:39:08 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: EagleUSA

We could do worse than spit on some icons.

If the constitution has delivered up nonsense, then it needs to be revamped somehow. It isn’t bigger than God and neither is the USSC it has wished on us.


13 posted on 12/31/2015 11:41:13 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Yes, it appears that he and Huckabee, who is not a small government guy, either, have decided to double-team Cruz. Good luck with that.


14 posted on 12/31/2015 11:42:11 AM PST by Shery (Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Isara

I like Rick a lot. I voted for his delegates four year ago. Rick Santorum is a good man.

But questioning Ted Cruz’s conservatism is just DUMB. Even Bush, even Trump, wouldn’t try that.

Try another line of attack, Rick.


15 posted on 12/31/2015 11:42:44 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I find that once you can accept that others can do things you don’t like, provided they are not infringing on your rights or property, than the question resolves itself.


16 posted on 12/31/2015 11:44:22 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Isara

Rick should attack Yheb!, it’d be more useful.


17 posted on 12/31/2015 11:45:21 AM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Santorum always struck me as a creepy guy.

This confirms it.


18 posted on 12/31/2015 11:45:51 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: TBP

If he is needling Cruz to do more about “gay marriage” in his platform, even if only to be a bully pulpit against whatever constitutional miscues have enabled it to be forced on us without even the greater popular will, he is doing something half good. I don’t care if that is couched as challenging his “conservatism” or what as long as it ultimately focuses attention on the goal.

I am less concerned of the need to put a jihad on marijuana. Marijuana is at worst a symptom and like I said your marijuana will never require me to smoke it. And put that in your pipe and smoke it :-).

But getting 50% of a problem and including a very bad one isn’t “Nothing.”


19 posted on 12/31/2015 11:46:48 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Isara
One does not even have to rely on the Tenth Amendment, to utterly reject Santorum's efforts to have the Federal Government address issues that simply do not fall within the very clear delegations of specific functions that were entrusted to the organization known as the Federal Government. The decisions as to health, safety & morals--those linked together as the "Police Power"--were left to the States. Thus they obviously do fall under the Tenth Amendment; but even without it, a strict constructionist--that is a Conservative--will find not even any language, which arguably implies a delegation to the Federal Government.

That Santorum does not get this, should disqualify his candidacy. The distinction is absolutely vital to the working of our Federal system, as it was intended.

20 posted on 12/31/2015 11:47:25 AM PST by Ohioan
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