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TRENDING: Ron Paul: Santorum is 'very liberal'
CNN Politics ^ | January 2nd, 2012 | CNN Political Unit

Posted on 01/02/2012 1:14:10 PM PST by Mrs. Frogjerk

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To: Dr. Sivana
Politics is a business.
There were positive benefits in getting K.S. OUT of KS!
Brownback did the right thing.
There was no chance that any conservative would ever be the head of HHS under Obama.
Now?
Now there is little chance that Sebelius will ever win elective office again, in Kansas!
And, have you looked at all the conservative legislation we have passed, and Brownback has SIGNED, in KANSAS, after getting rid of the Sebelius machine?
61 posted on 01/02/2012 1:56:54 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Rick Santorum is a little boy like Obama. Not a real man or a leader, which we need right now.


62 posted on 01/02/2012 1:58:37 PM PST by petercooper (2012 - Purge more RINO's.)
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To: ex-snook

You do not understand the Constitution.

Neither does Ron Paul.


63 posted on 01/02/2012 1:59:20 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: Kansas58

“If we, as conservatives, do not do a few things every now and then to cooperate with the moderates, we will not win.”

After more than two decades, this siren song is worn out.


64 posted on 01/02/2012 2:00:56 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
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To: momincombatboots

I thought that Cain was a good candidate but we all know what happened there. I feel like the Republican establishment was behind his departure more than the Democrats were. I’m sure that Rick has done some things in his career that aren’t wonderfully conservative, but he certainly isn’t as bad as the rest.

We need to choose somebody who is as close to being as Conservative as we would like. I know what you mean about not wanting to vote for anybody who is lukewarm or a moderate, but if we don’t vote at all, we are giving that lunatic in office another vote when he runs for re-election. I will not do that!


65 posted on 01/02/2012 2:01:15 PM PST by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: VicVega

I give Santorum a pass on endorsing Specter because Specter endorsed and helped him and Rick was repaying the favor.

What I don’t give Santorum a pass on is exactly what Paul is talking about here: Santorum is a Bush-Huckabee type Compassionate Conservative who is good on social issues like abortion but is horrible on fiscal restraint. That is the issue of our time—cutting government. Santorum was the Senate leader of the Republican K Street Project. Remember that was DeLay’s project to build ties between Republicans and lobbyists. Santorum voted for every one of Bush’s programs and spending increases too. The last thing the GOP needs is another Christian Socialist.


66 posted on 01/02/2012 2:01:15 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: petercooper
Santorum in NH, 3.5%.

In SC, 2.7%,

in FL, 1.5%.

Santorum will have to repeat his surge in these states without the benefit of spending two years there campaigning. Pass the popcorn.

67 posted on 01/02/2012 2:02:34 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. | FR Class of '98 |)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Thanks. You make a good case. Jack Abramoff comes to mind.


68 posted on 01/02/2012 2:04:11 PM PST by VicVega ( GEAUX LSU TIGERS, GEAUX SAINTS)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

I won’t vote for Romney, or the like. I smile when I see JimRobs no romney, no way in Red Letters on this site.


69 posted on 01/02/2012 2:04:31 PM PST by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: the_Watchman
I think the media may be behind the latest attention given to Santorum. The “surge” may be timed in order to dilute the opposition to Romney in Iowa.

Bingo!

70 posted on 01/02/2012 2:07:43 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ez
"Santorum will have to repeat his surge"

There was or is no surge, please do not believe everything that the media tells you. You will see on Tuesday night that I am right.

71 posted on 01/02/2012 2:08:39 PM PST by Afronaut (It's 1984)
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To: Longbow1969
Santorum lost his home state by 18 points last time around. There is a heavy stink associated with any incumbent who loses in that kind of landslide defeat

Stink doesn't come with losing. A bit might come from running for higher, much higher, office on the heel of such a loss. I like Santorum, I hope he succeeds in gaining elective office, and that I'll see him again on the nation stage. He's not a winner this time around.

72 posted on 01/02/2012 2:09:57 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn't do !)
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To: VicVega

Exactly. Rick was good friends with Jack before Jack got in trouble. Its stuff like that that caused the GOP to lose the Senate and House. Rick is way too cozy with government and lobbyists. I don’t want 4 or 8 more years of what we had from 2001 through 2008.

Even though neither Santorum nor Paul is my first choice, if someone forced me to choose between Santorum and Paul, I’d choose Paul.


73 posted on 01/02/2012 2:10:14 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Ron Paul? Give me a break.

So Rick Santorum voted for some spending? As opposed the “principled” Ron Paul who gets others to vote for his spending and makes sure it gets in there and passed while personally voting against it so he can claim he opposed the pork?


74 posted on 01/02/2012 2:16:32 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: mylife

I think, too, that Santorum’s “surge” is media driven. What else could it be when Perry is within a whisker of Gingerich and Santorum and he is almost never mentioned by the pundits and newsreaders.

Fervently hope Perry pulls off a big surprise in Iowa and in S. Carolina where he is headed on Wednesday. Perry 2012!


75 posted on 01/02/2012 2:16:39 PM PST by varina davis (We grow too soon old and too late smart -- Pennsylvania Dutch adage)
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To: Mrs. Frogjerk

Rick is a flash in Iowa. He is having his moment and by the end of the month he will be pleading for a V.P. spot.


76 posted on 01/02/2012 2:17:53 PM PST by mmanager (Reagan Revolution + Republican Revolution = Bury Obama in 2012 - Go Newt!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

We really have some interesting choices this year and in 04. The big joke is on us.


77 posted on 01/02/2012 2:17:59 PM PST by VicVega ( GEAUX LSU TIGERS, GEAUX SAINTS)
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To: varina davis

Just as Paul’s rise has been media driven.
They are trying to keep us fractured.


78 posted on 01/02/2012 2:18:35 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: varina davis

Not sure if it’s media driven, but he did have 30 people show up at one of his rallies and Bachmann had 9.


79 posted on 01/02/2012 2:19:36 PM PST by VicVega ( GEAUX LSU TIGERS, GEAUX SAINTS)
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To: Psalm 144

It is an eternal truth.
You are bored with reality, it seems.


80 posted on 01/02/2012 2:26:48 PM PST by Kansas58
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