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Posted on 02/19/2012 5:54:28 PM PST by tcg
...A real Presidential campaign, a choice between two candidates with two very different worldviews. This election will also be a choice about who we are - and who we will become. It is a choice which addresses the foundation of our identity as Americans and the nature of true freedom.
President Obama is in full reelection mode. His campaign theme is that our Nation is divided between the "1%" and the rest of us; between the super rich and everyone else. His rhetoric purports to be "populist", peppered with the mantras of "fair share", and "fair shot". He adds that we should all be playing by the same set of rules. However, his populism is top down; the federal government is the one to ensure that we are somehow all equal through wealth redistribution and legislative compulsion.
The Obama 2012 campaign wants to take on Mitt Romney in the General election. He is a perfect "uke" (ookie). The term is from the Martial Arts. It refers to the one used in class demonstrations to receive the strikes and techniques from the instructor. Mitt Romney looks as though he stepped out of "central casting" as a caricature of a "1%"er. The Obama reelection campaign believes he is suited for a campaign of caricatures and class warfare. Romney is, from all indications, a good man. However, that is not why they want him to face him in the general election. He fits their narrative.
Rick Santorum ...is also a populist. He is the grandson of an immigrant coalminer who communicates well with real folks because he is one of us. He does not pit groups against one another but speaks the language of a very different form of populism; one which calls for expanded economic opportunities for all in a free market...
(Excerpt) Read more at catholic.org ...
On the so-called “fairness” issue: what is “fair” about your working hard to earn a paycheck, and then to have millionaire politicians in Washington, D. C., decide how much they are going to “take” from you in order to buy votes of other citizens by promising to “redistribute” your earnings to those citizens?
As near as I can tell, Hussein’s view of freedom is that it needs to be extinguished. That’s certainly his view of liberty.
As my Dad (RIP) used to say: a liberal is someone who wants to give your money to the poor and get credit for doing it.
>> “As near as I can tell, Hussein’s view of freedom is that it needs to be extinguished.” <<
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Yes, but it is also clear that to a lesser extent, Santorum shares that view.
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Freedom for the people or freedom for Obama to do WTF he wants to.
That’s absurd. Now people are getting ridiculous.
Santorum:
“This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone.”
Reagan:
"I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority. Very simply, they want to be left alone in peace and safety to take care of the family by earning an honest dollar and putting away some savings. This may not sound too exciting, but there is something magnificent about it. On the farm, on the street corner, in the factory and in the kitchen, millions of us ask nothing more, but certainly nothing less than to live our own lives according to our values — at peace with ourselves, our neighbors and the world.
Santorum has his priorities in order. Bottom up economics indeed.
Btw, just in:
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Our forecast model now has Santorum up ~5 in Michigan. That works out to a 72% chance of winning. nyti.ms/ygLshq
Romney is toast in his birth state.
Here’s my hotair comment I just did:
Santorum is unhesitant, and unabashed in going after O.
Santorum is saying exactly, specifically what we want hear. Like about how localities should control schools, not the feds. And on global warming, and enviro-extremism. Even on prenatal testing on CBS this morning he came off sounding strong, not extreme. And he’s bringing it to Obama on O’s extremism on abortion (as partial birth and live birth etc) / Mitt can’t or won’t do that. It’s a winner for the election! Santorum is bringing on the anti-Obama rhetoric hard, and effectively, every day. Mitt, and Newt for most of that matter, is providing mush. Seriously.
Rally now for Santorum! And support and defend him against the oncoming onslaught of overblown and unjustified attacks. He’s bringing the knife to that knife fight that we want, and -need- to fire up the base, gain huge donations $$, and… win!
Populists? Neither Obama nor Santorum are populists. Obama is an elist effinite snob and was elected by the masses because he is a black democrat promising goodies. Santorum is focused on social issues, preaches to the choir and has little mass appeal. Neither does Newt either BTW although Newt is quite smart and compelling. so we’ll see how Newt does with the masses later if he even gets the chance
What’s absurd is that you’re willing to kiss his elitist tusche.
What Santorum is saying, if you contextualize it, is that we don’t have a “right” to do wrong. We may have the free will to choose wrongful acts, but a successful civilization must have members who try to do right by God and by each other. Bob
Agree Hokestuk.
He’s doing a great job.
I attended the Lincoln Day dinner last nite in Akron. Sanatorum was the speaker. We had over 1000 in attendance and 680 on a waiting list :)
I attended the Lincoln Day dinner last nite in Akron. Sanatorum was the speaker. We had over 1000 in attendance and 680 on a waiting list :)
Most of Sen. Santorum’s ideas line up with mine, and they have since ‘94, in his first Senate campaign when I worked for him. The man is a human dynamo, and he is as genuine and gracious in person as any politician I’ve ever met. Bob
Thanks Mountain Mary. Many of the hotairers agreed as well: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/19/quotes-of-the-day-946/comment-page-1/#comment-5498597
Here’s a hotair reply to my comment:
Yeah, he’s impressed the hell out of me this past week. He’s fighting back against the press, and I never knew til now if he had that in him. That’s gonna really help former Newt supporters move over permanently into his camp. And what I like about Rick is that he doesn’t come off as combative or confrontational like Newt when he would go after the drive-bys. Defensive at times(how could he not be?), but confident in his positions.
I really wish people on here and outside of the blogosphere would chill out over the social issues stuff. If it was as toxic as they insinuate, Bush never would’ve won the Presidency once much less two times. Yes, it won’t play well in some parts of the country, but you think voters on the Upper West Side or in the Bay Area would’ve voted Republican regardless? If the argument is framed right, anyone of our candidates will do just fine in the swing states. It would help though if the base would quit acting ashamed of conservatism(and I don’t just mean the social issues).
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