Posted on 09/25/2014 3:35:21 PM PDT by Mariner
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday criticized comments in US Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made earlier this month i n a speech that critics have said was unnecessarily confrontational toward a Middle Eastern Christian group.
"We have a responsibility to stand by people who are being persecuted," Santorum told Business Insider in a wide-ranging interview in New York. "This shouldn't be an ideological test — well, you have to agree with us on all of these things, or else we won't be with you. No, we're going to be with you if you are a religious minority that's being persecuted by a radical Muslim majority. Period."
Cruz earned the ire of many conservatives for his speech to a group called "In Defense of Christians." During those remarks, Cruz made a point to say he would not support groups in the Middle East who are not pro-Israel.
He walked off the stage to a chorus of boos after eventually telling the crowd he wouldn't "stand with" them if they did not "stand with Israel and the Jews." Critics say he was trying to intentionally provoke an audience he knew was not staunchly pro-Israel.
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No - I think we should help all Christians. Just commenting on your statement that Cruz was rude. He was expressing his opinion and the people booed him and I find that to be rude. I believe leaders should not pander and lie to audiences. Cruz showed leadership by standing true to his beliefs. Sanctorum is just seizing an opportunity to swipe at Cruz. Politics
Nah, more like what a senator from Pennsylvania looks like.
Unlike the rest of us, elected politicians have to make some concessions or accommodation to the the views of constituents.
Moreover, there's a context to congressional votes that doesn't show up on a list like this.
A vote may be part of a larger package deal or a representative may not want to waste a vote on a bill that isn't going anywhere.
No, it was the hecklers who were rude and confrontational when they tried to shout him down. Kudos to Ted.
“unnecessarily confrontational toward a Middle Eastern Christian group.”
So this is the new name for Hezbollah, it’s funders, and it’s sympathizers (documented in detail) It is Rick who is grandstanding by speaking about a subject/conference he knows nothing about for mere vanity and relevance.
You need to go back and party with the Commies
Regarding his endorsement of Arlen Specter, recent turncoat, for re-election to the Senate in 2004:
Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.
I’m with team Cruz. Santorum and these has-been RINO’s should have the sense to just shut up and go away. I know, RINO and sense are oxymorons.
Most Christians living in Arab nations are not Israel supporters
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They’re going to have some explaining to do one day:
2 Now the Lord said[a] to Abram, “Go from your country[b] and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”[c]
Yeah, you got me, I’m a Communist. I’ve been on this site for ten years because one day I planned to let my secret out by defending Rick Santorum, the darling of the left./s
Arlen Specter was a turncoat.
But so is Toomey.
Read Santorums book “Blue Collar Conservative” He’s going for the Buchannan/Lou Dobbs vote. 200 pages of stuff I already heard from him. I’d still support him but time may have passed him by. But then Nixon in 68?
Intellectually and morally, Cruz is santorum as Plato is to justin bieber.
He’s going for the Buchannan/Lou Dobbs vote.
That's me. But I'm a woman under 40, a conservative American of Hispanic descent, living in New York State. I'm an outlier and I know it.
Whatever such groups call themselves - either here or in the Middle East - they are NOT Christians in giving their “savior’s” Jewish heritage their collective backhand.
I can certainly pity them up against islamist mad dogs, but as it’s plainly hussein soebarkah that has brought all this persecution about, in concert with ‘our’ cowardly House, virtually nothing you or I do at this point is really going to matter to them, unfortuantely.
Perhaps in subscribing to some sort of Gnosticism the group that Cruz walked out on may well have convinced themselves that they’re Christian. Though I will never accept their brand of anti-Semitism regardless how they try to package and sell it.
CRUZ 2016!
Faggot-assed, twink? I bet you’re one of those people that gets a real laugh Googling Santorum.
You know there are Republicans I dislike, but I would never, ever stoop so low to say the words you did about a man who defends pro-life values and natural matrimony. If you don’t like him, fine, just say so. But the words you used don’t belong on a conservative forum.
Rick, I think I did.
You don’t know much about Rick Santorum.
Watch this video, it and the transcript are more damning than almost anything that I have ever seen in politics.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/64281-1
Arlen Specter announces for the White House, with endorsee, Rick Santorum at his side.
At Senator Arlen Specter’s official presidential campaign announcement in March 1995, then-Senator Rick Santorum showed his public support and encouragement of Specter by sitting directly next to him as Specter denounced the GOP’s war on abortion. It was at this event that Specter proclaimed his total opposition to social conservatism and declared he is in fact running to make the GOP pro-choice.
Santorum is seen nodding and applauding at Specter’s side:
3:46 mark: “In 1996, I intend to win the other house — the White House — with ten commitments to America… Especially a woman’s right to choose…
13:22 mark: “Even though we have this historic opportunity for these achievements, there are those in our party who would lead us down a different path — and squander this unique moment in our nation’s history — by using our political capital — to pursue a radical social agenda — that would end a woman’s right to choose…
13:48 mark: “When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation between Church and State, I say he is wrong…
14:31 mark: “When Ralph Reed says a pro-choice Republican isn’t qualified to be our President, I say the Republican Party will not be intimidated or blackmailed by those kinds of threats.I, and millions of other pro-choice Republicans, will not be disenfranchised and made second class citizens.
15:33 mark: “… it is not Christian, or religious, or Judeo-Christian to bring God into politics; or to advocate intolerance and promote exclusion.
15:54 mark: “I want to take abortion out of politics. I want to keep the Republican Party focused on the vital economic and foreign policy issues — and leave moral issues such as abortion to the conscience of the individual. I believe abortion is an issue to be decided by women…
16:40 mark: “I pledge to lead the fight to strip the strident anti-choice language from the Republican National platform…”
17:05 mark: “neither this nation nor this party can afford a republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right...
Santorum is a paid hand of the RINO elite. His job is to kill the Conservative by siphoning off the votes of those stupid enough to vote for his siren song.
And, when he runs again, he'll claim a lot of Freeper votes.
It's said, but it's a fact.
So far, to me, it looks like only Cruz can unite the libertarian and SoCon factions of the GOP. We should eliminate any challenge to that in it's infancy.
Ansell, I often like your posts, you have a lot of intelligent things to say, especially when it comes to social issues. But when it comes to Santorum you’re wrong. I don’t know if it’s because he’s a devout Catholic that rubs you the wrong way.
We all know Specter was a loser. But he was the Senior senator in PA and Santorum may have applauded and nodded because in politics you have to play the game. Sarah Palin supported McCain, after all.
But if you look at Santorum’s VOTING RECORD and how he lived his life, Santorum is 100% pro-life.
Santorum’s actions speak louder than Specter’s words.
People forget that as a sitting Senator Santorum was dumped by his constituents by a larger percentage than the famous Christine O’Donnell, who was only running for her first office.
Santorum suffered a massive loss by 17.36%, earning himself a place in the history books among the losers.
I could tout Cruz’s righteousness, that we are a judeochristian nation and that Christians stand with Jews and that any group calling themselves Christian, whatEver denomination, cannot be anti semiotic, as this group was
But what should be said is that you are correct
EnoUGH! With the republicans sniping at each other. Enough
A gentlemanly debate ease up on the $trillions from nefarious sources and the weird alliances pushing that prick Romney into the ring and for what purpose? To serve Hillary?
Eeenough
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