[FlipWilson]

Am I in before the ZOT>

[nickcarraway]

Translation: Rick Santorum Must NOT Be Our Nominee – Because Mitt Romney Already Paid For IT And IT Would Be Stealing.

[cripplecreek]

but 2012 is not the year of the Social Conservative.

Gee, that's funny, neither was 2008.......or 2000......

[GSWarrior]

Good points.

[EGPWS]

Our objective is to defeat Obama.

So the establishment puts up "mini0bama" as their favorite to beat him?

If they are offering 0bama as a counter to 0bama, I will stick with Santorum or Gingrich thank you.

[fwdude]

All issues are social issues.

[Melas]

The author makes some good points. I’m still hoping for a Gingrich home run on Super Tuesday. To be perfectly frank, I think that Santorum would energize the left that is at present doubting the current administration. The buyer’s remorse will evaporate in an instant if they have someone like Santorum to actively oppose.

[skeeter]

Yes, lets run from our beliefs.

Thats a winner.

[Mountain Mary]

FYI Red in NY,
Red flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In politics, a red flag is a symbol of Socialism, or Communism, or sometimes left-wing politics in general.

[Drew68]

If Rick is the nominee, we will not get around to economic issues, and Obama will win.

At this point I don't think Gingrich, Romney or Santorum can beat Obama. Santorum loses to Obama by the smallest margin but he loses nonetheless. The economy is in tatters and the price of gas is shooting through the roof and yet Obama still leads all of our candidates in the polls. Unfreakingbelievable.

In a year where "anyone can beat Obama" it seems the Republicans found the only guys who can't. Our primary process is broken. Are these losers really the best we have to offer? Really?

[jersey117]

There you go again making sense. Reagan was a fiscal and social conservative. But he didn’t spend all of his time and energy focusing strictly on the social side. He ran a balanced campaign. Santorum is all preacher, all the time.

[matt1234]

The author proposes defense and retreat. That is not a formula for victory.

[Cicero]

This, unfortunately, is what the GOP-e has been saying for decades. Ronald Reagan talked about the social issues, and they hated him and tried to force him out.

George Bush talked about the social issues, and he won—twice, even though he was weak on economic issues. Then things started to go south after he started listening to Rove and failed to do some of the things that the voters had expected him to do after his landslide re-election.

The first mid-term, the GOP did very well in congress. The second midterm, they did lousy. Because Rove won the argument and Bush backed off the social issues. He even voted for stem cell research on lines where fetuses had already been harvested, although he blocked the rest. That got him anger from BOTH sides. Another typical Rove move.

Why do you think the left uses Orwellian duckspeak when talking about stuff like abortions? “A woman’s right to choose” instead of “killing an unborn baby”? Because most voters don’t really approve of abortion.

If McCain had said in the debates that Obama was the most pro-abort presidential candidate ever, and that he voted three times to throw babies born alive into the trash or onto the roof to die in the heat, he probably would have won. But he didn’t, because the social issues are not popular, don’t you know? And, of course, Sarah wasn’t allowed to talk much about them, either.

[FourPeas]

I’m tired of hearing that this is not the election cycle for social issues. There’s ALWAYS something more important. Always. The problem is all the other issues really do hinge on social issues.

[SkyDancer]

Didn’t Santorum say that you have no Constitutional right to privacy? That alone is scary.

[Utmost Certainty]

Ricky "SOPA" Santorum the collectivist big government nanny-statist.

"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." [source]

"What was my vision? I came to the uncomfortable realization that conservatives were not only reluctant to spend government dollars on the poor, they hadn’t even thought much about what might work better. I often describe my conservative colleagues during this time as simply ‘cheap liberals.’ My own economically modest personal background and my faith had taught me to care for those who are less fortunate, but I too had not yet given much thought to the proper role of government in this mission." –Rick Santorum, p. IX It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (2005)

"I suspect some will dismiss my ideas as just an extended version of ‘compassionate conservatism.’ Some will reject what I have said as a kind of ‘Big Government Conservatism.’ Some will say that what I’ve tried to argue isn’t conservatism at all. But I believe what I’ve been presenting is the genuine conservatism our Founders envisioned. One that fosters the opportunity for all Americans to live as we are called to live, in selfless families that contribute to the general welfare, the common good." –Rick Santorum, p. 421 It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (2005)

"If you're a conservative, there really is only one place to go right now. I would even argue farther than that. If you're a Republican, if you're a Republican in the broadest sense, there is only one place to go right now and that's Mitt Romney." –Rick Santorum, 02/1/2008 [source]

Check out his brochure, 50 Things You Didn't Know About Rick Santorum, where he proudly defends food stamps, increasing minimum wage, stem cell harvesting, college tuition subsidies, bloated school funding, working with Bono to fight world poverty, etc.

Also see his disturbing voting record for more doozies.

[pallis]

Social conservatives aren’t one dimensional anymore than social chameleons like Romney. Santorum’s brain doesn’t go blank after the subject of abortion is over, anymore than Romney shuts up after talking about his idiotic tax scheme. Santorum will do fine with other policy issues. The fact that he is a social conservative, understanding the right to life, speech, private property, and to be an individual in personal life, business and public, only serves to make him smarter than Romney. Newt and Rick are capable of making this nation great again. Romney is capable of keeping it on the status quo.

[Katarina]

The person that wrote the article is right. Santorum will never beat Obama.

[dangerdoc]

If we can’t win this election with a social conservative, we as a nation deserve what’s coming.

[patriot08]

Santorum:

Voted AGAINST increasing the number of immigration investigators:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00201

VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS, paid for by reductions in state grants.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00179

VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=105&session=1&vote=00058

Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00154

SANTORUM: Trim Social Security now- even if painful.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j7O34Bpp42k-IlMMNiOLBkYF2zNw?docId=b1cff9ecefe24ca6ae1764a09761e361

VOTED AGAINST FOOD STAMP REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00353

VOTED AGAINST MEDICAID REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00352

Voted to increase the social services block grant from $1 BILLION to $2 BILLION
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00302

VOTED TO RAID SOCIAL SECURITY instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=2&vote=00056

Voted to impose a uniform federal tax mandate on states to force them to allow convicted , rapists, arsonists drug kingpins and all other ex-convicts to vote in federal elections.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00031
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Santorum; Big government spender:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6XCZz2X1Y&feature=player_embedded
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Pop quiz: Which Republican presidential candidate supported the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor?
Hint: It’s the same one who endorsed a pro-abortion-rights presidential candidate in an earlier campaign.
Give up? The answer is Rick Santorum.

Santorum not only supported Specter. He ran an ad for him.
“Arlen is with us on the votes that matter,” Santorum said in an ad for Specter. “I’m proud to endorse Arlen Specter.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/02/which-republican-presidential-candidate-supported-sotomayor/

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This is only part of it. Santorum has not been properly vetted.
Even before this RINO voting record above came out,
he stuck me as a petty, egotistical little weasel

He needs to put his ego aside, put his country before himself and drop out.

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