If a candidate isn’t a social conservative, they aren’t a fiscal conservative. If they are not a social conservative, that means they are willing to fund HUGE social initiatives that takes money from taxpayers & economy.
Me thinks that Ricky has lost that number!
It looks like the average Santorum supporter has forgotten some incredibly important pieces of information from the last couple of years.
Mainly, what was it that managed to give us the greatest sweep of the House and Senate in living memory? What did that?
Was it the TEA parties?
And if it was, what was it again that the TEA parties and their candidates campaigned on? Was it gay marriage, abortion, and birth control... like Santorum?
Or was it a primal cry of “We’re TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY!!!” Where we were fed up with the endless intrusion of the Federal government into our lives and our wallets?
And if it was the TEA parties and our frustration with the endless Federal intrusions into our lives and wallets... what sense does it make to abandon that and move to the issues that did *NOT* produce such a sweeping victory?
In less than two years, the Republican voter has completed forgotten what got us such an amazing victory. Just amazing that we’re trying so hard to piss it all away.
>> There is an additional danger. Leftist cabals like PP, NARAL, Emily’s List type folk – you know the rest – social issues are their red meat. Start talking about jobs and tax rates, and they snooze. That’s exactly where we want them. <<
This entire article is the biggest, heaping pile of sh!t I’ve ever read on FR.
Yes, there’s a certain portion of the electorate who would vote or an economic conservative, but not a social one. They largely live in New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, and Illinois.
And I’ve never met an “fiscal conservative” who didn’t turn pinko the moment the cameras came on them. Mitt Romney, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Christine Todd Whitman... if they’re willing to sell out the lives of millions of babies, what makes you think they’ll discover a backbone when they become president?
Rick Santorum is the only candidate who can defeat Obama. Obama will pull a couple of what seem to be conservative tricks before November. Then Romney will stand against him. Romney is nothing but Obama with a Republican tag. He spoke loudly for abortion before he decided to run for president. Gay marriage and gays in the military and other liberal issues are things that I do not agree with him on, but Obama does.
So..., when people start to examine who to vote for, if Romney is our candidate, they will say they are roughly about the same, so why change? Romney will lose! Santorum is the only candidtate who is truly conservative and the only candidate who can stand against Obama. Romney, Gingrich or Paul are each liberal enough to lose, and they would.
And whats with people Zotting you? Is it a crime if we are not acting like lemmings, falling for the latest non-Romney candidate to catch fire?
The election will NOT be about economic issues. It will be about national security as the Mideast continues to blow up.
Yeah, so we should just surrender to the enemy....
BTW, this election is NOT about economic issues. Economies will go up and down over time, regardless of the President. It IS about individual liberty and freedom. We MUST repeal Obamacare and your guy ain’t up for that!
Yes, I am 99.9% certain that you are a Romneybot!