Posted on 01/14/2012 2:05:00 PM PST by PieterCasparzen
Rick Santorum should be president for three basic but important reasons. First, his policies are sound. His economic recovery plan includes a reduction of federal non-defense discretionary spending to 2008 levels by enacting across the board spending cuts. He has called for and pledged to sign into law the repeal of ObamaCare and to replace it with market based healthcare innovation and competitive, market based solutions that will leave healthcare choices where they belong…. between doctors and their patients. Santorum has called for a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution and a capping of government spending to 18% of GDP.
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The second reason to support Santorum is the stability of his personal life. His commitment to his wife and family as a husband and father reveals a man of character who is willing to keep his word. You can’t be pro-family when your family is in disarray.
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Finally, Santorum deserves our support because of his passion for God. He has had his faith tested in the crucible of personal trial and in the pressure cooker of public attacks against him because of his strong stands on moral issues. His personal relationship with Jesus Christ has in the past and continues in the present to sustain and strengthen him.
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All of the candidates for the Republican nomination have their strengths. But only one can be the standard-bearer of true conservatism.
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(Excerpt) Read more at christianfaithinamerica.com ...
Anyone but rom for nom. Any one but Obimbo for prez.
There was a whole thread on it here in FR -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2819006/posts
Let’s go through it and find some choice quotes.
Barnacle Centurion:
Now he pretends to be a reaganite but at the time he said that if George Bush ran as a continuation of Reagan he would lose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZyevTo8nhU
And according to him, FDR was the greatest president in US history:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgdzZJePL04
Sister T found this:
http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/1993/pdf/hl442.pdf
Another good thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2818500/posts
Yes, Newt is in favor of the individual mandate and forcing people to buy health care. And that includes publicly funded abortion.
At least Perry has the cajones to cut Planned Parenthood. Newt? Nowhere to be found.
If that list proves to be true then I am back to not supporting any of the candidates running for President.
“All of the candidates we have are Christian (even Romney, apparently). So it’s a non-issue to me in picking between them.”
Well, good to know you are well informed on the issues. :)
Yeah Newt is really conservative. Whoring out to Ethanol lobby, Whoring out to Freddie Mac, Whoring out to the global warming crony capitalists, and whoring around in all his marriages, No thanks!
Obama has a stable marriage and a couple kids and all that. Maybe vote for him?”
I get really tired of people attacking Santorum by comparing him to Jimmy Carter, Huckabee, Obama etc.
I get really tired of going through Santorum’s record and cherry picking a few things, taking them out of context and then making unfounded accusations.
Look at his current positions. Describe them accurately. If you disagree fine but but stop the name calling and the silly comparisons to Jimmy Carter etc.
Look at his record. Look at his overall conservative ratings. I you disagree with them fine but don't mischaracterize them.
Stop the circular firing squad. People here aren't stupid.(well maybe some are but let's leave that aside). I get tired of the continual name calling and the lack of intelligent discussion.
Click the link and explore the embedded hyperlinks in the article. The author did his homework. I knew none of this, up until a few days ago, when another Freeper posted a link to the article.
I've posted it several times since then, as a sort of public service. I'm sure that a whole lot of folks were unaware of Rick Santorum's actual voting record.
It’s revealing to me where he thinks he is and where he thinks the party comes from.
“Newt doesn’t support an individual mandate—in 2005 he explained support for a variation of it”
So what you are saying is that he was for it before he came out against it. I believe the parlance is ‘flip flop.’
“And you still gave me zero evidence that Newt has ever supported federally funded abortion.”
We don’t compromise with the enemy. And we certainly don’t hamstring efforts to nuke O-Care by saying that you want to keep parts of it. What that does is embolden the enemy, because if you give up part of what you have then the enemy has more then they began.
Newt, if he supports O-Care or any part of it, is not worthy of my support. Even Paul gets this. Wacked out Ron Paul knows you cannot compromise, reach around the aisle, support the consensus with O-Care. You nuke it into oblivion.
When Newt gets this, then maybe I’ll support him. But as it is, it’s a flip flop because it’s hurting him seriously and he knows it. You only flip flop when you realize that your old views are costing us votes.
So tomorrow, maybe Newt will make peace with the Pelosi again, and support parts of O-care (making sure to keep funding for abortion stays), and trim around the edges. Sounds like vintage Newt to me.
“We do agree our country must take action to address climate change,” Gingrich said from a couch, which was oddly positioned in front of the U.S. Capitol.
FLIP FLOP.
Wow, Kerry redux.
Here’s where he supports Cap and Trade.
Back in 2000 -
“I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.” he said.
“If he had instituted a regime that combined three things I just said — mandatory caps, a trading system inside the caps, as we have with clean air, and a tax incentive to be able to invest in the new technology and to be able to produce the new technology — I think we would be much better off than we are in the current situation,” Gingrich said.
Apparently Bush wasn’t ‘compassionate’ enough.
That is why he did the ad with Nancy Pelosi about it? His support for ethanol was also predicated on his belief in AGW. Now he is against it because he knows it is killing his chance, Can you say opportunist?
Agreed. And just recently decided to support Santorum, now back to none of them. This continues to be the worst selection of candidates in my lifetime. Anyone who thinks Newt is anything but a Big Government quasi-New Ager who believes Big Government and Big Government Control of the citizenry is only paying attention to slogans and not to the actuaol record and his espoused beliefs.
Simple common Leftist trash and nothing more...
...hack.
RICK SANTORUM
Who are you going for? I bet you are either Paul or 0, either way, we are screwed.
Do I detect an air of sour grapes?
The truth may hurt, but it must be faced. Santorum is not the one, as evidenced by his actual record.
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