Posted on 02/07/2012 11:50:33 AM PST by TitansAFC
Rick Santorum tells South Carolina voters that he is the only conservative purist in the field, attacking Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for being unreliable conservatives. Well, THE FREEDOMIST has already exposed Rick Santorum for his betrayal of a core conservative value, the right to work, the protection against Union thuggery. He is FOR right to work but NEVER votes for right to work legislation. He also endorsed Arlen Specter in his 1996 Presidential run, in 2004 against true conservative Pat Toomey, AND even endorsed Mitt Romney in his 2008 Presidential run. Well, worse than even his right to vote betrayal and his endorsements of RINOS and future democrats was the work that he did as a Senator in the Clinton years, when he and Trent Lott undermined the Senate efforts to bring Bill Clinton to trial after the House impeached him for lying under oath.
That’s right, this pure conservative, who attacks like a tiny lap dog (see Thursday’s debate for a classic example of what an attack lap dog looks like when he nips at the heels of others), was instrumental, along with Trent Lott, in stopping the Clinton Impeachmment proceeedings, in rescuing Bill Clinton from facing a fair trial of his peers. This action should not be surprising to the people who remember how aggressively Rick Santorum worked to torpedo a true conservative, Pat Toomey, in 2004, from removing a future democrat and former RINO, Arlen Specter.
Here is all the proof you need to see that Santorum, in fact, killled the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, just another reflection of how Santorum is the face of Conservative Purity in Name Only (CPINO- which also sounds like the name of an exotic small wolf dop that yips and yips and yips at everyon’e ankles):....
(Excerpt) Read more at freedomist.com ...
What I wrote and posted was only to illustrate why the elites will NOT help a conservative. It would cut their money tree down.
Newt was the very first person to run a national campaign. That's how the "R's" took the House after 40 years in the wilderness. He knows what he's doing.
Prove it is not. Put up or shut up. How do you like the new tone on FR?
The reference was more aptly to be applied to voting records being used as gospel on a persons true belief. All those bills that passed likely had some positive things in them that were needed.
Ron Paul regularly votes against something after he puts an earmark in a bill that he knows must pass. It is just the way the corrupt system works.
I don't place much value on opposition research posts that say way too much. Beside you could make a very similar list of all those un-conservative things Ronald Reagan signed into law. We do after all still have the Department of Education that he vowed to abolish, and I am pretty sure he signed many budgets that contained funding or even expansion of the same, right?
Oh please, the negatives for Newt and Mitt are so huge you really have to scrape the bottom to try to drag Santorum down to their level. No he’s not perfect but them neither was Reagan.
Maybe if you used some of that energy on getting Romney to drop out.......Unless of course you are really a closet Romney supporter, after all, your attacks do benefit him more than they do Newt.
Spector turned out to be a lying snake and yet conservatives time and again held their breath 'praying' he was able to do the 'right' thing... Didn't Spector vote for Obamacare as a rightful democrat? Did Toomey vote for Obamacare??? Actions have consequences and the point is that Santorum has as many warts and flaws as anyone else in spite of what he claims to the contrary.
Think about this, had the 'moderates' in the Proud-GOP establishment held a literal Constitutional 'trial' in the Senate, produced the evidence with live witnesses Clinton would have been tossed out of office. What could have been?
There is NO lie big enough that will ever diminish the fact that Newt lead the national campaign to 'free' the peoples house with the Contract with America. Not even the 'truth' of Newts sins and dabbling will ever change. That accomplishment gave more to the American people than anything Santorum has yet to accomplish. FACT are FACTS.
As I stated, I believe correctly, you can choose to be anti Romney at that point, or anti Obama, or both. When did I say it would be pro Romney?
For my part I will be 1000% anti Obama and that includes voting against Obama.
You have once again proven you have no taste for sharp humor. That cut I made to Yaelle was brilliantly sarcastic, something you don’t like.
I get that you don’t like it. I understand not everybody likes it. That’s fine with me. I don’t like fantasy.
So do me a favor and quit feeling the need to remind me you don’t like it every time I do it.
As for me and Santorum: one huge difference: I don’t pretend to be something I’m not.
I said you convinced me with your bogus list, Rick Santorum is a far left communist.
Just wondering, are you seriously trying to tell people here that they need to do research for you because otherwise, Rick santorum is a liberal?
Educate me further, in an Obama/ Santorum matchup, who am I supposed to vote for?
I’m also a Palin supporter, as well as Cain, Perry, I suppose others. What are we supposed to do though, make them run and win?
One thing I know I am not an Obama supporter.
That Toomey was not all we thought he was is not the point. THAT SPECTER WAS EXACTLY WHO WE KNEW HE WAS is the point.
Nothing could get through your warped thinking - which is parallel to your support of him. I’m repulsed by liars - and Rick has shown himself to be one along with the own he’s working for - the known liar mitt.
http://www.conservative.org/ratings/ratingsarchive/2006/2006senate.htm
Actually, it is True Believer who gets the credit for posting Ricks's true conservative ratings in the 80s...
Not ‘bla,bla bla,’ its La, La, La, and you have to cover your ears and stomp your feet.
I am not here to win Newt friends. On this particular thread, I am here to get the truth across about what a sanctimonious fraud Santorum is. And since his only claim is that he's a true conservative - because he certainly does not have any ability or charisma - his phoniness is damned important.
If Santorum were who he claims to be, chances are I would be for him. But he's not - and I'm not.
No, I guess we may have to hold our noses again, as so many times before. Still if these other candidates can hold Willard off from a first-ballot majority,...?
Reagan was FOR America. Newt is/was FOR America.
Mitt and Rick are FOR themselves - always have been. Lying to deceive voters shows the evil within. They have no record to run on so they NEED to taint the oppositions SUCCESSES.
No, I guess we may have to hold our noses again, as so many times before. Still if these other candidates can hold Willard off from a first-ballot majority,...?
No, I guess we may have to hold our noses again, as so many times before. Still if these other candidates can hold Willard off from a first-ballot majority,...?
I am not here to win Newt friends. On this particular thread, I am here to get the truth across about what a sanctimonious fraud Santorum is. And since his only claim is that he's a true conservative - because he certainly does not have any ability or charisma - his phoniness is damned important.
If Santorum were who he claims to be, chances are I would be for him. But he's not - and I'm not.
Rick Santorum’s Senate voting record:
What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty.
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban anti-personnel landmines.
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same pay raises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyrannical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea.
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program.
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture).
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge.
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN.
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge.
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit.
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge.
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge.
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge.
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act.
Voted against repeal of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages.
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor.
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding.
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding.
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization.
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here.
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representatives from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device.
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional pay raise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapists, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require state and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators.
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border patrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform.
Voted against Medicaid reform.
Voted against TANF reform.
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion.
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored an amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million.
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA).
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion.
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million.
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL).
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry.
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation.
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%.
Voted against transferring $20 million from AmeriCorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies a new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against allowing consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing.
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
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