Posted on 02/15/2012 5:20:33 PM PST by Nachum
Excerpts from American Thinker by Edmund Wright:
Couldn’t agree more
To be sure, the only reason Santorum has gotten away with this is that no one has taken his candidacy seriously enough to bother to look. He has not been above the fray. He has been off to the side of the fray. Ironically, he has been the “look at me” candidate all along, so now perhaps it is indeed time to look at him. Be careful what you wish for, Senator.
Oh My! Rick actually published a Pamphlet in his failed 2006 Campaign which tried to show Pennsylvanians how much pork he was bringing home!!! See link below
In the ’06 campaign against maybe the least talented Democrat in Congress — Bob Casey — the notion that Rick went down swinging deserves scrutiny. Under said scrutiny, the impression one gets is that of an embarrassed faux conservative who is shuffling off to the left as fast as he can. This shuffle left was actually a pamphlet put out by the Santorum campaign called “50 Things You May Not Know About Rick Santorum.”
Highlights from Rick’s Pamphlet
-Among those 50 things is the aforementioned strong support for legislation raising the minimum wage. In addition to being a shameless union measure, this hurts the free market. A sample of the other items include:
-Sponsoring FAIR CAIR act to force companies to pay benefits to laid-off workers. -Working with John McCain on campaign finance reform. -Bragging about bringing home federal tax money for clean energy projects. -Working with Bono to spend tax money on poverty in the third world. -Working with Bono to spend tax money on AIDS. -Sponsoring legislation to regulate gas prices. -Authoring the Pet Animal Welfare State Bill. (Huh.) -Voting for record tax funding of
(Excerpt) Read more at damagereport.com ...
More twisting of the truth with false information, example:
“Newt and Rick have that same ACU rating in the mid 80’s .”
Newt in 1998 (last year in office) scored 100% ACU with a lifetime of 90%, well above anybody else. Rick scored in the
low 80’s with an even lower lifetime.
Tossing out false information... must be a Romney bot.
JB
Try
Rick us 85 vs newt is 88
Big deal
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