“”Yes Santorum is a gold plated pro union, big government, nanny state Rhino who now tries to tell us all his rhino votes were just taking one for the team. And now he suckers SoCons into voting for him with his pro-life spiel, but when the rubber met the road he voted for funding for PPH and supported one of the most liberal pro abortion Senators in history when Mr Specter ran against a true conservative.
Newt on the other hand brought conservative Republicans back to power in the House after 40 years of back bench status. Worked to balance the federal budget and reform welfare getting both done even with a democrat president.
If Santorum isn’t being paid by Romney’s people who should call them ask them for a check. Without him Romney would be nowhere today.””
Santorum was aware of abortion, he was a lifelong Catholic and was working in politics by the late 1970s, he went through the abortion wars and the Reagan years (”he shunned Youth for Reagan as being too “fringe right-wing”), yet he remained pro-abortion.
Just like Romney Santorum said “I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress”.
Santorum is described as being uninterested in issues as a political operative, but also for telling people that they had to lock on an issue, and hammer it to create an awareness of them to the electorate.
Santorum says he became (kind of) pro-life in 1990 to run for office, but in 1996 he was supporting Arlen Specter for President.
Here is Specter’s Presidential campaign description that Santorum was endorsing: “For Specter, who later became a Democrat, his pro-abortion-rights position was a centerpiece of his campaign. Specter believed that anti-abortion activists were a “fringe” group hijacking the Republican party.
“There are clearly more Republicans who are pro-choice,” Specter told Newsday’s Susan Page. “Up until now, I am the only person willing to take on the fringe.” After Specter dropped out of the race, he led an ill-fated movement to change the anti-abortion provision in the Republican party platform.”
In 2004, Santorum helped save Specter’s Senate race, in 2008, he supported the most aggressively pro-abortion guy to have ever reached his level in GOP politics, Mitt Romney.
In 1990 Santorum ran as a “Progressive Conservative” (his campaign literature used that description) who was against the pro-life amendment and many of us that have learned more about him do not see him as a true conservative warrior.
After 2006 and the record breaking 18 point dumping of him from his Senate seat, Santorum was finished in politics, until this protecting Romney from the right gig came along.
Yes, Santorum is truly a piece of work.
And he has a bunch of people thoroughly snookered on his pro-life charade.
Stupid is for life, and about 1/3 of Freepers are too stupid or too stubborn to be allowed to vote.