Posted on 03/20/2012 4:36:52 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Rick Santorum makes an excellent point that “past performance really does indicate future results.” I completely agree—but not just “in Mitt Romney’s case.” Rick Santorum became the third-highest ranking Republican in the Senate in 2001 at a time when Republicans inherited balanced budgets, surpluses, and conservative, pro-life majorities. Senator Santorum and his big spending GOP allies proceeded to squander this inheritance.
The leadership of the Rick Santorum Republicans proved disastrous:
* The Rick Santorum Republicans never passed a single balanced budget, after inheriting balanced budgets and record surpluses. They racked up $1.7 trillion in deficits and increased the average number of earmarks by almost 500 percent. The Senator even voted for the Bridge to Nowhere.
* The Rick Santorum Republicans increased the national debt by 12 percent and voted to raise the debt ceiling five times to accommodate it—even while dealing with a president of their own party.
* The Senator voted with Democrats and Big Labor to defeat the National Right to Work Act of 1995. He justifies this vote saying he was representing Pennsylvania where forced unionization is the law but today, PA Senator Toomey is cosponsoring nearly identical legislation.
* The Senator voted with Democrats and Big Labor — repeatedly — to protect Davis-Bacon legislation, an old law on the books that requires the federal government to pay more to its contractors. He was so wedded to big labor that he even voted against waiving Davis-Bacon in times of emergency. By voting to protect Davis-Bacon, the Senator cost taxpayers many millions in higher taxes, deficits, and national debt.
* The Senator sponsored the “Santorum Amendment” to raise the Minimum Wage 21.4%. He supported Ted Kennedy’s proposed hike in the Minimum Wage. And, in a 2006 campaign commercial, he bragged about his support for a higher Minimum Wage.
* The Rick Santorum Republicans abandoned their principles, resulting in the worst electoral defeat for Republicans since Watergate and the loss of GOP Congressional majorities in both the House and Senate. This left Congress in the hands of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. And in destroying the Republican brand of balanced budgets and spending control, the Rick Santorum Republican failure gave us Barack Obama in 2008.
This is not a record of leadership to be proud of, and in 2006 it resulted in a catastrophic 18-point defeat. I fear it would do so again in the fall of 2012 if he were the nominee.
Unlike Senator Santorum, I did not go to Washington seeing politics as a “team sport.” Instead, I set out to change the game, and was willing to fight the forces of the establishment within the Republican Party to do so. The result was the first GOP majority in 40 years and the largest increase in pro-life votes in House of Representatives history. When I was Speaker, we balanced the budget for the first time since the 1920s — and it stayed balanced for four straight years. We reformed welfare, lifting millions of Americans from poverty. We passed the biggest capital gains tax cut in history, helping create 11 million jobs. And we did it all while paying down the national debt by $400 billion.
If you agree with Senator Santorum that “past performance really does indicate future results,” it means there’s only one candidate in this race who can offer the change our country desperately needs.
Ah. Please explain the difference.
While you're at it, tell me the different point or points between family values and Christian values.
But then some of us just are not as smart as your supporters who dare not question his faults. The fight is far more important than treating anybody with respect.
I am serious about changing my vote by your and other so called supporters attacks. You may win the battle but lose the war with these cheapshots.
Pray for America
“The proof is between the lines.”
Sorry dear your Hypothesis is not evidence of truth.
With something as huge as Newt selling out you need more than Hypothesis. Keep looking I will still be here.
“Santorum is the GOP Elites’ fall back guy in case Romney bombs.”
Af first I would have disagreed with you. But then in the debate, Politics is a team sport, Sometimes you have to take one for the team.
That Ruined him as a candidate for me. I have honestly tried to look beyond this because Newt is in trouble. But his record keeps getting in the way.
We need someone that is going to Shake DC on its Foundation that is Newt not Santorum taking one for the team.
GO NEWT
Everybody knows Cins’s is fully in Newt's court...you are way off base insinuating otherwise.
No. You have no reference.
People refuse to pay attention 'to the game' and instead just see who's ahead from one minute to the next. They aren't looking at the whole picture of what's going on and the plays being set up...let alone where they are coming from.....though they know the media will spin...they forget the media will also "create" the drama for ratings... and make false calls for winners in order to divert people from going to the polls.
I don't think it's as crazy of a primary as it is the people are unwilling to see what's being played and jump ahead of the game...thereby hurting the chances we might otherwise have.
Most do recognize Santorum got a "ride"....and even the news pundits said he'd never have that on his own merit without them.
What's most discouraging is seeing the people support Santorum...they did take the bait...and we may very well pay for their mistake when all is said and done.
Hey, it’s my stalker dude.
Keep calling people liars, and sooner or later you’ll make the mistake of doing so in person, when you aren’t hidden in anonymity and cowering in your basement. And somebody with less self-restraint than I have will deck you.
He responds: No. You have no reference.
People, look long and hard at the consequences of electing as president a guy whose supporters exhibit such lack of focus and such profound moral arrogance.
The truth? Steve8714 either cannot or will not acknowledge that "family values" is just a politically-correct way of saying "Christian values." Christian values are what created this nation and they are what will save this nation, not political correctness/cowardice brewed with moral arrogance. Santorum lacks the stones to call a spade a spade, resorting instead to a vague feel-good euphemism, but one of his supporters here is so arrogant as to tell me, a declared Christian, that I have "no reference" for distinguishing a "better" man from a [more] "moral" man, or "Christian values" from "family values."
Santorum is looking worse everyday. Godspeed Newt Gingrich.
All I'm doing is letting people know your history. You are also perfectly free to go back in forum to read mine, and see where you can warn people about bad candidates I've supported in the past, with a contingent of folks known to lie and deceive in order to support their candidate.
I won't even suggest you'd need to be decked for it, nor will I imply that you're a coward hiding in a basement. I'll leave that kind of thing to you, as Romney supporters were, in the old days, the very best at those kinds of tactics. :^) You may have switched candidates, but you still have the same MO.
Please. Here’s good news for Newt supporters; his fourth place in Illinois is no more meaningful than Romney’s win.
As for your not being a Newt supporter, I STAND CORRECTED! And I am glad to do it.
Thank you for all your comments to the thread.
Bump!
So I no longer care if the Newt people keep helping Romney with their mean-spirited attacks on Santorum--they are superfluous—oh, and personal insults prove you have neither the intellect nor character to debate effectively.
So stay in the race Newt if it sooths your wounded pride--Rick Santorum is America's last conservative hope now.
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Indeed Finny.....people just continue to underestimate Newt...and that's to his advantage....when this whole thing is over we'll read in a book one day how Newt called the shots in this Primary.
Until then Go Newt Go and may God pave the way when it's time.
“Santorum spent most of his time grandstanding for his Senate race,.... speaking vague cost-cutting rhetoric designed to get him on C-SPAN...... He would be very polite in person, but when he got in front of the microphone he was a monster..... You had to wonder how much of an act it was.”
“Santorum had no depth on tax issues,”... “but he could run a long ways with nothing. He was assigned to make life crazy for Democrats...... They always knew he would be a little pit bull to take us on on issues simply for the sake of slowing things down,...... but he couldn’t keep his facts straight....... It got to the point that other Republicans would have their staff draft the issues for him so that at least he’d have some facts to work with.”
The Republican overclass in Pennsylvania—the core group of which is moderate—tried to discourage Santorum from running for the Senate. ...
.....“We felt it was presumptuous on his part; he didn’t exactly have much of a record in the House,” ..... “But it was more than that....... Of course, there was his personality, he had rubbed a lot of us the wrong way,..... and in Congress he’s been a bull in a china shop.
In the end, the problem was that nobody knows what Rick stands for..... He kept trying to tell us what a moderate he was.
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/rick_santorum_i_was_basically_pro_choice_all_my_life/page6
If it weren't, in fact, a two man race I could understand Newt people smearing Rick but they are irrelevant if they cannot even beat the nut Ron Paul. So for me to attack anyone but Mitt would be a waste of time.
Not for you to worry though, Mitt will probably get the nomination anyway.
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