Karen Santorum says husband is on his knees daily before God

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[USS Alaska]

She also says his Christian faith is everything, that he’s a very deeply spiritual man who is on his knees daily as a servant before God.

I believe her and his Faith is laudable but that alone doesn't make him a Presidential winner.

I'm for Newt, could go for Rick and will probably end up with mittens.

The mooselimbs pray five times a day, so while prayer is generally good...

[Sun]

Rick Santorum wrote the bill on welfare reform, when he was in the House, and led the charge for welfare reform in the Senate.

Pretty fiscal of him, eh? :)

Why do you think those CONSERVATIVE groups I posted previously gave him such great ratings?

Rick is not perfect, but who is?

[Sun]

Ronald Reagan was a man of faith, and he also made a great POTUS.

btw, did you listen to the entire interview on the video?

[Son House]

So where has Santorum lead a Conservative Economic policy solution? He’s vote buying with tripling the dependent child income tax credit and offering a progressive income tax solution. No thanks, give me Barabbas Romney.

[Son House]

Well I owe due credit for that Welfare reform, but I do not buy he is or will be a good fiscal conservative, even Huntsman is to the right of Democrat Economic policies.

[Sun]

Welfare reform IS “a Conservative Economic policy solution,” and Rick led welfare reform, and fought for it, as well as writing the bill in the House.

“and you know that I was a leader on welfare reform. I was the guy that led the charge in the US Senate and actually wrote the bill when I was in the House. I was the guy that actually helped end the federal entitlement.”

excerpt http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/06/08/the_rick_santorum_interview

Compare that with nanny-State Romney.

[Son House]

Okay, but now Santorum looks like he wants to be every families nanny;

http://www.mittromney.com/issues/tax
America’s individual tax code applies relatively high marginal tax rates on a narrow tax base. Those high rates discourage work and entrepreneurship, as well as savings and investment. With 54 percent of private sector workers employed outside of corporations, individual rates also define the incentives for job-creating businesses. Lower marginal tax rates secure for all Americans the economic gains from tax reform.

Make permanent, across-the-board 20 percent cut in marginal rates

http://www.ricksantorum.com/rick-santorums-first-100-days-economic-freedom-agenda
I’ll submit to Congress my comprehensive pro-growth and pro-family tax policies to strengthen opportunity in our country, with lower rates of 10 percent and 28 percent. To help families, I’ll triple the personal deduction for children and eliminate the marriage tax penalty throughout the tax code.

[Sun]

“But one cannot talk about Romney’s record on entitlement reform without considering the universal healthcare plan Governor Romney helped craft in Massachusetts. The bill that Governor Romney signed with a grinning Ted Kennedy in the background on April 12, 2006.

Governor Romney still defends his plan five years later while publicly saying as President he would repeal and replace ObamaCare. But the two plans are similar in at least three significant ways:

•Both have an individual mandate that requires people to purchase a private good – in this case, health insurance – and levies a financial penalty against those who don’t.
•Both implement a new government bureaucracy called an “exchange” through which all insurance policies are approved, sold, and heavily regulated.
•Both have sizeable subsidies for low-income people to purchase the mandated coverage.
It’s worth noting that the Obama Administration continually points out that ObamaCare was, in a large way, modeled after RomneyCare. Romney has rightly received much criticism from economic conservatives for the obvious similarities between his plan and President Obama’s command and control plan.

Governor Romney often defends his plan by rightly saying that the states are “laboratories of democracy.” However, he should recognize that this is one lab experiment that has completely failed. According to a Heritage Foundation analysis of RomneyCare three years out, the budget for subsidized care had exploded from $133 million in FY2007 to around $800 million by FY2009. In the first year, Massachusetts raised $12 million in revenues from tax penalties assessed by the Individual Mandate. The Massachusetts Taxpayers Association projects a FY2010 budget of $880 million.

At the time of its passage, Governor Romney claimed that under his plan “the costs of health care will be reduced,” but the Cato Institute has highlighted several statistics that show that RomneyCare increased costs, including the fact that premiums rose faster post-RomneyCare than anywhere else in the nation, 21-46% faster than the national average.

Cato also noted that there is mounting evidence that “Massachusetts residents are responding to the individual mandate not by obtaining coverage but by concealing their insurance status. Coverage gains may therefore be less than official estimates suggest” and that “despite stiffer penalties than ObamaCare will impose, increasing numbers of people are gaming the individual mandate by only purchasing health insurance when they need medical care. Such behavior could ultimately cause the ‘private’ insurance market to collapse.”

Empirical evidence demonstrates that RomneyCare has failed to control health care costs, increased the size of government, and by its very nature introduced more government and less freedom into health care markets. Governor Romney should admit that RomneyCare is a failure, and soon.
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Perhaps to his consternation, he has developed an unshakeable reputation as a flip-flopper. He has changed his position on several economic issues, including taxes, education, political free speech, and climate change. And yet the one issue that he doesn’t flip on – RomneyCare – is the one that is causing him the most problems with conservative voters. Nevertheless, he labels himself as a pro-growth fiscal conservative, and we have no doubt that Romney would move the country in a pro-growth direction. He would promote the unwinding of Obama’s bad economic policies, but we also think that Romney is somewhat of a technocrat. After a career in business, quickly finding a “solution” seems to be his goal, even if it means more government intrusion as a means to an end. To this day, Romney supports big government solutions to health care and opposes pro-growth tax code reform – positions that are simply opposite to those supported by true economic conservatives. “

excerpt http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=905