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To: CharlesWayneCT
I'm not voting against a good conservative because he didn't vote no on a multi-billion-dollar appropriations bill because of a few extra million of NEA spending. Every republican budget that had NEA spending had the votes of the republicans.

Charles, Santorum voted against an amendment that specifically would have eliminated funding for programs and activities carried out by the National Endowment for the Arts.

According to the ACU:

Link

Link to 1998 Voting record.

163 posted on 02/12/2012 9:39:18 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

As I said, I’m not picking my President over a vote on NEA funding that has been included in every appropriations bill passed by a republican house and senate, a minor part of huge appropriations bills. Especially not on votes that won by a 76-22 margin.

Santorum has said that he voted on some things in the Senate based on what he knew the people he represented would want. I’m not sure I agree with that, and I know others want more conservative purity from their candidates, but it is a sound principle of representative government. I have no idea why he voted the way he did on this particular issue, but I bet if he was given time to refresh his memory, he’d answer the question, whether we liked the answer or not.

It’s a fool’s errand trying to explain every vote taken by a senator over their career. Individual votes can be found and spliced together. Santorum apparently voted conservatively enough during his time in office that he ended up with a lifetime 88.1 ACU rating, only 1.9 points less than Gingrich, who I am assured is a solid Reagan conservative. Organizations know which votes were important, and which were not, and are often better at judging and rating candidates.


170 posted on 02/12/2012 10:02:47 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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