Posted on 09/12/2010 6:27:54 PM PDT by tcg
...Senator Santorum's speech is a breath of fresh air. In an age of political sound bites and jingoism, he offers intelligent and impassioned reflection. This is a statesman.
I vividly remember the fateful day when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was traumatized. I kept a scrapbook in which I collected newspaper articles, and photos concerning it. My mother kept it for me. She also gave me a card made up marking the day of his funeral with a prayer for the repose of his soul. She wrapped it in "saran wrap" and I have it to this day. There certainly was, and to some degree still is, a "Kennedy Mystique".
It is clear that our Nations first Catholic President made a tragic error in the Houston speech. That error unleashed a torrent of tragic results. In Senator Santorum's words, "Fifty years ago this Sunday JFK delivered a speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association to dispel suspicions about the role the papacy might play in the government of this country under his administration. Let's make no mistake about it -- Kennedy was addressing a real issue at the time. Prejudice against Catholics threatened to cost him the election. But on that day, Kennedy chose not just to dispel fear, he chose to expel faith."
John F. Kennedy also laid the groundwork for the advance of what the venerable John Paul II rightly called the "Culture of Death." He gave cover to countless Catholic politicians to be morally incoherent. Senator Rick Santorum's speech in Houston is the desperately needed corrective that has been long overdue. Having come to know this gifted and good man, I am convinced he is recapturing the Kennedy Mystique while correcting the Kennedy Mistake...
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The author makes one mistake. He says that we are our brother’s keeper. I don’t think we are. When Cain asks God if he was his brother’s keeper God never says yes or no. God tells Cain that his brother’s murder must be avenged. It is Biblical that those in authority have special responsibilities, but each man must look after his own soul.
Santorum actively supported the pro-abortion Arlen Specter over the anti-abortion Pat Toomey. I see no mention of that in this article.
Now he is just a pathetic hanger-on with has-beens like Bill Bennet and Co.
Santorum can go pound sand. He’s the fallback guy for the socons in case Huckster doesn’t make it.
Yep, it’s a race to the finish between him and Newtie to see who is the biggest yesteryear gasbag.
There must have been a personality problem there as the PA people beat him by a large margin.
I feel sorry for people who “fell” for that rotund Bill Bennett. Even Jesse Helms tried to get him once to run for the other NC Senate seat, but Bennett said no. That was before he came out as a neo-con.
For all of you who still hate Santorum, for one mistake (and probaly forced by the GOP elites to do it), we lost a great guy in Santorum. Yes, we punished him soundly, threw him out on his ear, but the biggest loser has been ourselves. The so-called ‘democrat conservative’ who won against Santorum has voted with the leftists has done a lot of damage to our country.
We need to take a better political tack than just letting the left win the seats of people we disagree with. How stupid can we get? It would’ve been better to voice our complaints and still support a candidate that was 100% pro-life, pro-family, and voted right about as much as anybody in the Senate. Instead, we let our anger carry the day and look what we have instead?! How smart was that?
“Now he is just a pathetic hanger-on with has-beens...”
Yes...”has-beens” like Greta and FNC.
I’m not sticking up for him, but he’s hardly in bed with has-beens.
Bumping an excellent and thoughtful reply.
He was dislodged from his Senatorial position in 2006. There were other good people who lost that year. It was the pace car lap for 2008.
Not saying that worked out good for us but the reasons were there.
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