Posted on 12/22/2011 5:06:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: I would vote for Little Ricky.
Who is BIG Ricky?
I have always referred to him as "Little Ricky". He was my Senator and I have met him. I am not especially fond of his attitude, but I respect his values.
Here is Santorum on ECONOMIC and FISCAL issues:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/268881/20111217/rick-santorum-2012-positions.htm
Excerpts:
* He supports raising the eligibility age for Social Security, changing the formula for cost-of-living adjustments and prohibiting the use of surplus Social Security funds for other purposes.
* He also praised the budget plan proposed earlier this year by U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, which would have privatized Medicare — but he wants to go still further by applying entitlement reforms to people currently receiving benefits.
* “My first priority as president of the United States is to repeal Barack Obama’s health care plan”
* The way to drive costs down, he said, is not through regulations à la Obamacare, but through a system in which standard health insurance doesn’t cover routine care. “Insurance shouldn’t pay for your general maintenance any more than it should pay for the general maintenance of your car,”
* He wants to cap the size of the federal government at 18 percent of gross domestic product by cutting current spending, capping future spending and passing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.
* He wants to eliminate a slew of federal regulations, including those created by the 2010 health care law and many from the Environmental Protection Agency, and he also wants to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law and the Sarbanes-Oxley public companies law.
* He would authorize oil drilling and other energy exploration in places that are currently protected by environmental regulations, such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Gulf of Mexico, in order to create jobs in the energy sector.
* He would also repeal the estate tax and allow multinational corporations to bring overseas earnings back to the United States at a 5 percent rate, and he would “extend the current capital gains and dividend tax rates” — but he would not eliminate taxes on capital gains and dividends altogether.
* He would halve the current 35 percent corporate tax rate and, even more dramatically, exempt manufacturers from income taxes altogether in order to discourage them from moving jobs overseas.
How are the above positions considered “moderate” ?? They are ALL positions conservatives favor.
Thought you were talking about the son of the great babalu, Ricky Ricardo.
Great. But look at the record while he was in the Senate. He pushed Bush’s Medicare expansion through and advocated Bush’s early protectionism. He lead the GOP’s lobbyist outreach efforts. I’m done voting on candidates simply because of the positions they currently take. I got burned on that with Bush. I want to see a record of shrinking government. Rick doesn’t have one.
Oh please, oh please.
The Repulsicans are doing their normal job of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory with RINOmney (nature’s most perfectly lubricated weather vane) and the Gingrich that married Pelosi.
I want a real conservative there...
If Santorum can hang on til Jan 21st, he will get some SC votes cause we ain't got much use for Yankees in general but we sure as hell ain't gonna abide no lyin’ liberal Yankee from Massachusetts!
Another day, another Candidate X is catching fire press release.
This is exciting.I hope he does well.
Rick is the only one in the GOP debates that would get my vote.
Santorum bump. I’m not crazy about social issues driving the presidency but he is a real conservative, bright, well-spoken, and for real. Consistent.
I’d vote for him if I were an Iowan.
R:E Another day, another Candidate X is catching fire press release.
The all important question is this — why isn’t the Candidate presumed to be the one to carry the mantle NOT catching fire after 4 years of campaigning?
No, those are not Conservative positions. They are the typical GOP moderate “tinker around the edges of the current system but leave it fundamentally unchanged” postions ala both George Bush’s.
With the Evangelicals in Iowa, the electorate is taylor made for Santorumn.
RE: No, those are not Conservative positions.
Interesting. How would your conservatism MODIFY those positions to fit your idea of what it should look like?
I think you’re right about Santorum. I like him too but I suspect he’s a ‘compassionate conservative’ in the mold of GWB. Not for me. I support the other Rick in the race but looking at all the choices Santorum would be my second choice.
God bless him for giving it his best shot. He's hit the ground running since Day One. I SO wish he could pull in stronger support. He'd have my vote.
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