Newt’s conservative rating in the last 10 years is closer to Nancy Pelosi’s rating (global warming, cap-and-trade, individual mandate, amnesty, gov subsidies, attacking ryan etc).
Santorum does not have scandals like newt.
Go Rick!
Hmm, where do I begin?
Newt didn't attack Ryan, wasn't for cap-and-trade and has changed his mind on global warming.
Newt was for individual insurance mandates, because we have government mandated medical treatment in this country. That means that the free loaders take advantage of medical treatment while the rest of us are mandated by government to pay for their treatment.
The best most conservative solution of course is no government mandates of any kind. Now point out for me where Rick Santorum is against government mandated medical treatment.
You of course can't.
Meanwhile, I'll point out to you that Santorum increased medical treatment mandates by voting for the Perscription Drug Benefit mandate.
Moving on to Newt's amnesty, Santorum agrees with Newt.
Roll tape....
GINGRICH: [to Santorum]: We should make English the official language of government. We should insist that first-generation immigrants who come here learn American history in order to become citizens. We should also insist that American children learn American history. And then find a way to deal with folks who are already here, some of whom, frankly, have been here 25 years, are married with kids, live in our local neighborhood, go to our church. It's got to be done in a much more humane way than thinking that to automatically deport millions of people.
SANTORUM: My solution is very similar to Newt Gingrich's. We should not have a debate talking about how we don't want people to come to this country, but we want them to come here like my grandfather and my father came here. They made sacrifices. They came in the 1920s. There were no promises. There were no government benefits. They came because they wanted to be free and they wanted to be good law-abiding citizens.
So let's summarize...
Newt mentions his 25-years-and-up amnesty, and Santorum doesn't criticize Newt for mentioning his 25-years-and-up amnesty. Instead, Santorum says that his position is "very similar to New Gingrich's".
As I said...
Santorum has a lifetime conservative rating from the American Conservative Union of 88%. Newt's lifetime rating is 90%. Newt was beating Mitt in Iowa. Both are now splitting the anti Romney vote in Iowa, yielding the lead to Mitt.
And all for what?