Posted on 01/01/2012 8:16:31 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
Last month, Sen. Rick Santorum schooled CNN’s Candy Crowley on the subject of President Barack Obama’s appeasement of America’s enemies.
Today, on NBC’s Meet the Press, it was David Gregory’s turn.
Like Crowley, Gregory attempted to “fact-check” Santorum by arguing that it could not possibly be “accurate” or “objective” to describe Obama’s foreign policy as “appeasement.”
In particular, he challenged Santorum to distinguish Obama’s policy on Iran from that of his predecessor, George W. Bush. (For several years, Democrats have tried to defend Obama by pointing out that the Bush administration refused to approve military strikes, either by the U.S. or by Israel.)
Santorum, as usual, delivered the facts on demand:
(Excerpt) Read more at bigjournalism.com ...
You could be right, but Santorum could siphon off the bulk of the Gingrich support and win in SC, though I know that may be a pipe dream.
Except for a few "social issues" Huckabee was a progressive and fiscal Republicans could not support him. Not so with Santorum who is socially and fiscally conservative. If Santorum wins Iowa, NH will be most interesting.
You meen Huckabee — the guy who landslided Willard by about 10 points in Iowa and then finished top three everywhere after that — including a strong 2nd in SC (33%-30%). And won a ton of states on Super Tuesday! And then finished up 2nd in total delegates nationally to McCain?
I think young Santorum would love to be THAT Huckabee, my friend.
Voting in favor of the Bridge to Nowhere and billions in earmarks is fiscally conservative?
You are the only liberal to bash Santorum on this thread. Huckster came mighty close to the nomination. He went all the way to the end. Santorum is a much better candidate. Get with Santorum and lose your liberalism. You are a better person then bashing a moral conservative. Come on....knock off the Sanotrum bashing. He is the best we have. I am so proud of Santorum and Iowa. Sanotrum is starting to make inroads in South Carolina. I think he will do very well if not win South Carolina because he is REAL. A REAL MORAL CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!
Good stuff. Santorum is who I will vote for. It’s too bad the electorate had to waste time and money in their dalliance with Newt.
That’s what I want a president to act like.
Huck came in 3rd in NH. Santorum would KILL for a 3rd in NH. :)
Impressive performance under the grilling of the reporter. He understands how serious it is if Iran is a nuclear power.
Every American should watch these interviews. They should see how Santorum is attacked and how the MSM is working for Obama. Santorum was patient and polite. He made his points and refused to accept the false premises and disinformation that they continually threw at him.
How many other Republican candidates correctly and unambiguously state that Obama is an appeaser? How many others stand up for principles when attacked by the MSM and refuse to try to curry favor with the MSM or the elite?
They all vote for earmarks and I don't agree with every vote of any politician. However, he had a 96% from ACU his last year in Congress, the same as DeMint (who I really want to be our next president), and a 87% lifetime rating. He was also always given high marks by the National Taxpayers Union.
At least relative to the rest of Congress, he was a fiscal conservative.
Rick was asked about such by Gregory and didn't back down. The Big Journalism clip sourced above didn't include that segment. The full (22 minute) MTP interview is up now and is worth viewing if you want to see Santorum handle a hostile environment. Watch his answer and see what you think of it. My poor paraphrase would be he said Congress was elected to supervise spending and they could either act on that responsibility or abdicate it to the unelected bureaucrats. He also admitted the process has become more broken with time.
Santorum also addressed the lack of endorsement issue, claiming he hadn't asked a single former Senate colleague for one. Amongst other reasons humbly said he didn't think it was proper to ask for one when he was at 3% in the polls, that he first had to earn the right to ask. And he also discussed his late endorsement of Romney in '08 and described his reasoning then.
Don't take my word for it. See and judge for yourself. I'd encourage the same for any Freeper in an early voting state. He may not be as smooth as Reagan... or Palin. But IMHO he defends conservative positions across a broad spectrum against liberal media attack here better than I can recall any of 'our' Presidential nominees since the Gipper himself. He doesn't back down.
Unlike all of Obama's pre-Presidential opponents he doesn't have any divorce to unseal for dirt. He can't convincingly be lampooned as George Bush's third term. He's not a rich man, so can't be attacked as such. He never was for ObamaCare or any form of healthcare mandate. What's left for Obama's options to attack him in a general? The Democrats can't run Obama as the pro-life son of a favorite old governor as they ran Casey against Rick in '06. All I can see it attacking Santorum on the issues. And if Santorum can do as well in the fall as he did today Obama would be in deep trouble. And regarding the money issue I suspect Rick Santorum can run a Presidential campaign without money better than Obama has run the country without money. And close his deficit faster!
Compared to frauds like Mitt Romneycare and Ricardo "you don't have a heart" Perry, yes. It's a weak field and Santorum is the best of the lot. You could probably make a good case that Ron Paul's record is more "fiscally conservative" (although Paul also inserts zillions for earmarks in a bill and then casts a token "nay" vote on the bill, knowing it will pass anyway and he'll get his pork). However, Ron Paul is a nut on lots of other issues so that rules him out. As much as I'd like an ideal Congressman who doesn't take earmarks and voted against the Bridge to Nowhere, there aren't many in office and none that are running for President. Santorum has flaws but he's far better than the other phony "conservative" saviors. I doubt he's going to cut global warming ads with Nancy Pelosi any time soon. And at least he had the guts to oppose TARP, that's far better than most GOP "fiscal conservatives" in office now.
Wouldn’t surprise me if Sarah Palin endorses Santorum.
You make a good point. Most don’t realize that a lot of former Cain supporters have not landed yet. They are still shopping, not wanting to throw their support behind a candidate that can’t go the distance.
Santorum is looking very attractive at this point.
Thank you for pointing out the REAL source of America's problems.
The “Santorum Doctrine” will have Iran scuttling their nuke program the second Rick is elected president in November.
Just like when Iran released the hostages because they knew Reagan was coming.
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