Posted on 02/02/2012 5:31:46 PM PST by writer33
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum commands a lot of respect in the Pikes Peak region.
And that support was hammered home Wednesday evening when Focus on the Family’s founder, Dr. James Dobson, made a surprise appearance at a Santorum rally to announce his endorsement.
“I’ve been watching you,” Dobson said to Santorum, with a quiet smile on his face. “We need you in the Oval Office.”
Santorum grinned broadly, and the thousand people at the rally stood and cheered.
And the senator told them solemnly, “God called me to do this.”
The event was Santorum’s second in the Pikes Peak region on Wednesday, during a campaign swing through Colorado. He stopped first in Woodland Park, where supporters filled the Ute Pass Cultural Center to capacity. So many people showed up that organizers worried about violating the fire code, and the campaign moved its evening rally to Mr. Biggs Family Fun Center, which had a much more room than the original location.
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For those interested.
As a sweater vest cleaning lady...take off that stupid sweater...drop out...and endorse Newt!
You will NEVER be president...make your point and go away!
Thank you.
According to FOX tonight, Santorum’s fundraising has nearly tripled after Rush Limbaugh’s comments yesterday.
It scares me when a politician says, “God called me to do this.”
The numbers are just not there, and Dobson has a tin ear for politics. It will never happen, no matter what Dobson says. Better to be practical, than to idealistically go down in defeat.
Dobson's endorsement is a liability, plain as that.
The numbers are just not there, and Dobson has a tin ear for politics. It will never happen, no matter what Dobson says. Better to be practical, than to idealistically go down in defeat.
Dobson's endorsement is a liability, plain as that.
Last election, he was one of the prominent evangelicals who hesitated for a long time to endorse Huckabee because he believed Romney was also a pro-life candidate. Dobson’s endorsement will carry significant weight in many conservative Christian circles, not because Dobson would be likely to endorse someone else, but because he chose not to remain neutral and come out aggressively in support of one candidate rather than remaining quiet.
We NEED him and nutcase to drop out. They aren’t doing us any favors..
Enjoy your trip.
Have you ever read any of his books or hear his radio show? When I was a counselor at a Crisis Pregnancy Center Dobsons FOF helped all the CPCs out so much. He is a well respect man in the Christian community. He always took a lot of heat from the left because he was one of the first Christian leader to warn about the gay agenda.
lol rick will never be prez so endorse newt...like saying kim k will never be faithful so start dating paris hilton
What’s with the hateful comments directed at Christians?
I can’t believe what’s happening on the Free Republic lately.
Now a challenge to Writer33, napscoordinator, and any others connected with the Santorum campaign: somebody needs to go through this brochure, line by line, and identify 1) what items on the brochure are taken out of context, 2) what items were written for a Pennsylvania audience and can be defended as Santorum voting for what his home-state constituents wanted, and 3) which items (if any) represent an old position he has since changed. The whole brochure should be obtained and posted online; my guess is Santorum said a lot of other things Freepers will like if presented in full and in context.
Obvious examples include #9 on stem cell research — I'm all but certain Santorum was supporting adult stem cell research, not fetal stem cell research, but that needs to be clarified. If he was supporting fetal stem cell research then, we need to make sure he doesn't do that now.
Also, I think #2 can clearly be defended on conservative principles — we definitely **SHOULD** be promoting use of coal, because not only Pennsylvania but many other states make America the “Saudi Arabia” of coal and we need to be encouraging reliance on domestic rather than foreign fuel sources. Related to that, #2 makes clear that while lots of candidates were sitting on the fence about global warming or actually supporting steps that would damage our economy for no good reason, Santorum was promoting coal usage despite the greenhouse gas garbage.
I could cite other items on the brochure, but I'd rather see someone from the Santorum campaign do this work and give us something officially from Santorum’s mouth, not our guesses about what he meant to say.
Any questions? I have known this guy was a sickie and have said so, much to the dismay of the boobs and doo-dahs who think he's special. But I didn't know he was a paranoid psychotic with delusions of grandiosity.
Rick is NOT presidential timbre! Great social conservative...just not presidential!
What’s with the hateful comments directed at Christians?
I can’t believe what’s happening on the Free Republic lately.
Some are acting like the establishment, telling us who we have to support and slandering Rick and his supports.
Earth to Darrell. Dobson endorsed Santorum two or three weeks ago at the meeting of the evangelicals in Texas.
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