Santorum the 'Good Son'? Not So Much.

American Thinker ^ | January 6, 2012 | C. Edmund Wright

[true believer forever]

Upon further review, the only trait that Santorum has of being the good son is his resentment, while he falls woefully short in the purity of goodness department. And by short of purity, I mean simply applying Santorum's own standards for judging Newt's and Mitt's conservatism. By his very own standards, the former Senator from Pennsylvania has some 'splainin' to do.

To be sure, the only reason Santorum has gotten away with this is that no one has taken his candidacy seriously enough to bother to look. He has not been above the fray. He has been off to the side of the fray. Ironically, he has been the "look at me" candidate all along, so now perhaps it is indeed time to look at him. Be careful what you wish for, Senator.

[true believer forever]

Here is a blog someone sent me, very old, from Sanctimonium's last election. The blog was based in the Pittsburgh area, and has a lot of little local tidbits that aren't generally known, at least not to me. There is a letter-to-the-editor of a paper in Pittsburgh from a bunch of nuns taking on Santorum... Seems people considered him Tricky Ricky in those days... I am going to mine it when I get the time...

http://santorumcybergate.blogspot.com/

[SoFloFreeper]

The shocker is this: none of the candidates is perfect. All of them are human.

The non-shocker is this: all of the candidates on our side is better than Obama.

[SoFloFreeper]

above:

I made an is/are error. Sorry. :)

[livius]

We’re talking about his positions, none of which have been examined so far, and almost all of which (except for his pro-life stance) have been quite to the left of the impression he would like to give.

Santorum is a big government Establishment GOPer who has been pro-social spending, pro-union and pro-nannny state regulation throughout his political career. He is also clueless about economics.

He has avoided any scrutiny on this, and it makes me laugh when he is described as a “conservative.”

[SatinDoll]

I keep telling people that Santorum isn’t the Conservative they believe.

[Utmost Certainty]

Problem is, they’ll never believe you. They want to be convinced of the narrative that Santorum is a “perfect conservative”, and they don’t give a damn how much evidence you produce to the contrary of said narrative. They don’t want their precious illusion dispelled, it feels too nice and enchanting.

[Utmost Certainty]

Problem is, they’ll never believe you. They want to be convinced of the narrative that Santorum is a “perfect conservative”, and they don’t give a damn how much evidence you produce to the contrary of said narrative. They don’t want their precious illusion dispelled, it feels too nice and enchanting.

There will always be an intransigent 10% stuck on stupid over this kind of BS, falling for Santorum.

[SatinDoll]

Read part of the blog.

Santorum lied to his constituents. Up until the very end, he still didn’t ‘get it’.

Interestingly, they mentioned in this blog (2006) that tricky Ricky had the ambition to be President.

We already have a liar in the White House. Romney and Santorum are both liars and the idea of either of them or both, as President and V.President being in the people’s house, just sickens me.

[Timber Rattler]

Drivel.

[Happy Rain]

Santorum was against TARP and the Obama/Romneycare Individual Mandate from the beginning—TWO BIG issues—one that almost bankrupted America and the other that WILL bankrupt America. Newt and Mitt were or still are for these Leftist horrors. And his obvious moral clarity cannot be dismissed if you have qualms about judges being appointed who would support the genocidal holocaust of abortion.
Santorum ain't perfect but he is the most consistent conservative in the race.
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Rush Limbaugh has exposed that Ron Paul is Mitt Romney's attack monkey against Santorum while he can concentrate on savaging Newt—this sounds like more of the same.

Mark Levin still says he would vote for Rick Santorum if he were voting today.

[DooDahhhh]

And what exactly is Obama....no one knows and we beat each one of these guys up?

[true believer forever]

INDIVIDUAL MANDATES

In the 1990s, Newt and many other conservatives, such as the Heritage Foundation, proposed a mandate to purchase health insurance as the alternative to Hillarycare. However, the problems outlined above caused Newt to come to the principled conclusion that a mandate to purchase health insurance was unconstitutional, unworkable and counterproductive to lowering the cost of healthcare.

Today, Newt carries the banner in fighting for the repeal of Obamacare and advocates for a “patient power” replacement that will create a free market framework for healthcare, provide affordable, portable, and reliable healthcare coverage, and establish a healthcare safety net focused on those truly in need. This system moves us towards the goal of healthcare for all with no unconstitutional mandate of any kind.

TARP

Newt was appalled and disgusted at the amount of dictatorial power that Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson tried to grab for himself at the outset of the financial crisis. However, he reluctantly supported a scaled-down plan after Paulson told the country that the world financial system was going to collapse without this emergency support.

Newt believes that the reckless, secretive and opaque way in which the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department administered the bailouts has been an affront to democracy. The Fed was picking winners and losers, using several emergency lending facilities to make all types of loans to connected parties, including to a bank owned by the Libyan government.

This is why broadly scaling back the role of the Federal Reserve and repealing the Dodd-Frank bill are two of the central pillars of Newt’s 21st Century Contract with America. The Fed will be fully audited and made more transparent to ensure the events of 2008 are never repeated, and getting rid of Dodd-Frank will once and for all end the destructive policy of “too big to fail.”

www.newt.org/answers

www.newt.org/donate

[SatinDoll]

Obama is a liar. Why replace him with a liar of our own?

I recognize that no one is perfect.

Romney is a liberal Democrat who is trying to buy his way into the White House via the Republican Party. He has consistently demonstrated a total lack of core values.

Santorum, known to his former constituents as “Tricky Ricky”, is a liar and voted while in office as though a pro-life Democrat, he was so fiscally liberal.

There is only one Republican candidate with a consistent conservative record over decades: Newt Gingrich. Most importantly of all, he has honestly admitted when he has been wrong.

He has done more to put Ronald Reagan’s conservative policies into government practice than anyone else presently running for the Republican Party presidential nominee position. I usually ignore endorsements, as they’re generally quid pro quo arrangements, but Gingrich is now endorsed by Michael Reagan, Art Laffer, and numerous other former Reagan administration officials.

I guess you could say I’m not expecting perfection, but just perfect enough.

[sthguard]

Pfft. Like we’re supposed to trust your candidate if we can’t even trust your grammar. Why, I bet you even made multiple typos 20 years ago!

/s

[SatinDoll]

7/21/2005
A great letter-to-the-editor in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from a CATHOLIC NUN:

“Sen. Rick Santorum and his wife have taught their children a powerful lesson on civic responsibility by refusing to pay any tuition money to the Penn Hills School District for their children who attended the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School ... Released from that payment on a technicality shows that even an upstanding, moral gentleman like Sen. Santorum teaches his children the following lessons:

1) Take advantage of the system whenever you can.
2) The little guy pays while the rich and powerful guy gets away with it.
3) As a Catholic, you have no obligation to pay your share to the common good in spite of Catholic social doctrine. “

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05202/541074.stm
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Nothing beats a good old-fashioned butt-whooping from a nun!

Tricky Ricky is no conservative - he is a liar.

[true believer forever]

Plus the fact, just about everybody in DC hates Newt, and Newt knows where all the bodies are buried. He's the insider the insiders can't control... and they're scared to death..

Gingrich’s Virtues

"And as for Gingrich’s Republican “colleagues,” whom the Editors applaud for ejecting him from the speakership, no one can deny that they had their reasons. But is there not another side of that story worth telling? In the seven years they controlled Congress after Gingrich left, didn’t these esteemed colleagues have something of a “weakness for half-baked (and not especially conservative) ideas”? Under a Republican president, they added over $3 trillion to the federal deficit, shunned conservative policy in favor of Beltway influence-peddling, and so damaged the GOP brand that we ended up, first, with an electoral rout that lost the majority Gingrich had worked years to forge, and then, with Obama. How much should I really care that Newt’s fabulous colleagues think his reemergence would be a disaster for Republicans? Lest these characters forget, it is the Tea Party and President Obama’s radicalism that have put them back in the saddle — 2010 was not a merit promotion; they were the only alternative in town." 

 

                                                                 NEWT GINGRICH.

HE'LL MAKE JOHN BOEHNER CRY LIKE A BABY GIRL.

with a special shout-out to Tom I-changed-my-vote-in-the-middle-of-the-night-on-the-food-safety-bill-because-I-figured-the-republican-base-was-too-stupid-to-notice Coburn,

aka barack's bestest-ever repubican friend.

[SatinDoll]

My thinking exactly.

Newt Gingrich will stop the Federal gravy train. People in Congress will have to, once again, work for the citizens of this nation and not fill their own pockets with cash.

[DooDahhhh]

I am more than good with that!

[manc]

I’m fed up of trying to explain to those who think that they should vote for Santorum this late in the game, even have some of them say Newt should drop out

but here is the facts and they still don’t get it but they will look really dumb an d stupid of their boy goes out of this and endorses Romney and he had used his few voters to help Romney .

1. 4 states in a row lost.
2. Not even any counties won in those 4 states.
3. Last in NV.
4. Has not won one voting bloc, not even Catholics.
5. Uses little money he has to make AD’s attacking Newt,and
6. He hasn’t even been attacked by anyone.
7. Newt is second.
8. Had the establishment,Drudge, FOX, etc all after him In second place.
9. Won the conservative voting bloc.
10. Won other voting blocs.
11. Won nearly all SC.
12. Won more counties than Romney in FL.
13. Should by the rules have delegates from here (FL).
14. Why would anyone say to you that the second place guy should drop out and let the last guy in is beyond me.
15. Also we will see at the end of this who Santorum endorses and
16. If he goes for Romney then we will know for sure then how some were fooled even after it has been pointed out time after time what is happening and how the vote is being split.
17. However maybe Santorum thinks he can get a state where Gingrich is not one and then thinks he will get that bounce in the , er , well, er, , er

[SoFloFreeper]

LOL!