If you can handle it, I'll give you some facts. Hell, even if you can't handle it, I'll post it anyways.
I have an aunt who passed away last October. She served as an Army nurse on active duty for 26 years with duty in both Korea and Vietnam, retiring as a full Colonel in the early 1970's. That's a fact.
In 2005 she celebrated her 80th birthday. Our family sent letters to members of the PA congressional delegation asking if they would care to participate in, or recognize her birthday.
One member of the delegation bothered to respond.
That member sent a very personal letter thanking my aunt for her years of service and her dedication to the defense of this nation.
That member was Senator Santorum.
That sir, is a fact.
To post something that suggests, or misrepresent's Santorum's views on women in uniform, is dishonest.
I know better.
The article contained quotes about Santorum, quotes, it wasn’t an editorial. It supplied quotes, that is why I posted it.
God bless your Aunt, God bless her for her years of service, she must have been one of the pioneer women in the military who made it so much easier for military women of today... And I have no doubt Santorum, or his office, would do something that thoughtful. No doubt. But then, I know people from PA, and I know lots of people from the military, and I know they all, each one, are gold... but not everybody knows that, like you and I do. And Santorum says a lot of judgmental things that turn the average person off... that was my point of the post..
A friend of mine recently sent Callista an IM, and asked her if Newt could send his 80-year old father, a veteran, a birthday card. Well, not only did Callista follow up, Newt actually called the man, and they had a wonderful little chat, and I am sure it meant a great deal to him.
Would that make you feel different about supporting Newt as a candidate, or feel differently about his policies? Probably not, and I wouldn’t expect it to. But Santorum has said a lot of judgmental and hypocritical things, and he is going to pay for them as they are revealed.
I read through that FR thread and your Aunt was a beautiful woman, and the one graphic with the plane and the TAPs was so beautiful it hurt. I couldn’t get the Indiana Gazette to pull up the article for me though.
God Bless You and Your Family, and you must know I meant no disrespect to them, or you, at all.
That was nice of Sen. Santorum. I’m glad to hear of it.
But then he does other stuff, like exploiting his disabled daughter’s illness for political points when in reality he was already going home to do his taxes. That is truly disgusting!
And this:
“...Palin missed it[CPAC] last year and Santorum made some ugly/catty comments about her missing it, too.”
Now why would he do that!! It was unnecessary. Doesn’t this man have any sense of judgement?
He reminds me so much of President Jimmy Carter it is disheartening. People believed Carter was such a decent Christian and they voted for him on that reasoning alone. Yech!