Posted on 02/17/2012 7:18:16 PM PST by writer33
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) described Rick Santorum, when he represented Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate, as a senator who had "very little interest" in people who disagreed with him.
"Rick is somebody that has no doubts about his position. And very little interest in the views of those who disagree with him," Conrad said in an interview scheduled to air Friday evening on Bloomberg TV. "I think that would be my take on how Sen. Santorum conducted himself with his colleagues when he was in the Senate."
Conrad described Santorum, now contending for the Republican presidential nomination, as "unyielding and uncompromising."
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Or like any ‘rat senator.
Too friggin bad for Kent Conrad.
You were doing well until you included “colonizing the moon” on your list of essential policies.
Yes, I support a robust space program. Not necessarily colonizing the moon just yet.
A robust space plan cannot happen without a grail. The race to the moon happened because there was a specific goal of landing a man there. Colonizing the moon makes perfect sense on many levels as a worthy and attainable goal that would serve to make the space program robust. Without such a grail, the space program would just be routine satellite maintenance and science projects.
Yeah. Like Romney's little bit of mandated with $50 abortion state controlled health insurance, or his solid official support of Gay Youth Pride while governor, where kids as young as 12 were encouraged to embrace homosexuality among themselves and everywhere else. Santorum was sure willing to accept that when he endorsed Romney enthusiastically in February of 2008, before Huck dropped out. By the way, Santorum was still willing to accept Romney's toxic properties, if Chuck Norris was correct, as recently as three years ago. Yeah, that Santorum -- real uncompromising, that one.
Godspeed Newt Gingrich.
He came off exactly like this when I met him. He never hesitated to talk over someone to give his point of view.
He demonstrated that in the debates as well. This was a classic embarrassing moment for Rick...he interrupted and talked over Romney and THEN told him he was out of time so he couldn't respond. Then he got booed. Wow...it was cringe-inducing. And if he showed this lack of discipline debating Obama his campaign would be over.
“Unyielding and uncompromising” is Democrat-speak for “he didn’t bend over and give us everything we wanted”.
IOW, the sort of guy we wanted in the Senate.
Newt said it will involve no new spending. Just repurposing of the money NASA's currently wasting and the vast majority from private investment.
Yeah; doesn’t he know that is what I want?
But Santorum’s worst offense was agreeing to George Bush’s request that he endorse scumbag liberal Dede Scozzafava, I mean Arlen Specter, over homo hugger Pat Toomey in the 2004 Pennsylvania senate primary.
Really? Even if that means uncompromising on NOT reforming social security, uncompromising on NOT instituting a flat tax, and uncompromising on tinkering with the tax code to pick winners and losers and subsidize his favored industries?
Compromise: The soup that establishment Republicans eat for breakfast every day. They have eaten so much of it that we now find ourselves in the pitiful state we are in today.
Definition of compromise: Go along to get along.
Nuff said.
“”Rick is somebody that has no doubts about his position. And very little interest in the views of those who disagree with him,””
Sounds like the man I want too. We ran the “reaching across the aisle candidate in 2008” and that got us Obama.
Also, there is almost NOTHING of value to be gained by compromising with Democrats, given where they stand on most issues today. They are simply too far gone.
Wow. An endorsement from Conrad.
I know it never involves new spending until it does.
This is a good thing.
A good thing except when you realize it only refers to Democrats. When it comes to compromising with RINOs and the establishment, Rick will do it almost every time.
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