Posted on 02/18/2012 7:27:44 AM PST by no dems
An Open Letter to Rick Santorum:
Dear Senator:
As a strong, common-sense Conservative, I have a favor to ask of you. Could you please consider not answering, off the cuff, every question thrown at you? Would you please engage your brain before putting your mouth in gear? I’m beginning to see now, how, as an incumbent, you lost your Senate seat by 18 pecentage points to the brain-dead Bob Casey. Women vote Senator; and, they vote in large numbers. Now, please consider this common-sense observation from a Conservative male:
Women have been in combat for years now. Women have used birth control for decades now. Some of your comments are so unbelievably naive. When you said that contraception was “bad for America”, I thought: “Hey Rick, if we didn’t have contraception, we’d have millions more bastard kids to support through the Welfare system than we have now.” People are going to have sex, Rick. Just because you believe it is primarily for procreation, some of us like a little intimacy with our spouse once in awhile without having 19 kids, like the Duggar family that has endorsed you.
Sorry, Rick, but, sometimes, you embarrass some of us who want to support you. And the comment, re: birth control, made by your biggest donor, Foster Friess, was over the top. He reminds me of Clayton Williams, the GOP candidate for Governor, who had the election in the bag against Ma Richards, until he made his stupid comment about women and rape.
Please Rick, you and Foster need to slow down, think, and then speak. Maybe a little more elucidation, before publication?
I wish you well.
Relevant:
The typical U.S. woman wants only 2 children. To achieve this goal, she must use contraceptives for roughly 3 decades. (The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), Fulfilling the Promise: Public Policy and U.S. Family Planning Clinics, New York: AGI, 2000).
In the United States alone, 13 million women use hormonal contraception. (Guttmacher Institute . Facts on Contraceptive Use in the United States, June 2010)
Lots more stats: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/RevealingStatistics.html#Sec6
Also is the debatable issue on the contribution of hormonal contraception to estrogenic compounds in the water. http://ag.arizona.edu/azwater/awr/july00/feature1.htm
“I’d vote for Gingrich. Yes, he’s been a philanderer, but I’m not married to him, so that’s not important to me. Before someone says that his adultery proves he’s untrustworthy, I assume all politicians are untrustworthy in many ways. That’s why it’s important that they be entrusted with as little as possible. “That government is best, which governs least.”
BTW, is this the original poster’s ghastly composition?
“Women vote Senator; and, they vote in large numbers.” Which is why Gingrich could never win.”
*shudder* “
Sorry for the late reply; had to go to work. Yes, that is a quote of a composition of either nodems or arkadyorinko - I don’t remember which.
Never could get a response from those Santermites as to why they thought Gingrich has a worse electibility problem with the ladies than Santorum.
As to your reasoning on if Gingrich really had some awful problem getting the women’s vote: That’s what I thought.
Among the active candidates, Santorum is my first choice, followed by Gingrich. Romney is somewhere between Mickey Mouse and Obama.
The Pill (oral contraceptives) is an IARC Group 1 carcinogen: “oral contraceptives are carcinogenic to humans” according to the IARC. According to the IARC, “the weight of the evidence suggests a small increase in the relative risk for breast cancer among current and recent users”. The Pill also increases the risk of cervical and liver cancers.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IARC_Group_1_carcinogens
Then your post 10 was pretty odd because you went from Santorum to Romney.
Rick Santorum sought to bring some clarity to his birth control position on Friday, which he said has been misconstrued by opponents which have put him on both sides of the issue.
“My position is birth control can and should be available,” the former senator from Pennsylvania said at a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio.
(Also, you sound like a true leftist arguing that someone shouldn’t have a contrary opinion on a “settled topic” That’s exactly what the left says about abortion and Roe v. Wade.”
In Post #10,I made the point that since the “open letter” made a convincing case that Santorum is so conservative on the social issues that he can’t win, we had better support Romney if we want to continue in the winning tradition of Alf Landon, Wendell Willkie, Tom Dewey, Gerald Ford, Bob Dole and John McCain.
Oh, sorry.
I had seen several posts on different threads where the guys would jump straight from Santorum to Romney, as though Gingrich didn’t exist. When I looked at your post I just went too quickly to the pattern that I had seen without digesting your individual post itself.
Sorry, and thanks for being so patient.
These issues mentioned are why Santorum will not get elected for President. Our society is determined to have “free sex” forgetting their are consequences and no regard that there are. It is an easy thing in our nation to “dispose” of the “evidence”...as much as prevent. But these too are a matter of choice and self-control. Few have it...and no reason to in todays thinking...
I work with a 21 Yr. old who has moved into a house with her boyfriend. Both families have given furniture, household equipment etc. so that these two can live together. So it’s encouraged by family’s themselves. It’s now perfectly acceptable to “try” live together and that with the full support of families.
Whether it be Newt or Rick....I like that they are not afraid to express their beliefs that are socially conservative. Don’t fall for the “I’m embarassed” stand...you sound “establishment.”
Rush Limbaugh said on 17 FEB 2012:
“The Republican establishment, for the most part, if they could, would simply excommunicate every social conservative Republican they could find. They’d kick ‘em out of the party, and they would gag ‘em. They’d find a way to make sure they couldn’t speak. That’s how much they hate ‘em, detest ‘em, are embarrassed by them. And it’s based on one thing, primarily. It’s based on the fact that these establishment Republicans and others who don’t like the social conservatives are primarily, singularly worried about what people are going to think of them for being in the same party with the social conservatives. It really is no more complicated than that. I mean there are other things. They think social conservatives lose elections. They think social conservatives make the whole Republican Party a big target, like what’s going on now, this contraception business.”
Who called Santorum a woman hater? Not me. He’s entitled to his beliefs. He just needs to learn how to express himself in a more adult, intellectual manner; how to be wise as a serpent but harmless as a dove. He is his own worst enemy. I get embarrassed for him. See my tagline.
Your comments to me are the very epitome of one being in denial. By the way, you left of part of your screen name. You forgot to put the word “brain” in front of the word “dead”. Have a nice day!
The contraception issue is a boondoggle...a GOP trap, and a sidestep away from the “A” word (abortion), which the lefty pollsters have found is not a good subject to campaign on.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Exactly! That’s why Rick needs to STFU.
At no time has Santorum has talked about banning contraception. At no time as Santorum in his years in Congress attempted to ban or restrict contraception.
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Who said he did, Bucko? You have never head me say that and it is not in the Vanity Post I wrote either. So, what’s up with your post to me?
...a brokered convention...more of a likelihood IF Romney is defeated in Michigan.
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Romney will not be defeated in MI now. Santorum would have beaten him but now Newt is aggressively going after MI Delegates, so the Conservative vote, once again, is going to be divided and RINO-Rom will win.
Make up your minds, do you want a fake?
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I had to LOL at that. Do you know a friggin’ politician who is NOT a fake? I’ve worked behind the scenes on Presidential Campaigns; I’ve seen the mean-spiritedness and hypocrisy. But, as far as Rick Santorum; no one is asking him to be a fake, just don’t be so friggin’ naive about life. His poor, sheltered kids even look like they are “socially warped”. And, another thing; he needs to stay out of people’s bedrooms. We don’t need his big-government ideas of intrusions into our privacy. And, to insinuate that if you put women in combat with men that they would be having sex on the battlefield....... puleeeeze Rick. Get a friggin’ grip, dude.
That's news to me, and I live here. Newt won't get any delegates in Michigan. He's saying that so he won't come across as a quitter. He's learned from McCain who got clobbered after his staff announced that he quit the state. He probably wouldn't have won, but it would have been closer if he didn't announce that.
There's 30 delegates to be won here. Two delegates are awarded for each of the 14 congressional districts won under the 2012 boundaries. Those are winner take all. You can get an at large delegate spot if you break 15%. However, because there's only two at large delegates, only the top two would win a delegate.
It's a two race here. Santorum vs Romney.
The cheerleading for adultery on this site is disgusting.
Six months ago it was generally agreed that adultery was wrong. Now it’s celebrated.
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