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.
OK, so we should support Romney who, after all, is "severely conservative."
No, not accurate. May tick you off, but that’s not the definition .
You're almost right. He's too socially conservative. We're a long way from the 1950's.
On the fiscal front, no worries .... Santorum would never be confused with a conservative.
While I most unfortunately must agree with your statement in regards to the general voting public, I am absolutely convinced that 0bama has lost the Catholic majority in 2012. In 2012, most Catholics will help kick his skinny butt out of the Oval Office and back to Chicago. Time will tell who's right, but my money is on Cardinal-elect Dolan and his fellow Bishops: "We Cannot - We Will Not Comply With This Unjust Law”
Cardinal-elect Dolan - What's the chance of the Bishops and the USCCB reconciling with 0bamacare?
Updated: *167* Bishops (More Than 90% of Dioceses) Have Spoken Out Against Obama/HHS Mandate
As a woman I thought the Foster Freis aspirin comment was funny. People need to lighten up and recognize a joke when one is offered.
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A lot of ignorant, Texas Rednecks thought it was funny when Clayton Williams (GOP Gubernatiorial candidate) said: “Rape is like rainy weather. There’s nothing you can do about it, so just lay back and enjoy it.” Those two sentences gave us, and this nation, Ann Richards for more years than we needed.
I thought it showed him to be a crass, old man who might be filthy rich but extremely ignorant. I’m all for “lightening up” but dummying-down is not needed when this nation is going to hell in a hand basket.
No, I cannot stand Mitt. There is still someone in the race who has a helluva lot more total votes so far than RS who just got two big cash infusions back into his campaign in the last 36 hours.
HOWEVER, thats not the point. Your notion that someone who yells about a very few conservative issues is overall a great conservative is simply extremely flawed. AND, the notion that not supporting Santorum is akin to supporting Dole, McCain, etc, is just plain, well, not very intelligent extrapilation.
Well this letter is not to Gingrich it is to Rambling Rick Santorum. He is giving the dems daily talking points. Here is the thing about Rick. He is not very well informed on many topics so he attempts to be thoughtful in his response, doesn’t say what he thinks and then just keeps talking. Sadly, if he should be the nominee, the TelePrompTer pres will kill him, the media will eat him and the voters will spit him out.
Oh, I agree that Obama could well be toast with Catholics. You are right.
What I reject is the notion that Santorum will necessarily gain Catholics because he believes it is appropriate to make Catholic beliefs part of his presidential campaign.
“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.”
Would we now? When we didn’t have contraception, long before we had abortion, we had conventions. Call it “if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.” The stigma of unwed motherhood worked a whole lot better than whatever we’re using now, since unwed-mother pregnancies and abortions in all economic classes have risen exponentially since the bad old days. The more we failsafe promiscuity, the greater debt we’ll carry—in more than one sense.
I’m more concerned about the comment that Foster Friess made in an interview that indicated they are open to a Santorum/ Romney or Romney /Santorum ticket. Friess, like Santorum, endorsed Romney in 2008.
GOP insiders in PA. have confirmed that the in order to prevent a brokered convention, there is an establisment deal to combine santorum and Romney delegates. The only thing being worked out in the primaries is who will be on the top of the ticket.
This comes from a well connected personal friend of mine in PA. Her family has always been extremely active in GOP politics, and have roots going back to William Penn. I’ve known her for 40 years, so I consider her reliable. She was going to vote for Romney, and is one of many Pennsylvanians who does not like Santorum. She is now voting for Newt, because she will not support any ticket with Santorum on it.
Since many of us have sought a Not Romney candidate,it would be wise to keep our eyes and ears open to how this develops.
I am unapologetically a Newt supporter, but I wouldn’t vote for him with Romney on the ticket, and I don’t believe he would make that deal.
“We’re a long way from the 1950’s. “
Indeed. It’s a pity that civilization has fallen that far.
I agree with you that stigmas being reduced is a huge problem. I disagree it’s any legitimate part of a campaign when the very liberty guaranteed by our Constitution is under assault and statements like this will make many folks confuse which party is really pro liberty.
I’ve always found that the biggest benefactors of birth control and legal abortion have been predatory males. the biggest losers, other than the babies, have been the women, themselves, who have become nothing but sex toys to those males.
For less assertive women, the most convincing refusal to have no-commitment sex was fear of having illegitimate babies.
The irony is that this has happened in spite of, or maybe because of, the feminist movement.
A nation that wants its women to be warriors is a shameful nation. Men who love women don’t want them to be warriors.
A nation that wants its progeny to be small is a shameful nation. Men who advocate consequence-free sex are harmful to society. Men who love women don’t want them to be sex toys.
You are either a jackass or a boy who has no idea what a man is.
Second cartoon is hilarious. Problem is, I don’t want to ride a tricycle with a geeky flag into the general election, and that cartoon rendering of RS is all too appropriate to me.
No, I can't support Ron Paul. I agree with him on a lot of issues, but not foreign policy.
Thank goodness you posted this. Rick called me just this morning to see if I knew how he could get ahold of you for your insight and campaign advice. I told him you post on here sometimes and that you were probably waaaay to busy for a private consult. This is PERFECT. Again, good job. I think you may have changed the course of the whole race. Wow! Neat huh?
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