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.
Well, they should have shoes, at least in winter. Can't have em hauling in wood without shoes.
“It’s no wonder that debates are being cancelled by some of the candidates...they’re not eager to sit under the hot light and endure the rubber hose questioning of the left....”
The dastardly duo are going to be running mates, after each debate they realized just how little they knew in comparison to Newt. Why should they get on a stage, play nicey nice with each other and let Gingrich run circles around them? They aren’t running from the media, they are shutting down Gingrich.
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.
Sigh. So many people think they know exactly what a candidate should do ... while so few have actually run for office themselves or been a major player in someone else’s campaign.
Personally, I wish we had the opportunity to “build our own candidate” from parts of all the guys in the race. My version would have Romney’s money, Newt’s combative personality and lovely white hair, Santorum’s moral firmness ... and the complete works of Thomas Sowell always at hand!
LOL.....Beagle8U, are you really Walter Williams?
The difference is: Aborting a pregnancy is murder; preventing a pregnancy is not.
You have virtually nothing to say in support of Gingrich. By the measure 2% or 3% of your posts even say anything independently supporting Gingrich. Instead you entertain yourself by antagonistically tweaking and attacking Santorum just so that you can exchange barbs with his supporters.
You hardly even go out of your way to defend Gingrich much less promote him.
As someone who has been around politics for so long you are very aware of segmenting and analyzing the various receivers of messages. You are very aware that your posts and antagonisms are actually entrenching Santorum supporters while driving them to make attacks on the candidate that you represent yourself as supporting.
The end result of your efforts are, as you well know, an entrenchment of the enmities between the two camps who should be focusing on supporting their candidate.
I think that superPac needs to check you out a little more carefully before doling any ofthat fresh $10 million in your direction. You are not hurting Santorum with all your efforts except in equal proportion to the damage that you are doing to Gingrich. You are helping Romney very capably against both of them.
Congratulations.
Your arguments are so lame dude.
Is it just me or does a brokered convention look more and more likely? The way I see it, a vote for Santorum isn’t really a vote for Santorum. It is a vote FOR a brokered convention. This will be much more of a likelihood IF Romney is defeated in Michigan.
Sad to say; times have changed.
woops... “both Gingrich and Romney” should have read “both Gingrich and Santorum”
Newt is not being discussed much at the moment. When he was, I was ardent and prolific at defending and promoting him. I hope he becomes relevant again. I very much hope so. Do not be a prisoner of the moment.
As for the barbs with Santorum’s supporters, this is nothing compared to what folks who will not vote for him will do if he wins the nomination. I’ll vote for him under those circumstances. Wait til the attacks come from those who will not. His nomination will be a disaster for our nation in my opinion.
You also have no knowledge of what percentage of “my living” comes from the political. You also disregard the jousting here as an exercise that keeps me at the ground level of what people are thinking and why.
But your argument goes to “many lives aren’t worth living,” and I’ve always believed you can go to the worst classroom in the poorest part of town and see that isn’t so. It’s really a separate issue from an individual choice whether or not to use contraception.
Everything wasn’t right in the ‘50s. But we’re not talking about everything, here, are we? We’re talking about no dems’ letter, specifically Santorum’s responses to questions on birth control—not on segregation.
We’re also talking about feminist myths—like how much better off women are now than in the days preceding birth control and abortion. I often wonder how much MORE better off they’d be if the Equal Rights Amendment had actually passed! Women’s so-called rights include any number of benefits: the right to work while you raise a family; the right to bring a steady income to the marriage contract; the right to be replaced in numerous divorces, the right to murder your own child(ren), the right to welfare when the contraceptives don’t work (not to mention increased welfare for more chldren), the right to pay for or simply allow day-care centers to raise your children, the right to compete with men in fields that must lower standards in order to allow them to compete (the military services and, according to a rather prominent Obama advisor, math departments), the right not to hold men accountable for their “sown oats” but to sow their own oats, the right to fortify their teen children with condoms, and, in general, the right to blamelessness for folly.
These “rights” didn’t exist in the 50s. The children who attended public schools then managed to get into universities whose CEEBs or SATs hadn’t been dumbed down or recentered more than a dozen times and weren’t lagging behind the rest of the civilized world in ANY subject. There are consequences to the trickle-down effect of feelin’ good—classroom or bedroom.
“We have become a nation of English countesses, fainting from the vapors at any hint of frivolity.”
I had a nice image in my head to go along with that comment.
I laughed extremely loud out loud. Thanks!
I have news for those who love to refer to themselves as "Fiscal Conservatives" so as not to be mistaken by the lamestream media for one of us 'right-wing evangelical religous nuts clinging to our guns and bible': If this nation doesn't get back to it's Christian-Judeo principles, the rest won't amount to a hill of beans. It can't be forced from the top down. It's got to happen from the bottom up. The Constitution was not written or meant for a morally-bankrupt and irresponsible people.
And I'd bet the ranch on his anti-Romney bonafides.
The vapors were for the jumped-up middle-classes: the real aristocracy were as tough as U.S. Marines, in many cases. Read Deborah Mitford’s memoirs for an example. (She’s a Dowager Duchess, but it’s the same principle.)
As a totally humorless middle-aged stump, the aspirin “joke” just made me sigh at our “elites’” utter lack of original thought. Only a blithering dingbat (of either sex) would be offended.
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