But you knew that. And if you didn't, go to his sites:
Posted on 02/21/2012 6:47:42 PM PST by writer33
"I'm not a manager. I'm not a visionary," he told the crowd in an apparent reference to his GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. "I'm a guy from a steel town who grew up understanding what made this country great and for the years that I've been involved in public life, put my heart and my effort on the line to make this country the kind of country that we all want to hand on to our children and grandchildren."
Santorum also touched on the fight over who's the real "Washington insider," saying the only reason Romney wasn't a Washington politician is because he lost his Senate race in 1994.
"You hear a lot of talk about who's the insider and who's the outsider in this race. There's a guy that's outside of Washington, who was not a senator or a congressman — not because he didn't try — but because he never got elected," he said. In contrast, Santorum added, he was someone who was "an outsider when he was inside" Washington.
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But you knew that. And if you didn't, go to his sites:
Your visionary candidate sits at around 11% — dead last.
Won’t beat Willard. Won’t beat Obama. Won’t cut it.
But I guess you can dream.
Nonsense, sorry. Santie was quite popular around here before he started opening his mouth and allowing us to get acquainted with him. Mediocrity. By his own admission.
See you at the swearing in.
Good observation.
"I'm a guy from a steel town", how vapid. I am sick and tired of politics as usual complete with TRITE sayings like Santorum is playing.
Lol, since when did you become a Newt basher?
“As if Santorum really has the slightest clue about growing up as a guy in a steel town. His father was a clinical psychologist and his mother was a nurse”
Nothing like a non-sequitor. Are you trying to say that there aren’t clinical psychologists and nurses in steel towns?
Do you know the first thing about Butler, PA? It’s right outside of Pittsburgh which until the steel industry left was THE steel capital of the USA. Actually, it was a filthy, ugly town in those days. It’s all pretty now.
Just adding some perspective. He tries to pawn himself off with this suspiciously vague narrative about him being a working class man who understands blue-collar needs, when he himself has never been anything of the sort.
His parents had the benefit of education and respectable jobs, but that is hardly the upper class. His father, IIRC, was a clinical psychologist for the Veterans Administration. Nurses are not at the top of anyone’s grade scale.
But, more important is the influence of his grandfather and the family’s recent immigrant history. Despite the benefit of education his parents enjoyed, at enormous sacrifice to their families, you can bet they identified as working class.
Aren’t we all kvetching now that for the first time in American history we are looking at an upcoming generation that will not have better opportunities than their parents? Isn’t that the American Dream? Santorum achieved that dream, but seems not to have forgotten exactly where he came from.... a steel town in Western Pennsylvania, where people got dirty when they put in a hard day’s work.
“I’m not a manager. I’m not a visionary ...
... and I don’t know why the hell I’m being there, trying to convince you that I’m not fit to lead and manage an administration, the American economy and great challenges to accomplish for America’s future prosperity.”
Santorum says little about economy during Phoenix speech Santorum, a staunch Roman Catholic and “tea party” supporter, drove home a message of limited government and family values as the featured speaker at the Maricopa County Republican Committee’s primary-election lunch. He was there with wife Karen and three of their seven children.
Entering as his alma mater Pennsylvania State University’s fight song played, Santorum appealed for votes to about 500 Republicans at the El Zaribah Shrine.
“You need to speak loudly on Tuesday that you want someone who’s going to stand up and fight the insiders,” Santorum said, calling himself a candidate who has “a track record of cutting spending and taking on the big problem of entitlements, a track record and a vision to fight against the radical Islamists who threaten our country and threaten our freedoms, someone who has a track record of sticking up for the foundational pillars of our society: faith and family.”
At the lunch, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said he spent about 20 minutes speaking privately with Santorum. An endorsement by the nationally known sheriff would have given Santorum a major boost among conservative voters.
But Arpaio stayed neutral.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/02/21/20120221santorum-phoenix-speech-says-little-about-economy.html#ixzz1n5wW2w8G
“You need to speak loudly on Tuesday that you want someone who’s going to stand up and fight the insiders,” Santorum said”
WHOM is Santorum trying kidding there? He’s been for 16 years a Washington DC man. He only become an “outsider” in 2006, when he badly lost his Senate reelection, 41% to 59% for Casey Jr.
As an “outsider” he largely profits from his Washington lobbyist ties.
In 2006, his last year as Senator, Santorum earned a $165,200 Senate salary and $32,245 in book royalties.
One year later, his income soared to over $600,000, and rose to $1.1 million in 2010. Santorum received $395,414 in director fees and stock options from Universal Health Services Inc., a hospital management company, for which he pushed two spending bills for a total of $400 million, when he was Senator in 2003 and 2004. Santorum listed between $100,001 and $250,000 in Universal Health stock.
Santorum has also largely profited from his contacts with lobbyists in Washington. Consol Energy, based in Pennsylvania, paid Santorum $142,500 for his consulting services. American Continental Group, a Washington lobbying group, paid him $65,000 in consulting fees. The firm’s lengthy client list includes Microsoft Corp., Comcast Corp. and the American Gaming Association.
When he left the Senate in 2006, he reported retirement accounts with investments valued between $21,000 and $140,000.
Five years later, his records shows new investment accounts, including college savings funds for five of his seven children with investments valued between $25,000 and $375,000; individual retirement accounts with investments ranging between $173,000 and $720,000; and a brokerage account with investments valued in the range of $10,000 to $150,000 and a $2 million, 5,000 acres mansion in Virginia.
My, my, some “inside-outsider”.
Suorce for data: http://www.theweekly.com/news/2012/January/07/Santorum_income.html
“a track record of cutting spending” Santorum???
During his last term in Senate, 2001-2006, Santorum sponsored or co-sponsored 51 spending bills, and not a SINGLE one cut spending bill.
During his career as Senator, he pushed for more spending, a total of $53 billion and signed pork earmarks of a total value $3.5 billion for his Pennsylvania state.
How can he be so shameless in his lies? The records can be consulted by anyone on the internet.
“a track record of cutting spending” Santorum???
Santorum voting record on Taxes:
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Waste:
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements:
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care:
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
“I’m a guy from a steel town who grew up understanding what made this country great and for the years that I’ve been involved in public life, put my heart and my effort on the line to make this country the kind of country that we all want to hand on to our children and grandchildren.”
For some reason, many are leaving out the rest of the quote. Some of the candidates we have running, have no clue what it’s like to be a normal American citizen.
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