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5 Reasons to Support Rick Santorum
Townhall.com ^ | February 24, 2012 | John Hawkins

Posted on 02/24/2012 5:28:03 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/24/2012 5:28:04 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

He looks too meek, the enemies of America will treat him like a virgin choir boy in a maximum security prison.

Like having a family collie as a junk yard dog.

Newt has a past and that is what our enemies also know.

besides I believe Newt will make good on his fuel promises.


2 posted on 02/24/2012 5:31:30 AM PST by Eye of Unk (Liberals need not reply.)
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To: Eye of Unk

Reagan was looked at like a B movie star who was well past his sell by date.
Looks can be deceiving......


3 posted on 02/24/2012 5:34:02 AM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Kaslin

I still want to see some vision and evidence that Rick has a viable plan to save the Republic should he be elected.


4 posted on 02/24/2012 5:41:05 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: Kaslin
The GOP won't put up Santorum because he is a PRACTICING Catholic who's made his views on abortion way too clear for the women in this country (both parties) who feel it is their RIGHT to destroy baby when baby is either imperfect or inconvenient. They call it "reproductive rights," with signs like "Stay outta my body!" I remember that specious argument.

Santorum's views on contraception are also in line with the Catholic Church. Santorum is the ONLY sane person to vote for, but women and male libs don't WANT a president in who believes in our essential God-given right of LIFE, liberty, etc., and who believes, as per Catholic party line, that sex belongs in marriage. My gawd, what would the porn/prostitution/sex trade DO with a President Santorum?! I know. They WOULD set him up to fail.

5 posted on 02/24/2012 5:42:13 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Kaslin

Still not convinced.


6 posted on 02/24/2012 5:44:17 AM PST by Rudder (The Main Stream Media is Our Enemy---get used to it.)
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To: Yorlik803

Interesting point.


7 posted on 02/24/2012 5:55:01 AM PST by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: Kaslin

It will be interesting to see what happens if Santorum shows up the the convention having won Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio along with a plethora of other conservative states. Michigan will be icing on the cake. The fact that Romney controls delegations from states that will never vote for the GOP candidate (Illinois, California, Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, etc.) really doesn’t impress me; this is how Ford defeated Reagan, but eventually lost. The GOP doesn’t do well when we run half assed candidates.


8 posted on 02/24/2012 6:01:25 AM PST by MSF BU
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To: Kaslin
Like Romney he's way too verbose,and has real problems being concise in the debates.
9 posted on 02/24/2012 6:02:51 AM PST by gitmogrunt (Newt 2012)
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To: cloudmountain
You're probably right. I never held out much hope for him. He's too conventional in some ways. Having served in office, he's had to make compromises. Then again, he's too unconventional in other ways. He talks about “morality” for heavens sake. How quaint. We're much too sophisticated for that nowadays. I noticed both Strassel and Rabinowitz pounding on him the WSJ this morning. Of course Dorothy gave us the brilliant John McCain in ‘08. So most of the establishment and the opinion makers are forming against Santorum. I've noticed also that NO ONE carries the sound bite of Newt remarking on Obama being in favor of infanticide. Certain topics are just beyond the pale in this country, and it's why Santorum will not be allowed to rise. I thought for a long time that I could eventually vote for whoever the nominee is. After seeing Romney in action and the collusion with Paul, I seriously doubt that I could vote for Romney. People can say our liar is better than their liar, but at end, he's still a liar.
10 posted on 02/24/2012 6:06:53 AM PST by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Kaslin
1) Santorum is the most prominent socially conservative politician in America.

He falls on the deck and flops like a fish. His current talking points may be conservative, but he's not and his track record speaks a lot louder than his BS campaign rhetoric.

2) Santorum isn't JUST a social conservative.

He isn't even a social conservative if you look at his voting record.

3) Santorum didn't blow the big issues of the last few years.

Former Senator Santorum has blown everything he ever touched except feathering his little lawyer nest by capitalizing on having been in office.

4) Santorum isn't going to get to D.C. and lose his nerve

As the last debate showed, he has no nerve to lose when he gets to DC and once again, his voting record shows it.

5) Santorum is more electable than Mitt.

Sure, just as long as the media, Bishop Romney, Santorum, and the Vichy Republican Party are all focused on keeping Newt out at all costs. In reality, if he's the candidate or even the VP on the ticket (which is all lawyer Santorum is campaigning for) he'll look like a wimp and a dunce within a couple of days.

Santorum can't hack it because he's a go along to get along kinda guy. Period. I'm sure he's a nice guy and he may have changed his ways, but it doesn't matter.

He's just another lawyer trying to talk about anything but the long series of compromises he's made with everything he says he disagrees with.

11 posted on 02/24/2012 6:06:53 AM PST by Rashputin (Only Newt can defeat both the Fascist democrats and the Vichy GOP)
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To: Kaslin
Here in Michigan, I've received at least 2 Romney robo-calls. Then last night, we had a live tele-townhall with Gov. Chris Christie with selected callers able to ask questions.

Christie is a great advocate for Romney. Christie was asked if he'd been in Romney's cabinet. He gave a vague long non-answer. I think Christie would be good as Attorney General.

Unless something big happens, I'm voting for Santorum (as a libertarian/conservative). Uniting the Party, baby.

12 posted on 02/24/2012 6:13:05 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: Eye of Unk
He looks too meek, the enemies of America will treat him like a virgin choir boy in a maximum security prison.

1 Samuel 16:2-23 (New International Version)

2 The LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’ 3 Invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what to do. You are to anoint for me the one I indicate.”

4 Samuel did what the LORD said. When he arrived at Bethlehem, the elders of the town trembled when they met him. They asked, “Do you come in peace?”

5 Samuel replied, “Yes, in peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come to the sacrifice with me.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

6 When they arrived, Samuel saw Eliab and thought, “Surely the LORD’s anointed stands here before the LORD.”

7 But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

8 Then Jesse called Abinadab and had him pass in front of Samuel. But Samuel said, “The LORD has not chosen this one either.” 9 Jesse then had Shammah pass by, but Samuel said, “Nor has the LORD chosen this one.” 10 Jesse had seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to him, “The LORD has not chosen these.” 11 So he asked Jesse, “Are these all the sons you have?”

“There is still the youngest,” Jesse answered. “He is tending the sheep.”

Samuel said, “Send for him; we will not sit down until he arrives.”

12 So he sent for him and had him brought in. He was glowing with health and had a fine appearance and handsome features.

Then the LORD said, “Rise and anoint him; this is the one.”

13 So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David. Samuel then went to Ramah.

13 posted on 02/24/2012 6:15:11 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: throwback
After seeing Romney in action and the collusion with Paul, I seriously doubt that I could vote for Romney. People can say our liar is better than their liar, but at end, he's still a liar.

Nixon was forced out of office for his lying about the taping.

Clinton's lying binge was celebrated....especially by women who thought he was hot. Granted, he was/is married to Hitlery, but he's still a liar, a total embarrassment as our president.

A person is only as good as his integrity. Romney is a liar. Enough said.

14 posted on 02/24/2012 6:16:44 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain
The GOP won't put up Santorum because he is a PRACTICING Catholic who's made his views on abortion way too clear for the women in this country (both parties) who feel it is their RIGHT to destroy baby when baby is either imperfect or inconvenient. They call it "reproductive rights," with signs like "Stay outta my body!" I remember that specious argument.

Until ABORTION (choice) is STOPPED; this country will continue it's slide to oblivion...

1 in 4 future Americans are floating in a coffin of death - a mother's womb.

We CHOOSE over 1,000,000 a year to DIE in this country.

And we blithely ask GOD to Bless us!!

What fools we are!


http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=259161

15 posted on 02/24/2012 6:19:51 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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Until ABORTION (choice) is STOPPED; this country will continue it's slide to oblivion...
1 in 4 future Americans are floating in a coffin of death - a mother's womb.
We CHOOSE over 1,000,000 a year to DIE in this country.
And we blithely ask GOD to Bless us!!

What fools we are!

What fools we are...AMEN.
When did it become okay to abort our OWN flesh and blood? When did the most innocent become so guilty as to warrant death by their own mother?

SAD fools.

16 posted on 02/24/2012 6:26:16 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Rashputin

Are you through bloviating, Rash?
Maybe next time you’d like to back up your idiotic comments with facts.
EPIC FAIL ALERT!

Go Rick and Newt!


17 posted on 02/24/2012 6:35:14 AM PST by Mountain Mary ("Lead kindly Light,,amidst the encircling doom. Lead thou me on.". Cardinal John Henry Newmann, 1833)
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To: cloudmountain
Like Romney's charge against Santorum that he voted for “no child left behind”. While it's an entirely legitimate criticism, it isn't coming from someone who opposed it at the time. Someone who can make a charge like that knowing full well that they are accusing someone else with something that they themselves were on board with at the time is really mocking conservative principles worse than the guy who voted for it. The principle of local control of schools is just a tool he uses in an election to hang his opponent when he should be hanging from the same tree.
18 posted on 02/24/2012 6:37:00 AM PST by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid)
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To: Kaslin; wagglebee; little jeremiah; Gelato; Steve Schulin; Taxman
I only need one reason not to support Senator Santorum - and the rest of this particular Republican field:

Their support for grossly immoral, utterly unconstitutional "fetal pain" legislation, and other lawless legislation that ends with "and then they can kill the baby."

They've all promised to break the most important aspect of their sacred oath, before even taking it.

"NO PERSON shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

"NO STATE shall deprive ANY PERSON of life without due process of law; nor deny to ANY PERSON within its jurisdiction the EQUAL PROTECTION of the laws."

They have, sadly, disqualified themselves from any legitimate right to govern anyone, in exactly the same way King George abdicated his right to rule Americans more than two centuries ago.

"He [King George] has abdicated government here, by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us."

-- The Declaration of Independence


19 posted on 02/24/2012 6:50:26 AM PST by EternalVigilance (They have abdicated government here, by declaring us out of their protection...)
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To: Mountain Mary
Well, Mountain Mary, you go right ahead and keep on backing little Ricky and you're going to have Mountain Meadows Bishop Romney.
As for "bloviating", that five point post to which I replied fits the definition of the word far more than does my response.

But at least you feel better now that someone posted the facts and you got to use a funny snarky word rather than responding to those facts. And we all realize that for whole Ricky crowd, it's feelings that are important, not results.

have a nice, Bishop Romney, sort of day

20 posted on 02/24/2012 6:52:46 AM PST by Rashputin (Only Newt can defeat both the Fascist democrats and the Vichy GOP)
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