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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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To: EternalVigilance

Your kind, with the unyielding purity you are so proud of, will doom us against any kind of meaningful legislation against abortion.

Why stop the killing of hundreds of thousands of babies because you don’t like a couple of words in the law.

Those babies lives are on the head of people just like you and you can brag about it if you want to.

I wouldn’t.


41 posted on 02/24/2012 8:43:10 AM PST by altura
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To: thirst4truth

Heard the rumor that Romney will pick Rand Paul as Veep as a bribe to Ron for his support.

Ron Paul is obviously supporting Romney but it will be so funny if Romney wins and ignores Rand altogether which is exactly what he would do. Ron is a fool if he believes Romney.


42 posted on 02/24/2012 8:46:09 AM PST by altura
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Oh, your sentiment is right but your percentages are off.

Rape and incest are miniscule reasons for pregnancy and life of the mother almost never applies.

If you passed a law against abortion with those exceptions you would save 90% or more of the babies, not ten percent.


43 posted on 02/24/2012 8:49:31 AM PST by altura
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To: Eye of Unk
Dave Savage's Google Bomb on Santorum's "defining words" cost him votes, how many? difficult to tell not just from the gay community, but their straight social/ business related friends, families, students--can all mushroom.[1]

Other potential voters say they do not like being "preached to" or respectively suggest keeping it to smaller doses and there was no need to keep defending a "white pill between the knee" joke-people want issues that mean something to "only" Them "a working government", a Congress that can get things accomplished, gas prices, national security in that the bad guy fears Americans "can bite" not "whimper" as when Osama bin Laden compared Americans to puppies; jobs, perhaps they want a better one not just settle & taxes.

Santorum's endorsement and [2] defense of Specter [Presidential Bid (1996)]

One can say we don't need those votes anyway--trust me you need every vote you can get, as the anger I saw displayed over the Google Bomb had more people googling the old Savage site [would cost $5M to Freedom to Marry to take down] than Santorum's own campaign site. People remember "dirt" or "the scandal" over the good that person may have achieved. Hate sells.

Obama's crew reportedly sanitized his Muslim Googled searches, one analyst said perhaps Santorum should have sent out Google sanitation workers just in case.

Last Minute tactics-Chicago style:

2004, Obama won the Illinois senate race against last-minute Republican candidate Alan Keyes. Keyes replaced Jack Ryan, who was a very strong & popular opponent of Obama until suddenly a newspaper lawsuit exposed a sex scandal[btw 2 consenting adults married at the time-but ugly divorces are in the moment] in Ryan’s sealed divorce papers to protect their young son.

Which of the candidates benefits most from revisiting a couple of these highly controversial issues ? Who gets the added votes-could be Romney could even be Newt. Paul has loyal steadfast voters not the flip floppers who make the polls move.

44 posted on 02/24/2012 8:56:15 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: Nifster; EternalVigilance

We are fools to engage Eternal Vigilance. I’ve done so before.

He is that most dangerous combination: a fool who is so self-righteous and unbending he wouldn’t see the truth if we stuck it up his nether region.

And he never gives up. A few months ago I attempted to get him to see reason and swore never to speak to him against about the subject.

I did so today (foolishly) most to show my opinion to the rest of the people on this thread.

He used this argument against Rick Perry who has done wonders in the state of Texas to decrease abortion; i.e. the law that mothers must view a ultra sound picture before opting to abort. That way they at least realize they are doing away with an actual baby and not getting a tattoo or getting their ears pierced which is what the leftists want them to think abortion equates to.

He also defunded Planned Parenthood and other things.

He wasn’t pure enough for E.T. That told me something right there.


45 posted on 02/24/2012 8:58:52 AM PST by altura
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To: altura

Thanks for the heads up. I always appreciate a word from the wise. Message heard and received loud and clear


46 posted on 02/24/2012 9:05:32 AM PST by Nifster
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To: altura

Rand Paul could pretty much be on “the list”, but think it would likely be a money guy. I sometimes wonder what was Joe Biden picked for? A side kick to the hero, like in the old Westerns? A Chester or Festus character?


47 posted on 02/24/2012 9:06:24 AM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: altura; EternalVigilance
He is that most dangerous combination: a fool who is so self-righteous and unbending he wouldn’t see the truth if we stuck it up his nether region.

And he never gives up.

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That's unfair and crude. There are some people who have principles that they will never abandon, and then there are the rest of us. No one can force you to discuss an issue with EV should you choose not to, but to denigrate someone because they refuse to give up their beliefs and values is low indeed.

48 posted on 02/24/2012 9:06:24 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: altura
Why stop the killing of hundreds of thousands of babies because you don’t like a couple of words in the law.

A better question would be "why allow the killing of any babies just because you choose to ignore the explicit, imperative words of the Supreme Law of the Land"?

"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."


49 posted on 02/24/2012 9:22:05 AM PST by EternalVigilance (They have abdicated government here, by declaring us out of their protection...)
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To: altura
And he never gives up.

Thanks for the compliment.

50 posted on 02/24/2012 9:23:23 AM PST by EternalVigilance (They have abdicated government here, by declaring us out of their protection...)
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To: Eye of Unk

Here in Arizona it is going to come down to Santorum and Romney. With just days to go voters need to do everythign possible to make sure Romney loses! So, unless some miracle happens and Newt surges ... I’m voting for Rick Santorum. Besides I have looked at his record at great length and I’m really not understanding all nit picking on it when the very same thing can be said with Newt Gingrich. Both Gingrich and Santorum are the true conservatives - this is the REAL Repubican race. They aren’t perfect but I truly believe either man would do a great job as our next president.

Please encourage next week’s voters - to vote for Santorum so that Mitt is SHUT OUT and the real race can begin between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.


51 posted on 02/24/2012 9:31:09 AM PST by Right Ahead
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To: trisham

Thanks.


52 posted on 02/24/2012 9:31:24 AM PST by EternalVigilance (They have abdicated government here, by declaring us out of their protection...)
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To: EternalVigilance

No thanks are necessary, friend.


53 posted on 02/24/2012 9:34:17 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Right Ahead
I’m really not understanding all nit picking

God help us when the equal protection of the God-given, unalienable right to life of the most helpless and defenseless among us is considered "nit-picking." Among self-identified conservatives nonetheless.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men..."

-- The Declaration of Independence


54 posted on 02/24/2012 9:37:15 AM PST by EternalVigilance (They have abdicated government here, by declaring us out of their protection...)
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To: EternalVigilance
"NO PERSON shall be deprived of life without due process of law."

Kinda hinges on just what a 'person' is; doesn't it!

55 posted on 02/24/2012 9:44:59 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: EternalVigilance

First they came for the Fetuses; but since I wasn’t a fetus...


56 posted on 02/24/2012 9:46:15 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: EternalVigilance

I guess he failed to UNDERSTAND the first part of your screen name...


57 posted on 02/24/2012 9:48:34 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

LOL!


58 posted on 02/24/2012 9:53:29 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

It’s perfectly fair because his position, if adhered to, would result in the killing of hundreds of thousands of babies.

People will not vote for an absolute law forbidding abortion.

This was proven in Mississippi where they tried to pass a law called ‘personhood.’ The Personhood law basically said that once a conception took place resulting in an embryo, that embryo was a person and anything done to the embryo could be prosecuted the same was as if it were done to any other person.

Mississippi was very pro life and this law was expected to pass easily.

Instead, it was defeated overwhelmingly. Everyone was shocked.

People will not vote for a drastic law and the purists would rather kill thousands, hundreds of thousands of babies than to compromise.

That makes them evil and I will not back down from that.


59 posted on 02/24/2012 10:12:31 AM PST by altura
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To: altura; EternalVigilance; wagglebee
It’s perfectly fair because his position, if adhered to, would result in the killing of hundreds of thousands of babies.

People will not vote for an absolute law forbidding abortion...People will not vote for a drastic law and the purists would rather kill thousands, hundreds of thousands of babies than to compromise.

That makes them evil and I will not back down from that.

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No one is more pro life than EV. Your charge is disgusting.

60 posted on 02/24/2012 10:40:15 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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