Posted on 02/24/2012 8:26:57 AM PST by Windy City Conservative
But the press has not had to invent controversial remarks by Santorum, who has supplied them himself. He has said that Satan is undermining America, in part by corrupting mainline Protestantism; that liberal versions of Christianity are distortions of the creed; that as president he would speak out against birth control, and that states should be free to prohibit it; and that John McCain “doesn’t have any” religious views.
Some of his comments are indefensible, and even some of Santorum’s defensible assertions would have been better left to someone else — someone not seeking the presidency — to say. Santorum’s remarks about Senator McCain were unwise and uncharitable. Nor do we need political leaders to share their theological judgments about the various denominations that call themselves Christian. There is no good reason for a prospective president to pledge to lecture Americans about contraception.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
“...that John McCain “doesn’t have any” religious views...”
If McKennedy has any views whatsoever - save for those in which he bends over for whatever liberal happens to be horny that day - that loser has never let them be known.
Last ditch assault
We’ve got news for them. Outside their little NE bubble, the rest of the country identifies more with Santorum than against him. Let the primary process continue, knowing that ANY republican is better than the loser in office right now.
Really?
We are five days away...from FUNDAMENTALLY transforming the United States of America! (to cheering ovations).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cqN4NIEtOY&utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=720a2b8bdf-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email
Really?
We are five days away...from FUNDAMENTALLY transforming the United States of America! (to cheering ovations).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cqN4NIEtOY&utm_source=CFP+Mailout&utm_campaign=720a2b8bdf-Call_to_Champions&utm_medium=email
>>We have defended Santorum many times in the past and will happily continue to do so. We do wish he would leave himself exposed a bit less often.<<
When was this, circa 2006? Lowry has been shilling for Romney from the get go. Podhoretz must be lending weight here as well because he sings the same tune.
I had the same thought! Poor ole Bill!
shhh don’t say it too loud some here at FR will blow a gasket ;)
“Cancel your subscription.”
I was heartbroken to let it lapse several years ago. The handwriting was on the wall for that once glorious bastion of resistance.
When Buckley passed, NR no longer stood athwart history crying ‘STOP!’; it now just stands at the sideline, ticket in hand, waiting to board.
RIP Wm. F. Buckley. Like a great warrior, your weapon should have been buried with you, rather than passed on into softer, weaker, unworthy hands.
“When was this, circa 2006? Lowry has been shilling for Romney from the get go. Podhoretz must be lending weight here as well because he sings the same tune.”
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I think what they're saying is they will happily support Rick just as soon as he steps aside for the anointed “Myth.”
The ignorance of the national review has no bounds.
Romney made ‘private contractors’ ILLEGAL
in Massachusetts (under RomneyCARE, will be
BREAKING NEWS shortly, perhaps today).
NRO is run by dog abusers, supporters of ObamaCARE
and haters of small business and private contractors.
They pretend to be “reporters”, shamelessly.
Here’s Stacy McCain from the American Spectator on why Obama fears Santorum:
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A recent Washington Post article reported that the Obama campaign, which has spent most of the past year operating on the assumption that Romney would be the Republican nominee, had re-assigned researchers to begin “digging into Santorum’s background.”
In recent days, the president’s Chicago-based campaign staff has “begun to consider the implications of a Santorum victory,” the Post’s Sandhya Somashekhar reported. “They view him as a weaker general election opponent, but one who has shown an ability to connect with the population that is most disillusioned with Obama: white, blue-collar voters.”
One look at the Electoral College map should make clear why, despite their description of Santorum as the “weaker” Republican candidate, Team Obama may be especially worried about his potential strengths as an opponent in the fall campaign. The so-called Rust Belt states — from Santorum’s home state of Pennsylvania, across West Virginia and Ohio all the way west to Wisconsin, Minnesota — are home to many millions of those “white, blue-collar voters” and Santorum has indeed shown an ability to connect with that “disillusioned” population.
These are Americans who were notoriously described by Obama in April 2008: “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
Bitter Clingers Unite!
” RIP Wm. F. Buckley. Like a great warrior, your weapon should have been buried with you, rather than passed on into softer, weaker, unworthy hands.”
I started reading NR in 1968, at age 14.......those were the days......Rusher, Muggerige, Kirk....NR....WFB....RIP
Everything from NR deserves a BARF alert.
Likewise, the honorable Dennis Prager had a sub named Mark Taylor who was pulling a horrific hatchet job on Santorum, taking him out of context intentionally.
Shameful.
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