RUSH: WHY SANTORUM SCARES THE LEFT

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[Yosemitest]

Why Santorum Scares the Left
February 28, 2012

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RUSH: Okay, we have some headlines that are in the Drive-By Media today.
Most of them are about Santorum and how out of touch he is and how what a wacko he is and what a creep, what a fanatic.
I had 'em set aside. I'll just run through the headlines here.

ABC: "New Lows Among Conservatives Mark Romney’s Popularity Problem."
This is an ABC News/Washington Post poll on Romney's plummeting popularity with conservative Republicans.

From the Right Scoop: "Santorum: Romney Uniquely Unqualified to Take on President Obama."

From the National Journal (they do The Hotline): "Santorum Argues for Religion in Government."

Let me tell you what this one springs from.
Santorum read John Kennedy's religion speech in 1960 and said it made him wanna puke.
I would not have said that it makes me want to "puke," but that's what Santorum said.
Now, some people are saying that Santorum said he heard it.
Santorum never said he heard the speech because he was only two-years-old.
He read the speech and when he became familiar with it... It was Kennedy's famous speech.
Back then, people were scared to death that the Pope -- when he was elected -- that the Catholics were elected.
So Kennedy's speech was to allay their fears.
And Kennedy said,
there is no way any prelate is gonna be telling me what to do.
There's no way I'm gonna calling any prelate and asking what to do.

The way Santorum interpreted Kennedy's speech was to say:
"There is an absolute wall of separation of church and state,
and nobody is gonna cross that line as long as I'm president.
I'm not gonna cross it."
Santorum said:
I don't believe that.
He thought Kennedy was saying that people of faith had no business in politics.
Other people have read Kennedy's speech or heard it, and said,
"That's not what he was saying.
He was trying to assure people that he was not going to be bringing his faith and turning the Oval Office into St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Kennedy was not gonna be doing that."
Anyway, Santorum made the point that the speech made him want to puke, and so we got the headline in the National Journal: "Santorum Argues for Religion in Government."

This is the Washington Post, lead editorial: "Rick Santorum Shows He's the Wrong Man to be President."
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post: "Rick Santorum's Rhetoric Goes to the Extreme."
Richard Cohen in the Washington Post: "Enough of Rick Santorum's Sermons."
So the Drive-Bys are filled with stories.
The State-Controlled Media is filled with stories today about what a lunatic fringe, religious wacko that Santorum is. (interruption)
Snerdley's asking, "What Republicans do Richard Cohen and Eugene Robinson like?"
They don't like any. That's not my point.
Of course they don't like any Republicans.
My point is they are scared.
They are scared.

I don't know that they're scared that Santorum will win.
They're frightened, they're scared to death about if he does win.
They are just...
Liberals do not like absolutes in anything.
They don't like judgment, they don't like morality,
they don't think anybody has the right to define it or to impose it or any of that.
They're just scared, pure and simple. (interruption)
What do they think will happen?
They think if Santorum's elected president, that in five minutes abortion will be illegal and that they will be in jail.
If you doubt me, remember the 1992 Clinton inaugural.
The week before it, they had all these parties in Washington --
some of them outside on The Mall and
-- and they had Aretha Franklin come and sing songs.

The musical theme one day was:We're outta jail; we have been released. Remember that? We have overcome.
It was as though they had been in shackles under 12 years of Reagan and Bush and they've been set free.
Freedom had finally come. They had all been let loose, is how they interpreted Clinton winning.
So figuratively they think they're gonna be going back to jail.
They think they're gonna have the condemnation and the wrath of the White House down on them, about how they live their lives.
They're just worried. They're afraid that there will be a common morality.
They're afraid that there will be definitions right and wrong.
They're afraid that laissez-faire lifestyles go out the door,
and they're afraid that that's what an election of somebody like Santorum would mean vis-a-vis where the American public happened to be.

[They] Think it would be the end of gay marriage, the end of tolerance, the end of all these wonderful politically correct terms that they've come up with.
They're literally scared.
Remember, I told you the old story about Ron Silver, and they had a fly by of some jets
and Ron Silver is flipping the jets off as they flew overhead and he's cursing them out.
And somebody said,
"Ron! Ron! Ron! Those are our jets now."
"Oh, yeah."
And Ron Silver -- God bless him,
may he rest in peace, peace be upon him -- converted to Republicanism before he died.

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RUSH: Back to the sound bites now.
Mika Brzezinski on Morning Joe today talking about this Operation Chaos, all the Democrats being urged to cross and vote for Santorum today.
They're talking about the social issues and Mika doesn't quite understand what's going on here with the social issues.
She and Mark Halperin have a conversation about it.

BRZEZINSKI: You guys follow these events closely, is there something we're missing?
Is he being asked about these things and put in a bad position?
Or is he literally going ahead with these issues on his own?

HALPERIN: I mean he says it often enough that the press stays on it and the press is obsessed with these things.
But a more skillful candidate wouldn't say these things initially and if they occasionally did, they’d fix it.
George Bush circa 1999, if he had the president's record to deal with and the conservative wing of his party to play off of,
to look more centrist, this is a great situation for a strong candidate.

RUSH: Is there something we're missing?
Why does he keep talking about the social issues?
It's such a death knell, what am I missing?
She's sensing something here, she doesn't know what it is.
She doesn't know why Santorum's still breathing.
She can't figure out why he still has a chance at winning anything.
In the liberal Democrat world, this is your funeral talking about this stuff, basing a campaign is suicide.
Social issues is suicide. Why does he keep talking about it?
Because the Democrats keep bringing it up.
They brought it up, he keeps getting questions about it.
Mark Halperin again on Morning Joe, Scarborough said,
"Are we gonna have a situation here
where the Republican Party goes to him and grabs somebody and says
you have no other choice at this point?" Meaning Romney.

HALPERIN: Michigan would be a huge blow.
The danger for him is if he's blown out on Super Tuesday,
which he could be, then I think the party has to get him out of the race.
While he could win it, it'd be too ugly.

RUSH: Mark Halperin, TIME Magazine. If Romney loses Michigan and Super Tuesday, the party has to get him out of the race.
Now, folks, as a keen observer here, go back six months.
Can you ever imagine this question being asked,
"If Romney loses Super Tuesday, the party's gotta get him out of the race?"
The last guy anybody woulda thought that about.
Here's Scarborough explaining to people what it is about Santorum that bothers them.

SCARBOROUGH: Rick Santorum is going out and telling people that
we live in this brave new world where the freedom of religion is going to be challenged because -- I'm laughing -- the term "freedom of worship."
What the hell's he talking about?
We got 15% real unemployment, we've got a stagnant economy, real wages have been down since 1973,
and he's playing semantic games that have absolutely no application to people in working-class Americans' day-to-day lives.

KELLER: Well, the thing you can say in defense of Rick Santorum is he actually means it.

SCARBOROUGH: There are people who believe that the anti-Christ is going to use the Trilateral Commission, Chuck Todd, to lead us all to Revelations.
It's crazy.

RUSH: They know that Santorum believes it.
That's what bugs 'em. He believes it.
Oh, he really believes this stuff.
And you look at the polling data and it's not Santorum's numbers that are falling.
It's Obama's numbers that are falling. And, Joe, I would tell you,
Obama's numbers are falling precisely because there's 15% real unemployment.
Obama's numbers are falling because there is a stagnant economy.
Obama's numbers are falling because real wages have been down since 1973.
The American people don't need to be told this.
They're living it.
The Republican primary campaign does not have to exclusively be about the economy
because everybody is living it, and everybody knows that Obama is faking the recovery and trying to turn it into a virtual dreamland,
and it isn't flying.

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Related Links

• CBS News: Santorum Argues for Religion in Government
  
  
• Washington Post: Rick Santorum Shows He’s the Wrong Man to be President
  
  
• Washington Post: Rick Santorum’s Rhetoric Goes to the Extreme - Eugene Robinson
  
  
• Right Scoop: Santorum: Romney Uniquely Unqualified to Take on President Obama
  
  
• National Journal: Santorum Argues for Religion in Government
  
  
• Washington Post: Enough of Rick Santorum’s Sermons - Richard Cohen
  
  

[Sun]

Obviously you never compared Rick with Mitt. Kindly do some research. This will get you started:

MITT ROMNEY

“In 2003 the Governor refused to endorse the Bush tax cuts, earning the praise of Massachusetts liberal congressman Barney Frank and was even open to a federal gas tax hike.
In 2007, Romney continued to oppose the flat tax with harsh language, calling the tax “unfair.”
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=905
==

“If Mitt Romney becomes president, we may actually have “cap and trade” shoved down our throats. While campaigning for president in 2007, Mitt Romney said that he would support a “cap and trade” carbon tax scheme for the entire world....

“I support Cap-and-Trade on a global basis but not the USA going alone. I want to do it with other nations involved and on a global scale.”
snip

more http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/16-reasons-why-mitt-romney-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president

RICK SANTORUM

“Santorum has consistently supported broad-based tax cuts and opposed tax increases either by sponsoring key legislation or by casting votes on relevant bills. Some high profile votes include:

•Voted NO on the Clinton tax hike in 1993
•Voted YES on the capital gains tax cut in 1997
•Voted NO on a cigarette tax hike in 1998
•Voted YES on repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax in 1999
•Voted YES on the 2001 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to repeal the Death Tax in 2002
•Voted YES to the 2003 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to extend the Bush tax cuts in 2006”

excerpt http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=902

[livius]

Santorum is a wuss and voted all along with the GOP establishment. Also, he has no ideas about how to handle anything. Maybe he’ll throw his sweater-vest at the mullahs?

That said, I think the GOP establishment would rather have Romney because they think he wouldn’t alienate Dems with his social policies. However, the fact that Santorum was making robo-calls urging Dems to go out and vote for him indicates to me that Santorum doesn’t plan to do anything that would alienate Dems, either.

[Sun]

Mark Levin said Rick Santorum was one of the most conservative senators in the last 50 years.

Here’s proof that Levin is correct:

http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/27054/rick-santorum

“2005 Republican Liberty Caucus – Economic Liberties Score 90%
2004 Republican Liberty Caucus – Positions 87%
2003-2004 Campaign for Working Families – Positions 100%
2003-2004 Concerned Women for America – Positions 100%
2005 American Conservative Union – Positions 92%
2003 Concerned Women for America – Positions 100%
2003 Eagle Forum – Positions 87%
2003 National Journal – Conservative on Economic Policy Score 82%
2003 American Conservative Union – Positions 90%”

More importantly perhaps, is that Rick Santorum is a FIGHTER, who gets things done!

Here’s one of many examples:

“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.”

http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/

The two front runners are Rick and Mitt - time to make a decision.

[Pinkbell]

Good list, and go Rick! I can’t wait to vote for him Tuesday!

[livius]

Santorum and Romney are front-runners because they’re both big-government and that seems to be what most people, Dem or GOP, want. This is a sad fact, and it will take a lot to shake people loose from their adoring trust in government.

Santorum never did a thing that was not approved by the GOP establishment, and women like him because he comes across as weak and liberal (”compassionate conservative”) in the Jimmy Carter mode. Carter is exactly who Ricky reminds me of, because Carter also ran on his humble sweater, his “peanut farmer” persona, his Evangelical credentials, etc. Carter managed to completely skip the part about being governor of his state, and Santorum has managed to completely skip the thing about being a two-term Senator who was overwhelmingly rejected by his district.

He is also about at the Biden level for inarticulateness.

[lentulusgracchus]

The only way we, the conservatives, will lose to the Kenyan Turd is IF the "Establishment Republicans" REFUSE to support the Republican Nominee.

They did exactly that, quite notoriously, in 1964.

If the rich guys couldn't run the train, if Rocky couldn't get the nod (it was "his turn" -- he'd been up for it in 1960 and threw his support to Nixon instead, in a backroom deal called "the compact of Seventh Avenue"), if he and the Cabots and Lodges couldn't flip the nomination to their backup boy Scranton or an acceptable dark horse (two or three names were bruited in the late going), then they'd just flip off the entire Main Street Republican Party, let them have their nominee, and tell them all to ride the short bus to hell.

Rockefeller berated Goldwater delegates at the Cow Palace during a prime-time "minority report" speech (on national gavel-to-gavel TV coverage) offered him as a courtesy, to lambaste all the Goldwater people, conservatives generally, and the Goldwater delegates in particular as "fascists" and compare them to "Nazis".

...........

"Santorum cannot defeat Obama."

Yeah, I like that one, too. You know, I'll bet Ronald Reagan couldn't beat Obama. Abraham Lincoln couldn't beat Obama, or Teddy Roosevelt, nor George Washington. Just ask the ghost of Eric Sevareid.

[Yosemitest]

Like a caller to Rush said:

" We're going for the big guns.
We have a strategy, and we're gonna win.
And if we don't win, nobody else will, either, 'til we get to convention.
And then we've got the uncommitted delegates, we've got the Newt delegates, we've got conservative delegates --


RUSH: We are hearing a strategery here.

CALLER: -- and Newt's got this thing.

RUSH: All right. I like it.
I like upbeat people. She not succumbing.
I like upbeat people.
If we don't win .... nobody else will ... and we're gonna have an open convention.
Yeah, I heard that.
If we don't win, nobody else will, either.
So her claim is that
the Romney camp is not happy,
that Romney supporters are not happy,
Republicans not happy 'cause they --
I heard Romney say last night, it wasn't a big win, but it was a win, and that's all that matters.
They looked pretty happy to me last night.
I don't know that they start worrying about the margin after the victory, but we'll see.
Kate, thanks for the call. Appreciate it very much.
What's the question, Snerdley?
No, you mean after Super Tuesday? It's not gonna be over a week from today I don't think.
We're all professionals here. The professionals are saying this could go 'til May.
It could go out actually that long.
Remember, it was supposed to be over before it started.
From the establishment Republican types, it was supposed to be over before it started.

Romney? Don't be a dupe, buying the "Establishment Republicans" crap!
Yep, the "Establishment Republicans" will claim that we can NOT win without them.
Look at their track record. They chose 3 candidates and look what it brought us,

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF.

"Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS set us up for a loss.
Read how desperate the "Establishment Republicans" are:

All Heck Breaks Loose on Primary Day

Is the GOP Elite Ready to Concede?

Look at the "winners" the "Establishment Republicans" have picked before:

The "Establishment Republicans" rate a

[Sun]

“I can’t wait to vote for him Tuesday!”

And bring your friends!

[Pinkbell]

My family members are all going to vote for him! :)