He has been posting that load of crap on the forum for weeks now. Now he has quit pasting the link to where he gets the information from. Evidently he did this, because I used them to find out that those charges are VERY problematic.
Here’s one instance:
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
The record here shows that Santorum signed a bill that did not allow pro-life demonstratores “WHO DERIVED DEBT FROM COMMITTING ACTS OF VIOLENCE” from discharging this debt via bankruptcy.
Antoherwords, if they bombed an abortion clinic, torched a car, shot someone dead, caused serious injury to someone, they would not be able to file bankruptcy and avoid having to be financially responsible for what they had done.
This bill DID NOT stop these people from discharging their other non-related to violence debt, if they qualified under normal circumstances.
This charge is VERY misleading.
I notified PsychoFreep that this was the case, and yet, there it is still being cast out across the forum to slander Santorum.
I think that speaks volumes about what is going on here.
THanks for the information. I occasionally research claims, and almost always find they are misleading or flat-out wrong, and it takes so much time to research that i just started ignoring them.
After all, if it takes me an hour to learn the truth about one claim, I thinking whoever is posting it didn’t take the 20 hours it would have needed to research the 20 claims they are making. So if the first one I look at is wrong, I assume they all are.
My example here to add to yours was the outrageous claim that Santorum voted FOR a pro-abortion bill, when in fact he voted FOR the motion to TABLE the bill. Someone didn’t know what the vote meant, so they just wrote a long screed about how unprincipled Santorum was. And when it was corrected on three separate threads posted about it, not ONE of the three who posted the original information apologized for misleading their fellow conservatives.
I sometimes will repeat something that turns out to be false — but I am scrupulous about correcting false statements of fact. I don’t want to win voters to my position by lying to them, and it still shocks me that others feel “by any means necessary” is an ethical, moral, or civilized way to argue.