Posted on 03/15/2012 5:45:18 PM PDT by God'sgrrl
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RUSH: We'd like to welcome to the program Rick Santorum, who is one of the Republicans seeking the presidential nomination of the Republican Party. Senator... How do you prefer to be referred to these days? You were last a Senator. How are you anyway? more...
Most Important Part of the Interview:
“The reason I was able to win before is because people, while they didn’t always agree with me, they knew where I stood and they knew that I did what I believed was right and that I stood for what I believe in, and they could TRUST me even though they didn’t necessarily agree. I think for a president, there are very few people who believe or vote for somebody because they agree with them on everything. Most people don’t agree with everybody on everything, but they want to believe that that person is TRUSTWORTHY. They want to believe that they’re authentic. They want to believe that they’re gonna actually do what they say they’re gonna do and can be TRUSTED and for a long time in Pennsylvania that was enough for me to get a lot of moderate and conservative Democrats to join Republicans and win.”
Conservatism gave Reagan is victories in 80 and 84, but Trust and Likeability gave him the landslide margins. Rick Santorum absolutely gets the formula for bringing the Reagan Democrats back over. This is why he is the most formidable opponent to go up against Obama.
Thank you. I heard this live, and I remember hoping at the time that Rick’s campaign would be successful. I’ve been very proud of him as a fellow Pennsylvanian. Bob
I got nothing to attack him on. He’s my backup plan
Thanks for posting, but the people who need to see it won’t bother reading without the news media to tell them what Rick said.
I loved his comments about how Americans need a good communicator. And Rush told Rick, “Your passion is infectious”. There’s so much in the interview that describes perfectly what Rick Santorum is all about.
Somehow I missed it but now I understand why Rush has been so fair with Rick.
Hurray for Rick!
The most trustworthy candidate, soon to be POTUS.
It’s not about some abstract electability. It is about:
“Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly.”
— Thomas Jefferson to S. Kercheval, 1816.
“The Restraint of Government is the True Liberty and Freedom of the People.”
— Eighteenth-Century common American saying
“My kind of loyalty was to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.”
-— Mark Twain
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or reduce them to slavery under the arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.”
— John Locke - 1690, London
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether on one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”
— James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 47.
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
he really makes the leftists squirm, that’s how you know he’s hitting the bullseye.
Wife and I will hear him tomorrow at Osage Beach, MO.
Mega Rick Santorum dittos, Eric.
Let us know how he did!
Y’all are fantastic. It’s so nice to read through a thread with not one negative comment about Rick.
I’m actively joining the Santorum WI. campaign on Saturday. Wisconsin freepers: please Freep me privately if you can help. THANKS! MM
Gotta like it !
I read it... He’s still a guess weasel punk.
No, the weighty issues of the day are fighting the “scourge of pornography”:
http://www.ricksantorum.com/enforcing-laws-against-illegal-pornography
He was my choice #3. Cain/Newt/Santorum
Had not seen or heard this interview with Rush.
But Rush is Correct this year has become a battle between the Fiscal Conservatives and the Social Conservatives. Neither is wrong we have to have both.
Santorum is a Social Conservative first that is his comfort zone. I dont think Social Conservatism alone will win over the Indepedants when Unemployment is nearing 20% or Federal Debt is nearing 16 trillion dollars.
First if he is to win the GE then he has to control his message not answer to the Press. Secondly he has to declare war on the current Administration.
Time will tell if he is the right man for the job.
IMHO
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