Posted on 06/06/2011 8:40:00 AM PDT by julieee
Pro-Life Sen. Rick Santorum Seeks GOP Presidential Nod
Washington, DC -- Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, a pro-life stalwart, makes his bid for the Republican nomination for president official today. The Catholic former elected official is making the announcement from the Somerset County Courthouse in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/06/06/pro-life-sen-rick-santorum-seeks-gop-presidential-nod/
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Sadly he is known more as Pro-Arlen Specter.
I know what you mean, but Santorum would make one of the most conservative candidates out there.
Was it really necessary to post this twice?
Was it really necessary to post this twice?
Nod not.
Santorum to me is one of these pro life guys (and I am pro life) who rides that crown to make folks think he (she) is conservative over all. As we see with McCain, this is not always the case.
His over all conservative cred is not that great and he is not that effective either IMO.
Santorum is a more REPUBLICAN than he is PRO-LIFE. Remember when he and Bush supported baby-killer RINO Arlen Specter over Toomey who was genuinely pro-life.
Morons.
What did that get the GOP?
Sadly, Santorum just hasn’t got it. They beat him in his own state. And there was that controversy about school attendance of his kids, which the Dems and media would hammer him with. Santorum for president is a total nonstarter.
I really doubt that he has any chance at all.
I don't see where is support is coming from at all.
Please elaborate concerning the areas where Santorum isn’t conservative.
Rick Santorum is a ‘nice guy’ Establishment conservative, who has no demonstrated executive experience in running anything, and can’t show me what battles he’s fought and won with his arguments against the socialists.
“What did that get the GOP?”
Alito and Roberts? Santorum says he cut a deal so Specter, the judiciary chairman, would support and usher in the confirmation any supreme court nominees Bush nominated, no matter how conservative. Specter denies it, Sestak made a stink about it. I don’t know if it is true or not. I would like to know what Bush says about it, if anything or if he was involved at all.
Freegards
“Sadly, Santorum just hasn’t got it. They beat him in his own state. And there was that controversy about school attendance of his kids, which the Dems and media would hammer him with. Santorum for president is a total nonstarter.”
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The school controversy is what sunk his re-election campaign when he was a Senator. He sued to have the taxpayers of one of our local school districts pay for his kids’ cyber education even though he makes a nice enough salary to pay for that education himself and his full-time residence was in the Washington DC area, not in that school district. That makes the perception that he is a conservative a lie. He’s an ignorant, arrogant POS and he’s just not electable.
“Spending. Santorum voted for every single spending bill that ever came up. Santorum is a complete joke. Sanotorum took educational control away from the parents and to the federal government with No Child Left Behind. He needs to go away.”
BUMP
He's not going to catch fire because there is no fire to catch. He's a nice guy, who's going to finish second or third to last. I wish he had saved his money and supported one of the other candidates who is more willing to bring the heat on Obama. He was defeated handily in his own state, and doesn't seem the type to be a game changer across the nation.
He was a good foot soldier, but he's fooling himself if he think he has what it takes to compete on the national level. I wish him luck, though.
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