Posted on 01/16/2012 9:23:33 AM PST by detective
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Rick Santorum pushed back Monday morning against a series of ads being run against him on his record on earmarks, labor issues and a vote he took in 2002 that would have forced states to let felons' voting rights be restored when they completed their sentences.
Mr. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, is demanding the felon charge be stricken from an ad being run by a political group backing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, one of his opponents in the Republican presidential primary.
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Bingo!
Just more mudslinging from the Rombot camp to keep the focus off ‘Willard the Liberal Gov’ through Sat.
I can’t help but wonder how many people genuinely believe that convicts sit in prison dreaming of the day they can get out and vote democrat.
As far as I know, only Maine allows inmates to vote while in prison and I think that’s a really dumb idea. After all, they have nothing better to do and voting provides a change of pace.
“I dare say 99% of prisoners have no business being in prison”
You have a different view of the world than I do. If we let 99% of the people now in prison commit any crime they wanted and let them know they had no fear of punishment what do you think our country would be like?
Ricky needs to explain voting for felons to be able to vote as well as THIS RINO voting record:
RICK SANTORUM
VOTED AGAINST INCREASING THE NUMBER OF IMMIGRATION INVESTIGATORS
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00201
VOTED TO ALLOW ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS TO RECEIVE THE EARNED INCOME CREDIT BEFORE BECOMING CITIZENS
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00154
VOTED TO GIVE SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS
SANTORUM: TRIM SOCIAL SECURITY NOW- EVEN IF PAINFUL.http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j7O34Bpp42k-IlMMNiOLBkYF2zNw?docId=b1cff9ecefe24ca6ae1764a09761e361
VOTED TO GIVE WELFARE BENEFITS TO NATURALIZED CITIZENS without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00427
VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS, paid for by reductions in state grants.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00179
VOTED AGAINST FOOD STAMP REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00353
VOTED AGAINST MEDICAID REFORM
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00352
VOTED TO INCREASE THE SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT FROM $1 BILLION to $2 BILLION
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00302
VOTED TO RAID SOCIAL SECURITY instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=2&vote=00056
VOTED TO IMPOSE A UNIFORM FEDERAL MANDATE ON STATES TO FORCE THEM TO ALLOW CONVICTED RAPISTS, ARSONISTS, DRUG KINGPINS AND ALL OTHER EX-CONVICTS TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00031
VOTED AGAINST INCREASING THE NUMBER OF IMMIGRATION INVESTIGATORS?
VOTED TO GIVE WELFARE BENEFITS TO NATURALIZED CITIZENS?
VOTED AGAINST HIRING AN ADDITIONAL 1,000 BORDER PATROL AGENTS?
VOTED AGAINST FOOD STAMP REFORM?
VOTED AGAINST MEDICAID REFORM?
People NEED to know this about Santorum’s voting record.
He has not been vetted.
.
You sound like a paranoid Perry (5%) supporter.
What gets to me is that Romney supporters (AKA Romney) have placed attacks on Gingrich and Santorum, and yet if Gingrich attacks Romney it’s a mortal sin.
Romney gets a pass on negative attacks because supposedly it isn’t him, it’s his supporters. While anyone else is blackballed for negative attacks on Romney.
Either way Republicans are killing each other while the slimey SOB in the White House now laughs his ass off.
Sometimes I try to have hope for this party and then I am always disappointed.
Compassionate conservatism for sure!
A while back I found some old prison records from Jackson Michigan in the mid 1800s. Among the items returned to inmates upon release were their weapons.
Too many felonies when most felonies should be violent crimes and those people should be in prison or dead.
Haley Barbour on his way out pardoned 200 new votes for Obama.
The judge who temporarily overturned the Barbour pardons and is trying to recapture 5 released killers should station marshalls to stake out the polls and arrest them before they pull the Obama lever.
Willard must be desperate.
Santorum position is after they do prison and parole they get voting rights
reinstated.
What’s the matter with that?
Now they are taking away our citizenship rights any way they can even after our debt to Justice is done.
Pretty soon you will be fined if you DON’T VOTE. They will just hunt
us down.
As Republicans gathered for their national convention in Philadelphia a decade ago, Rick Santorum, who was then an up-and-coming senator from Pennsylvania, launched a charity that he said would improve the lives of low-income residents in his home state.
“Wouldn’t it be a great thing to leave something positive behind other than a bunch of parties and a bunch of garbage?” Santorum told a local reporter.
But homeless families and troubled children were not the biggest beneficiaries of Operation Good Neighbor. Instead, the foundation spent most of its money to run itself, including hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees for fundraising, administration and office rental paid to Santorum’s political allies.
Santorum, whose last-minute surge in the Iowa caucuses has brought new attention to his presidential bid, portrays himself as a common man concerned about the gap between the nation’s rich and poor. But in the case of his charity, his efforts ended up mostly helping his cadre of political friends.
Before it folded in 2007, the foundation raised $2.58 million, with 39 percent of that donated directly to groups helping the needy. By industry standards, such philanthropic groups should be donating nearly twice that, from 75 to 85 percent of their funds.
“That’s exceptionally poor,” Ken Berger, president of Charity Navigator, a national organization that rates charitable groups, said of the Santorum group’s giving. “We would tell donors to run with fear from this organization.”
That’s exceptionally poor...
even by Congressional standards.
Santorum charity for the poor spent most of its money on management, political friends
Take away the social issues from the mix, and RS is just a C or C minus conservative at best.
Grade A on social issues, but not so hot other than that.
See post #16.
“In declining states the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action.” A Great Historian 1888
I am supporting Santorum. The Washington Times is out to sink Santorum to aid Romney.
The Washington Times is out to sink Santorum. They are doing their best to get Romney nominated and destroy the conservative movement.
This fits the pattern of Romney campaign
which the other CANDIDATES HATED in 2008 and 2012 for hypocrisy
he rips the other candidates on the RIGHT
that they are not RIGHT enough
smells like Romney
Same here. He isn’t a big government socialist like Newt Romney.
That’s a ridiculous way to destroy Santorum. Who are you comparing him to? Gingrich? Gingrich who supported Global Warming with Nancy Pelosi, who loves FDR, and attacked capitalism. We can disagree on Santorum but Mittens needs to be stopped. His nomination will be devastating and would have a ripple effect on congressional races nationwide.
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