Posted on 02/12/2012 8:49:12 PM PST by katiedidit1
In 2008 when my wife, Gena, and I were on the campaign trail backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was fighting to get former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney elected. (Listen in this video how Santorum passionately endorsed and elevated Mitt in his bid for the Oval Office.)
Just three years ago in his interview with radio host and conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, Santorum also emphatically told millions of listening Americans: “If you’re a conservative, if you’re a Republican, there is only one place to go, and that’s Mitt Romney.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“[Santorum] is painful to listen to more than two minutes”
Oh come on now, isn’t that bad. You call Santorum boring, you’re calling conservatism boring. And besides, you want to see/hear real boring? Try Thadeaus McCotter. His speech at the Ames Straw Poll was so boring, I think some people went to sleep.
Santorum said Obama was to popular to attack. Newt will has no problem going after Obama. In fact he already has. GO NEWT GO!
I’m leaning more for Newt but Santorum is far, far better than Romney so I’m just waiting here until the convention when Romney gets kicked out. The bigger picture here is to rid of p-Resident Dopeychangey.
I've got two for you: Jerry Sandusky. Rick Santorum sponsored him for the 2002 Angels in Adoption award.
Which just goes to show that anybody can pick a lemon.
Please go to Newt’s site to see the de-spinning of the Romney-ite political spin you’re referencing, and don’t bring it up anymore unless you include quote’s to Newt’s responses about those topics. We’re not here to spread rumors, we’re here to be fair, balanced and accurate about which candidates are conservative and which are not.
Paul Ryan (and the House GOP’s) Medicare Plan
Like Ryan and the House GOP, Newt supports a premium support model for Medicare. However, he wants seniors to have the choice to opt into the new system or to stay in traditional Medicare.
Newt agrees wholeheartedly with Rep. Ryan that we must give our seniors more choices than the current one-size-fits-all Medicare model. Both concur that creating the opportunity for seniors to buy private insurance is the key to both improving care and lowering costs.
The one key difference is that under Newt’s plan, as outlined in his 21st Century Contract with America, seniors will also have the choice to stay in the current Medicare system or choose a private insurance plan with support from the government to pay the premiums. The other difference is that Newt believes that seniors should have this option starting next year, not in ten years.
Global Warming/Cap and Trade
Newt does not believe there is a settled scientific conclusion about whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere.
Newt absolutely opposes “cap and trade” as well as any system of taxing carbon emissions. He testified before Congress against it in 2009 and led a grassroots effort while the Chairman of American Solutions to block its passage in the House and Senate.
Newt believes that cap and trade would kill hundreds of thousands of American jobs, cause electricity and fuel prices to skyrocket, and make America poorer. In contrast, Gingrich believes the best way to protect the environment is through markets, incentives, and entrepreneurs, who quite often are deploying innovative new technologies.
As for the question of whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere, Newt has noted there is no settled scientific conclusion. Many scientists believe it is the case. Others do not. But this unsettled scientific question has nothing to do with the best approach to protecting our environment, which is always markets, incentives, and entrepreneurs creating better and more efficient products and services.
Q: So why did Newt do the ad with Nancy Pelosi in 2007 calling for action to address climate change?
Newt does not believe there is a settled scientific conclusion about whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere.
Through his entire career, Newt has supported pro-market, pro-entrepreneur, innovative solutions to our environmental challenges, which he believes are superior to the liberal pro-bureaucracy, pro-tax, pro-regulation approach to the environment.
Newt believes that conservatives cannot be absent from the conversation about the environment and instead that conservatives must offer and explain why conservative solutions are better. Unfortunately, the attempt to get that message out through the ad with Nancy Pelosi failed. On November 8, 2011, Newt told FOX News’ Bret Baier that doing that commercial with Pelosi was “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve ever done”.
Newt will continue to oppose the Democrats’ destructive cap-and-trade and carbon tax proposals, continue to support expanded domestic oil and gas drilling, and continue to fight for a fundamental replacement of the job-killing Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency.
TARP
Newt believes that the reckless, secretive and opaque way in which the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department administered the bailouts has been an affront to democracy.
Newt was appalled and disgusted at the amount of dictatorial power that Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson tried to grab for himself at the outset of the financial crisis. However, he reluctantly supported a scaled-down plan after Paulson told the country that the world financial system was going to collapse without this emergency support.
Newt believes that the reckless, secretive and opaque way in which the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department administered the bailouts has been an affront to democracy. The Fed was picking winners and losers, using several emergency lending facilities to make all types of loans to connected parties, including to a bank owned by the Libyan government.
This is why broadly scaling back the role of the Federal Reserve and repealing the Dodd-Frank bill are two of the central pillars of Newt’s 21st Century Contract with America. The Fed will be fully audited and made more transparent to ensure the events of 2008 are never repeated, and getting rid of Dodd-Frank will once and for all end the destructive policy of “too big to fail.”
Yep. Eddie Haskell.
Any Republican who voted for Willard the Flaming Massachusttes Liberal Romney in 2008 should be shot!
You contributed to his coming back in 2012 for another try.
Bang!
His nick name in school was 'rooster'
I wish Chuck was running for a political office.
Anyone who thinks Earmarks are the hottest issue this year, really is not paying very close attention.
McCain ran against Earmarks because, well HE HAD NOTHING ELSE!
Excellent post!
Super Tuesday may tell the tale...it would if Texas was in it
the irony here to me is that Sarah supports Newt
yet the nastiest freepers here who support Rick Santorum and get crazy over any criticism were also the nastiest..in some cases...who brooked no criticism or questioning of dear Sarah...so why aren't they following her lead on Newt?
there are a few Sarahbots on the Newt train...no question but I recognize on this very thread some very defensive Santorum bots as virulently defensive Palinbots from last summer and fall
and so it goes
Free Republic is a case study in human nature...the good, the bad and the ugly
the way this has gone pushing Mitt down our throats by fake conservatives who pretend to lead us...with few exceptions really...I mean think about it...us, Sarah, Levin, Mike Reagan, Mike Berry, a little Limbuagh but not enough, and Fred....that is about it.,..the rest so called righties are Mitt supporters and colluders
that is the worst part of all this...I pray either Newt first or Rick second kicks his and their asses all the way back to the Beltway or NYC
I loathe all these bastards and bastardettes ...traitors they are
I don't view Santorum as the enemy unless he bitches up for a VP slot with Mitt...even though some of his supporters here are a bit obnoxious
lol if that don’t beat all.
Please note that the last of those occured in 1997. It’s the stuff he did since then that has many concerned. I’m not typing this to change minds, simply to point out why Santorum’s positives are much higher than Gingrich’s at the moment.
I think whoever emerges as our nominee, they need to consider Ted Nugent as White House spokesperson. Let the press play with a ball of fire every day. LOL!
I want Romney to lose every primary, even the one in Virginia where the choice is between him and Ron Paul with no write-ins allowed.
In Virginia, I would vote Paul to see Romney lose....
I still have that “Drill Here, Drill Now....” bumper sticker on my car, which I got for sending in $10 and signing his petition.
Mrs. Prince of Space
You might want to get yourself educated on the real story about that. Until then you’ll be seen as a parrot for the media and GOP E without a lick of sense. Your choice.
How so? A candidate who is pro homo marriage, pro abortion, left of Ted, big gov’t socialist healthcare isn’t even a republican much less a conservative.
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