Posted on 02/20/2012 9:45:52 AM PST by Bulwinkle
Donald Trump demonstrated Monday that he has no qualms about going after one of Mitt Romney’s chief rivals, Rick Santorum.
“There’s nothing — there’s no gift, no Christmas gift, that could be given better than Rick Santorum to the Democrats,” Trump said in a radio interview which aired in Michigan. Democrats, he continued, “are just salivating at that. And, you know, I don’t think they believe it’s going to happen. But boy, would they like it to happen because that would be an easy election.”
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>> “Today the biggest con-man on radio was carrying Santorum’s water.” <<
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And that must be some really heavy water if they pay him $58 million a year to carry it!
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If I were him (Santorum) I would challenge this big mouth rich bastard attention whore trumpet butt to a debate.
That is the language I would use too.
Corner him on his past donations etc.
Frankly, I don't expect it.
>> “Tell me Psycho-Freep, since Newt has apparently lost to Romney, how does it feel to know you’re Romney’s confidant on FR taking Santorum down for him?” <<
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What kind of Dupe can’t recognize that Santorum is simply the establishment’s fall-back option if Romney fails?
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It would be a dupe that understands why the Speaker of the House of Representatives stepped down in 1999, rather than run for re-election.
Santorum the fall-back position? LMAO, nice try...
What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty.
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban anti-personnel landmines.
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same pay raises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyrannical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea.
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program.
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture).
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge.
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN.
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge.
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit.
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge.
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge.
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge.
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act.
Voted against repeal of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages.
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor.
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding.
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding.
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization.
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here.
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representatives from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device.
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional pay raise.
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.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require state and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators.
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border patrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform.
Voted against Medicaid reform.
Voted against TANF reform.
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion.
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored an amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million.
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA).
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion.
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million.
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL).
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry.
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation.
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%.
Voted against transferring $20 million from AmeriCorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies a new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against allowing consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing.
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
You said ‘Nobody in any other state that hasn’t had a primary yet saw Romney attack ads about Newt.’
then you said :
‘When he loses Florida, he does a snarky presser that turned even more people off.’
So people in the other states don’t know that Gingrich was wronged but judge him when he defends himself.
Think of yourself being vsciously and falsely attacked yet get blamed for it, and at the same time your image and reputation is flushed down the drain by the attacks and you lose all the momentum and support, and you get blamed for it all...........
I note that you didn’t provide one single bill number. You didn’t provide what Congressional Session they took place in. You didn’t provide the title of the bills. You didn’t tell us what other folks voted just as he did. Why is that?
Could it be that most of those supposed terrible infractions by Santorum, were actually made when he voted for a bill whose main purpose was something many Conservatives supported? Well, we’ll never know will we.
Your behavior on this issue is despicable. What’s more, you damn well know it.
I used to be for Ron Paul, not anymore. I'm warming to Santorum. I want contrast and lots of it. We can't control the outcome, God does that. Therefore, I don't care about the outcome and what Las Vegas or Trump or anybody else thinks about it. If America chooses Obama instead of Santorum, we will get what we deserve. Ron Paul thinks we can't win on social issues. Well, our enmity with God is why we are dieing. I love liberty but with a government and culture of death there is no liberty.
Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
Newts image and reputation, he is responsible for. Granted Romney has no shame and is liar. But it is what it is.
All the whine in the world won’t change anything. It is good to defend yourself, but there are ways to do it without causing more harm to yourself.
Newt likes to be in control. If he doesn’t have control he gets petulant.
People can see that.
>> “I note that you didn’t provide one single bill number.” <<
Typical liar! Click on the link and its all there.
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People see what they want to see, just like you only see Gingrich ‘whining’, and you probably only see the saintliness in your chosen candidate.
Nah, I don’t think any politician qualifies for sainthood. What I do see is when someone is their own worst enemy.
Sometimes people can be really smart, but they make bad decisions. Just the way it is.
You provided dozens of charges here, and one link to the sewer you drug it out of.
I went over there to look at the information.
On issue one, the charge is well founded. Santorum did vote with the most disgusting Republicans and Democrats in the day. That was fourteen years ago.
So what is his view on defunding the Endowment for the Arts today? Do you know? No. So what you did was post something here to trash Santorum, even though you have no idea if he agrees with you now or not. Is that particularly honest? No.
On the second issue, the writer took Santorum to task for not supporting a 10% reduction in the Endowment for the Arts. When you use the link he provided, the Senate bill has to do with increasing funding to an American Indian group. There’s no way to verify what he was claiming.
On the third matter, is was charged that Santorum “Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.”
What the author left out, was that Santorum voted to make sure the debts of pro-life demonstrators who accrued debt due to the UTILIZATION OF VIOLENCE, could not get that debt wiped away during a bankruptcy proceeding.
I support folks out there protesting abortion, but I’m not going to give them a free ride if they cause damage with bombs, burn buildings down, torch cars, or injure people and become responsible for their hospital bills.
If you had used those links, had studied up on what this guy was up to, I think you could have avoided trying to tarnish someone on such flimsy evidence.
Of course that if that wasn’t your goal was all along.
Santorum’s positions now are softly spoken, and solely for the purpose of geting nominated.
He has yet to take a robust stand against a past position, unlike Newt who has humbly and vocally rejected his failings in nationally broadcast events.
Saying you are sorry for doing stupid things before an election just rings hollow to most people.
Don’t forget Trump said he’d hit on his daughter, if only she wasn’t his daughter.
Okay, but let’s be honest here.
Santorum voted not to cut the funding for the Endowment of the Arts.
Newt’s infractions were related to cheating on his wives.
I know a number of folks here have run cover for that, but Newt himself apologized in public for it, so I’m somewhat missing the case the FReepers are trying to make for him.
One goes to a poor take on public policy, and another goes to one of the core moral stands a man must make in his personal life.
None the less, we’re not supposed to mention a moral revelation, but then a poor vote on a public policy issue is considered despicable, a disqualifier, and something that everyone MUST know about even after 14 years.
I don’t agree with Santorum’s vote. It does trouble me. If he had cheated on two of his wives, you and I would not be having this discussion, I can guarantee you.
Now get back out there and find more dirt on Santorum. It’s the only chance you’ve got to make sure Romney gets the nomination.
People know Mitt, and they know Newt. Newt isn’t cutting it on that basis one on one. Now what are you going to do about it? Hope for Sarah to ride in and save us at the convention?
And she said she agrees with McCain’s policies, all of them. What will she be saving us from?
>> “People know Mitt, and they know Newt. Newt isn’t cutting it on that basis one on one. Now what are you going to do about it? Hope for Sarah to ride in and save us at the convention?
And she said she agrees with McCain’s policies, all of them. What will she be saving us from?” <<
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PDS troll outs himself!
Geez he said that?! And he seriously wanted to run for president?
So you’re for Romney (like Trump is) then?
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