You don’t care that Santorum’s record is to try and destroy the pro-life movement?
Santorum was trying to get Arlen Specter into the White House. Look at Specter’s Presidential platform as he announced it. Santorum endorsed and campaigned for his candidacy and this platform..
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/64281-1
3:46 mark: “In 1996, I intend to win the other house — the White House — with ten commitments to America… including a woman’s right to choose…
13:22 mark: “Even though we have this historic opportunity for these achievements, there are those in our party who would lead us down a different path — and squander this unique moment in our nation’s history — by using our political capital — to pursue a radical social agenda — that would end a woman’s right to choose…
13:48 mark: “When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation between Church and State, I say he is wrong…
14:31 mark: “When Ralph Reed says a pro-choice Republican isn’t qualified to be our President, I say the Republican Party will not be intimidated or blackmailed by those kinds of threats.I, and millions of other pro-choice Republicans, will not be disenfranchised and made second class citizens.
15:33 mark: “… it is not Christian, or religious, or Judeo-Christian to bring God into politics; or to advocate intolerance and promote exclusion.
15:54 mark: “I want to take abortion out of politics. I want to keep the Republican Party focused on the vital economic and foreign policy issues — and leave moral issues such as abortion to the conscience of the individual. I believe abortion is an issue to be decided by women…
16:40 mark: “I pledge to lead the fight to strip the strident anti-choice language from the Republican National platform…”
Wow. A video of Arlen Specter from 1995. You’re getting pretty desperate. That probably would’ve worked to get me to vote against Arlen Specter, I suppose. Heh. Doesn’t affect my opinion of Rick Santorum in the least.
Rick Santorum’s record simply does not reflect an intent to “destroy the pro-life movement”.
I get it. You like Newt better than Rick. But, this is just silly. I cannot imagine a circumstance where an 18-year-old video of Arlen Specter would make any difference at all in a race between Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
A case can be made for Newt without contorting Rick Santorum’s record into something its not.
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