Super Tuesday Vote Santorum in Ohio & Oklahoma, Gingrich in Georgia, Ron Paul in Virginia & Alaska

vanity | March 5, 2012 | Steelers6

[Steelers6]

Tennessee looks like Santorum and Gingrich are fairly even with the 2 of them, Santorum has been in the lead but Newt has been coming on. Everyone in Virginia who is not a Romney supporter should vote for Ron Paul, 1st head to head matchup anyone has had with Romney.

[SnakeDoctor]

Romney isn’t my candidate. I only said I’d take him over Ron Paul. Least worst.

SnakeDoc

[llandres]

“We need a platform candidate; not a artificial candidate who has ties to Bush big government. Rick cannot beat Obama. Get real. We need Newt to win.”

Bless you, Christie - you’re so right! Newt could slap BHO down soundly, then make breathtaking changes and our country really needs him.

I pray every night that God will grant us a leader who loves our country as much as Bibi loves his. While I do believe that Santorum also loves America (maybe even Mittens and RP do - maybe) - I KNOW Newt does, and he’s the only one who can defeat BHO. Just pray there are enough voters who are intelligent enough to see that.

[llandres]

“The Ron Paul people don’t seem to think it’s possible to win Virginia, and that’s surprising considering how pie-in-the-sky they usually are. But I think Paul is not even campaigning or running ads there, which just shows how in the tank he is for Romney to give up competing at one of his best shots because it might hurt Romney.”

That says it all, doesn’t it? RP has the best chance to win in VA, being only one of two names on the ballot!!!

Too bad his crazy supporters don’t see this.

[ansel12]

I refuted your bizarre defense of Romney, you have not reaction to that other than to still promote him as better than Paul?

[SnakeDoctor]

>> I refuted your bizarre defense of Romney, you have not reaction to that other than to still promote him as better than Paul?

Yep. That was my only point to begin with. I don’t have a defense for Romney other than “better than Paul”. If he gets nominated, I suppose I’ll have “better than Barack”.

I’m not voting for Romney unless he’s head-to-head with Barack. No need to defend him at this point.

SnakeDoc

[JediJones]

Yeah, it looks like Ron Paul did a campaign appearance there recently. But the people on the Ron Paul forums seem to be saying he's not running ads there at all. That says it all indeed. There's a lot less "rah rah Ron Paul" sentiment in that thread than usual but so far they seem to be viewing it as an honest "mistake." They said:

As far as TV ads and what not, I haven't see any.

I haven't seen any ads for RP on television, but all we have is an antenna. Lots of signs and bumper stickers though.

to late now but we should have done this state

it has been known for a long time that there were only 2 people in the va race, yet no ads and no super brochure effort.

your guess is as good as mine maybe the super pacs will run ads there just attacking romney (Note: This is delusional since it was posted a day ago. If there are no anti-Romney ads yet, there won't be.)

I'm wondering too....this primary was a two person race.more resources should have been put into it....

(And the LOL "of course" comment of the thread)

I actually have an easier time with getting Obama supporters to vote for Paul in the primary here in Northern VA than I do getting support from the socially conservative in VA.

[Smokin' Joe]

Virginia won't give Paul the Nomination. A Paul win in Virginia might take Romney down a notch and kill some of his momentum. If you want either Newt or Santorum to win, Romney has to be curbed, and a Paul vote in VA is the only way to do that there.

Repeat: A Paul win in Virginia will not give Paul the Nomination. A Romney win will push Mitt right along. (View it as voting against Mitt, an "ABM" vote.)

[SnakeDoctor]

Still don’t think I could pull the lever for Ron Paul. I don’t live in Virginia, so it really doesn’t matter.

SnakeDoc

[Gator113]

I hate this b/s spam.

Vote for the one candidate that you believe in your heart can quickly and intelligently turn his country around.

If you believe that man is Newt, like I do, then give him your support.

Review this video and ask yourself if the sweater salesman could have even come close to dealing with such command.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=PYrCF5jPsVM

** President Newt Gingrich-”Our beloved republic deserves nothing less.”

[Smokin' Joe]

I don't live there, haven't for decades. If I did, though, I'd have to look at the big picture much as I laid it out for you.

If people in Virginia want someone other than Mitt for the nominee, they have to vote against Mitt, and in this instance that means voting for Paul.

It's the only vote which will work to check Mitt's momentum there, and doing so might give Newt or Santorum a better chance overall at the nomination.

[Impy]

Wrong. Great way to hand Tennessee to Romney.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Vote for Newt Gingrich in all races (except in the rigged VA primary).

The GOP-e establishment, along with their chosen nominee, do NOT want Newt getting the bit in his teeth because once he does, they know he’ll take off like a shot.

[taildragger]

The GOP-e establishment, along with their chosen nominee, do NOT want Newt getting the bit in his teeth because once he does, they know he’ll take off like a shot.

Which is leads into why they don't want him.

Then they would have to Govern and make decisions.

The whole dang bunch of them have become the prototypical Bob Michaels go along to get along boot licker of the DNC. But they got their life time medical, pension and TSP not to mention a cushy job on K Street after making 2 or 3 times what they did in the House and Senate.

Both sides of the isle have become the "business" of Government and Programs.

The problem for us is, we want it all downsized and re-engineered and Newt just might be the guy to get that ball rolling...

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Spot on!

[Guenevere]

Bless you for braving the bitter cold to cast your vote!!!!—Good for you!

[Guenevere]

Let's take back our country.....VOTE FOR RICK SANTORUM!!!!!

[Patton@Bastogne]

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====== RICK SANTORUM'S Incredible CONSERVATIVE Voting Record ======

(Source: Free Republic's Psycho-Freep, 2012-03-05)



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 antipersonnel landmines

Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.

Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.

Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical 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




Union Labor

Voted against National Right to Work Act

Voted against Real 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 representative 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 payraise.

Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, 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 to the earnings of their sponsors.

Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol 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.




Government 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 an 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 a allow 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.





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[Eska]

I haven't heard, we live out in the sticks; no road until April, no cell coverage, no local radio/tv; we have dir tv and computer but I'd never believe anything I read in online newspapers from Anch or Fairbnks; they are S.F owned.

All the locals keep talking about Santorum, at least that's what I hear.

[Eska]

Ya, I hear ya but the snow is all melted come April. January usually is tough, so once we get some around freezing weather, I get spoiled and expect winter to be gone. We had a couple weeks of that in February, ha. Something about Alaska, it’s got hold of me; couldn’t live anywheres else.

[Guenevere]

I’ve been making calls for Rick Santorum through the day....My Tennesseans are gracious people....and they like RICK!