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Santorum - Republicans no longer the party of Goldwater and small government
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Posted on 03/19/2012 4:42:09 AM PDT by Def Conservative

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1 posted on 03/19/2012 4:42:16 AM PDT by Def Conservative
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To: Def Conservative

BTTT

Another one for the email/twitter lists...

Dear Lord, PLEASE help people to WAKE UP. Encourage them to LISTEN to more than what these candidates are saying NOW. Lord, we have the internet. Please... let them use it to learn something!

May God guide our course.
Tatt


2 posted on 03/19/2012 4:51:22 AM PDT by thesearethetimes... ("Courage, is fear that has said its prayers." Dorothy Bernard)
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To: Def Conservative
Wow. Just wow. So Santorum believes social programs are socialism when administered solely by the federal government, but when the federal government divvies out the cash to local governments, families and individuals, redistribution is good, not socialism and the ultimate goal of the Republican Party.

Starting at 3:20, I've paraphrased, since I'm doing this mobile on a bus. mostly quoted (removed the "uhs" and "you knows").

Republicans, to our credit, have sort of morphed away from the Goldwater idea, you know, that the government needs to be smaller, needs to do less, it needs to be doing nothing except what it's core functions are, to a party that says we need to restructure the way we do programs to create the kind of incentives, help and programs that gives that authority to solve these problems to folks closer to these people, the family or individual themselves.

I don't think Mittens is even that bad.

3 posted on 03/19/2012 5:08:48 AM PDT by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: Def Conservative

Barry Goldwater was, on social issues, a libertarian and a Constitutionalist. He was not a social conservative. He did not think the federal government should impose its will on the states or the people thereof, which was taken as code for endorsing segregation, which it wasn’t. (Goldwater was himself instrumental in ending discrimination in Arizona, through his business and, when he served in the state government, in education.)


4 posted on 03/19/2012 5:24:18 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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This shouldn’t shock anyone that has been paying attention to Santorum.


5 posted on 03/19/2012 5:25:53 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: Def Conservative

Man, he can say that again.


6 posted on 03/19/2012 5:28:40 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Durus

Saint Rick is nauseating.


7 posted on 03/19/2012 5:29:16 AM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Durus; onedoug; GlockThe Vote

Just watched Sen Santorum’s interview by Charlie Rose on CBS Morning Show. Open collar checkered shirt under a suit-coat, extremely haltingly answered questions, stuttered almost as much as Stuttering Mitt, anybody that WAS paying attention would not have had a good impression of our likely VP nominee.


8 posted on 03/19/2012 5:37:11 AM PDT by ngat
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To: Def Conservative

True enough, probably. Republican is the new Democrat, while Democrat is the new Communist.


9 posted on 03/19/2012 5:44:55 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (knowledge puffeth; information deludeth.)
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To: Def Conservative

Senator, Rick, the GOP was never the party of Goldwater, smaller government etc, unless they are dragged into it kicking and screaming. Look at what Boehner has done after the Tea Party made him Speaker. He’s either fabulously incompetent or on the other side (or of course both). Explain his “deals” starting in the lame duck session through today.


10 posted on 03/19/2012 5:49:45 AM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (.Are they stupid, malicious or evil?)
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To: Def Conservative

Clearly displaying the justification of corrupt use of power by someone who has been in DC too long.
You cannot legislate morals but you can legislate morally. Santorum’s time to do the right thing has passed. Stand down, Rick. You’re embarrasing yourself and conservatives.


11 posted on 03/19/2012 5:50:32 AM PDT by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: Durus

The position wasn’t what surprised me. It was how candid and flippant he was about his opinion on those who believe in freedom.


12 posted on 03/19/2012 5:54:55 AM PDT by cizinec ("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
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To: Def Conservative

Rose colored glasses, ear plugs, and Kool aid, please.


13 posted on 03/19/2012 5:55:37 AM PDT by gitmogrunt (Newt 2012)
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To: Def Conservative

Bump for later.


14 posted on 03/19/2012 6:15:54 AM PDT by Amntn
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To: cizinec

programs that gives that authority to solve these problems to folks closer to these people, the family or individual themselves....

I thought that the individual had the authority already and that it was they who could “give authority” to the institutions. But, what do I know?


15 posted on 03/19/2012 6:39:24 AM PDT by Anima Mundi
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To: Def Conservative
"Sincerity is everything. Once you learn to fake that, the rest is easy."


16 posted on 03/19/2012 6:52:55 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If Repubs paid as much attention to Rush as the Dem's do, we wouldn't be in this mess)
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To: Def Conservative
I once heard author Martin Gross refer to the Democrats as the Anti-American Party and the Republicans as The Stupid Party. Right on both counts.

Now we're going to nominate either a liberal from MA or a big government statist from PA. Either way (or with Obama) we're done.

17 posted on 03/19/2012 6:56:16 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne
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To: Def Conservative

The difference between the packaging and the contents with Santorum today is at least as great as it was with the Kenyan in 2008. Clearly, Santorum is no conservative.


18 posted on 03/19/2012 7:06:15 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (No wonder this administration favors abortion; everything they have done is an abortion)
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To: thesearethetimes...
That is why their is so much Voters remorse with Mittens and Santorum.

Which if either win the Nominations will lead to four more years of Obama.

The only one that had the knowledge and intestinal fortitude was Newt. But Alas he was not Pretty enough or Saintly enough.

19 posted on 03/19/2012 7:09:56 AM PDT by Bailee
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To: Def Conservative
The killer quote is right at the beginning is "Republicans, I think to our credit, you know have sort of morphed away from the Goldwater idea ...". From the intro I couldn't tell if he was a doctor diagnosing the cancer in the party or as one of the carcinogens. He looks like someone passing out plutonium injections to cause the big government cancer. Of the four left my order is Newt, Paul and after that just give up and pray we survive to 2016.
20 posted on 03/19/2012 7:27:17 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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