Posted on 05/27/2015 8:29:13 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Rick Santorum, the former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, will announce today that he will seek the GOP nomination for president in 2016, ABC News has learned. ABC News' Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos will sit down for an exclusive interview with Santorum this afternoon.
Santorum, 57, is set to reveal his presidential intentions at an event today in Cabot, Pa., near his childhood home. It will be his second run for the White House, almost four years after he won primaries and caucuses in 11 states and finished second to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican nomination.
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I will give Santorum some credit on making opposition to amnesty a major issue of his 2008 campaign, but as I recall that was a flip-flop on the issue designed to win votes.
We have better candidates in the GOP field, Santorum is yesterday's news.
Ego. Period.
ok santorum is bad we agree.
What the heck does "perfect" have to do with it? Did I indicate you thought he was "perfect"? Listen, I won't insult ANYBODY with the accusation of looking for perfection because I understand that there are zero "purists" here, but that there are many, many, many who accuse others of being "purists." Only an idiot seeks perfection. So you are indirectly accusing me of calling you an idiot? If so, you are WRONG.
Given the choice between Romney and Santorum in 2012, who would YOU rather have gotten the nomination? Would Romney have been any better as president? Hardly.
Neither one, dude. That's like asking, "Which would YOU rather eat, sour milk or rancid butter?"
Cruz is the ONLY candidate who a) is "conservative" in that he wants to use government "conservatively," sparingly, in a limited way, and b) who has taken it on OFFENSE. All the others are playing defense, reacing to Democrats, playing off the same Democrat playbook, just a different approach. Cruz is advocating for a DIFFERENT playbook.
I support Cruz and he is the ONLY one in the dog-and-pony circus of Republicans who reflects the kind of "conservative" Republicanism my dear wise old Dad advocated and taught to me.
On this I can definitely agree.
Rick, why don’t you go hang out with your new transgender buddies? I am sure Bruce Jenner will take time out for you..because your previous supporters such as myself won’t...
You’re right we have way too many candidates in the race now. This is going to end up splitting the vote and we’ll end up with a candidate what won’t have a chance at winning the general election.
We need to take a few great candidates and promote the crap out of them. Right now it’s just too hard to keep track of them all.
While Rick Santorum Whines About Rules, Carly Fiorina Steps Up To GOP Debate Challenge
Santorum's advocacy of using government to engage in such things as charity does compromise the foundation of morality.
Only individuals are able to engage in good or bad moral behavior. Government is ONLY a force that is used arbitrarily to punish or reward what its current power-holders regard as morally bad or good. Government has zip role in morality -- only free individuals do. The Founders KNEW THIS.
Take homosexuality. Homosexuality is a sin, nothing more, nothing less -- a SIN. What is PURE EVIL is a government that forces you and yours to go along with open homosexuality in your kids' schools, in your state's adoption agencies, in the military, in your businesses, in your communities and neighborhoods.
The ONLY way government can provide a foundation for morality, is to stay out of the way and allow moral people to live morally. It cannot force people to live immorally -- however, it CAN and DOES force people to subsidize immorality.
He does stink more, doesn't he? What used to just FRY me was his constant use of "family values." What's the dif between "family values" and "Christian values" and if they are the same, why not just say "Christian values"? In 2011-12, I asked many Santorum supporters that question, and not one even attempted to answer.
Santorum's use of that deceitful crooked phrase was red flag enough for me to perceive his duplicity. It alienated people who either have no families or who don't dote on their families. It was Santorum's chicken-sh*t way of saying "not divorced like that other guy, Gingrich!"
Yep -- Santorum smells worse now than he did four years ago. His vanity and ego and pride are all that drive him, it appears to me.
NONE of them come CLOSE to Ted Cruz, and what he has to offer and where he stands in regards to the “establishment”, RINOs and doing what he says he’s going to do, IMO. ... He is the ANTI-PROGRESSIVE. How can people not see this?
Cruz is the ONLY Republican on the roster who gets it; the others are ALL still playing defense and by the Democrat playbook.
Hey Rick, the bus already left!
Here's what you miss: at one time, homosexual behavior was PROPERLY criminalized by government universally, everywhere. Yes, homosexuality is a sin, and it should also be a CRIME. Where we ceased to make it a crime was where the Gaystapo drew their strength.
Pro-life, Establishment RINO.
Dead to me.
Geez, another retread.
Ted Cruz will take the social conservatives and the Evangelicals, by the way, the true conservatives.
Watch this video, it and the transcript are more damning than almost anything that I have ever seen in politics.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/64281-1
Arlen Specter announces for the White House, with endorsee, Rick Santorum at his side.
At Senator Arlen Specter’s official presidential campaign announcement in March 1995, then-Senator Rick Santorum showed his public support and encouragement of Specter by sitting directly next to him as Specter denounced the GOP’s war on abortion. It was at this event that Specter proclaimed his total opposition to social conservatism and declared he is in fact running to make the GOP pro-choice.
Santorum is seen nodding and applauding at Specter’s side:
3:46 mark: “In 1996, I intend to win the other house — the White House — with ten commitments to America… Especially 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…”
17:05 mark: “neither this nation nor this party can afford a republican candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right...
What we NEED is about 10 more candidates running on the Republican ticket. Yea, that’s it...
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