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Santorum points to gay marriage fissures in Walker household
The Hill ^ | 7/13/2015 | Ben Kamisar

Posted on 07/13/2015 2:52:22 PM PDT by VinL

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) warned Monday that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s dissonance with his wife on same-sex marriage could cause him to be less “active” in his opposition.

“Spouses matter,” Santorum said in an editorial meeting with The Daily Caller.

“When your spouse is not in-sync with you — particularly on cultural issues, moral issues — [you] tend not to be as active on those issues."

Walker panned last month’s Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage nationwide as a “grave mistake” where “five unelected judges [took] it upon themselves to redefine the institution of marriage.”

But while those views may put them in the majority of the Republican presidential field, which Walker is set to officially join Monday evening, he’s on the outside looking in at the Walker household.

Walker’s wife, Tonette, told The Washington Post that her children are “very passionate” about their support for same-sex marriage and noted that her cousin, to whom she is very close, is a lesbian. While she never specifically said she backed same-sex marriage, she noted that she disagrees with her husband on some issues and called the issue a “a hard one.”

Santorum is currently running towards the rear of the crowded Republican primary, 11th in the ealClearPolitics aggregation of recent polling. That would put him one spot out of the first Republican debate in August, which caps at the top 10.

But the runner-up for the nomination in 2012 believes he should be allowed to participate in the debates no matter what the polls say.

“I call it the Masters exemption,” (snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; benkamisar; election2016; gaykkk; homosexualagenda; libertarians; medicalmarijuana; pennsylvania; ricksantorum; santorum; scottwalker; thehill; walker; walker2016; wisconsin
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Lol. From a guy who has 2 percent support and hasn’t had a job in years.


41 posted on 07/13/2015 3:24:13 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: Catsrus

To support your point, people might want to know or be reminded that large corporations hold several interviews when looking to fill top jobs.

The interview the spouse alone, and together with the job seeker, and these are not token interviews either. Then they watch...and wait.

Point being the big boys sure think the spouse has a very real and direct effect on the prospective employee.


42 posted on 07/13/2015 3:27:43 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: VinL

As I read the article, exactly what I was thinking. Here we go again....Rick Santorum, who doesn’t have a chance and he knows it, starts his carpet bombing campaign.


43 posted on 07/13/2015 3:27:53 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: mylife

yes


44 posted on 07/13/2015 3:29:51 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: onyx

lol


45 posted on 07/13/2015 3:30:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Paulie

Cruz’s wife gets her mug on tv at ever chance. Goodness the hipocracy on this thread is legendary.


46 posted on 07/13/2015 3:30:34 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Just like Tim Pawlenty.


47 posted on 07/13/2015 3:31:40 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: napscoordinator

as much as I like Cruz, I’ve never once seen his wife on any station. I’ve only seen a couple of still photos.

And take santorum out of the picture; doesn’t it concern you that a spouse would have such a drastically different position on such a big issue?


48 posted on 07/13/2015 3:33:48 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: spacejunkie2001

Wow! Aren’t you lucky. Do a you tube and you will see her. She isn’t anything special.


49 posted on 07/13/2015 3:36:31 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

These are issues that need to come up and dealt with before the election. I like Gov. Walker but having his wife come out and say she and their sons are “passionate” for gay marriage is disturbing. I am looking forward to the debates. Praying God gives us discernment in backing the right candidate.


50 posted on 07/13/2015 3:37:55 PM PDT by make no mistake
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To: VinL

Rick, I used to like you. Please stop attacking our best candidates and please bow out of the race for the good of our country which you claim to love.

Thanks.


51 posted on 07/13/2015 3:38:17 PM PDT by Tamzee (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~~~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Catsrus

If he was saying this as an outsider, just as his opinion of one of the candidates, that would be one thing. But this is a loser bottom-dweller trying to climb up a half-percent by slinging oppo dirt.


52 posted on 07/13/2015 3:41:07 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump/Cruz '16)
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To: VinL
Santorum is irrelevant and should drop out.

But he's right.

http://bit.ly/1HrI1po

53 posted on 07/13/2015 3:42:18 PM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: napscoordinator

Is she pro homo sex?


54 posted on 07/13/2015 3:45:03 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: VinL

Santorum is an establishment hack who has no core principals he will not throw under the bus for his political advantage or to suck up to the party bosses. When it came time to stand up for life, he backed pro-abortion Spector rather than pro-life Toomey to please the party bosses..


55 posted on 07/13/2015 3:47:37 PM PDT by tschatski
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To: spacejunkie2001

No but Cruz is.


56 posted on 07/13/2015 3:49:45 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: VinL

Didn’t the Walker family attend a gay wedding?


57 posted on 07/13/2015 3:52:07 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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To: VinL

Hey, Rick, concentrate on the Dims an lay off fellow Republicans


58 posted on 07/13/2015 3:52:26 PM PDT by jch10 (America, destroyed from within.)
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To: spacejunkie2001

You sound liberal. That’s about what is expected from a liberal. Go away. This is pro Walker land today.


60 posted on 07/13/2015 3:57:12 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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