Posted on 09/25/2015 9:47:22 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum vowed Friday to pursue immigration policies that protect American workers, while warning voters that some of his GOP rivals have embraced a much softer approach to the issue. Mr. Santorum, the runner-up in the 2012 Republican nomination battle, urged the crowd that converged on a hotel in Washington, D.C., for the annual Values Voter Summit to recognize that a couple of the speakers before him Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have previously supported amnesty for illegal immigrants. You have a lot of people that come up here and talk about how tough they are, but they actually support amnesty. The speaker just before me running for president, he will tell you how tough he is, Mr. Santorum said, alluding to Mr. Cruz. He offered an amendment to allow people to stay in this country indefinitely. To me, that is amnesty. Mr. Santorum has struggled to gain a foothold in national polling and is running near the back of the pack. With that as a backdrop, the 57-year-old has staked a lot in the immigration debate. He also has touted the conservative record he compiled in Congress, including authoring legislation aimed at changing the leadership of the Iranian government. Mr. Santorum served in the House from 1991 to 1995 and in the Senate from 1995 to 2007 when he lost his re-election bid to Democrat Bob Casey Jr. by a 59 percent to 41 percent margin.
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Well, here are my latest average GOP presidential race poll results I have been keeping since the 1st of September. They continue to speak for themselves:
Carson and Fiorina's steep fall have been mostly taken advantage of by Cruz and Trump. They are clearly the two leaders, with Trump well out in front.
Rubio continues to make some ground, and even Bush climber a bit...but he is still distant, and has not begun to get even close to his numbers of five and six months ago.
I continue to believe that they should take the top four for the rest of the debates. Anyone below 6 or 7 percent should appear on the earlier, second team debates.
No! No! He's supporting AMNESIA for illegal immigreants. As in:
Hey, Pedro, I was going to leave my mud hut in Sonora, and cross the border to some other place, but now I can't remember where it was! ¿Donde es?
I think you would have a hard time finding someone better on illegal immigration than Santorum.
Not so much on anything else but he has it on this one.
I am mixed on Trump - real happy about some things and very concerned about some things....but I do have a big problem of a lack of respect with a certain type of Trump supporter. The type that refuses to admit there are problems. If the shoe fits.....
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LOL. This has to be one of the most hypocritical things I have ever seen you post.
I always love it when someone from 1200 miles away from the Mexican border thinks they can school people from Texas on this issue. Really pathetic.
Santorum still has very little talent to accomplish any of it anyway.
Some of those five sound convoluted, complicated or contradictory. Would you consider my somewhat simpler possible policy for adoption by any candidate who might carte to adopt it>
#6: Catapult! [or, even better, a Trebuchet!]
OK, I’ll consider it.... care to explain how to implement it and how much manpower it will cost?
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