Rick Santorum on the issues

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The entire premise of self-government is negated if you disallow the power of the people to strip themselves of the liberty they themselves hold.

If you refuse the right of the people to decide, you have violated your foremost liberty of self-government. There is no other way around it. The alternative is no government and an "Every man for himself" reality. Which while it might sound good on the surface is less tenable than it seems. It is impossible to create true self-government without giving people the means to enslave themselves. The best we can hope for is a system that makes this incredibly hard to do and the morality and intelligence of the people not to do it. ?

This would make more sense if America was a Democracy.

In a Constitutional Republic, all decisions made by Senators must be weighed with the Constitution first.

"Because the people/lobbyists told me to vote for tyranny" is no legitimate defense for breaking the constitution. He took an oath.

I didn't say it wasn't. And if the people who would become his constituents decide that they agree or disagree with that record, they can vote accordingly. That's how the process works.

You are not a constituent of Ron Paul's either. It never stopped you from feverishly criticizing him. Now is your chance to give Santorum the same thoughtful analysis.

Is that as far as you're willing to take it with Santorum? "He's not my representative"?

 

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Santorum: I didn't say black people, I said BLAH people *LOL*

Rick Santorum dances around the words out of his own mouth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3104J6UX7Vw

This is the original speech that caused him to make headlines.

"I don't want to make black (blah?) people's lives better..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgLMghcPDVs

 

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Insane is accurate.




Well, I can't say that I agree with all of his votes. But he's not my representative. If his votes reflect the will of his constituents at the time he was Senator, there's not much you have to complain about, I'm afraid. That is the democratic process in action.

Isn't it true to say that a congressman's first responsibility is to the constitution and not voting for what his constituents want? Assume the constituents from his district want something completely unconstitutional, lets say for the sake of clear example, they want to abolish the second amendment. In many districts this would be a very real scenario. Is the congressman now obligated to vote against the second amendment?

 

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Santorum wants to impose 'Judeo-Christian Sharia'



Santorum wants to impos'Judeo-Christian Sharia'

There are two Rick Santorums: The first one I might not agree with, but the second one truly scares me.

"Santorum One" pushes for less government regulation for corporations and shrinking the federal government. You may or may not agree with these positions, but they are both mainstream conservative fare.

Then there's "Santorum Two." This Santorum wants to impose conservative Christian law upon America. Am I being hyperbolic or overly dramatic with this statement? I wish I were, but I'm not.

Plainly put, Rick Santorum wants to convert our current legal system into one that requires our laws to be in agreement with religious law, not unlike what the Taliban want to do in Afghanistan.

 

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Santorum-endorsed Arlen Specter gave Democrats the key 60th vote on Obamacare

How disastrous was Santorum’s endorsement of Specter? Can you say ‘Obamacare’?

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Santorum wanted individuals to be forced to buy health insurance (1994)

Another Republican who was for federal health care mandates.



Candidates Diverge On Health Care Remedies - May 2, 1994

Santorum and Watkins would require individuals to buy health insurance rather than forcing employers to pay for employee benefits. Both oppose abortion services and support limits on malpractice awards. Santorum says non-economic damages should not exceed $250,000, adjusted annually for inflation, and lawyers' contingency fees should be capped at 25 percent.

The Republicans are split, however, on the issues of raising "sin" taxes to pay for expanded coverage and on allowing a national board to set spending limits.

Watkins would allow a tax increase on cigarettes, alcohol and firearms; Santorum would not. Also, Watkins supports a national cap on spending, provided it doesn't force rationing. Santorum says no to board-set limits.

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Santorum Wants Debate On Health Care - May 28, 1994

For several years, Santorum has promoted a Republican alternative. It would require workers to buy their own health insurance and allow monthly tax-free contributions into "Medisave" accounts to pay for routine medical servi

 

[NYFelon]

I would classify Paul as more of a neoconfederate than a modern libertarian, for what its worth. That conversation invariably leads to civil rights/slavery, though.

Wouldn't that make Paul a neocon?

 

[buckstopshere]

I just find it comical that someone who is so pro-life could also be so pro-war! He is so ready to drop a bomb on Iran he can barely contain himself.

 

[Boiled Owl]

Another Republican who was for federal health care mandates.



Candidates Diverge On Health Care Remedies - May 2, 1994Santorum Wants Debate On Health Care - May 28, 1994

After Santorum won Iowa, I thought I'd do some reading up on him. Let's just say he's not what I'm looking for. Thanks OP for posting. And since Santorum was the "man of the minute" last week. Indeed timely.

 

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Rick Santorum on SOPA: "There are limits to freedom on the Internet"

Santorum spends an inordinate amount of time telling Americans how we are not free.


"Like any freedom there has to be regulation." -- Rick Santorum

"The Internet has been a powerful force for bad." -- Rick Santorum

"There are limits to freedom on the Internet." -- Rick Santorum

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Not sure how he feels about Veterans, either:
How Rick Santorum Ripped Off American Veterans | Mother Jones

Enter Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.). At the behest of the Roman Catholic Church, and unbeknownst to the Home, Santorum slipped an amendment into the 1999 National Defense Authorization Act handcuffing how the home could cash in on those 49 acres. The amendment forced the Home to sell—and not lease—the land to its next-door neighbor, the Catholic University of America.

 

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[NYFelon]

GLORIOUS

 

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Rick Santorum gave speech calling current conflicts a "World War" (2006)

I am disturbed anytime a warmonger wants to turn these conflicts into an outright "World War."

These are Rick Santorum's words:

The Great Test of This Generation - 7/20/2006, National Press Club

... Now most of you would expect me to launch into my oft written speeches about culture, the family, and children.

Not today. No today the biggest issue facing our children’s future is a war. Not, as so many describe it, the War on Terror. Not the war in Iraq or Afghanistan. But the world war, which at its heart is just like the previous three global struggles.

In those wars we fought against European tyrants and their allies, from the Kaiser to Hitler to Lenin, Stalin, and their heirs. We fought them because we knew that our survival was at stake. The tyrants would never stop attacking until they had defeated us, or we had defeated them.

Our only choices – choices imposed on us, not chosen by us – were either winning or losing, because there was no way out.

We are in the same kind of conflict today. Some say we are fighting a War on Terror. That is like saying World War II was a war on blitzkrieg. Terror like blitzkrieg is a tactic used by our enemy, not the enemy itself.

In World War II we fought Naziism and Japanese imperialism. Today, we are fighting against Islamic fascists. They attacked us on September 11th because we are the greatest obstacle to their openly declared mission of subjecting the entire world to their fanatical rule.

I believe that the threat of Islamic fascism is just as menacing as the threat from Nazism and Soviet Communism. Now, as then, we face fanatics who will stop at nothing to dominate us. Now, as then, there is no way out; we will either win or lose.

 

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Santorum endorsed Mitt Romney for President (2008)

Photo: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43274491/displaymode/1247?beginSlide=1#Pancake Pantry Feb. 4, 2008 in Nashville, TN.

 

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Rick Santorum plans to give "mountains of aid" to Cuba



Jan 23, 2012 GOP NBC Debate



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Rick Santorum's own promotional flyer is full of socialist nonsense (2006)

Wow. Rick Santorum wrote his own "hit-piece" in 2006.

He comes up with 50 points that are almost entirely associated with growing the government and increasing spending. He is quite proud of his socialist record.


50 Things You May Not Know About Rick Santorum

1) Brags about perpetual increases to Social Security recipients.
2) Brags about Federal spending increase on the environment.
3) Brags about Medicare entitlement expansion.
4) Brags about foreign aid.
6) Brags about Federal spending increase on the environment.
9) Brags about funding stem-cell research.
11) Brags about Federal spending increase on education.
12) Brags about more spending on unemployment.
13) Brags about Federal subsidies for college for poor people.
14) Brags about Medicare entitlement expansion. (Medicare Part D)
17) Brags about Federal internet restrictions.
19) Brags about Federal restrictions on pet industry.
21) Brags about Federal farm subsidies.
22) Brags about Federal price controls on oil.
23) Brags about Federal minimum wage increases.
24) Brags about Federal spending on home utility bills.
25) Brags about Federal health insurance subsidies.
29) Brags about Federal spending increase for health care.
31) Brags about Federal spending increase for education.
32) Brags about Federal spending increase for education. (Headstart)
33) Brags about Federal spending increase for fire companies?
35) Brags about Federal spending increase for education.
38) Brags about Federal restrictions on State justice systems.
39) Brags about Federal involvement in hiring teachers.
40) Brags about Federal spending increase for health care.
43) Brags about Federal spending increase for health care.
44) Brags about preventing Congress from cutting food stamps.
45) Brags about expanding Medicare entitlements.
46) Brags about Federal spending increase for Pennsylvania's highways.
47) Brags about preventing closure of defense sites.
48) Brags about a spending increase on the military.
49) Brags about Federal spending increase for education.
50) Brags about Federal spending increase for farm subsidies.

 

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Santorum's comments on the Crusades (2011)

“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom.”

-- Rick Santorum, 2/22/2011


Santorum: Left hates 'Christendom'

Noted Historian Rick Santorum Retcons The Crusades

There is a narrow sense in which one could make this argument with a straight face: The Crusades began in response to requests for help by the Christian Byzantine emperor Alexios I in defending against incursions into Anatolia by Muslim Seljuk Turks. A century of fighting such advancement along the borders of Christian Europe certainly created the conditions for Pope Urban II to agree. But that’s about as far as it goes.

Over the course of two centuries and nine crusades, Catholic forces launched campaigns not only to “defend Christendom,” but also for purely economic and political reasons. Crusaders not only fought Muslims in Palestine, but “pagan Slavs, pagan Balts, Jews, Russian and Greek Orthodox Christians, Mongols, Cathars, Hussites, Waldensians, Old Prussians, and political enemies of the various popes.” Even leaving aside the depredations within Europe (not to mention without) that Crusaders committed from the very start, by the time they were petering out, they’d long since stopped being primarily about defending Christendom in any but the purely rhetorical sense.

 

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Ayatollah Santorum: Freedom ends at web poker

Rick is a real freedom fighter. All he does is think of "vices" that he'd like to ban using the might of the Federal Government.

He flew out to Nevada this week and campaigned against gambling. Well played sir.

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