Rick Santorum on the issues

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Santorum on public education: Good rhetoric, horrible record

Santorum’s Stated Opposition to Public Schooling Doesn’t Match His Record

While serving in the Senate, Santorum voted to increase federal funding for teacher testing in 2001 and to give the Education Department a $3.1 billion raise in 1996. Perhaps most egregiously, he voted for the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which vastly extended federal control over the education system and now has grown so onerous that the Obama administration is handing out waivers to states that cannot meet its requirements.

 

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Santorum has voted to fund abortion, birth control, & Planned Parenthood

Consistency is not his strong point. Neither is fiscal conservatism.


Santorum's Contradictions: A Record of Forcing Catholics to Pay for Contraception

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum told a Georgia megachurch that President Obama is "trampling on a constitutional right" by forcing Catholic institutions to pay for contraception through healthcare coverage. The GOP presidential candidate added that Obama "is imposing his ideology on a group of people expressing their theology, their moral code." The remarks were delivered February 19 at the Cumming, Georgia, First Redeemer Church.

But Santorum himself has a record of forcing Catholics to pay for other people's contraception through the instrument of taxation, and has recently boasted about it. Santorum told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News February 16: "The bottom line in my position is very clear. I've had a consistent record on this of supporting women's right to have contraception. I've supported funding for it." Santorum went on to note:

I actually have been criticized by — I think it was Governor Romney or maybe it was Congressman Paul's campaign for voting for contraception, that I voted for funding for — I think it was Title X — which I have voted for in the past. That provides for free contraception through organizations, even like Planned Parenthood.​

Santorum Voted to Subsidize Abortion, Planned Parenthood

“The program that he’s talking about is a program called Title X, and it’s a program that is in appropriation bills that funds — allows for funding of, uh, uh, uh — of birth control,” Santorum claimed when he eventually addressed the original question, carefully avoiding any mention of Planned Parenthood’s far more lucrative abortion business or its pro-abortion lobbying. “I am not for federal funding of that, but it’s in a big bill that provides a lot of things. Did I vote for that overall bill? Yes, I did.” He then resumed his attacks on Paul for not supporting enough federal spending.

 

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Santorum: Democrats are about Homosexuality and Sexual Freedom

Rick is like kryptonite to an independent voter.


Santorum: The Democratic Party Is About ‘Homosexuality’

“Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has become. They have become the party of Woodstock. The prey upon our most basic primal lusts, and that’s sex. And the whole abortion culture, it’s not about life. It’s about sexual freedom. That’s what it’s about. Homosexuality. It’s about sexual freedom.”

 

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Santorum: Liberal Christians do not exist

In case there are any Independents remaining who Rick has not alienated...


Rick Santorum Questioned Obama's Faith In 2008, Said There's No Such Thing As A Liberal Christian

When asked if he believed Obama is a "sincere liberal Christian," the former Pennsylvania senator said he didn't believe that sort of ideology exists, and that Obama's church, United Church of Christ in Chicago, had "abandoned Christendom" and used a non-literal interpretation of the Bible.

"I don't think there is such a thing," he said of Obama as a liberal Christian. "To take what is plainly written and say that 'I don't agree with that, therefore I don't have to pay attention to it,' means you're not what you say you are. You're a liberal something, but you're not a Christian."

 

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Here is a funny Santorum ad by the Paul campaign:

http://youtu.be/cgNJBdTaKE8

 

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Boogeymen and ancient superstition are no basis of government for a free society.

 

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Boogeymen and ancient superstition are no basis of government for a free society.

What you did there.

I see it.

 

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Santorum is no fiscal hawk

Santorum is No Fiscal Hawk
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Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIH funding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
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...And on Taxes​

Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child health insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.​

 

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Santorum's record on Title X; extravagant spending & funding Planned Parenthood

The damage from big-spending Santorum on contraception and Planned Parenthood is already done. Title X was not a one-time item and the reckless spending continued throughout Santorum’s establishment political career with multiple pro-abortion, establishment votes and deals.

Title X was more big government spending through appropriations that took place year after year … after year … after year … after year:


1996 - HR 3019: Omnibus Consolidated Recessions and Appropriations Act of 1996
“…$193,349,000 shall be for the program under title X of the 9 Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: N/A
Santorum: Yea

1997 - HR 3610: Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997
“…$198,452,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: N/A
Santorum: Yea

1998 - HR 2264: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998
“…$203,452,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: Nay
Santorum: Yea

2001 - HR 4577: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001
“…$253,932,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: Nay
Santorum: Yea

2002 - HR 3061: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002
“…$265,085,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: Nay
Santorum: Yea

2003 - H.J. Res. 2: Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003
“…$275,138,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: Nay
Santorum: Yea

2004 - HR 2673: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004
“…$280,000,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: Nay
Santorum: Yea

2005 - HR 4818: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005
“…$288,283,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: Nay
Santorum: Yea

2006 - HR 3010: Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006
“…$285,963,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public Health Service Act…” (Bill Text)
Paul: Nay
Santorum: Yea



Note: NPR reports that “…Planned Parenthood affiliates get about a quarter of all Title X dollars.”

You do the math on Santorum’s pro-abortion spending. It’s not pretty.

The Washington Examiner reported in 2011:

“…the height of Santorum's political scheming came in 2004 with his relentless and spirited support of pro-choice liberal Arlen Specter that proved decisive in the 2004 GOP primary against pro-life conservative Pat Toomey. Making it worse, Specter was in line to chair the Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over abortion law.”
(The Washington Examiner, June 8, 2011)

What does Title X fund?

Mary Anne Hackett from Illinois Right to Life:
Last year [2010] Planned Parenthood reported revenue of over $1 billion, with $336 million of that amount coming from your tax dollars, mainly through Federal Medicaid and Title X programs. (Illinois Right to Life)

Abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood continue to receive hundreds of millions of tax dollars every year under Title X, which subsidizes their overhead for promoting abortion as they divert more and more resources towards the killing of the unborn. (Pro Life Alliance)

Title X disburses annually at least $318 million in taxpayer dollars to family planning clinics that provide contraception, which includes abortion-providers such as Planned Parenthood. (Life Site News)

 

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Santorum on Immigration

Santorum’s Record on Immigration​

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Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators.

Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens.

Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.

Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to the earnings of their sponsors.

Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border patrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.

 

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Reality Check: Was Rick Santorum really a big spender while in Washington?

Ben Swann reports:

Reality Check: Was Rick Santorum really a big spender while in Washington?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii46zvXr9FY

 

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"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute," said Santorum

 

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Santorum: Separation Of Church And State 'Makes Me Want To Throw Up'

"I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state are absolute. The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country...to say that people of faith have no role in the public square? You bet that makes me want to throw up."

-- Rick Santorum, 2/26/2012, (source)


Santorum: Separation Of Church And State 'Makes Me Want To Throw Up'

The GOP candidate was responding to comments he made last October. He had said that he "almost threw up" after reading JFK's 1960 speech in which he declared his commitment to the separation of church and state.

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Compassionate Conservative Rick Santorum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iev7TKsXoHo

 

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Santorum forgets that federal government imprisons drug offenders

Asked if he will continue to imprison non-violent drug offenders, Rick says "the Federal Government doesn't do that."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43jq1Jhzyxc

 

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Santorum has no respect for the 10th Amendment

He advocates blanket Federal laws on marriage, drugs, and anything else that goes against his morals.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDdQRc1IHTs

 

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Another hypocritical drug-warrior

Santorum admits that he used to smoke pot. But now he supports unconstitutional laws to imprison people for doing the same thing.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiNEQTdeG8I

 

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Rick Santorum: Fraud, Bigot, Awful Human Being

1. Voted to raise the debt ceiling 5 times. (He did vote against it once.)
2. Voted to create a brand new, unfunded entitlement, Medicare Part D, the largest expansion of entitlement spending since President Lyndon Johnson – creating $16 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities.
3. Voted to create the Department of Homeland Security–another inefficient government bureaucracy, destined to be remembered as the beginning of the end of Americans’ civil liberties.
4. Voted to create, and extend, the Patriot Act, surely the most ironically named piece of legislation ever passed. This ramped up the stripping of rights from American citizens and ultimately ended up setting the stage for Fuhrer Obama to sign the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011, which voids the Bill of Rights and allows for the indefinite detainment without charges or trial of American citizens.
5. Voted for $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
6. Despite considering himself both a conservative and pro life, campaigned heavily for RINO Arlen Specter in 2004, who was admittedly neither of those, against a true conservative (and later Tea Party favorite) Pat Toomey. Toomey was defeated, and Specter soon changed his party affiliation to Democrat. Specter became the filibuster-proof vote on Obamacare, ramming that unconstitutional bill through Congress over the objections of a clear majority of the American people.
7. Voted to allow illegal aliens to receive Social Security benefits, while at the same time voting against hiring 1,000 additional Border Patrol agents.
8. Is the ultimate Washington insider: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named him among the 3 most corrupt Senators in 2005 and 2006 for using his office to financially benefit those who had contributed to his campaign.
9. Within weeks of leaving Congress, became a “stealth lobbyist” representing interests such as hydrofracking and a medical conglomerate that stands accused of defrauding the federal government.
10. Frequently stated that he does not believe a “right to privacy” exists under the Constitution, even within marriage; he has been especially critical of the Supreme Court decision in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which held that the Constitution guaranteed the aforementioned right, and on that basis, overturned a law prohibiting the sale and use of contraceptives. He has described contraception as “a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” In other words, he believes it in government’s place to tell you what you can and cannot do in your bedroom.
11. Is a free-spending warmonger, who voted for the Iraq War and supports the pre-emptive bombing of Iran.
12. Campaigned heartily for anti-gun zealots Christie Todd Whitman and Arlen Specter.