Santorum kills Impeachment proceeding against Bill Clinton

The Freedomist ^ | 1-20-2012 | Collier Brothers

[TitansAFC]

Rick Santorum tells South Carolina voters that he is the only conservative purist in the field, attacking Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for being unreliable conservatives. Well, THE FREEDOMIST has already exposed Rick Santorum for his betrayal of a core conservative value, the right to work, the protection against Union thuggery. He is FOR right to work but NEVER votes for right to work legislation. He also endorsed Arlen Specter in his 1996 Presidential run, in 2004 against true conservative Pat Toomey, AND even endorsed Mitt Romney in his 2008 Presidential run. Well, worse than even his right to vote betrayal and his endorsements of RINOS and future democrats was the work that he did as a Senator in the Clinton years, when he and Trent Lott undermined the Senate efforts to bring Bill Clinton to trial after the House impeached him for lying under oath.

That’s right, this pure conservative, who attacks like a tiny lap dog (see Thursday’s debate for a classic example of what an attack lap dog looks like when he nips at the heels of others), was instrumental, along with Trent Lott, in stopping the Clinton Impeachmment proceeedings, in rescuing Bill Clinton from facing a fair trial of his peers. This action should not be surprising to the people who remember how aggressively Rick Santorum worked to torpedo a true conservative, Pat Toomey, in 2004, from removing a future democrat and former RINO, Arlen Specter.

Here is all the proof you need to see that Santorum, in fact, killled the impeachment proceedings against Bill Clinton, just another reflection of how Santorum is the face of Conservative Purity in Name Only (CPINO- which also sounds like the name of an exotic small wolf dop that yips and yips and yips at everyon’e ankles):....

[Randy Larsen]

I knew there was a good reason to dislike that smarmy Santorum! I hate Lott even more!

[alstewartfan]

Rick is a man who as President would help us all sleep well. It’s not an accident that he has been right on government mandates, TARP, the Arab “spring” and climate fear-mongering. How do you suppose that this “phony” has gotten it right time and again? He’s the best we’ve got, and I feel fortunate to have the privilege to vote for him. Bob

[C. Edmund Wright]

WHOOSH - right over your head.

[Randy Larsen]

Your post deserves a thread of it’s own!

Thanks for your hard work..

[alstewartfan]

Why in the world would Beck, Levin and (probably) Rush vote for such a “fiend”? Does everyone here think that those folks are stupid, and ignorant of the inside baseball in Washington over the past 20 years?

[PapaBear3625]

People going to Santorum seem to be doing so because they are comparing an unvetted Santorum to a fully vetted Gingrich, which is unfair. Let’s see how they like Santorum after they hear about all his betrayals of conservatism as well as his corruption (like his “leadership PAC” which only spent 18% of its money on candidates, with the money mostly going to everyday expenses like Starbucks and Wal Mart).

Bears repeating. Say what you want about Newt, he's been hated by Democrats for so long that everything that they have ever been able to dig up about him is there for us to see. It's far less likely that there will be big surprises about Newt between now and November.

[Just mythoughts]

Why in the world would Beck, Levin and (probably) Rush vote for such a “fiend”? Does everyone here think that those folks are stupid, and ignorant of the inside baseball in Washington over the past 20 years?

As Rush always says 'follow the money'.... these mouth pieces yaked their way into conservative bank accounts and then they wine and dine with the liberal rich... I just love to hear them itch about how much taxes they pay.... It is no different than expecting the 'school teacher' to accept their salary and three months off, than it is to know in advance that the more you make the more taxes you pay.

I do not listen to Levin so I have no comment on him, but Rush has become fat and lazy, and has outsourced his research to lacks that keyword search to who in the Jon Stewart media utters his name. Beck, well he was always a step away from a melt down, I figure he has gone out to raise some 'white horses'.

[trisham]

Rick is a man who as President would help us all sleep well. It’s not an accident that he has been right on government mandates, TARP, the Arab “spring” and climate fear-mongering. How do you suppose that this “phony” has gotten it right time and again? He’s the best we’ve got, and I feel fortunate to have the privilege to vote for him. Bob

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I wouldn't sleep as well with Rick as president as I would with Newt as president. May I also say that I never called Rick a phony, I was being sarcastic about your views regarding Newt, which seem to me to be needlessly, personally insulting.

If you consider Rick to be the one candidate that you wish to support, fine.

[trisham]

I’m sorry, I thought you were steve8714. I’ll have to get back to you, if I can.

[Windflier]

Thanks for your hard work.

Well, the real research was done by Erick Erickson of Red State.com, but I'll admit that I spent about an hour formatting it to post here.

Here's the first part of Erick's article (Santorum's voting record follows):

I’m rather tired of all the people who don’t like Romney trying to claim Rick Santorum is not a big government conservative, or not a pro-life statist. I would support him before I would support Romney too, but I have no intention of giving up ideological and intellectual consistency in the name of beating Mitt Romney.

Rick Santorum is a pro-life statist. He is. You will have to deal with it. He is a big government conservative. Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state. In fact, he has been complicit in the expansion of the welfare state.

Suddenly we’re all forgetting what a big government conservatism is. The term was coined by Fred Barnes in defense of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservative” agenda. Bush intended to use domestic social welfare policy for conservative ends. In the process, he expanded the welfare state to do so through No Child Left Behind, the prescription drug benefit, etc. Rick Santorum was a willing participant in this.

Santorum is a conservative. He is. But his conservative is largely defined by his social positions and the ends to which government would be deployed. But he has chosen as the means to those conservative ends bigger government. We see big government conservatives most clearly when they deviate from the tireless efforts of people like Mike Pence and Jim DeMint and the others who were willing to oppose George W. Bush’s expansion of the welfare state. Rick Santorum was not among them.

I and some friends, none of us Romney fans, have set about exploring Santorum’s record since Wednesday morning. Here now is a non-exhaustive list of what we have found. It does not even include his support for No Child Left Behind, Medicare Part D, debt ceiling increases, funding the bridge to nowhere, refusing to redirect earmark allocations to disaster relief along the Gulf Coast post Katrina, etc.

This is not the record of a man committed to scaling back the welfare state or the nanny state. Had he been up for re-election in 2010 instead of 2006, this is the record of a man who the tea party movement would have primaried. The only real justification for supporting him now is he is not Mitt Romney, but I still believe we can do better.

What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like

[PowerPro]

Wow friend. So...

Newt missed Virginia only and chose not to participate in Missouri’s beauty contest as no delegates are awarded.

Santorum missed both Virginia and Indiana ... failure to get enough signatures. (Actually I don’t think he even tried to get on Virginia’s)

And you’re trying to make the case that Santorum has it more together?

[Windflier]

...are you seriously trying to tell people here that they need to do research for you because otherwise, Rick santorum is a liberal?

Neat trick, there. Who taught you that - a Democrat?

I've vetted Santorum as much as I'm going to. I'm convinced that he's a big government statist, and what I've seen of his record backs that up.

Now, if you've got some countervailing information about his record that would convince me otherwise, go ahead and post it - otherwise, take the whining and sarcasm elsewhere.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Rick tried to get on Virginia, but couldn’t get enough signatures even if all he could submit were accepted. So he didn’t bother submitting the. Newt and Perry submitted, but had too many rejected.

[Windflier]

Yep sucks to be you, a paid political hack that will disappear soon enough.

Now, that really IS a hoot. LOL

The real problem here is, you can't defend Santorum's dismal voting record. Actually, you might be able to, but so far, not one of you whiners has posted a single bit of verifiable data to support your contention that he's a real conservative.

I'm just the messenger. I've got nothing to personally gain by posting this man's record. It just irks me that so many of my fellow conservatives are acting like Obots - falling for some politician's campaign rhetoric, while not bothering to actually vet his record.

Even more-so when they flame me for having the gall to do so.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Truth be told, and I remember that era very well and knew people in positions of power, it was the CLINTON WHITE HOUSE which got moral, skirt-chasing dirt on some considerably high-level American politicians, and threatened to use it against THEM, and got THEM to backpeddle on the impeachment proceedings and removing that man from office. Simple blackmail or at least provocative threats of blackmail (over whiskey and cigars at the White House). I think Rick Santorum is not the target here. You may well be very surprised who it IS/WAS.

[Windflier]

Thanks- I promise that I am completely sober and unimpaired!

;-)

[PowerPro]

Right. That was it. I knew it was something like that.

Thanks for the refresher!

[aruanan]

Had yopu read the Rogan comments that he referenced, you would have known that he was speaking of the aborted trial.

A lot of people confuse the two. Impeachment is by the House. The trial and possible conviction is by the Senate. It's inaccurate to refer to the Senate action as being an "impeachment proceeding." It's a post-impeachment proceeding, not begun until the conclusion of a successful impeachment.

[Williams]

I’m not whining and why do you believe I have any desire to convince you of anything?

Rick Santorum is a conservative if you’ve decided something else good for you.

[Randy Larsen]

I came to FR because of the Lewinsky scandal, and remember quite well how Clinton got away with perjury.

It really pisses me off to read how Santorum backed Lott, one of my most hated people on earth.