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Santorum: "I Was Basically Pro-Choice All My Life, Until I Ran for Congress" (1995)
Philadelphia Magazine ^ | December 1995 | Eric Konigsberg

Posted on 03/17/2012 11:01:02 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

IN THE SUMMER OF 1989, Rick Santorum and a fellow associate at the Pittsburgh law firm of Kirkpatrick and Lockhart left work to drive to Three Rivers Stadium for the firm's annual softball game. Sitting behind the wheel, Santorum popped in a tape, and on came the reedy voice of a man lecturing as if to a classroom.

“Listen,” Santorum said. “Newt Gingrich.”

“Who the hell is Newt Gingrich?” the co-worker asked.

Santorum explained that Gingrich was a congressman from Georgia, and that he was the guy to listen to if you were considering a future in politics. “At the time,” says the co-worker, “I had no idea that was something Rick was interested in.” As it turned out, Santorum was already telling people he was running for Congress in the upcoming election. The tape was something he had ordered from GOPAC, Gingrich's political action committee, full of do-it-yourself campaign tips for aspiring candidates.

In recent years, of course, Gingrich's tutelage of Santorum has taken on a much more direct nature. Last September, Santorum, at 37 a Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, managed the Senate floor debate as it passed its welfare bill, all the while working closely with Gingrich, now speaker of the House of Representatives and the country's most powerful Republican. Santorum, who prior to his election to the Senate last year served two terms in the House with Gingrich, is in fact known on Capitol Hill as Gingrich's protégé and his point man in the Senate. The two meet weekly for early-morning swims at the House gym.

Much of Santorum's record, thus far, has been a series of tantrums. More than a dozen times in his first few months in the Senate, Santorum took to the floor to trash Bill Clinton for not drafting a balanced-budget proposal...

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


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 0percentnaralrating; abortion; congress; gingrich; newt; pennsylvania; prochoice; prolife; santorum
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1 posted on 03/17/2012 11:01:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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More than a dozen times in his first few months in the Senate, Santorum took to the floor to trash Bill Clinton for not drafting a balanced-budget proposal

So, in his first years, he was already fighting the spending when he could. Nice to know.

2 posted on 03/17/2012 11:04:05 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; ansel12; RitaOK

ansel12 found his campaign ads.


3 posted on 03/17/2012 11:05:00 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Ingtar

Just like Wrong Paul: Talk, talk, talk and no results, unlike Speaker Gingrich...


4 posted on 03/17/2012 11:08:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; STARWISE

But of course, he’s been Catholic all his life.


5 posted on 03/17/2012 11:08:10 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Ingtar

Looks like Newt thought highly of young Rick. Good to know.


6 posted on 03/17/2012 11:09:40 PM PDT by NavVet ("You Lie!")
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To: onyx

Hasn’t the Catholic Church been anti-abortion since the Apostle Peter was in charge?


7 posted on 03/17/2012 11:10:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“a series of tantrums”

That’s where I stopped reading. Whatever follows is garbage and lies, guaranteed.


8 posted on 03/17/2012 11:10:34 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rick Santorum: "I Was Basically Pro-Choice All My Life, Until I Ran for Congress"

facepalm Pictures, Images and Photos

9 posted on 03/17/2012 11:12:04 PM PDT by GraceG
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Can you people back this up past "Philly Dot Com"? I am curious why you kids are hell bent to destroy Rick without any evidence? Looks like you kids are on the wrong side of things.

GO RICK!!!

10 posted on 03/17/2012 11:12:40 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t know about abortions in those days, but the Church has been pro-life all of my life and I’m a little older than Santorum.


11 posted on 03/17/2012 11:14:18 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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[ Just like Wrong Paul: Talk, talk, talk and no results, unlike Speaker Gingrich... ]

1996 PROVED Newt got results, Romney got Romney Care, Paul didn’t get shit done, and Santorum got a few dribs and dabs here and there done....

Newt headed the 1996 conservative revolution in the middle of hostile times/territory, got shafted by moderates in his party and was eventually exonerated it is time for his comeback as POTUS and herald in the Conservative revolution of 2012.


12 posted on 03/17/2012 11:17:38 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Lazlo in PA

“Kids?” What are you, 90? It’s not “Philly.com” it’s Philadelphia Magazine, which has been around since 1967.


13 posted on 03/17/2012 11:19:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: caww

caww, so you don’t miss this 7 page article.


14 posted on 03/17/2012 11:20:58 PM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can we trust who he would put on the Supreme Court?


15 posted on 03/17/2012 11:22:54 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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Does anyone believe that a man that openly opposes contraception in Presidential race isn't sincere on social issues?

This story is 17 years old. People change in 17 years.

16 posted on 03/17/2012 11:23:31 PM PDT by Kazan (Mitt Romney: The greater of two evils)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Philly .com is a sh#t mag brother. I live here.


17 posted on 03/17/2012 11:23:33 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: onyx

Thanks...going there now.


18 posted on 03/17/2012 11:24:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Actions speak louder than allegations of words that might have been spoken 20 years ago.

Senator Santorum's voting record and legislative history back up his statements. He voted in favor of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, in favor of the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, in favor of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban in 1995, 1997, and 2000, and against resolutions supporting Roe vs Wade. As well as voting in favor of this legislation, Senator Santorum co-sponsored almost all of them.

Source

19 posted on 03/17/2012 11:26:14 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NhqN0KcWAE


20 posted on 03/17/2012 11:28:41 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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