Rush Limbaugh said on 17 FEB 2012:
“The Republican establishment, for the most part, if they could, would simply excommunicate every social conservative Republican they could find. They’d kick ‘em out of the party, and they would gag ‘em. They’d find a way to make sure they couldn’t speak. That’s how much they hate ‘em, detest ‘em, are embarrassed by them. And it’s based on one thing, primarily. It’s based on the fact that these establishment Republicans and others who don’t like the social conservatives are primarily, singularly worried about what people are going to think of them for being in the same party with the social conservatives. It really is no more complicated than that. I mean there are other things. They think social conservatives lose elections. They think social conservatives make the whole Republican Party a big target, like what’s going on now, this contraception business.”
Rush Limbaugh said on 17 FEB 2012:
“The Republican establishment, for the most part, if they could, would simply excommunicate every social conservative Republican they could find. They’d kick ‘em out of the party, and they would gag ‘em”
I see Rush has seen the light.
Frankly, I think Santorum and Romney both are men of deep faith who practice their faith in the family lives.
But in politics they play the game of business as usual.
I was reading the blog of Alaska GOP Senate candidate Mike Miller back in 2004. Miller was opposing Pro-Abortion Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary back then. He had Sarah Palin among his supporters as well.
Miller was as Pro-Life as Rick Santorum, but who was Santorum (then No. 3 GOP man in the Senate) trying to help.
Rick Santorum flew all the way to Alaska to meet with leaders of the Alaska Right To Life to prevent them from endorsing the Pro-Life candidate (Miller) over the Pro-Abortion one (Murkowski).
In 2010, Santorum spoke about the race between GOP candidate Joe Miller of the Tea Party and RINO Murkowski as a write-in. In his Fox News commentary, Santorum said a Murkowski win as OK, because she would “vote with the Republicans.”
Santorum is more loyal to the GOP Establishment and the “Republican” label than to the Tea Party and conservative principles.
His speech making is not consistent with actions he took while in office.
That’s only part of it. The R establishment who hate social conservatives also hate them (us) because they are NOT socially conservative! They are pro-fag, wishy washy on abortion, radical sex ed K-12 doesn’t bother ‘em, and so on. They are not actually conservative at all. It’s not merely that they think Real Conservatives lose, because the very opposite is true. They WANT Real Conservatives to lose, and the way to get them to lose is to not let them RUN!