I wouldn't trust him to be an ice cream man.
Support FR, defeat the rinos.
Posted on 01/09/2012 11:49:39 PM PST by Sun
I really don’t understand the need to smear people in this election cycle. A blog over at RedState (not on front page) has the headline “Santorum supports SOPA” and then has the video below as the body with this little quote to mislead people:
“My general feeling is that we have a free market and a free market that works; but, like any freedom–there has to be regulation….”
Let me point this out before you even watch the video that he says this in the video regarding SOPA:
I can’t say that, with respect to that bill, that I’m familiar enough with it that I can say that I have an opinion one way or the other on it.
It’s clear he’s saying that he doesn’t know enough about that bill to put his support behind it, therefore he doesn’t support the bill. OK? It’s not that hard to understand.
That being said, the video below is really more of a general thought of his on the need for responsible regulations on the internet to protect people. And I think he makes a good case for his general position
fyi
But, it's just liberty. Nothing important enough to be discussed in the campaign.
I’m against SOPA, too, but Red State is misleading, or downright lying to help their candidate Perry.
I do the research for you, and you don’t even read it.
What is SOPA?
“That being said, the video below is really more of a general thought of his on the need for responsible regulations on the internet to protect people. And I think he makes a good case for his general position
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Oh, thanks. I really need “protection”.
SOPA or not, that attitude is not comforting.
What is SOPA? Eine Zwie Sopa ?
Vas is dis ting SOPA ?. I wish these posters would if they intend to use an acronymn to spell it out . Leastwise it’s in caps tank you
I just ignored these threads as I didn’t know what it was either - until just now when your post made me look on google.
Stop Online Piracy Act. (Okay - I just looked at the titles, so I STILL don’t know what it is about really.)
“Oh, thanks. I really need “protection”.”
I really have no idea what this Act is all about. But it would seem to me that the numerous laws already in place would take care of a lot of things associated with the internet. Some guy hacking into your online Bank Account would seem to be covered under theft. Stalking, underage or other illegal pornography, etc. would seem to be covered under existing laws.
I don’t agree that just because it is on the internet “anything goes”. But I’m also not sure that we need a bunch of new laws to regulate it.
And if they DO come up with a bunch of new laws, I hope they at least wait until I am able to help my new friend Mr. Akim Bualah from Nigeria get his estate in order.
Thanks it some heavy stuff maybe I also have to look it up butI was hoping weas my post would make you giggle
I don’t know why they beat on Santorum. He and Perry are both big-govt. guys in the Dubya Bush model.
It’s all about sealing things for Newt.
Really getting tired of all the bashing on Santorum by the Newtbots.
Seen it when Cain was in, all the Newtbots panicked when he might actually win the thing, so they piled on and smeared him. Same with Santorum.
Can’t have a conservative win you see.
(((((PING)))))
Yes, Santorum has made it that clear he supports SOPA-like regulations. It’s his attitude that’s discomforting.
I like you, Ben; I really do. But on this issue you’re full of crap.
What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-government-conservative-looks-like/
Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)
Friday, January 6th at 12:13PM EST
SANTORUM’S VOTING RECORD
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
Nominations (note the vote for Sonia Sotomayor)
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
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 to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
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 healh 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.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
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.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
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 NIHnding 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 increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
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.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
I just heard Rush criticizing Newt for fighting like a Dem, not that I necessarily agree with Rush. I love Santorum, but Newt and Perry are OK, too.
But anyway, here’s what Red State won’t tell you:
“Full-spectrum conservative: While perhaps best-known as a social conservative, Santorum has bona fides in all areas of conservative philosophy — economics, foreign policy, etc. Put simply, he’s versatile. And in a field that will likely have no other senators and correspondingly limited foreign policy experience, Santorum can point to his eight years on the Senate Armed Services committee as proof that he will be prepared to handle an uncertain situation in the Middle East from day one. While other candidates may have tax increases in their past as governor or have not always been hard-line on social issues, it will be tough to paint Santorum as insufficiently conservative in any facet of his record. And he can point to specific evidence of his conservatism no matter what the issue du jour is.
* The fighter: Put simply, almost nobody is more willing to engage in a political fight than Santorum. He’s already mixing things up in the GOP primary, hitting Mitt Romney for the health care bill that Romney signed as governor of Massachusetts and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels for his social issues “truce.”. And in a day where the Republican base will be looking for the most anti-Obama candidate out there, Santorum is trying to position himself as that guy. Santorum rarely minces words and generally isn’t afraid of being painted as too conservative, and that means a lot in a primary where the major candidates will have at least one eye trained on the general”
AND
“Santorum has consistently supported broad-based tax cuts and opposed tax increases either by sponsoring key legislation or by casting votes on relevant bills. Some high profile votes include:
•Voted NO on the Clinton tax hike in 1993
•Voted YES on the capital gains tax cut in 1997
•Voted NO on a cigarette tax hike in 1998
•Voted YES on repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax in 1999
•Voted YES on the 2001 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to repeal the Death Tax in 2002
•Voted YES to the 2003 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to extend the Bush tax cuts in 2006”
excerpt http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=902
I cannot help but notice that it was one of those typically formularic responses that ALWAYS reminds us that stuff may need to be regulated.
Look, I love regulation as much as the next fellow, but unless I wrote it myself I SIMPLY DO NOT TRUST IT.
BTW, I have written NUMEROUS regulations. When you stand in line at the post office one of my rules affects you in some way. Really comprehensive stuff in fact. But I go both ways on this stuff. I took a "handbook" with something like 75,000 words and trimmed it down to 750 words (and a recommend for a couple of pictures). That didn't endear me to the regulatory process fan base, but that's an idea.
I know what the politicians are doing when they look down their noses at the rest of us and go "tut tut, that may need regulation". They are SNEERING AT US and telling us we are stupid.
So, is that a reason to vote for someone else? Not really, but somebody who knows Santorum ought to get over there to him and tell him THERE'S NO PUBLIC DEMAND FOR THOSE REGULATIONS, and yes, by golly, we know all about regulation. We want a bunch of them eliminated!!!
Until Santorum's knee jerk response is "no new rules without justification" don't trust him.
Santorum probably won’t be able to carry the state of Pennsylvania. He is a light weight and should have more experience, such as being governor of Pennsylvania for a term and managing it like a “full-spectrum”, true Conservative. Then I would consider voting for him.
As for Rush Limbaugh, he used to talk about how beneficial illegal aliens were to our economy. What a pant load! I listen to him very rarely or not at all.
The candidate we must have right now is someone who has been fully vetted with no surprises waiting in the wings. That means either Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich. Both are fighters, neither will tolerate BS or lies, and both are capable of political strategic and tactical thinking.
Sarah Palin has made it clear that she won’t be running in this election cycle.
In this last debate, Newt Gingrich took the political arguments ‘to the mat’, both with the moderators and the big liberal, Romney. He led the way, and it was quite clear, that others followed.
Newt calls it like he sees it, just like Winston Churchill, and both men were labeled madmen who took political stances not wholely popular with their contemporaries. But both men, Churchill and Gingrich, showed leadership, determination and the courage to speak truth to events. That is what I want and believe this nation needs now.
As for Gov. Perry, Texans seem to like him, but the Texas way of politics to power isn’t what we need now. Perry practises crony captialism, the old pay-for-play as governor.
I want to change the way Washington works. The only one who has said he will do that is Newt.
Note: there is a reason Romney has so much elitist and establishment support - he won’t change a thing about how Washington, D.C., goes about its business.
Today Obama is/has been trying to kill the coal industry in PA, so I strongly feel Obama will lose to most of the GOP candidates.
While Santorum is my favorite, Newt and Perry are fine, too, so I won’t get into the conservative bashing game. Otherwise, we will end up with Romney, or even Obama.
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