Billion-Dollar Obama Machine Would Cut Santorum to Ribbons

Reaganite Republican ^ | February 16, 2012 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

Cutting-to-the-chase, Rick Santorum is a very weak and uncharismatic candidate, one who was almost completely ignored until all more savory choices where destroyed in Romney/PAC/MSM/negative attacks. Basically, he’s still here because nobody bothered to even look at him, let alone slander. Much like Obama, he's become a 'blank slate' that allows people to see what they want to see... but why delude yourself out of some false sense of necessity?

With his hollow record of accomplishment, zero leadership experience, whining demeanor, and loser’s aura in the wake of getting trounced by 19 pts last time out (as an incumbent!), Obama will simply paint him a nosy church-lady and intolerant kook as he CUTS HIM TO SHREDS in November. 

Since the Left would love for Santorum to be the nominee, you’re not hearing a peep from them- yet.  But the the progs would have a field-day with Ricky, given the chance. Obama himself plans a billion dollar campaign... most of it negative, sure as you're born. 

And as noted by VodkaPundit, Santorum does like to pontificate on almost any topic you care to serve-up, and therein lies another problem: Ramblin' Rick doesn't seem able to stay on-message -or really to even have one: a walking, talking disaster in the presidential election (even worse if he managed to find his way to the Oval Office). 

All I know is this: I didn’t just fight for three years, day-in-and-day-out just to hook up my wagon to a lame nag like this... rather go to a brokered convention and beg Palin to run. 

Never thought I'd miss Bachmann and Perry so much either... WHY did they even pack it in and hand so much to Santorum? Either would have been far more preferable from where I'm standing.

If Newt’s third comeback (pending) doesn’t materialize in time, maybe we can get somebody else to step up in Orlando… but no Santorum, please.

VodkaPundit   SantorumExposed

[Ge0ffrey]

Obama is a 98-pound weakling.

[Segovia]

I agree with you, YOU are absolutely right, the OP is Romney/Gingrich bullshit. Santorum has plenty of record in the Senate, anyone interested can look it up; he was a pretty straight arrow conservative. Why the hell do you think the entire DNC went after his Senate seat with so much money? Something’s rotten in Denmark, and in Free Republic, as well.

[Wyatt's Torch]

The billion dollar 0bama machine would not cut Romney to ribbons?

Agree. Either one is going to get shredded. I never thought I would look back fondly on Bob Dole as a good candidate compared to who's left in the GOP field...

[GeronL]

Well, that is correct...

which candidate will Obama’s billion NOT be used against??

now... why would we possibly nominate THAT candidate?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

We refer to that as “Vetting” the candidate. What you perceive as “threats” and “attacks” on Santorum, are in reality, actual facts, taken from his pathetic record while he was a Senator.

You have kept yourself ignorant by choice. And since you were one of the nastiest of nasty Newt haters, turn about is fair play. Get used to it.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

Just because Romney is bad doesn’t mean we should pick Santorum. Santorum has NO chance of being Obama, and we would likely lose both houses of Congress, too.

This is why Daily Kos Leftists are voting for Santorum. He is meat and we are idiots if we nominate him. Women won’t vote for him, and most independents won’t either once they learn about him.

We need someone else, perhaps someone not currently in the race.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

Santorum has NO chance of beating Obama.

[ex-snook]

"Something’s rotten in Denmark, and in Free Republic, as well."

Maybe the return of the Giuliani-like supporters.

[andy58-in-nh]

Wait till you see what they have planned for Newt. It doesn't matter who the nominee is: the Democrats have a billion-dollar slime machine powered by a servile news media that will repeat the theme of the day every hour on the hour, and won't question any of it. And whatever the Republican says will be misquoted, taken out of context, denied or ridiculed.

Then, how can a Republican ever win? Through character, personal integrity, unshakable faith, and relentless honesty. By not ever talking to the media, but to the public. By being everything Obama is not, and by not being everything he is. By leading and not apologizing. Now if by chance you see this guy or gal somewhere...

[GeronL]

can you find a candidate that won’t be attacked by those billion??

and can you tell us why we would want to nominate that idiot?

[matt1234]

So, Mr. Blog Pimp, who are you whoring?

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[Uncle Slayton]

Let Obama make this wedge and he and the democrats will be exposed as godless fascist hethens that belive it is alright for the people to use birth control. The real American people will vote against Obama once they understand that he wants them to kill babies.

[Segovia]

And you are right about that; Santorum has NO chance of being Obama, he will, however beat the livin’ $hit out of him come November. You say we need someone else——like who? Like Rick Perry, who is GONE, like Herman Cain, who is GONE, like Michelle Bachmann, who is GONE——perhaps you are really just holding out for “Return to Obama”.

I know Rick Santorum, he’s a decent, intelligent, conservative man with some real values. Probably why so many can’t stand him.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

In what fantasy world is Bachmann preferable to Santorum?

You criticize Santorum for having no leadership experience and spouting off, but Bachmann has even less leadership experience and tends to spout off even more. And there is that disturbing cackling laugh of hers which creeped half here potential voters away.

You think Santorum has no chance, but that Palin does? I thought conservatives were supposed to have some level of commonsense. Palin's presidential ambitions were toast years ago. She is smart enough to have realized this, but this fact doesn't seem to have percolated through the rose-colored neurons of most of those on FR.

[chris37]

I certianly hope you’re right.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

[Santorum has plenty of record in the Senate, anyone interested can look it up; he was a pretty straight arrow conservative. ]

UMMmmm.........You had better hope other Santorum supporters don’t look up the Reverend Rick’s actual Senate Record......(But here you go anyway.)

See for yourself.

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
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.

[Maceman]

There seems to be a coordinated carpet-bombing attack on Santorum on FreeRepublic over the past 24 hours. Far too many threads and posts attacking Santorum for it to be happenstance. Who are you guys working for?

I'm not working for anyone, or anything except the return of the American government to its Constitutional limitations. But I think this article is absolutely right.

Personally, I think that Newt is by far the best nominee either party has had in many years, and I absolutely think he is the right man for the job at this critical point in our nation's history.

I'm not at all confident that Santorum can beat Obama, although I wouldn't rule it out. But there is nothing in his experience, demeanor or background that makes me think Santorum can turn this country around, even if he does get elected.

[Linda Frances]

Don’t know who they are working for

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I noticed this yesterday on this and other sites. I think romney has his church out posting everywhere. People are always saying mormons are so nice. I've had some mormons say such nasty things, I thought I was talking to a liberal thug. One person and I was having a theological debate over beliefs and when it appears I asked questions she did not want to answer, she started calling names and saying I should not believe the bible, but John Smith, instead of just debating.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Another idiotic conclusion because it doesn’t matter who runs against Obama. Obama is running against the economy. Whoever runs as the GOP nominee only has to scream about Obama’s track record in trashing the economy. That’s it. So it doesn’t matter a whit if the nominee is not charismatic or has a whiny demeanor or whatever.

Obama vs. the economy. This is what the GOP establishment has missed all along.

Good economy = Obama 2nd term.
Bad economy = Obama one term wonder.
It’s that simple.