Posted on 01/04/2012 2:55:31 PM PST by Fred
Rick Santorum's powerful finish in the Iowa caucus is bringing fresh attention to his tenure in Congress, including ethics questions that dogged him about a preferred mortgage he received from a bank run by campaign donors, and federal funds that went to a real estate developer who backed his charity.
One of the top donors to Santorum's charity was also the beneficiary of an $8 million Santorum-sponsored federal earmark, according to published reports. Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor who filed an ethics complaint against Santorum in 2006 on behalf of a watchdog group, said her organization's website received a tidal wave of visitors in the past 24 hours, and in an interview she said she believes people will discover that the GOP presidential contender is "hardly the moral paragon he purports to be."
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Fred, you're sounding like a Log Cabin Republican.
Yeh, and Obama doesn’t have ethics questions hanging over his wretched head. Out, out, damned Obama, go Rick.
Does anyone remember how Obummer purchased his house in Chicago??
There are only three candidates that have a realistic chance of winning and you have been on the warpath against the two most conservative of those candidates.
Reality is going to have to sink in sooner or later -- that Santorum or Newt is a far better option than Romney. Anyone thinking otherwise is undermining the conservative movement.
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