New Paul S.C. ad hits Santorum on 'betrayal' [Drudge:RON PAUL SAVAGES SANTORUM AS 'CORRUPT'...]

politico ^ | 1-6-2012 | EMILY SCHULTHEIS

[Salvation]

The proof is on another thread and I almost copied it this morning. I will see if I can find it again.

Yes, it is soros money.

Evidently Paul also gaaffed on the live debate last night by saying something about the democratic party. I didn’t listen so I can’t tell you the exact quote.

[piasa]

Ron Paul and his co-author Barney “Fannie Mae” Frank knew very well who would be on their “Sustainable Defense Task Force.” They lied when they claimed their “experts” would “span the ideological spectrum.”

[Sun]

When Ron Paul “left” the LIBertarian Party, I don’t understand why he didn’t just register in the Dem Party.

[Theodore R.]

Do you know if any PA politician in the past half century has voted for “right-to-work” at the national level? Being against right-to-work in PA is like being for sugar subsidies in LA or for tobacco subsidies in KY. It’s expected.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Do you know if any PA politician in the past half century has voted for “right-to-work” at the national level? Being against right-to-work in PA is like being for sugar subsidies in LA or for tobacco subsidies in KY. It’s expected.

Now this is an interesting point, and of course you are right. BUT BUT BUT: do you cut Mitt slack for things he did that are expected of a Mass governor? Most around here do not. Do you cut Newt slack for things he did as Speaker based on the realities of that job and a Democrat President? Many around here do not. In other words, FR is a universe where folks don't get slack for anything, and to grant Santorum slack for being pro union in PA is to ask for a waiver of the FR "rules" so to speak. To sum it up, if you apply the same leniency to all candidates given the realities of their constituencies, then you have an intellectual argument. If however, you do not grant the above waivers to others, then you have no argument at all. Just sayin.......

[Theodore R.]

Do you know if any PA politician in the past half century has voted for “right-to-work” at the national level? Being against right-to-work in PA is like being for sugar subsidies in LA or for tobacco subsidies in KY. It’s expected.

[Theodore R.]

You make a good point, but Romney went out of his way to be liberal in MA as did George W. Romney in MI, but Santorum has been a consistent conservative for PA standards, too conservative for the voters there in fact. I know he will fare poorly in NH and has little chance in SC too. All this adds to a certain Romney nomination.

[Theodore R.]

You have explained better than I why I too favor Santorum. Unfortunately, he has a formidable obstacle: our little uninformed Republican primary voters.

[C. Edmund Wright]

You make a good point, but Romney went out of his way to be liberal in MA

Well, now we're down to matter of degree. Not sure I agree with that, and I am certainly no Romney supporter by any means. Just interesting that what you said is true but is so often not applied on message boards. To me it shows that Republicans are asking for trouble when thinking about nominating folks from blue states. Hard to be guv of Mass and GOP nominee in the same lifetime. Somewhat true of being a statewide politician in PA also.

[Wallace T.]

Romney and Paul are something of a tag team, as both are opposed to the modern conservative movement. Romney wants to put the moderate, RINO wing into the ascendancy that it had prior to Reagan in 1980 and Gingrich in 1994. Paul represents an amalgam of the groups that William Buckley pronounced as anathema in the 1960s: libertarians, Objectivists, conspiratorialists, isolationists, etc. If successful, the modern conservative movement, in which I would include the Christian Right, will be deposed as the moderates were under Reagan, or even marginalized, as the inhabitants of the “farther shores pf politics” have been for a half-century.

[Sun]

Good, informative post!

And we are already losing our religious liberties, and it will progress, if we don’t vote Obama, and other leftists, OUT OF OFFICE.