Posted on 01/30/2012 11:34:12 AM PST by starczar66
"It's no mystery. I'd vote for Rick Santorum," David Limbaugh tweeted to his brother Rush Limbaugh on Friday...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Don’t do him (the Big-shot) any favors by repeating that garbage. It only furthers their cause.
Moderator: Should the Public Accommodations section of the 1964 Civil right Bill be open for revision?
Sanctimonium: No. I am not a Libertarian, and I fight very strongly against Libertarian influences within the Republican Party and the Conservative movement. I don’t think the Libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution is all about. I don’t think they have it right as to how our history, what our history is, and we are not a group of people that believes in no government. I’ve got some real concerns about this movement within the Republican Party, and the Tea Party movement, to sort of refashion Conservatism, and I will vocally and publicly oppose it, and do my best to correct the record.
There are folks who rail against earmarks and I’m not someone, as you know, if you follow my career, who believes earmarks are necessarily a bad thing…" he goes on to defend his support of earmarks... yada yada yada
You wrote one sentence calling me a liar, and a second sentence incompletely paraphrasing what he said in the video, and then went on to list his merits as a candidate. Maybe you should have listened to the entire video, and not assumed most people wouldn't bother to link to the video, and you could safely call me a liar in order to support Sanctimonium. Either way, please apologize to me on this forum for calling me a liar. And please do so promptly.
Watch any debate performance and he's just naturally less likable than any of the candidates. His whiny petulance on stage would compare terrible with Obama. He is uninspiring and lacks vision.
His record is big government "conservatism." He'll have to defend his own prior support for gov't requiring health coverage when he ran for Senate in 1994.
As an also-ran, Santorum's not had any real vetting in the primary season. He is a target rich environment and essentially untouched territory.
There is a time and a place for Rick... not now... Please.
We have someone who can teach us about ourselves...
I’m watching a movie as we speak about the Enola Gay...
There is a full generation or more who know nothing about the Enola Gay or Lindbergh for that matter.
Please vote for a man to restore us as a country. Rick can be a big part of that restoration. We need Indians...
The sooner he drops out for the cause the better for him as well. If he stays in after Florida..then he’ll be less thatn a footnote in history.
Please vote for Newt tomorrow, My Friend...
transcript from the video:
Moderator: Should the Public Accommodations section of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill be open for revision?
Sanctimonium: No. I am not a Libertarian, and I fight very strongly against Libertarian influences within the Republican Party and the Conservative movement. I don’t think the Libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution is all about. I don’t think they have it right as to how our history, what our history is, and we are not a group of people that believes in no government. I’ve got some real concerns about this movement within the Republican Party, and the Tea Party movement, to sort of refashion Conservatism, and I will vocally and publicly oppose it, and do my best to correct the record.
There are folks who rail against earmarks and I’m not someone, as you know, if you follow my career, who believes earmarks are necessarily a bad thing…" he goes on to defend his support of earmarks... yada yada yada ***
You wrote one sentence calling me a liar, and a second sentence incompletely paraphrasing what he said in the video, and then went on to list his merits as a candidate. Maybe you should have listened to the entire video, and not assumed most people wouldn't bother to link to the video, and you could safely call me a liar in order to support Sanctimonium. Either way, please apologize to me on this forum for calling me a liar. And please do so promptly.
In other words... "I'm for Romney but I need to protect my credibility with readers."
Nice smear job. Hope you’re proud of yourself.
They will then whine when Romney is nominated that it was the Newt voters that at fault for Romney's nomination's pro-abortion candidate.
Santorum doesn't have a chance to win this nomination so voting for him is like voting for a 3rd Party candidate.
I wasn’t smearing anybody, or trying to, my focus was on what the gop plans to do to all conservative candidates on down the road... including Santorum. They’ve about emptied their load on Newt, and they are expecting Santorum to be next... and they will dispense with him, probably easier than they did Newt - unless newt manages to hang on - Newt and his campaign are all still holding on... but we are tired and have gotten a glimmer of what the romney machine has to carry on... The ad buys alone here were 15mil - Newt 3mil. do you have any idea what amount of work you have to do grassroots to counter and maybe cover a gap like that... it required superhuman efforts...
don’t call it a smear job - because I say twice I didn’t know if it was true, but my point is it doesn’t matter if it is true, because they will do whatever they have to to undo Santorum the way they are trying with Newt..
To: FresnoRobert
I can’t prove it... that’s why twice I said, it doesn’t matter if it’s true... I don’t know if he was trying to discourage me or worry me, or what... his point was, you might as well get on the romney bandwagon now, because once they finish Newt off, and they plan to, they will start on Santorum, and once he’s finished, if need be, they’ll deal with Paul... IOW, don’t waste time and energy fighting for any kind of conservative or any Tea Party candidate... the deal is done. And it did discourage me, and worry me, but that is the battlefield, for everybody, not just Newt, don’t think Santorum will escape it... or Paul for that matter.
Well, that was my point - to a lot of people the truth does matter, but not to those guys. I am really tired and I must not be expressing myself very well. That’s what some so called gop bigshot told me - you or I wouldn’t say it if it wasn’t true... but he just might have said it even if it wasn’t true, like I said, to discourage me or others. We are tired in Florida, and so easily discouraged, but still fighting. But I think the mindset of the romney gop evidenced in his remarks to me is spot on: Whatever works...
There are 2 candidates in this race who has consistently opposed the federal government forcing individuals at the point of a gun to buy a product that they don’t want to buy. His basis for that opposition is the rights and freedoms guranteed by the constitution and granted by God.
Neither is named Newt.
Yes and there is one who voted against a man’s right to work-and his name isn’t Newt either.
Don’t worry, I’m not in FL. But if I were, I’d vote for Rick. It’s too early to worry. I am predicting newt does win, and I’d love to have Santorum come in 2nd. Good guys first. Maybe I am dreaming.
Santorum’s youthful appearance will help with the youth vote, and while I don’t vote on appearance, some people do.
Yes you were, and you did, and it was a pretty disgusting piece of work. Your first post said all about you that I care to know. Please don't ever post to me again.
He can’t prove it...it’s a damnable lie. Notice he doesn’t even have the intelligence to claim that one of the campaigns was going to make that smear but rather his ‘bigwig’ acquaintances in FL’s GOP. Pathetic.
That is a silly argument, because Newt is pro-life, so I doubt the Santorum support comes from single-issue votes. And given prior pro-life endorsements, I don’t think most pro-lifers are voting single-issue based on the 3 possible winners of the nomination at this point.
Judges will be a big issue, but again, I don’t think pro-lifers are thinking that Santorum or Gingrich would be that different on judges. By the record, Santorum has approved pro-choice judges, Newt hasn’t (because he was never in that position).
On the other hand, while I don’t know Santorum’s endorsement history, I know Newt endorsed at least one pro-abortion candidate, Dede Scozzafosa, over a pro-life candidate, simply because the pro-abortion candidate was the “republican”.
Every candidate on our side would be an improvement over the current occupant on the pro-life issue.
Social conservatives are voting for him because they feel he is stronger on the issue then Newt.
And there is one candidate who will end Obamacare when he is elected, and his name isn’t Santorum, since he won’t be elected.
Man, you have a real problem with being truthful and balanced, that is very apparent... my post said, sanctimonium has some real concerns about the Tea Party... which is exactly what the video says, he has C-O-N-C-E-R-N-S about the libertarian influences in the Tea Party and will speak out about those vocally and publicly, is how I think he worded it.
How does saying “he has some concerns about the Tea Party” translate in your bizarro world to I was saying he was anti-Tea Party. I was talking about the one answer in the video, not out of context, one question, one answer completely portrayed...
and in that answer, which was presented totally, he said he had some concerns about the libertarian elements in the Tea Party that are trying to refashion conservatism.. I don’t have those concerns, but then I don’t portray myself as the Perfect Principled Conservative, either... and he has other big governments tendencies, which have been legitimately pointed out, analyzed and criticized by people far wiser than me - and his negative libertarian comments are relevant to that..
this is two times you have called me a liar. I am getting really tired of it. Let’s get this down to a level where even you can understand: show me one place where I used the phrase “Anti-Tea Party”. I posted the link, which invited readers to go directly and see for themselves...
I support Newt with my heart and soul, have worked heart and soul for him, and will continue, and also “have some concerns” about certain stuff about him... and would never deny that... but the term Anti-Newt could never be applied to me... geez, get some gestalt why don’t you...
Maybe you could worry about the plank in your own eye, before you worry about me... You have attacked me now twice as being a liar, when I have shown you, out in the open that I am not, and you still need to apologize to me... I don’t expect that, though, as I have noticed most supporters of Sanctimonium are just as brittle, judgmental, hypocritical and holier-than-thou as he is...
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