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Posted on 02/18/2012 7:27:44 AM PST by no dems
An Open Letter to Rick Santorum:
Dear Senator:
As a strong, common-sense Conservative, I have a favor to ask of you. Could you please consider not answering, off the cuff, every question thrown at you? Would you please engage your brain before putting your mouth in gear? I’m beginning to see now, how, as an incumbent, you lost your Senate seat by 18 pecentage points to the brain-dead Bob Casey. Women vote Senator; and, they vote in large numbers. Now, please consider this common-sense observation from a Conservative male:
Women have been in combat for years now. Women have used birth control for decades now. Some of your comments are so unbelievably naive. When you said that contraception was “bad for America”, I thought: “Hey Rick, if we didn’t have contraception, we’d have millions more bastard kids to support through the Welfare system than we have now.” People are going to have sex, Rick. Just because you believe it is primarily for procreation, some of us like a little intimacy with our spouse once in awhile without having 19 kids, like the Duggar family that has endorsed you.
Sorry, Rick, but, sometimes, you embarrass some of us who want to support you. And the comment, re: birth control, made by your biggest donor, Foster Friess, was over the top. He reminds me of Clayton Williams, the GOP candidate for Governor, who had the election in the bag against Ma Richards, until he made his stupid comment about women and rape.
Please Rick, you and Foster need to slow down, think, and then speak. Maybe a little more elucidation, before publication?
I wish you well.
You are either a jackass or a boy who has no idea what a man is.
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I never said I wanted women to be warriors. I would never want my wife in combat. The point is, Rick needs to respond in a more intelligent way that so friggin’ naively. He’s the one who sounds like an immature “boy”. And, per your analysis, I guess I’m a jackass because I am certainly no “boy”. You’d never want to compare your manhood endowment with mine Bucko; it would be a sad, depressing day for you.
First of all, women have not been in front line combat units. There is a difference between women serving in a combat zone, or even flying planes and women kicking down a door and going hand to hand with a 200 pound Jihadist waiting on the other side. To the best of my knowledge, not a single one of the candidates, including the messiah is in favor of putting women in infantry platoons assigned to offensive combat operations. Santorum has also said that he is not opposed to Birth Control, but did point out, as have many doctors, that some forms of birth control are not healthy for women. Hence the warning labels. If you want to criticize Santorum, at least get the quotes and context right and don’t just read the propaganda that the left-wing media puts out and run with it.
Okay, you are right, I was subconsciously inferring from your profile information where you talk about all the political work and writing you do. However if your contention now is that the people who you have been doing this work for in the past have found your efforts worthless and without merit then I guess can't passingly conject that you are someone who has made a significant portion of their living writing and consulting.
Your protest, however, is non sequitur to my point.
Funny how when a planned parenthood exec. made the same asprin joke, nobody thought it was a big deal and now when someone affiliated with Santorum makes the same joke, it makes rick unelectable.
Gee, it’s not like Santorum attended a racist church for 20 years or something.
Thanks. Rick read my Post and called me. He thanked me and said he would try to do better.
1. Santorum is not opposed to Birth control. When we should be applauding him for standing up for the right of the Catholic church not to have to pay for birth control and abortion pills both of which violate the church’s deeply held religious beliefs, we are instead joining the left in falsely accusing santorum of being in favor of banning birth control.
Uh huh. And did you read what my Post said Clayton Williams” “cornball joke” did for us in Texas?
"During a commencement speech at a California University, Ronald Reagan [said] that The best form of birth control is an aspirin grasped firmly between the knees."
IS THAT TRUE?!!
Oh my God how could we have been fooled by such a horrible man! The liberals were right ... woe is us.. Kick Reagan out of the Party! We can't have this awful man in the Party -- delete him from American history.. we have met the enemy and he is Ronald Reagan . . . .
LOL. See Ed, My attempt at snarky humor and no dems responses were both d@mn funny. You’re wrong again.
At first I thought this could be from FReeper The Wizard writing another “you are my angel” piece.
You are completely correct. Several of us have been trying to sound the same warning about Santorum.
Problem is, Rick won’t be able to keep his mouth shut on these topics because he WANTS to talk about them. Santorum is almost exclusively known as a social values warrior. That’s his thing, without being associated with the socon issues he has little to nothing left. He was an okay conservative, but is not especially known for any particular fiscal conservative fight. He is not known as a big budget cutter, a big entitlement reformer, etc, etc. His entire shtick is social issues - and in a general election the things he’d be baited into talking about are giant losers.
It’s one thing to stand against abortion and gay marriage. It’s an area many/most conservatives of all stripes agree on and the public is fairly split on it. Those are issues we can advance and stand to win with - though the economy should be the #1 central issue of the campaign. The problem with Santorum is he is going to end up droning on about how he personally doesn’t believe in condoms, birth control pills, porn, gambling, women not having huge families, etc. This is NOT an environment where the public is going to gravitate to a politician doubling as a priest. The birth control argument is settled. People want it. Period. Even talking about personal opposition to it hurts our candidate. Porn is not going away. Geeze, shut up about it. If people want to view smut, let em. Women are already in combat, and the problem with the issue in the first place is that Santorum opposition to opening the doors to further female roles in the armed forces will inevitably bait him into yammering on about general “women in the workplace” issues. Rick can’t help himself, he won’t be disciplined on these topics because they are the very things he really WANTS to talk about.
If we nominate Santorum we are going to end up having an election about rubbers, birth control and porn instead of a referendum on how badly Hussein has governed this nation where the economy is concerned. We go from an election about massive debt, failed stimulus programs, etc, to a fight over culture issues that have long since been decided. We’d lose with Rick, and we’d lose in a big way.
You’re right in that I didn’t get my def from Wikipedia. If that’s your source for philosophy, I don’t wonder at your comments. Evidence? You mean a remark from your cousin-pastor? Evidence of what—a sense of humor?
You go right on keepin’ count, tho.
I applaud him for standing up for right of Catholic Church, and I wish he would just make it more about liberty for all from government and not just the church, but to his credit, he has at least mentioned that.
When he goes off into what sex is for, however, is when he is outside of the proper role of government and just opens the entire party up for ridicule.
That's bad enough, but there is worse to come:
Here is a quote from Santorum's book that should scare anyone who wants the government out of his/her life (like me).
"This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we (the government) shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture."
I don't want Santorum with his big government boots to come storming in my life and in my bedroom and make regulations on how I have to live my own life. I DO want to be left alone and only hear (briefly) about the government, if I (shortly) switch on the TV. The idea that such a man with such ideas, may become president, gives me the creeps.
Good heavens! You’ve finally said something I agree with. Three somethings, all in the same post.
Never mind. Cherry picking is useless exercise as is making assumptions, both of which you are doing.
Servant of the Cross has it right, and that’s the only salient point. This is precisely why the folks I work for do NOT find my efforts worthless.
Yes, he is. Santorum is personally opposed to birth control. He has been clear that he would not try to ban, block or otherwise make it unavailable - but he personally believes contraception is a bad thing and has never been afraid to say so. In fact, he has been quite vocal about this issue. He is on record saying that as President he would be unique in that he would talk about why contraception is bad for society. This is not even close to where the American public is. Every time he opens his trap to talk about the evils of rubbers and birth control, Obama will gain heaps of extra votes from Americans that can't figure out why Rick is preaching at them on a topic the public long ago settled. Contraception is here to stay. Any candidate that can't keep his mouth shut about it, should not be our nominee.
And all this time I thought you were a gal.
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