Posted on 02/24/2012 5:57:11 AM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
The wife of presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday that his rise in the polls is due to God working in mysterious ways.
"I personally think this is God's will. I think He has us on a path, and I do think there's a lot more happening than what we're seeing," Karen Santorum told Glenn Beck as she and her husband sat for an interview on his Web-based show, GBTV. "Personally I mean I think Rick's a great guy, and he's really smart and everything. But I think a lot more is happening than what we can actually see."
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That’ll keep the votes rolling in.
—must have worked in a really mysterious way in Santorum’s last senatorial election-—
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Karen Santorum’s response that her husband's candidacy was “God's will” came in response to Mr Beck's question; “So Karen; What would be the scariest thing you could say that would frighten the most voters?”
Next thing will see is Benny Hinn endorsing him.
Just because it may be God’s Will that Santorum is surging does not necessarily mean that it is God’s Will Santorum wins the nomination.
One can be obedient in running and still not win.
Santorum is staking everything on social issues and folks trying to feed their kids and put gas in their tanks are not, and won’t be listening.
Remember, when he starts tanking that it works both ways. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
That'll have the nancies running for the tall grass.
Good point. If my memory serves me correctly, after Pat Robertson’s foray into Presidential politics, he remarked that God had told him to run, but that He didn’t tell him that he would win.
Pat came in second or third in the NH primary, I think.
I'm listening, and I heard his "team player" comment loud and clear.
We need leaders in DC, not followers. This "team concept" is why we have a $16 Trillion deficit.
In my household, we spell it "TEAm".
That's certainly true, and I'm sure Mrs. Santorum would agree. As someone said, "God doesn't require us to be successful; He only requires us to be obedient." Or something like that.
I think that very significant issues are being raised by Mr. Santorum's current high national profile, and that these issues will not disappear even if he is not the nominee.
Many so called conservatives, like on this thread, run around screaming too. That G word embarrasses them, and to them, that G word is a sure loser. So they continue to lambast the users of the G word.
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Please tell us what has ever happened that wasn't God's will....and how you would know the difference.
Many so called conservatives, like on this thread, run around screaming too. That G word embarrasses them, and to them, that G word is a sure loser. So they continue to lambast the users of the G word.
Read my post again, this time with a /s after the first sentence.
“I think that very significant issues are being raised by Mr. Santorum’s current high national profile, and that these issues will not disappear even if he is not the nominee.”
thank you
Everything is God’s will, or it wouldn’t happen.
“Personally I mean I think Rick’s a great guy, and he’s really smart and everything...”
You could open a deli with a few more posts like that.
OK...we get it. You don't like Rick. I'm guessing however, that if your candidate gets the nomination, you'll be fully expecting all of Rick's current supporters become "team players."
Speaking for myself, yes, I'm completely for Rick at this point. If Rick drops out and/or Newt gets the nomination, I'll abandon my first choice and become a "team player," too.
For all the criticism Rick gets for "speaking in the abstract," and not having any solid plans, some people sure like to whine when he speaks to the harsh reality of how things work.
Including the Holocaust and the Japanese Tsunami?
Yes, that’s what I believe.
Damn straight. He's like the eventual winners on "Survivor", that just kind of hang around until the end, while the strongest players beat up each other.
The only thing he's got going for him is that he's not Mitt Romney.
That's not enough for me.
To “evoke” the will of God is to cite it; meaning you know what God's will is. That is frighteningly presumptuous when speaking of any candidate in any political race!!!
Perhaps you meant to “invoke” the will of God; meaning to ask for God's blessing. That's fine and I have no problem w/that.
It does appear from Karen Santorum’s quoted comments that she believes she is “evoking” the will of God. If that was her intent; that is scarey.
Please tell us, what has ever happened that was not God’s will....then tell us how you can tell the difference.
Thing is, it makes Santorum sound like he's running on a mandate from God. That's not going to play well to the part of the electorate out there that's struggling to make ends meet in this dodgy economy. Is it God's will also that they take it up the pipe, economically speaking? Why is God smiling on Santorum and dumping on them?
Makes them sound a bit kooky.
Love God with all your heart, etc., but be smart about it, too.
I don’t believe anything has ever happened that wasn’t His will, do you?
Please tell us if you’ve ever read Voltaire.
Very true. As Governor Perry said when he dropped out of the race before the SC primary, sometimes God's purpose is not to have you win, but to have you grow.
And I think you are reading too much into her comments.
And I think you are reading too much into her comments.
Perhaps; I truly cannot know what is in the mind of Karen Santorum or of God; so any attempt at such is purely speculative. I tend to err on the side of caution; a function of having learned from some of my poorer decisions in life when I was younger and more impulsive. (smile)
At any rate, I won't hold Karen's statement against Rick and will still vote for him if he gets the nomination.
Just finished watching the interview on GBTV. Worth finding if it is out there.
That comment's a few beers short of your handle. How about giving me a reason to "like" Santorum?
If someone has a link to the video or audio that would be very helpful. Often the written word can be misleading as it leaves out much of the emotion, body language and other types of subtle emphasis; which can often alter the impression one gets from the actual video or audio.
If you want to discuss Voltaire, Leibniz and the philosophy of optimism then start a thread.
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I agree...that was my point.
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Oh please...You're the one that opened with the snide remark about Santorum being a "team player." I suggested that you'd be all for people being team players if your candidate became the nominee. I suspect at that point, you'd be equally critical of people who weren't being team players.
Didn't you get the memo from the Newt supporters?
“Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times."
THAT is what makes people nervous when people start speaking of their electoral success as the will of God, not that they doubt that things unfold as God wills them to, but that the person in question might think a little much of themselves as being an instrument of God's will.
You have issued an invitation to hurt your feelings and challenge your faith, and you offer me no incentive to do so.
It is an article of faith to say that everything that happens is God’s will. In my faith that is heresy, besides being logically untenable.
I think it’d be a complete waste of my time on either grounds to argue this, and it’s been done by the likes of Voltaire, whose works were both edifying and entertaining. If you’ll start there, perhaps one day we’ll have a discussion.
Until then, I’ll have a pastrami on rye.
Exactly as expected and predicted....a little sophomoric posturing but absolutely nothing of substance.
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