RUSH: WHY SANTORUM SCARES THE LEFT

www.RushLimbaugh.com ^ | February 28, 2012 | Rush Limbaugh

[Sun]

Obviously you never compared Rick with Mitt. Kindly do some research. This will get you started:

MITT ROMNEY

“In 2003 the Governor refused to endorse the Bush tax cuts, earning the praise of Massachusetts liberal congressman Barney Frank and was even open to a federal gas tax hike.
In 2007, Romney continued to oppose the flat tax with harsh language, calling the tax “unfair.”
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=905
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“If Mitt Romney becomes president, we may actually have “cap and trade” shoved down our throats. While campaigning for president in 2007, Mitt Romney said that he would support a “cap and trade” carbon tax scheme for the entire world....

“I support Cap-and-Trade on a global basis but not the USA going alone. I want to do it with other nations involved and on a global scale.”
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more http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/16-reasons-why-mitt-romney-would-be-a-really-really-bad-president

RICK SANTORUM

“Santorum has consistently supported broad-based tax cuts and opposed tax increases either by sponsoring key legislation or by casting votes on relevant bills. Some high profile votes include:

•Voted NO on the Clinton tax hike in 1993
•Voted YES on the capital gains tax cut in 1997
•Voted NO on a cigarette tax hike in 1998
•Voted YES on repeal of the Alternative Minimum Tax in 1999
•Voted YES on the 2001 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to repeal the Death Tax in 2002
•Voted YES to the 2003 Bush tax cuts
•Voted YES to extend the Bush tax cuts in 2006”

excerpt http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=902

[livius]

Santorum is a wuss and voted all along with the GOP establishment. Also, he has no ideas about how to handle anything. Maybe he’ll throw his sweater-vest at the mullahs?

That said, I think the GOP establishment would rather have Romney because they think he wouldn’t alienate Dems with his social policies. However, the fact that Santorum was making robo-calls urging Dems to go out and vote for him indicates to me that Santorum doesn’t plan to do anything that would alienate Dems, either.

[Sun]

Mark Levin said Rick Santorum was one of the most conservative senators in the last 50 years.

Here’s proof that Levin is correct:

http://votesmart.org/candidate/evaluations/27054/rick-santorum

“2005 Republican Liberty Caucus – Economic Liberties Score 90%
2004 Republican Liberty Caucus – Positions 87%
2003-2004 Campaign for Working Families – Positions 100%
2003-2004 Concerned Women for America – Positions 100%
2005 American Conservative Union – Positions 92%
2003 Concerned Women for America – Positions 100%
2003 Eagle Forum – Positions 87%
2003 National Journal – Conservative on Economic Policy Score 82%
2003 American Conservative Union – Positions 90%”

More importantly perhaps, is that Rick Santorum is a FIGHTER, who gets things done!

Here’s one of many examples:

“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.”

http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/

The two front runners are Rick and Mitt - time to make a decision.

[Pinkbell]

Good list, and go Rick! I can’t wait to vote for him Tuesday!

[livius]

Santorum and Romney are front-runners because they’re both big-government and that seems to be what most people, Dem or GOP, want. This is a sad fact, and it will take a lot to shake people loose from their adoring trust in government.

Santorum never did a thing that was not approved by the GOP establishment, and women like him because he comes across as weak and liberal (”compassionate conservative”) in the Jimmy Carter mode. Carter is exactly who Ricky reminds me of, because Carter also ran on his humble sweater, his “peanut farmer” persona, his Evangelical credentials, etc. Carter managed to completely skip the part about being governor of his state, and Santorum has managed to completely skip the thing about being a two-term Senator who was overwhelmingly rejected by his district.

He is also about at the Biden level for inarticulateness.

[lentulusgracchus]

The only way we, the conservatives, will lose to the Kenyan Turd is IF the "Establishment Republicans" REFUSE to support the Republican Nominee.

They did exactly that, quite notoriously, in 1964.

If the rich guys couldn't run the train, if Rocky couldn't get the nod (it was "his turn" -- he'd been up for it in 1960 and threw his support to Nixon instead, in a backroom deal called "the compact of Seventh Avenue"), if he and the Cabots and Lodges couldn't flip the nomination to their backup boy Scranton or an acceptable dark horse (two or three names were bruited in the late going), then they'd just flip off the entire Main Street Republican Party, let them have their nominee, and tell them all to ride the short bus to hell.

Rockefeller berated Goldwater delegates at the Cow Palace during a prime-time "minority report" speech (on national gavel-to-gavel TV coverage) offered him as a courtesy, to lambaste all the Goldwater people, conservatives generally, and the Goldwater delegates in particular as "fascists" and compare them to "Nazis".

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"Santorum cannot defeat Obama."

Yeah, I like that one, too. You know, I'll bet Ronald Reagan couldn't beat Obama. Abraham Lincoln couldn't beat Obama, or Teddy Roosevelt, nor George Washington. Just ask the ghost of Eric Sevareid.

[Yosemitest]

Like a caller to Rush said:

" We're going for the big guns.
We have a strategy, and we're gonna win.
And if we don't win, nobody else will, either, 'til we get to convention.
And then we've got the uncommitted delegates, we've got the Newt delegates, we've got conservative delegates --


RUSH: We are hearing a strategery here.

CALLER: -- and Newt's got this thing.

RUSH: All right. I like it.
I like upbeat people. She not succumbing.
I like upbeat people.
If we don't win .... nobody else will ... and we're gonna have an open convention.
Yeah, I heard that.
If we don't win, nobody else will, either.
So her claim is that
the Romney camp is not happy,
that Romney supporters are not happy,
Republicans not happy 'cause they --
I heard Romney say last night, it wasn't a big win, but it was a win, and that's all that matters.
They looked pretty happy to me last night.
I don't know that they start worrying about the margin after the victory, but we'll see.
Kate, thanks for the call. Appreciate it very much.
What's the question, Snerdley?
No, you mean after Super Tuesday? It's not gonna be over a week from today I don't think.
We're all professionals here. The professionals are saying this could go 'til May.
It could go out actually that long.
Remember, it was supposed to be over before it started.
From the establishment Republican types, it was supposed to be over before it started.

Romney? Don't be a dupe, buying the "Establishment Republicans" crap!
Yep, the "Establishment Republicans" will claim that we can NOT win without them.
Look at their track record. They chose 3 candidates and look what it brought us,

Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF.

"Establishment Republicans" ALWAYS set us up for a loss.
Read how desperate the "Establishment Republicans" are:

All Heck Breaks Loose on Primary Day

Is the GOP Elite Ready to Concede?

Look at the "winners" the "Establishment Republicans" have picked before:

The "Establishment Republicans" rate a

[Sun]

“I can’t wait to vote for him Tuesday!”

And bring your friends!

[Pinkbell]

My family members are all going to vote for him! :)