Posted on 03/08/2012 4:45:55 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
....SenatorSantorum's other reference [to jobs] hits a level of self-absorption that even the patrician Mitt "I'm not worried about the very poor" Romney has not, at least when taken in context, come close to reaching:
"Karen and I have seven children, ages 20 to three, not exactly the best time to be out running for president of the UnitedStates. We've given up our -- our jobs. We're living off our savings. Yeah, we're making a little sacrifice for a very, very big goal…"
Yes, during his Tuesday evening speech, RickSantorum's only mention of someone losing a job was about him and his wife voluntarily giving up whatever they were doing.....
Talking about "living off our savings," something many unemployed Americans only wish they had as a fall-back position, also struck a discordant note from the Republican most trying to portray himself as a "man of the people."
Note to Rick: It was your choice to have seven children. (We certainly cannot question your opposition to contraception.) Don't use them as an excuse for your financial woes; we don't want to hear it, especially while you drag them around the country like a traveling circus act.
Other important issues during this campaign season include debt (Romney mentions: 3, Santorum:0), unemployment (Romney 3, Santorum0), economy (Romney 9, Santorum 1), tax (Romney 9, Santorum0) and perhaps the biggest threat to the economy, Obama (Romney 9, Santorum 2).
.....Instead of drifting from economics to birth control to the size of government to being a fighter, instead of complaining about being outspent, his own "sacrifices," or the unfairness of having opponents who won't do him the courtesy of dropping out (when he selfishly wouldn't do the same for them), Rick Santorum needs to get a message -- any message -- and stick with it...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Honestly.
We get your pollyannish, drippy Santorum goop.
We can even abide it.
But your tagline gives it away, as does numerous other comments you make.
If one is not for Santorum, one is against God’s chosen.
And you wonder why people reject you, unless they’re just like you, natch.
You might get your Santorum.
Being elected by the entire nation as its President, and serving as one, is quite a different thing, than you getting your Santorum/sweet family.
More likely it will be Mitt to step forward and lose, if it is not Gingrich for the win over Obama.
I’ll tell you what is scary. It is scary that you and I are agreeing so much.
lol. Because bottom line we are on the same side. Conservatives who want whats best for the United States of America. We just disagree on which person to get us there and actually that isn’t necessarily true either because if Newt is the nominee, I immediately begin to work hard through donation and getting him voters to get him to the Presidency. So after this primary, I will be back to agreeing with you about our prime goal....getting Obama out of that White House.
Vile? Now it’s vile to note that Rick Santorum talks about himself too much on the campaign trail?
Man-oh-man. Santorum supporters have it easy compared to Palin, Cain, and Perry supporters. Those were vile attacks.
That Santorum should have dropped out before the first primary when he was below 5%. Instead, he stubbornly stayed in and by a stroke of luck after Romeny spent millions destroying Newt, the base very blindly and stupidly dropped everything and made Santorum the front runner.
Now that there is no turning back, and we are guaranteed to lose this to Romney, and certainly to Obama if Santorum is nominated, all you can still manage to do is avoid reality.
There are some of us who post Santorum’s real record, which is also every bit as important as those highly inflated, Utopian fantasies that your side posts. And we have every much of a right, as you do, to get the whole truth out.
I don’t think it is hitting low wondering about Bella.
He wears the pin, it is noted on his campaign hand-outs, those things just punctuate her absence with the constant fan of family behind him. We know she is sick and all of that makes me think about her.
As a parent (yes, I know all parents are different) I wouldn’t bother with running for president if I had a child with a limited life expectancy. That’s a personal opinion on what i would do.
If you see that as hitting low, so be it.
[We get your pollyannish, drippy Santorum goop.]
LOL! Oh, that is such a colorful way of putting it! And you nailed it. Now, if I could just find that picture of a hammer!
My wife and I were instinctively drawn to Newt Gingrich because he is Fiscally Conservative and his voting record on Social Conservative issues is at least as good as Rick’s even if you don’t count Rick’s “one for the team”. Newt also has advanced the Conservative Agenda, helped build the Conservative element of the Republican party, reduced Federal spending, the size of the federal government, passed welfare reform and I could continue. What we don’t really understand is why there is even a race, there wouldn’t be for the Romney, Paul slime machine.
To you, the whole unadulterated TRUTH is vile.........Got it!
Good point on the tag line. I was offended by that too, intellectually and personally.
Good to be on the same page.
One time you posted a diatribe to me, as if I supported Santorum.
But I supported Newt since Perry dropped out.
I asked you in reply if you meant your diatribe for another, who was posting at the same time, but I never got an answer.
I think it was a comment embedded in my larger, pro Newt post, about agreeing with someone on being pro life, but not on making the social issues in their entirity the centerpiece of a campaign.
You went off on abortion being settled law and not something to focus on, either, unless you want to lose, etc.
And attacked “me” like I was pro Santorum.
So let me just say, I do believe the Constitution guarantees life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, like it says, and that’s why I believe in pro life as an issue. I’m also a Christian.
But I am decidedly NOT for Santorum, as you can see.
The tagline is bad, but even worse another one of them has gone around posting that we are doing the devil’s work by supporting anyone but RS.
Gag.
Are we in the real world or not?
I wonder.
We do not have a common goal of supporting the presidency of Rick Santorum. I don’t know why you think that is true.
I am a Drilling Engineer and sometimes, have very limited time to spend on these threads. It must have been a misunderstanding on my part, which I regret that you would carry that animosity for so long. That is not your fault, that is mine.
If I ever do disagree with you, I usually try to work out a compromise with anyone who is open to understanding, as you seem to be. Again, please accept my humble apology! (FRiend)
Thanks, most sincerely.
I did think at the time it was probably a misunderstanding and not intentional.
Obamacare....or Romneycare....is anti-life and will do much more to end little lives like hers.
Her little life is not valued by them and many others who support them....
To them, she is an inconvenience.
If Rick Santorum's wife has accepted the responsibility of his running for the highest office in this land.....
..and fully supports and understands..which she does...
..that is their decision.
You are welcome to make your own decision regarding whether you would do this.
Just curious....did you complain about Sarah Palin and her family....traveling around with her 3-1/2 years ago?.....just wondering
I am no Santorum fan, having proudly cast my Newt vote on Tuesday, but this seems a bit of a reach. If unemployed Americans didn't have savings as a fall back position, whose fault was that? My wife and I do, and we aren't rich. I know I couldn't live off of mine as long as Santorum could, but we have sacrificed things like new cars and trips to make sure we had a rainy day fund. The author later berates Rick saying it was his choice to have a large family. Well, not having savings to fall back on is a choice, too.
...this picture, btw, is from 2006.
That little girl .....6 years later....is a lovely grown young lady trying to help her dad win this campaign.
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