Santorum Slaps Down Scarborough

RUSH: Some audio sound bites. John McCain, on Meet the Press, was asked by David Gregory: "You're worried about tone of the campaign. You've been in some nasty fights yourself politically. Do you think this is having a toll, this Republican primary?"

MCCAIN: This is the nastiest I have ever seen. It's a result of the worst decision the United States Supreme Court has made in many years, the Citizens United decision where you have naivete and sheer ignorance, uh, the majority, uh, of the Supreme Court, uh, just unloosened all mo -- released all money now.

Oh, folks, by the way, you gotta remind me tomorrow. On Saturday night, we watched Game Change. This movie... This movie is a joke! I've read the reviews of this movie by Republican conservative media people. They should have excoriated this movie. This movie is an outright embarrassment. It is so over the top! It's a cartoon that pretends to reflect reality! It was horrible. Kathryn walked out of it after an hour. It's a two-hour movie. She got up and left the room! This McCain sound bite made me think of that because it's about him and Palin and their campaign. This Citizens United Supreme Court decision, that's not the problem here. Money is not the problem in politics. Anyway, Santorum responded to this. He was on CBS This Morning today, and Charlie Rose said, "Senator McCain said that this the dirtiest campaign he's ever seen."

SANTORUM: Yeah, he should tell the guy, uh, that he's supporting to stop spending tens and tens of millions of dollars running negative ads. It's not Rick Santorum who's been running all the negative ads or even Newt Gingrich. It's Mitt Romney who's systematically just gone out there and run a negative campaign, has had no positive vision for this country, and spends billionaire dollars, uhh, to tear down every single opponent that's in his path.

RUSH: That happened in '08, too. And that's why there was the animosity for Romney back then. So that's Santorum's answer to McCain. "Hey, it's not the money; it's the guy spending it," is Santorum's point. "It's not the money. It's not the gun. It's the guy pulling the trigger." It's the same thing. But McCain has to say this. McCain-Feingold, campaign finance reform, all of that. But it's an absurd premise that the money is the problem. Then this morning on Scarborough's show on MSNBC, Santorum was again the guest, and Scarborough said, "Rick, just so you know, I've been critical of the focus on this issue of contraception. I brought it up to you today because we've talked about it a lot, and certainly now that we have you here, we want you to respond to it. Let's move beyond the issue of contraception. Rick, what are you doing?"

SANTORUM: Hold on one second. Go and come to any of my now almost thousand town hall meetings and let me assure you: I don't think the word "contraception" has ever come up. Let's just deal with reality instead of what the media trying to do which is to pigeonhole you and tell a narrative. We are losing our freedom. We have a government that is getting bigger and bigger. We have a group of elites who think they can run our lives better than we can run it ourselves. And unfortunately we have another candidate in the Republican Party, uh, who believes the same things as Barack Obama when it comes to the big issues of the day of government control of your life. And in specific, the biggest overreach of government and be that is in the area of health care --

SANTORUM: -- and on that score, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are the same. And that's what we can't have in this election.

SCARBOROUGH: Well, I have certainly talked about your focus on this in the past, and you've known me for a long time. Do you think I'm trying to pigeonhole you and stereotype you?

SCARBOROUGH: Why would I? I think my record on this in -- in Congress is the same as yours. All I'm saying is, it is a legitimate issue.

SANTORUM: Joe, the only reason I talk about this issue, as I said, is with respect to government mandates on people of faith. That's why this issue continues to be talked about and should continue to be talked about in the context of government forcing people of faith to do things that are against the religious beliefs -- something the federal government has never done and should never do when it comes to whether it's the Catholic Church or any other legitimate religion.

This is an issue because of Barack Obama violating the Constitution, acting without the authority to mandate that people who conscientiously object to these things must provide them. That's why it's in the news. It's in the news because Obama wants it in the news because Obama wants to be able to construct this phony Republican war on women. Nobody was talking about contraception until one of Obama's operatives, George Stephanopoulos at ABC News, brought it up in a question to Romney. It was in a Republican primary debate on January 7th in Manchester, New Hampshire.

It was not being discussed until then, and Stephanopoulos' question came literally out of the blue. And Romney said (paraphrased), "I don't know what you're talking about, George. This is silly. Nobody wants to ban contraception." Well, it turns out that Obama wanted to mandate that the Catholic Church buy it for everybody. If you want your own contraception, go down to Walmart and get it. It's five bucks or nine bucks. Going to do it! Why does everybody else have to pay for it? And where's the Obama get the authority to tell the Catholic Church or any other church or religious school to buy it for somebody?

Delusions of grandeur like taking credit for everything Reagan did, even though he worked against Reagan as a Rockefeller Republican, and messianic moonbase built on the backs of taxpayers? Or how he will singlehandedly will save the environment, with a giant law that gives the government the power to ruin the economy to protect bthe environment from evil humans. (He COSPONSORED a communist environmental bill with Nancy Pelosi in 1989, and still hopes to pass an updated version. Or his insane attack on conservatives who dared to criticize him for supporting Dede Scozzafava?

Let's face it, Gingrich would have to move to the right to be a RINO.

>> Let’s face it, Gingrich would have to move to the right to be a RINO.

What nonsense. Rick is the establishment bit player. The big-government statist. The serious man without a plan.

Newt and the moon...

Here’s One Reason The Moon’s Gravity Is So Important To The Military
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2860522/posts

And here’s your hero...

The Santorum campaign has referenced Mitt Romney’s treatment of his dog Seamus four times over the past week
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861179/posts

I never even wanted Santorum to run. But that doesn't change the face that Gingrich is a conservative-hating socialist.

Why did he cosponsor the 1989 economy-killing environmental bill. Why did he cosponsor 418 bills with Pelosi , more than any other Republican. And why did he get on the coach with her and declare surrender? A 30 year relationship, but he can blot it out by saying, "it's a mistake." He is running for president, yet he still ADMITS he believes in global warming. Why don't you write to Gingrich and ask him to put his rant trashing conservatives in 2009 after he was criticized for supporting Dede Scozzafava. If Gingrich were to become president, the left would have a field day. He always has to kiss their butts - kind of like he admitted Clinton, "made him melt." Why conservatives would support a man who hates them with a passion is beyond me.

Safe to say the moonbase criticism is off the table?

Nick, I’m not denying Newt’s idiotic decisions. Yes, he’s made plenty of them. I’ve never said otherwise.

I noticed that you didn’t say who your candidate is, but by process of elimination from your comments, it seems that it would be Ron Paul. Right?

There are no delusions or illusions of grandeur or anything else about Santorum. Ron Paul on the other hand....

Santorum has a solid rating from top conservative groups.
Pennsylvania is a blue state where the Democrats spent big money to defeat him. Arlen Specter, when he was a Republican, befriended the newly elected Senator Santorum. If you look at their voting records, you will see that their voting records are not alike.

He is not in the race to take out Gingrich.

You should read the whole story about communist relatives. Here’s a direct quote. “...83-year-old matriarch Maria Malacarne tells the Italian Magazine Oggi...”That said, Maria doesn’t understand how Santorum diverged so much from his grandfather Pietro and uncles who were “‘red communists’ to the core.”

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