Posted on 03/23/2012 4:28:30 PM PDT by red flanker
Just moments ago on the Sean Hannity radio show, GOP candidate and RINO Rick Santorum took it upon himself to convict George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case. He said, and Im paraphrasing slightly:
It was a heinous crime and he did a despicable, unjustifiable thing and the Sanford police should have reacted to that immediately.
Again, I am paraphrasing a little as I did not have a recorder running to get his exact words, but that was essentially his statement.
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Santorum, don’t be a pompous ass. Demand evidence and justice!
Go Newt!
I would said it is local police matter and is under investigation and left it at that. Santorum did not have to say squat. How hard can this be?
>> The professional gaffe translators have been paged
They must be secretly cursing Rick for making their job so difficult.
The police acted stupidly
A grand jury will investigate the death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old shot to death in a gated community in Florida on Feb. 26, state attorney Norm Wolfinger announced Tuesday.
http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/20/10775671-trayvon-martin-case-to-go-to-grand-jury-fla-state-attorney-announces
On Tuesday the 20th it was announced there would be a Grand Jury on April 10th. What in the L do these people want? Is not the rule of law good enough?
Or do we need instant justice or perhaps we could have trials set up like Survivor or Dancing with the Stars? Just dial in our vote by phone or however it works.
A FReeper commented in the past that they didn’t realize Idiocracy was a documentary— they certainly nailed that one!
I was just thinking of a number of truly horrible crimes committed by Blacks against totally innocent Whites. I would never have heard of them if I had not read about them here on FR.
The truly disgusting thing about this whole thing is the victim is probably Zimmerman and now we have a true witch hunt going on.
Which people? I'd say the useful idiots want street justice. I think the puppet masters want a trial, expect an acquittal(or conviction on a lesser charge than murder)to coincide with the GOP convention in Tampa.
the police did act, they interviewed , they looked at the scene, they looked at our laws and then did what they were supposed to do.
Maybe up in PA they don’t have this law but down here we do .
Santorum needs to shut his mouth on this or at least say “let the police do their job and let the justice system we have do their job”
That’s it , not this crap he’s saying or what the MSM is saying.
Seems many are spouting off about this who do not know our laws down here or they hate guns.
Before this is over, they’ll probably have a public lynching of Zimmerman. Due process be damned.
There is a process. Or, rather, there should be a process. One that Sanitarium has ZERO participation in. He is not the finder of fact here. If he did indeed say this then what else might he decide to stick his nose in where it does not belong?
I have got to the point that I would vote for Romney over this whine bag. He is full as a much of shit as Mitten’s.
This country is missing the leader that we need for these times... Newt. When Obama gets his second term everyone on this site is going to regret not supporting Newt. I am sick.
So was it a Gaffe when Gingrich said the stand your ground law doesn’t apply in this case and said Zimmerman had found a dangerous hobby?
We need to stop playing this got’cha game like a bunch of liberals.
Newt did the same thing, http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-george-zimmerman-20120323,0,6326075.story
The national media is not claiming he referred to the killing as a crime.
Excuse me if I don't trust those that get orgasmic every time they attack Santorum. Show us a transcript.
Santorum really needs to shut his beak. Your absolutely right, Newt should be the frontrunner right now..he knows how to talk and handle the media, but he isn’t getting enough support(And I have no idea why) when the primary happens here in Cali I will be voting for Newt, unfortunately its looking like we will be stuck with Romney, oh goody goody, someone that makes McCain look decent
Newt did the best, he was the only one to reject the MSM bimbo's lies as such. Even Hannity failed.
The young man apparently was not following the person whos being investigated, Gingrich told CNNs Piers Morgan in an interview Thursday night. Apparently, the shooter was following the young man. Thats not a stand your own ground, thats a chase the other person into their ground. And I think youre going to find the law, as interpreted normally, doesnt apply to this case.
Not "everyone".
I can't support a person without personal integrity. Cheating on two wives is quite a character statement, in my book.
That's not what this Country needs, no matter how good a talker/debater he is. If you can't control yourself, you can't control the Country.
Let’s be real. There are white people killed by blacks in hate attacks all the time, and there is no media coverage, no hate crime charges, no federal investigation and certainly no comments from the president of the united states. i’m not going to shed a tear for some hoodrat who should have stayed in his own neighborhood.
While I don’t think this issue should be a part of the presidential race, Zimmerman put himself in the situation where he had to rely on deadly force. Zimmerman created a situation where he “had” to take the action he did. I am not a Santorum fan and this is just more of Santorum trying to buy some additional votes.
Obama, whose-mom-doesn’t-look-like-Trayvons, was quick to call Sandra Fluke, who,if had a daughter would-look-like-Nancy-Pelosi.
When will America’s first post racial president who-doesnt-look like-any-of-the-presidents-on-our-money, call Trayvon’s mom-who-doesnt-look-like Cameron Diaz?
Santorum = Italian for “gaffetastic”.
Hannity is ok..but a bit of an irritated blow hard...so is Rush now.
Some of this turkey's recent statements prove that he is way too immature to be given any kind of position of authority. And I'm tired of his whining, too.
Saying someone is guilty before trial makes me question your motive and makes me question your candidacy.
I can't support a person without personal integrity. Cheating on two wives is quite a character statement, in my book.
That's not what this Country needs, no matter how good a talker/debater he is. If you can't control yourself, you can't control the Country."
So then I take it you're not a believer in Christian repentance and redemption?
Exactly, they followed the Florida SYG law to the letter.
This is a political effort to cause racial strife in the US, and another example of how the left treats cops.
No respect for the 2nd Amendment or Property Rights.
The truly disgusting thing about this whole thing is the victim is probably Zimmerman and now we have a true witch hunt going on.
I don’t know if he did anything wrong, I wasn’t there and that’s for the evidence and the grand jury to decide.
This reminds me alot of the Security Guard who was hounded by the media for something, sending anthrax letters I think, but then the police said he didn’t do it. The media hounded him for weeks and made his life miserable and didn’t apologize or say anything when he was innocent.
The media are SCUM.
I’m not a fan of Santorum, but it seems like some are getting awfully nitpicky about his every word. This statement sounds like the typical politician-like thing to say during a media feeding frenzy. When Rick goes against the grain and speaks his mind, he gets ripped apart. When he tries to stay disciplined and not say something controversial that might knock him off his message, he gets ripped apart over that too.
This is a dumb “gotcha” and people uninvolved in a case shouldn’t have to run around using the “alleged”, “possible”, and “maybe”.
It’s assumed.
The precision police on parade. (except when it’s their ox being gored.)
If he suggested this, implied this or stated this, no one with a brain should support this guy.
No joke.
I’ll pay attention when I see a real quote. I refer to Fox for misquotes and Romney PR for paraphrasing thanks.
What does Al Shapron and the others like him, know about Florida laws? People should wait to see all of the facts. Ok, the man may have went over board with his policing of the neighborhood and that needs to be investigated. There are reports of GZ being beat. There are reports that the kid was chased down- Get the facts from the investigation, I say. GZ has his rights- let the facts come out not the things we are reading in the news. If the man is guilty the investigation will show that.
The White House said days ago it was a local matter-now, look what they are doing-DOJ- FBI- FDLE- State attorney investigators, A special prosecutor from the governors office- IF the Man is Innocent he will be Railroaded, my guess. I have to wait to know more. But these people are going in the wrong direction. GZ is Black/Latino. The media calling this a hate crime. Look at all of the money being spent and they by pass the local authority when Obama said it was a Local law enforcement matter. Proves all liberals Never will understand how the laws in which we have for our protection, works. It is innocent until proven guilty, okay- Not, lets go with the public convicting a person. If the man is guilty, the facts will come out.
(This is why people like Rick Santorum, Jeb Bush and others alike need not be in charge-the only one who has made sense was Newt saying let the investigation move forward) Please God let the Santorum supporters to wake up to a better choice.
Psst...Adultry is usualy the RESULT of a bad marriage...not the cause of a bad marriage.
Research Reagan a bit...
HERE is what Newt said last night on CNN when Piers Morgan tried ti bait HIM into an opinion on the shooting:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2012/03/23/piers-gingrich-trayvon-martin-tragedy.cnn
I don’t hear Newt saying ANYTHING even CLOSE to what Ricky said. In fact he handled it WAY better by evading the trap Morgan tried to coax him into that Ricky fell in.
Here is the CNN interview link:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2012/03/23/piers-gingrich-trayvon-martin-tragedy.cnn
Newt didn’t fall for Morgan’s trap.
HE is apparently as omniscient as Obama!

Personal freedom includes personal choice. I choose not to ignore past indicators of a lack of control and disregard of commitments....but...that's just me.
Gingrich is a jackwad for doing it, too. I’ve read that Ron Paul is the only one who hasn’t commented as such. Anybody know if this is true?
I am a Gingrich supporter but I don’t support his comments on this.
Isn’t Santorum an attorney??
Newt understands the media is out to trap him - he is always prepared for them.
I have noticed several politicians are trying to use this to repeal states “True Man” or sometimes called “stand your ground” laws.
None of this would happen without the medias corruption.
He said it, I heard it, live, and I agree.
The Sanford cops are the best actors of all the parties involved here, and I'm a stickler for cop performance.
What was the guy doing inside a “gated community” anyway?
I wonder how much of an apology the race pimps will offer the rest of us if it is determined that Trayvon was responsible for his own death?
Whole lotta people who should know better have already convicted Zimmerman. The Lamestream Media, and the race pimps may just get hung out to dry when all the facts are known.
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