Sun, I appreciate your passion. I really do.
If you would indulge me, do you live in Pa? Do you have any face to face experience with Santorum?
Do you know that his ‘pro gun’ score was only 64%, according to GOA? That’s a failing grade, not something to be proud of.
Do you know that Mr Pro Life NEVER supported a pro life senate candidate they way he supported Mr Abortion, Arlen Specter?
Do you know that Santorum supported Specter’s bid for president in 1996 and Specter wanted to get rid of the GOP’s pro life plank?
Do you know that Santorum did work for 2 pro abortion candidates who won their election bids and the result was tht any pro life vote he cast was nullified by their pro abortion votes.
Did you know that Santorum described himself as a ‘big government conservative’? Can you tell me what that is and how it is possible given that it is an oxymoron?
Rick won his races handily in the early 90s when he had an unblemished record as a solid social conservative. As time went on, he became a big spender and a waffler. He lost in 2006 because he endorsed a pro abortion, anti gun liberal (Arlen Specter) and revealed himself to be a part hack and not a principled conservative. In the early elections, he drew pro life and pro gun democrat support. He lost them and the election in 2006 because he was not conservative enough. Even the dems were smart enough to oppose him was a candidate who was purported to be pro life and pro gun. Casey beat out 2 other candidates. Of course, Casey is neither pro gun or pro life, but that wasn’t known by too many people back then. Pa rejected him by 18 points and we’re not about to rehire him for anything or support him financially in any endeavor.
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to give you my first hand experience with Santorum.
Thanx for your thoughtful post, even if we disagree.
Mark Levin, a conservative’s conservative, knows Rick Santorum even better than you do, and Levin said that Santorum is principled, and one of the most conservative senators we’ve had in 50 years.
Rick Santorum not only gets good ratings because of his voting record, he also, unlike many politicians GETS THINGS DONE.
As I said in another post, Rick received an A+ rating from the NRA, higher than Ron Paul or Gingrich, and of course Romney, and here’s what Rick Santorum ACCOMPLISHED:
Santorum fought to keep gun companies in the U.S.A.! Santorum gets things done, because he is a figher!
Just ask the NRA CEO:
‘“He [Rick Santorum] was the most effective advocate of bringing it [legislation to protect gun companies from frivolous lawsuits] to the floor and getting a vote scheduled. He used his influence to get it to the floor. Without that, we would have lost every American gun company.”
– Wayne LaPierre, CEO – National Rifle Association, October 25, 2006’
excerpt http://www.ricksantorum.com/defending-2nd-amendment-rights
Now let’s go to pro-life. He WALKS the WALK! I don’t know why folks, while they might not agree with Rick, can’t accept that he has reasons why he does some things, when he WALKED the WALK.
Rick Santorum’s own wife didn’t want him to endorse Specter, Rick said, but he did it because he knew Specter would win, and Specter did win by an excellent margin. By keeping the Senate majority, the Republicans had control of the Judicial Committee, rather than the Dems. If the Dems had control, they would not allow Bush’s judicial nominees to go to the floor for an up or down vote.
Whether you agree with Rick, or not (his own wife did not), at least trust his motives, especially when he has WALKED the pro-life WALK, at least twice.