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Santorum defends support for restoring felons’ voting rights
The Washington Times ^ | January 16, 2012 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 01/16/2012 9:23:33 AM PST by detective

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Rick Santorum pushed back Monday morning against a series of ads being run against him on his record on earmarks, labor issues and a vote he took in 2002 that would have forced states to let felons' voting rights be restored when they completed their sentences.

Mr. Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, is demanding the felon charge be stricken from an ad being run by a political group backing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, one of his opponents in the Republican presidential primary.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: felons; felonvote; santorum
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To: detective

Only if they are conservative...


41 posted on 01/16/2012 9:56:11 AM PST by pallis
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Right, Rombot.


42 posted on 01/16/2012 9:56:11 AM PST by CainConservative (Newt/Santorum 2012 with Cain, Huck, Petraeus, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Bachmann in Newt's Cabinet)
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To: JDW11235
The thing is that these morons don’t realize that EVERY person commits on average no less than 3 felonies a day.

Huh? Do you have a source for that?

43 posted on 01/16/2012 9:57:25 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: detective
I'm not an expert on the voting record of Santorum but I saw enough to know that he is NOT a small gov't and he is NOT a states rights supporter. He is a union supporter...voted against national Right to Work legislation.

When Santorum endorsed Arlen Specter...he meant it!

44 posted on 01/16/2012 9:58:55 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: detective

Prison is where debt is paid. You can feel however you want about a person individually, but once they are out, debt paid (not on parole or probation) then rights should be reinstated. If they can’t vote then they’re not even citizens, we might as well kick them out of the country.


45 posted on 01/16/2012 9:59:15 AM PST by BloodAngel
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To: C. Edmund Wright
Take away the social issues from the mix, and RS is just a C or C minus conservative at best.

Grade A on social issues, but not so hot other than that.


What you said.
46 posted on 01/16/2012 10:00:28 AM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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To: CainConservative
Right, Rombot.

That is so intellectually lazy and frankly, ridiculous. I was a Cain supporter probably before you every knew who he was and have been a Newt supporter since October, maybe early November. The idea that you jumped to the conclusion that I was in any way a Romney supporter demonstrates an incredible lack of something. Intellect? Reason? Comprehension? Or maybe it demonstrates a over abundance of something. Paranoia? Hatred? Anger? Something. You weren't even close.

47 posted on 01/16/2012 10:00:28 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: preamble

I don’t get what you are saying at all.

It’s a story, I assume the numbers are verifiable, which is about Rick Santorum’s actions, not his words... is how he handled his charitable organization off limits? He’s the best christian running, we are told, by him and others.

I support Newt.


48 posted on 01/16/2012 10:00:38 AM PST by true believer forever (First, they came for the rich.)
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To: BloodAngel

See post #16.


49 posted on 01/16/2012 10:00:54 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

He needs to get out of the race and let Grinrich beat Romney.


50 posted on 01/16/2012 10:01:04 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: detective
Uhhhh, where is it written in the Constitution that there is a universal ‘right’ to vote?

The states should put the filter on the masses of asses they deem fit to vote.

We need less MORONS voting, not more.

Santorum was a bottomfeeding candidate in Iowa that nobody attacked, .......It was a full on barrage against Newt. Santorum stayed out of the fight and was one of the last surviving turds floating to the top of the Iowa punchbowl along with Romney.

Santorum, Perry, and that freshly tasered wide-eyed sanduskite POS Ron Paul should all go play in traffic somewhere.

51 posted on 01/16/2012 10:01:32 AM PST by Electric Graffiti (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their Moonbats)
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To: CainConservative

We are in a very dangerous time. The establishment is now in full swing doing their absolute best to divide the conservative movement and forces us to suppert big government RINO and flip flopper Mittens Romney. We must acknowledge that anybody left (I happen to support Santorum) must gain support and stop him. This is going to be DEVASTATING in a general election with Romney at the top of the ticket! Enthusiasm will be dampened and will have colossal impact on Senate and House races! We must rise up and give a collective NO to Romney!


52 posted on 01/16/2012 10:01:46 AM PST by bjcoop
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To: Utmost Certainty

Watch out, or the nimrods will accuse you of being a “rombot.”


53 posted on 01/16/2012 10:02:47 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: bjcoop

I am merely pointing out that the voting record of Rick Santorum is primarily RINO.
We need to know this before we all jump on his bandwagon.
He needs to be properly vetted.


54 posted on 01/16/2012 10:03:50 AM PST by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: detective

You seem to be shilling for some other candidate, I won’t speculate who.

This is a federal law saying that ex-felons should have the right to vote IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS after they have served their time and cleared parole.

I hate to say it, but if you leave it up to the state politicians to decide who can vote and who cannot, AFTER they have paid the full price for their crimes, then it is usually the DEMOCRATS who cheat and lie. It’s the DEMOCRATS who would restore voting rights to Democrat-voting ex-felons and refuse to restore them to anyone who might vote Republican.

Notice that Santorum did not even say that ex-felons should have a right to vote in state or local elections. That’s up to the state or locality, although I’m sure there is a lot of DEMOCRAT and MACHINE corruption involved, deciding who gets to vote and who doesn’t.

I have not seen the figures, but given that most voter corruption these days is DEMOCRAT, I would imagine that it’s the Democrats who profit most by those state rules about lifetime elimination from voting in federal elections.


55 posted on 01/16/2012 10:04:15 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: RightOnTheBorder
"If a felon has served all his time, is his debt to society not paid?"

That is what I am thinking too. I don't think the Constitution has much to say about this so I guess it would be up to the states for local/state elections and Congress for federal election. I have not given the issues much thought so there might be good arguments against Santorun here.

Not into bashing Santorum but I have serious problems with singling out manufacturing for a 0 tax rate, I thought that law was suppose to apply equaling for all? A 0 tax rate for one seems like big government social engineering to me.

56 posted on 01/16/2012 10:05:52 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Electric Graffiti

I disagree with you on Santorum. I think he will be a true fighter for the conservative cause in the WH. Gingrich is my 2nd choice. But we are both in agreement how bad Romney is and he’ll be decimated by Obama


57 posted on 01/16/2012 10:06:08 AM PST by bjcoop
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To: CainConservative

You sound like a delusional weathervane-group-think thinker.


58 posted on 01/16/2012 10:06:25 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: detective
...But this troubles me.

Me too! This clown probably believes in sanctuary cities for illegal aliens.

In essence what he's saying is:

"Sex offenders, illegals, murderers, rapists, robbers... should be allowed to vote."

.

Bzzzzt, you lose. Thanks for playing.

59 posted on 01/16/2012 10:07:22 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Yes, I’m used to being called a Rombot lately, or an OWS liberal for arguing that corporate welfare is bad.

Crazy times here at FR.


60 posted on 01/16/2012 10:07:38 AM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
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