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Why I Chose Newt Over Santorum
WorldNetDaily ^ | 2/12/2012 | Chuck Norris

Posted on 02/12/2012 8:49:12 PM PST by katiedidit1

In 2008 when my wife, Gena, and I were on the campaign trail backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was fighting to get former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney elected. (Listen in this video how Santorum passionately endorsed and elevated Mitt in his bid for the Oval Office.)

Just three years ago in his interview with radio host and conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, Santorum also emphatically told millions of listening Americans: “If you’re a conservative, if you’re a Republican, there is only one place to go, and that’s Mitt Romney.”

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To: sand88

“[Santorum] is painful to listen to more than two minutes”

Oh come on now, isn’t that bad. You call Santorum boring, you’re calling conservatism boring. And besides, you want to see/hear real boring? Try Thadeaus McCotter. His speech at the Ames Straw Poll was so boring, I think some people went to sleep.


41 posted on 02/12/2012 9:30:54 PM PST by parksstp (Articulate Conservatives look for Converts. RINO's look for Democrat Heretics.)
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To: katiedidit1
I honestly don't know who will govern from the right more, and have not made up my mind the way I will vote at my states March cuacus. But what I do know is Santorum is a total bore. Whether giving a victory speech after a primary win, a stump speech on the campaign trail, a TV appearance, or the way he comes across in a debate, he just doesn't excite me. You are not going to get a Palin-like speech out of him. Unless he matures quickly as a candidate he is not going to be the GOP candidate, and if he is, he will struggle against Obama IMHO.
42 posted on 02/12/2012 9:31:55 PM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: katiedidit1

Santorum said Obama was to popular to attack. Newt will has no problem going after Obama. In fact he already has. GO NEWT GO!


43 posted on 02/12/2012 9:32:06 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: greene66

I’m leaning more for Newt but Santorum is far, far better than Romney so I’m just waiting here until the convention when Romney gets kicked out. The bigger picture here is to rid of p-Resident Dopeychangey.


44 posted on 02/12/2012 9:32:31 PM PST by max americana (Buttcrack Obama is an idiot)
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To: katiedidit1; USNBandit
I have two words for you. Dede Scozzafava

I've got two for you: Jerry Sandusky. Rick Santorum sponsored him for the 2002 Angels in Adoption award.

Which just goes to show that anybody can pick a lemon.

45 posted on 02/12/2012 9:33:34 PM PST by Lady Lucky (First comprehend; then reply.)
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To: parksstp

Please go to Newt’s site to see the de-spinning of the Romney-ite political spin you’re referencing, and don’t bring it up anymore unless you include quote’s to Newt’s responses about those topics. We’re not here to spread rumors, we’re here to be fair, balanced and accurate about which candidates are conservative and which are not.

http://www.newt.org/answers

Paul Ryan (and the House GOP’s) Medicare Plan

Like Ryan and the House GOP, Newt supports a premium support model for Medicare. However, he wants seniors to have the choice to opt into the new system or to stay in traditional Medicare.

Newt agrees wholeheartedly with Rep. Ryan that we must give our seniors more choices than the current one-size-fits-all Medicare model. Both concur that creating the opportunity for seniors to buy private insurance is the key to both improving care and lowering costs.

The one key difference is that under Newt’s plan, as outlined in his 21st Century Contract with America, seniors will also have the choice to stay in the current Medicare system or choose a private insurance plan with support from the government to pay the premiums. The other difference is that Newt believes that seniors should have this option starting next year, not in ten years.

Global Warming/Cap and Trade

Newt does not believe there is a settled scientific conclusion about whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere.

Newt absolutely opposes “cap and trade” as well as any system of taxing carbon emissions. He testified before Congress against it in 2009 and led a grassroots effort while the Chairman of American Solutions to block its passage in the House and Senate.

Newt believes that cap and trade would kill hundreds of thousands of American jobs, cause electricity and fuel prices to skyrocket, and make America poorer. In contrast, Gingrich believes the best way to protect the environment is through markets, incentives, and entrepreneurs, who quite often are deploying innovative new technologies.

As for the question of whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere, Newt has noted there is no settled scientific conclusion. Many scientists believe it is the case. Others do not. But this unsettled scientific question has nothing to do with the best approach to protecting our environment, which is always markets, incentives, and entrepreneurs creating better and more efficient products and services.

Q: So why did Newt do the ad with Nancy Pelosi in 2007 calling for action to address climate change?

Newt does not believe there is a settled scientific conclusion about whether industrial development has dramatically contributed to a warming of the atmosphere.

Through his entire career, Newt has supported pro-market, pro-entrepreneur, innovative solutions to our environmental challenges, which he believes are superior to the liberal pro-bureaucracy, pro-tax, pro-regulation approach to the environment.

Newt believes that conservatives cannot be absent from the conversation about the environment and instead that conservatives must offer and explain why conservative solutions are better. Unfortunately, the attempt to get that message out through the ad with Nancy Pelosi failed. On November 8, 2011, Newt told FOX News’ Bret Baier that doing that commercial with Pelosi was “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve ever done”.

Newt will continue to oppose the Democrats’ destructive cap-and-trade and carbon tax proposals, continue to support expanded domestic oil and gas drilling, and continue to fight for a fundamental replacement of the job-killing Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency.

TARP

Newt believes that the reckless, secretive and opaque way in which the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department administered the bailouts has been an affront to democracy.

Newt was appalled and disgusted at the amount of dictatorial power that Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson tried to grab for himself at the outset of the financial crisis. However, he reluctantly supported a scaled-down plan after Paulson told the country that the world financial system was going to collapse without this emergency support.

Newt believes that the reckless, secretive and opaque way in which the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department administered the bailouts has been an affront to democracy. The Fed was picking winners and losers, using several emergency lending facilities to make all types of loans to connected parties, including to a bank owned by the Libyan government.

This is why broadly scaling back the role of the Federal Reserve and repealing the Dodd-Frank bill are two of the central pillars of Newt’s 21st Century Contract with America. The Fed will be fully audited and made more transparent to ensure the events of 2008 are never repeated, and getting rid of Dodd-Frank will once and for all end the destructive policy of “too big to fail.”


46 posted on 02/12/2012 9:39:24 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Romney in 2012!)
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To: Christie at the beach
Ricky is very much getting on my nerves for his goody 2 shoes attitude.

Yep. Eddie Haskell.

47 posted on 02/12/2012 9:39:35 PM PST by b9 (NEWT is SUBSTANCE. The others are talking points)
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To: All

Any Republican who voted for Willard the Flaming Massachusttes Liberal Romney in 2008 should be shot!

You contributed to his coming back in 2012 for another try.

Bang!


48 posted on 02/12/2012 9:40:01 PM PST by CainConservative (Newt/Huck 2012 with Cain, Palin, Bachmann, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in Newt's Cabinet)
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To: sand88
They guy has an over inflated opinion of himself. He does not show much humility.

His nick name in school was 'rooster'

49 posted on 02/12/2012 9:48:59 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: quantim

I wish Chuck was running for a political office.


50 posted on 02/12/2012 9:52:07 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: katiedidit1

Anyone who thinks Earmarks are the hottest issue this year, really is not paying very close attention.

McCain ran against Earmarks because, well HE HAD NOTHING ELSE!


51 posted on 02/12/2012 9:55:03 PM PST by Kansas58
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To: CainConservative

Excellent post!


52 posted on 02/12/2012 10:01:14 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: katiedidit1
I support Newt too but can easily live with Santorum over Romney....I just don;t want either to drag it out to the bitter end..(I think...things could change)

Super Tuesday may tell the tale...it would if Texas was in it

the irony here to me is that Sarah supports Newt

yet the nastiest freepers here who support Rick Santorum and get crazy over any criticism were also the nastiest..in some cases...who brooked no criticism or questioning of dear Sarah...so why aren't they following her lead on Newt?

there are a few Sarahbots on the Newt train...no question but I recognize on this very thread some very defensive Santorum bots as virulently defensive Palinbots from last summer and fall

and so it goes

Free Republic is a case study in human nature...the good, the bad and the ugly

the way this has gone pushing Mitt down our throats by fake conservatives who pretend to lead us...with few exceptions really...I mean think about it...us, Sarah, Levin, Mike Reagan, Mike Berry, a little Limbuagh but not enough, and Fred....that is about it.,..the rest so called righties are Mitt supporters and colluders

that is the worst part of all this...I pray either Newt first or Rick second kicks his and their asses all the way back to the Beltway or NYC

I loathe all these bastards and bastardettes ...traitors they are

I don't view Santorum as the enemy unless he bitches up for a VP slot with Mitt...even though some of his supporters here are a bit obnoxious

53 posted on 02/12/2012 10:10:16 PM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: Gene Eric

lol if that don’t beat all.


54 posted on 02/12/2012 10:36:34 PM PST by Lauren BaRecall (I declare for Santorum)
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To: katiedidit1

Please note that the last of those occured in 1997. It’s the stuff he did since then that has many concerned. I’m not typing this to change minds, simply to point out why Santorum’s positives are much higher than Gingrich’s at the moment.


55 posted on 02/12/2012 10:46:06 PM PST by Ingtar ("But it is hard to maintain an aura of invincibility after you have been vinced..." Sowell)
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To: All

I think whoever emerges as our nominee, they need to consider Ted Nugent as White House spokesperson. Let the press play with a ball of fire every day. LOL!


56 posted on 02/12/2012 10:48:37 PM PST by sheikdetailfeather ("We need to teach the establishment a lesson!" Newt Gingrich CPAC 2-10-2012)
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To: greene66

I want Romney to lose every primary, even the one in Virginia where the choice is between him and Ron Paul with no write-ins allowed.

In Virginia, I would vote Paul to see Romney lose....


57 posted on 02/12/2012 10:56:37 PM PST by Nextrush (PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN IS MY DREAM)
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To: JediJones

I still have that “Drill Here, Drill Now....” bumper sticker on my car, which I got for sending in $10 and signing his petition.

Mrs. Prince of Space


58 posted on 02/12/2012 10:58:00 PM PST by Prince of Space (Obama cares a lot about the poor. In fact, he wants to make more of them.)
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To: USNBandit

You might want to get yourself educated on the real story about that. Until then you’ll be seen as a parrot for the media and GOP E without a lick of sense. Your choice.


59 posted on 02/12/2012 10:58:36 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: beaversmom

How so? A candidate who is pro homo marriage, pro abortion, left of Ted, big gov’t socialist healthcare isn’t even a republican much less a conservative.


60 posted on 02/12/2012 11:05:18 PM PST by presently no screen name
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