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Can we stop pretending that Rick Santorum is a fiscal conservative?
United Liberty ^ | 2-15-12 | Jason Pye

Posted on 02/15/2012 12:10:39 PM PST by NoPinkos

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I'm starting to think that a deadlocked convention turning to someone who isn't currently on the stage is the only hope for the party.
1 posted on 02/15/2012 12:10:44 PM PST by NoPinkos
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To: NoPinkos

How bout letting the voters decide this one newbie?


2 posted on 02/15/2012 12:13:47 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: NoPinkos

That’s pretty much where I am.

Although, I’m willing to listen to Newt.


3 posted on 02/15/2012 12:13:47 PM PST by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Marc Levin)
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To: NoPinkos

Somebody needs to swoop and save the day for conservatives! West? Rubio? Palin? We’ll probably get Jeb.


4 posted on 02/15/2012 12:14:50 PM PST by albie
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To: NoPinkos

I have no problem finding someone new at the convention, but I do think that the attacks on Santorum fiscally are overstated. Santorum was a team play, and it caused him to have some bad votes in the 2000s. He had been praised for some of his fiscal work previously in his career. He is a conservative, and I think, when he’s in charge, he’d do things differently that when he was just a team player. He would clearly be better than Bush fiscally.


5 posted on 02/15/2012 12:15:09 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: NoPinkos

Santorum opposed TARP, cap and trade and health care mandates. He IS fiscally conservative, and he understands the proper role of the federal government better than the others. Rick will fight Obama every day on HIS terms, and discuss issues that the media want to avoid, namely, the pervasive socialism and corruption of the Obots. Bob


6 posted on 02/15/2012 12:16:03 PM PST by alstewartfan (27 of 36 of Romney's judicial appointments were DEMOCRATS!!!!!)
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To: NoPinkos

Valentine’s Day as a sign up day and no “Pink”os as your screen name? Kinda cute I think. :)


7 posted on 02/15/2012 12:17:23 PM PST by brytlea (An ounce of chocolate is worth a pound of cure)
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To: NoPinkos

Reads like a crap article by a libertarian who tells us not to support anybody who voted for Baby Bush’s big government policies. Even freshmen Senators under the gun.

Sure.

I don’t pretend to know how fiscally reponsible Santorum would be, but this fallacious article is a joke and doesn’t begin to teach me a thing besides the fact that junior Senators have to vote along party lines a lot of the time.

Then there is the lie that Santorum would not be different than Romney. Right sure.

There is nobody good left running for the GOP nominee. Santorum is light years better than the rest of the field Even so, Romney will win on Super Tuesday and be the nominee. Then we will be lucky if half the base supports him to defeat Obama, or if we end up with another 4 years of severe destruction of America.

A President Santorum would be a miraculous save under the expected scenario of Romney vs Satan (obama).


8 posted on 02/15/2012 12:17:28 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
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Yes, Rubio as VP may well make the GOP alandslide winner. This talk of nominating someone who has not been a player reeks of corruption. Bob


9 posted on 02/15/2012 12:18:35 PM PST by alstewartfan (27 of 36 of Romney's judicial appointments were DEMOCRATS!!!!!)
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Can we stop pretending that Rick Santorum is a fiscal conservative?

No!!!
Politics is all about pretending.

10 posted on 02/15/2012 12:19:31 PM PST by Riodacat (And when all is said and done, there'll be a hell of a lot more said than done......)
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"Can we stop pretending that Rick Santorum is a fiscal conservative?"

Fixed it.

11 posted on 02/15/2012 12:20:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: Riodacat

Can we stop pretending Mitt Romney is a conservative in any sense of the word?


12 posted on 02/15/2012 12:20:32 PM PST by bigdirty
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To: NoPinkos

I wonder how Rick feels about moon bases and make-work jobs for school kids?


13 posted on 02/15/2012 12:21:49 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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He wont like the kids working because that would eat into Rick’s base voter, a government union thug. (shhh, don’t let that get around...but he has a fabulous pro union voting record....shhhh).


14 posted on 02/15/2012 12:24:43 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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Rubio?

Anyone who supports amnesty is NOT a fiscal conservative


15 posted on 02/15/2012 12:25:28 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You should fix your tagline, since Yamamoto never said that.


16 posted on 02/15/2012 12:27:03 PM PST by wideawake ("Most Internet quotations are like, totally suspect" - Winston Churchill)
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To: NoPinkos

Why, just because he doesn’t vote NO on everything like Ron Paul? (Well, everything except earmarks for his home district in Texas that is).

Try again.


17 posted on 02/15/2012 12:27:55 PM PST by bigbob
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Newt is a big government guy.


18 posted on 02/15/2012 12:27:55 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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Yes, Rubio. He does not support amnesty, as far as I know. Bob


19 posted on 02/15/2012 12:28:01 PM PST by alstewartfan (27 of 36 of Romney's judicial appointments were DEMOCRATS!!!!!)
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To: NoPinkos

I don’t know much about Romney, but there must be something conservative about him because Rush can say nothing but good things.


20 posted on 02/15/2012 12:28:28 PM PST by elvis-lives
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