Enough with the Santorum opposed TARP. Prove it. If Rick Santorum was able to vote for it, and was in office at the time you better believe he would have voted for it. Conviently he waited until now to suddenly be against it. BS. Now, I can vote for Rick if I have to, but we have to stop with the half-truths. He needs to stop saying he opposed TARP. If anyone can show me anywhere he opposed TARP publically before it was enacted then I will beieve it. Until now, I say, sure Rick, just like you opposed all the other spending when you were in office. Sure, Rick Santourm, fiscal conservative. NOT.
Nonsense:
http://www.issues2000.org/senate/Rick_Santorum.htm
Voted YES on supporting permanence of estate tax cuts. (Aug 2006)
Voted YES on permanently repealing the `death tax`. (Jun 2006)
Voted NO on $47B for military by repealing capital gains tax cut. (Feb 2006)
Voted YES on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (Feb 2006)
Voted YES on extending the tax cuts on capital gains and dividends. (Nov 2005)
Voted YES on $350 billion in tax breaks over 11 years. (May 2003)
Voted NO on reducing marriage penalty instead of cutting top tax rates. (May 2001)
Voted NO on increasing tax deductions for college tuition. (May 2001)
Voted YES on eliminating the 'marriage penalty'. (Jul 2000)
Voted YES on across-the-board spending cut. (Oct 1999)
Voted YES on requiring super-majority for raising taxes. (Apr 1998)
Voted YES on Balanced-budget constitutional amendment. (Mar 1997)
Rated 81% by NTU, indicating a "Taxpayer's Friend" on tax votes. (Dec 2003)
Rated 100% by the US COC, indicating a pro-business voting record. (Dec 2003)
Rated 0% by the LCV, indicating anti-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
If that record isn't fiscally conservative, what is it?
One reason I trust Santorum more fiscally, is he would have to listen to conservatives if elected. His survival would be contingent on it. Gingrich would owe conservatives nothing, and he does what he wants, no matter what conservatives think. Even Bush had to back down to conservatives in the Harriet Myers case. Santorum would be constrained. Gingrich will do whatever he feels like.
Thank you! I have asked Santorum supporters to explain to me how a Senator, who could not withstand the pressure to endorse Specter, would have been able to stand against the all the “end of the world” wailing that was going on and vote against TARP.
I will take second place to no one in regarding TARP as another instance of trust fund babies slopping at the taxpayer trough. You will note that Rick Santorum was NOT in office when TARP passed and so he did not support it either. An 88% ACU rating suggests that Santorum voted against birdbrain spending more often by far than not.
Santorum is a conservative on the issues that are most important. He is pro-life, pro-family, anti-sexual perversion posing as marriage and being subsidized by taxpayers and private employers (forced by idiot socially subversive court decisions), pro-gun, pro-military, interventionist, and is well-poised to reclaim the Reagan Democrats and Hispanic voters.
Gingrich is also most of those good things but is not doing as well in polls. Santorum is, as he says, "Steady Eddie" and the guy who gets the social attention at the end of the dance when most of the girls have noticed that the quarterback and the student government president have already paired off. He is the guy who leaves the campaign trail to spend tree days playing with his three-year old (chronically ill) hospitalized daughter Bella, Florida primary or no Florida primary. He has his priorities straight. He is Bella's only dad. By just being himself, he will get the votes of a lot of women, wives and mothers and not a few men who really don't care about money issues and may not even be conservative.
Most importantly, neither Rick Santorum nor Newt Gingrich are either Muhammed el Paulie or Mittens The Political Weathervane Romney, money-obsessed wonder wimps extraordinaire and world record serial liars.
Interestingly, Romney and Gingrich have not called him on this. If I were his opponent, *I* would, unless I had evidence to the contrary. Pretty much *everybody* was on record in 2008 about TARP. Many Republicans supported the rank and file and voted against it. Newt and Milt supported it.