Which Republica Presidential Candidate Supported Sotomayor?

ABC News ^ | 2/11/2012 | Jonathan Karl

[katiedidit1]

Pop quiz: Which Republican presidential candidate supported the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor?

Hint: It’s the same one who endorsed a pro-abortion-rights presidential candidate in an earlier campaign.

Give up? The answer is Rick Santorum.

Santorum was rightly known as a conservative firebrand during his 12 years in the Senate, but the 1998 confirmation vote for Sonia Sotomayor to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals was a notable exception, and so was his endorsement of Arlen Specter’s bid for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination

[Digger]

The field is weak, just the way the leftists planned........Sadly in a country of 300 Million, we can’t find a strict constitutional conservative (well, one who isn’t batty) to run for office.

So who is going to change this? Nobody. We are in a world of hurt. No way we get to become energy dependent. The elites will make sure of that. No conservative wants to be vetted like Palin. Nobody will audit the Feds (except Paul) & he ain't going nowhere. No logic for this except the elites that have most all of the control over us will put us into huts before they will change anything & as long as the sheeple have a TV & a six-pack they are fat cats & will assume the position anytime the handouts come.

[gitmogrunt]

Pass the Kool Aid......there is no perfect candidate, so get over it.

I’m re-posting this hear for all the Santorum-bots, half of you will not even take the time read his stellar voting record, let alone analyze it.

Hat tip to SatinDoll for putting this together

What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like

http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-government-conservative-looks-like/

Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)

Friday, January 6th at 12:13PM EST

NEA

Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.

Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program

Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge

Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.

Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.

Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapists, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.

Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.

Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.

Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.

Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.

Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.

Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.

Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.

Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.

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[cripplecreek]

To them it’s justifiable payback for what Newt sufferred in FL, even though Rick wasn’t responsible for the attacks.

Not to mention the fact that Santorum didn't take enough votes from Gingrich to overcome Romney in Florida.

[Marguerite]

You know, I often see people here saying, excusing Santorum for endorsing Sprcter, Sotomayor, Romney, “Sometimes in politics and in life you have to be pragmatic about things.”

I don’t agree with that. Giving up one’s morals or intellectual integrity is NOT being pragmatic, it’s being a hypocrite and a sellout.

He could as well falling in admiration towards Obama, which he did, before attacking him, as he does now.

I despise people without a moral compass. Romney and Santorum belong the this category. No more flip-floppers!

Santorum was against Tea Party movement, and now he is for it, as he seeks their votes. Santorum was for big government, and now he is against. Santorum was for censoring internet SOPA, and now he is against.

Blast from the past:

Santorum in 2006: “The pursuit of happiness harms America”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=03zFTTqHScI

Rick Santorum is an enemy of individual liberty

[RightLady]

I’ve known that for a looong time. Anyway, it was not for SCOUS it was for a Federal Judge. Anything they can do to prevent us from voting for Santorum! The liberals are so insistant that we nominate Romney, that they attempt to paint him in the most conservative light they can.

[Jean S]

Nice, you’re using the dem talking points. This vote was for an appellate court position and not for the Supreme Court. Those appointments are usually rubberstamped.

Shame on you. If you don’t like Santorum, try using non-lib talking points to defend your position against him.

[dforest]

I totally agree. Santorum didn’t hurt Newt. Newt did it to himself with his stupid attack on capitalism before Florida. Santorum didn’t even campaign in Florida. That was a mistake on his part and that is why his boat sank.

That was the point of his decline. That was a fatal error for Newt and it can’t be turned around now. The trust is gone.

[Toespi]

Great Senators don’t lose by 17 pts. Newt Gingrich will forget more in a week than Santorum will ever know and it is shameful that this is happening to a true American patriot. America will regret this.

[Marguerite]

Santorum 2006: “birth control harms women and society”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=9MBO9tNNejo

[RightLady]

Did Santorum blame Bush for his vote—give him a brake!

[Toespi]

That looks like a road map to the White house. (If you are a democrat.)

[DesScorp]

Santorum has repeatedly said that unless the candidate is not qualified, the POTUS should get his court picks, no matter what party POTUS is. I can’t really fault him for that position.

[dirtboy]

Yep, let the Newt supporters rip into Santorum and let the Santorum supporters rip into Newt.

That makes one person happy - Mitt Romney, who is getting his dirty work done for him.

Please make the case for your guy instead of bashing the other conservative. Mitt already has millions of dollars lined up to bash ‘em both, we don’t need to help him out in that regard. One of those two will be the conservative nominee if they can best Mitt. We need to look ahead to that.

[atc23]

Santorum could have endorsed Pol Pot and if gas is 4 dollars a gallon on election day, say hello to president Santorum.

[TexasFreeper2009]

I support anyone who isn’t named baby killing Romney

[TexasFreeper2009]

It’s funny, I am a BIG Newt supporter.. yet I feel no need to tear down Santorum, my focus is 100% on defeating Romney. Would I prefer Gingrich? sure. But I would gladly vote for Santorum if he is in the lead when the race finally gets to Texas.

I am hoping for a Santorum/Gingrich ticket and either one on top I would be happy with.

[napscoordinator]

Thanks for both posts. That is interesting. So I guess forgiving Toomey for allowing gays in the military is a forgivable offense. I trust your judgement but that is hard for me.

[Mangia E Statti Zitto]

I listened to that clip today when Rush played it. Rush did his best to spin it as Santorum being against government sponsored contraception, or something like that, but that is NOT what Santorum says.

[ripnbang]

Yawn.....