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Santorum's Fight for Welfare Reform
National Review ^ | 1/4/2012 | Brian Bolduc

Posted on 02/16/2012 1:47:07 PM PST by FresnoRobert

As the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum shepherded welfare reform through the U.S. Senate in 1996. Given his limited tenure — he’d been elected to the Senate only two years before — the fact that Majority Leader Bob Dole selected Santorum to lead the effort is nothing short of remarkable, Santorum’s former colleagues say. It also is a testament to an overlooked virtue of the ex-senator’s: his pragmatism.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: reform; santorum; welfare
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To: FresnoRobert

Whatever? conspiracy?

Finding an almost 7 year old sleeper account with 4 posts total to it, suddenly burst into an anti-Newt publishing house in the last month, is merely an eye brow raising discovery, not a “conspiracy”claim.

Newt has been endorsed by freerepublic, and a sleeper account claims that FR is posting “”right out of the DNC & Romney playbook””, this from a sleeper account that labels everything and everybody “conspiracy”, sounds revealing.


41 posted on 02/17/2012 10:29:37 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: FresnoRobert
I was never a past Romney fan.

We can't know that, you signed up almost 7 years ago but never posted until Newt was getting ready to take out Romney in South Carolina last month, you only showed up then, suddenly you have a great passion to become a prolific poster.

42 posted on 02/17/2012 10:39:13 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12

Well I think you are a secret Romney fan because you are trying to take out Rick Santorum, the only guy who can win in the general election. Maybe you are secretly wanting Obama to win!

See, it’s easy to create conspiracy out of thin air, just like YOU!


43 posted on 02/17/2012 11:40:32 AM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: FresnoRobert

I don’t know what your obsession with conspiracies is, but I have a very clear and long posting history that you can examine.

Although you signed up well before me in 2005, you only have a months worth of posting history to examine, for 6 1/2 years there was nothing, just a dead account with 4 meaningless posts, one about every 19 months, and then you suddenly explode on the scene, prolific, aggressive, and with a single temporary goal, that sure looks like a sleeper account.


44 posted on 02/17/2012 12:10:03 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12

Please read your posts. They constantly refer to conspiracies, beards, etc. Not mine. Your last one did so again. You are obviously oblivious to it.


45 posted on 02/17/2012 4:12:25 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: FresnoRobert

No they don’t.

You are merely obsessed with the idea of conspiracy, an individual using a beard is not a “conspiracy”, who is he conspiring with?

As a sleeper troll who just activated your almost 7 year old account this month, I saw you as just an individual trying to stop Newt Gingrich, your obsession with the word conspiracy is starting to seem almost like a declaration, it doesn’t make sense to keep using it in every post.


46 posted on 02/17/2012 4:26:45 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12

If this is going to degenerate into name calling, then look for a conversation elsewhere. There are plenty of people to call names or accuse of being a troll or hatching plots against your candidate elsewhere. I don’t have time for games.


47 posted on 02/17/2012 5:33:33 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: ansel12

If this is going to degenerate into name calling, then look for a conversation elsewhere. There are plenty of people to call names or accuse of being a troll or hatching plots against your candidate elsewhere. I don’t have time for games.


48 posted on 02/17/2012 5:33:33 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: ansel12

If this is going to degenerate into name calling, then look for a conversation elsewhere. There are plenty of people to call names or accuse of being a troll or hatching plots against your candidate elsewhere. I don’t have time for games.


49 posted on 02/17/2012 5:33:34 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: FresnoRobert

What name calling?

As far as time, you suddenly seem to have unlimited amounts of it in the last month, for almost 7 years you had zero interest in using your account, or in politics, or posting on anything, even the 2006 election, the 2008 election and Palin or Obama, or the history making 2010 election, or anything at all, until Gingrich became a threat to Romney in South Carolina, last month.


50 posted on 02/17/2012 6:03:15 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: ansel12
Calling people trolls isn't name calling in your book? OK sport! You seem to have your own little reality going where you pretend what you just said never happened and unlimited time to comment on threads I post. It must be hell to have nothing else to look forward to. You also seem to have an unlimited capability to see conspiracies. I see that you have already accused another guy on a different thread of the same that you insinuated of me. You are really stuck on the same tune. Anyone who thinks Rick Santorum is a far better candidate than the others is your enemy. You may want to seek help. And thanks for running up my thread count by the way. I will try to keep posting pro Santorum threads to keep you occupied.
51 posted on 02/17/2012 7:15:50 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: FresnoRobert

Of course you will keep posting, your sleeper account has fully come to life.

I don’t need to look forward to your posts, you ping me when you make them to me.

We are awash in sleeper accounts coming to life, so far I have not noticed a single one of them being a Gingrich backer, have you?


52 posted on 02/17/2012 7:22:27 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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53 posted on 02/17/2012 7:30:20 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: FresnoRobert

Thank goodness, but if you find a sleeper account that is pro-Gingrich, ping me to it.


54 posted on 02/17/2012 7:34:16 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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55 posted on 02/17/2012 8:30:54 PM PST by FresnoRobert (When born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, it's reversed.)
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To: ansel12

I am not really a fan of the “don’t run someone so conservative they offend the masses” theory,

Since you made that up, care to explain it?


I’m confused a little here. I do *not* support the position that states we should not run someone so conservative they offend the masses.
Whenever someone runs as a strongly conservative candidate, they win, because the majority of people in this country are conservative.
The contract with America was a winning position for this reason. The fizzle and aisle crossing and all that were not winning positions, because they then tried to make nice with the people whose numbers were insufficient to keep them out of office in the first place, and would never have voted for them no matter how nice they played - the only result of that was the loss of respect from their base.


56 posted on 02/23/2012 11:58:13 PM PST by Apogee
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