Posted on 03/08/2012 10:20:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Lame Stream Media circle like sharks in a blood pool over Rick Santorum’s Catholicism. Funny, they asked conservatives if they were against Romney because they are “anti-Mormon” but no one is asking those attacking Santorum if they are doing it because they are “anti-Catholic.” Do we want a POTUS candidate who doesn’t believe his own faith? We already have that, don’t we?
Rick Santorum is laughing all the way to the ballot box as women swoon, and it isn’t over his good looks. Women like Rick for a lot of reasons. He is every woman’s husband. He is every girl’s dad, complete with the sweater vest. He is every businesswoman’s handy banker. He is every school girl’s slightly geeky, but deliciously smart favorite math teacher. He is the Sunday School teacher we wish we had—the one who actually fights for his faith rather than cowering for church attendance and tithes. He has courage.
Women feel the financial strain created by this administration’s $1 trillion per year spending habit more than our sexier counterparts. We are the ones who have to abandon our choices and go to work. We have to clip coupons, stretch dollars, walk the tightrope between what our kids want and what our struggling budget allows, and we know we couldn’t do it without our spiritual strength. The press’ contention that the social issues don’t matter smack of government constrained churches to us, and we won’t have it. Women need the freedom to worship where they want, how they want, and they don’t want this government threatening their spiritual freedoms. Women understand what Sarah Palin said when she proclaimed that social issues and economic issues are not mutually exclusive-- They are inextricably linked, and women know that because we use the spiritual strengths guaranteed to us by “social issues” to survive the fiscal stresses every day under this imperial President’s reign.
There is more to Rick’s support by Middle American Moms than meets the eye. In the states where he has campaigned and delivered a message, women are feeling emboldened to support this hubby-daddy-slightly geeky teacher-type; they know things the media and GOP establishment wish they could dust away.
Moms like him. Rick and Karen have 7 living children. Karen is an attorney, nurse, and author. Rick knows firsthand what it means to run the carpool, pick up the kids from soccer, help with homework, and drop them at a friends’ house, all while trying to get to work on time or spiff up the house before dinner with the family.
Businesswomen like him. Santorum sponsored and passed the Women’s Business Centers Sustainability Act that established numerous initiatives to support small businesses owned by women.
Work at home moms like him. He has been outspoken and boldly spoken up for women to have the choices they deserve—to work outside the home, or not. He even placed the blame for taking away these freedoms where real women know it belongs—on the radical feminists.
Poor women like him. When he decided to take on the colossal battle of welfare reform, he invited 8 women on welfare to co-create the legislation with him. Who does that? This shows such cool creativity and cutting edge leadership, it would give a sweater vest some swag!
Pro-life women like him. He is an unquestionable champion of life. This means that unborn women probably like him, too. They just won’t be able to say so until about 2013.
Pro-choice women like him. He is the only candidate who has declared that he would not criminalize birth control, unless killing babies is your “method of choice.”
Libertarian women like him. The Cato Institute had rave reviews for the Senator while he was serving in D.C.
Victimized women like him. Unlike Obama, he doesn’t label them victims (AKA: Useful idiots). He empowers crime victims with his tough law for trafficking victims (Trafficking Victims Protection Conference Report) and Aimee’s Law. He co-sponsored the National AMBER Alert Network Act to strengthen alert capabilities and assist state and local law enforcement in catching those who would kidnap a child.
Academic women like him. His mother was the first woman to graduate from Yale. She was the primary breadwinner for his family growing up. His wife, Karen, is a lawyer, nurse, and author. He understands the importance of education and more importantly, the personal satisfaction that comes from women meeting their full potential. His life is living proof of that.
Moms of special ability children like him. As a mother of a child with a Trisomy 21, I can assure you that this hidden, but adamant voting block will move heaven and earth to get to the polls to support someone who loves and understands all the extra joy and challenge in raising a special child. His love for his baby, Gabriel who died, and later for his precious little Bella with Trisomy 18, is all most moms like me need to know the man has a heart the size of Texas, and he wears it on his sleeve for our special little ones.
Mr. Moms even like him! He championed initiatives to encourage participation of fathers in the lives of their children, and provide families with relief from the marriage penalty tax.
While esoteric, overeducated liberals stand in awe as Senator Santorum survives the ravages of the socialist attacks, we Middle American Women quietly smile to ourselves. We know where our vote will be in 2012.
-- Dr. Gina Loudon is the host of the PM drivetime show The Dr. Gina Show heard in 8 states across the Midwest and the South.
RE: If Santorum dropped out now, Newt would over take Mitt in a NY minute. Mitt isn’t cruising anywhere as long as Newt is in it.
And what makes you so sure of that, seeing Newt has only won 2 states to Santorum’s 7 ?
Santorum has 181 delegates to Newt’s 107.
People could also say, if Newt dropped out now, Santorum would over take Mitt in a NY minute.
Between polite claps and ACTUAL LEGISLATIVE BATTLES, I take the latter as indicating what someone will do thank you.
REALITY:
Santorum FOUGHT Clinton over partial birth abortion all the way.
He went toe to toe with Barbara Boxer in the Senate floor in 1999.
See here and watch his passionate defense of babies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeUPq6md2jg
THAT CANNOT BE FAKED.
I think what my friend is doing, by asking me these questions, is off point. My friend wants to tell the doctors in this country what to do. My friend from Pennsylvania says they are rogue doctors. The AMA will tell you they no longer support the bill. The American Nurses don't support the bill. The obstetricians and gynecologists don't support the bill. So my friend can ask me my philosophy all day; on my own time I will talk about it.
I ask the Senator from California, again, you believe -- you said "once the baby comes home." Obviously, you don't mean they have to take the baby out of the hospital for it to be protected by the Constitution. Once the baby is separated from the mother, you would agree -- completely separated from the mother -- you would agree that baby is entitled to constitutional protection?
Again, I will not put words in the Senator's mouth, but what I heard -- and again I am willing to have that corrected by the record and the Senator can correct me right now -- what I heard her say is if the foot is inside the mother, no, you cannot kill the baby, but when the head is, you can. That is a pretty slippery slope.
We have a situation where this procedure is outlawed. It will hurt the women and the families of this country. My friend can disagree with that, but I never got into the issue of when is someone born. I said to you I am very clear on that, and I understand that completely, but it was my friend who kept on asking these questions, which to me do not make any sense because the issue here is an emergency procedure that my friend from Pennsylvania wants to make illegal, and it will hurt the women and it will hurt the families of this country.
No emergency do you present yourself in an emergency condition and get sent home with pills for 3 days to present yourself back.
Again, I want to finalize, and then the Senator from Arkansas has been waiting for quite sometime, and I want to allow him to speak. This is not a clean issue. This is not a removal of a tumor. We are talking about drawing the line between what is infanticide and what is abortion, and that is why many of us are disturbed about this. No one is trying to reach in and outlaw abortions.
The Senator from Illinois and I were very clear about the limited scope of this bill. What we are saying is, this is too close to infanticide. This is barbaric. This fuzzies the line that is dangerous for the future of this country. And what you saw, as the Senator from California was hesitant to get involved in that because she realizes how slippery this slope is, that you can say the foot does, the head doesn't, maybe the ankle -- folks, we don't want to go there. It is not necessary for the health of the mother, it is not necessary for the life of the mother, and if you don't believe me, believe the person who developed it because they said so.
I think we need to have a full debate, not just on narrow issues, but on the broader issue of what this means to the rights of every one of us born and unborn, sick and well, wanted and unwanted. I think the line needs to be a bright one. I yield the floor.
Romney/Spector for President supporter, Rick Santorum. "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress"
SOURCE:
http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/presidential-hopefuls-rick-santorum/
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As a member of the U.S. Senate from 1995 until 2007, Santorum was the prime author and champion of key pro-life bills, including the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, a ban on partial-birth abortion, and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which makes it a separate crime if an unborn child is harmed or killed during the commission of a stipulated list of federal crimes.
Santorum not only has signed the Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life Presidential Pledge, but he has helped raise money for that organization, too.
Santorum believes that abortion is never justified, including in cases of rape or incest. During a Republican presidential debate last summer in Ames, Iowa, when panelist Byron York noted that many Americans favor abortion under certain circumstances, Santorum didn’t flinch or back off from his uncompromising position.
“You know, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a recent case, said that a man who committed rape could not be killed, would not be subjected to the death penalty; yet the child conceived as a result of that rape could be,” he said. “That sounds to me like a country that doesn’t have its morals correct. That child did nothing wrong. That child is an innocent victim.”
The radical agenda to drive the pro-life movement out of the GOP that Santorum was promoting in 1996. Before supporting the pro-abortion Romney in 2008.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/64281-1
Santorum is seen nodding and applauding at Specter’s side:
3:46 mark: “In 1996, I intend to win the other house — the White House — with ten commitments to America… including a woman’s right to choose…
13:22 mark: “Even though we have this historic opportunity for these achievements, there are those in our party who would lead us down a different path — and squander this unique moment in our nation’s history — by using our political capital — to pursue a radical social agenda — that would end a woman’s right to choose…
13:48 mark: “When Pat Robertson says there is no constitutional doctrine of separation between Church and State, I say he is wrong…
14:31 mark: “When Ralph Reed says a pro-choice Republican isn’t qualified to be our President, I say the Republican Party will not be intimidated or blackmailed by those kinds of threats.I, and millions of other pro-choice Republicans, will not be disenfranchised and made second class citizens.
15:33 mark: “… it is not Christian, or religious, or Judeo-Christian to bring God into politics; or to advocate intolerance and promote exclusion.
15:54 mark: “I want to take abortion out of politics. I want to keep the Republican Party focused on the vital economic and foreign policy issues — and leave moral issues such as abortion to the conscience of the individual. I believe abortion is an issue to be decided by women…
16:40 mark: “I pledge to lead the fight to strip the strident anti-choice language from the Republican National platform…”
BETWEEN WHAT A PERSON HAS DONE AND WHAT YOU SAID HE SAID, I’LL TAKE HIS RECORD IN CONGRESS THANK YOU. AND HIS RECORD IS PRO-LIFE, DEFENDER OF THE UNBORN. THAT IS SUFFICIENTLY CLEAR.
Gary Bauer was President of the stridently pro-family and pro-life FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL.
He RAN for President in 2004 under a pro-life banner. He also has a newsletter observing the record of members of Congress regarding family issues ( abortion included ).
HE IS NO IGNORAMUS. He KNOWS what a person does in Congress and their records.
Gary Bauer has already endorsed Santorum.
So, according to that chart, men in non-milquetoast states don’t like Rick...maybe because he’s a wuss?
That’s what’s amazing about Newt. He ran the House under a Democrat president and still managed to have a more conservative domestic agenda than Reagan. He’s the only one that can go toe-to-toe with the libs in divided government and score an amazing number of points.
What he has done is tried to destroy the pro-life movement with Specter’s Presidential run in 1996.
In 2008 he tried to get the next most anti-prolife candidate that the GOP has ever produced for a Presidential run.
Just like Romney Santorum abandoned being pro-abortion so that he could run in Republican politics.
Santorum originally ran as a self labeled “Progressive Conservative” and his dislike for Reagan was revealed in his labeling pro-Reagan conservatives as a “right-wing fringe”.
RE: What he has done is tried to destroy the pro-life movement with Specter’s Presidential run in 1996.
He has done NO SUCH THING. Specter HELPED to install PRO-LIFE and CONSTITUTIONAL JUDGES and JUSTICES in the courts of America.
Thomas, Alito, Roberts, all were confirmed because of Specter’s guidance in the Justice Committee. Specter FOUGHT against Kennedy, Schumer and the rest who would derail their appointments.
It is this willingness to FIGHT for Republican appointments that Santorum found impressive.
And again, the fact that Specter is a liberal and a turncoat does not support your contention that Santorum is no conservative. If so, that would make Reagan a fake conservative too as he supported the RINO, Lowell Weicker ( the man later left the GOP as well ).
I’m for EITHER Santorum or Newt who ever wins.
I am however, NOT IN FAVOR of the supporter one attacking the other. That is political suicide.
RE: So, according to that chart, men in non-milquetoast states don’t like Rick...maybe because he’s a wuss?
Are you implying that men who live in Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee are more milquetoast than the men in Massachusetts and Vermont?
Where’s the evidence of that?
Who is the one that KNOWS and studied AMERICA and knows how it SHOULD WORK and HOW TO undo the wrongs done? Who is the brains here? To say anyone but NEWT is being dishonest.
In 1995 and 1996, Santorum was endorsing and supporting an attempt to make the Republican party pro-abortion.
Santorum admits that he was a pro-abortion Catholic until 1990, and changed his position in preparation to run for office.
When did Santorum become pro-life?
RE: Santorum originally ran as a self labeled “Progressive Conservative” and his dislike for Reagan was revealed in his labeling pro-Reagan conservatives as a “right-wing fringe”.
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I don’t care what he was originally. Ronald Reagan ORIGINALLY signed one of the most liberal pro-abortion bills in California. What does that make him?
I am more concerned with what SANTORUM DID in Washington.
If he were not pro-life, why would this strong pro-life Catholic group:
CatholicVote.org, a leading national grassroots Catholic advocacy organization. ENDORSE SANTORUM?
See here:
http://www.lifenews.com/2012/01/05/santorum-captures-endorsement-from-catholic-pro-life-group/
Simple, they looked at his record, and liked what they saw.
EXCERPT:
“Pennsylvania Rick Santorum represents our best hope to rally the nation behind a unified moral and economic vision that Americans are clamoring for in a President,’ said Brian Burch, the president of CatholicVote. “CatholicVote.org is proud to stand with Rick Santorum, and is prepared to mobilize our rapidly-growing grassroots network to help secure him the GOP nomination, and ultimately win the White House.”
“Catholic voters are looking for a candidate who can successfully combine the principles of the dignity of life and the dignity of work,” Burch said. “Senator Santorum understands better than any other candidate the profound link between the moral, cultural and economic principles foundational to the success of America. We are convinced that Rick Santorum is the candidate best equipped to win not only the political arguments, but also the hearts of American voters as he did in Iowa on Tuesday.”
“Rick Santorum is a workingman’s Republican with a record and a plan which are especially appealing to Catholic voters. His record in Pennsylvania, and his record as a presidential candidate confirms that Senator Santorum understands why four more years of President Obama would be devastating for America, but also why a GOP message focused too heavily on taxes, spending, and debt is simply not enough,” Burch continued.
Between this group and what you say, I’ll take what this group believes, thank you.
RE: Santorum admits that he was a pro-abortion Catholic until 1990, and changed his position in preparation to run for office.
When did Santorum become pro-life?
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Again, who cares what he was before?
The important thing is WHAT HE DID IN WASHINGTON and WHAT HE IS NOW.
Who cares what Reagan did as governor of California? ( He signed a bill to legalize abortion ), the important thing is HE SAW THE LIGHT and CHANGED HIS MIND.
Who cares that St. Paul aided and abetted the murder of Stephen before he was converted on the road to Damascus?
I hope you get the point.
I already voted for Santorum February 28 in Michigan. If things have to be reassessed after the convention I will do so.
RE: . If things have to be reassessed after the convention I will do so.
I believe you voted because you studied his record and studied his present policy proposals.
What kind of possible reassessment would concern you most?
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