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.
I just listened to a woman, an Independent, calling Rush, saying she AND her daughter are supporting Rick. And get this, she has voted for Kerry, but likes Rick because he is a moral man.
“Among women, Texas Rep. Ron Paul won six percent, Gingrich won 29 percent, Romney won 51 percent and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum 13 percent.”
Link: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/31/women-abandon-gingrich-this-time-by-22-point-margin/
That record doesn't include him embracing, campaigning and voting for the WORST OF THE WORST PRO ABORTION, BIG GOV'T, ORIGINATOR of Romneycare, PRO HOME candidate. Then where is he?
Didn’t the conservative icon Ronald Reagan give us AMNESTY in 1987?
You are so desperate you NEED to post deception. Did you hear NEWT explain about that? BE HONEST - even though you support a LIAR.
Didn’t Reagan compromise on many issues with a Democratic Congress as President?
Who was Rick comprising with when he campaigned SOLO for Mitt. He didn't have to, he chose to do it!! That's him, ANYTHING for political favor - he'll compromise the same beliefs he suddenly is standing on today. What a con man!!
No more of my time wasted on this POS liar today. Either you see it or you don't. Liars are repulsive to me and they can't con me, perhaps not you.
RE: That record doesn’t include him embracing, campaigning and voting for the WORST OF THE WORST PRO ABORTION, BIG GOV’T, ORIGINATOR of Romneycare, PRO HOME candidate. Then where is he?
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Loyalty, that’s all. Specter was a Republican who supported Santorum in both his Senate runs and even when he ran for congress earlier. What’s he supposed to do, turn his back on the man who supported him?
That doesn’t suddenly make Santorum a pro-chioce politician.
Sarah Palin supported John McCain in 2010 against a Tea Party candidate.
I don’t hold it against her.
Santorum is the one helping mitt, it’s design that way.
He didn’t get the job done for Mitt in ‘08 at deceiving voters - so he’s getting another chance at it a different way.
A strong pro life, pro marriage, less gov’t person NEVER would campaign or vote for a candidate like Mitt.
It didn’t bother Rick at all to deceive voters to vote for Mitt.
What would President Reagan do if he had had a good conservative challenging Sen. Arlen Specter in a primary in Pennsylvania? Former Sen. Rick Santorum is taking a lot of heat in his presidential campaign for backing the RINO Specter over true-blue conservative Pat Toomey in 2004. We need more conservatives like Ronald Reagan.
I agree. But let’s remember what Reagan actually did. In 1982, Sen. Lowell Weicker (R-Conn.) faced a possible challenge from Prescott Bush, Jr., elder brother of Reagan’s vice president. “God himself could not keep me from challenging Lowell Weicker,” the Bush brother said. But when the convention rolled around, Mr. Bush was obviously listening to someone else. He dropped his challenge.
President Reagan came to New Haven that year and spoke to 10,000 Knights of Columbus. Weicker was on stage with him. The president, Sen. Weicker, and I were perhaps the only three “Prots” in the hall. I was then working for a state pro-life group backed by the Catholic Church. When the host announced from the podium that Sen. Weicker would be flying back to Washington on Air Force One with the president, there were boos and catcalls. The announcer spoke over this disruption. “The president will be dropping Sen. Weicker off in the capital,” he said with authority.
Some witty Knight yelled back: “Drop Weicker on the
Capitol!” The audience cheered. Weicker won that election and continued for another six years to be a burr under Reagan’s saddle. Some gratitude.
It’s worth considering what President Reagan did when we beat up on Rick Santorum for backing the awful Arlen Specter. Weicker showed his ingratitude from day one. What could possibly justify backing Specter?
Well, how do we like Justice Clarence Thomas? He’s about my favorite member of the Supreme Court. But it was Sen. Specter who cut Anita Hill’s testimony to pieces in the Judiciary Committee hearings in 1991. Without Specter’s evisceration of Miss Hill’s inconsistencies, it is highly doubtful that Thomas would have survived.
I’ll never forget watching the confirmation vote on Justice Thomas from the Senate Visitors’ Gallery that night. Hollywood’s Ted Danson was sitting right in front of me, gripping the brass rail. His knuckles went white, and the large bald spot on the back of his head went red, as Thomas’s nomination was approved by the thin margin of 52-48.
Later that night, Sen. Specter strode over to the den of that lion of the right, Paul Weyrich, to receive the plaudits of grateful conservatives. I couldn’t resist: “God bless you, Sen. Specter,” I said as I shook his hand. What did I just say? How many times later did I ask God if I could take that blessing back?
So, what did Specter do after Rick Santorum endorsed him in 2004? Do we remember the 2005 hearings for John Roberts and Sam Alito? Chairman Specter skillfully guided both of those worthy gentlemen to seats on the Supreme Court.
JUST REMEMBER THE ABOVE EVENTS WHEN YOU BRING UP ARLEN SPECTER’s NAME AGAIN.
Moral men don't lie and deceive. Seems she has a habit at picking the wrong men.
RE: A strong pro life, pro marriage, less gov’t person NEVER would campaign or vote for a candidate like Mitt.
A strong pro-life pro marriage, less gov’t person NEVER would campaign or vote for a candidate like Lowell Weicker ( the one who gave Connecticut its INCOME TAX when it previously had none ).
Why did Reagan do it?
Yet, we look up to Reagan as a true conservative.
RE: A strong pro life, pro marriage, less gov’t person NEVER would campaign or vote for a candidate like Mitt.
A strong pro-life pro marriage, less gov’t person NEVER would campaign or vote for a candidate like Lowell Weicker ( the one who gave Connecticut its INCOME TAX when it previously had none ).
Why did Reagan do it?
Yet, we look up to Reagan as a true conservative.
Rick is the most moral presidential candidate we have, and most people can see that. Too bad some can’t.
He is running a solid 4th in a three man race, quite an accomplishment don't you think? Who else could do that?
RE: Santorum is the one helping mitt, it’s design that way. He didn’t get the job done for Mitt in ‘08 at deceiving voters - so he’s getting another chance at it a different way.
And where’s your evidence for that? If he wants to help Mitt, he would have gotten out of the way now and made it easier for Mitt to cruise instead of losing so many states.
“On abortion, he is one of many senators who vote pro-life. The difference is that he is personally responsible for making sure a lot of these votes occur in the first place: He was an architect of the effort to ban partial-birth abortion, a strategy that energized the pro-life movement and allowed it to go on the political offensive.”
http://www.heymiller.com/2010/08/the-fate-of-rick/
Rick Santorum gets things done, because he is a FIGHTER!
The moms of America salute you. Are you off your meds?
Good thing Newt has never lied then. </sarcasm>
I just heard it, too. And she said that the economy is important but there’s something more.
That’s why the anti-Santorums’ mission is to keep calling Rick a liar. They’re wasting their energy on trying to convince the Santorum supporters that Rick is a hypocrite, and they get furious when they realize we “Santorumites” aren’t buying. We recognize that “something more” in a candidate when we see it.
You are clearly delusional. He should point out to his wife where she should stand. He should tell his kids where to stand too. These things are on TV and appearances are important. His wife clearly loves him and respects him. His children do too.
Don't you get tired of constantly lying about Santorum? Don't you have anything useful to do?
Or maybe you are just jealous because Santorum has a loving and caring family and you just hate to see see other people happy when you are so miserable.
Or maybe you are jealous because the author says women like Santorum and you have failed so often with the ladies.
Oh, please! How so, by not knowing by what he's doing? He knows he has way way way way way way less knowledge that NEWT does. If he honored it, he would drop out. But for Rick, it's ALL about him.
You are enthralled by an 'image' - the way it was designed as he doesn't have a record to lead this country. So he LIES about Newt would does.
A sucker is born every minute so 59 cousins are no biggie but expected.
You seem to have no trouble lying, so I guess that makes you immoral.
Get a life, instead of trying to kill of Santorum, work on Obama a little or maybe Romney, the only guy who benefits from your constant screeds.
Obviously you didn’t read my post, because I was saying this insulting article plays in to the notion that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote. BTW, I am a “mom in America.”
Tell me, do you really find this article uplifting? It’s idiotic pablum! What conservative woman with a brain in her head would actually DREAM about a politician? Okay, he loves his wife and kids. So does Obama!
How do you know what he thinks? It's more that you are projecting!
He, having to deal with what's around him on the stage and in DC - HE IS. It's not easy being around liars and do nothings without an original thought where everything is for 'themselves' and not AMERICA.
Mark Levin also supported Romney against McCain. Disagree with Santorum all you want, but here you’re perpetuating something false.
I don’t vote with my privates, but I am a woman. I think it’s insulting to always categorize the female sex as having to picture their candidate as Dad, Husband, or Teacher.
With that said, after the Cainplosion, I looked with my BRAINS at the remaining candidates. Yes, I did stand up and cheer or laugh out loud in joy at Newt slamming the media shmucks at the debates. But with my pschology background I had successfully figured Newt out years ago, and he was still Newt. I considered him STRONGLY, then discarded him due to my deepest belief that very needy individuals seeking fame and fortune through the Presidency HURT US AND BADLY (see Clinton, Obama). Newt is on the right, but he is deeply insecure which colors his behavior. It doesn’t negate his speaking ability or vision, it just sometimes overrides them.
I didn’t care for Romney and Bachmann was fading. So I decided to start looking at Santorum. He had what Palin had, that I’ve been saying for a few years that I wanted in a President: the stones to be a bold conservative, and to unabashedly explain and support the Constitution and conservative principles to the nation.
He also LIVED by his values. When you have a child with differences, you understand how precious each life is. It’s not only about abortion: life is about those who cannot represent themselves well. Grandpas with Alzheimers, adults with cerebral palsy, kids with Down Syndrome. Yes, unborn babies also. This is at the top of my religious beliefs (Judaism) where life is praised for its own, because of the speck of Gdliness in each.
His goals to get manufacturing back in the country are great. I do buy products made in the USA but there aren’t many. Most of our stuff comes from anywhere but. I’d like to see the country get back to having a safe middle class. The infrastructure of the family plays a part, as well as jobs without so many regulations and lawsuits.The more onus you put on employers, the more jobs go elsewhere (see California).
So I decided to support Santorum. It really was a decision out of thought. Yet thereafter, when I heard him speak about Bella, or when he said what he said about church and state, not church vs. state, and some of the other “gaffes,” I found that I believed them and was secretly glad he said them, even if maybe he should have waited until after the inauguration! :)
I am a proud Santorum supporter, the only babywearing Mama in the Whole Foods parking lot with a Rick bumpersticker — IN California. But it wasn’t because his fuzzy sweater vest reminded me of Dad.
yeah, i agree. see my #74.
Big deal - just because someone else did it? LOL!!
I don’t live my life that way. That’s why there are polls - the dumb need to know what others are doing.
Rick is a liar - live with it.
I don’t need to know the “whole story”. Adultery is adultery. Adultery with an intern is adultery with an intern. That’s systematic lying, no matter how much you Newties want to whitewash him.
If you were making the same arguments against Sarah, you would be toast, but you can be thankful that JimRob is endorsing Newt.
Your attacks are beginning to get rabid, and you do nothing but coarsen the discourse. I can find this kind of mindless attacks over on DU, do we really need them here?
Thank you! It angers me to no end that conservative women are seen as not able to actually support a candidate based on facts and issues. This beyond stupid article proves that we thinking women have a lot of work to do among our peers.
I’m a Newt supporter, but totally understand your reasons for voting Rick. I just don’t agree. :)
Thanks for the reminder. Just sent him more $$. This is really our last stand here, people.
Newt cannot get the votes, even though his supporters here are as verbally adept (and pretty darn mean) as he is.
This our only chance to have anyone more conservative than Mitt Romney in our White House! Donate to Rick. Skip a dinner out. A latte. it could change your life, or only the Supreme Court...
You do realize that people lose elections for weird reasons. Winston Freaking Churchill LOST after SAVING ENGLAND.
And the smartest, greatest guy in the world, according to you guys, just lost 9 out of 10 states.
No it is much more effective to refer to Senator Santorum as Little Ricky, or Saint Ric, or Santo, or the whiner..........
You have no evidence that O loves his wife and family, the are there but what do you really know. Same went for Clintons they looked like a loving family didn't they? Then there were the loving Kennedy's and Roosevelt. Harry on the other hand was true to his family, to a fault. Margaret couldn’t sing or play the piano very well.
I’ll never forget watching the confirmation vote on Justice Thomas from the Senate Visitors’ Gallery that night. Hollywood’s Ted Danson was sitting right in front of me, gripping the brass rail. His knuckles went white, and the large bald spot on the back of his head went red, as Thomas’s nomination was approved by the thin margin of 52-48.
Later that night, Sen. Specter strode over to the den of that lion of the right, Paul Weyrich, to receive the plaudits of grateful conservatives. I couldn’t resist: “God bless you, Sen. Specter,” I said as I shook his hand. What did I just say? How many times later did I ask God if I could take that blessing back?
Wow. What a great story.
He knows he has way way way way way way less knowledge that NEWT does.
We can all, Santorum included, stipulate to that.
Newt’s still losing to him. Maybe there’s more to it than knowledge.
I’m hearing so much passion for Rick, but not much for Romney or Newt.
Trouble is, some people MISTAKINGLY think Romney’s the best one to beat Obama. We need to change that perception.
Maybe the good talkers here, will call a talk show(s).
“This is really our last stand here, people.”
For sure, and thanks for supporting Rick!
Okay, you win. This article is fabulous!
I’m going to go take a nap now and dream about Senator Santorum. Then I’ll fantasize about my high school math teacher. Later this evening I’ll daydream about my Sunday School teacher. Then I’ll order a sweater vest for my husband so he can be geeky.
You don’t know the whole story about his private life.
And thank goodness I don’t! Ew!
I don’t blame him for the child abuse he suffered as a teen. But sadly I already know too much about his behavior behind the Speaker’s desk.
It talks about his honesty too, that he told them to blank his blank instead, so he could say to his wife that he didn’t have sex.
He is a national security risk. What would Gingrich do if an intern came into the Oval Office with a juicy piece of pizza, and red thong panties? At least Rick Santorum would have her fired and investigated.
Ahem. I call him Santo a lot because it’s shorter and easier to type on devices. Its not pejorative. Maybe affectionate and abbreviate.
Sit and talk to newt about anything, well that may be right, I spent a lot of time in my younger years drinking, chasing tail, and have a damn good time, cheated on my first wife also, yep, newt and I could tell some war stories.
Truth would be no problem.
When you post some truth, let me know.
Tiresome. Pathetic. You aren’t doing Newtie any good this way. You and he deserve each other.
I directly addressed your question, and then you threw out any old thing back at me. So much for having a discussion.
Those who are falling for Romney are just like the Arizonans who were sold a bill of goods by McCain. I don’t know if they can be reasoned with.
This is a terrific post! I agree with you entirely. BTW, I also used my brain, and have never seen Sanrorum as a Dad, Husband, or Teacher figure.
Well, let’s hope the rest of the states are wiser than AZ.
Just want to add that four years ago today, McCain was ahead by a whooping 30 points, but Romney is only ahead by around 10.
Getting rid of Romney is certainly doable.
You wouldn’t recognize it.
It went over your head and not surprised.
You can’t see the truth - that’s Santo’s supporters mo.
Santorum is doing his part, ONCE AGAIN, on killing America. Watch and see, Romney gets the nod as their design comes to fruition.
Newt is forgiven what he did in his private life by HIS judge.
RS’s continual lying is not moral. Satan is the master of lies, so we know where lies come from. Rick and Mitt make a great team.
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