This former Prosecutor agrees with Rick.
Santorum 2012
I can’t say these are Presidential statements on the part of Santorum.
Not only is it right to stand up for a man who apparently was being beaten for merely asking someone “Why are you here?”
It’s a chance to get that all-wonderful, most-glorious ‘Hispanic vote’ the GOPE is always touting.
Epic fails all around for the GOPE candidates.
Rick must be getting desperate.
Washington Compost. No Creditability... Will wait to hear it from a source not so dishonest and working for the Democrats.
Have the Chicago police caught and arrested those responsible for the murder of 30 people last weekend? Why is that not being questioned and protested by the racist tools of the AFRICAN-AMERICA idiots?
Santorum should keep quiet because the facts can go either way for Zimmerman. Negative for Zimmerman is he decided to follow Martin after calling the cops. The police operator told him not to follow Martin and let the cops arrive to handle the situation. We do not know how the fight started between Martin and Zimmerman. Witness state that Martin (who is big) was on top of Zimmerman and beating him bloody. That is when Zimmerman cried for help and managed to pull his handgun and shoot Martin. If Zimmerman agitated a hothead Martin and a fight ensued. Zimmerman would be hard pressed for using a gun in a street brawl caused partly by him. On the other hand if Martin turned and moved towards Zimmerman to confront him for following him. Zimmerman states his business but indicate he doesn’t want to fight and backs off, but Martin continues to advance, then Zimmerman may have justification. Zimmerman guilt or innocence hang on minor details of who agitated who and who attacked who, etc, etc that will delineate between a fist fight between two aggressive men or one man intending to harm another man, forcing him to defend his life while he was retreating from a fight.
Example if someone calls you an AxxHxle and you back off and tell him you don’t want any trouble. If that person advances with fists swinging, you can defend yourself. On the other hand you respond by calling him an AxxHxle, and he threatens to kill you, and you respond by daring him to try. Now the situation is no longer self defense but a brawl.
I don’t think any Presidential candidate should be talking about this issue at all. Period.. It is a local matter.
“Hope I did this right! Maybe Newt can take advantage of Santorum’s ill-informed and inflammatory comments? “
Too late Newt has been spouting off the same stuff.
Good grief! The facts are not known yet.
Seems like everyone and his uncle wants to get his 2 cents on on this. The only excuse for Rick saying anything about this case is that everyone else has already weighed in, including Barry and Newt, not to mention every talking head and race baiter on TV.
No, if the eyewitness account is true, he wasn’t “standing his ground”—he was lying on his back on the ground getting pounded.
Good grief. All of you shut up, already, you dumb politicians.
In this case Santorum is acting like Zer0. Both are stepping in it without knowing all the facts.
Slightly worse than Newt’s opportunistic remark.
Has any politician stood up for evidence and due process?
re: “the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law should not apply to the shooter, George Zimmerman.”
How does he KNOW this?? All we have are media reports of this or that - there has been no hard investigation done yet. Zimmerman may be guilty as sin, but nothing has been proved one way or the other - he’s being lynched by the media, politicians, and the poverty pimps. What happened to a nation of law and order? Get all the facts first and prove it in a court of law.
If the cops were negligent, then sue the heck out of them, fire the ones responsible (although that hardly ever happens), and, if Zimmerman murdered this kid in cold blood - try him then execute him, or at least life in prison where the prison populace with take care of him.
But, NOTHING has been proved one way or the other yet. The politicians are stumbling over themselves to throw this guy to the wolves - talk about “No justice”. What if it’s found out that Zimmerman was justified - what are these politicians going to say then? However this turns out, Zimmerman’s life of normalcy is over forever. He will never be able to live or work anywhere even if found innocent. What a country we have now. I cannot believe it.
So far, I’ve only heard Santorum make this ridiculous statment - the others will probably do the same or say nothing at all (neither of which is good).
Also, this is another Godsend to Obama - another distraction from his horrible “leadership” - now he can put the “republicans are all racists” issue on the front burner along with “Republicans hate women” issue to campaign on rather than the economy.
Obama, who doesn’t look like any of the presidents on our
money, was quick to call Sandra Fluke, who ,if had a daughter would look like Nancy Pelosi.
When will he call Trayvon’s mom, who doesn’t look like Obama’s
mom?
What Santorum should have said:
“It is unfortunate that the president has seen fit to stoke the fires of racial division in this unfortunate event, and even more so, that he has done so before a complete investigation has been made.
“It is the job of the chief executive, both personally and among his cabinet, to faithfully uphold the law, neither to commit criminal acts nor allow them to be committed for whatever ends. If he is intemperate or permits the law to be unfairly enforced or prejudiced, or makes an effort to bias the law with favoritism, he has failed in his duties.”
The funniest aspect of this story is that to date, Romney has shown the best judgment, in not commenting at all on it, whereas Newt and Rick are grasping at the 1% of the black vote (1% of the 12% of the population that is black = 0.1% of the national vote) that is up for grabs, while neglecting the hordes of Hispanics who could vote against Obama for his nakedly racist interference in a local case that at worst, might involve manslaughter charges against a Neighborhood Watch Captain for killing a yet-to-be arrested juvenile delinquent casing homes for loot.
I don’t get it......an Hispanic guy shoots a Black guy, yet somehow some folks are acting like it’s the White Euro’s fault.
Him interjecting anything here, would be really stupid.
If he said what I've heard, he's a vote whore.
I like you show his comments were ill informed - not.