Posted on 04/28/2014 12:42:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, who took his sweater-vest Image and Blue Collar message to victory in several primaries, is joining a growing chorus of Republicans who claim the party has forgotten about the poor and lower middle class with its push to help businesses and cut taxes.
Do Republicans really care less about the person at the bottom of the ladder than Democrats do? To be painfully honest, I would have to say in some ways yes,' Santorum writes in his new book out Monday, Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America That Works.
There are some in my party who have taken the ideal of individualism to such an extreme that they have forgotten the obligation to look out for our fellow man. The rhetoric is often harsh and gives the all-too-willing media an opportunity to tar all Republicans with the same brush, he writes.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator who won 11 GOP contests in the 2012 Republican primary season, breaks with party orthodoxy in suggesting that its time to dump the simple call for more tax cuts. He said that individual taxes, beginning with former President Reagans efforts, have been cut so much that further reductions wont have much of an impact.
Instead, he calls for a slashing of regulations and corporate taxes to generate jobs for the middle class.
Besides slamming the Republican's economic agenda for being too focused on businesses and not the middle class, Santorum blasts 2012 nominee Mitt Romney for being out of touch with voters and too easy for the Democrats to paint as a Wall Street president.
The book provides a policy blueprint for Santorum to use if he decides to run again in 2016.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
you had to ruin my day, didn’t you???
Boo!
he spent like almost two years running for “governor of Iowa” in effect - sheesh. What a pander bear.
Loser, loser ,loser, loser........ not worth a damn as a presidential candidate.
Wannabe is not a credential
Last primary season, Santorum had a real chance. Then he had to start blathering about the "need to compromise" and his support drifted away. We need to NOT COMPROMISE with the elite or the invaders in the US. If there's a constitutional conservative candidate, they're going to vote for hillary or whomever the dems choose. We need to get the trust of those disgusted dems who don't trust the party of the powerful.
When cretins like this LOSER get on stage, they ought to be booed off.
Asshole can't get reelected in his home State, but has an answer for everything.
A stupid answer, but an answer nonetheless.
A bigger problem is all of the fees and taxes on necessary things like utilities....they really add up.
28-33% of your cash going to the Feds so they can waste it is low?
The fees and taxes on utilities are mostly imposed by the States on top.
You must be smoking some of that pot from Colorado.
And they say algore and Biden are stupid.
There you go again with the insults. Once I take my standard deductions, my actual federal tax is closer to 10% of my total pension.
Fedgov takes in 3 Trillion in tax revenues, they need more?
Really?
Sweater vest wrestling lawyer who voted against right to work must have missed the 2.5 Trillion in entitlement spending spent on "our fellow man" last year.
He apparently appeals to fiscal morons and people who like sweater vests.
All I can say is that the last thing the Republican party needs is Rick Santorum voters. Anyone who still believes in this big-government liar is a fool.
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Costco is left wing and union.
Obama made this statement once, “”Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?””
It is about as elite a supermarket/grocery statement, as we have ever heard.
That really wasn’t my point.
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