Posted on 11/17/2014 9:21:23 AM PST by GIdget2004
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who nipped at Mitt Romney’s heels in the 2012 Republican presidential primary, says he’s eyeing mid-2015 for a decision about a second White House bid.
“Four years ago, we ended up announcing in June of 2011. If past is a portent of the future, that’s probably a ballpark,” he said in a phone interview.
Santorum said he’s actively engaged with party donors and activists to assess whether he has a path to the nomination.
“We’re doing everything consistent with making an effort,” he said. “We’re talking to donors, we’re looking at talking to people in the early primary states and trying to get a gauge of support and doing the grunt work, if you will, of seeing whether there’s a path forward for us.”
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Rick, stay home and enjoy your beautiful family of well brought up teens. Maybe open a restaurant or a care home, but don’t turn yourself into the Ralph Nader, or Ross Perot of the right. Don’t be a spoiler.
Well, except on the conservative use of government. He was all for plentiful use of government. He voted FOR increased minimum wage every time it came up, for example.
Sure, he was morally "conservative" if you use "conservative" as code for "wants to use government to enforce Christian values," when he said he wanted to get ride of Planned Parenthood, etc. -- a great idea to get RID of government, to use government CONSERVATIVELY, as in sparingly, and government has zero business in "planned parenthood" and the murderous evil "planned abortions" that go with it on the taxpayers dime.
Hooray for Rick if he had kept it there, but Noooooooo -- your so-called "conservative" Rick advocated for LIBERAL use of government in that he wanted to simple redirect tax-payer-funded government resources away from the evil planned parenthood, TOWARD the much more moral choice of adoption. But a TRUE CONSERVATIVE would say, "that is still the liberal use of government; government has zero business in 'planned parenthood' whether it involves abortion OR adoption."
I did my due diligence in 2012.
Rick may be a moral Christian with good Christian values, but he STILL is very liberal when it comes to the use of government -- Rick is all for plentiful government, as long as it is HIS kind of compassionate plentiful government. I will only vote for Republicans or others who advocate for the conservative use of government -- that is, LIMITED GOVERNMENT.
I didn’t say he was perfect. I said he is very conservative to conservative on most issues. If we want perfection, we’ll have to go somewhere other than this planet to get that. We all hail Reagan as the yardstick to measure others by, yet as governor of California he signed a gun control bill and raised taxes several times. I’ve done my research also.
The point is, you’ll be able to nitpick everyone’s record. The question you will have to ask yourself is if this guy is overall a conservative on most issues. We won’t get perfection. If we look for that, we’ll be disappointed or have to pick a neophyte with little to no record (aka the conservative version of Obama)
Double dittos x 10. Rick, you’re a very nice guy, but please, I’m begging you, just go away. You couldn’t even win your own Pennsylvania Senate seat; your chances of winning the Republican nomination for Presidentare less than zero, if that were possible. Please don’t hobble our other viable candidates who do stand a chance.
He’s a one issue pony -
WE have powerful enemies and O’s mass-destruction of our country to overcome.
WE need someone with FAR greater experience and brain power - and less self-awareness.
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Rick - I sent you money in the past. But - stay home please. We need someone who is fearless - and we do not need to split the conservative vote in the primaries again.
Who?
One of the main reasons people are lambasting him is because he lost his Senate seat in 2006. I think everyone would agree that was a bad year for Republicans. A democratic wave election. One of the central issues and reasons why he lost was because he was a good soldier and supported Bush’s guy Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in the 2004 Senate race. Bush needed every Republican vote he could get because the Senate was so close and Specter was a sure winner in the general election while Toomey was not.
No thanks.
Rick........ don’t. Just..... don’t.
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