Our Guide to the Best Coverage on Rick Santorum and His Record
http://www.propublica.org/article/ou...and-his-record
hatin' "Christian" assholes/homophobes love this guy more and more.
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Our Guide to the Best Coverage on Rick Santorum and His Record
http://www.propublica.org/article/ou...and-his-record
hatin' "Christian" assholes/homophobes love this guy more and more.
Yes, laughable. 30,015 votes wins an Iowa Caucus. Does the media know it's going to take around 75 million to win the general election? Of course they do, and the only fools here are the ones actually paying attention.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spurminator
For the record, the front page of the New York Times and this thread is about all the coverage of the event I absorbed.
enough fools watching for the TV advertizing depts and their corporate advertizers.
Like everything else in America, elections are a business, not a democracy.
For the record, you were paying attention too, if only to state your preference with resting content with reading the front page of the NYT and nothing else.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMX7
Rick Santorum's Top 10 Most Outrageous Campaign Statements
1) ANNUL ALL SAME-SEX MARRIAGES: Arguing that gay relationships “destabilize” society, Santorum wouldn’t offer any legal protections to gay relationships and has pledged to annul all same-sex marriages if elected president. During his 99-country tour of Iowa, Santorum frequently compared same-sex relationships to inanimate objects like trees, basketballs, beer, and paper towels and even tried to blame the economic crisis on gay people. As Santorum explained back in August, religious people have a constitutional right to discriminate against gays: “We have a right the Constitution of religious liberty but now the courts have created a super-right that’s above a right that’s actually in the Constitution, and that’s of sexual liberty. And I think that’s a wrong, that’s a destructive element.”
2) ‘I’M FOR INCOME INEQUALITY’: “They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality,” Santorum said during an event in Pella, Iowa in December. “I think some people should make more than other people, because some people work harder and have better ideas and take more risk, and they should be rewarded for it. I have no problem with income inequality.”
3) CONTRACEPTION IS ‘A LICENSE TO DO THINGS’: Santorum has pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception and allow the states to outlaw birth control, insisting that “it’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”
4) GAY SOLDIERS ‘CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN CLOSE QUARTERS’: During an appearance on Fox News Sunday in October, Santorum defended his support for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by arguing that gay soldiers would disrupt the military because “they’re in close quarters, they live with people, they obviously shower with people.” He also suggested that “there are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle and aren’t anymore.”
5) OBAMA SHOULD OPPOSE ABORTION BECAUSE HE’S BLACK: During an appearance on Christian television in January, Santorum said he was surprised that President Obama didn’t know when life began — given his skin color. “I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people,” he explained.
6) WE DON’T NEED FOOD STAMPS BECAUSE OBESITY RATES ARE SO HIGH: Speaking in Le Mars, Iowa in December, Santorum promised to significantly reduce federal funding for food stamps, arguing that the nation’s increasing obesity rates render the program unnecessary.
7) ABORTION EXCEPTIONS TO PROTECT WOMEN’S HEALTH ARE ‘PHONY’: While discussing his track record as a champion of the partial birth abortion ban in June, Santorum dismissed exceptions other senators wanted to carve out to protect the life and health of mothers, calling such exceptions “phony.” “They wanted a health exception, which of course is a phony exceptionwhich would make the ban ineffective,” he said.
8) HEALTH REFORM WILL KILL MY CHILD: Santorum, who claims that Obamacare motivated him to run for president, told reporters in April that his daughter Bella — who was born with a genetic abnormality — wouldn’t survive in a country with “socialized medicine.” “Children like Bella are not given the treatment that other children are given.”
9) UNINSURED AMERICANS SHOULD SPEND LESS ON CELL-PHONE BILLS: During a meeting with the editorial board of the Des Moines Register in August, Santorum said that people who can’t afford health care should stop whining about the high costs of medical treatments and medications and spend less on non essentials. Answering a question about the uninsured, Santorum explained that health care, like a car, is a luxury resource that is rationed by society and recalled the story of a woman who said she was spending $200 a month on life-saving prescriptions. Santorum told her to stop complaining and instead lower her cable and cell phone bills.
10) INSURERS SHOULD DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: Santorum sounded like a representative from the health insurance industry when he addressed a small group of high school students in Merrimack, New Hampshire in December. The former Pennsylvania senator not only defended insurers for denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, he also argued that individuals who are sick should pay higher premiums because they cost more money to insure.
http://www.alternet.org/module/print...ndviews/758876
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Iowans just demonstrated, esp the hatin "Christians", how ignorant and hateful they are.
Social Conservatives Huddle To Prevent Romney Victory
Conservative leaders James Dobson, Don Wildmon, and Gary Bauer are meeting again in Texas next weekend to build “consensus” and possibly rally around a presidential candidate who is not Mitt Romney
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/0...omney-victory/
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If not Willard Gecko, who?
8. Tbh
Agree with 2, 8, 9, and 10.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
I read that article on Politico's web page, b-d, and was about to source it myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by boutons_deux
Does it seem to anyone else that Perry was about to drop out until this group decided to get together and try to help a religious-right candidate beat Romney?
Even Perry's staffers were surprised by his announcement that he was staying in. I think he hopes to get this group's endorsement in front of the South Carolina primary.
It all really smacks of folks who would love to have a theocracy, to me.
Meh...I just think Perry has a strong ego/self image and it bounced back strong today after the butt whipping he took in Iowa. In the bigger scheme Iowa doesn't mean shit.
Jesus doesn't voteQuote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
What is your proof that children with trisomy 18 are killed in countries with socialized medicine?Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
You really don't understand that term?Quote:
Originally Posted by SA210
None, but by definition when you have to limit cost by only treating conditions that are curable/treatable Santorums kid would probably not qualify. I'm not saying it's wrong, just that it's a sad fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChumpDumper
Well, Bella shouldn't be covered by any insurance ever according to her father. That's a sad fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
lol none
Ask Michelle Bachman if the Iowa Caucus means shit to her. :lolQuote:
Originally Posted by CosmicCowboy
I hope Santorum continues on his surge.
Clearly, by "paying attention", I meant paying attention in a substantive way (e.g., watching the talking heads on cable news feed us their opinions for an hour or even five minutes on the meaning and impact of the event).Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
GOP plan is to stop Ron Paul at all costs.
http://www.infowars.com/republican-i...-ron-paul-win/
Her campaign was already on life support before the final vote. She has no money and no organization. Perry can lose in Iowa and still raise money. He still won't win, but he didn't have to quit now if he didn't want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeChalupa
those dummy candidates in IOWA were there to take votes away from PAUL. the same for every primary going forward. candidates that are running are not even on the ballot in Virginia only Romney and Paul. The GOP is just making sure Paul, who represents the people more than any other candidate, is a not the GOP nominee.
so in really its
the GOP v. Ron Paul. in the GOP primary season......a tall task indeed.
you have to ask yourself......what are they afraid of?
Rick Perry: The Man Who Never Was
He had been a governor of Texas for more than a decade and had the political positions that evangelicals and the Tea Party lusted over. Perry would have done better in this campaign if he had never spoken a word and simply walked around and waved his arm at the crowds.
But then he went and talked.
Sort of. His "oops" moment will be taught in political science books for generations to come. And young collegians will wonder how a man so stupid could ever think that he might become president. Hell, even Ronald Reagan learned his lines. But Perry couldn't be bothered. He'd never had to debate much to get where he was and it's clear he didn't read or think on complex issues. He just decided to run for the office and raise money.
He might say he is "reassessing" but he is done. The worst governor in the history of Texas may have set a new standard for the worst presidential candidate. Money and profile and reputation are not sufficient in the race to the White House. Perry has embarrassed himself and his state and is likely oblivious to the scope of his failure.
How does he explain the $17 million plus that he wasted, including about $4 million on TV ads in Iowa? One analysis indicates he spent $500 per vote. He has done worse than Texas Governor John Connally did here in 1980 and worse the Texas U.S. Senator Phil Gramm in '96. Rick Santorum did better with $500,000.
Rick Perry can reassess all he wants, but his campaign, which was mangled as poorly as his syntax, is finished.
And if he doesn't know that, he is even stupider than he appeared during the debates.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-mo...b_1182658.html
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Originally Posted by boutons_deux
...again these losers are in it only to take your eye off the ball, they are not legit and they know it.
Oh, you don't watch TV. That's totally different.Quote:
Originally Posted by DMX7
If you've got better things to pay attention to, hey, everyone's time is limited. I just don't see why you took time out of your busy day to put down anyone who happened to have paid attention.