Stanek endorses Santorum for president
I met Rick Santorum in 2000 when as U.S. senator he sponsored the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.
Senator Santorum also sponsored the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, when during Senate debate he discussed my testimony (page S12918).
So I have always had a soft spot for Rick Santorum, but not only for his vast pro-life record, about which I’ve only scratched the surface.
As importantly is Senator Santorum’s ability to passionately and persuasively articulate the pro-life message, so most often missing in politics. Watch this sample from the Partial Birth Abortion Ban debate on the Senate floor in 1998. It’s pretty incredible…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFxA_HSRKJE&feature=related[/youtube]
Senator Santorum and I did part company when he supported pro-abortion Senator Arlen Specter against pro-lifer Pat Toomey in 2004. But it is true that Specter held to his word and went on in his critical position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2005-07 to pave the way to confirm Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito.
Dear to my heart personally is Rick and Karen Santorum’s private commitment to the sanctity of human life, from doing all they could to save the life of preborn son Gabriel, to welcoming handicapped daughter Bella into their family of seven.
I am confident Rick Santorum would be able to draw Barack Obama out on the president’s radical position on abortion like no other. Senator Santorum can take credit for perhaps the most significant debate on abortion in U.S. political history, when he drew pro-abortion Senator Barbara Boxer into their infamous “toe” conversation. If you haven’t seen or read it, you should.
I am proud to endorse Senator Rick Santorum for President of the United States.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Awesome!
Santorum 2012!
Praise Jesus! He is The Only TRUE Pro-Life Candidate,No “Exceptions” to genocide! God Bless Rick Santorum,I Pray he is Our Next President! Thanks Jill Stanek for backing a TRUE Pro-Life Candidate:-)
Thank you Jill, I support Senator Santorum for the very same reasons.
He has always worked for the pro-life cause, even if we disagreed with his methods, and is not afraid to voice his beliefs clearly and with compassion, in and out of season.
I saw him debate over abortion with a very emotional post-abortive woman at a Town Hall in New Hampshire. He was gentle but firm, saying that babies are either protected by law or legal to kill at the same age, depending on their location; in the womb or outside the womb.
However his profound dedication to the life of his children is what makes me most proud of him; his efforts to save his unborn son Gabriel coincided with the Partial Birth Abortion ban effort. His precious daughter Bella is on his thoughts during his campaign. He has his pro-life credentials as far as this pro-lifer is concerned!
He will be a formidable opponents of Barack Obama on this issue, as he knows how the family is the basic building block of society and tied to the economy.
He will make an outstanding president of the USA!
My 11-year-old daughter and I were watching the news. A news anchor (I think it was on CNN) said that they had looked to see which word Senator Santorum had used most on the floor of the Senate during his time there and that when they returned from the break, they would reveal the word. My daughter said, “I’m guessing it was abortion.” I said, “Hmmm. Maybe, but I don’t think so. I wonder what word it is.” After the break, the anchor revealed, without commentary, that the word was “abortion”. My daughter was delighted. “See? I was right!” I told her, “I’ll bet they think that makes him seem bad.” She said, “I think it makes him a hero.”
Santorum is seen, by even moderate Republicans, as an anti-choice extremist. And that’s why he didn’t do well in New Hampshire. His SC poll numbers are not all that terrific. Rightly or wrongly, he is perceived as somebody who love to see this country turned in a theocracy where “Griswold” is overturned and states could ban contraception. Not for nothing did he lose his senate re-election by a historic margin. I’m sure the Vatican would be thrilled, however, with a Santorum presidency which isn’t going to happen.
Awesome Jill!
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CC, If not for Griswold, there would have been no Roe v Wade. This idea that somehow wanting to build a culture of life is a theocracy escapes me. Truth be told, he does not support a ban on contraception and has said he would vote AGAINST such a ban. There are things about the law and life that too many people do not understand, and part of the reason they don’t understand is false claims like this one, that he is some kind of theocrat.
Amen, Jill! SANTORUM 2012
He wants NO babies to be aborted. Yup, I guess that means he’s an extremist.
CC, I bet, like myself, you want NO rapes to be committed. Wow. We’re extremists too. Huh?
Way to go Jill!
I concur.
SANTORUM 2012
SANTORUM 2012!!!
Will this hurt Randall Terry’s feelings?
Something just doesn’t sit right with this guy…
Putting the abortion issue aside…
I’ve listened to Rick when he would fill in for Bill Bennett’s “Morning In America” radio show on Fridays.
His grasp of the issues is what impresses me. His abortion stance is simply icing on the cake.
Boyfriend can talk economics, foreign policy, energy policy, you name it.
As far as I’m concerned, he’s got a friend in Florida.
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I agree with you carder, except that the potentially 4.8 million children who could die during each 4-year presidential term makes abortion the most important issue; not icing. :-)
Rick Santorum is the kind of guy an incumbent president with struggling poll numbers could only dream of running against. I would be happy to see him take the Republican nomination instead of Mitt Romney, or even Newt Gingrich. The 2012 election wouldn’t even be close.
Joan, you greatly underestimate the power of the pro-life vote and the Catholic vote.
Santorum for 2012 !! Hooyah!!
He defends the true definiton of Marriage, Family and the right to life (born and pre-born)…which are the foundations of what made America great.
*For those who state he’s an Extremist…pls recheck your position and see who benefits from it.
Andrew, I think you overestimate the Catholic vote. I’m Catholic and I will be voting for Ron Paul this year. He is pro-life, in all senses of the word (no useless wars), and is the only man with a plan to restore our economy. Santorum does not sit well with me. Don’t get me wrong, I love his stance on abortion, he just says too many stupid and scary things on other important issues.
Benjy, even if I liked the guy, I’d have to admit that Ron Paul will not win the Republican nomination, which only leaves the independent ticket, and nobody running on that will win either. The only thing Ron Paul is capable of doing is hurting the other candidates running for the Republican nomination. I wish he’d focus on Romney instead of going after Santorum and the others.
Nailed this to the core, Jill - Your endorsement is another key rallying point for life!
I like Ron Paul too. I like Santorum also. I have met him. He is a very humble man. The problems I have with Santorum are that he supported Arlen Specter, a (at the time) fellow Republican who was very pro-abortion. I cannot stand that he supported a baby killer all in the name of the GOP. I am independent because no party deserves my allegiance. I vote on issues, not on party.
Santorum later said that was wrong, but did he say that because he lost his next election because of it or because he really thought supporting Specter was wrong?
Santorum also has voted for a lot of pork. Now, I think the pro-life issue is more important than the issue of money, as you can’t put a price on the life of an unborn baby. But that being said, it does bother me that Santorum doesn’t seem to have a grasp on the Constitution and about NOT spending other people’s money on pork!
Carder, I agree Senator Santorum is the real deal. I am shocked that he was relatively unknown prior to his quest for the GOP nomination.
I think America has an exceptional leader here, and if they don’t elect him as President it will be wasteful.
“He defends the true definiton of Marriage, Family and the right to life” – no, he clings to a certain definition embraced by some, not all.
Romney is only a 98% favorite for the nomination…maybe this boost to Santorum will drop Romney to 97% or so…
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/national-polls-suggest-romney-is-overwhelming-favorite-for-g-o-p-nomination/
Real Clear Politics has the average of the polls. Santorum is 14.6, Gingrich 22.2 and Romney 32.4. It’s all over except if Gingrich pulls a surprise win.
Mitt is currently an 87% fav in SC, 95% in Florida, and 98% overall.
A Newt surprise is the only thing I can see tripping things up.
And Obama doesn’t Reality? Good grief.
” I agree Senator Santorum is the real deal. I am shocked that he was relatively unknown prior to his quest for the GOP nomination”
Uh, you’re not familiar with the Google results for “Santorum?” You obviously don’t watch Stuart or Colbert, either. Santorum is quite well known and not in a positive way.
Sadly, I don’t think he has the momentum to be the GOP candidate. However, I’ve been proven wrong before. Right now, I’m cheering for Ron Paul. http://www.ronpaul.com/on-the-issues/abortion/ It’s sad when he saw a late term abortion in his med residency. It scarred him. The baby was 2 & a half pounds. I was born at 28 weeks & weighed 2 lbs and 10 oz. and I rock. ;) I’ve never suffered from mental or physical disabilities (this is for those who think preemies are automatically a problem). I run half marathons and have a Master’s degree. I’m so happy that my mom wanted me. My daughter was also a preemie (10 wks) and she rules. Despite being early, she’s the same size and educationally on level (if not more) as her full term friends.
PS: to those who are pro abortion (especially those who think late term abortion is okay), how do you explain my personhood and my daughter’s since most of you don’t think that someone deserves life until we are removed from the uterus? Actually, the stats say that younger people are more pro-life. There’s was a demonstration (IIRC, it was Houston outside a Planned Parenthood location) made up of mostly younger people with signs saying something to the effect of “We survived Rove V Wade.”
At least obama governs for those who live in the early 21st century, rather than the mid-20th century Carla.
I even think Santorum looks like Lincoln. Give him a beard and a hat…presto… Mr. Lincoln.
He will be the President who will protect the pre-born from those who deny their existence and right to life, and he will be the President that liberates the pre-born from the abortionist’s aspirator.
He will help the American people finish the task President Reagan elegantly assigned to them.
In the words of Churchill: he will never surrender.
“We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France and on the seas and oceans; we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God’s good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old. ”
This is how the world once saw America. This is how America can be seen again under the leadership of President Rick Santorum.
Cause voting against offering care to babies born alive after abortion is soooooooo early 21st century.
pppphhhhhhtttttttttttttt
Awesome Tyler!!
For all the little soldiers who have died in the war against abortion this speech is for you:
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that this nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate…we cannot consecrate…we cannot hallow…this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
CC says:
“ You obviously don’t watch Stuart or Colbert…” Surely you jest! Remember…you are not on Daily KOS or Mother Jones here. These are not serious people and they contribute nothing in terms of enlightening the conversation about matters of importance in the body politic. They are comics… bad ones at that who frequently spew vile inanities. From the few times I have had to endure them on news clips I find them to be utterly incapable of cogent thought which is why no doubt the are favorites of trolls.
“Cause voting against offering care to babies born alive after abortion is soooooooo early 21st century.” – not a priority, most people think there are things which are a whole lot more important. Like not turning the clock back 50 or 60 years.
“For all the little soldiers who have died in the war against abortion” – who might they be Tyler?
I love Jill Stanek, but I’m not sold on Rick Santorum as being the best choice for the pro-life community. All I’m saying is…do your research. In my opinion, there are only 2 Republican candidates that can even say they’re pro-life, and there’s only one who has offered up REAL solutions to overturning Roe v. Wade (it’s not Santorum — it’s Ron Paul). http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/10549-santorum-voted-to-subsidize-abortion-planned-parenthood
Reality, I was mainly thinking of the pre-born children but the Mothers manipulated by the rhetoric of the abortion industry should also be counted as unwitting victims in the war waged on young human beings.
Unfortunately Reality due to your pro-choice support for abortion you are one of the people who have sent young children to their death. I hope one day you will realize your complicity in this assault on the youngest and most vulnerable in our society. When you do come to, when the day arises that you awake from your nightmare allegiance to the choice movement, I hope you will not be too hard on yourself.
Jerry, the google search traffic stats show colbert ahead of perry and almost level with gingrich in SC. Nationally he’s ahead of gingrich perry and santorum! I guess some people take him as seriously as they do the GOP candidates.
“I was mainly thinking of the pre-born children” – so which ones are ‘the little soldiers who have died in the war against abortion’?
“should also be counted as unwitting victims” – so are they victims or soldiers?
“you are one of the people who have sent young children to their death” – no, I’m one of the people who support womens choice, sometimes terminating their fetus is their best option.
Reality, terminting a fetus is never the “best” option. Your unnuanced and unfettered support of women who kill their young children makes you complicit in many needless deaths.
BTW, the Mothers who abort are victims of the war more than they are soldiers. The aborted pre-born children are the true Soldiers. I hope this further clarification helped you out.
Apparently a lot of people think that it is the best option.
“The aborted pre-born children are the true Soldiers” – how are they soldiers? Which ones?
Reality,
A lot of Germans thought that Hitler was a good man. You better reconsider abortion.
Good night…
I’d still like to know how, and which, aborted fetuses can be soldiers Tyler.
As soon as Bachmann was eliminated, the person remaining with the most conservative credentials was Rick Santorum.
Politically speaking: I think Santorum now has a chance to win in the position of “anyone but Romney”, as Marianne Gingrich has apparently decided to try to take her former husband out of the running. This will be interesting.
An excellent selection, indeed. Mitt Romney has no chance of beating Obama. His campaign is based on him financing himself & buying support w/ his deep pockets. He is a house of cards & probably 25% of republican voters, like myself, WON’T vote if he is the choice against Obama. With Romneycare, a 100% pro-gay voting record, lying CONSTANTLY about who he is, voting for higher taxes in Ma, etc etc etc. All you would be doing is putting another Obama in the White house.
Reality said: ” no, I’m one of the people who support womens choice, sometimes terminating their fetus is their best option.”
Reality, the argument of supporting womens choice is brought out all the time and if one doesn’t know what you’re talking about it may seem “good” (and that’s what the abortion industry wants all to believe).
In REALITY, abortion is never the BEST option. The best option is to have Life win over Death. By supporting abortion you are supporting the Culture of Daeth and giving No choice to unborn children . That is a grave injustice. I believe it’s the greatest injustice of today!
One more thing, I was thinking to ask you and all the pro-abortion folks in this blog if they have ever thanked their mothers for giving birth, because, if your mothers had listned to words and arguments similar to yours, you won’t be here writing about this and the world would have suffered a great loss! Think about it.
juneau121, I understand your support for Ron Paul, but I don’t agree with it.
I believe his stance on abortion is weak, and even though I love that he is opposed to war (which is a very good thing), I have to say that his unwillingness to be pro-active in defending Life takes priority for me.
War is between armed and trained soldiers, while abortion is between powerful, armed (with forceps) adults and voiceless, powerless, innocent, fully dependant children. 51 million have died in the USA in these 39 years of war!
Moreover, I don’t agree with liberalizing drugs. We already have enough lack of judgement and irresponsability in this society as it is.
Reality,
Please keep me posted on which presidential candidate you despise the most because that is the one I’ll be voting for. :)
THANK YOU RICHARD!
Finally someone who really gets it and doesn’t drink the pro-life-Ron-Paul-koolaid. Watching the Personhood USA Pro-life Presidential Forum last night made me sick. Santorum presented the best fighting spirit against abortion and the best attack plan, yet everyone ignored him and went crazy over Ron Paul who is as weak as he is incomprehensible.
Andrew, the next one to quit (after Rick Perry just announced), I believe, will be Ron Paul.
I pray you’re right Richard. I just hope Santorum keeps enough momentum until that happens.
Praying too!!
In a recent North Carolina poll; Santorum is tied with Obama. NC is an important swing state. We will see what today’s events do to the polls in SC.
I would rather have a candidate who has all three legs of the stool in place;
1. passionately pro-life with a record to prove it
2. Has a solid plan for winning back our economy and jobs, understands hard times, is a man of the people, as even liberal pundits (Lawrence O’Donnell, David Brooks) have said about Santorum’s coal mining grandfather and sweater-vest campaign
AND
3. Has no personal or financial skeletons which will give Obama the high ground.
Santorum 2012 !
What amazes me about the “toe” conversation between Santorum and Boxer is that she keeps dignifying him with answers. She tells him clearly toward the beginning what her stance is on abortion but he keeps on and on.
juneau121, could you explain how the economic plans of Ron Paul work? How will his ideas be implemented? How many years will it take to have his plans implemented?
What programs does he want to cut?
Andrew Ensley says: “I pray you’re right Richard. I just hope Santorum keeps enough momentum until that happens. ”
Andrew, I liked the salm I heard in church today : “I trust in God, I shall not fear”
Momentum alert; Dr James Dobson endorses Rick Santorum!
http://causa-nostrae-laetitiae.blogspot.com/2012/01/dr-james-dobson-endorses-rick-santorum.html
What amazes me about the “toe” conversation between Santorum and Boxer is that she keeps dignifying him with answers. She tells him clearly toward the beginning what her stance is on abortion but he keeps on and on.
No, she NEVER gives a clear answer. When she’s not spewing nonsensical talking points, she gives several contradictory responses to a simple question:
(1) She says she WON’T answer the question.
(2) She says the baby is “born when it’s born.”
(3) She says the baby is born when it’s home.
(4) She says that the baby is born when it’s in its mother’s arms.
(5) She says she believes in Roe v. Wade and agrees the state may intervene to restrict late term pregnancies.
(6) She says she would oppose killing the baby if its toe was still inside.
Henrietta, Barbara Boxer struggles to answer Santorum’s question because even pure logic justifies “partial-birth” abortion, but she couldn’t say that! It would have not sounded good (for the abortion industry).
So the only thing she could do (and unfortunately many pro-abortion folks do ebven on this blog) went in attack mode saying things like: what kind of (meaningless) questions are these? I don’t want to answer, etc.
Correction: I meant to say: “because even pure logic cannot justify “partial-birth” abortion, but she couldn’t say that! It would have not sounded good (for the abortion industry).
Certainly Carla. Did you want me to once again claim that to be obama? :-)
No, it’s still santorum. But I still hope he wins the GOP nomination.
“the Culture of Daeth” – haven’t heard of that one Richard, what does it mean?
“if they have ever thanked their mothers for giving birth” – yep.
“if your mothers had listned to words and arguments similar to yours” – you’ve rather missed the point. I was not an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy. Pro-choicers don’t think all pregnancies should be terminated.
“you won’t be here writing about this” – I wouldn’t be here in any way, shape or form so it wouldn’t be known or noticed.
“and the world would have suffered a great loss!” – aw shucks, I don’t know about that.
Now, about these aborted fetus soldiers Tyler.
Seriously, Reality? You’re obviously an active pro-choicer and you’ve never heard the phrase “culture of death?”
I’ll help you out: it’s our current culture.
Ah, ‘culture of death’ I have heard. ‘culture of daeth’ I hadn’t.
“it’s our current culture” – really? People refusing healthcare are they? (apart from the republicans refusing it for them) No-one buying cars with seatbelts and airbags? No-one going on diets or exercising? No-one concerned about aviation safety regulations?
I’ve also heard the term ‘death cult’ applied to religion. Is that any more accurate?
Reality,
The culture of death refers to the promotion of abortion and euthanasia. Obamacare is part of that culture of death to the extent that it will encourage those practices. As to improving healthcare or broadening the population who will receive, it won’t, as having a noncompetitive government-run system will simply skyrocket costs and encourage fraud.
The biggest death cults ever were the the communist regimes of Russia and China. They weren’t particularly religious, and in fact religion was outlawed.
Then the application of the term is inaccurate. More members of society act to preserve and extend life than end it.
The US has higher medical costs than nations with universal health care.
“The biggest death cults ever were the the communist regimes of Russia and China. They weren’t particularly religious, and in fact religion was outlawed.” – that’s not an entirely accurate statement.
More members of society act to preserve and extend life than end it.
There’s no way you can say that when over 50 million children – 16% of our current population – have been killed by abortion in the past 40 years.
Something just doesn’t sit right with this guy…
I agree. And I’m still smarting over this remarks about black people and welfare.
Under no circumstances would I vote for Obama, who might be the worst president since Herbert Hoover. However, all these Republican candidates leave me cold. Looks like I might be staying home that first Tuesday in November.
phillymiss -
Obama the worst President since Hoover? What do you judge Presidencies by? I mean, my first response was to argue with you, but who knows how you judge Presidents.
I think Carter is the worst, with Bush 2 and close second. I think Obama is tracking pretty close to Reagan – but we need a second term to truly judge.
“There’s no way you can say that” – yes I can. Given the population of the US and they extent to which people will try to preserve and extend life, the number of abortions and the effort people put into obtaining one does not indicate a culture of death.
Reality, the Culture of Death is not measured solely by “the extent to which people will try to preserve and extend life, the number of abortions and the effort people…”. It’s measured by the lack of value we assign to Life, especially the weakest (i.e. the unborn, the disabled, the elder, the terminally ill, etc.). If in your opinion a live person like you and me has the right of choosing to deny someone else’s life in “an unplanned or unwanted pregnancy”, you can be absolutely sure that someday (God forbid) there will be somebody else (like the “pro-choice”-in-chief we have in the White House) who might feel his “choice” is more important than yours and therefore he’s entitled of ridding the society of the terminally ill (they would weigh too much on the Obamacare) or the retarded (because they do not serve anybody and cannot vote), etc.
When Life of certain groups becomes expendable, the Culture of Death is strong, whether you want to admit it or not.
If what you say is true then every culture in every time has been a culture of death.
Reality says: January 19, 2012 at 11:40 pm “If what you say is true then every culture in every time has been a culture of death.”
Reality you are correct. The Culture of Death has always been there. I just believe that today we are experimenting a deeper “Night” of our culture.
That culture of Death is more widespread, more “normal”, more subtle, more organized, more intellectual, more scientific than before.
So rather than being a ‘cutlure of death’ in reality it’s just ‘mankind’? You might as well say we live in a ‘culture of breathing’.
There have been times and cultures where death was much more prevalent and pervasive than what we see in our society.
So I don’t beleive we are “experimenting” (experiencing?) a deeper ‘night’.
It is modern medicine assisting us to preserve and extend life which is more organized, more intellectual, more scientific than before.
Reality, you have just unknowingly made my point. Thank you!
Reality says:
January 20, 2012 at 12:15 am
So rather than being a ‘cutlure of death’ in reality it’s just ‘mankind’? You might as well say we live in a ‘culture of breathing’.
Richard says:
January 20, 2012 at 12:00 am
…That culture of Death is more widespread, more “normal”,
and if you as many others are out of touch and in denial, the “dark night of our culture” is indeed very, very deep!
In the end, Reality, you are entitled to your opinion, however, paraphrasing a very famous argument, if I am wrong I would have happily spent my life living by and promoting the respect for ALL Life.
If you are wrong, my friend, you are in for a big surprise!
Have a wonderful day.
You wish! Extrapolating what I said to the extent that you have is disingenuous.
“So rather than being a ‘culture of death’ in reality it’s just ‘mankind’” – means its just the way its always been. It does not mean that it has become ‘more normal’.
I also said “There have been times and cultures where death was much more prevalent and pervasive than what we see in our society.”
I think it is you who is living in the dark.
CC says:
“Santorum is seen, by even moderate Republicans, as an anti-choice extremist. And that’s why he didn’t do well in New Hampshire. His SC poll numbers are not all that terrific. Rightly or wrongly, he is perceived as somebody who love to see this country turned in a theocracy where “Griswold” is overturned and states could ban contraception. Not for nothing did he lose his senate re-election by a historic margin. I’m sure the Vatican would be thrilled, however, with a Santorum presidency which isn’t going to happen.”
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Santorum is hardly a “conservative” in what the US really needs now.
http://www.realchange.org/santorum.htm
He’s got far too much baggage to be electable – the things he’s said, the outlandish positions, the association with the AFA, etc. ~300 years ago, people were coming to the “New World” to get away from the Church of England, and Santorum would be the biggest step backward in the US to date.
It was surprising that he was elected to office in PA, but people quickly learned their lesson when he was a Senator.
Ex-GOP: I think Carter is the worst, with Bush 2 and close second. I think Obama is tracking pretty close to Reagan – but we need a second term to truly judge.
How time flies…. Carter took office over 35 years ago.
He was one of the most well-meaning Presidents, but wasn’t an “insider” and lacked somewhat in political savvy.
I was so furious about the boycotting of the Moscow Olympics…