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Subscribe to RSSRepublican presidential candidate Rick Santorum promised Monday to revive manufacturing, cut taxes and shrink government, pledges that drew loud applause from conservative Michigan voters who said he was more in line with their values than native son and GOP rival Mitt Romney.
Santorum's growing connection with Michigan conservatives risks embarrassing Romney in his home state. Romney was counting on a strong finish in Michigan's presidential primary on Feb. 28 to carry him into the big, multistate round of voting a week later on Super Tuesday.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said his rival Rick Santorum is not a 'budget hawk' and cited Santorum's record of voting to raise the debt ceiling.
But Santorum, fueled by a recent trio of victories and sensing an opportunity to upset or at least bloody Romney with a strong primary finish of his own, is charging hard at a state that he says shares many of the same characteristics as his blue-collar state of Pennsylvania. Santorum pledged Monday that, under his administration of less government and more individual freedom, "manufacturing jobs will come back here to Muskegon."
See related: Romney criticizes Santorum fiscal record
Many of those at the standing-room-only rally at a Muskegon Holiday Inn said Santorum's message of religious and social conservatism was more in line with their values.
"I see Mitt Romney as more of a politician who has flip-flopped on some issues," said Hal Sisson, a 57-year-old media consultant from Norton Shores who, like Santorum, has seven children. "Rick Santorum has repeatedly been very conservative and has always stuck by his principles."
After holding a second rally at Hope College in Holland, Santorum got a standing ovation from GOP activists in Grand Rapids after criticizing President Barack Obama's policies, declaring they're "destroying business" and "crushing the economy of this country."
Back in September, Romney easily won just over 50 percent in a straw vote among nearly 700 GOP activists gathered on Michigan's historic Mackinac Island, compared to Santorum's seventh-place finish with 3.4 percent. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, looked especially strong in a Nov. 9 GOP presidential debate in Michigan where Santorum wasn't much of a factor. But Santorum since has gained significant ground on Romney.
A recent poll of 500 likely Michigan GOP primary voters by Glengariff Group Inc., conducted after Santorum swept contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri, showed 34 percent backing the former Pennsylvania senator while 30 percent were behind Romney, within the 4.4 percent margin of error.
Romney has sensed the threat and has stepped up his attacks on the former senator, hitting him as a big-spending Washington insider. Romney planned to campaign in Michigan on Tuesday. His wife, Ann, also a native, campaigned in the state Monday and was making a pair of appearances Tuesday.
Romney is counting on his fatter campaign bank account and superior campaign organization to edge Santorum aside in the week left before Michigan votes. He has the backing of most of the state's GOP leaders, including Gov. Rick Snyder. In the state's most prosperous county — Oakland, just northwest of Detroit — county Executive L. Brooks Patterson predicted Romney's business expertise and his longtime ties to Michigan will pull voters in.
"Romney is a known quantity to us," Patterson said. "The people who know him and get to understand his positions and get to understand what he's capable of doing will flock to his side."
Although Santorum didn't mention Romney in his speech or the question-and-answer period that followed, he clearly echoed what many in the crowd thought of his opponent.
"I don't change like a well-oiled weather vane," Santorum said. "You may not agree with me, but you know where I'm going to stand."
Part of Romney's problem in Michigan is he seems to be struggling to reconnect with voters who backed the Detroit native four years ago, when he first ran for president, after promising to save jobs in the beleaguered auto industry as then-rival John McCain warned that lost auto jobs would never return.
Now Romney seems to be on the opposite side, opposing the federal bailout of General Motors and Chrysler. Fewer voters remember his father, George, who ran American Motors Co. before serving three terms as Michigan governor in the 1960s. And while Romney was seen four years ago as the conservative alternative to McCain, Santorum is the one many Michigan Republicans say they'll back in the state's presidential primary a week from Tuesday.
"I was a non-supporter of anybody until he came on the scene," Jody Kuhn, a 74-year-old retired community college staffer from Muskegon, said of Santorum. Kuhn said she likes his conservative views.
Not everyone thinks Santorum can go the distance, however.
Clarkston resident Rick Sutkiewicz said recently that he's backing Romney because he stands a better chance of beating President Barack Obama.
"Not that I like Romney best as a candidate," the 45-year-old said while eating dinner in Auburn Hills, home to Chrysler's headquarters and Sutkiewicz's heating and air conditioning business. Sutkiewicz likes a lot of what Santorum says but worries he has too many issues that can be exploited by opponents.
"There's a lot to pick at with Santorum," he said.
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Santorum, is using the same old hate based rhetoric... I wonder if he will ever start to talk about what is important to most Americans? JOBS!
Santorum is using the same old hate based rhetoric, which means he is taking a page right out of the Obama campaign book. This country has become more hate based, divisive, and partisan in the last three years all thanks to our divider and chief.
If you want to know where all the jobs went, ask Bill Clinton why he signed NAFTA into law. Corporations are by their very nature set up not to care about the people they have working for them, only the profits they can make. So they lobby congress who also could careless about the American people, except when election time rolls around and then there is no shortage of promises being made that idiot voters actually think they mean.
Bush got slammed for the high price of gas because all his cronies were making billions. But under Obama gas prices are even higher and not a word from anyone. Apparently no one cares that gas and heating oil is up over 100% since Obama took office, like they don't affect jobs or the economy. Instead everyone jumps for joy at a 10.00 a week payroll tax holiday that steals from Social Security. Is it any wonder we keep electing the same idiots but expect different results, when people only harp on anything when it is politically convenient.
If Romney can't win his own home state, there's not much hope for him in the General.
(Good!)
Obama / Biden 2012
TO: Rick-3416939 who wrote:
President Obama doesn't use "hate based rhetoric"! Hate speech is a Rebublican tactic. And Republicans own it!
Obama / Biden 2012
Yeah he was born in Michigan and hasn't lived there for how long? Yeah that is a true litmus test if ever there were one. Just like when Gore didn't win Tennessee right?
Obama does nothing but promote class warfare, and partisan divisive politics. He has divided this nation like no other president, and he blames everyone else for everything that goes wrong. So keep your hand out to Obama, I am sure those IOU's will be worth something, maybe.
Rick, your posts are a distortion of the truth. Obama has tried to unify the country, the TPublicans have done everything they could dream up to divide it. Santorum crass lies do not qualify him as worthy of holding the office. He is a phony weakling trying to take advantage of the repeated vulgar attacks on anything Obama has tried to do to solve the problems left him by the idiots. Santorum is a sleaze and anyone that has not fallen in step with the right wing Nazi style hate campaign can see it. That is why Santorum will go down in flames if he gets to the nomination. Otherwise, keep up the rant, you are very entertaining! LOL
I hope Santorum gets the nomination, it will be a Obama land slide. Santorum isn't even in touch with 75% of the population. Right now, his beliefs are off the wall, and if you want to vote him in, remember that 75% of the people think he is nuts. Micky Mouse has a better chance to beat Obama than him!!!!
Oh I see now, as long as you support Obama he is trying to unite the country. Just like all the problems Obama faces were left to him by Republicans. Which means you prove my point, this is the most politically partisan this country has ever been. So just in case you missed it while ranting in a true hate filled diatribe, I never said who I was for, just that none of you have the sense to truly honest. Just partisan, and that means you either cannot think for yourself, or you just like being spoon fed.
Pathetic attempt, Rick, but keep it up, rationalists are gaining with every post! LOL
Rick-3416939 is a troll
BTW, we support Obama BECAUSE he is trying to unify the country around positive solutions to the problems left him by Bush/Cheney. You seem to be the one making up stuff to support your hate filled comments. Your mindless drivel proves the point that the extreme right has only one agenda - to badmouth Obama so they can get back in to continue the policies that bankrupted the US. Ain't gonna happen this time! The stupid redneck support for the creeps is over.
PS, it does not matter who you are for, we know enough about your higher level critical skills to know that candidate will lose.
Like your Keystone cop?
"Making Obama A One-Term President Is My Single Most Important Political Goal."
Those are the words out of Mitch McConnell's mouth... How can anyone expect the POTUS to work with that kind of mind set...
The republican party under the direction of the tea party have destroyed this country... The President has and is doing everything possible to pull it back together...
Anyone see where the market hit today??? Go Barrack Obama...
Hmmmmm, would i rather be beaten with a baseball bat, or a lead pipe..... thats a hard one. maybe it would be better to just get it over with as afat as possible. i choose mitt santorum.
didnt santorum say he was going to run a positive campaign and in the next breath spew out hate filled lies about Obama? as far as im concerned, there is lots i dont like about Obama, but this is a relative issue, and Obama is a lot more than heads and shoulders above any of the repo men.
Colorado, are you saying you think the Keystone deal was a good idea? Surely not. We do not need to pipe the dirtiest form of energy right across the most sensitive water source in the US in pipelines put in by the most corrupt industry in history so we can refine and ship the product offshore. Ask the average Alaskan (not those who grabbed all the money from it) how their little pipe worked out. Simple - REALLY bad idea!
Which party made it their goal to make Obama a one term President as soon as he was elected, instead of working on the economy and jobs?
It's republicans that are dividing this country.
The gap between the wealthy and the poor increased under "trickle down" economics and the "starve the beast" republican policies.
The class warfare is the result of the Republicans not the democrats.
Here is a catch phrase that will be heard more and more as the general election comes closer,
"just say no to 1 %'ers" they do not have a clue how the rest of us live and also the wealth reassignment that has been under way has almost wiped out the middle class...
Politicians need to stop wearing their religious beliefs on their sleeves. Be wary of anyone who professes that their beliefs trump everyone elses. The evangelical movement is increasingly edging toward christian-sharia type government. They condemn islamic law, but if they do it, it's okay.
Terry-CA,
As soon as I saw those market numbers, I could hear the GOP..."It's nothing to do with Obama's leadership", blah, blah, blah...BUT if those same numbers were heading South, it would ALL be Obama's fault!
LOL
OBAMA 2012
TO: Rick-3416939 who wrote:
Wow, you sound like you've been studying the "Republican Misinformation Guide Book" written by GOP Demogogues.
I'm not sure if you've heard, but a whole lot of people are a whole lot smarter, and whole lot more skeptical than back in Bush's day. The word is, you're not automatically "trusted", nowadays you have to EARN trust, and you don't earn it by spewing lies or trying to throw the American People "curveballs".
That said, Bush divided this country like no other, and if you don't want anybody to remind you of that, then quit bringing it up. We all know that it was Bush who crashed our economy, raised and lowered our "threat" level to match his "unpopularity", etc.
Now, if you can, TELL US about ANYTHING good Republicans have done in the past 3-1/2 years, because all we've seen is Republicans stalling our recovery, working on lowering our wages, and hatching plans on how to PREVENT the American People from have good paying jobs and Quality Health Care.
Obama / Biden 2012
My family and I are going to vote for Santorum in the MI primary because he’s so pathetic. It makes me nauseas just thinking about it. He always conjures up images of his high-profile (Government intervention) effort to keep a brain-damaged Florida woman named Terri Schiavo alive.
Acosmet, is that why you voted for Obama as well?
Don't bring in the pipeline. Today a lot of Repubs are against it too because they realized it's allowing eminent domain to a foreign country. AND where it's mapped out to go is across a lot of good farmland, endangered rivers and streams. It was a good idea to slow down on this.
The Grinch and Santorum are both scumbag losers who CANNOT WIN because they are not on the ballot in all 50 states.
The Mainstream Media, at the orders of The Big Money, is propping them up so they can continue to marginalize Ron Paul.
Once there are only two people on stage, they can't ignore him anymore.
You would be suprised how many people who voted for Obama want to bring the troops home right away, like Ron Paul would do.
Many many liberals are sick of the endless wars and dead soldiers coming home in body bags.
No true Liberal could support a man who signed into law The NDAA and expanded and extended The Patriot act.
Tex
Good Grief! Go to a coal fired plant sometime and then explain to the world how petroleum is the dirtiest.
"Making Obama A One-Term President Is My Single Most Important Political Goal."
There is all the hate-based rhetoric you need to see. How about running on issues? How about trying to convince the voters you have a better plan? Naw, guess not; I'm a Republican!
I do believe the good people of Michigan will recall Romney's 'Let 'em fail' stance and will therefore vote to let Romney fail - again.
But please MI, do not merely shift your vote to Santorum. With Sanctimonious Santorum you will only get more 'bedroom' ideology of being #1 in the eyes of the False Christians. Go to the polls and write-in Pres. Obama for following through to see to it that GM did not fail, and the realization of GM being #1 in the world now. Send Santorum a message too.
Romney or Santorum, these two darlings of the GOP. Choices, darn the choices.
Santorum is a wing-nut; I keep expecting him to show up dressed as a pilgrim one day wanting to place scarlet letters on women with "loose morals" and advocating burning witches (i.e. any female's whose "theology " differs from his) at the stake. Watch out Christine O'Donnell...
Santorum wants to turn the United States into a theocracy. Go to Iran, Rick. I think you'll fit right in!
Santorum isn't going anywhere; he already thinks he just landed in the New World! I'm angry now because I have to stop wearing my sweater vests!
And the Repukes say the Democrats are divisive and have a negative policy?Hey,Repukes stay out of my business.You can run your own personal world,but stay out of mine.
When this circus first started it was sort of nice seeing all the new clowns and asses, but as time goes by it gets old,,,real old. If this is all the GOP has in it's treasure chest to offer they may as well hang it up. Never in my long life has there been a choice this bad,,it's like waking into a grocery store and going to the produce dept and finding nothing but rotten fruit, some partially rotted,,some rotted through, but all bad. Quite a choice huh?
Yeah, too bad the republicans couldn't offer someone that had no leadership experience what so ever like Obama. Who has proven he can run the country into the ground but not much else. When are the idiot voters going to realize that no one in Washington has proven capable of running anything efficiently or effectively. Obama has done nothing but amass another 6 trillion in debt, over see a stagnant economy, and make up job numbers. So lets give him four more years so he can plant the tombstone where this country once stood.
Oh Rick,,,,pleassssssssse,,,you crying is annoying. BTW,,he will get four more years, and this time around i hope he plants the entire GOP/Baggers club where they belong,,,out of Politics !
Santorum connects better with the far right, hence his ascension. However, the more he talks the more independents walk away.
Independents won't vote for a far right guy, plain and simple.
TO: Rick-3416939 who wrote:
Well, Grover Nordquist put the word out that all he wants is someone who will sign whatever Nordquist tells him to sign -- NO BRAINS REQUIRED.
Republicans are looking for a puppet that does what Nordquist tells him to do, and nothing more.
Republicans have already done that with George W. Bush, and look how THAT worked out.
Obama / Biden 2012
Why do I keep hearing people say "Jeb Bush" now that it looks like a Santorum/Romney possibility? Honestly, how stupid do they think we are? We're still recovering from the last Bush mistake.
Terry-Ca.-no Repuke has a solution to our economy except to give everything to the wealthy business owners.It seems to me that they think we are incapable of doing anything worthy,that the wealthy are the only ones that know how to do anything.Actually the Repukes and the wealthy have a money game and we can't afford to pay to play.The majority needs to realize that we were dealt the winning hand and we need to change the game to one that favors us.
Another brilliant diatribe. Just where do you think the stimulus money went? It didn't keep unemployment under 8%, there are still no jobs, but all the wealthy donors of the Obama campaign are doing just fine. Almost seems like Obama and the Democrats have spent the last three years and almost 6 trillion dollars in borrowed money doing exactly what you accuse the Republicans of doing, taking care of those politically connect to them. But don't worry, Obama is going to add anther 10.00 per week to your paycheck instead of funding Social Security, and you will be able to buy another two gallons of gas, or one gallon of gas and a loaf of bread. Now that should get the economy moving again.
Is that you Santorum? I thought you would want to waste your time on a bigger audience. LOL
BTW, the stimulus kept unemployment under 25% which is what the Tpugs promised it would be if Obama won in 2008, remember? They were wrong then and they are really wrong now that the truth has been exposed. Don't like it as the unemployment rate goes down, do you? The economy will not get moving again until we throw the negative Retards out of Congress. God willing, that will happen in November.
Big difference between actual unemployment and what is being reported. Just like a future reduction in a planned budget increase is a cut in government spending. Washington is all about gimmicks in reporting, but based upon your posts it is no surprise to see you believe everything you hear from a Democrat.
Everyone, add "paranoid" to your notes about Ricky. That along with ignorant and distorted should make him want to quiet his hatred filled posts, but will it? Wait and see.
@Rick, look at the following graphs and then explain why things are worse.
GDP graph - http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdp_glance.htm
Gee, the GDP has gotten much better since Obama took over.
Unemployment graph - http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
Gee Rick, look unemployment is going down under Obama.
Dow Jones - http://stockcharts.com/freecharts/historical/djia1900.html
Gee, it started about 9000 and now its close to 13,000. Looks like things have gotten better.
I love the way the rwnj's twist all the numbers in THEIR FAVOR, like little ricky's (above) "real unemployment", all the while ignoring the fact that Bush didn't even factor the wars into his budget the whole 8 years he was in office. Obama includes that cost, and it is "unacceptable" to them! Hypocrites!
I'm going to chime in here. Obama LIES!
Read this article from Forbes. It uses actual statistics and compares unemployment calculations.
UNLESS THE FORMULA HAS BEEN CHANGED THERE IS NO WAY UNEMPLOYMENT IS AS LOW AS OBAMA SAYS!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/02/09/dont-be-fooled-the-obama-unemployment-rate-is-11/
I implore all of us to examine things OBJECTIVELY.
Sadly, many seem to have lost that ability altogether.
tex
Prove it seeing as the CBO said that there was no appreciable improvement in employment with the Stimulous.
What kept the unemployment from being 25% was TARP. Conservatives hated it, but the bottom line is that we did not have the runs on banks we had during and after the the 1929 crash.
Who did that, believe it or not there are people who think Obama did, but it was Bush.
Interesting that Forbes actually printed what the conservatives have been saying since January 2011. Gallup is still using the same formula that the fed used. According to Gallup the unemployment rate is currently 9.5% and the U-6 is 19%.
Adding Michigan to list of places to avoid along with third world countries and Texas.
Let's not forget Mississippi and Alabama.
Sorry, I guess third world and Texas is rather redundant.
Every large city in Texas was blue in 2008. Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Austin and El Paso all went for Obama in 2008, but we have a lot of trailer parks.
That fact the Santorum connects with any human being is a very sad thing.
Santorum's reference to a well lubed weather vane... frothy!
I am ashamed of the Michigan Republicans to think that Santorum could possibly be President. His far right, wacky religious beliefs would affect every area of his policy. Plus, he has absolutely no foreign policy credentials, has not worked on tough economic policies, and seems to pander only to people with his religious beliefs. No Thank You.
I really don't think it's so much that Michigan Republican's think Sanatarium could be president, it's more that they despise Romney.
Obama had pretty much ZERO political experience when he was elected let alone any in foreign policy. Stranger things have happened.
Translation: "This is a Catholic state. We aren't going to vote for a Mormon." Much of Michigan is a blue-collar, very conservative, Roman Catholic state. They don't relate to a Mormon from Massachusetts, even a very conservative one. You can gain a good understanding from reading about events of the late 1960's and 1970's, as well as a county by county breakdown of election results. You might enjoy Michael Moore's story of growing up in Flint, "Here Comes Trouble."
{Private note to rational people: I threw the reference to Michael Moore in there just to get the wackos excited. Nevertheless, it's a good book, with humor and experiences from his early years}.
So, Denny - it's pretty safe to assume you are part of the 90% of lawyers who support Obama? Why not, he is guaranteeing quite a killing by the legal profession with all the new laws.
The Republican base is composed of hateful racist people who regard education and facts as elitist. Santorium is the perfect candidate!
Religious nutjobs vote religiously. Would everyone please get out and vote and wipe this "butt goo" off the arse of America?
MI - which Republican "Nut" do you like better? The GOP Elephant can't make up its mind; I prefer cashews myself.
There are two kinds of male members of the Catholic Church, those who enjoyed the early sex and those who didn't. Those who didn't usually start to talk about the abuse around the age of 25. Has anyone heard Santorum's story? Looks gay to me!
Let us not forget that the people that settled in the New World,were fleeing Europe to escape religious persecution.The Inquistion was an act of the Roman Catholic Church to eradicate heresy,anyone that questioned the church was put to death by torture.
Michigan is a schizophrenic state. The rural areas are really conservative and the areas like Detroit and Ann Arbor are more liberal. The real test for Romney will be his ability, if possible, to out poll the rural areas in the metropolitan areas. The problem, as we have seen throughout this Republican debacle, the really conservative voters are much more vocal and zealous in their support as opposed to more moderate voices. The great silent majority in this country now represents moderates, progressives and the better informed voters in the country. Let’s hope they really turn out in the general election.
Sen."santorum" thinks that he will be elected the Grand Inquisator,so that he can pass judgment on anyone that doesn't share his views.Just like the rest of the Repukes in Washington,did he learn this trait in Washington or did he take it to Washington with him?It just really makes me mad that he will have his pension,$170,000/yr and full medical coverage for the rest of his life at our expense.We need to eliminate that benefit,we can no longer afford that much.
Exactly. You want lower health-care costs? Eliminate the free ride for legislators. At the very least make them pay their fair share of the cost and no Cadillac benefits. Where's the legislation to make this happen? It will go nowhere until you hound your legislators to make it happen. Social media gives you great access - use it!
A scary thought "Santorum connects better than Romney" but then when I consider who Santorum connects better with - I breath a sigh of relief because that is only within the GOP.
As an independent I am deeply concerned about the GOP's position on women's right to access contraception -- this not the same as being anti-abortion but a step further, farther, and frankly off the cliff. The GOP, christians in general don't have a problem with Viagra or other male sexual meds -- is it me or is this just hypocrisy...And what is with the House hearings on this "contraception issue" without having women testifying?
Santorum, and the ultra-conservatives are hell bent on reviving the culture wars -- which I and many other independents could care less about. And even if Romney gets the nomination he will be hellbound to campaign on the ultra-conservative platform -- forget about fixing the economy, truly reducing the deficit (spending cuts alone will not do it), or bringing our troops home from Afghanistan or resolving the "war on terror," or the enviroment or health care -- they - the GOP - simply want to force everyone to live according to there world view.
I for one am tired of these so-called culture warriors, like Santorum and long for leadership that values comprimise and service to the nation as a whole and not the party!
Oz -This is what the right has come to:
The FBI revised their definition of rape as of December 2011, and I quote: Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim."
Now, with the Virginia requirement that women undergo a vaginal ultrasound prior to having an abortion,without their consent, the State of Virginia is essentially mandating the rape of women in order to obtain an abortion. What could be more inhumane? The first woman in Virginia that undergoes this invasion of her rights should request that the FBI arrest every state legislator in Virginia for rape. A similar law is being considered in Pennsylvania as well.
Great strategy to counteract a clearly inhumane piece of legislation. Maybe we could get a law passed that mandates corn cob insertion into any male legislator who passes such vulgarity.
Tex - another idea -
I find the republican attitude toward contraception and abortion disgusting. Even more so since it seems to be primarily perpetrated by angry white men. Women have, and should retain, their reproductive rights. For some reason, the republicans seem to cast women as the “evil doers” in the procreation process, forgetting it takes “two to tango.”
Ok, I propose this. There have been approximately 600,000 vasectomies performed last year, which is commendable. To be fair and equal, all men, before having a vasectomy, should have to undergo at least an hour of counseling, as this is permanent, and have a scope inserted up their penis to make sure there are no problems performing the procedure. Afterwards, they should be forced to produce sperm by ejaculation in the doctor’s office to provide evidence the procedure worked. Fair is fair.
My post is silly, yours is reasonable. Go for it!
LOL,
NICE!
Jo-an, this update is for you;
Lawyers for Christina Applegate sue Fox news .
Hundreds of people bring guns to Palin's massive Eat A Peach Rally.
Cantor proposes huge tax breaks to cherry industry.
Motts files for bankruptcy.
ESPN fires writer who suggests NY change their motto to Big Asian Pear.
Ozilot...why don't you take a poll of Christians...the true Christian will not take those meds...you won't find hypocrisy. Anyhow, if you do, that's the first thing you will complain about. FYI...The Christian worldview believes that a throne (i.e. presidency) is established on righteousness (Proverbs 16:12), otherwise there is no blessing for a nation. At least acknowledge that Santorum is a man of convictions. Since they are not your convictions, he must be a bigot then, right? I agree that many so called Christians are not acting like Christians because they are theologically illiterate. If they were more literate, then you would be, gee, living in an era like when we first began as a nation where theology was incorporated into every aspect of life. Remember, if Christians don't follow their beliefs then they are hypocrites...the battle today is not about contraception...it's about ideology or worldview. Who's right? Continue to voice your opinion or view. Just because one side wins the election does not make them right. America is a pop culture being tossed back and forth. Somethings going to give. It will be interesting who wins out in 2012.
tiretodofit...Santorum was elected by the people and for the people that he represented, thus he gets a pension. I'm not on here complaining about Clinton's pension because he had an extramarital affair. He should have been impeached in my opinion though.
@tag,
I hold YOU personally responsible for ALL of that!!!
LOL!
According to Sen."santorum" anyone that can read and write or knows how to "cipher" is an elitist.
This is good stuff for the the President and the Dems!!! Did you see mr Santorum actually diss mr Romney without mentioning his name???!! "I don't change like a well-oiled weather vane" is as good as it gets. I can't wait til the debates tomorrow to see how tough and rough they get with each other.
I forgot about the debate. Santorum will be, of course, speaking in tongues.
Speaking in tongues, or glossolalia, a form of mental illness usually associated with overly stimulated spiritualism, is a relatively well studied psychological disorder. If Rick Santorum starts that up again, the RNC might pull him off stage with one of those long hooks. But then, they let Dubby wander around in the darkness for 8 years, so who knows?
Santorums meds have worn off.
Remind me not to ever go to Michigan since Santorum connects better with them.
Who can figure out Michigan. Romney blankets the state with ads featuring him in cars that were built in Canada, and peering with his Dad at the NY Worlds Fair, pretending to be Michigan. Michigan voters figured that out. But Santorum, the really crazy guy - I don't understand.
Rick-3416939-We keep hearing of these miilions of people that have stopped looking for work and have exhausted all forms of assistance.My question is how are they surviving,I haven't heard any reports of cannibalism or mass grave robbing or grocery stores beinng broken into at night.Do you think they are just dying in the streets and the animals are consuming them.Oh I know,aliens are landing at night and taking them away,right?I think it is another right-wing conspiracy,another nut-job lie,like W.M.D.,you Repukes will lie about anything to promote your agenda,just ask "santorum".
tiredofit -Fox Noise has reported strange break-ins into liquor stores at night in south central LA with the loss of malt liquor and pork rinds, and freshly dug graves are showing up in inner city of Detroit.
Santorum is everything I despise about the Republican Party and I was a Republican until last week...and held high-level positions within the party. It is time for a third party...one for the people - not just half of the people and the special interest groups making up the other half.
Mr Santorum just caught Franklin Graham on morning Joe.He thinks he was put on earth to judge who was a chirstain and who's not to.I want to know who's bible you people are reading I'll bet it's written in crayon. Matthew 7 Judge not,that ye be not judged
ghilde - If Santorum gets elected, the second Grand Inquisition will resume shortly thereafter.
ghilde, you obviously weren't listening. Graham said that he takes a man by his word and at the end, he looks at his actions to see if his word is true (i.e otherwise, the words are hypocrisy). This is not judgment rather an opinion. Judgment is when someone takes action upon someone else (i.e. like a ruling/judgment from a judge). Should we just lay off all the judges in this country? Hey, that would cut the federal deficit some I'm sure. You don't understand the bible. If you are a judge, then the way you judge others is the same way you will be judged. Look in verse 5, after examining youself, then you can encourage/judge or take the speck from you brother's eye. If I never speak the truth or make a judgment about a situation to my brother, then there is no chance of becoming a better person (both judge or discerner and brother)...Ah, I forgot everything is becoming ok in this country.