SANTORUM GIVES 'EM THE SHOCKER!!!

cincybearcat

he still stands wrote:

edit: oh, and if you don't understand why it would not be good to have a president who believes black people are the descendants of Cain and are inherently evil... or that Indians are the descendants of Jews and were painted red by God... then there isn't really point in talking about this.

Yeah, I bet Mitt believes that.

You are cracking me up.

he still stands

cincybearcat wrote:

he still stands wrote:

edit: oh, and if you don't understand why it would not be good to have a president who believes black people are the descendants of Cain and are inherently evil... or that Indians are the descendants of Jews and were painted red by God... then there isn't really point in talking about this.

Yeah, I bet Mitt believes that.

You are cracking me up.

is that sarcasm? I can't tell. whether or not he *admits* to believing that, that is the Mormon belief, and he is was a Mormon preacher... soooooooo.....

Jason P

My friend is a former Mormon and he gave me the background on the religion a few years back. I'll admit, it was weird. Of course the same can be said for most religions in hindsight.

I've worked with a lot of Mormons and for the most part, they run a very tight ship. Their beliefs do not hinder their ability to be accountable and do a good job. If anything, it improves it.

JonnyPistachio

Santorum takes on EPA over mercury limits rule

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/0 ... pt=hp_bn10

"Speaking to voters in Iowa Monday, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania ripped the Environmental Protection Agency's new rule placing first-ever limits on the amount of mercury that coal-fired power plants can emit into the air.

The GOP presidential contender claimed the new regulations would shut down 60 coal fired power plants in America, and he charged the EPA with basing its study on a philosophy of: "We hate carbon, we hate fossil fuels, we hate blue-collar Americans who work in those areas."

He specifically took issue with the agency's cost-benefit analysis, calling it "absolutely ridiculous" and "not based on any kind of science."

The EPA didnt base this rule on anything science related? hmmm...
This might be a good start:

"The benefits of the new regulation include preventing up to 11,000 premature deaths and 130,000 asthma attacks every year, according to the EPA.

In terms of dollars, the new rule is estimated to save as much as $9 in health benefits for every dollar spent on installing new technologies to meet new emission limits.

There's a long list of benefits, however, both to human health and the economy that the EPA says it cannot accurately estimate, and therefore leaves outside of the official cost-benefit summary."

CH156378

usamamasan1 wrote:

SANTORUM ON THE FORUM!

AND THE SHOCKER! WHAT A DAY!

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money and provide for themselves and their families."

GREAT IDEA RICK!!!!!!!

THIS I CAN SUPPORT. EVERYBODY WORKING!

WOOT!

I love you. I love the new avatar also.

MayDay Malone

BinauralJam wrote:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/03/rick-santorum-birth-control-sodomy_n_1181291.html?ref=politics

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, whose strong base of evangelical Christian supporters has thrust him into contention in Iowa, said on Monday that he believes states should have the right to outlaw birth control and sodomy without the interference of the Supreme Court.

In an interview with Jake Tapper on ABC News, Santorum reiterated his opposition to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that prevented Connecticut from banning contraception.

“The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that," he said. "It is not a constitutional right. The state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That's the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court--they are creating rights, and it should be left up to the people to decide."

Santorum said he also opposes the Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision striking down a ban on sodomy in Texas and 13 other states. Even though he would not personally vote for a ban on sodomy, he said, he thinks states should legally be able to pass them, because sodomy is not a constitutionally protected right.

"I thought that law was an improper law ... but that doesn't mean the state doesn’t have a right to do that," he said.

Disdain for the Supreme Court is becoming a common thread among the GOP candidates. Rick Perry once slammed the Lawrence decision, describing it as the work of "nine oligarchs in robes," although he forgot what the case was about when a reporter asked him about it in Iowa last week. Newt Gingrich recently said he would ignore Supreme Court rulings he dislikes and impeach those judges that make what he believes are "anti-American decisions." Ron Paul has said he would leave many issues to the states, including abortion, same-sex marriage and religion, and frontrunner Mitt Romney agrees that states should have the right to ban abortion.

The political impact of allowing state legislatures to make decisions on social issues such as birth control, abortion and sex acts could be massive. In 2011 alone, state GOP lawmakers introduced 600 bills restricting abortion and passed a record 91 of those bills, and five states placed new restrictions on access to birth control and family planning. The 24 states that passed abortion restrictions stopped short of banning abortion entirely, only because they would face lengthy court battles if they passed bills that fly in the face of Supreme Court precedents preventing states from placing an "undue burden" on a woman's ability to seek an abortion.

For instance, the courts blocked Kansas from passing a law that would have shut down all three abortion clinics in the state, and prevented Nevada from putting a fetal personhood measure on the state ballot that would have banned abortion and certain kinds of birth control. Judges in three states -- Indiana, North Carolina and Kansas -- blocked the enforcement of laws defunding Planned Parenthood this year, unanimously ruling that state governments may not punish a particular health provider for offering abortion services.

The courts will be powerless to block those kinds of laws from going into effect if the GOP candidates have their way, and states would have the power to ban abortion, sodomy, birth control, gay marriage and whatever else a majority of state lawmakers morally oppose. Women and same-sex couples in socially conservative states would be out of luck.But Santorum says if people have a problem with the laws in their state, they can just take their frustration to the voting booth.

"You shouldn’t create constitutional rights when states do dumb things," he told Tapper. "You should let the people decide if the states are doing dumb things, get rid of the legislature and replace them."

Fuck this guy

Another insightful commentary from BinauralJam... "Fuck this guy."

Brilliant.

HuffPo?

usamamasan1

BinauralJam wrote:

Fuck this guy

he seems like a very nice guy to me.


http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/vi ... ntorum.cnn

BinauralJam

usamamasan1 wrote:

BinauralJam wrote:

Fuck this guy

he seems like a very nice guy to me.


http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/vi ... ntorum.cnn

Seems nice to me too, that's the scary part.

BinauralJam

MayDay Malone wrote:

BinauralJam wrote:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/03/rick-santorum-birth-control-sodomy_n_1181291.html?ref=politics

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, whose strong base of evangelical Christian supporters has thrust him into contention in Iowa, said on Monday that he believes states should have the right to outlaw birth control and sodomy without the interference of the Supreme Court.

In an interview with Jake Tapper on ABC News, Santorum reiterated his opposition to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that prevented Connecticut from banning contraception.

“The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that," he said. "It is not a constitutional right. The state has the right to pass whatever statutes they have. That's the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court--they are creating rights, and it should be left up to the people to decide."

Santorum said he also opposes the Supreme Court's 2003 Lawrence v. Texas decision striking down a ban on sodomy in Texas and 13 other states. Even though he would not personally vote for a ban on sodomy, he said, he thinks states should legally be able to pass them, because sodomy is not a constitutionally protected right.

"I thought that law was an improper law ... but that doesn't mean the state doesn’t have a right to do that," he said.

Disdain for the Supreme Court is becoming a common thread among the GOP candidates. Rick Perry once slammed the Lawrence decision, describing it as the work of "nine oligarchs in robes," although he forgot what the case was about when a reporter asked him about it in Iowa last week. Newt Gingrich recently said he would ignore Supreme Court rulings he dislikes and impeach those judges that make what he believes are "anti-American decisions." Ron Paul has said he would leave many issues to the states, including abortion, same-sex marriage and religion, and frontrunner Mitt Romney agrees that states should have the right to ban abortion.

The political impact of allowing state legislatures to make decisions on social issues such as birth control, abortion and sex acts could be massive. In 2011 alone, state GOP lawmakers introduced 600 bills restricting abortion and passed a record 91 of those bills, and five states placed new restrictions on access to birth control and family planning. The 24 states that passed abortion restrictions stopped short of banning abortion entirely, only because they would face lengthy court battles if they passed bills that fly in the face of Supreme Court precedents preventing states from placing an "undue burden" on a woman's ability to seek an abortion.

For instance, the courts blocked Kansas from passing a law that would have shut down all three abortion clinics in the state, and prevented Nevada from putting a fetal personhood measure on the state ballot that would have banned abortion and certain kinds of birth control. Judges in three states -- Indiana, North Carolina and Kansas -- blocked the enforcement of laws defunding Planned Parenthood this year, unanimously ruling that state governments may not punish a particular health provider for offering abortion services.

The courts will be powerless to block those kinds of laws from going into effect if the GOP candidates have their way, and states would have the power to ban abortion, sodomy, birth control, gay marriage and whatever else a majority of state lawmakers morally oppose. Women and same-sex couples in socially conservative states would be out of luck.But Santorum says if people have a problem with the laws in their state, they can just take their frustration to the voting booth.

"You shouldn’t create constitutional rights when states do dumb things," he told Tapper. "You should let the people decide if the states are doing dumb things, get rid of the legislature and replace them."

Fuck this guy

Another insightful commentary from BinauralJam... "Fuck this guy."

Brilliant.

HuffPo?

:thumbup: Thank you, but it does lack the poetry of this insightful post of yours:

Sean Penn IS a communist asshole.

But so is our President.

Who cares?

But that's why i'm here to learn form the best

MayDay Malone

Look.... I'm right again!

Bant

Santorum's nephew backs Rep. Paul

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... -rep-paul/

Posted by
CNN Political Unit

(CNN) - Ron Paul's campaign touted support from a family member of one of his rivals on Tuesday, just hours before the Iowa caucuses.

John Garver, 19-year-old nephew of surging Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, urged voters to pick Paul over his uncle.

"If you want another big-government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle, Rick Santorum," wrote Garver, a student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

His comments came Tuesday in a column, titled "The trouble with my uncle, Rick Santorum," for the conservative news site The Daily Caller. The piece was then blasted out by the Paul campaign.

Garver criticized his uncle, a former two-term Pennsylvania senator, as a "big-spending Republican" who contributed to raising the debt level during the George W. Bush administration.

"It is because of this inability of status quo politicians to recognize the importance of our individual liberties that I have been drawn to Ron Paul," Garver wrote. "Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions."

According to recent polls, Santorum is now battling for a top tier finish with Paul and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in Tuesday night's caucuses.

Santorum's campaign did not respond immediately to requests for comment about Garver's column.

Bant

The trouble with my uncle, Rick Santorum

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/03/the-t ... -santorum/

If you want another big-government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle, Rick Santorum. America is based on a strong belief in individual liberty. My uncle’s interventionist policies, both domestic and foreign, stem from his irrational fear of freedom not working.

It is not the government’s job to dictate to individuals how they must live. The Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. My Uncle Rick cannot fathom a society in which people cooperate and work with each other freely. When Republicans were spending so much money under President Bush, my uncle was right there along with them as a senator. The reason we have so much debt is not only because of Democrats, but also because of big-spending Republicans like my Uncle Rick.

It is because of this inability of status quo politicians to recognize the importance of our individual liberties that I have been drawn to Ron Paul. Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions. He believes that an individual is more powerful than any group (a notion our founding fathers also believed in).

Another important reason I support Ron Paul is his position on foreign policy. He is the only candidate willing to bring our troops home, not only from the Middle East, but from around the world.

Ron Paul seems to be the only candidate trying to win the election for a reason other than simply winning the election.

This year, I’ll vote for an honest change in our government. I’ll vote for real hope. I’ll vote for a real leader. This year, I will vote for Ron Paul.

John Garver is a 19-year-old student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. John is a strong supporter of Ron Paul despite his love for family member Rick Santorum.

Smellyman

he still stands wrote:

cincybearcat wrote:

he still stands wrote:

I think it is a rational decision, considering the insane world views that mormons advocate.

Really? Do tell.

I think his religion hurts Mitt in the primary, but not in the general election.

I also can't wait until we talk very little about religion during an election. Hahahaha...like that will ever happen.

you don't know how WEIRD the Mormon religion is??? are you a teenager or something?

here's a small example; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPGE6CzZ ... re=related

They are all a bit crazy to many.

gimmesometruth27

Bant wrote:

The trouble with my uncle, Rick Santorum

http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/03/the-t ... -santorum/

If you want another big-government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle, Rick Santorum. America is based on a strong belief in individual liberty. My uncle’s interventionist policies, both domestic and foreign, stem from his irrational fear of freedom not working.

It is not the government’s job to dictate to individuals how they must live. The Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. My Uncle Rick cannot fathom a society in which people cooperate and work with each other freely. When Republicans were spending so much money under President Bush, my uncle was right there along with them as a senator. The reason we have so much debt is not only because of Democrats, but also because of big-spending Republicans like my Uncle Rick.

It is because of this inability of status quo politicians to recognize the importance of our individual liberties that I have been drawn to Ron Paul. Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions. He believes that an individual is more powerful than any group (a notion our founding fathers also believed in).

Another important reason I support Ron Paul is his position on foreign policy. He is the only candidate willing to bring our troops home, not only from the Middle East, but from around the world.

Ron Paul seems to be the only candidate trying to win the election for a reason other than simply winning the election.

This year, I’ll vote for an honest change in our government. I’ll vote for real hope. I’ll vote for a real leader. This year, I will vote for Ron Paul.

John Garver is a 19-year-old student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. John is a strong supporter of Ron Paul despite his love for family member Rick Santorum.

OH SNAP!!!

can you imagine how awkward the next family reunion is going to be??

gimmesometruth27

i don' t think that this 2nd place finish is all that great considering that only 5.4% of all eligible voters actually showed up and voted. i don't think you can generalize the political climate of a state with 94% of voters don't vote...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/0 ... 84479.html

JonnyPistachio

This article is kinda shitty, but some of his quotes I've heard before, and some are scary:

31 Rick Santorum Quotes That Prove He Would Be A Destructive President
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/05 ... president/

FiveB247x

Not sure if anyone said it... but 2 in the pink and 1 in the stink... the shocker..haha

MayDay Malone

And he did it again!!

keeponrockin

I can't believe there are enough people that think RICK SANTORUM would be a good president?

I'm honestly in shock. He'd get killed in the general.

Prince Of Dorkness

SANTORUM SURGES FROM THE REAR!!

SANTORUM COMES FROM BEHIND!!!

IT'S A SANTORUM LANDSLIDE!!!



I really hope that boob gets the nomination. Obama will sweep 50 states. He'll be crowned Emperor.