FidelCastro/Hugo Chavez Boot-licker Sean Penn says Rick Santorum "anti-American"

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H/T to NewsBusters

Fast-forward thirty years, and Jeff Spicoli, the burned-out stoner from Fast Times at Ridgemont High, appears with Piers Morgan in a prime-time CNN interview.  A little grayer, and sporting a mustache you normally see on some guy wearing polyester plaid pants and an open-chested shirt, he reminded me of a guy I saw in San Francisco trying to entice people off the street to enter a place called the 'Condor Club'. His sales pitch was, "See Juicy Lucy, the human tripod!".

Well, Spicoli may be older, but he is no wiser than when he sat in Mr. Hand's class at Ridgemont. He does, however, sound just as wasted.

Sean Penn is living proof that a great actor does not mean you are a great thinker. Great actors immerse themselves in characters, able to feel and express the emotions of those characters. Sean Penn is better than most. From 'Fast Times', 'Taps', 'Carlito's Way, 'Dead Man Walking, 'I Am Sam', to 'Milk', Penn has brought to life some memorable characters.

The other side of Sean Penn is his political activism.  In this, he has, and continues to embrace unfailingly embrace every leftist/socialist/communist dictator around. While claiming to be "pro-American", he bad-mouths the very country that has made him a wealthy person.

Stating that Rick Santorum has not read the Constitution is typical leftist hyperbole, based on Santorum's time in the Senate and having a Law degree, but then claiming that it is he that is pro-American and pro-Constitution is simply laughable.  I'm sure that Fidel and Hugo got a big kick out of it too.

Sean Penn should, if he feels America is as horrible as he has said in the past, renounce his citizenship and move to Cuba or Venezuela.  Maybe even Argentina. They have the modern-day version of Evita running their country now. It's sure to become a worker's paradise, just like Cuba, over the next decade or so.

Sean Penn: Rick Santorum Is 'Anti-American' - 'Did Not Read the Constitution' 

By Noel Sheppard | April 23, 2012 | 22:14

Sean Penn on Monday said former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) is "anti-American" and "did not read the Constitution."

Rather hysterically, the Oscar-winning actor also told CNN's Piers Morgan, "I am very pro-American in the sense of a Constitutional America": (Continue Reading Here)

Ron Paul Is The Real Phony On Earmarks

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Paul Submits Earmarks Into Favorable Bills, Then Abstains or Votes Against Them


Ron Paul was completely hypocritical in calling Rick Santorum "fake" while discussing earmarks in last night's debate.  With very little effort, it is easy to find that Ron Paul is no stranger to earmarks himself.

In 2011 Paul requested earmarks totaling $157 million, one of only four GOP House members to request earmarks. These included but were not limited to:

• $500K to widen a barge channel
• $4 million for visitor information stations, sidewalk repair, wheelchair ramps, and landscaping in Galveston, TX
• $1 million for sidewalks, wheelchair ramps, street signs, pedestrian lighting, bike racks, benches and trash cans in League City, TX
• $1.2 Million for a child day-care center

In 2010, he requested fifty-four earmarks, which totaled $398,460, 640, which included $2.5 million for trash cans, bike racks, and decorative street lighting in Baytown, TX. There were also $4.5 million requested for the Wharton County Youth Fair, $150,000 to create sustainable wetlands, $105 thousand to reduce the drop-out rate and enhance educational attainment in Victoria, TX, just to name a few.  These and many others are all on Ron Paul's website (click here for link).

Whether you consider these earmarks a good use of taxpayer funds is not the point. I don't think that all earmarks are waste or pork.  It is a case-by-case basis. The issue is the disingenuousness of Ron Paul holding himself up as a paragon on Congressional earmarks, and berating his opponents, while being guilty of doing that which he condemns.

What's worse is that he uses deception to hide his use of earmarks.  Ron Paul will submit earmark requests and have them attached to legislation of which is passage is a certainty.  Then when the bill comes up for a vote, Ron Paul will either abstain, or vote against the bill.  In this way he can claim that "I've never voted for an earmark", while bringing home the pork to his district.

If anyone is "phony" on earmarks it is Ron Paul and his attempted deception of constituents and supporters.

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Media Bias: Santorum Backer Aspirin Joke Much Ado About Media Double Standards

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The media is all in a tizzy over a comment by Santorum Backer Foster Friess' comment, “Back in my days, they used Bayer aspirin for contraceptives. The gals put it between their knees and it wasn’t that costly.”


I've heard this, or variations on this with coins, for decades as parents have used it as a reminder to their daughters that if they don't let their legs come apart, they won't get pregnant. I've also heard of giving their daughter a quarter, so if a boy gets frisky, the girl can give him the quarter with the instruction to "Call my dad. If he is okay with it, then it's okay". Old fashioned? Yes. But worthy of creating a nuclear firestorm around Rick Santorum over something one of his supporters said?! Greta Van Susteren said he was creepy for making a failed attempt at humor. And Andrea Mitchell! You would have thought that Andrea Mitchell had taken a body blow from Mike Tyson, saying she needed to catch her breath, after hearing the remark. Oh, the horror!

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Really?  And then to go after Rick Santorum, as if he were the one who had made the remark.  Yet back in 2008 when we had Barack Obama's pastor Jeremiah right screaming "Not God Bless America. God Damn America!", the media were accusing those who brought it up as racists, and excusing it by saying it by saying  that it was a "guilt by association" game by Republicans. Same with Bill Ayres, the former leader of the Weather Underground, which committed terrorist acts against the United States and is a committed Marxist.

This whole thing is much ado about nothing and the media is turning it into two days of feigned outrage.  The only thing that this is good for it that it gives one more example of the medias double standard when it comes to Republicans and Democrats, and gives us peek into the institutional bias that exists in today's media.

Jeremiah Wright: God Damn America!

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Megadeth's Dave Mustaine: Hope "it's Rick Santorum" in White House

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Megadeth Frontman Endorses Rick Santorum
Paul is “like insecticide,” Romney's too rich, but Santorum is just right.
posted Feb 15, 2012 12:45pm EST

Dave Mustaine, frontman of the '80s heavy metal band Megadeath, has evaluated the Republican field and made his considered endorsement:

Looking at the Republican candidates, I've got to tell you, I was floored the other day to see that Mitt Romney's five boys have a $100 million trust fund. Where does a guy make that much money? So there's some questions there. And watching Newt Gingrich, I was pretty excited for a while, but now he's just gone back to being that person that everybody said he was – that angry little man. I still like him, but I don't think I'd vote for him.

Read More at Buzz Feed

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Santorum Leads By 15 Points In Michigan

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Santorum overtakes Romney in Michigan
By Daniel Strauss- 02/13/12 11:25 AM ET

Rick Santorum has overtaken Mitt Romney in the race for the GOP primary vote in Michigan, a state long considered a lock for Romney that has become a make-or-break test for his campaign.
New polls from Republican-leaning American Research Group and the Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling both give Santorum the lead in Michigan, where Romney grew up and his father was a popular governor.
Read More at The Hill

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CPAC 2012 Speeches - The Candidates: Santorum, Gingrich, Romney

Rick Santorum at CPAC 2012



Newt Gingrich at CPAC 2012


Mitt Romney at CPAC 2012




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Hey Romney! Tell Us Why We Should Vote FOR You!!

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Mitt Romney's plan so far is to speak in platitudes while he tells us why we should vote against this or that candidate.  He has yet to tell us why we should vote FOR him. For this, the media and establishment crowned him the presumptive nominee before the Iowa caucuses. Only one problem: he lost the Iowa caucus to Santorum (though we didn't know until S. Carolina's primary). After winning New Hampshire, he promptly lost S. Carolina to Newt Gingrich.  He seemed to get his footing, winning Florida and Nevada with a barrage of negative campaign ads against Gingrich.  This past Tuesday saw Santorum wax the entire field with positive messaging and addressing the issues, while Romney and Gingrich slammed each other in a petty game of he said/he said.
Romney now realizes that there are two candidates that are a threat to his inevitability and is now lumping both together from their 1990's time in Congress. He attacks their fiscal conservatism and support of earmarks from that time with no context.  They are just big government wolves in sheeps' clothing, according to Romney. But is that really true?
According to the Congressional Budget Office, during the 1990's the federal deficit went from a high of $290 Billion in 1992 to a $236 Billion surplus by the year 2000. When Gingrich Became the Speaker of the House (1995), the deficit was over $200B. This was also when Rick Santorum became a part of the freshman class of Republicans after the 1994 GOP landslide.  This freshman class was incredibly successful passing welfare reform, eliminating the marriage penalty in taxes, as well as balancing the federal budget.
Romney's attacks on the earmarks and the 1994-2000 GOP Congress is a complete smokescreen. They were one of the most successful Congress' in the modern era.
However, what was Romney doing during this same period? Romney was running away from Reagan conservatism, saying “I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.” He also backed liberal Democrat Paul Tsongas for President in 1992. In 2002, Romney claimed he was a "moderate", and his "views were progressive".  And then again there is the issue of RomneyCare, where Romney praised Ted Kennedy as his "collaborator" in helping craft RomneyCare.
Romney's problem isn't Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich - it's Mitt Romney! Unless, or until he starts telling voters why they should vote for him, voters will continue to look elsewhere.  The thing is, will voters now trust him enough?

Romney: Rivals are 'Republicans who acted like Democrats'
Posted by CNN Political Producer Rachel Streitfeld

Atlanta (CNN) - The day after an embarrassing defeat in a trio of early voting states, Mitt Romney painted his GOP rivals as standard bearers of a Republican party that "lost its way" in recent years in Washington.

The GOP candidate, faced with a pair of doggedly persistent opponents in former Sen. Rick Santorum and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, pointed to both men's experience in the nation's capital as a disqualifying factor.

Read More at CNN

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No More Mr. Nice Guy, Santorum Hits Back At Romney

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Rick Santorum exposed Mitt Romney's soft underbelly this past Tuesday in Michigan, Missouri, and Colorado with huge victories in all three states. Santorum's consistent conservative message and positive vision for America resonated strongly with voters in all three states, giving him a clean sweep. The Romney camp might have seen some of the writing on the wall on Monday, as the lowered expectations of victory in Colorado, which Romney won big in 2008.  What they didn't see was the huge margins of victory that Santorum would win by.
You knew that Romney would have reassess the effectiveness of Santorum and his threat to his pre-ordained status of being the GOP nominee. Why is Santorum's message resonating and Romney's stale?  Instead, Romney reverted to form, and like he did with Gingrich, started attacking Santorum.  He has not reassessed what his message, or lack thereof, is.  His campaign thus far is a redux of his losing 2008 campaign, which is a very generic message combined with personal attacks on his opponents.  No vision. No specifics. No fire.
Santorum, on the other hand, has communicated a staunch conservative platform, put forth concrete ideas, and has done it with cheer and a positive message.  If there has been a knock against Santorum, it is that he has been too nice.  Fair enough. Up to this point Santorum's biggest "attack" has been in the Florida debate where he exposed Romney on 'RomneyCare', where Romney was flustered in trying to articulately make a distinction between his plan and ObamaCare. The lack of distinction was not lost on those who viewed it.
Rick Santorum is now showing a different facet of himself.  He is not a pushover. He won't just stand there, smile, and take attacks from Romney without punching back.  The difference between Santorum returning fire and the effectiveness of the attacks against Gingrich is that it may be Romney who gets the black eye this time.

By Arden Farhi and Rodney Hawkins

Energized Santorum Unloads on Romney's 'Gotcha Politics'

Updated: February 9, 2012 | 1:53 p.m.
February 9, 2012 | 1:11 p.m.

OKLAHOMA CITY – No more Mr. Nice Guy for Rick Santorum.

The newly-energized presidential candidate on Thursday launched a full-throated attack on front-runner Mitt Romney, saying the former Massachusetts governor’s campaign “has been about serially tearing down opponents without offering any kind of vision for what he wants to do for this country.

Read More at National Journal

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Game On? New Poll Shows Santorum Beats Obama Head-To-Head

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While the media and GOP establishment have been telling us for months that Mitt Romney is the only one who can beat Barack Obama in November, a new poll shows that Rick Santorum is the only GOP candidate who currently beats Obama in a matchup. Could it be that voters are taking another look at Santorum, who has delivered the most consistently conservative message of the four remaining GOP candidates, and that he may finally be gaining some traction? Current polls also show Santorum with a slight lead over Romney in Minnesota, and that Missouri may be favorable for him as well.  Romney must be feeling the pressure, as he has begun the type of attacks that he launched against Newt Gingrich. While Romney's image is that of a smiling, nice guy who is above all of the pettiness, he is vicious in campaigns. He made no friends in the 2008 primaries, and his relationship with Gingrich is toxic, at best. Santorum would do well to prepare for the same kind of attacks, and have some powder in the barrel when the inevitable barrage of political and personal attacks come.
The way things are shaking out, this primary season may go all the way to the convention, with no clear-cut GOP winner. Let the fun begin!

Santorum Only GOP Candidate Beating Obama, Rasmussen Daily Poll Finds
By Fred Lucas February 6, 2012

(CNSNews.com) – Just ahead of three more Republican nominating contests, a new poll -- a snapshot in time -- shows former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum leading President Barack Obama in a one-on-one matchup.

The Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for one day only -- Feb. 5. -- marks the first time Santorum has held a lead over Obama in potential matchups.

It’s a small lead for Santorum -- 1 percentage point, giving him a 45-44 percent edge over Obama.

Read More at CNS News

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Let's Honor, Not Stretch, the Buckley Rule

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Excellent piece by David Limbaugh on some weak-kneed conservatives redefining the "Buckley Rule" with so-called strategic political calculations. Even the previously staunch conservative Ann Coulter has blinked in this campaign season, throwing her support behind the least conservative candidate, Mitt Romney, claiming that he is the only one who can beat Barack Obama, and that a vote for Newt Gingrich is a vote Obama. This after her political crush on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who initially gained favor with conservatives for his bombastic YouTube videos of him directly taking on unions in NJ.  He has since been shown through his stances on cap and trade, gun control, amnesty, and campaigning for GOP moderate Mike Castle in Delaware, among other less than conservative stances, to not be the staunch conservative as initially thought. He may be conservative for a northeast liberal state, but a Reagan conservative? Hardly.
This article by David Limbaugh lays out succinctly what the Buckley rule is, how the prevailing wisdom that any one candidate should be ordained by an Obama-friendly media, while reminding us that we should not compromise our principles due to who those in the Beltway GOP establishment say is "electable".
Let the primary process run it's course, but don't apologize for who your gut, and more importantly, your brain tell you is the best candidate. Not who others claim is most electable. We were told that Reagan wasn't electable either.

Let's Honor, Not Stretch, the Buckley Rule

In the intense heat of the present, it is easy to forget even the relatively recent past, but it seems to me that this GOP primary season is more acrimonious than the past few, probably because the stakes are so high.

When I've noted that this is the most important presidential election of our lifetimes, a few excitability-resistant conservative friends have said, "They have been saying that about every election for more than a generation." My response to that is:

Read More at David Limbaugh.com

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Romney Praises Ted Kennedy At RomneyCare Bill Signing

h/t to The Mark Levin Show

Mitt Romney with Ted Kennedy behind him at RomneyCare signing ceremony

For the Mitt Romney campaign the 'elephant in the room' has always been his RomneyCare health care mandate in Massachusetts. Though Romney has today's Florida vote locked up, this issue is going to become a larger issue in some of the red states, up to and through Super Tuesday on March 6th. Rick Santorum  brilliantly, and skillfully exposed Romney's problem with RomneyCare at the last debate (see video below). Romney was unable to put up a credible defense of his plan, and eventually his defense of RomneyCare showed that it is effectively identical to ObamaCare.
Now we have even the uber-liberal Mother Jones pointing out the problem that Mitt Romney is going to have with this issue.


VIDEO: Mitt Heaps Praise on Romneycare "Parent" Ted Kennedy
The GOP front-runner is doing his best to sidestep the health care reform landmine. This video sure won't help.
—By David Corn | Wed Oct. 12, 2011 2:00 AM PDT

It's no secret that Mitt Romney has an albatross around his neck: Romneycare, the Massachusetts health care overhaul he enacted while governor of the Bay State. The plan, which included a mandate compelling state residents to obtain health insurance, was a model in part for President Barack Obama's health care reform, which is much-despised by conservatives and Republican voters.
Read More at Mother Jones



Rick Santorum Destroys Mitt Romney on RomneyCare




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Rush Limbaugh's Brother David 'Goes Rogue' Endorses Santorum In Florida

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South Carolina GOP Debate Highlights

Newt Destroys John King, Media Over Ex-Wife Question To Thunderous Standing Ovation

Santorum Calls Newt Grandiose And Erratic

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Final Count: Santorum Won Iowa by 34 Votes Over Romney?

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In one of the closest primary races in memory, it appears that it is Rick Santorum, and not Mitt Romney, who is the winner of the Iowa caucuses.  Curiously, or maybe not so curiously, the GOP is calling a 34 vote win by Santorum a "split decision", while they called an apparent 8 vote advantage for Romney on election night a "Romney win".  This seems to lend some credence to the thought that the GOP establishment has anointed Romney the nominee maybe even before the first primary was held.  Regardless, this puts a bit of a dent in Romney's claim of having won the first two primary contests of the season, and being the "only candidate" who can defeat Obama. The question is whether Santorum will get a retroactive bump from this news, as voters may not now see a Romney candidacy as inevitable. Combine this with Rick Perry dropping out, and a possible exodus of Gingrich supporters due to his ex-wife's allegations, and Rick Santorum could have a better than expected showing in S. Carolina, with momentum going into Florida.  Santorum would also do well to use this news as an opportunity to remind voters that Romney can be beat with a consistent message of conservative principles.
This race may just be heating up.

Final Count in Iowa: Santorum up 34 Votes over Romney--8 Precincts Will Never be Counted

By Edwin Mora

January 18, 2012

(CNSNews.com) - Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney apparently did not win the Iowa caucuses after all. Former Sen. Rick Santorum -- who trailed by a mere 8 votes in the initial tally -- actually beat Romney by 34 votes, according to the certified vote totals.

The Des Moines Register broke the story at 7 a.m. Thursday, a few hours before the Iowa Republican Party planned to release the final numbers.

But -- in another twist -- the final numbers are not reliable, because eight Iowa precincts could not have their totals certified, the Register reported. A Republican party official told the newspaper, "It's a split decision."

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And Then There Were Four: Perry Dropping Out Of Race

Posted by Brian
Even as Rick Perry is dropping out of the GOP Race and saying that he supports Newt Gingrich, another bombshell is being dropped - accusation by Newt's ex-wife that he wanted an "open" marriage, among other things. My question is: will Perry supporters actually shift their support to Newt now that these accusations are coming to light? Or does Rick Santorum get a double boost with Perry supporters shifting their allegiance AND Gingrich supporters fleeing his candidacy to put their support behind the only conservative left, in a race between Santorum, Romney, and Ron Paul?
It will be interesting to see how this develops.

FIRST ON CNN: Sources: Perry dropping out of GOP race

Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) - Rick Perry is telling supporters that he will drop his bid Thursday for the Republican presidential nomination, two sources familiar with his plans told CNN.

The Texas governor will make the announcement before the CNN debate in South Carolina, the sources said.

The move comes two days before the South Carolina primary and hours before the final debate ahead of the voting, which will take place on CNN Thursday night.

The campaigns of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum reached out to the Perry campaign Thursday morning in an "aggressive effort" to get his endorsement, according to a source close to Perry.

Perry will indicate his support for Newt Gingrich but will not explicitly endorse him, a source with knowledge of Perry's decision told CNN.

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100% Pure Conservative Litmus Test is an Unrealistic Pipedream

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It seems that everybody is looking for the next Ronald Reagan. News Flash! It is going to happen. Probably not in my lifetime, anyway. There are no "perfect" candidates, though Ron Paul supporters would probably disagree.  The GOP primary season has given us a number of pretty conservative candidates, though. I would even say that all of them, at least fiscally, are more conservative than Barack Obama.  That should at least be a starting point for looking at the candidates. As for an overall consistent message of conservatism during this campaign, I don't think there have been any who have been more consistent than Rick Santorum, Michelle Bachmann (who recently suspended her campaign), and Newt Gingrich.  Their messages and voting records have been, for the most part, very conservative.  Yes, a person can say that Santorum once voted the wrong way on this issue, or Newt voted wrong on this issue. In fact you can do that with all the candidates. There is not a candidate running who has a 100% record on conservatism. Hell, even Ronald Reagan didn't have a 100% record. The question then has to be one of principle. and what were the circumstances and facts at the time that certain decisions were made, and votes were cast, For example, Ron Paul claims to have never voted for an earmark. Technically, he is 100% correct. But when we find out that he attached earmarks to, and sponsored numerous bills with earmarks which were guaranteed passage, and then voted "no" on this guaranteed bill, his claim comes up more than a little suspect, mot to mention unprincipled.  However, if a person makes decision based on principle, and/or which fulfills the wishes of constituents, but may not be ideologically "pure" enough for some, that person is cast as a RINO. To be sure, there are some so-called conservatives who vote nearly as much with liberal causes as they do with conservative ones, and deserve the RINO label. But there are some in the conservative camp who demand such ideologically purity that a Santorum or Gingrich who have 90% conservative voting records are somehow called "big government" conservatives, which is just code for RINO. Yet, Someone like Mitt Romney who has proposed and supported numerous big government policies, and is to the right of only Jon Huntsman and Ron Paul (who's foreign policy is to the left of George McGovern), is seen as the only "conservative" choice as the Republican
nominee.
The question is whether Republicans are lookong for ideological purity, or whether we settle once again for an "electable" candidate as determined by the mainstream media.
JANUARY 9, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Rick Santorum, Conservative Stalwart
He is a bona fide conservative.

By Quin Hillyer

Just as the conservative movement finally has the first real chance since Ronald Reagan to see one of its own — a “full-spectrum conservative,” as Rick Santorum now calls himself, picking up the phrase from Rep. Steve King (R., Iowa) — win the Republican presidential nomination, the purists emerge to say he’s somehow not conservative enough. The attempt to attach a “big-government conservative” label to Rick Santorum for some rare wanderings from the conservative reservation makes about as much sense as arguing that record-breaking Drew Brees of the Saints is a poor quarterback because he threw 14 interceptions this season.

The reality is that Rick Santorum’s instincts and intellectual choices consistently tend toward freedom.
Read More at National Review Online

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Santorum: "Game On"

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In a nutshell - why Rick Santorum is surging. Uplifting, positive, confidence in the American people. A message that resonates.

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CBS "News" Tries To Kneecap Santorum With False Racism Claim

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The Obama media don't even try to hide their leanings anymore. One more illustration of the media trying to destroy any candidate that they feel could give "Dear Leader" a run for his money.

Did Santorum really say he didn’t want to make “black people’s lives better”?
 POSTED AT 8:40 AM ON JANUARY 3, 2012 BY ED MORRISSEY


This created an eruption on Twitter and in some of our comment threads yesterday evening, thanks to a CBS News transcript that put words into Rick Santorum’s mouth — or one word in particular.  Santorum spoke to a crowd in Iowa yesterday about the fiscal sinkhole of Medicaid, and argued that government shouldn’t redistribute wealth to improve the lives of some at the expense of others.  Santorum stumbled momentarily on the word “lives,” though, and that provided this Rorschach moment for CBS, who reported it thusly on their YouTube channel:


"While campaigning in Sioux City, Iowa Sunday, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said if elected he plans to cut regulations and entitlements and he doesn’t want to “make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.”


Except that’s not what Santorum said at all. What he said was, “I don’t want to make [pause] lives, people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” This makes sense in the context of what immediately preceded this statement: “It [Medicaid] just keeps expanding. I was Indianola a few months ago, and I was talking with someone who works at the Department of Public Welfare here, and she told me that the state of Iowa is going to get fined if they don’t sign up more people under the Medicaid program. They’re just pushing harder and harder to get more and more of you dependent upon them so that they can get your vote.”
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