It was the last minute anti-Romney vote. Santorum is more right wing than Michele Bachmann. Absolutely.
The Pennsylvania senator raked in some cash during his trip to Florida last month, but he's paying a price in political capital. (click here)
THURSDAY, APR 21, 2005 2:46 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME
The Terri Schiavo controversy is turning out to be a losing issue for Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., despite the fact that he happened to rake in $250,000 campaign funds during his trip to Florida last month....
...Why the flagging numbers for Santorum? The Quinnipiac report cites his stance on Social Security and his handling of the Schiavo case; 38 percent of poll respondents said they’re less likely to vote for Santorum because of his support for Bush’s privatization plan, and 34 percent said his prominent role in the Schiavo case diminished the likelihood that they’d vote for him.
THURSDAY, APR 21, 2005 2:46 PM EASTERN STANDARD TIME
The Terri Schiavo controversy is turning out to be a losing issue for Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Penn., despite the fact that he happened to rake in $250,000 campaign funds during his trip to Florida last month....
...Why the flagging numbers for Santorum? The Quinnipiac report cites his stance on Social Security and his handling of the Schiavo case; 38 percent of poll respondents said they’re less likely to vote for Santorum because of his support for Bush’s privatization plan, and 34 percent said his prominent role in the Schiavo case diminished the likelihood that they’d vote for him.
Interesting, though. The shoe leather candidate vs. the media mogul surrogated by a superpac. The two extremes. The shoe leather can win in Iowa, but, I don't for long. Besides the public has not been reminded of whom Sanctorum sincerely is when it comes to right wing Republican rhetoric and power. He has a long history of being a religious zealot in the USA Senate.
Iowa: Romney, Santorum seesawing in narrow vote (click title to entry - thank you)
By David Espo and Thomas Beaumont
Associated Press / January 4, 2012
Associated Press / January 4, 2012
DES MOINES, Iowa—Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney waged a seesaw battle for supremacy in Iowa's Republican presidential caucuses late Tuesday night, a dramatic opening round for the campaign to pick a challenger to President Barack Obama.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a leader in opinion polls at one point, finished a distant fifth and said he would return to his home state "to determine whether there is a path forward" for his White House aspirations.
Texas Rep. Ron Paul finished third, not far behind the front-runners.
Returns from 97 percent of the state's precincts showed Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, and Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, in a near dead heat, a fitting conclusion to a race as jumbled as any since Iowa gained the lead-off position in presidential campaigns four decades ago....
DAVENPORT, Iowa — An Iowa Christian conservative leader who bestowed his highly sought-after endorsement on presidential candidate Rick Santorum this week is now at the center of a controversy over whether he asked for cash in exchange for his public support.
Less than 48-hours after receiving the backing of Bob Vander Plaats, the head of the prominent evangelical group The Family Leader, Santorum disclosed that the prominent Iowan told him he needed money to make the most out of the endorsement.
And sources familiar with talks between the conservative heavyweight and representatives from several of the Republican presidential campaigns went a step further, describing Vander Plaats’ tactics as corrupt.
“Clearly the endorsement was for sale — without a doubt,” one source said.
It’s a charge that The Family Leader flatly denied...
The Marriage Vow Pledge. This is the strength of 'the pledges' the Right Wing Republican makes and then adheres to after reaching office. The pledges dummy down the electorate as a measure of control after the election. Here we go again.
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (click here) and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann have made commitments to sign pledges in support of traditional marriage sought by the Family Leader, an Iowa group that backs Christian conservative social values....
The Marriage Vow Pledge. This is the strength of 'the pledges' the Right Wing Republican makes and then adheres to after reaching office. The pledges dummy down the electorate as a measure of control after the election. Here we go again.
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (click here) and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann have made commitments to sign pledges in support of traditional marriage sought by the Family Leader, an Iowa group that backs Christian conservative social values....
WASHINGTON (RNS) An Iowa-based conservative (click here) Christian organization has removed controversial language about slavery from a pledge to uphold traditional marriage that the group has asked GOP candidates to sign.
The Family Leader's "Marriage Vow" originally included language in its preamble that implied that black children had better family conditions during slavery than today.
"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American president,"...
The religious bigot lives !!!!
...As a result of multicultural relativism, (click here) however, we are seeing the American aspiration eroded, our common purpose lost, and a “re-appearing tyranny and oppression” that is not only poised against us abroad but is also pointing its dagger at us here at home. This is especially true in some of the Islamist communities, where separation from the rest of America is sacrosanct and intellectual assimilation degraded-and where the equality of every human being is not taught as a self-evident truth. Our American sense of toleration, in other words, is now protecting noxious philosophies that are anti-American....
...As a result of multicultural relativism, (click here) however, we are seeing the American aspiration eroded, our common purpose lost, and a “re-appearing tyranny and oppression” that is not only poised against us abroad but is also pointing its dagger at us here at home. This is especially true in some of the Islamist communities, where separation from the rest of America is sacrosanct and intellectual assimilation degraded-and where the equality of every human being is not taught as a self-evident truth. Our American sense of toleration, in other words, is now protecting noxious philosophies that are anti-American....
