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TUCSON, AZ -- Rick Santorum called America "a moral enterprise" and accused President Obama of "systematically trying to crush the traditional Judeo-Christian principles" at a tea party rally here on Wednesday.
Speaking to nearly 200 supporters, the presidential hopeful did not shy away from many of the controversial topics that he has taken criticism for in recent days. The former Pennsylvania senator said the health care law signed by the president in 2010 undermines religious freedom and is an attack on Christianity.
"The greatness of america is we have such diversity, with the proviso -- 'E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one.' Essentially we are going to need to hold together on some set of moral codes and principles," said Santorum. "And we're seeing very evidently what the president's moral codes and principles are about. We see a president who is systematically trying to crush the traditional Judeo-Christian principles in this country."
As he has many times throughout the campaign, Santorum pointed to the recent controversy surrounding a Health and Human Services mandate requiring religious institutions to cover contraception in health care coverage as an example of the president's assault on religion.
"This is what I know gets everybody on the secular left just bonkers about my campaign. They just go crazy, because I say that America is at its heart a moral enterprise," Santorum said.
He also accused the president of resigning America to "evil forces," a nod to recently surfaced reports of a 2008 speech in which Santorum warned against the influence of Satan in America. At a stop Tuesday night in Phoenix, AZ, Santorum held that will defend everything he says. Using the language of good versus evil on Wednesday signaled he had no plans to back down from that rhetoric.
"He's making the world a much more dangerous place as he continues to pull America back and allow those who seek to do harm to freedom, those who seek to oppress -- yes, evil forces around the world," Santorum said.
But, with ashes still visible on his forehead after attending Catholic Mass on the first day of Lent, Santorum did seem to quell fears about the role his deep like held religious convictions might play in governing. "People who have faith are actually more respectful of people with different faiths," he said.
The rally marked Santorum's third campaign stop in Arizona, but it was the first where he addressed immigration at length. He maintained his hard-lined stance against illegal immigration, maintaining that those who are here without having gone through the proper channels should be deported.
Despite a new NBC/Marist poll showing Santorum running well behind chief rival Mitt Romney in this state, he told the crowd that the message their state sends on Feb. 28 will be an important one.
"Everyone’s focused in on Super Tuesday, and there are a lot of states up on Super Tuesday, but more than anything else, what happens in MI and AZ next week is gonna havet he biggest impact on Super Tuesday in this election than any two states," he said.
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Is God speaking to him directly, or did he deduce this from some strange set of facts?
Ricky thinks he heard God, but the fact is he forgot to take his medication again.
Rick and Conservatives, in general, will have a field day with this -
Moments ago, Judge Jeffery White of the District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the Constitution's equal protection clause in a case brought by Karen Golinski. Golinski, represented by Lambda Legal, "was denied spousal health benefits by her employer, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco." White was appointed to the court by President George W. Bush in 2002. The decision represents a serious setback for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), whose Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group (BLAG) defended DOMA after the Obama administration announced it would no longer defend the law.
1. Last time I looked, there were a lot of different religions in this country.
2. Didn't Santorum say recently at an Ohio Christian Aliance lunch, that he accepts that President Obama is a Christian and was not questioning his faith?
What we see, is a president-elect "who is systematically trying to crush" down the Rest of us.
As Santorum said in 2008 - and he knows himself best, "Satan has his sights set on America."
Corrrrection above: What we see in Santorum is a Presidential candidate, a 1%-er,
"who is systematically trying to crush" ordinary Americans of any faith.
He is wielding his Christian faith like a club.
Dennis,
Good Evening. The decision is not earth shattering as it has been expected for sometime. It will play out in the 9th Circuit and then the Supreme Ct. The Supreme Ct will have to rule on the 9th Circuit ruling about California's prop 8 first.
I posted several times, during the debate on DADT, that the constitutionality of the DOMA should have came first. That the repeal of DADT was just a easier step in getting rid of DOMA.
BTW, you do know I am a conservative don't you? However, I am not a social Conservative, but more of a fiscal conservative. The Republicans have got to learn that a social conservative will never win a general election. Have a good evening.
Yes Rick"E Pluribus Unum" not"god we trust",you finally got something right. You and Franklin Graham what a pair phonies.
Listening to these evangelicals I have to ask myself, are they listening to themselves?
Attacks on the president that are without merit and are so personal is only going to impress the morons who already believe the BS they spew. The rest of the country will rally around to defend his right to his beliefs.
Dennis,
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!! That's fantastic news!
The word that most comes to mind when I think of Santorum (besides as* juice that is), is presumptuous. These folks who believe they have a direct line to the almighty are awful full of themselves, don't you think?
They judge, they question other's faith, they attempt to trample the rights of minorities, they degrade the poor, and then they stand up there like their poo doesn't stink, and God's texting them his agenda every morning. What, does he get an email saying, "Hey Rick. Today I want you to disenfranchise women and make sure everyone still hates gay people. Thanks. God."
I'm so flipping sick, of these jackholes. Seriously.
"I like your Christ, I do not think I like your Christians." - Ghandi
I really hope Santorum gets the ticket. That way, Obama will win by a LANDSLIDE.
The blog proves the point that theer is an active assault on religion by Obama and his Liberal followers. Like Jonestown , his supporters continue to drink the koolaid and see only a glowing leader looking out for them when in fact he is slowly but surely breaking down ever moral and economical code that this country has been built on and leaving our country in potential waste. Attack religion all you want but people are waking up to Obama and the Democratic policiies and we will rise up in November and remove you all! no wonder poeple are saying they wnat thier country back because they are don't recognise it anymore!
I wonder what little Ricky's ring tone is on his cell phone when God gives him a jingle...?
Perhaps, "The Devil Went Down to GA"?
He thinks it's God calling him, but when he hears "Smoke Gets in your Eyes," on his ringtone it makes me believe it's from someone else.
It should be "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. That would blow his blockage through the roof.
Do you have ANY idea how much it hurts when Diet Coke comes out your nose? LMAO
Let's ask Icky Ricky how much it hurts when his surge blows from his nose. There ain't enough Kleenex or super absorbent Bounty to mop up that mess.
I'm am wondering what the Rickster is giving up for Lent. After all, Gingrich proudly announced he has given up his Callista Tart and Callista Pie desserts.
Lubricant?
Daaaaaaaaaang Feisty .. Diet coke coming out of your nose DOES hurt.
And let's hope not, that makes for a rough ride. Pucker up Ricky.
Does anyone know where you can buy one of those cool sweater vest?
If you donate a $100 bucks to his campaign he will send you one - complete with his logo monogrammed on it! lol
Feisty I'm glad I wasn't drinking my ruby red grapefruit when I read these comments you guys are a hoot!! Enjoyed reading them.
I'll try to remember to put a disclaimer up next time! ;o)
Enjoy that ruby red & have a great day!
I had a look at the Bemidji Woolen Mills website, and those sweater vests are a special contract. It's not one of their usual products, sorry.
Somebody tell the tealiban , THIS is a Presidential Election . Its not a POPE election . Hmmm on second thought , Just let them run with that . LMAO
Fox News = News For Dum FUX .
Really? The attack you launched on Obama the other paints you as the Grand Inquisitor, so I'd say the word should be "disrespectful".
Please explain it to me again, Father Ricky, how does health care undermine religious freedom and attack Christianity. See, I have scoured the bible, I can't find a reference anywhere to medical insurance equating to Satanic forces bent on turning the hearts of the religious against almighty God.
Sorry Rickster, or as you are more commonly becoming known, Icky Ricky - hate to tell you but the more your spout on and on about religion, the more the secular left and the moderate right looks at you as completely bonkers. I'm talking lunatic, I'm talking psychotic. Even the Grand Poo-bah conservative Joe on Morning Joe took you to task over your religious babble-spew.
I knew it.
Gingrich made a big deal that he was passing on Ash Wednesday services. As the "new Catholic" he knew the rules, Today's service is optional for Catholics, but not the fasting rules.
Watch, Santorum will have his ashes on his forehead during the debate. He is making this primary about the war of good and evil....he is running as evangelist, preacher in Chief.
Mean while, the rest of us are about electing a President and Commander in Chief.
Northstar---he'll have to have on makeup for TV so he will re-apply the ashes OVER the make up.
Will Ricks' new ashes come from his burned out run for the nomination?
In Ricks' world is make-up against Gods' will....evil?
If he hasn't given up lubricant for Lent, he could always use Vaseline to preserve his ash.
Dog whistle translation: if President Obama is "systematically trying to crush the traditional Judeo-Christian principles" he must be a Muslim or an atheist.
Ya know Steeler, I am admittedly not a Constitutional scholar. That being said, I just can't find the words Judeo-Christian in the document.
Steeler Fan,
OMG, I hope he does....LOL
Rick Santorum called America "a moral enterprise" and accused President Obama of "systematically trying to crush the traditional Judeo-Christian principles" at a tea party rally here on Wednesday.
Arousing the rabble eh, Rick?
Did you know that the President of the United States is not supposed to be a religious leader. It is a secular office. Check the Constitution you might learn something.
Church and state cannot be combined, what part of that does the republican party NOT understand? The president, is the president for all americans regardless of religious faith. Everybody must abide by the same set of laws. Republicans want to write two sets of laws, the first for themselves and their rich friends, the crumbs they leave behind, the rest of us can have, only they call it the trickle down effect. The second set of laws says, the first set of laws cannot be tampered with. Republican really are saying, How dare President Obama take our money and help the poor and middle class, he is trying to destroy our american way of life. He is evil and must be stopped. The things that all republicans are saying, the things they are doing that will only hurt millions of people, they are really starting to scare the hell out of me because they don't care who they hurt or who's death they cause from the healthcare laws they are writing, everyday another republican come up with another hurtful idea that other republicans think is a good idea. The republican party is where the true evil is, because what they are doing is no accident, they are hurting people on purpose.
Don't know how true this is but I heard that republicans planned to make President Obama a one term president and the main thing they wanted to do is, make the American voters life a living hell and then blame it all on President Obama. To me it sounds like what they are doing to all of us now.
Hey America! "Sanitorium Santorum" got a call from Satan. Again! Wishing him well in his "Clown Show" performance tonight. The desert heat of Arizona is good for "Satan Santorum." He will be going to help Satan maintain his many ovens in hell. People who hate, and are intolerant to others belong in hell helping the Devil complete his deeds. "Sanitarium Santorum" knows the Devil very well, and they attend the same KKK rallies. Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Party Of NO has got to GO!
Maybe the GOP evangelicals want a religious nut in the white house , but I don't think that most independant votors do.
I am firmly an independent but for the near future unless there is a D or an I by someones name they will not be getting my vote.
Mandated rape by doctors to prevent abortions, banning contraception, attacks on women, attacks on gays, preaching at us, I am finished with the GOP. While Romney is lying through his teeth agreeing to this crap, he doesn't deserve a vote if he doesn't have the balls to stand up for the constitution and womens rights. If the rest of the country were to vote for a republican over Obama, I guess he would be my choice though.
Getting rid of public schools so it is only available to the elite...can the republicans be anymore obvious?
los i dont think anybody with half a brain wants a religous nut in the white house. btw the catholic church has more money than god, how come they dont use their money to help the poor and needy since sentorum (and the other religous nusts} dont believe the govt should do it?
rick santorium ill bet he spews some more LMAO
Pea soup...I liked him far better when he only rambled something incoherent during a debate once in a while.
Well--St Paul did tell him that people would pick on him because he is a true Christian. Let's keep up the good work. It's good for his soul and for my stomach.
Santorum is convinced that it is his credit and way to get attention but what he doesn't seem to understand is that everyone has religion and moral values, a conscience they live by, and people are highly interested in what the candidates feel about everything else and how they will conduct themselves as president, not as clergy. And what is scary with Santorum is that he can't get out of the clergy act and be objective and rational about everything else. The man is too extreme and even childlike, which makes him bazaar.
We need to get Santorum out if the GOP has any chance of winning the presidency. This lunatic is a dangerous extremist.
This might play well to the caveman riding a dinosaur crowd, but what the rest of America wants to know is when is he going to get off the second coming, holier than thou crap and come up with solutions to the problems facing the country. He won't, because he's as clueless as the others, he thinks cutting taxes and social programs are the way forward. Same tired republican philosphy, same treasury raiding results.
America is faced with so many problems-- umemployment, underemployment, steeply rising medical costs, declining home values, declining home sales, 1 of 6 american children living in poverty, cities filing for bankruptcy, states in distress, high fuel costs, student loans that exceed all credit card debt combined (and threaten the financial futures of our children), a educational system that is falling behind far too many other countries, drug abuse and addiction, critical shortages of lifesaving drugs, foreclosures, a crumbling infrastructure-- not to mention the problems facing us in other countries. Mr. Santorum, can we please focus on those things rather than screaming about contraceptives and abortion and the religious beliefs/habits of yourself and other candidates. It's taking away from discussions about how you and the other candidates plan on addressing the issues that are threatening the future of this country. I personally beieve that the reason why Santorum spends most of his time focusing on the religious is because he has very little to offer us otherwise. There's a reason why PA voted him out by a huge margin.
Who's Rick Santorum?
Santorum is rapidly showing his true colors, a very sick puppy pandering to those he considers to be the exterme right wing of the GOP. The words coming out of his mouth should give any reasonable individual serious doubt about just what Rick Santorum is all about. No wonder he overwhelmingly lost his Senate seat with such expreme comments. He is beginning to make Romney look like the best of four very poor GOP choices, none of whom have any clue how to fix our economy, simply pushing the same old failed tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and now, adding to the mix, massive spending cuts to stall any recovery.
Santorum, is the best canidate for president --there is good and evil in the world, and we are allowing our morals to go out the door with all the gays/lesibains and allowing GOD to be taken out of our lifes. We the christians who do believe in GOD should back a christian, I beleive Obama is a good man and has done what he can --but the CONGRESS is too big to powerful and certaintly over paid and we need to vote them out and cut their pay. Santorum maybe the man with the values we need to get the job done , Obama hasn't just look at the price of gas, and I am still waiting on my bail out like the AUTO AND BANKS got with our tax money. We own a part of them now so maybe I will go and camp out in their offices and use their electric/gas/ expence credit cards
No one can take God out of your life but you. If your morals are gone it is because you threw them away. You think we should back someone because they CLAIM to be a Christian? I normally do but not one that wants to force his ideas on others. Gas prices are controlled by the oil companies one of the corporate masters of the Republican Party. As our gas prices soar so do their profits.
Yes, everyone is overpaid.....except Mitt.
I am 67-years-old and when I was growing up in an "interfaith" family, I was told that the roman church was a sham, a brothel, that the pope is the anti-christ and all this could be proven by the bible. Catholics were considered of dubious moral character and had no concept of hygiene simply because they were catholics. Some (many) people still think this way. How soon we forget the uncomfortable past and join in on the attacks on others once we feel accepted by the oppressor. Shame on Santorum and I'm one-half Italian! One of the perversities of a class based socitey. Now liberal christians are considered under the spell of satan. Truth is, most of them are well-educated and their churches had to change there teachings or lose thier members who don't fall for crackpot superstition.
Is this guy running to become head of some fanatical religon? If so his rhetoric is acceptable; but if he is running for a political position it is not acceptable and may even be illegal by trying to establish a religous test for politicians.It definitely goes against the constitution which he waves about while he thumps his Catholic papers with the other.I keep hearing a right wing nut job slander a Christian.
Rick Santorum is the anti-gay, anti-abortion anti-womyn, anti-science. Who is running on these social issues. Never mind health reform or jobs. Or anything important or non-discriminatory, for that matter.
As I listen to this candidate's rhetoric I see a person who runs a campaign based on social issues that are clearly not going to ruin our society. Our real woes are contained in the issues of economics, adjustment to globalization, reliance on diminishing petroleum, etc. The next president would do well to deal with these and like issues, rather than put forth an effort to legislate moral agendas in an attempt to turn this democratic society of ours into some semblance of a theocracy. We Americans have traditionally valued having the government stay out of our personal lives and to let us have our own spiritual beliefs. I really do not want these fundi religious nuts in my bedroom or in any other aspects of my private life. They seem to think they know what's right for me; I always thought that this decision was mine, and yet, it seems as if they want to force themselves on me as if they were a group of some self-righteous know it all's. I can't help but think that this sounds like fascism wrapped in religion. I think that the Republican party have backed themselves into a corner by getting in bed with the religious right. These religious right winger's seem to have a very skewed understanding of our endeared traditional American values anyway. This what I see when reading between the lines--maybe I'm off a bit, but that's just what I see.
You see things as they are. Religious fanatics like Santorum and those who support him are ignorant, closed minded, and often mentally disturbed.