E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSSIn a convention with few reminders of the 2012 Republican primary just a few months ago, Rick Santorum brought everyone back.
The former Pennsylvania senator delivered a somber speech that was more about his personal story than a ringing endorsement of Mitt Romney. It hit on many of the same themes he pushed while pursuing his longshot presidential bid, including family values, marriage and abortion.
Addressing the Republican National Convention, Former Senator Rick Santorum broke from the recurring theme of criticising President Barrack Obama's fiscal policies to emphasize social issues.
In fact, even though Santorum was the first speaker to raise the welfare issue, his allusion to abortion was the best-received line of his speech.
“I thank God that America still has one party that reaches out their hands in love to lift up all of God’s children -- born and unborn -- and says that each of us has dignity and all of us have the right to live the American Dream,” Santorum said to a standing ovation.
On welfare, Santorum, who touted his work on welfare reform in the 1990s, accused the president of trying to “weaken our republic” and acting as if he were “above the law.”
“President Obama’s policies undermine the traditional family, weaken the education system,” Santorum said. “And this summer he showed us once again he believes in government handouts and dependency by waiving the work requirement for welfare.
“I helped write welfare reform; we made the law crystal clear -- no president can waive the work requirement. But as with his refusal to enforce our immigration laws, President Obama rules like he is above the law. America take heed, when a president can simply give a speech or write a memo and change the law to do what the law says he can’t, we weaken our republic.”
Of course, the welfare attack has been widely discredited, and there is still a work requirement for welfare. There also was limited crowd reaction to the attack, which has become a mainstay of the Romney campaign on the trail and in millions of dollars in television ads.
Leave a Comment:
Buyer's Remorse.
Thats what you get when you nominated Mitt Romney for President.
You could have had Chris Christie; while I do not agree with some of his political views, at least he's real. He gave a great speach and if he was running against President Obama I just might be worried.
Mitt brings to the table secrecy, a waivering opinion, no plans other than the GOP talking points and relied on Ryan to bring an identity to his campaign. Anne Romney while I'm sure is a good wife, is totally disconnected from the real world struggle Americans face everyday...sure she can talk about them, almost like she read a book on the subject. She never felt it...lived it....or struggled through it.
One of the Republicans biggest complaint about President Obama is he wasn't properly vetted.....if this is of your opinion why don't you demand that Mitt be?
Here' why I beleive Romney will never release his taxes for 2007, 2008, 2009
95% of all Americans lost 44% of their wealth and assets on average.
That 44% went somewhere....it didn't just disappear. When someone looses...someone gains.
I beleive that while America was going down the tubes, loosing jobs, equity, 401ks; a select few were taking it all in in truck loads.
People are pissed, we were screwed over by rules that these elitest wrote for themselves...whose to say this wasn't an manufactured plan?
Peoples lives were ruined, desimated, some that were just holding on are now homeless.
If America finds out he increased his net worth while we went down the tubes...he's toast.
That's why he isn't going to release them.....it's not that he didn't pay taxes....it's because he collected our money and he didn't deserve it...he knows it wasn't fair.
Anyway...you should have nominated Chris Christie...that would have made me worry.
Romney is not going to win....unless of course all the voter ID laws work out like the Republicans want.
Top Bum:
Suppose you are a Republican, and suppose you are an idiot; but wait, I am
repeating myself.
LOVE IT!!!!!
Thank you, Bill
Santorum drummed on about the sanity of marriage, as in it takes two to raise a child in a blessed home. However, research has shown that the divorce rate for Christian vs non-Christian married adults are virtually the same at 51 percent. Not much to brag about here.
Why, in the name of all common sense, do the repukes allow this loser religious bigot kook to have a national stage for his blather. It's embarrassing.
When will the Republicans catch on to just how offensive and devisive and bigoted and anti-women Santorum is!!? We in PA couldn't wait to get rid of him. The country as a whole didn't want him as their candidate, so why is this racist, sexist idiot still in the spotlight? This alone, to me, spells what the entire Republican agenda is. Pay attention, people! If you have daughters or parents on SS or are collecting SSI/Medicaid/Medicare yourselves, YOU are a target for everything the Republicans want to cut! And if your kids in college have student loans, well just watch out! Student loans are on their way out, as are tax deductions for home mortgages! It's all in the Ryan Budget plan and the Republican Platform, which they are trying to hide!! Pay attention....vote accordingly!
Liar
No Burndo...
He is 100% correct.
Let's be honest. Can you? Here's the real problem the repukes have.
1. Romney's not a conservative. He's a RINO. The National Review is already publishing articles that blatantly state a President Romney will have to be kept on a "short leash" and "managed." By whom they don't say. Norquist?
2. Ryan and his final solution for Medicare and Social Security scares the hell out of people. Turning over millions of monthly insurance checks to big insurance companies so they can compete to insure the old and chronically ill. And handing over trillions of retirement monies to Wall Street. The whole thing is just a dreadful idea. They've got their work curt out for them.
I guess MURDER of innocent children mean NOTHING to nbc,.....wannabe reporters and libs and some women.
It's not murder. It's the law. Get over it.
Freddy
Murder is illegal....abortion is not...Can you understand the difference???
Don't keep reaching for intellect because you just look like an idiot stretching
that way for no reason.
Freddy, how does one murder a zygote? No bible thumping please, bible is silent on the matter of abortion. All made up hype.
Obama 2012
There is no point in wasting time or energy debating, discussing, attacking his life, politics, opinions. This is simple: Rick Santorum IS A NUT. A successful one. A wealthy one. A happily married one. One in a marriage he considers proper. A good father one. BUT A NUT. Story goes he saw a little boy playing with a pink ball, and told him to put it down. True? I don't know but a reporter posted it. Remember his political platform to clean up the porno industry? Nothing bigger on the radar screen? Has umpteem kids? Makes him a man? Makes him a Christian? What is with this gut? Easy; HE'S A NUT. He and Bachman: NUTS. They make Sarah Palin look like someone grounded with something worthwhile to say, PS: One term senator. Lost reelection. While in office, gave big health insurance conracts to a local company with offices in Puero Rico. When he got kicked out of office, went to work for them. CROOKED AND NUTS.
Hey, Rick - that stadium you were speaking in last night? You didn't build that. It was built with about 2/3rds government money.
Just a little clue that this entire RNC is a house of cards built on a pack of lies. You did build the lies, to your credit.
The republicans are as phony as a three dollar bill. The ONLY thing they got going for them is Mitt Romeny BECAUSE he is smart and savvy, a REAL businessman and politician. So much out of the Tea Party parameter, that they DON'T EVEN like him, but he won, so they'll stick by him. Problem is the republican party has been dominated by the Tea Party: Nut Cases Santorum and Bachman. Wing Nut Sarah Palin. Crook and loser Sunnunu, and Ryan, right wing ideologue. So the republicans are either NUTS or PHONY BUT they got Romney. Problem: he wants to take us back to 1950 when gays stayed in the closet, women stayed at home, had kids, and took care of their husbands, minorities and lower class citizens knew their place and accetpted their fate, companies did what they wanted without being restricted by environmental laws that give us clean air and clean water, and the US was the world dominate economy becuase Europe was dstroyed after WWII, Russia and China were communist, and India was backwards. So, we got WING NUTS, PHONIES, and MITT ROMNEY. All of this makes the democrats look REAL GOOD.
The Best comment ever made about Rick Santorum was made by Sarah Palin. When asked about Rick Santorum's views on women (and specifically her), she responded "Rick Santorum is a knuckle-dragging Neandrathal, I'd tell him that to his face...........but I'll let his wife do it instead." No one will ever top that and it describes him perfectly.
Displacement ! A big word Rick and his fellow back room Democrats can't and will never understand until the two parties void free market labor. Clinton's welfare work program takes one person on welfare and puts them into a job that someone was willing to labor without food stamps. The program displaces a productive tax paying laborer with a tax subsidized laborer. Who wins, the two political parties who control those industries. The loser's are tax payers and the displaced laborer who now heads for the welfare and unemployment comp lines. Public troughters will become the next middle class under two party rule.
tiresome little man
No one in any party can complain about the weakening of family values. Both parties have made laws that treat fathers as 2end class citizens with no proof whats so ever that those fathers deserve to be treated that way.
When you are making laws that virtually guarantee that children will not have their fathers in their lives and place money above time with ones children, then it is extremely hard to take any of these politicians seriously when they start talking about how the other guy is eroding and weakening families, schools, and the "Republic" .
There will be no America when our kids are all needlessly fatherless and no one should expect a strong country when a whole gender is robbed of their right to be parents.
Yo, Santorum... This weakening of the republic did not start with Obama, it started when the government started attacking men. All men. Make laws respecting the unity of family for both genders and then you will start to see a stronger country.
Rick Santorum is to intellectual life as trichinosis is to pork.
The libtards and NBC propagandists are out in force today. Could it be you're all running scared? Obama has nothing to run on. He has failed and he will be defeated in NOV.
I don't like either party, but the republicans are a mess. The only way they would have defeated Obama in Nov is with Ron Paul. They are a mess and they have absolutely no chance at the top job this election.
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down
it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot, named Frank-1133816 yelling nonsense down
a hole.
no, we're here to make fun of people who think that "libtard' is a clever word.
I thought school was back in session? apparently not everywhere. :)
Yeah, I'm totally surprised Little Ricky took the podiuim and talked about himself instead of Mittens....what the hell was he supposed to say? "Vote for him cause you didn't vote for me". What a joke, just like the rest of the GOP.
Oh, Rick Sanitarium, did the night watchmen forget to lock the gates at the nut house again?
Good evening, folks. It's 11 o'clock . . . do you know where Rick's meds are?
The Republican Party: How Pathetic they are. The reason Mitt Romney walks as he does, its because his money has him on a leash. Just Watch his walk. And to Chris Christi;Mr Wide-Load. it's unbelievable that he's able to walk with such a heavy load and to think that the American People want them as a shinning example, they are pathetic and will never get a vote out of my family.
Should be amusing when Mittens addresses You People tomorrow night....
What is Santorum's endorsement of "family values" really mean. Can anyone really define what the republican "family values" consist of. Still trying to find a right winger whom can answer that. Santorum is a nutter and his utterances are discounted and derided as nonsense which they really are, so why is this man allowed a day pass. He needs to take himself to Rome and whisper in the Popes ear. Done with the loon.
Obama 2012
family values is code speak for anti-abortion and anti-gay rights.
How discriminating against equal rights for americans somehow got branded as "family values" is a fascinating tale of political marketing.
CAIN / AKIN FOR REAL REPUBLICAN FAMILY VALUES (SANDUSKY IS NOT AVAILABLE)
Some Christian, this guy. I'd rather be me than him on Judgement day.
I'd rather be me than him on ANY day.
Rick Santorum may one day make a perfect leader... as Pope, but not President.
*yawn*....I was going to watch ol' Ricky last night, but I had something more important to do...I had to pop a pimple on my ass.
Oilman, whoo hoo, thanks!
Obama 2012
Me too, Oilman, I had to scrub my garage floor with a toothbrush!
Personal responsibility. What a concept. I see people calling themselves poor getting welfare(not all) but a hell of alot of them have cell phones, cable tv, and alot better car than I do.
Yup and I see a dancing horse living much better than I and most of the world does, your point?
Obama 2012
But if they had to rely on radio, use a neighbor's phone, or had to walk you would have no problems? Seems your issues stem from the fact that "people calling themselves poor getting welfare(not all) but a hell of alot of them" are better money managers than you are. Pretty sad, when you think on it ~ a gainfully employed, self-sufficient, personally responsible, patriotic, flag-waving conservative is getting out-shined by a welfare queen. Pitiful!!!