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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.
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Unfortuantely, the Tea Party and the far right don't even know what a socialist (or socialism) is. Obama is neither. These are the people that embarass me and mainstream Republicans. Mitt scares us because he has a political history of saying what will help get him to where he wants to be. This time it is the presidency. We stilll have no idea of what his real positions are and I'm hoping to find out before I vote. There is no doubt that Mitt is very intelligent and capable but is still to much of a mystery. His pandering to the far right concerns me but I do understand why he needed to do it.
You don't sell your soul to the devil. Stand up to your beliefs or sit down. Willard rather be a puppet. Ryan/ Romney equals Cheney/Bush and we all know who was pulling the strings there.
The mainstream media and the Obama followers will paint the GOP convention the only way they see everything and that is fear and smear! Obama has been here in Colorado courting the young college voters and sucking up to them and make his BS promises as he has done in 2008 and currently! The young people in college who have a lot of student loan debt has been fed more BS about how he is going to help them with their debt and wipe some of it out! Lets face it, they want a job when they graduate and want a better life for the future and Obama can blow smoke all he wants and some will eat it up, however, reality and the past 4 years tells you, it ain't going to get better if he gets re-elected!
They heard it all back in 2008 when the rockstar was telling them how he was going to change america for the good and promised them better jobs and a better economy and less division in America and more respect worldwide! How is that going for you? He is a snakeoil salesman and will do and say anything to get another 4 years and accomplish his goal of making America weaker in the world with massive debt, unemployment, and division of its people. In Nov you have the opportunity to make your vote really count and have a better future with a better paying job for your years spent in getting a great education, don't blow it!
A vote for Romney and Ryan means your education will not have been wasted and you can leave the home of your parents finally and stand on your own two feet and become successful with a good paying job. Colorado has become very liberal in the past years and Fort Collins and Boulder have many liberals who voted for Obama in 2008. Hopefully, in Nov 2012 they will finally get the message that Obama has not delivered on his BS promises and they have a better choice!
It is hard for a brother to be a rockstar when he has a bunch of rednecks f*cking with him. Ask Chuck Berry.
@rickcolon -
Mr. Anal Lube repeats the "No Work For Welfare" lie that Williard endorses. And Willard repeats, every day on TV.
Why? Everyone knows it's a lie, except perhaps the republican base. So why would they keep repeating it? What are they saying to their base?
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lol. at least this post doesn't have any nonsense, unlike your others.:)
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It was interesting to hear Santorum call single mothers heroic and amazing in this faux women friendly speech when in 1994 he said we are destroying the fabric of this country by raising up criminals, and that he wanted to kick our butts. Rick Santorum: I warn my children about people like you! Lairs and cheaters who will sell their good name () to achieve prominence. Most always to the detriment of those around you.
Since the whole thing about Obama wanting to give welfare to non-working black people has been debunked as just another racist lie, one wonders why Republicans keep repeating it. Of course, the 'base' loves racist lies.
Everyone has this preconceived notion of the "Welfare Queen" as some fat, lazy woman with a gaggle of illegitimate children surrounding her as she sits on her ass all day long, downing bon-bons, and yelling at the kids to shut the hell up because she's trying to watch Jerry Springer; However...
Corporate subsidies and bailouts eat up far more of our taxes than that Welfare Queen. Think about Farm Subsidies. In the actual world of welfare, the poorer you are, the more money you get from the state. Farm subsidies work differently, the larger corporate farm with the most assets tends to get a greater share of the farm subsidies. Therefore, 7% of the largest corporate farms in America get about 45% of the total Federal Farm subsidy money - Effectively slowly squeezing out the Mom-N-Pop farmers.
Walmart is a giant retailer, and one of the largest employers in this country. Do they need federal subsidies? Apparently they do. And they get them. They've even had land donated to them for shipping hubs (Florida), they've had the federal government pay for the recruitment and training of employees, and they've gotten the federal government to provide housing subsidies to their employees so Walmart could pay their employees less.
Let me repeat my last statement one last time: Walmart has engaged our Federal Government to assist their employees to get into HUD housing and to provide additional government support to their employees SO Walmart could pay their employees LESS.
Anyone bitching about Social Spending or about anyone's desire to cut the Defense Budget needs a friggin' dose of reality to smack them in the face...
YOUR COUNTRY is NOT your country anymore. It has been bought and sold by Corporate Interests and their Lobbying groups. Spend some time researching corporate "personhood" to find out that there are two classes of citizens in this country - Individual citizens and Corporate citizens - AND Corporate Citizens are front in line to have their issues heard and addressed by the country they've purchased. Corporate Lobbying is now the fourth arm of our three-part government of Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. Lobbying is also becoming the most powerful branch.
Democrats and Republicans? They're just there as a smokescreen. Both parties equally bought. Both responsible for pointing their fingers at the other party and saying, "THEY... They destroyed this country. Elect us and we'll fix it"... All while the Corporations and their Lobbyists continue to sell off this country, divvy up the profits, and sink us all lower and lower into debt and poverty.
Welcome to the Corporate States of America.
Anjiansani1963,
I agree with much of what you have said. However, the Party eliminating Glass-Steigal Act of 1931 prohibiting Banks from defrauding Investors was abolished by Phil Gramm's (R) Bill in 2000 allowing the plunder/pillage of a Private American citizen actually became the tool of middle class destruction. Republicans filibustered Obama's (D) Financial Reform bill until containing abolsihment of Gramm's Bill in 2010..The majority of this has been caused/facilitated by ONE Party.
I like this guy better than flipper flopper Mitt Romney!!! At least he lets his "freak flay" twirl!!!
Obama/Biden 2012 "We Got It Straight In 2008!"
An interesting statistic was pointed out last night about unemployment during recessions; during Reagan's 'recession' government employment shot up to record numbers that helped keep unemployment down; government jobs also shot up during Bush's recession with the same net effect; however, Government jobs have decreased approximately 800,000 during this President's administration (local, state and Federal); further, the President has again frozen Federal employee wages; private sector job growth has grown for something like 27 consecutive months; if government had hired as many workers as they did to during the Regan and Bush terms unemployment would be about 7.3% comparitively speaking. Again, Republicans hate their campaign being controlled by fact checkers.
It was somewhat refreshing that Santorum's lies about the President getting rid of the 'work requriement' in the welfare laws received a lukewarm response. The blatant, bold faced lies are just plain amazing. I can't wait to see what Paul Ryan is going to say tonight. And, REALLY, I want to hear somebody's plan for creating jobs and reducing the deficit with real numbers (in less than 40 years)....they just keep throwing out words. And, Did Chris Christie really say the words "shared sacrifice?" I wonder what Gov. Romney thought?
And finally, John Boehner's comments comparing getting ride of the President to basically 'throwing a drunk out of a bar' really says it all - that is just about as low as you can get. I don't care who the President is - I didn't like George Bush, but I respected the office of the President. These people have lost all respect for even the office of the President of the United States. I can't help but wonder what the rest of the world thinks of us. It is pretty depressing.
The repuke party doesn't have a message outside of "Let's hate all of the racial minorities" and "Let's bash all of the people who are poor and use welfare to feed themselves and there families" never once mentioning that 62% of the people on welfare are poor white females and their children. Why would anyone waste their time listening to that jackass Santorum? We heard quite enough from him during their circus, I mean primaries.
Why do liberals want people dependent on welfare again?
No one wants anyone to have to be on welfare. It's called compassion when you help people who need it. Oh, and Rick lies, the new rules still have a work requirement, the rules simply give states the ability to set their own work requirement standards, which MUST be equal to or greater than the federal requirement.
luke,
If no one wants people on welfare then why does the government pay for it?
Could it be that the programs designed to eliminate poverty actually create poverty?
Would people being more self reliant cause Democrats to lose votes?
Just wondering.
Even the Republican Governor of Utah has said Mitt Romney is lying about welfare. But the lie keeps being used because Romney needs to win pretty much every white voter in America. Or maybe he'll outsource some of his votes and get some from Switzerland?
Chris (the glutton) Christie tells the american people that they have to make sacrafices by giving up their Social Security and Medicare so we can give the wealthy another big tax cut. How many sacrafices can the middle class make and still have enough money to pay for necessities for them selves and their families?
the Republicans idea for job creation is to eliminate the minimum wage. They figure they can take one job that pays 7.25 an hour and create seven jobs for around a dollar an hour. They will eliminate any government assistance so you would be forced to work for slave labor wages even though it does not pay for the necessities to survive.
Rick, you're going to hell for lying. Didn't all the Bible reading teach you that? He knows full well that the new welfare rules still have a work requirement. Simply the States now have an option of having it meet their own requirement, which MUST be greater than the Federal one. Here Obama gives Republican Governors what they want, and the Republicans less government, and they go and twist it with lies.
The GOP's argument for re-election is politically/factually defunct/debunked..........
It (Health Care) will be their (GOP) Waterloo.....................
Obama/Biden 2012
The repugs continue to use smear and fear campaigning and Americans are not falling for it. They are just dividing Americans who believe their b.s. The party of No and NO good ideas to move forward. So lets leave the repugs behind in November!
Sanctimonious Santorum and all the GOPs. Think they have the right to force their off-the-cuff religious guesses on every pregnancy in the country. They think women are cattle. Boy are they in for a rude awakening.
more importantly ricky santorum lacks truth!
Santorum = bore 'em.
He just wants a Roman Catholic theocracy.
Insantorum is just trying too rile up the only people that will vote for the Criminal Republicans...
The White Bigot's, and the DUMB FUX viewers..
First, allow me to preface the following remarks by saying that I am a black man; for those who don't already know that! Secondly, as a black man, I do not begin to fathom how it is anybody's business whether or not a woman decides to abort a fetus; other than her husband or your god's business!!! Abortion is legal; am I right? So then, if a woman decides for whatever reason that she doesn't' wish to carry an as yet unborn to full term; how do all of you and all others who don't read these post...how do you feel it is your damn business? I truly feel sorry for the person who would stick their nose into me and my wife's decisions on ANY subject!!! You go too far! You dare to kill the DOCTOR who performs an abortion? You would kill the living to protect a life that might never be? Babies die in the womb naturally; ALL THE TIME! Killing someone who is making a true contribution to humanity ALREADY? REALLY??? You think that highly of yourselves? I must be retarded or something because I have no desire to carry another's burdens; phooey on that! My life is already hard enough! Why would I voluntarily take on my neighbor's madness? WHOA!
If that woman is wrong... how can you believe in a god who will punish the wicked but you don't believe that he/she will sufficiently punish that woman? I am not a Christian but I have enough common sense to know that if your god is the judge of ALL people then he/she is in fact the judge of that woman. Do you take it upon yourselves to kill ALL liars? Your god says he/she will kill all liars and burn them! Do you feel the need to kill all people who commit sin in general? How do you pick this one facet of human existence and decide YOU will be judge and jury? Maybe the unborn are not suppose to be born in the first place. If I understand your bible correctly; it IS possible to go against your god and do things that are against his/her divine will for your lives; am I right? So then, why not allow this same god to judge those who partake in abortion; if they are wrong, will not your god punish them? I am SO confused by this argument that it makes my head spin! Your own god kills babies in the womb quite often; but we simply call them miscarriages...why don't you kill your god when he/she commits this same act? I J S... Rick Sanctimonious is a real nut job and so are his followers!!!
Right on? right on...