Tag: Rick Santorum

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Santorum performs for the cameras – curses out NY Times

Rick Santorum clearly knew the cameras were rolling and that this would get picked up.

His “anger” over being asked a question is laughable. He has said in many speeches that he feels Romney is the worst Repub to run against President Obama. If he means something slightly different – like “run against Obama on healthcare due to Romneycare” – then he should say exactly that.

But this is all political theatre at this point. Rick Santorum will not get the nomination, but I’m sure he’s looking for “Sarah Palin sized” fees and offers from Fox News once this is over.

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Greenwell Springs Baptist Church removing proof of Rick Santorum speech

Greenwell Springs Baptist Church pastor Dennis Terry says he never told those who disagree with his views that there is only one God and America was founded as a Christian nation that they should “get out!” of the country during an event at his church on Sunday featuring Rick Santorum.

Pastor Terry is saying that his comments were “taken out of context” although lots of people have seen the full length speech through the power of the internet. If you haven’t seen it yet, take a peek. It speaks for itself.

Yesterday, Greenwell Springs’ Worship Minister Jeremy Dailey posted a message on his Facebook account asking that all church members “remove from Facebook and/or any other public site, any video showing footage from the Sunday Evening service of March 18, 2012”:

Now, gee… I wonder why they would do that?

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Rick Santorum: “The unemployment rate doesn’t matter to me”

Santorum has made this argument many times, as Dave Weigel points out at Slate, but the soundbite and the message convey his campaign’s lesser focus on the economy.

Perhaps this is because Santorum’s focus is on the social issues?

Mitt Romney in Peria, Ill. later same day: “I do care about the unemployment rate, it does bother me. I want to put people back to work.”

Infighting is fun…

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Dennis Terry introduces Presidential candidate Rick Santorum with a speech of fire and brimstone

Get ready for some fire and brimstone sinners.

Greenwell Springs Baptist Church pastor Dennis Terry introduced presidential candidate Rick Santorum and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins Sunday night in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with a rousing speech railing against liberals and non-Christians and condemning abortion rights, “sexual perversion,” same-sex marriage and secular government.

Terry said that America “was founded as a Christian nation” and those that disagree with him should “get out! We don’t worship Buddha, we don’t worship Mohammad, we don’t worship Allah!” Terry, who has a long history of attacks against the gay community, went on to criticize marriage equality for gays and lesbians, and said that the economy can only recover when we “put God back” in government.

So, in case you didn’t get all that: you don’t belong in the United States if you believe in any other religion other than this that of Dennis Terry.  Those of you thinking the Constitution ensured freedom of religion were clearly wrong according to Mr. Terry.

Notice, Rick Santorum seems to have NO problem with Mr. Terry’s positions.

At the end of the event, Terry prayed over Santorum and asked God to “have favor upon Rick Santorum.”  
(source)

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Rick Santorum shirtless

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After campaigning in Puerto Rico, telling citizen there that they don’t deserve statehood unless they make English their official language, Rick Santorum took some time for a little poolside R&R at a local resort.

Who knew things could look this bad? President Obama could give Rick Santorum some workout tips.

Also staying at that resort were passengers from an Atlantis all-gay cruise, who snapped the above photo. Surely the fact that several gay folk were staying at the same hotel and swimming in the same water would have horrified Rick.
(via JMG)

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Rick Santorum says he will ban pornography

Rick Santorum said that “America is suffering from a pandemic of harm from pornography,” and accused the Obama administration’s Justice Department of favoring “pornographers over children,” in a statement on his campaign website.

The former Pennsylvania senator argues that “current federal ‘obscenity’ laws prohibit distribution of hardcore [obscene] pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier.”

The statement said that if elected, Santorum would appoint an attorney general who would vigorously enforce federal obscenity laws.

“The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws,” the statement read in part. “While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Santorum administration.”

“A wealth of research is now available demonstrating that pornography causes profound brain changes in both children and adults, resulting in widespread negative consequences,” the statement noted.
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Obama leads all GOP candidates in head-to-head contests

President Barack Obama is leading all of the Republican presidential candidates in head-to-head match-ups, according to a poll released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.

• A national survey taken March 7-11 showed Obama leading Romney by 12 percentage points (54-42) and even further ahead of Santorum with 57 percent of support to Santorum’s 29 percent.

• For the first time since shortly after Osama bin Laden was killed, half of all Americans (50 percent) say they approve of Barack Obama’s job performance.

• Mitt Romney currently holds a 33-24 lead over Santorum among registered Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters, with 20 percent backing Newt Gingrich and 14 percent favoring Ron Paul.

• By a 59-32 margin, most Americans think Barack Obama will win the election if Mitt Romney is the Republican nominee. That margin is far wider if Rick Santorum is the GOP nominee: 68 percent think Obama would win, while just 24 percent predict a Santorum presidency.

• In the current survey, just 29 percent of Americans say they have a favorable view of Romney, while 51 percent say they have an unfavorable impression.

• Women favor Obama over Romney by 20 points—virtually unchanged from a month ago.
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Rick Santorum makes up a law saying Puerto Rico must adopt English as official language to join US

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said Wednesday that Puerto Rico should only gain statehood if the territory makes English its main language.

In an interview with a San Juan newspaper, El Vocero, Santorum said English would have to be the “main language” if Puerto Rico were to become a state.

“As in any other state, you have to comply with this and any federal law. And that is that English has to be the main language,” Santorum told the paper. “There are other states with more than one language as is the case in Hawaii, but to be a state in the United States, English has to be the main language.”

There is no federal law designating English as the country’s official language, although some states and local governments have adopted such “English only” laws.

Article IV, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution spells out how states can be admitted to the union, making no mention of language requirements. The passage states: “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”