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Santorum leads Romney in Michigan

Rick Santorum is now leading Mitt Romney in Romney’s home state of Michigan.

The Public Policy Polling survey found Santorum leading Romney, 39 to 24 percent, among likely GOP voters in Michigan — the state where Romney was born and where his father served as governor.

Santorum, hot off three primary and caucus wins last week, also rocketed to the front in national polls.

A Gallup poll released yesterday showed Rick Santorum with 30 percent support nationally, in a statistical tie with Romney, who had 32 percent.

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Rick Santorum campaigns against marriage equality in Washington state

From The Advocate: Rick Santorum spent Monday campaigning in Washington state, where primary voters head to the polls March 3 and where Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law a marriage equality bill during an exuberant ceremony yesterday at the state capitol.

During his swing through the state that President Obama carried in 2008 with 57.5% of the vote, Santorum met with a group of conservative religious leaders in a closed-door meeting to push for repeal of the marriage law, which is scheduled to go into effect June 7.

“We have a serious issue about trying to get moms and dads to marry and stay together,” Santorum told the Seattle Times. “I don’t see this as encouraging that. I think that at least from my perspective it tends to water down marriage instead of encouraging men and women to form healthy marriages, and that to me should be the objective of the government because that is in the best interests of our society.”

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Mitt Romney wins CPAC Straw Poll

Great photo of Mitt Romney

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the winner of the Conservative Political Action Conference Straw Poll, The Washington Times reports.

The poll provides an indication of where the party’s base is — and it is solidifying behind Mitt Romney.

With Rick Santorum’s three wins earlier this week in Nevada, Colorado and Missouri, some in the GOP were concerned Santorum could actually pull off an upset and become the eventual GOP nominee.  This worried some as Santorum’s policies are very far to the right and could have trouble winning voters in a general election.

Romney won the Straw Poll with 38 percent of the 3,408 votes cast. Rick Santorum followed with 31 percent, Newt Gingrich with 15 percent, and Ron Paul with 12 percent.

In a separate national poll of conservatives, Romney took 27 percent of self-identified conservatives, just ahead of Santorum’s 25 percent.

The Washington Times, the poll’s sponsor, notes that Romney’s total is the highest since then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush won the straw poll in 2000 with 42 percent of the vote.
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Rick Santorum responds to Prop 8 decision

Yes – Rick Santorum is finally getting it.

Yes – “irrational hatred and bigotry toward a group of people” is the only reason you would DENY equal rights to fellow Americans.

Yes, Rick, you finally see the light.

A civil marriage license is issued by a civil government – NOT a church – and that, by it’s own definition, makes this a civil rights issue.

Rick is so offended by the word ‘bigot’ – and yet it’s just a word. An accurate word to describe his position against the civil rights of gays and lesbians.

Let’s look up the definition of the word “bigot” – shall we?

From the Merriam-Webster dictionary:

“Bigot: a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group with hatred and intolerance”

It’s a word. A word that neither good or bad; it’s simply a word that describes someone who is ‘devoted to his or her own opinions.’ Sounds like folks like Rick Santorum, doesn’t it?

Why be mad Rick? It just is what it is…

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Santorum: Mitt Romney is “unqualified”

Rick Santorum, looking for any kind of traction to justify his continued campaign in spite of low numbers in the poll, issued some of his harshest criticism of Mitt Romney to date in Minnesota today.

From CNN: “I really don’t find any legitimate reason why [Romney] would oppose [Obamacare], because the plan he put together in Massachusetts is in fact Obamacare on the state level,” Santorum said during a strongly worded healthcare-centered speech, adding that Romney “should not be the nominee of our party.” He added that Romney is “uniquely unqualified and I would argue disqualified” from making the case against the nation’s healthcare plan.”

I’ve been of the opinion that Rick Santorum is only staying in the race for the GOP nomination in hopes of being the Vice President pick. Clearly he’s not going to have the votes/delegates to clinch the top spot.

However, it’s looking like it will be more and more difficult to take on the VP nom when he’ll have to walk back all these attacks on Romney. Not sure there’s a ‘spin’ out there that can accommodate his attacks.

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Rick Santorum: “Marriage isn’t a right, it’s a privilege”

Rick Santorum told a gay man in Fulton, Missouri Friday afternoon that he didn’t deserve the “privilege” of marriage because his same-sex relationship does not “benefit” society in the same way that opposite-sex marriage does.

Towards the end of the video, Rick Santorum contends that marriage in general has changed in the past 50-60 years and “we need to re-establish marriage for what it is.”

The problem with his position is that he seems to think that society is a “static” institution. One that can’t move with the tides of time, history and human events.  And on that stance, he is wrong.

There was a time when slavery was the law of the land – society evolved.

A time when women couldn’t vote – society evolved.

A time when people of differing skin color couldn’t marry – society evolved.

I understand Rick is a big supporter of the founders of our country, like Thomas Jefferson. Perhaps he could pause and read something Thomas Jefferson wrote – which is in inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.:

“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.” – Thomas Jefferson, July 12, 1816

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Rick Santorum chosen by anti-gay groups as preferred candidate

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins announced on a conference call that social conservatives had officially settled on Rick Santorum as their preferred candidate for the Republican nomination.

The decision was made today after three rounds of balloting at a meeting of more than 150 social conservative leaders and political activists held over the last two days in Brenham, Texas.

Though the meeting was widely seen as an effort to settle on a candidate to stop Mitt Romney, Romney’s own campaign sent a representative to make an appeal to the group and Perkins said it was “not a bash Romney weekend” and “not a lot of time” was spent discussing him.

Jon Huntsman’s campaign was the only campaign not to participate in the meeting.
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