Santorum Claims That Saying 'Y'all' Is Divisive. Rick Santorum Cherry Picks Parts of 2009 Brookings Study He Likes, Ignores Everything Else. Santorum: My Home-Schooled Kids Will Out-Reason Bill Maher. Searching for Mr. Right - Mitt Romney & Rob Portman - The Colbert Report - 2012-18-04. The end of the Santorum campaign. Rick Santorum finally admitted defeat and ended his presidential campaign this afternoon. That he lasted this long and leaves the race with several hundred delegates is a rather amazing feat, considering how futile his efforts seemed until the final days of 2011. Still, Santorum really isn’t really dropping out voluntarily. The odds of winning the Republican nomination were remote (if that), but the possibility of a bunch more of primary and caucus victories in May and June was very real. In a speech last week, Santorum likened his candidacy to Ronald Reagan’s 1976 primary challenge to Gerald Ford, playing up the fact that Reagan only began winning states in big numbers late in the primary season.
The implication seemed clear: Like Reagan, he hoped to make a late statement that would carry over to the next campaign. But then Pennsylvania got in the way – again. It’s doubtful that any presidential candidate has ever been as thoroughly undercut by his home state as Rick Santorum has. Lady and the Troops - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 02/14. Indecision 2012 - Endless Suffrage 2012 - Last Bland Standing - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 04/04. Another Santorum Slip: Obama an Anti-War 'Government Nig?' Santorum’s bad porn science. There were lots of things to poke fun at in Rick Santorum’s anti-porn pledge, but the element perhaps most deserving of mockery has been widely ignored: his claim that “a wealth of research is now available demonstrating that pornography causes profound brain changes in both children and adults, resulting in widespread negative consequences.”
You want to know what’s profound? How scientifically inaccurate that statement is. Pornography surely changes the brain in some ways — but so does everything. “Watching the NCAA playoffs is going to change your brain, eating chocolate — any time you have any kind of experience, it’s going to change your brain,” says Rory C. Reid, a research psychologist at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at UCLA. “The real question is, ‘Are those changes substantial enough that there’s going to be some observable effect?’” As to Santorum’s claim that such damning research exists, Reid says: “Well, if there is, I’d sure like to see it!” Rick Santorum Unveils Dystopian Horror Flick. Santorum Blows A Gasket.
Santorum and Foes Spar on Day of Health Care Hearing. 2:41 p.m. | Updated Rick Santorum used the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s hearings on the health care law Monday to slam Mitt Romney as a compromised candidate who all but inspired President Obama to overhaul the nation’s health care system. Standing in front of the court after the first of three days of arguments about the constitutionality of the law Republicans call “Obamacare,” Mr. Santorum mocked Mr. Romney for campaigning across the continent, in San Diego, instead of showing up at the court to protest. “There’s one candidate who is uniquely disqualified to make the case” against Mr. Obama’s health care law, Mr. The accusation was a reprise of comments over the weekend in which Mr.
Trailing badly in the chase for delegates as he battles Mr. But that task has proved tricky for Mr. On Monday, Mr. “He’s the worst candidate to go against Barack Obama. In an interview on CNN Monday afternoon, Mr. He added that “I will repeal Obamacare and I will stop it in its tracks on day one.” Mr. Rick Santorum: The Courage to Say "Bullshit" Rick Santorum's no-notes speeches often include a riff about "Obamacare" -- he was never for it, Mitt Romney might as well have been.
The Massachusetts health care bill and negotiated and signed into law by Romney included a mandate; Obamacare's currently in the hands of nine people in robes, because conservatives are arguing that the mandate is unconstitutional. Santorum's argument: Mitt Romney can't possibly debate Barack Obama on health care. Neither can Newt Gingrich. Here was how he put it in a March 9 speech. Why would the Republican Party — on the issue that won us the 2010 election, on the issue that’s at the heart of government robbing you of your freedom . . . nominate either of them, who are uniquely unqualified to make the case to the American public?
In Racine, Wis., Santorum made the same point, but -- as with last week's "don't care about the unemployment rate" line -- left out a key word. Maggie Haberman reports on what happened. He "says" he was? Santorum loses cool with press over Romney comment. By NBC's Andrew Rafferty FRANKSVILLE, Wis. -- What started as a good day for Rick Santorum took an abrupt turn on Sunday after the GOP presidential candidate grew frustrated with reporters asking him to clarify his remark that Mitt Romney is the worst Republican in the country to take on President Obama.
During his final campaign stop of the day here, Santorum said of Romney, “Pick any other Republican in the country, he is the worst Republican in the country to put up against Barack Obama. " The comments, Santorum would clarify, were in reference to the similarities between Romney's and the president on the issue of health care.
It is a common critique he levels against his chief rival, but never has the former Pennsylvania senator called Romney the "worst Republican in the country" to go head-to-head with the president. When pressed by reporters to clarify his statement, Santorum said, “On the issue of health care. Joan Walsh. Rick Santorum stays alive - War Room. The victory Rick Santorum scored in Louisiana on Saturday night was not at all unexpected – but it was absolutely essential to his hopes of remaining relevant through the spring. Demographically and culturally, the state was a good match for the former Pennsylvania senator, who’s emerged as the default choice of the southern white evangelicals who have continued to resist the Romney bandwagon in big numbers.
Just like in 2008, when Mike Huckabee narrowly carried the state over John McCain, a majority of voters in Saturday’s primary identified themselves as evangelicals or born-again Christians. Romney has yet to win a primary or caucus when this has been the case. There did seem to be a chance for Romney to reverse this trend and to score what would have amounted to a fatal psychological blow against Santorum. His solid win in Illinois on Tuesday week had heightened the sense of inevitability around his campaign.
Santorum: Contraception a 'Grievous Moral Wrong' Ron Paul Explains Why Rick Santorum is “Fake” (CNN Arizona Debate Highlights) Rick Santorum Declares War On Heavy Metal. Santorum Defends 'Phony Theology' Remarks, Doubles Down On Religious Critique Of Obama. Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a Tea Party rally February 18, 2012 in Columbus, Ohio. A more congenial Rick Santorum doubled down on several controversial, and religiously laden, remarks in an interview Sunday morning on CBS's "Face the Nation," where he defended his recent claims that prenatal testing results in abortions, that federally provided education was "anachronistic," and that President Obama's policies are not "based on the Bible.
" "I've repeatedly said I don't question the president's faith," Santorum told host Bob Schieffer, denying what some have said was a signal that Santorum had challenged the legitimacy of Obama's Christianity. "I've repeatedly said that I believe the president's Christian -- he says he's Christian. But I am talking about his worldview, the way he addresses problems in this country, and they're different than most people view it in America. " "It's not about you. Santorum Uses Hitler Analogy to Describe Obama. Santorum’s Bogus Euthanasia Claims. Rick Santorum grossly mischaracterized euthanasia practices in the Netherlands during an appearance at a faith conference. He overstated the rate of euthanasia and falsely claimed that the elderly are being killed against their will and wear “do not euthanize me” bracelets: Santorum claimed legal euthanasia is responsible for “10 percent of all deaths for the Netherlands.”
Government statistics show euthanasia is climbing, but represented only 2.3 percent in 2010, according to the most recent data.Santorum added that half of the people euthanized were killed “involuntarily.” A representative of the Royal Dutch Medical Association said “there are no forced cases of euthanasia.” Santorum discussed euthanasia in the Netherlands during a Feb. 3 forum at the Grace Bible Church in Columbia, Mo. Dr. James C. The former Pennsylvania senator described the current situation in the Netherlands with alarm: First, let’s review the law. Now, let’s look at Santorum’s three claims. Santorum Exaggerates Dropout Rate. Rick Santorum incorrectly claimed that “one of three children drop out of school” in the United States.
The 2009 dropout rate was 8.1 percent — slightly higher than it was in 2008, but down significantly from the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and even early 2000s, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. It’s true that a higher percentage of students in the U.S. fail to graduate on time — about 23 percent in the 2009-10 school year. But that’s still not “one of three children” and that doesn’t account for the many who take longer to graduate or who pass the General Educational Development (GED) tests, accepted by nearly all colleges and universities as evidence of high-school equivalency.
The fact is that only 8.1 percent fail to graduate or get a GED by age 24. And by any measure you pick, the dropout rate has been generally declining for years. Santorum, Feb. 19: And we can do better than a system that one in three children drop out of school. . – Eugene Kiely. Rick Santorum Rejects Catholic Church Teaching on Evolution. A very pornographic Rick Santorum. Over the course of the GOP primary, observers have seen a lot of sides to Rick Santorum, many of them shocking to even those accustomed to his views on gays, women and religion.
But nothing has been as distinctly memorable as the one making the Twitter rounds today: a composite image of the anti-gay candidate created entirely out of gay porn — hundreds of penises, muscular torsos and close-ups of anal sex. There are even tiny people having tiny intercourse in the middle of Rick Santorum’s eyeballs. Where does it come from? As it turns out, it wasn’t even created by a gay person. A straight couple, Stephen and Vanessa, sent the image to the gay blog Unicorn Booty out of the goodness of their heart. Kevin Farrell, an editor at the site, tells Salon that the couple has “been getting a real kick out of the image garnering so much attention.” Click below to see the image at full size: Creepy Sh*t Santorum Says. Rick Santorum: Satan is Systematically Destroying America. Time on the Cross With Rick Santorum. Surely Rick Santorum is the most fanatical Christian to run for the Republican nomination in the modern era, maybe any era.
Next to him Pat Robertson, billionaire founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network, who ran for the nomination in 1988, has the tolerant, glassy-eyed bonhomie of the late Dean Martin. Robertson has always been in show business. Four years ago we had Mike Huckabee, the evangelist and former governor of Arkansas, one of the boys, shacked up with Mrs Huckabee in his doublewide on the grounds of the Arkansas gubernatorial mansion. He has always been in show business too. But with Santorum – a conservative Roman Catholic and member of Opus Dei – there’s a truly manic edge to his religious pronouncements and activities. Santorum doesn’t believe in the right to privacy. Contraception in Santorum’s opinion is “a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be”.
Santorum was two when the Sixties began. Tumbril Time! The poor? Rick Santorum’s wasted moment - War Room. Every once in a while, presidential primary campaigns produce moments of almost surreal suspense, when an outcome that was once unimaginable suddenly seems on the verge of happening. In 1984, for instance, Walter Mondale looked like he had the easiest path to the nomination of any recent candidate, but after a shocking loss to Gary Hart in New Hampshire, he found himself on the brink of being knocked out by a guy who’d been an asterisk in the polls weeks earlier. In 1992, Bill Clinton seemed to have the Democratic nomination in hand, only to suffer a still-inexplicable defeat in Connecticut to Jerry Brown — which set off talk that Clinton’ candidacy would implode and that a new candidate would emerge if he lost the next contest, in New York. And on the Republican side, there was 2000, when John McCain crushed George W.
Thus has Michigan emerged as the key to both possibilities. But now, as the weekend before Michigan’s primary arrives, victory may be slipping away from Santorum. Indecision 2012 - Rick Santorum's Conservative Rhetoric - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 02/23. On Topic - GOP Presidential Candidates - Rick Perry - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 11/21. Santorum Claims Rampant Euthanasia in Dutch Elderly. Molly Redden: A College Paper By Rick Santorum—And What It Says About His Political Evolution.
This past weekend, Rick Santorum briefly elevated his college years to a focal point of his campaign. “I went through it at Penn State,” he said Sunday. “You talk to most kids who go to college who are conservatives, and you are singled out, you are ridiculed.” He added that he “went through a process where I was docked for my conservative views.” As it turned out, I had spent much of the past week talking to people from Santorum’s past, including several of his college friends and professors. One of the professors I had been speaking to—political scientist Bob O’Connor, who taught Santorum in four different classes—thought his allegation was absurd.
“He really has a rich fantasy life,” O’Connor told me yesterday via email. But whether or not Santorum received lower grades because of his conservatism, there remains the broader question of what his college years were really like. The paper was about the rising influence of political action committees (PACs) in Pennsylvania politics. Santorum: Obama Wrong to Apologize for Quran Burning.
Voters Slowly Realizing Santorum Believes Every Deranged Word That Comes Out Of His Mouth. WASHINGTON—As Rick Santorum has emerged to become Mitt Romney's leading opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, the American electorate said Monday it had slowly begun to realize that the former Pennsylvania senator sincerely believes every deranged word that exits his mouth. Uneasy voters told reporters it was becoming more and more evident that comments from Santorum defending sodomy laws as acceptable restrictions on "wants and passions" and characterizing pregnancy occurring through rape as a "gift" from God were not politically calculated but were, in fact, spoken out of sincere, startling conviction.
"I honestly thought he was just playing up to the far-right voters, because that's what Republicans are supposed to do in the primaries," said Grand Rapids, MI resident Dan Banks, who explained he had dismissed as manipulative campaign rhetoric Santorum's assertion that President Obama would send Christians to the guillotine. Santorum: 20 Years Ago People Couldn't Conceive of a Cell Phone. Santorum and God’s Will. The possibility of an authoritarian and ethically dysfunctional family in the White House in 2013 certainly has caught the attention of a number of liberals and other progressives. After all, what progressive or decent conservative for that matter would support Rick Santorum’s rejection of the separation of church and state or his belief that it is better to live under the rule of a theocratic state rather than in a democracy.
Of course, religious fanatics do not ponder these issues seriously because they get their information straight from God. One example comes from Rick’s wife, Karen who told conservative talk show host Glenn Beck that it was “God’s will” that her husband is running for president and that she felt that “God had big plans for Rick.” [i] And, of course, Santorum has no trouble doubting his wife because he believes that the ultimate confrontation between good and evil is akin to a religious crusade and he is the man to lead it. Henry A. Notes. [i]. [ii]. [iv]. [vi]. Santorum: I Will Uphold The Sanctity Of Marriage By Unmarrying 131,000 People If Elected.
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Fortunes Turn, as Does Style, for Santorum. Rick Santorum Relieved No One Has Asked Him About Interracial Marriage Yet. Crowd at Santorum Rally Horrified When Two Men Kiss. Keith Olbermann and Dan Savage on Rick Santorum's Gay and Straight Bashing. Santorum’s Science. This Week: Rick Santorum Wants To Get One-On-One With Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum: Republicans Can't Win with 'Weak' Romney. Santorum: Might As Well Stick With Obama. The Republican Party’s division of delegates is almost impossible to decipher.