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Bulletproof: Why Rick Santorum Will Be Tough For Mitt Romney To Wipe Out

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Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is just the latest in a long line of Republican presidential hopefuls to surge past former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney into the lead, and while every one of those other comers has withered for one reason or another, Santorum’s challenge is different. Setting aside his prospects in a general election, a review of Mitt Romney oppo memos against Santorum reveals a candidate with a hard shell to his right.

In addition to that 15 point lead Santorum enjoys in the latest PPP poll, he is now ahead of Gov. Romney in another national poll (from Pew), and is actually beating Romney in his home state of Michigan, where his father was once governor. Even left-leaning pundits like Ezra Klein, who have a natural revulsion for Santorum that can cloud their judgment, can now see a path to victory for the social ultra-conservative.

Aside from the obvious flattening effect of the debates and the political media on Romney’s money advantage, Santorum has a huge edge on both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in the crucial area of likability. What makes Santorum so unappealing to liberals (and perhaps to the general electorate) is not just his extreme social conservatism, but his utterly convincing commitment to it. In a bizarre way, I think most liberals would concede that Santorum is trustworthy, in that he can be counted on to carry out the beliefs we so despise.

To a Republican primary audience, that’s a feature, not a bug. Additionally, Santorum has an authenticity that his rivals can’t approach. Moon Emperor Gingrich has an erratic, inaccessible intellect, and Mitt Romney always sounds like one of the Coneheads, trying to blend in with the HU-mans. Over the course of four CPACs and countless rallies, I’ve watched a lot of Republican politicians interact with voters, and I’ve never seen one as comfortable and at ease as Santorum.

However, Santorum’s real strength, the thing that sets him apart from previous flashes in the pan, is that, in a Republican primary, he is nearly bulletproof to the kinds of attacks that finished off Newt Gingrich in Florida. The Romney campaign sends out tons of emails every day, many of them opposition research memos and attacks on their candidate’s rivals, and while the barrage against people like Newt Gingrich has looked like something out of a Saw sequel, there has only been one consistent line of attack against Rick Santorum.

Almost without exception, these attacks have to do with Santorum’s record on earmarks, and sometimes, more broadly, other things he did as a Senator. There were two emails, months apart, that trumpeted Santorum’s 2008 endorsement of Romney, and one that reached back to the mid-nineties to a handful of pro-labor (really, they were not sufficiently anti-union) votes. The overwhelming majority of them, though, were on the specific issue of earmarks.

That’s not nothing, but Romney (and earlier, Rick Perry) has been throwing this spaghetti against the wall for months, and it hasn’t stuck yet. Even if it had, that’s all Romney has. All of the things that will plague Santorum in a general election (up to and including the “man-on-dog” thing) are off the table for Mitt Romney because they would help Santorum with conservative primary voters.

Even worse for Romney is that Santorum has a pretty good counter to the earmark attack, one that almost makes the “Bridge to Nowhere” seem like a decent idea. Here’s Sen. Santorum responding to the earmark attack in December, in an interview with Ed Schultz: (there’s something else you won’t see Romney or Gingrich do)


Since attacking Rick Santorum’s right flank is out of the question, there’s not much left for Mitt Romney to do. He certainly can’t move to Santorum’s right, not without causing a tear in space-time and vanishing into an alternate universe. Maybe he can get people there to like him.

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  • sid_id

    Santorum does not wear a bullet proof vest, it’s 50% cotton and 50% polyester. Sorry, Tommy–Santorum will not be the nominee.

  • http://twitter.com/JCP1975 JCP1975

    But, is his vest stronger than Mitt’s magic undergarments?  Tis the question.

  • Anonymous

    Zealots and their supporters are always hard to overcome.  But overcome we must.  Romney will prevail.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    With his vest,  Santorum looks like Woody from Toy Story!

  • Anonymous

    Resist we much….

  • Anonymous

    Point out how completely offputting his beliefs are to a general electorate and pose the question, “Do you think this man can actually win over people outside the far right of the party in enough numbers to win an election?’, making sure to bring up how badly he lost the last time he was up for office and how badly the people of his state wanted him gone.

    I know acknowledging here are voters outside of the Republican party is a radical idea, but it’s all Romney has.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    The Bum’s Rush

    In 2006 Rick got tossed like a bum
    A premonition of things yet to come
    But once voters vett him
    They”ll surely regret him
    There won’t be any more frothy surging Santorum!
    __________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Pablo

    In a bizarre way, I think most liberals would concede that Santorum is
    trustworthy, in that he can be counted on to carry out the beliefs we so
    despise.

    How is it you suppose that would happen? An anti-abortion executive order? A same sex marriage amendment executive order?

  • Pablo

     Hey, why don’t you tell the dead baby one again, dirtbag?

  • Paul Doro

     Santorum is going to have serious problems with female voters. That would not be good in a general election. It’s impossible to imagine him being the GOP nominee.

  • Pablo

    PPP has him with a 67-23 favorability rating. Compared to Obama…

    http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_fav.htm

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Are you talking about Santorum? I hope not, that would mean you’re really desperate

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    The only thing worse then Rick on social issues is Cain on women’s rights issues.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    A move everyone different then me to a stranded island someone in the Pacific execuite order. Yes, Santorum would do it.

  • Anonymous

    [Enter Karl Rove]

  • Paul Doro

     Do you think there is a gap between Santorum’s personal likeability ratings and the number of people who would actually vote for him in a general election? I don’t see how he could ever win over the independents/moderates necessary to win a general election.

  • Anonymous

    While other polls show that Obama has a 10 percent lead over Santorum when people are asked to chose between the two.

    http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-14/santorum-draws-even-with-romney-in-poll-showing-they-trail-obama.html

    I don’t put a lot of faith in polls but I do believe that Santorum’s hard line stance on social issue will not resonate with the majority of people when it comes time to decide if they want him setting the agenda. for the next four years.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Miller/100001304288321 Chris Miller

    Great Article Tommy.  I am a Santorum supporter.  I just wanted to make a few comments.  Thank you for the open forum.

    Santorum is Pro-Life, but he also voted for a Bill in 1993 which prevented abortion clinics from getting blocked by Pro-Life protestors and prevented the protestors from physically interfering with the employees and patients of those clinics.  To me, this shows that while he may have agreed in principle with the protestors, he didn’t agree with the strong arm tactics that they were using.  I think that’s a good thing.

    Santorum is a strong proponent of 2nd Amendment rights as well, but he voted for the Domestic Violence Gun Ban (Lautenberg Amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968), child safety locks, and for instant background checks at gun shows.  Again, a very reasonable approach.

    The “man on dog” comments have really been taken out of context across the Internet.  Santorum was nearly verbatim quoting the dissenting opinion in Lawrence v. Texas in which Justice Scalia said that by not establishing a fundamental right to homosexual sodomy specifically (the majority opinion read, “Respondent would have us announce…a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy.  This we are quite unwilling to do.”), the court was basically creating a new ambiguous right in which any type of sex would be allowed.

    Scalia wrote:

    “State laws against bigamy, same-sex marriage, adult incest, prostitution,
    masturbation, adultery, fornication, bestiality, and obscenity are likewise
    sustainable only in light of Bowers’ validation of laws based on moral choices.
    Every single one of these laws is called into question by today’s decision; the Court makes no
    effort to cabin the scope of its decision to exclude them from its holding. See
    ante, at 11 (noting “an emerging awareness that liberty gives substantial
    protection to adult persons in deciding how to conduct their private lives in
    matters pertaining to sex” (emphasis added)). The impossibility of
    distinguishing homosexuality from other traditional “morals” offenses is
    precisely why Bowers rejected the rational-basis challenge. “The law,” it said,
    “is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing
    essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the Due Process Clause,
    the courts will be very busy indeed”

    So Santorum was not comparing homosexual sex to bestiality.  He was echoing Scalia in saying that legally it would be difficult to argue against any number of actions that are judged morally wrong by society.  Many of us disagree on same sex marriage, for example, but I don’t think any of us (I hope) think incest and bestiality are good things.  Again, Santorum took the time to read the decision and think about its far-reaching implications.  And if you ask him about the comments he’s made, he’ll answer you directly.  You may not agree with him, but at least you’ll get a straight answer (no pun intended).

    Yes, Rick Santorum is very conservative, but he is not an extremist.

    All, if you respond to my comments, please show me the same courtesy I’ve shown and be civil in your responses.

  • Anonymous

    This was actually a very well written article. Well done, Tommy.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah. That’s because they barely know Santorum or what he stands for. Once his policies, his Christianism and his past ethics violations go under the hot lights, the question won’t be whether Obama wins, but whether he can top his 2008 victory margin.

    But please feel free to nominate him.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    By tea-bagger popular demand:
    _________________

    Santorum with Dead Baby Decorum

    When it comes to this asshat Santorum
    The best thing we can do is ignore ‘em
    Anyone who wants to comb
    A dead baby’s hair at home
    Is seriously missing basic decorum!

    In Congress, he praised Sandusky at Penn State
    ‘Cause I guess he thinks that pederasts are great.
    He now denies that he knew him
    Yet he probably blew him
    A kiss for keeping up the recruitment rate.

    Santorum is a social issue contortionist
    Who’s wife lived with a 40 year older abortionist
    Whom she met at her birth!!
    So for what it is worth
    This punk is cigarette trade for neocon extortionists.

    Santorum’s just another neocon whore
    Who loves to promote the zionist’s war.
    He’s a fundie whack job
    Whose on Netanyahu’s knob
    And his corrupt record is a festering sore.
    _________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • Paul Doro

     Do you think allowing states to ban contraception is an extremist position or a conservative one?

  • Anonymous

    Conservative pundits like Sean Hannity would be getting what they deserve with a Rick Santorum nomination.  We all know Rick Santorum has a zero percent chance to win the Presidency.  As long as their are commentators like Sean Hannity around, the Republicans may never win again.
    http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2012/02/13/because-of-sean-hannity-republicans-may-never-win-again/

  • Pablo

    Are you reading an article about Santorum? Are you desperate?

  • Pablo

     Head to head polling doesn’t mean a whole lot until there’s a nominee.

  • Anonymous

    Poor Mitt .  I guess appealing the to moderates in the party is out of the question.

  • Pablo

    The question of “allowing” states is Constitutional, not ideological. Do you know of any states that would or that want to ban contraception?

  • Hugo Daun

    “Wipe out” Santorum?

    EEEWWWWWWW!

  • Paul Doro

    Banning contraceptives is extremist IMHO. Whether or not any states have openly called for them to be banned is not the point. I’m talking about the position itself. I think it also speaks to problems Santorum is going to have with women/independents/moderates. He will never win any of those groups over.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, so Poll numbers that disagree with your point of view don’t count, okay then.

    I’m sure Romney and Santorum will only become more popular when one of them becomes the candidate and more people are paying attention to their hard line on social issues, as comparing homosexuality to bestiality and banning contraception are huge vote winners.

  • Pablo

     Obama is bleeding independent support, so a lot of them will either be staying home or holding their nose.

  • Pablo

     Is that what I said? No. Try again.

  • Pablo

    See, that’s the kind of rhetoric that convinces people.

  • Pablo

    The question isn’t about banning contraceptives. The question is about what is in a states’ purview and what is in the federal government’s.

    No one but left wing bomb throwers are talking about banning contraceptives. It’s a false narrative, designed to inflame.

  • Paul Doro

     And who do you honestly think will do better with those that hold their nose?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

     I am sure some will if given a chance.

  • Paul Doro

    Rick Santorum talks about it. He talked about it as recently as last month. Is he a left wing bomb thrower? 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

    He would certainly try to The fact that he would devote a large chunk of his time on such issues tells me he is out of touch with the real issues.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NPUP22FNTPVCXRUMWJEURGQGD4 JonasP

    you mean like the knuckle draggers here?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    Santorum is surging from behind.  

  • 12voltman1

    I alway thought that about Rick Perry.

  • 12voltman1

    You keep telling yourself that.
    I wouldn’t want to see you upset, hurt or let down too much come Nov 3.

  • 12voltman1

    Brokered nomination: Jeb Bush.?

  • 12voltman1
  • 12voltman1

    Interesting link.Thanks.

  • Anonymous

    ‘Head to head polling doesn’t mean a whole lot until there’s a nominee.’

    You claimed that one republican candidate is more popular with voters than Obama because he has a higher approval rating in some polls than him, then go on to claim poll results that show that he’s not aren’t valid because they’re not the candidate yet. Make up your mind. :)

    Either way, I don’t believe in poll results in general and that Santorum will become more popular with most voters should he end up running against Obama as more people will start paying attention to his hard right stances on social issues.

  • Anonymous

    I could never vote for Santorum.   I would have voted

  • http://twitter.com/Kattyusa Katty

    PLEASE, Republicans…keep in mind the General Election and what kind of rep can win.  It is not going to be a weirdo like Santorum or Gingrich with all his baggage.  It won’t be a far righter or far anything.  It won’t be a dim-wit like Palin.  We must keep in mind the voters will come from all walks of life – so be thinking about a Moderate if you want to beat Obama….let’s don’t kill the goose.

  • TJ Wright
  • Чёрт Возьми

    On social issues along, Santorum cannot get a majority of votes. What are his economic solutions? All I ever heard from him is that fixing our morals will fix everything. I don’t think it works that way. 

    Our morals are no different than they have ever been. Sex is not and has never been “just for procreation.” The only valid moral code is Do No Harm, and that means do not impose false moral values, among other things.

  • Чёрт Возьми

     It would be, but both of them keep shooting themselves in the foot.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Miller/100001304288321 Chris Miller

    Do you have any evidence to support your opinion?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Miller/100001304288321 Chris Miller

    Please produce in-context quotes from Rick Santorum in which he has talked about banning contraceptives.  I’d also challenge you to produce any evidence of a state making plans to ban contraceptives.

    I’d ask  you to consider the following:

    Is it possible the Obama administration determined that it couldn’t win on the abortion issue this year, because most Americans now consider themselves pro-life?  But most Americans are also pro-contraception.  So it’s rather odd that out of the blue during a recent debate, George Stephanopolis  asked Romney and Santorum about states banning contraception and whether they supported it.  It’s strange to ask a question in a debate about which there is absolutely no disagreement on among the candidates or the American People.  A reasonable explanation of why the question was asked is that George S. was asked by someone in the administration to ask the question in order to put the issue out there.  Now of course this explanation is only reasonable in the context of the HHS actions over the past couple of weeks and in the way the Obama administration is framing the narrative of this issue as a contraception/women’s health issue.

    It’s an old tactic, and it’s called divide and conquer.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Miller/100001304288321 Chris Miller

    Please explain the 2010 election year in detail with no hyperbole please.  As I recall  the Republicans were easily winning state and federal seats that were considered safe for the Democrats.

  • Paul Doro

     Santorum has stated that states have the right to ban contraception. I never said there is an active effort to ban contraceptives in a particular state. Reading comprehension is fun. And the issue of religious exemptions is hardly a new one, though everyone loves a good conspiracy theory.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Miller/100001304288321 Chris Miller

    Thanks for posting that first clip.  It really builds the case that Rick Santorum is a very intelligent and decent guy.  It’s hard to believe that you would consider Rick Santorum a bigot after watching Santorum school Morgan and explain his comments and his position on the issues in a very thoughtful way.  Please be thoughtful in your response.  A lot of people will read it.

  • BooBoo Bear

     But wait…Wearing two different fabrics is an Abomination.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Miller/100001304288321 Chris Miller

    No conspiracy theory Paul, just smart political tactics on Obama’s part.  If Santorum is the nominee, Obama will try to hit him hard on this issue and other socially conservative fringe issues and try to paint Santorum as an extremist.  Santorum’s favorability rating is +67/-24 last I checked.  Being relatively unknown and having such a high favorability rating among both Democrats and Republicans has been known to create the perfect storm in politics because there is so much room for growth.  Think about it.  Even Obama is opposed to same sex marriage as are a majority of the voters in the key swing states.  Catholics will more than likely abandon Obama for Santorum as will union voters because of Santorum manufacturing plan.  Just look at Santorum’s numbers in Michigan and Ohio.  My point is that Santorum will own the mainstream social conservative issues that most of America agree with.  So the only option is to paint Santorum as an extremist.

    In my opinion, Obama is hoping to run against Romney, because Santorum is such a likeable and straightforward guy.  Most Americans will identify with Santorum, because most Americans, believe it or not, are blue collar, church going people who see Rick Santorum as one of them.

  • Anonymous

    The man who wants small government, until it comes to women’s health and our bedrooms. Nope, Rick has no chance and does not deserve a chance.

  • http://twitter.com/Calchala Calchala

    That’s his favorability with GOP primary voters. Obama’s got a much higher rating with the general electorate than Santorum, but that’s because he’s undefined. 

  • Anonymous

    In fairness, I think Santorum hasn’t focused entirely on social issues. He has proposed economic solutions, but they’re pretty much warmed over Bushonomics: more tax cuts, “unleashing” the free markets, less regulation. All the stuff that helped send the economy off the cliff the last time a Republican was in the WH.

  • Anonymous

    Well my birther-
    teabagger friend, Rick “home school on the tax payer dime” Santorum
    has indicated he would support banning contraceptives as well as same sex
    marriage.  He (and you) seem to only care
    about states’ rights when it’s convenient. 
    When it is not, like when you want to push the religious/social issue  BS that has taken over the Republican Party, he
    is all for having the federal government come in a takeover. 

    SANTORUM: I think marriage has to be one thing for everybody. We
    can’t have 50 different marriage laws in this country, you have to have one
    marriage law…

    TODD: What would you do with same-sex couples who got married?
    Would you make them get divorced?

    SANTORUM: Well, their
    marriage would be invalid. I think if the constitution says
    “marriage is this,” then people whose marriage is not consistent with the
    constitution… I’d love to think there’s another way of doing it.

    So why doesn’t your hero respect states rights when it comes to
    same sex marriage?

  • Anonymous

    Just bring his mother into teabagger, that seems to be your level of discourse.

  • Anonymous

     My candidates are not faring well.  Sarah Palin skipped the race.  Gary Johnson was a nonstarter.  Ron Paul is getting beaten to death in the caucuses by the state Republicans when he has a chance; Maine was a travesty.  Herman Cain got Romneyed, just like Newt.  I would REALLY rather not vote for Santorum, but if he’s the nominee, I’ll hold my nose and do it.  If Romney manages to buy the nomination, I’ll vote 3d party, because he’s bought and paid for like GW Bush, Kerry, McCain, Obama and Clinton.  But don’t believe me.  Go to opensecrets.com and see who the largest donors were for all those people.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/565TCXMB2XP263LC6JONTU4N6A Kim

    My friend just met a chocolate man on Blackwhitemeet.COMit’s where for men and women looking for interracial’ship for a fabulous lifestyle
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  • sid_id

    I find it odd that you would make an assumption about George Stephanopoulos’s motive in asking that question about contraception at the debate. In the days following the debate he was asked several times about his motive for asking that question and he responded with a clear and precise answer each time he was asked. In light of his answer to that particular question, your conclusion as to why he asked it is just pure speculation on your part. I think a reasonable explanation as to your speculation is because it just happened to fit in with your theory on Obama’s administration trying to frame the dialogue about this particular issue.
     
    While I agree with you on more Americans being pro-life than ever before, I really don’t think that Obama’s or Santorum’s stance on abortion will be a deciding factor for most voters. I think most voters understand that the fate of Roe v. Wade continues to lie with the Supreme Court.  

  • Чёрт Возьми

     But is Santorum’s economics any different from Romney’s?

  • Чёрт Возьми

     I see what you are saying, and I tend to agree that the biggest issue against Romney is his wealth and the general impression that he is trying to buy his way into office. We had a similar situation in California in 2010. The Republican candidates for governor and senator were both so wealthy that they could far outspend their opponents using only their own money.

    They both lost, and not just because California votes Democrat. After all, the outgoing governor was Schwarzenegger, the (moderate) Republican. No voter wants to feel “bought.”

  • Чёрт Возьми

     But! Didn’t Santorum say to Morgan that he does not want to impose “the old ways” or something to that extent? It seemed that Santorum backed away from everything he runs on while talking to Morgan. Santorum sounded like Ron Paul.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Be/1751243136 Dave Be

    Rick Santorum doesn’t believe in evolution, thinks contraception, pre-marital sex, and gay sex should be illegal, and wants to dismantle medicare and medicaid to an even greater degree than Paul Ryan.  He has 0 chance of winning the nomination.  There have been several crazy buffoons that took the lead in this primary race since it started, and all of them wilted under the scrutiny that the top spot brings.  The same thing is guaranteed to happen to this guy.  I can only assume the media is pretending the outcome is still in question to keep people paying attention to their broadcasts about it.  The extremely vocal and ill-informed far religious right doesn’t speak for all Republicans.  Sure, they’re the most fun to quote because they say the wackiest things, but the majority of Republicans aren’t insane. 

  • TJ Wright

    Intelligent and decent? Oh I don’t think so. Santorum has a habit of saying inflammatory and disgusting things when he is preaching to his political flock and then backs away from his hyperbole when grilled by the media. He tells one group that he would use political office to legislate special rights (marriage) for heterosexuals and then talks about not using his “moral” views to override the Constitution (See 14th Amendment). In other words: HE LIES. 

    Santorum also has a nasty little habit of taking the truth about his antiquated, Levitical moral code, i.e., his bigotry, and charging his detractors with the very same crime he is guilty of committing! In Santorum’s world he can hurl any and all ugly, hateful, nasy remarks at any group he dislikes (disproportionately he fixates on gays for some weird reason) but when those he attacks fight back he claims the role of poor little victim. It is a tried and true right-wing tactic. 

    Santorum IS a bigot. 
    He IS a homophobe and would, if given the chance, use his power to strip equal protections under the law, from homosexual Americans. 

    That is unconstitutional, Un-American, and Un-Christian.  

  • TJ Wright

    Painting Santorum and an extremist is not a difficult task. He is pretty much a paint by numbers far-right fringe candidate who would, like the Taliban, use his power to enforce his extreme and dangerous religious convictions. 

  • Pablo

    I think people will be thinking more about debt and the economy than abortions and condoms.

  • http://twitter.com/Brett_Cottrell Brett Cottrell

    Don’t smear the Santorum, it hurts his feelings.  If Santorum really wanted to protect marriage, he’d ban it.  It’s the number one cause of divorce.  Besides Newt Gingrich, I mean.

    http://brettcottrell.blogspot.com/2012/02/dont-smear-santorum-it-hurts-his.html

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Raymond-Head/100000286093555 Raymond Head

    Rick Santorum would be much better than Obama… In fact, just about anybody would be better than Obama and his band of corrupt thug czars.

    Compare
    where our country was 3 years ago, to where we are now? In fact, whatever your ideology… get out in the street and talk to people… ask them what they think. Overwhelmingly they’ll say they, and America is worse than we were… it’s no contest. And, we weren’t in that great a shape 3 years ago either…

    When Obama took office:

    - We were11 trillion dollars in debt, we are now 16 trillion.

    - Regular gas at the pump averaged $1.75. Now, it’s $3.60 and all projections are for it to hit $4.00 by June this year.

    The administration’s unemployment figures are skewed to benefit Obama’s reelection. The unemployment figures are bogus… the fact is that millions more people are out of work, or working part-time jobs NOW than when Obama took office.

    ————
    From a recent News-Press.com article…

    As economist John R. Lott has written, not only is the drop in the
    unemployment rate from 8.5 percent to 8.3 percent still half a
    percentage point higher than when President Barack Obama took office
    three years ago, the number of unemployed is also higher. Compared with
    January 2009 when 11.6 million Americans were jobless, today, writes
    Lott, “there are 12.8 million unemployed and 43 percent have been out of
    a job for more than six months. The average length of unemployment has
    increased dramatically since the recovery started. Back in June 2009,
    ‘only’ 29 percent of the unemployed had been unemployed longer than six
    months.”

    The way
    government counts things, slower growth in government spending amounts
    to a cut. In a similar, misleading fashion, a reduction in the
    percentage of unemployed people by two-tenths of 1 percent counts as
    progress, even if it results from wide-scale work force dropout.

     ———–
    Either the man is the most inept and incompetent U.S. president
    in history or he’s a puppet ruler, and his puppeteers’ goal is to bring down
    the United States and destroy the American way of life of which our country was
    founded… and which all of us, conservatives, liberals, and independents enjoy.

     

    Every decision that has been made from the time Obama took
    office until now has served that purpose, has it not?

     

     Obama doesn’t want to
    shrink the deficit, or stop government expansion, or decrease government
    entitlements, or tap into our vast oil resources to reduce dependency on oil
    from hostile sources, or pass legislation that would encourage private sector
    growth, and the jobs that would accompany it…

     

    No, instead, Obama (and Soros and his radical MiddleEast
    financial backers) want unemployment and entitlement rolls to keep rising… the
    more people dependent on the federal government for subsistence, the more votes
    for

    Obama and the liberal progressive movement… (This also
    accelerates the realization of Islamist radicals objective of destroying
    America.)

     

    This has gone way beyond partisan politics… Democrat,
    Republican, Liberal,

    Conservative, or Independent… we’re all Americans. And if
    we all don’t pull together to oust the Obama administration in 2012, we’ll lose
    our American way of life forever… and it won’t be long before the United
    States will cease to exist.

     

    Jimmy Carter was a weak president, but, through all his
    incompetence, no one ever questioned his loyalty to the United States, and that
    he was genuinely trying to look out for the best interest of our
    country… 

     

    How about Obama?

     

    •             Bowing
    before Muslims rulers, and apologizing for past U.S. actions abroad

     

    •             Aiding
    and abetting government takeover of Middle East region countries by the radical
    Muslim Brotherhood, i.e. Egypt, Libya, soon Syria, Turkey… Committing our
    military to multiple conflicts, in several countries simultaneously… and still
    continuing to send billions of our tax dollars in aid to these countries… he
    should just right a check directly to the Muslim Brotherhood…

     

    •             Picking
    NOW to cut defense spending by almost a trillion dollars… and contemplating
    cutting our unilaterally reducing our nuclear arsenal by 80%… this guy is deliberating
    working to weaken our America’s defenses during the most dangerous time in the
    history of the world… doesn’t anybody see this?

     

    •             Continues
    the reckless govt spending with no regard whatsoever that our deficit is almost
    16 trillion dollars… resulting in the first credit rating drop in the history
    of the United States

     

    •       Imposing a
    moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf, while AT THE SAME TIME, giving billions
    to Brazil and Mexico to fund THEIR Gulf oil operations, so THEY can then sell
    Gulf oil to US!!!

     

    •       Not approving
    the Keystone Pipeline Project that would have created 20,000 direct, and at
    least 100,000 indirect jobs, and reduced our oil supply dependency from nations
    that wish to do us harm… (I don’t believe for a second that Obama did this to
    secure environmentalist votes. Approval would have meant many more votes. He
    did it to continue to weaken America, and keep his re-election donations coming
    in from his Middle Eastern sources.)

     

    •             Giving
    the Mexican drug cartels free rein to deal drugs and human traffic, and murder
    Americans across our borders… and then having the AUDACITY to bring a lawsuit
    against one of our own U.S. states for enforcing the laws that the U.S. Govt
    refuses to enforce.

     

    .•            The
    blatant UNION cronyism, the Obama administration has already issued Heathcare
    waivers to 700 union-backed companies, 20% of those, over 150 of those
    companies in Nancy Pelosi’s

    district (wow, what a coincidence).

     

    If Obamacare is so good, then why are all these companies
    opting out of paying?? And why is the Obama administration letting them opt
    out? And why aren’t more people asking these questions?

    At what point will the mainstream media throw in
    the towel on Obama, if not to finally come to their journalistic senses,
    but to try to preserve the American way of life for they’re children,
    and grandchildren?

    Are we a nation of sheep? … of lemmings, blindly following
    this narcissitic, pathological liar over the cliffs? When
    will people from all ideologies finally, even grudgingly agree that
    we’re headed in the wrong direction, and its time to let somebody else
    call the shots… like the American people!

     

    Wake up people… can’t you see that everything this guy has
    done since he’s taken office has been to the detriment of the United States?

     

    There must be a plan… Nobody can be that stupid!!!
     

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Your a Republican only voting for your party, regardless of what they stand for. Though your kind exists you are not in the majority and your voice and political power is being drowned out everyday by people with common sense, fact based arguments, and resolutions instead of Fear tactics, Hate tactics, and alienation.

  • Anonymous

    Clovis4, How is Rick “home school(ing) on the tax payer dime”?  I’d really love to know.  Is that something unique to PA?

  • Anonymous

    Romney COULD attack Santorum from the right if he had a clue and was conservative.  Santorum has betrayed his social conservative principles severely.  He supported a rabidly pro-abortion governor candidate in NJ, and then Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in a GOP primary (after endorsing Specter for Pres. in 1996).  He’s voted to send millions to Planned Parenthood.  I bet he voted for some liberal Federal judges.  He’s got a mediocre gun-rights rating.  Opposed Right-to-Work legislation.  Helped stop a real trial in the Senate for Clinton’s impeachment.

    It’s a long list:
    http://americanvisionnews.com/1768/santorum-is-a-big-government-says-red-state 

    If Mitt wanted to, he could blow him out of the water.

  • http://www.occupywallst.org/ (CAR)

    Juan Williams says Republican’ts are searching for wedge issues to cling to, as the economy gets better you guys are running out of time and things to run on

  • Anonymous

    Did Whitney Houston fall Victim to a Psychiatric Pharmaceuticals Industry
    ?????
    This is why I think we the people have a real worry about a Romney
    Presidency becoming a Plutocracy that will threaten Individual Liberty because
    the Multi-National Corporate sector that is a Powerful force of policy Influence
    at the Lobby firms of our Governments backdoor of Congress . This is whats wrong
    today with economic and monetary and tax code policies , so just imagine what a
    Romney Presidency will mean to a already Bought off Congress ???
    These are Romney Owned Mental Healthcare
    Organizations that uses Pharmaceuticals in their treatment centers . Are they
    Really doing all the Studies necessary in making sure the Individual is getting
    the right kind of Treatment and drug use ??? Studies say NOT , that marketing
    has taken a Front line Position to Boost Profits in a One size fits all approach
    to treatment and use of the most Profitable drugs used .
    http://www.crchealth.com/
    http://www.familylight.com/link3/3.03/3.031/aspen.html

    http://leverageacademy.com/blog/2010/03/10/bain-capital-taking-out-psychiatric-solutions-for-1-35-billion/

    This Bain Capital Owned Company is a Mental Health
    treatment organization that treats mentally ill people , and after watching
    these 2 videos , Is Whitney Houston Victim of a mental
    health care Pharmaceutical Industry that Kills 3000 people a month , lets debate
    this use of the capital System !!!!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExPxawBa2Ao&feature=youtu.be

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lglCDwifzio&feature=related

    We could say that Whitney went from being dependent on a Illegal use of
    drugs to being treated for this dependency only to become Dependent on the
    LEGAL abusive use of chemical dependency on the Pharmaceutical Industries drugs
    used in treatment it is worth debating if this kind of use of Capital tax code
    and monetary policies are actually driving the expansion of Quality of Life or
    are they just driving Drug use to Boost Profits rather than enough funding is
    being done at the level of scientific research BEFORE a Drug is prescribed to a
    Individual patient , as is talked about in this link , http://www.fredreichheld.com/bainweb/PDFs/cms/Public/rebuilding_big_pharma.pdf
    , or is it being prescribed to drive Profits with a One size fits all Health
    care policy like Obama and Romney seem to simulate in their state and federally
    mandated health care Programs ???

    The way healthcare is being cast as a One size
    fits all study today by the Experts in the Field , are they creating the path to
    organizing the healthcare Industry to become a treatment of mind instead of body
    with a One Size Fits all approach that Obamacare’s authors like Dr. Ezekiel
    Emanuel wrote into the bill ?? And he recently wrote this about the medical
    field being a flawed system if you want to continue on the path of Individual
    health care , this flies in the face of the US Constitution’s Individual
    Liberties provisions that give us a right to seek a Free choice of Healthcare ,
    a full contrast to what has made Medicine in the USA one of the biggest
    accomplishments in world history !!! http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/science/2011/11/09/conference-future-personalized-medicine-kicks-off-with-challenge/FEaRVxvee9vQFmTmoMaSCM/story.html

    What We the People face as a Society of Freedom
    loving and Liberty Preserving people is a challenge by a elite group of
    Ideologues that are head strong and really the mental case that we the people
    need our Local Law Enforcement officers help with security from if we are to
    Preserve the US Constitution’s Liberty and justice for all . see this link on
    how the local County Sheriff’s can help us preserve our Liberty from the
    Ideologues that want to take over our Individual Liberties for Ideological
    purposes !!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4RuWK2Ww-4&feature=player_embedded

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