‘19 Kids and Counting’: Duggar Family Campaigns for Santorum in Iowa
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TLC’s “19 Kids and Counting” father Jim Bob Duggar has poured his support into presidential candidate Rick Santorum, stumping for the former senator in Iowa one day prior to the much-anticipated caucuses.
MyFoxLA reports:
The Duggar family patriarch traveled with 12 of his children to the Hawkeye State from their home in Arkansas — with the message that voters with “conservative family values have to get behind Rick Santorum for President.”
Jim Bob and his wife Michelle are strong evangelicals, known for their ever-expanding brood, as is chronicled on their reality show that just wrapped up its eighth season.
The Duggar family reportedly supports the fact that Santorum and his wife Karen — parents of seven children themselves — are proponents of homeschooling.
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BOsux
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:27pm@theTRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE….I don’t know where you are getting your figures, but with our insurance, which we pay all on our own (under $40k a year single salary) for 4 kids, we didn’t pay $2k total for all of the births. The most expensive one was around $700, the cheapest one was a single $35 global co-pay (in other words, it covered the whole pregnancy). Can’t remember the total for the other 2, but I think they were each around $300-400. So what is that total??? Maybe $1500 for my 4? X5??? $6k. Of course that‘s not considering little Josie’s premie birth or taking into account her few sets of twins. I’m sure they paid out of their own pockets….bark up another tree dude.
Report Post »I Love both Jesus and Israel
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 5:58pmI love the Duggar family, and Rick Santorum. God bless the Duggars as well! Rick is my pick for president. He is pro-life, anti big government, and knows why the middle east is a problem for the U.S. right now.
Report Post »debased
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:06pmhttp://www.theblaze.com/stories/santorum-defends-stance-on-same-sex-marriage-we-honor-those-relationships-but-we-dont-call-them-marriage/
Where’s the conservative family values here? “Honoring those relationships?” What about the marriages they destroy when a man runs around on his wife with other men?
Report Post »Clara88
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:22amRon Paul and George Soros Connection
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/01/03/breaking-the-george-soros-ron-paul-connection/
Ron Paul joined forces with Barney Frank to slash military preparedness, but he ended up putting the experts of a foreign billionaire with global ambitions in charge of the project. He did THAT while he was a congressman?? WHAT would he DO if he becomes President???
Report Post »Clara88
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:57amIs The Tea Party Saying NO To Ron Paul??
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/01/03/tea-party-says-no-to-ron-paul/
Could the rumors of Democrats turning out for Ron Paul as a means of creating GOP primary race chaos be true???? Then they will NOT vote for him IF he wins the nomination??
The White House has attacked every candidate but NOT A WORD about Ron Paul???
Report Post »CaptainAmerica2012
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:59amWay to post and uncited article cant even provide said bill or legislation is this like the time him and barney frank made that bill to try and legalize marijuana? Maybe we should consider reading and examining your article, but then again I know what tactics are being used here.
Deepest thoughts, Joseph
Report Post »Clara88
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:45pmRon Paul Endorsed By George Soros “Blue Republican” Organization
http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/01/03/ron-paul-endorsed-by-progressive-blue-republican-organization/
When somebody is integral to the Progressive Movement in America as Ralph Nader… embraces the Ron Paul Campaign, Conservatives would do WELL to pause.
It seems interesting that an organization that appears quite hopeful to see Obama re-elected in 2012, and is CLEARLY linked to Progressive Anti-American globalist George Soros is simultaneously calling for Democrats to register as Republicans and support Ron Paul in the Republican primaries.. DOES IT NOT???
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 3:51pmThanks Santorum, I will line up for my TSA pap smear and mammogram thanks to your vote on the Patriot Act.
For that Ricky boy doesn’t get my vote.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 9:09amI love the Duggars.they live the life of faith. They walk the walk. Teach their children correct principles, and don’t do “do as I say, not as I do.” They are the role model for decency, God loving and fearing families. Sometimes I think the critiscism comes from sheer jealousy. They are doing it right, chosen from the beginning of their family to do what God commands. All the critics in the world can’t begin to live their life. They warm my heart and give me hope for the world.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:25amSo…why is Jim Bob (my god, why not just name your kid John Smith) suddenly a political authority? Is it because he has a dozen and a half kids…? I’m so confused!
Report Post »kcares
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:19amThey are atleast raising Conservative Voters!!! Have you done as much for your country???
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 3:46pmKCARES- conservative voters? We’ll see about that. We may not be allowed to vote in a few years.
By the time Obamacare,The Patriot Act and NDAA are in full bloom, our rights will be redistributed.
be careful with those assumptions. GOP is barely conservative
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:58pmMan, some real nasty attitudes toward a family that is strong in values and in love. I have noticed lots of this behaviour from the supporter of Ron Paul–which now I will call from here on out, “paul bearers.” I thought a few of these people were listeners as well as talkers, but no more. I will do all possible to see Doc Paul lose the cake walk–and mostly because of his supporters. They are quite rude, misinformed, delusional in some cases; and full of spite. If I were Paul, I would be ashamed. Some of you really need to educate yourselves. Wise up, lighten up, and some you…just shut up.
Report Post »CaptainAmerica2012
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:24amThis is typical of what anti-paul hawks have been doing at Breitbart’s sites they pose as Paul bots Post the most fatuous and hateful remarks they can to degrade Liberty supporters. So I am suspect of this being somewhat the case here I’m not going to spend time to look through the comments to draw up the trend here I know of its existence. I’m not going to get my panties in a knot over others either. The comments of few people here have no affect on who you would elect to even local prefects. If I were asked who I thought the Duggars would support I could guess beyond a doubt Santorum or Bachman. Your “reaction” does connote to me at least; that this is a contrived effort to coin a phrase and try to turn over a new paradigm on the basis of a few who may well be you indeed. If anyone wants to ask why some people come off as crazy I will be glad to extrapolate my thesis. Hands clasped and I am yours, Thank you for your time.
Report Post »Joseph
guido.cavalcanti
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:46amI’m a Paul supporter and detest these types of posts. If you can’t make an argument on substance, please go make it somewhere else. Juxtapose Paul‘s policy with Santorum’s any day and you‘ll see there’s no need to resort to this type of foolishness. Besides, who else would you expect a Southern Christian Republican to support? This is Sanotrum’s demographic, family values and family values ONLY. Duggar is doing what he believes is right for himself and his family, I as a Paul supporter disagree with him, but please, let’s have a constructive debate on policy differences.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 2:56am“but please, let’s have a constructive debate on policy differences.”
Report Post »Ah ah aha haha ha–you‘ve come to the WRONG place if that’s what you are looking for my friend.
Rational Man
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:14amPaul Bearers. How appropriate that is since it is the Paulistinians, (supporters), that are burying Ron Paul.
Even Paul himself, when asked if he could see himself in the White House, he said, “not really”.
What a motley crew………………..
Report Post »guido.cavalcanti
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 11:41am@ The Third Archon Apparently.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:01pmTRONINTHEMORNING
Baloney- I think the Duggars are great and I am a Ron Paul supporter- Do I disagree with their Santorum pick? Yes.
Stop with the generalities and assumptions. It is ignorant to do that. You have no proof for that accusation.
I think that people who really don‘t understand the Constitution don’t get Ron Paul.
it‘s like GOPers forget we are broke and can’t afford to fund unending wars. We still have troops from the Korean War in Korea* and Japan and everywhere else $$$$$$
But war creates jobs and no GOPer wants his/her state to lose money.
WE are going for broke-hello
14+ trillion$$$+ 38 billion in interest payments hello? hello? are you there??
* not the “same”troops- for those who think that I am a moron.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:49pmC’mon. Some of you simply need to criticize the guy because he doesn’t support Ron Paul.
Gracious.
I honestly do not see Bachmann, Romney, Perry, etc. supporters coming in to bash a man they don’t even know–JUST because he happens to have offered his support behind a different candidate than their own!
I don’t believe ALL Ron Paul supporters behave like this, but those of you who do should maybe think about the impression you’re not only leaving upon yourselves, but possibly your candidate, too!
In other words, you aren‘t helping Ron’s image any by simply bashing a guy because he’s not a Ron Paul supporter. This man seems like a nice enough guy and he can support whomever he wants–just like everyone else.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:11amVery true — so much anger from so many RP supporters. This certainly IS an important election, but I’ve had my car “keyed” for a bumper sticker and a lawn sign stolen 10 years ago. Civility does not have to be a stranger to conviction.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:43pmYay ! Lets have 20 kids and bomb Iran, president Santorum…. Please God wake me up from this long national noghtmare….. Please
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:47pmI am shocked at the number of you that see a large family and assume they are living on tax payer money. I know many conservative families that have many children and none of them are on public assistance. I myself will soon have five children, people at the grocery store always assume I am on WIC when they see me buying a cart full of milk and I always reply “My husband and I pay for our children ourselves, thanks.” Which usually earns a glare from the cashier. I might not agree with everything the Duggars believe in, but they are good people. They believe in God and they take care of their families AND help others. They buy used, they live within their means, they could teach a lot of people a better way to live. Get your heads out of your backsides. Their values are closer to ours than the democrats will ever be, we have to stop eating our own.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:54pmExactly. I‘m not married and I don’t have children of my own (I’m a female for the record) but I think it’s wonderful when people who share our political beliefs have lots of children.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:54pmWell said!
I have nothing against a big family esp when they pay their own expected way in life. My grandfathers family was 16 and his 6, mine only three and my own three as well. I agree they are good people and their values are decent. I think their pick in Santorum is good as well because like him, we are from the same generation which I consider the generation that really gets it. The Xer’s not so much. I think we are letting the media pick our candidates and we are getting wrapped around silly issues when it comes to several of them. Rick is by far the most conservative and well grounded of them all. He is an American with good old fashioned values I can believe in.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:35pmHey now, I’m only 28 ;) I just like to have spontaneous multiples.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:40pmIf more conservatives would have large families like the Duggars have and not be dependent upon the government dole to raise them, this country would eventually get back on track.
I‘m happy for the Duggars that they have lots of children and since they’re not on welfare, it‘s nobody else’s business how many children they have.
Report Post »toto
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:50pmAgreed!
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:39pmGee, they are so, so, not familiar with what is.
Report Post »THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:37pmWho cares who these clowns endorse, they have no moderation. WHO HAS PAID FOR THE BIRTH OF THESE LITTLE MAGGOTS? Tax payers? These idiots can’t think past tommorow, if government can dictate lifse to us than they can dictate how many kids these breeders push on society.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:43pmIt wouldn’t surprise me if one or two decide they would like to marry each other down the road.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:47pmNothing quite like planting the seed of moving backward eh? Thank people like the Duggar’s.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:49pmWow, wow, wow, I have never, ever before seen the amount of stumbling blocks I see now.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:51pmJim Bob served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. Currently, he is a real estate agent and investor. The Duggars’ income is derived from the rental proceeds of the commercial properties they own. They live debt-free, which Jim Bob has said is “the fruit of Jim Sammons’ Financial Freedom Seminar” he attended years ago (Sammons’ Seminar is endorsed by IBLP).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggar_family
I bet they do better than you!
Report Post »The cool thing about the internet is that the truth is only about 3 clicks away.
You should try it some time…………………………
ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:58pmEliass!
Whats up with you? Check out the demon that resides in your heart to explain your stupid comment. Your demeaning comment only goes to show off how you yourself have been infected with the hate from the left towards anything you believe that sounds it should have a twang of banjos in the background. If you were the fly on the wall in their home, you’d tear up at a regular interval to see how decent they live compared to many a scoundrel walking this earth.
Report Post »THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:07pm@irrational
Report Post »You avoided my question AGAIN as always, I didn’t ask how he feeds his kids or clothes them, I asked WHO paid the hospital bill for their births?
thekuligs
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:16pmTHE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE Here is your answer: THE DUGGARS PAY FOR THEIR OWN BIRTHS the income from their show ALONE would disqaulify them from any kind of public assistance. They also own a lot of real estate. Math is an awesome tool.
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:28pmTheTruthshall…….
I’ll bet the Duggars pay the hosp bill. Since Duggar has his own business, he probably pays his family’s ins. premium which, for a family that size, must be substantial.
Since you seem to be so worried about the Duggars, let me ask you this:
Who pays for illegal immigrants’ hospital bills?
Who pays the medical bills for all the people on public-assistance?
Who pays for their education?
Who pays for their housing?
Who pays for their food stamps?
Who pays for their kids free breakfast and lunch at school?
I think the Duggars pay their own way.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:31pm@THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Are you really that ignorant……REALLY!!….Are you THAT ignorant?!?!
And you wonder why I rarely, if ever, reply to you and your kind……………………….
They live an upper middle class lifstyle from the income they make off of comercial properties.
Now ask your self, “WHO paid the hospital bill for their births?”
Read my post. They live debt free!
I still bet Jim Bob makes more money than you.
I have come to the conclusion that only the hopeless vote for Paul.
Report Post »THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:12amOk you cockroaches…I don’t have a problem if he has 19 kids..My problem is IF he had us tax payers paying 10 thousand per kid at the hospital…That means he would have spent approximately 185,000 or so if he paid for them out of pocket..you won’t convince me this “middle class” man (as you put it) could afford to pay for them all..
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:21am@THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Please, for your own sake, stop trying to appear smart.
Report Post »It ain’t workin for ya!
kcares
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 7:24amYou are so wrong, and disgusting that you think someone with a large family is living off taxpayers. That is what democrats do. Look at the woman in Atlanta with 15 kids, and she wants someone to take care of them.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 8:07am@kcares
I just saw some video on TV of the Duggar family’s custom tour bus in Iowa. HUUUGE!! With custom campaign paint job.
Report Post »I don’t think they have ever needed any financial help of any kind.
God takes real good care of them!
Git-R-Done
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:34pmI don‘t see what’s wrong with people having lots of kids as long as they can afford to raise them with their own money.
Us conservatives should have large families like the Duggars and home school the kids and make sure that they don’t let the media influence them.
Eventually the left wing will lose.
Report Post »mlukasiewicz
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:31pmOf course they like Santorum, they need a liberal president to keep the government assistance coming in. I wonder how they would like Tricky Rick if he needed to draft a few of their son’s to go fight a war in the Middle East.
Report Post »thekuligs
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:39pmThey don’t take government assistance! Dude, maybe you should check some of the garbage you spew as FACTS. They live debt free, they give money to the church, they help others. I suppose you are a Paul Bot, he seems to be the only one who thinks Santorum is a liberal.
Report Post »THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:40pmTheyll think twice then, but as long as your kids are dying and not theirs they won’t care.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:50pmMLUKASIEWICZ with all those kids, they should help Paul deliver that racist newsletter?
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:50pmJim Bob served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. Currently, he is a real estate agent and investor. The Duggars’ income is derived from the rental proceeds of the commercial properties they own. They live debt-free, which Jim Bob has said is “the fruit of Jim Sammons’ Financial Freedom Seminar” he attended years ago (Sammons’ Seminar is endorsed by IBLP).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggar_family
I bet they do better than you!
Report Post »The cool thing about the internet is that the truth is only about 3 clicks away.
You should try it some time……………………….
Quagaar Warrior
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:23pm~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Report Post »Can you imagine how big their welfare checks would be if they chose to leach off the rest of us tax payers the way most Democrats do?
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HorseCrazy
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:22pm19 kids is what I would call a brood mare not a mom. just saying she breeds like livestock. taking the “be fruitful and multiply” a little to seriously.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:24pmWell HORSECRAZY you tell them how many kids they can have,china does that.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:59pmYour being tested! Did the demon inside you help you pass the test of Love or hinder it? I wonder what the answer is.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:08pmI’ve never heard of a brood mare having 19 foals, have you?
I think Michelle is a wonderful person. How many of you guys have wives that turned into a fat pig after having just 2 kids? Michelle looks fabulous and clearly Jim thinks so too!
A man married to a bitter woman is better off living on his roof-Proverbs.
OINK OINK
Report Post »Goldi
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:17pmThey are a cute family and they just lost a baby.
Report Post »Don‘t they also know that Romney is a family man as well and they won’t be able to come up with anyone to ask what “is – is.”
Rational Man
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:17pmWow!….Thats more people than a Ron Paul straw poll !
Report Post »THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:41pmFacts don’t matter to you so why bother…your like trying to nail jello to a tree…slippery weasel you are.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:53pmLOL, nice.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:53pmyou gave me a laugh…..
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:54pmNot my fault you can’t take a joke……………….
Still funny when I think about it.
Report Post »danielwe77
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:12pmSo what you’re saying is, he’s won the majority in Iowa if she keeps cranking out children?
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:11pmAnother reason to not vote for Santorum.
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:37pmHow will you radical leftists stay in power if people like the Duggars keep having children, have them homeschooled, and don’t let the media influence them?
Report Post »RightThinking1
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 10:06pmGadzooks! How do they keep track of them, a checklist? How do you manage meals for that crew?
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on January 2, 2012 at 11:15pmI just did a Christmas dinner for 30 family members at our home. Not hard to do buffet style, clean up was easy too!
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 1:02amFull time job for the mother. Yep, a job security.
Now some math. The liberal replacement rate is at 1.3 (let’s not wax semantics, the term replacement rate is the one used in the context). That translates into effective extinction of the genera Chiroptera Lunaticus Liberalis withing 75-80 years. (Yay!)
Duggars, if they keep the rate over 20 generations will inherit the world.
Demographics, that’s the key to the future.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on January 3, 2012 at 4:11pmRWOBYFOUR- Exactly!
that’s what muslims are trying to do.
7 to 1.
Clearly that care about the environment!!!
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