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O’Reilly to Santorum: ‘You’re Going to be Portrayed as an Extremist,‘ Are You ’Ready to Be Demonized?’

Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:26pm by Tiffany Gabbay
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After complaining of what he viewed a deliberate snub, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum was finally asked to appear on The O’Reilly Factor Wednesday. One of host Bill O’Reilly’s first questions for the Republican candidate was, “are you ready to be demonized?”

“This isn’t my first rodeo, Bill,” Santorum began. “I’ve been in a lot of tough campaigns in Pennsylvania.”

While Santorum said he realizes the criticism will be different on the national level, O’Reilly pressed, “It’s going to be a national demonization and you’re going to be portrayed as an extremist and some of your views are out of the mainstream according to polls.”

The Factor host used Santorum’s views on contraceptives — and that he believes states should have the right to ban them if they so choose — to serve as an example of the disparity between the former senator’s views on the topic and that of “98 percent of Americans.”

On January 2, ABC’s Jake Tapper reported:

I pointed out that Democrats say that one of the reasons Santorum lost in 2006 was because they say he’s more conservative than mainstream America. One issue was Santorum’s opposition to the Supreme Court’s 1965 ruling that invalidated a Connecticut law banning contraception. Santorum said he still feels that a state should be able to make such laws.

“The state has a right to do that, I have never questioned that the state has a right to do that. It is not a constitutional right, the state has the right to pass whatever statues they have. That is the thing I have said about the activism of the Supreme Court, they are creating rights, and they should be left up to the people to decide,” he said.

During the interview, O’Reilly also pressed Santorum on his position on same-sex marriage.

“I don’t think being for marriage being between a man and a woman is extreme.”

The former Pennsylvania senator, who claims that he raised one million dollars in the last day alone, predicted that he will start to gain momentum in the upcoming primary states and added that his campaign is very positive about his future.

“We’re going to be a much bigger player than I think everybody anticipates right now.”

O’Reilly also gave Santorum an opportunity to explain a controversial comment he allegedly made to Fox News reporters in which the Pennsylvania Republican claimed he didn’t want to make “black people’s lives better” with other people’s money.

Watch Santorum’s answer, and the entire interview below:

(h/t: Fox News Insider)

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Comments (250)

beckyspatflaveredstew
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:07pm
Rick Santorum would would have us in another war we can’t afford.
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- RationalMan
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:48pm
  True, since he’s against “Abortion” he needs real human to kill.
  Smart move there Santorum, I think you have your priorities all screwed-up! ;)
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THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:51pm
What is a hypocrite? A hypocrite is a person that does exactly what they say don’t do.
Let’s look close at this…

We support santorum because he is against abortion…but we have no problem with dropping bombs and killing innocents in other Countries…

We support santorum because he wants to force a federal ban on same sex marriages…bit we don’t want a federal ban on our religious freedoms…..

We support santorum because he is a conservative….Even though looking at his record it doesn’t show it, but who cares? We don’t.

We support santorom because he’s not crazy like Ron Paul…Yes, santorum slept with a desd baby but that’s not crazy, it’s love.

YES, LOOKS TO ME LIKE THE SANTORUM CROWD ARE HYPOCRITES….
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- MeteoricLimbo
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:03pm
  I just don’t want to buy a new dictionary…
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- recoveringneocon
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:04pm
  Rick Santorum is stonewalling gun owners.
  He is refusing to tell gun owners in NH and SC where he stands on important Second Amendment issues.
  Despite repeated attempts for Rick Santorum to return his National Association for Gun Rights Presidential Survey 100% in favor of our gun rights, he has time and time again remained silent.
  
  http://www.nationalgunrights.org/rick-santorums-anti-gun-history/
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- Eliasim
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:05pm
  Santorum will lose because the larger portion of Americans want to be told what to do.
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- Eliasim
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:20pm
  Well the GOP is once again managing to find a right-side spike in the track’s left rail.
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- Eliasim
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:22pm
  Ron Paul is a left-side spike in the track’s right rail.
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- recoveringneocon
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:30pm
  Rick Santorum supported radical anti-gunner Arlen Specter in his bid for reelection in 2004. Specter was running against pro-gun candidate Pat Toomey. Specter went on to wreak havoc against gun rights in the U.S. Senate.
  http://www.nationalgunrights.org/rick-santorums-anti-gun-history/
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- abbygirl1994
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:36pm
  Like Glenn said, “don’t trust any of them”.. We all must do our homework, this isn’t a popularity thing.. if we just vote the most popular without doing our homework then we are failing our duty as American’s. I know who I won’t vote for.. but I am still not sure of the two I deem the best.. For me it is imperative that I be guided by God and He will tell me His will.. The whiners are out, the cry babies are out, the blamers are out.. it will come.. and I WILL vote appropiately! This people is our very last chance to save America.. God in Heaven help us!
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- honor007
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:38pm
  You Paultards are just like any other animal….you have to run in packs. You guys are scared of Rick. Ron Paul is not the choice. Get over yourselves.
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- ZengaPA65
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:58pm
  Aww need a Midol?
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- Cause4Liberty
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:58pm
  @Zenga. Thank You! I did not know he and his wife did this:
  
  “On November 12, 2004, Santorum and his wife were invested as Knight and Dame of Magistral Grace of the Knights of Malta in a ceremony at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York”
  
  Thats kind of spooky.
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- ShawnB
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:03am
  @THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE Brotha I could not agree with you any more
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:07am
  Ron Paul
  Voted NO on *prohibiting* product misuse lawsuits on gun manufacturers. (Oct 2005)
  Voted NO on *prohibiting* suing gunmakers & sellers for gun misuse. (Apr 2003)
  Voted NO on *decreasing* gun waiting period from 3 days to 1. (Jun 1999)
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- Cause4Liberty
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:07am
  Here is some Food for thought:…
  
  Isn‘t it interesting how the ’Alan Colmes’ Story came out right b4 Iowa? Isn‘t it interesting that Colmes is a known ’liberal’ on Fox news, commonly on Bill Owhiney? Could it be that all the evangelical (huckabee) votes, swung towards Santorum because of this media strike!? Could it be that they were moved by the Santorum baby story!?
  
  You know, this story!: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/alan-colmes-to-santorum-im-sorry-for-hurtful-comment-about-handling-of-babys-death/
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:41am
  SHAWNB Ron Paul’s newsletters were often just as vitriolic about gay people, saying they were “far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.” A “gay lobby” suppressed the truth about AIDS, the newsletters claimed. “I miss the closet,” In 2010, he flipped from a “no” to a “yes” on repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. So you better not vote for your A-Hole!
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- HoggKilla
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:05am
  @SHAWNB There is NO place for gays in combat arms in any branch period. Should of let the soldiers vote whether the law should be repealed or not. I was in a combat arms field when the policy was established. Everyone I know while serving shared my views. The same reason I believe in states rights. Let the ones who will be most effected have a say. NOT the federal government.
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- HoggKilla
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:13am
  Its great to be conservative. We scrutinize our candidates to death, meanwhile the dems get a pass on everything. So we bicker back and forth and tear our people apart. I guess 4 more years with BHO is better than someone closer to our ideas? Everyone needs to vote for their person in the primary’s and support the hell out of who ever in the general. Lets not be stupid here. Our country hangs in the balance. Get BHO out period. This infighting will defeat ourselves.
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- jcannon98188
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:43am
  @HOGGKILLA
  
  You do realize that our military is apart of the Federal Government, and thus it is fully within congres’ rights to pass any law regarding the military (as long as it does not trump constitutional rights) that they want right?
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:44am
  “Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.”
  ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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- moveintothelight
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:09am
  life isnt perfect and you havev to start somewhere
  whats your point
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:11am
  @TRUTHSHALLMAKEYOU…
  re : We support santorum because he wants to force a federal ban on same sex marriages…bit we don’t want a federal ban on our religious freedoms
  *****
  I guess you’re onto something there….those who support same sex marriages, and the whole lgbt agenda ARE A WHOLE LOT MORE RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS THAN SANTORUM, (or the AVERAGE CHRISTIAN) WILL EVER BE!!!
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- Crane Guy
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:15am
  meteoriclimbo:
  
  shut the hell up and go to bed. hopefully when you wake up there will be a new president.
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- MeteoricLimbo
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:54am
  @ CRANE GUY
  Definition of MARRIAGE
  1
  a (1) : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law
  My apologies if you felt my comment was directed at you Sir. I happen to be working late tonight and the election is in Nov of 2012
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- Rational Man
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:26am
  recoveringneocon
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:30pm
  Rick Santorum supported radical anti-gunner Arlen Specter in his bid for reelection in 2004. Specter was running against pro-gun candidate Pat Toomey. Specter went on to wreak havoc against gun rights in the U.S. Senate.
  **************************************************************************************************************
  
  Hardly a “radical anti-gunner”. I don’t like Spector at all, but lets not exagerate.
  “ wreak havoc against gun rights”? I don’t think so!
  Spector was a Republican at the time, before he defected to the other side.
  You Paulistinians have no honor at all…….Do you?
  
  Spector’s record, for the record;
  
  Voted YES on allowing firearms in checked baggage on Amtrak trains. (Apr 2009)
  
  Voted YES on prohibiting foreign & UN aid that restricts US gun ownership. (Sep 2007)
  
  Voted YES on prohibiting lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Jul 2005)
  
  Voted NO on banning lawsuits against gun manufacturers for gun violence. (Mar 2004)
  
  Voted NO on background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
  
  Voted YES on more penalties for gun & drug violations. (May 1999)
  
  Voted YES on loosening license & background checks at gun shows. (May 1999)
  
  Voted YES on maintaining current law: guns sold without trigger locks. (Jul 1998)
  
  http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Arlen_Specter.htm
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- Clara88
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:14am
  Don’t Settle….Gov Rick Perry For President
  http://www.redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2011/12/19/dont-settle-rick-perry-for-president/
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- conservative cyclingfan1
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:25am
  He didn’t sleep with the baby!
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- TheSurrealTruth
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:25am
  1. You cannot compare killing in war to killing an innocent child. I can‘t debate this point because if you don’t understand why that’s not the same thing, you have some serious issues.
  
  2. While I’m not personally opposed to Gay Marriage (nor do I support it) I can understand the reasoning behind it. Changing the legal definition IS in fact making a special exception for gays and lesbians. Those who oppose gay marriage argue that they just don’t think gays are so special as to change the very definition of marriage. I agree to a point. . .I just don‘t think it’s worth all the fuss. There are other reasons as well, but I won’t go into those here. Point being, social conservatives have their reasons, the liberal media just refuses to hear them out.
  
  3. His record shows that he is a reasonable conservative. No, he isn’t perfect, but he’s the best we have at the moment.
  
  4. First of all, Ron Paul IS crazy. . .I used to support him too. . .shame. Anyway, the baby thing is a cheap shot. I guess in this pro-abortion age it’s an abomination to actually find worth in — and therefor grief upon losing — the life of a child. He didn‘t want the poor child to become just a whisper in the back of his family’s minds. Wanted the kid to be real to them, and never forgotten. I might not have done what he did, but I can see why he did it. It’s maybe a little crazy to judge him for it. It’s definitely heartless.
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- garyM
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:34am
  And let the knotheads begin!
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- jedi.kep
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:45am
  yeah! Go Get HIM Paulbots! DEATH to Tyranny!… or whatever your paul-bots do… Amusing to watch you guys.
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- Babeuf
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:35am
  Ron Paul changes stance on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, votes for Repeal – How come when he flip flops he is a man of “reason” but when others do it, it is reason to not vote for them??
  
  Well, I would like to know where Ron Paul stands on some other issues….
  
  1. Police
  2. Fire Departments
  
  Are these gonna be done away with under a Paul Presidency? Do they go to the state or local governments that will require local taxpayers to keep them funded?
  
  3. Medicare/Social Security – What happens to the older people / disabled who depend on this after paying in all those years?
  
  4. Military – what is gonna happen to them when they come home? Will they have jobs?
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- cclevel
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:51am
  This is why libs like you are constantly destroying yourselves on a regular basis. The family of Obama is off limits and rightly so. Yet a family looses their infant child and grieve over that child, you claim their actions are perverse. But, as a liberal, you have no qualms aborting an infant at birth as a whole. Killing a baby. Which is view is abhorent? What is amazing is today, what is up is now down, what is right is left and what is good is now seen as bad. These are times spoken of frequently in the Bible, I would suggest you are in need of recalibrating yourself. A family grieving is not meant to be put on public display strictly for political reasons. You sir, are an ass for doing so and thus your point is destroyed.
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:14am
  REPUBLICORP — you’re misleading to say the least:
  
  2012 Presidential Candidates – Gun Owners Of America
  http://gunowners.org/2012presidential.htm
  
  Ron Paul A+
  Rick Perry A
  Rick Santorum B-
  Newt Gingrich C
  Mitt Romney D-
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:15am
  http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/S…2/31/id/422684
  
  Rick Santorum’s endorsement of Arlen Specter, a strong supporter of abortion, who gave President Barack Obama the key Senate vote to pass Obamacare, is becoming a key issue as the Iowa Caucus nears.
  
  Polls show that Santorum is seeing a last-minute surge in Iowa, but pro-lifers and pro-Christian groups are seeing red.
  
  According to press reports, critics of Santorum have been handing out flyers and putting them on cars outside of Santorum events claiming that the former Pennsylvania Senator is a “Pro-Life Fraud.“ The organization publishing the flyers identifies itself as ”Iowans for Life.”
  
  A devout Catholic, Santorum has been a consistent advocate for pro-life issues, but in key political moves that could have benefited his own career, Santorum backed pro-abortion candidates.
  
  The pro-life flyer notes that Santorum has “a long and storied history of campaigning for radical pro-abortion candidates,” mentioning Santorum’s strong endorsement for former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman and former fellow Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter.
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:17am
  Rick Santorum has family values except when it is a family he is friends with and is trying to protect from a scandal. He unethically protected a fellow Senator who cheated on his wife.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N6Gd…ayer_embedded#!
  
  –
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:17am
  Early in the George W. Bush administration, along with Dick Armey, Tom DeLay, and Grover Norquist, Santorum was at the center of the Republicans’ tactic of pressuring lobbying firms to hire only Republicans. At regularly scheduled once-weekly meetings held since Republicans took Congress and in 1994, Santorum and other leading Republicans were provided with a list of job openings at lobbying companies, and literally told the lobbyists who to hire — always well-connected Republicans. It was called the “K Street Project” because most lobbying firms have offices on Washington’s K Street, but the system backfired when the lobbyists’ “freeze-out” of Democrats became so successful that all the legislators on the take from crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff were Republicans. When the arrangement was first reported in 2006, Santorum denied it was true and claimed to not even know Abramoff. When it was proven that Abramoff had been involved, Santorum announced that the “K Street” meetings had been ended. Months later it was reported that the meetings between lobbyists and Republicans were still being held at the same time, place, and day, once weekly. In 2006, the non-partisan Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Santorum one of the twenty most corrupt US legislators.
  http://www.nndb.com/people/035/000025957/
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:17am
  Perry’s ad against Santorum “unelectable”
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6XCZz2X1Y
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- Stuck_in_CA
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:18am
  Hey Blazers…What was with the “glitch” during the ballot counting???
  Ever notice there’s ALWAYS a mysterious “glitch” or delay???
  Our voting system has become so corrupted it’s sickening.
  ALWAYS ASK FOR A PAPER BALLOT! It’s not a sure-cure, but it’s the best chance we have.
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:18am
  Rick Santorum–attention to his tenure in Congress, including ethics questions that dogged him about a preferred mortgage he received from a bank run by campaign donors, and federal funds that went to a real estate developer who backed his charity.
  
  One of the top donors to Santorum’s charity was also the beneficiary of an $8 million Santorum-sponsored federal earmark, according to published reports. Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor who filed an ethics complaint against Santorum in 2006 on behalf of a watchdog group, said her organization’s website received a tidal wave of visitors in the past 24 hours, and in an interview she said she believes people will discover that the GOP presidential contender is “hardly the moral paragon he purports to be.”
  
  http://news.yahoo.com/santorum-surge…152702229.html
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:19am
  Rick Santorum: Top-tier on Most Corrupt Member of Congress list 2 years running
  
  http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-washington-dc/rick-santorum-top-tier-on-most-corrupt-member-of-congress-list-2-years-running
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:19am
  Rick Santorum has family values except when it is a family he is friends with and is trying to protect from a scandal. He unethically protected a fellow Senator who cheated on his wife.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N6Gd…ayer_embedded#!
  
  Santorum Haunted by Support of Pro-abortion Specter
  http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr…&prefixid=rick
  
  Video of Rick Santorum endorsing pro-choice Arlen Specter in 2004 senate primary.
  http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr…&prefixid=rick
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:20am
  Nephew denounces Santorum, endorses Ron Paul
  
  Rick Santorum helped double the size of the Dept. of Education (2002)
  
  Santorum on the Australian School of Economics
  
  Santorum walks back on endorsement of Romney in 2008.
  
  Voted for bailout of the Airline Industry
  
  “I want to go to war with China”
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- Vechorik
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:38am
  Why Rick Santorum’s Pennsylvania Residency Scam and School Tuition Fraud Still Matters – And Why He Can’t Be the Nominee Because of It
  
  http://hillbuzz.org/why-rick-santorums-pennsylvania-residency-scam-and-school-tuition-fraud-still-matters-and-why-he-cant-be-the-nominee-because-of-it-95754
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:49am
  Oreilly had that dirtbag Colmes on his show last night as soon as I saw that I changed the channel permenantly.
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- JRook
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:55am
  @abbygirl1994 Please spare us the sermons. Like all candidates Santorum will be exposed for what he is or is not. The country is in trouble not because there aren’t enough evangelicals. It is because there are not enough real citizens. Everyone utilizes there own form of rationalization to try and cover the fact they only care about themselves. Thank goodness for most of us that our grandparents were happy to support better schools, better communities and better higher education. In Ohio that meant the the state provided 70% of the cost of in state universities in the 1970‘s and 1980’s, with tuition based on the remaining 30%. Today that percentage is down to 17% state support. So the individuals who benefited by the 70% come up with a convenient rationalization why their taxes should be cut and state support for higher education dramatically reduced. But of course it is fine so long as they can pay for their child’s tuition. It is time for them to pay it forward.
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- taksavillage
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:25am
  Afraid of a conservative with moral convictions? This guy’s grilling of Nancy Pelosi is homerun material. I hope they archive c-span so everyone can see it. You seem to appreciate a Republican who says nothing.
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- recoveringneocon
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:47pm
  The fact is, Rick Santorum does have a long history of supporting gun control.
  
  In the 90s, he voted to support the Lautenberg Gun Ban, which stripped law-abiding gun owners of their Second Amendment rights for life, simply because they spanked their children
  
  He voted for a bill in 1999 disguised as an attempt to increase penalties on drug traffickers with guns… but it also included a provision to require federal background checks at gun shows.
  
  And then he voted with gun-controlling Democrats Dianne Fienstein and Frank Lautenberg to mandate locks on handguns in 2005.
  
  He also supported and openly campaigned for anti-gun New Jersey governor, Christine Todd Whitman.
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- recoveringneocon
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:52pm
  Take a look at what the Blaze has to say on Santorum.
  Santorum: Conservative Technocrat
  http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/01/04/santorum-conservative-technocrat/
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- Tony Cat
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:38pm
  @Truth… (more like “Spin” than truth)
  
  Let me disect your pathetic arguments:
  
  1) Abortion vs War. An unborn child has committed no crime, he/she is the epitome of “innocent”. Abortion is murder period. You cannot argue against that. It ends a human life.
  Now, no one WANTS innocents to die in war! Your premise is that we support the killing of innocents in war. Completely False! Having said that, how innnocent are you when youlive right next to a terrorist, who you know is making bombs that kill US soldiers? Across the Arab world there are millions of people who may not be actively commiting Jihad, but they are sympathizers, and do NOT turn in the terrorists & continue to live among them. If my neighbor is dealing in drugs & stolen guns, etc.- I call the cops and/or get the h#ll out of Dodge! Sometimes bullets go stray, sometimes bombs cause colateral damage. Turn in the terrorists, leave those neighborhoods or make a conscious decision to stay and suffer the potential consequences.
  
  Supporting the killing of terrorists, but realizing the potential hazards of war, does Not mean that I have to now support the killing of innocent babies!
  
  2) I support Gay Marriage but nowhere in the Constitution does it say men have a right to marry men. The first amendment Does however protect our religious freedoms. 1 is clearly protected, the other isn’t.
  
  3) Totally unsubstantiated claim, I notice you posted not 1 example.
  4) Typical disgusting Leftist
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- TenthAmendmentNetwork
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:43pm
  The real problem with Santorum is his love/hate relationship with the Tenth Amendment and his willingness to ignore it where he believes his morality supercedes it. It‘s the very definition of 90’s-style big government Republicanism. http://www.tenthamendment.net/home/rick-santorum-tenth-amendment.html.
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- GOVT_ABOVE_THE_LAW
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:28pm
  Those of you who are quick to support Rick Santorum need to look at how he views government.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Gwwmm-cQxU#!
  
  This guy is very dangerous! He is a big government guy much like Newt.
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- JohnnyMidknight
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:00pm
  EVERYONE on this string. We are not going to change each others minds. Posting links to random sites that are not CREDITABLE is not going to change anyone’s mind. Blast Ron Paul or Rick Santorum (or any other candidate) is not going to attract others to your side. Besides, I wonder how many of these posters are liberal hacks getting their jollies on causing in fighting and unhealth debate. It is the reason Glen warns about these posting areas.
  
  I see more hate speech and name calling in everyone of them. We must do our own homework and vote for who we feel is the best candidate. Don’t trust a random remark or link. Don’t think that if a person supports a candidate that they 100% agree with them. I voted for McCain when he ran against Obama, I didn’t like him… I voted anyways. You are going to find faults with any candidate. But when you absolutely refuse they bad (MOSTLY SEEN WITH RON PAUL SUPPORTERS), you are being fundamentally dishonest with the reason of this community.
  
  Paul did serve on a council with Barney Frank and had 11 of 14 advisers that were paid for by George Soros. Paul did have a Newsletter he profited off of and edited which contained racial and sensitive information. Would I still vote for him over Obama? Yes.
  
  Do I support another candidate over him in the primaries? Yes.
  
  It is my right to side with whomever I wish. I do not have to justify it nor can YOU change that opinion. The least we can do is be honest and be respectf
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:00pm
  Hey Rook,
  
  Thank goodness for you your grandparents were not “Pro Choice”
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- georgiavietvet
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:57pm
  THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE………………….and it looks to me like you cherry pick, parse, and take out of context santorums words. and that makes you look like an idiot
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- ZengaPA65
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:42pm
  What do Rick Santorum and Anders Behring Breivik, the guy that killed all those kids in Norway have in common?
  The Knights of Malta.
  
  Here’s part of the oath to join:
  
  “I do further promise and declare that I will, when opportunity presents, make and wage relentless war, secretly and openly against all heretics, Protestants and Masons, as I am directed to do to extirpate them from the face of the whole earth; and that I will spare neither age, sex, or condition, and that will hang, bum, waste, boil, flay, strangle, and bury alive these infamous heretics; rip up the stomachs and wombs of their women, and crush their infants’ heads against the wails in order to annihilate their execrable race. That when the same can not be done openly, I will secretly use the poisonous cup, the strangulation cord, the steel of the poniard, or the leaden bullet, regardless of the honor, rank, dignity, or authority of the persons, whatever may be their condition in life, either public or private, as I at any time may be directed so to do by any agents of the Pope or superior of the Brotherhood of the Holy Father of the Society of Jesus.”
  
  Is this guy you want with all the powers of the NDAA law??
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- ChevalierdeJohnstone
  Posted on January 6, 2012 at 3:14am
  @RecoveringNeocon,
  
  Actually, Santorum supported Arlen Specter in order to get Roberts and Alito onto the Supreme Court. The Roberts court ruled favorably in the Heller case. That’s about as pro-gun as it gets in Washington D.C. these days.
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- antiepa
  Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:35pm
  Quick looking at the world via the reflections of your carnival mirror and maybe you’ll see the truth.
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donh2
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:47pm
Demonized ? It was Sanitarium who chose Clive S Lewis to quote front and center in his acceptance speech. Lewis was a relgious progressive who are the most dangerous of all progressive because they seek power in the supernatural to make gods of men imposing their will on weaker life forms. Lewis was a fellow founding member of the Golden Dawn Cult in England . He was inner circle to masters of the occult Aleister Crowley and William B Yeats. To hold such a man in high esteem is a dead give away of illuminati cult presence. ..This is why Sanitarium spent much of his acceptance speech last night talking about his dead Grandfather in open casket. …He’s a CREEP ….> http://youtu.be/-lrclV0RFL4
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- stage9
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:57pm
  What a bunch of nonsense…CS Lewis has done more for the field of Christian apologetics than practically any other voice in the modern day.
  
  “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” — CS Lewis
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- recoveringneocon
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:02pm
  I dont know all about that, but Santorum has a home in VA and he still couldn’t get on the ballot there. How is he ever going to be Pres?
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- LibertarianRight
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:11pm
  C.S. Lewis also said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” I think that would be an admonition squarely aimed at someone like Santorum’s drive to turn the US government into an arm of the Church, protecting us from such crimes as using birth control and making bad decisions regarding the family.
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- Copper Catfish
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:25pm
  Dear “recovering” neocon:
  You need to get your candidates straight. NEWT lives in Virginia and did not get on the ballot. Rick Santorum lives in Pennsylvania!
  You have proven that you just spout hatred without getting your facts straight.
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- Jase
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:59pm
  @DonH2- CS Lewis was a cult member?…..really?? Where did you come up with that nonsense? Do you have ANYTHING to back it up? Because I did a search and the only thing I could come up with was from anti-Christian attack sites/blogs.
  
  If you fell for that, you will fall for anything.
  
  CS Lewis was a born-again Christian. Before his conversion he was an atheist, he did have a lifelong fascination with old english witchcraft folklore, as did Tolkien, but after his rebirth he used that as a Gospel-based story, not to draw people into the occult but to draw them to Christ.
  
  It seems you have fallen for a lie and you are just propagating the lie on this site.
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- Jase
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:19am
  By the way Don, Jesus said “ you will know them by their fruits”. C.S. Lewis has been helping people find and solidify their faith in Christ for decades. His books are time-tested witnesses that will outlast his critics. If I were to list all of Lewis’ contributions to the Christian faith here, it would take up several pages.
  
  So I gotta ask, since you have come out so heavily against a great witness of Christ,…..What are your fruits?
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- donh2
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:59am
  C. S. Lewis was a member of the Golden Dawn Cult, ritual satanism hiding under the label of atheism. His later conversion to Christianity was weak repentance of a un unfaithful progressive. Faith in Christ needs no apologies. His rational approach dwelled on answering doubt about God created by the realities of death and pain. Such is an obsession of the necromancer. Another member of the Lewis’s cult was Israeli Regardie. Here is a recording of him performing a “ Bornless Ritual ” which is significant to Sanitarium’s taking home of his dead baby….He may have surrounded the corpse with candles to invoke this necromancer ritual in which every scourge of God is commanded obediance to the practitioner. …. You do not want a Golden Dawn high priest of the necropolis ruling the world… > http://youtu.be/p9F1eETbKnE
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- KTsayz
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:26am
  @Coppercatfish Santorum ‘keeps’ a residence in Penn but lives full time in Virginia. It‘s one of the reasons why his constituency in Penn wouldn’t re-elect him. The house was occupied by his niece who neighbors say keeps it a mess. And then he had the nerve to take $100,000 from Penn to ‘cyber’ school his children – in Virginia.
  http://santorumexposed.com/pages/issues/issues-tax.php
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- Jase
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:26am
  Don, You’re just a confused little bomb-throwing troll. Your statements are completely psychotic. So Santorum is not your guy, fine, don’t vote for him, but don‘t go around saying he’s a “necromancer” or a “Golden Dawn high priest of the necropolis” because it just exposes you as the psychopath that you are.
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- recoveringneocon
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:54pm
  KTsayz
  Thanks, Copper Catfish, needs to do a little homework before he starts name calling.
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- GOVT_ABOVE_THE_LAW
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:32pm
  What should give every freedom-loving American pause is Rick Santorum’s stance on small government
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Gwwmm-cQxU#!
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stage9
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:42pm
HOLD ON ONE FRIGGIN SECOND!!!

I am so sick and tired of idiots like Bill “I think I’m God” O’Reilly suggesting that immoral and reprobate behavior somehow gets a friggin PASS because he and his pillow biting, North Eastern Homofected friends endorse it.

To all the NORTH EASTERN GENIUSES out there, if the foundation of society — the family, objective moral values — cease to exist, society will cease to exist! You can whine and cry about your stinking wallet all day long. You can cry about Obama and his liberal friends all you want. At the end of the day, if those TWO foundational pillars collapse, SOCIETY WILL COLLAPSE!

It is a historical fact that has been proven over, and over and over again!

And for the truly intellectually impotent out there, the condition of the country right now is a DIRECT RESULT OF IMMORAL BEHAVIOR! GREED IS A MORAL ISSUE! FREEDOM IS A MORAL ISSUE! THE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON FAMILIES IS A MORAL ISSUE!

MORALS MATTER!

Get a clue America!

Case in point:
What same-sex “marriage” has done to Massachusetts
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html
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- LibertarianRight
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:02pm
  Society is NOT government! The morals that form the background of society cannot be “protected” by tyrannical laws. It must come from the voluntary organizations of the people – churches, charities, etc.
  
  “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – C.S. Lewis
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:09am
  Libertarianright – The government schools influence our children’s social values.
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- Tretka
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:26am
  Stage 9-
  
  I agree to this extent. Forget all the names, and divisions, we are supposed to want to nurture and care for our human race. Humans are one species. We were given the gift of reproduction, a food chain, etc. Morals keep us alive. A conscious tends to our moral decisions. Our free will give us choices in morality. We can chose to be productive for ourselves and our neighbors or we can be destructive which usually laps over onto our neighbor.
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- Rightallalong
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:42am
  BillO is POS of the worst degree. He soes not support the constitution and thinks its kookie to actually honor the oath.. he also thinks it all good to confiscate guns during a weather crisis. watch this video
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Isd0FlGb_LY
  
  and this one of the trash trying to defend it.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICoiFBWGX4M&feature=related
  
  what an elitist POS
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:53am
  @LibertarianRight
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:02pm
  Society is NOT government! The morals that form the background of society cannot be “protected” by tyrannical laws. It must come from the voluntary organizations of the people – churches, charities, etc
  ****
  You’re right, but just don‘t follow your thought through to it’s natural conclusion! Society is NOT Government, that’s why when the founders were looking for ways to LIMIT THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT THEY FOUND NO COMMON GROUND UNTIL THEY AGREED TO PRAY ABOUT IT.(Look it up in History books published BEFORE the last 50 yrs!) EVEN THE ATHEISTS AMONG THEM RECOGNIZED “DIVINE PROVIDENCE”, THEY JUST DIDN’T WANT TO HAVE TO BE CHURCHY.
  THAT’S WHY THAT DIVINE PROVIDENCE INSPIRED THE FREEDOM OF RELIGION PORTION OF THE CONSTITUTION. (Not From) CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAWS ESTABLISHING RELIGION, OR DENYING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF!
  Society can only be VOLUNTARY IF WE HAVE THE FREEDOM TO DO WHAT WE BELIEVE RIGHT, THAT’S WHY ELECTING SOMEONE WITH STRONG CORE (moral) PRINCIPLES MATTERS SO MUCH WHEN GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO ESTABLISH HEDONISM AS THE NATIONAL RELIGION!
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- Churchill
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:28am
  Git-R-Done, vote for Ron Paul then who plans to scrap the department of education. Like him or not, there‘s only one candidate out there who would seriously unravel the socialist foundations and programs that have been put in place in this country and that’s Ron Paul. These radicals have been ‘progressing’ since the 60′s and have got a firm grip on this country. We need someone that will come in, cut spending and start cutting the government down to size. Who is serious about doing that other than Ron Paul?
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:20am
  You cannot force morals, family, or values on any person.
  That is the beauty of individuality and the Constitution.
  The Constitution does not give any right for the government to force people to be moral.
  It actually allows you to be as immoral/controversial as you want to as long as you don’t hurt somebody else.
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- GOVT_ABOVE_THE_LAW
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:12pm
  Here is how Santorum views government
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Gwwmm-cQxU#!
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flattop
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:39pm
Alan Colmes appeared on The O’Reilly Factor tonight despite the outrage Colmes brought by his hatefully cynical remarks about the death of Sen. Santorum’s newborn baby.

Fox News has forced me to DECIDE. Goodbye O’Reilly. I enjoyed your show but can’t watch anymore
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- TXPilot
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:46pm
  @FLATTOP…..same here…I‘ve been a bit irked at Bill’s growing snarky attitude lately, but bringing that stain Alan Colmes on his show after the hateful and outrageous things he said earlier in the week, is just insulting…….Goodbye Bill, you just lost another viewer.
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- Warrior4Zion
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:59pm
  Don’t hate on FOX. They know the importance of defending our ally Israel. America must fight for Israel or God will no longer bless us. If Israel falls America falls. Rick Santorum understands this concept and he‘s willing to vaporize these filthy Iranians who dare challenge God’s chosen race!
  
  Stand for Israel like it says in the Constitution or fall for anything!
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- donh2
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:08pm
  See my post above…Clive S Lewis belonged to a Golden Dawn Cult that practiced necromancy…You heard with your own ears Sanitarium go on in his acceptance speech last night about his dead grandfather’s coffin. He took a dead baby home to work over spiritually . This is an occult creep of the first order . Give this walking necropolis power over nuclear weapons and DEATH will reap its grim harvest in biblical proportions.
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- raspberrytea
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:22pm
  @ Flattop
  I saw him also. They all acted like nothing
  happened. just made me sick and of course
  he’s not going to get fired. Bill O is getting
  on my last nerve. I don’t watch him very
  often and it’s going to be alot less now.
  Not that I’m leaning for Santorum right
  now. but where’s the respect? Bill should
  at least call him out on it.
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:36am
  Do you hate honest debate that much? Do you only want to hear the side of the argument you agree with?
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:03pm
  @MOD
  
  When you decide to be honest with us, let us know, then we’ll debate.
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PointBreak
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:37pm
Well Tiffany, are you happy? This what you wanted? Santorum and Romney? Congratulations on helping guarantee Obongo Shabazz a second term.
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Posterchild
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:36pm
OK, I‘d vote for Biden’s pet ostrich before the Obama again

So—we have

Romney–nope (Obama lite)

Perry—nope (Obama medium)

Huntsman—nope (Obama appointee)

Paul—nope (Love his fiscal policy but foriegn policy will eradicate us)

Newt—-No (Hell no)

Santorum—last man standing–don’t agree with everything but he is the most electable CONSERVATIVE.

Ronald Reagan is not walking through the door–these are our choices.
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- Br@dley
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:53pm
  haha! santorum is NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT ELECTABLE.
  
  republicans need the independent vote, they already have the evangelical one locked down. you guys will lose if you don’t nominate paul.
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- LibertarianRight
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:07pm
  Reagan isn’t, but his policies are pretty much all there with Paul, if you take a look. Take a look at Ron Paul’s Reaganesque foreign policy: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/08/ron-pauls-reaganesque-foreign-policy/
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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:38am
  I’m a fiscal conservative while leaning more liberal when it comes to social issues.
  
  I voted against Obama last time and disagree a lot with his policies.
  
  That being said, I will not vote for Rick Santorum. The guy is a loon.
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- Clara88
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:38am
  The Rick Perry I Know
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh0dJnb-rlc&feature=youtu.be
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- Clara88
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:44am
  http://www.rickperry.org/
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:06am
  Couldn’t agree with you more! Santorum may not be perfect, and he’s not lived long enough to become a Reagan, BUT OF THE CHOICES, HE’S LOOKING LIKE THE BEST OF THE REST! NOW LET’S PRAY HE STANDS THE TEST! WE’VE ALL BEEN SAYING ABO, WOULD GET OUR VOTE, NOW ARE WE GOING TO LET THE HATE, AND TROLLS, GIVE bo ANOTHER 4 YEARS TO GUARRANTEE THAT AMERICA‘S FREEDOMS AREN’T EVEN IN THE HISTORY BOOKS KIDS USE IN SCHOOLS? Now if only Santorum would make it far enough to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate, maybe the CessPool in DC would get that flushing!!!
  PLEASE LORD, HAVE MERCY ON THIS NATION, THEN, PLEASE GOD, ***BLESS AMERICA AGAIN !!! *****
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 6:35am
  LIBERTARIANRIGHT BS
  Ron Paul Letter to the GOP
  “I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy,” he wrote in a letter offering advice to the Republican party: not a letter about the Obama administration — a letter about the Reagan administration
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- jujubeebee
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:50am
  I agree with everyone except your strong no on Newt. I don’t care about his baggage because I see more in him than the baggage.
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- justangry
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:20am
  @MILMOM You talk about freedoms being destroyed. What’s your take on the NDAA and Patriot Act? and will you guy Santorum do anything about them?
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:43am
  Pretty soon the Ron Paul foreign policy will be in place whether we like it or not.
  It will be way worse though because we won’t shut down these bases around the globe by choice;
  WE CAN’T AFFORD THE EMPIRE ANY LONGER……
  WE CAN’T AFFORD PAYING BILLIONS IN FOREIGN AID TO HOSTILE CONTRIES ANY LONGER…
  WE CAN’T AFFORD GIVING UP OUR FREEDOMS AND LIBERTIES IN THE NAME OF TERRORISM ANY LONGER……
  
  The Republic is hanging by a thread. Will we give up on the Constitution completely?
  Will we elect another Obama/Bush/McCain/Santorum/Clinton/Romney to carry on the progressive globalist agenda? Or will we elect the one person that has fought for the Constitution his whole time in office?
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cous1933
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:34pm
Let Santorums own words portray him….

“One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do.Government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, and that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture”.
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- JoeA1010
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:37am
  This is exactly the reason I can’t vote for Santorum.
  
  But I can’t vote for moderate/liberal Romney. Love Paul on fiscal matters, but can’t stomach him on foreign policy. Gingrich is just too in love with the notion that if only he were in charge, government social engineering would be great. Perry is about finished and has his own problems.
  
  Where is there a Ron Paul who is realistic on foreign policy and who doesn’t come across as somewhat zany? Find me that person and I’ll get excited about this election.
  
  It sickens me to think the bumbling idiot, Marxist liar we have in the White House is going to be there another four years.
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- thriceconcussed
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:08am
  If Scrotorum ever becomes president I’m getting a one way ticket to South America. You neocons really hate freedom.
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THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:30pm
Here’s some facts for the jew haters among us,
By supporting santorum you are making Isreal more of a target.
Santorum wants to wage war without provocation anywhere he wants and when, this is a continuation of the policies of bushie and obama. Do you remember Egypt? The country we just ovrthrew? Well guess who’s in charge now.The muslim brotherhood now is, and do you know what they just said? They said THEY DO NOT RECOGNIZE ISREAL AND ISREAL SHOULDN’T EXIST! Your interventionalist big war policies are destabalizing the middle east giving these radicals control…And guess what you Jew haters! EGYPT HAS NUKES! With these radicals in charge ( thanks to you neo cons) Isreal is less safe than they were 6 months ago…so go ahead, support more of the same santorum types, Just admit that your agenda is to destroy Isreal you fools.
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texanpatriot
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:24pm
Bill O’Reilly is a very confused man. I don’t watch his show and this is just one of many reasons. Do you think for a minute he could quit acting like the MSM and ask a few “fair and balanced” questions? Evidently not.

I think Rick Santorum is a man who holds his country above himself. Of all of those running he is the best. This is of course compared to John McCain’s candidate!

The way the GOP is acting, they are self destructing and may end up allowing the dictator-in-chief four more years to finish his work: one world government based on communism…
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Santorum or Romney would be no different from Obama, Bush, or McCain.
  They are all about big government and big spending. They are supporters of the U.N..
  Yeah they might get rid of Obamacare but I’m not near as scared of Obamacare as I am NDAA, The Patriot Act, The homegrown terrorism act of 2007, and all the WARS.
  
  The only difference we would see with Santorum would be not forcing Obamacare down our throats but forcing morality and values instead.
  I believe in morality and values but you cannot force them on anybody.
  The Constitution allows immoral and controversial acts as long as it is not injurious to others.
  The only candidate that hits every issue on all fronts is Ron Paul.
  He has been warning us of all of this for years and I really don’t want him to have to say “I told you so”
  when our freedom is gone completely and WW3 has begun.
  Santorum, Bachman, Perry, Romney, and Gingrich have all basically declared WAR with Iran already.
  When looking at Iran aggression to the U.S.; look at how many U.S. military bases there are in the middle east and where they are located. Then ask yourself “who is the aggressor”.
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THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:21pm
Santorum is no polar opposite of Obama.Both support foreign aid to Arab Muslim tyrants like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan who hate IsraelBoth support intervention, foreign and domestic Both support the Department of Education and it’s growthBoth support(ed) more spendingBoth like the UNWould you like more Santorum and Obama have in common? Rick Santorum is not a conservative as he loves to say. Rick is a walking contradiction and to the LEFT of the Constitution with his support of Intervention both foreign and domestic. (OKIE)
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Mr. Oshawott
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:15pm
All right, let’s see…Rick Santorum wants to wage war with Iran without seeking approval from Congress, he wants to ban same-sex marriage, he doesn’t seem to mind following the orders coming from the Pope instead of the Constitution, and he voted for George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” Act.
That makes Rick Santorum an extremist in my book.
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- Tretka
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:37am
  Oshawatt, you said:
  “All right, let’s see…Rick Santorum wants to wage war with Iran without seeking approval from Congress, he wants to ban same-sex marriage, he doesn’t seem to mind following the orders coming from the Pope instead of the Constitution, and he voted for George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” Act”.“That makes Rick Santorum an extremist in my book”.
  
  I don’t know who I am supporting yet, but let me say this to you. Santorum has been very deeply involved for a long time with a committee that deals with Iran issues-could he know things we don’t?
  He is a Christian and he will follow God’s word, there is no debate to that. Devote Christians always strive to walk the talk.
  
  How in the heck can “No Child Left Behind” be ANY worse than what they are going to do to kids under Obama Care!? For the record, I believe government needs to get the heck out of schools, but I am just saying…
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- WakingSheep
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:04pm
  And it is amazing that people aren’t seeing this about Santorum, Gingrich, or Romney!
  They are all extremists because they swore an oath to something they obviously haven’t read.
  The U.S. Constitution.
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jonnyfontain
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:13pm
Oreilly is wrong about Santorum. Rick could definitely take NH and SC and become our nominee because of his common sense approach to solving our woes in this Country. We need a God Fearing President again that doesn‘t apologize for America’s greatness. Did you know that no other country in the History of Countries has given more to charity or freedom than the United States of America? How dare obama apologize for America, obama is a disgrace and needs to go!!! God bless Rick Santorum and God willing he will spark a revival of Christian Values across this country and spark a strong relationship between His children and mankind.
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- Br@dley
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:19pm
  he hates personal liberty. you should really know the candidate whose “virtues” you claim to espouse.
  
  “This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
  
  -rick santorum
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- Tretka
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:43am
  Brodley,
  
  Americans are generally middle right (though a lot of them think they are “Democrats”-liberals are a worser kind of animal), I will bet you if you poll 100 Americans and ask them if they think we do not need any government, 98 of them will tell you we need some form of government. Secondly, conservatives, old school ones, DO believe we are stewards. But stewardship is not achieved through regulations and legislation. It is achieved through free men taking care of, by choice, free men. The concept is so lost, many of us do not get it.
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Steve8511
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:02pm
Santorum…couldn’t get re-elected, wants the Bush/Obama size gov -BUT says he can make it run better. My fellow Americans are so stupid, and you will get the president we deserve.
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- kaydeebeau
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:12pm
  and any facts to back up your assertion are where?
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- oldguy49
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:13pm
  flat tax”””””””’close the border and enforce immigration laws-allow states to also””””””’balance budget amendment””””””””eliminate epa and the department of education and energy dont do this and we become socialist{sorry more socialist than we have become}
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- Simonne
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:50am
  The far right is taking over the republican party & if they get the candidate they want, they deserve Obama. It is the only way they are ever going to learn. Far right & far left are both extremists.
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NOBALONEY
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:01pm
I don‘t recall O’Reilly “No Spin Zone” asking Obama of he was afraid of being portrayed as an extremeists (Bill Ayres, Bernadine Dohrn, Rev Wright). O’Reilly on Contraceptiom said,“ Contraception is not dogma”, and “Jesus didn’t say it” Bill O’Reilly “No Spin Zone” is in Planned Parenthood and Obama’s favor.
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- Maxim Crux
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:14pm
  True…so true. Of course, there is always the chance the no one would ever call him an extremist, now all that needs to happen is some minority that does not like it, label him as such and Old Willard will have his new talking point. Oreilly is such a fraud. I am surprised that anyone even watches him.
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- spirited
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:23pm
  Well, now that he’s asked Santorum, he can ask Obama.
  
  8^>Right?
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Banter
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:55pm
“One of host Bill O’Reilly’s first questions for the Republican candidate was, “are you ready to be demonized?”

What you didn‘t hear was O’Reilly whisper to himself, “and I’m going to start the demonization. Fox wants Romney, and I am Fox.”
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5emerald29
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:47pm
I’m tired of hearing about Gay Marriage and Birth Control…………I just want to scream like Charlie Brown uhgggg, Economy, Gov’t Spending, and Getting Gov’t out of Americans private lives is the top things I want to hear about……Come on News people get with the program, I don’t think I am alone on this issue am I?????
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- SurfinRallylizard
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:58pm
  You’re not alone… all these are non-issues that the next President will do nothing about anyway. You are exactly right: jobs, economy, spending, budget control…. boom, done. We can worry about these social issues later once we have the luxury to do so, everyone‘s freedom is at risk if we don’t get the financial house in order.
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- A Hoosier Says
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:26pm
  Agreed. I could care less about how Rick feels about birth control or other social issues. Bill was just trying to boost Ricks conservative stances and avoid his massive moderate and liberal stances.
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Mtremblay
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:44pm
Does Santorum really believe birth control should if desired be banned by a State? I cant that anywhere quoted from him
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- Mtremblay
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:48pm
  I mean I cant find a reliable or reputable source that he said it. I want a video of him saying it
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- trolltrainer
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:54pm
  He is Catholic…
  
  Even if true, that is such an irrelevant complaint. Congress would NEVER support anything like that. Santorum has bigger problems than that, the truth is he is just not the conservative that voters want. But…Neither is Romney…
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- WiredRight
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:59pm
  Here ya go:
  
  http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/santorum-explains-06-loss-still-supports-state-right-to-outlaw-contraception/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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- onesmartcookie
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:22am
  I would be totally ok if my state banned the morning after pill as I feel it is dangerous for women. I see nothing wrong with his comment.
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Br@dley
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:44pm
i’m not sure a quote is a “portrayal”, but mr. santorum seems to be the big government type…

“This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:41pm
Imagine that…..Bill O’Reilly running interference for Mitt Romney again:

“Mitt Romney and Bill O’Reilly Enjoy Game at Fenway Park”
August 21, 2010
http://mittromneycentral.com/2010/08/21/mitt-romney-and-bill-oreilly-enjoy-game-at-fenway-park-support-cancer-fundraiser/
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redbone007
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:39pm
I remember Bill saying that candidates need to come on this show to get elected and did not want Rick on his show because he was not electable. Tuesday night Rick Santorum show Bill Oreilly that he does not need him to get votes.
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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:00pm
  for once i wish some of these republicans would just tell all of the george soros funded,democommie lap dogs to stuff the interview up their liberal butts, just for once,santorum should have told bill to take his pin head opinion and stuff it up his buddy romneys butt.
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MAULEMALL
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:38pm
He certainly whupped pawls arse…
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- Br@dley
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:42pm
  aren’t “conservatives” supposed to be all about individual liberty?
  
  “This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
  
  -rick santorum
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NickDeringer
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:35pm
Santorum is done. Glenn Beck just endorsed him.
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:40pm
  If it was only that easy, Glenn would endorse Obama.
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- saranda
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:37pm
  It is that easy. Remember GB still tries to take credit for introducing Palin to the lower 48 and look how well that turned out (for her very well, for us not so much).
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:35pm
Santorum should just channel the Rock. “Can you smell what I’m cooking!!!!“ or he could channel Julia Child ”This is how you cook.” Either way, I think he is running for President just to be on the road for the peace and quiet, wow, 5 kids and homeschooling.

As far as being demonized, the press will be fair and balanced with him, let his past be, and only ask him softball questions. That’s what they did with Obama, why wouldn’t they do this with Rick?
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- TRONINTHEMORNING
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:51pm
  Classic, DARMOK! I loved it!
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:14pm
  O Reilly‘s and Rush Limbaugh’s new theme song
  Sung to the tune of “Stuck in the Middle with You”
  
  Well I’m here behind the EIB Mike
  ANd I Know something just isn’t right
  I’m confused and just here drinking jmy TEA.
  But I just don’t know who the candidate should be.
  Mormons to the left of me, Santorum on the right,
  and I’m stuck in the middle with Newt.
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Sam Brown
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:34pm
O’reilly is a closet leftist that hopes Romney wins the republican ticket so Romney will lose to Obama. Why is it O’reilly never ask the candidates who their biggest money supporter is? Who is backing Romney with the most money so we know who he is beholding to.

The best conservative dropped out today and she would have made the best president.
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- dawgsfan
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:49pm
  I can see how it is tempting to think O’Reilly is a leftist sometimes, but after having read 3 of his books, I have to disagree. I, too, get tired of him bending over backwards to appear fair to the left (give it up, Bill, you’re NEVER going to appear fair as far as they are concerned), but he‘s just preparing Rick Santorum for the anal probe he’s going to be receiving from the mainstream media. Bill prides himself on being a tough interviewer and he was flexing his muscles, which is a little sickening, but I think Rick handled it well. Santorum/Rubio 2012!!!!!
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- Reid Baer
  Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:51pm
  I supported Bachmann … Santorum is the only consistent conservative remaining. It erks me that O’Reilly is the “Ted Baxter” TOOL of moderate Republican mediocrity.
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- Sam Brown
  Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:41am
  @dawgsfan
  O’reillys books have a ghost writer in his books (he said so today) and I am sure O’reilly reads the polls everyday to know what the people want to hear. O’Reilly is smart for sure but he used to do other TV shows and I remember his gotcha journalism of that time was pure left wing. I bet he uses focus groups to know how viewers think.
  
  I never trust a guy who says he stands in the middle just to help the folkes, he is helping himself not us.
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stage9
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:48pm
What do you call this genius???

What same-sex “marriage” has done to Massachusetts
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/effects_of_ssm.html

Liberal radicals are the extremists! Santorum is DEAD ON!
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LibertarianRight
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:56pm
Santorum is just like Bush – a Big Government “compassionate conservative” Republican. Except he wants even more of the government bossing us around to make sure we’re “moral” (by his definition, of course). He’s only an “extremist” in the sense that he is another establishment ***** that wants to control our lives. He even rejected “this whole idea of personal autonomy” saying, “well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view.“ He also said ”We have a whole culture that is focused on immediate gratification and the pursuit of happiness . . . and it is harming America.” Sounds like a bloody theocrat to me, not a consistent Constitutional Conservative. Especially given that the “pursuit of happiness” is one of the three umbrella rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence as given to us by our Creator.

http://santorumexposed.com/
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stage9
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:58pm
Libertarians are the marxists of the Right:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/article/2005/mar/14/00017/
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RepubliCorp
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:33am
STAGE9 No… they are thrifty liberals. They pretend to be conservatives. Do conservatives have a cult like fixation on a man? No! People they admirer, yes. That is why the Tea Party doesn’t have a leader. The tea party doesn’t want a grand poobah but the Bots do…. Liberals fell for Obama and now they know men disappoint. Blind trust is just that. Blind
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jcannon98188
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:48am
As a libertarian our love for Ron Paul is not because he is Ron Paul. It is because he is finally spreading the message that no one else is willing to spread. It is because of his message that we support him, and are working to make sure lies are not spread about him. It is not because of some love for him. I do not know the guy at all, I respect him and admire him, but certainly do not idolize or love him. Also, Marxism and Liberalism are pro-big government and anti-freedom. Libertarians are Pro-Freedom and Anti-Big Government, how are we anything alike?
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Mil Mom
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:34am
Boy, media matters is scraping the barrel for it’s trolls tonight! The regulars must have “Partied too Hardy” or MAYBE THEY ALL GOT BONUS CHECKS AND COULD AFFORD THEIR CHEMICALS FOR A WHILE! (Which explains why so many would jump on the Ron Paul bandwagon!)
Maybe the O’Reilly interview was a call out to the trolls to go after RS , Bill looked like he was going to enjoy the show, just wasn’t sure from which side.
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RepubliCorp
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:04am
JCANNON98188 Conservatives have core values. We feel this “anything goes” isn’t freedom, it is anarchy. A thing like hard drugs doesn’t stop at your door. You become unemployable. Your ability to reason is gone so you will get behind a wheel and kill someone. What is the gay agenda today becomes the pedophiles agenda tomorrow when there are no lines. There are people in the world who want to kill us and to think otherwise is naïve, stupid & childish. I could go on for days……
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WakingSheep
Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:16am
“Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.”
-Thomas Jefferson-

This is the idea of freedom defined in our Constitution. As long as it does no injury or harm to anybody else; It would be deemed legal per the U.S. Constitution. I should be allowed to consume anything I want or do anything I want to do to my own body without harming somebody else.

Marriage was never intended to be part of the state or nation when the Constitution was grafted.
I honestly don’t care whether gays can marry or not, but I do not feel anybody (gay or straight) should benifit in any way from marriage.
I’m not married and probably never will be hence I will never get the dual income or tax benefits.
Is that true freedom or individual responsibility?
I decide not to get married or ever have kids (being responsible with the kids part) but I continue to have to support families that have numerous kids and no responsibility.
The church and the state should be completely separated. Marriage should be between the individuals and none of anybody else’s business.
We keep creating more and more ways to make America more and more segragated when the power was never intended to be Federal in the first place.
I take care of me; you take care of you is the way it should be.
Don’t tread on me!

Ron Paul 2012!
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