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Santorum Announces 2012 Run: ‘We’re In It To Win It’

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, once the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said Monday he’s seeking the GOP nomination for president, vowing he’s “in it to win.”

Santorum, a favorite among his party’s social conservatives, chose to confirm his plans during an appearance Monday morning on ABC’s “Good Morning America” at the banner-draped site he chose in the western Pennsylvania coalfields for his formal announcement.

Santorum Announces 2012 Run: ‘We’re In It To Win It’

He has enjoyed strong support in the past from the anti-abortion rights bloc in the Republican Party, and he enters the race four days after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney formally declared his candidacy. Speculation remains strong that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann will jump into the race along with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Minnesota Sen. Tim Pawlenty and businessman Herman Cain and, who already are in. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and entrepreneur-entertainer Donald Trump have said they’re not running. There also has been speculation that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who sought the nomination in 2008, is considering making another run.

In the network interview, Santorum accused President Barack Obama of having a weak foreign policy, saying he doesn’t feel he has stood up sufficiently to Iran and asserting he has done too little to speak out against Syrian President Bashir Assad for the violence there.

Santorum, whose immigrant grandfather worked in the Pennsylvania coalfields, has already hired a small staff and has made frequent visits to early voting states New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.

The blunt-talking conservative lacks the name recognition and fundraising organization of his better-known rivals, but the two-term senator’s advisers are counting on social conservatives who have huge sway in some early nominating states and have yet to settle on a favorite candidate.

So far, those social conservatives are weighing already declared candidates such as Pawlenty and potential contenders Bachmann and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Santorum, a lawyer by training, had been laying the groundwork for a presidential bid when he lost a bruising re-election bid to the Senate in 2006. His opposition to abortion, gay marriage and embryonic stem cell research makes him an appealing candidate for conservatives. But his sometimes abrasive style alienated voters in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania, and they replaced him with Bob Casey, an anti-abortion Democrat.

Santorum’s policy positions align with national conservatives who now are looking at many of the expected candidates with skepticism.

Romney’s changes of heart on gay rights and abortion do little to help his second presidential effort. Gingrich is twice divorced. Huntsman, who worked for three Republican administrations, nonetheless accepted Obama’s offer to be the U.S. ambassador to China.

Santorum, 53, has his own hurdles to overcome: He has been out of elective office since 2007 and lacks the robust fundraising or personal wealth of his likely rivals.

Earlier this year, he established a presidential exploratory committee to start raising money and joined the first – though ill-attended – Republican presidential debate in South Carolina. He is expected at next Monday’s debate in New Hampshire, which is likely to include more of the expected field.

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Philip Elliott reported from Washington.

Comments (127)

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  • Jack2011
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:11am

    PSST
    Watch Fox closely. They are moving leftwards. What w/ Jeraldo and Williams in their lineup.
    _________
    Ya Think????

    Bill O’Reilly is FOR:

    1. Forcing all Americans to get a National ID card to stop illegals. This will just create another huge government bureaucracy and privacy intrusion and yet another card we would annually have to PAY FOR TO RENEW after forking up a ton of info on ourselves. Soon DNA/medical records, etc. will be on that ID card – just like it or will be on military ID chips. Police pull over people for traffic violations and READ THEIR CELL PHONES, imagine ALL the infor they can get with a National ID card.

    2. For terrorist reasons, allow government to limit the Miranda rights on ALL Americans for ANY REASON which allows Fascist thugs to throw you in jail “for awhile” no lawyer for speaking out or whatever. Obama DOES NOT RECOGNIZE radical Muslims as TERRORISTS but his entire administration calls veterans,

    3. O’Reilly completely MISSED the Obama “Ipod message” which is not that technology is BAD. Obama wants to CONTROL THE INFORMATION ON all tech gadgets including Ipods and the internet so “people” don’t get “confused/upset” by opposing views. Obama Internet kill switch plan approved by US Senate
    http://news.techworld.com/security/3228198/obama-internet-kill-switch-plan-approved-by-us-senate/?olo=rss

    4. FOR the Obama BP shake down for money by Obama thugs instead of following the rule of law of DUE PROCESS an

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  • Jack2011
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:01am

    Santorum was for extending the PATRIOT Act.
    _________
    So was Alan West and just about all Republicans including Alan West who I gave campaign donations to.

    Romney’s strikes are FAR MORE than Santorums.

    http://www.massresistance.org/romney/

    SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE to SEE ALL Of Romney’s Deceptions/LIES.
    http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/

    Romney is a lying used car salesman!!! Anyone but Obama or Romney in 2012.

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  • Bushie
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:47am

    Just remember no matter who runs:
    Unemployment is out of hand and rising , real-estate collapsed and falling deeper, 3 war fronts and he wants to start another one in Libya with our congress approval, other countries allowed to drill for oil off our coast where America is not allowed to drill, gas prices getting out of reach, politicians and companies that supported obama making record profits and paying little or NO taxes. China to surpass America in finance in the next 4 years, the dollar falling to record lows. The countries debt is becoming un-repairable, Muslims given special considerations (reading are enemies Mirada Rights while overseas), the Mexican boarded is like Swiss cheese, wacky liberal teachers allowed to teach our kids their personal liberal beliefs. obama vacations while our country is being torn apart by floods and storms. Obama forgives Egypt of its debt then turns around and gives them more free money that we loaned from China. I could go on and on. WHAT’S NOT TO LOVE ABOUT OBAMA & HIS CRONIES. Will you be suckered in again in 2012, I’ll bet you will. What fools we are.

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    • Amren
      Posted on June 7, 2011 at 11:55am

      You’re right Bushie!
      I’m sick of hearing all the old arguments trotted out every election cycle. I want to hear someone say, “We’re turning this ship around. We‘re repealing all of FDR’s “New Deal” crap. We are going back to a REAL FREE MARKET. We are going to DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, BABY!, We are going to take care of our problems AT HOME, before we go running off to some P.O.S. country to play “Nation-building”, We are GIVING BACK the land that Clinton stole from the states, we are giving back more control to the STATES, we are disbanding the NEA, EPA, the FED, and all other entities that can be replaced by the STATES, and we are going back to the GOLD STANDARD. Oh, and “Good-bye U.N.” get offa our land and pay-up for the rent on the property. Oh, and no more foreign aid to anybody. Fend for yourself. Oh, and one last thing, I don‘t have any friends in any companies and I don’t want any. FREE MARKET, AUSTRIAN STYLE!”
      I know, it’s a wish list. Maybe I should have started it: “Dear Santa…”, huh?

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  • ED4237
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:47am

    Wow he wants to win don’t they all. He is a DC retread and will be playing catch up, go Cain.

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  • fmingram
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:39am

    GROOVEY, just what we need, another creationist in the GOP field running for President. WOW, this guy is such a lightning rod on social issues, like gay rights. GEEEZ, this guy will kill the GOP’s chances of taking back the Whitehouse. DAMN, Ric, please go home and shut up.

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  • RIGHTHOOK
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:38am

    If there is a Conservative candidate with zero personal baggage, keen on the issues and has charisma and character then there is an excellent chance to hit the ejection button successfully on the BHO’s presidency or whatever it is. So where is this person? Don’t think one exists on either side of the ticket. Netanyahu??? Ha!
    Santorum won’t get it done…..

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  • Bushie
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:38am

    Don’t know much about him but, I would vote for a dog before I would vote for, Barry Dunham, no I mean Barry Soetoro, no I mean Barry Obama, no I mean Barack Hussein Obama, no I really mean TRADER.

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    • Red1492
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:37am

      Trader – what is he trading? Perhaps you mean traitor…maybe?

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    • Ibinaround2
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:34pm

      How‘s that socialist Medicare doing for ya’? Get plenty of your meds?

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  • Inisro
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:36am

    There are to many people getting in the race, we need to get behind just ONE candidate. The left would like nothing better then to split us up, lets not let that happen……Herman Cain 20012

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    • Goldwaterite
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:36pm

      You do know that the point of a primary is that there are a lot of candidates that you whittle down to one, right? Then you can support the inner of the primary against Obama.

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  • psst
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:35am

    Rick is a good guy. Why he chose haybeesee (Steffy is a Soetoro suckup) a branch of the DNC operation to announce is kind of dumb.
    He does not have the name recognition or resources as many of the other wanna be.
    I noticed that marxist Steffy did not ask Soetoro why he thought there are 58 states and did he know we are in 2011.
    The MSM ,controlled by the NWO/OWG who placed a marxist Moslem in the WH and who now wants )as usual)to pick the republican candidate just in case their fellow traveller in the WH gets defeated.
    BTW, Drudge has a headline “Aisle may hire hilLIEry.
    Roger Ailes, the combative conservative behind Fox News, is sounding strangely reasonable these days, going easy on top Democrats—even Hillary Clinton!—and subtly distancing himself from the inflammatory Glenn Beck.
    ——
    Watch Fox closely. They are moving leftwards. What w/ Jeraldo and Williams in their lineup.

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    • Ibinaround2
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 4:32pm

      I don’t care what direction Fox moves, as long as they quit being the propaganda arm of the Republican Party. If you have to repeat endlessly that you are fair and balanced…………………you are not.

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  • spreadcommonsensenot pc
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:26am

    Gingrich
    Romney
    Huntsmen ALL PROGRESSIVES
    Pawlenty
    Trump
    —————————————————————— tweener—-Huckabee
    Palin
    Bachmann Conservatives
    Santorum

    Keep America America OR allow America turn into ameriKa—-your choice AMERICA

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    • better red than dead
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:07pm

      How is Santorum – who believes strongly in government intrusion into personal lives – not a “progressive” under Glenn Beck’s definition of the term?

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    • saranda
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:51pm

      We don’t need a social conservative like Santorum or Palin or Bachman who have no credibility with fiscal issues and lose voters over their social issues. These people cannot win and if they do they only will bring more divide over issues that cannot solve our fiscal problems.
      We need fiscal conversatives who are laser focussed with ideas on the economy and deficit.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:22am

    Santorum is running? Really? zzzzzzzzzzzzz

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  • Jack2011
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:19am

    Locked
    My responses:

    1 Tried to make teaching ID mandatory when “No Child Left Behind” was being formed – No idea what this is/will have to research.

    2 Compares homosexuality to bestiality/pedophilia – I do NOT care about this topic.

    3 Was against helping people in Hurricane Katrina, saying in effect “if you get screwed, it’s your fault for not being prepared enough. You knew it was coming” – I AGREE. They should have INSURANCE. If you want to to build a homes on sinking swamp land (sinking more EVERY YEAR), you take the risk – NOT American taxpayers. Katrina was just another bailout just like Wall Street. NOTE: Don’t bail out Haiti/Japan and other countries with money we borrowed from China either.

    4 Going off the point above, he also wants to make US Weather Service data restricted, since private companies can try to sell it. – I AGREE. Copyright the information and SELL IT information to private companies and SUE them if they RE-sell.

    5 Unlike the Bush administration proper, Santorum came right out and said “Iraq has WMDs.” Oops!
    OOPS to Collin Powell, Hil Clinton, etc.

    6 As said, doesn’t believe in privacy rights. Government in your lives, folks. = This concerns me but I don’t know the specifics.

    Bottom line – 2012 ANYONE but BO or Romney

    READ THE LONG LONG LIST OF ROMNEY LIES BELOW.
    http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/

    Another lie on NRA
    http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:46am

      @Jack

      I’m not trying to convince your Santorum is a terrible candidate. I‘m pointing out the reasons he’d lose in a landslide (like in his last election, where he lost by about 10 points) in a national campaign. Coming out and saying “Get rid of the NWS, Katrina victims deserved it, Intelligent Design should be mandatory, and I don’t believe in rights to privacy” is anathema to a successful campaign.

      “ANYONE” but BO sounds great, but not just “ANYONE” can win. Social conservatives like Santorum or Palin cannot win, and I wouldn’t want them to because they bring no fiscal solutions to the table and want government in our lives instead of out of it. Libertarians like Ron Paul can’t win because they have no popular support. Romney has the best chance because of name recognition and at least has a proven record for legislation, but I doubt he’d be more popular than BO.

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  • IRESPECTYOU
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:12am

    no thankyou

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  • RIGHTHOOK
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:07am

    What is the deal w/ the naysayer, double standard critics Posts that preclude a ‘Reply’? They detest The Blaze and Conservatives, they rant with lopsided data points and disconnect the ‘Reply’ feature. Compelling….

    Report Post » RIGHTHOOK  
    • better red than dead
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:04pm

      You can’t “disconnect” the Reply feature, it just isn’t available for anything but an original post. In other words, you can’t Reply to a Reply.

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  • Jack2011
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:59am

    Locked
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:52am

    He’s for the Constitution… so much that he doesn’t believe in rights to privacy. Apparently he’s against judicial review, but for big government. No thanks.
    __________
    Explain? Link????

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:13am

      @Jack2011

      From an interview with USAToday in 2003:
      “And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. It all comes from, I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn’t exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution, this right that was created, it was created in Griswold”

      He also says, among other things, that you canNOT do whatever you want in the privacy of your own home, because people will do deviant things. He calls it the “right to privacy lifestyle.” According to Santorum, if you have privacy rights, you’ll abuse them and become a deviant, undermining the moral fiber of America. So the US needs to legislate what you can and cannot do.
      http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-04-23-santorum-excerpt_x.htm

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    • JonnyB
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:54am

      @LOCKED:
      He said he would leave it up to the states. That is the most important part that you leave out… along with an opportunity to “reply”.

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:57pm

      @JonnyB

      Yes, he leaves the subject of privacy up to the states. Which means that the government (state or federal) can do whatever they want with your privacy. It’s intrusive and ridiculous.

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  • Jack2011
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:58am

    Anyone but Obama and Romney or Huntsman = BOTH EXTREME RINO’s right up there with Olympia Snowe, Lindsey Graham and Lisa Murkowsky.

    Googlle “Romney Deception” for a full RINO list.

    Go Santorum, Cain, Bachman, Paul, etc.

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    • BehindBlueEyes
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:23am

      @Jack2011
      Let’s not forget the other RINO from Maine Susan Collins. What a pair of useless burocrats.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Behindblueeyes:
      Learn how to spell “bureaucrat.”
      Failing that, at least learn what the word means.

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  • meeester
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:57am

    Saw him speak in Philadelphia during last Senate run; at an event with Dennis Prager and Hugh Hewitt. After he spoke he answered questions and then Prager got up and said;
    “Wasn’t that refreshing!’ You asked him questions on over a dozen subjects and he answered them all knowledgeably and passionately. You asked questions about the economy, war effort, local school issues, guns, etc etc and he answered every one. Not a single guarded response or dodge. Wonderful’
    We came away feeling that he was presidential.
    (To have him as President of the Senate might be interesting too)

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  • Aaron in Polk County
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:53am

    That might be the single worst campaign slogan I have ever read.
    There are a lot of jokes on deck for this campaign. I can’t wait to see what John Stewart and The Daily Show staff do with this fodder.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:00pm

      It won’t be his slogan, it‘ll be his name that they’ll use to slime him (so to speak:).

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  • boogeo
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:46am

    Santorum Announces 2012 Run: ‘We’re In It To Win It’ I mean go down in flames.

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  • TruthisHealthy
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:45am

    We don’t trust Santorum.

    Palin 2012*********
    Herman Cain 2012******

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  • marine43
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:35am

    Santorum is exactly what this country needs right now. Spank you oughta check him out. He is strong on borders and anti (radical) Islam big time. I like how Georgey went right for the throat, and cute how he denigrated Palin at the end there. What a tool…. Keep pokin us with sticks media. You just piss us off more!!

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:26am

    No thank you, sir.

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:20am

    .
    Stay home Rick….. What a waste of money…………….

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:18am

    If he is for the constitution, and small government, against gays getting married, Then he’s worth looking at. I just heard on FNC, that the ex-governor of New Mexico Johnson, is for gay marriage. So that means he isn’t for the constitution.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:29am

      Before you go quoting that someone is pro or anti constitution based on “gay marriage” you should probably do your fact checking.

      The federal government is not authorized to make a call on marriage one way or the other, the states are, so obviously you have not read the constitution once.

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:52am

      He’s for the Constitution… so much that he doesn’t believe in rights to privacy. Apparently he’s against judicial review, but for big government. No thanks.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:04am

      HeavyDuty did Rick support the Patriot act in 2001 ?
      and what is his view on it today ?

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:18am

      @Tower

      Santorum was for extending the PATRIOT Act. I would imagine, as he does not believe in rights to privacy, that the PATRIOT Act would pose absolutely no issue for him. Below is the link in 2005-2006 to extending the wiretapping and re-authorizing the PATRIOT Act, both of which he voted yes on.
      http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/rick_santorum.htm

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    • 5410amh
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:22am

      Go home Ricky! You CANNOT WIN.

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    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:18am

      “and small government, against gays getting married”

      How in the hell do these two things fit into your head at the same time? I don’t get it.

      Should people have more freedoms except the people I hate? Keep the government out of my life but not out of the life of them gays? What the hell are you thinking? ARE you thinking? Are you for the freedoms of everybody or just for the freedoms you get?

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:21pm

      Yeah, it’s kind of sad, that these supposed johnny come lately “Constitutional Conservatives” think that “gay marriage” is an issue. It DOES show their absolute ignorance.

      Govt. SHOULDN’T HAVE ANY BUSINESS in marriage, whether it’s with a man, a woman, or a dog.

      “HeavyDuty” needs to go read the Constitution sometime. He probably lets GB do all his thinking for him. Sad…sad…sad…sad…

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  • starman70
    Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:03am

    He has a long hard road to follow. Personally, don’t know much about him but am willing to learn.

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    • Aaron in Polk County
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:04am

      He has a long hard what? oh, that was almost a bertation.

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:06am

      Before I decide anything on him, I need to check more out on his record and his views; then I will be able to make up my mind on his running…and how far he is likely to make it.

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    • LibertariansUnite
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:17am

      In the famous words of Ivan Drago:

      “You will lose.”

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:24am

      Wasn’t it Santorum who illegally had his kids in a public charter school a county in PA where he had no primary residence?

      Yep:

      U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum should reimburse $100,000 to the Penn Hills School District for taxpayer money used since 2001 to cover online charter school tuition for his children, four school board members said Thursday.
      The senator will not respond until the board makes a formal request, said Santorum’s deputy chief of staff, Robert Traynham.

      “He has done nothing wrong,” Traynham said. “The Penn Hills School District for the last four years has paid for (Santorum’s) children to attend the charter school and have seen nothing out of the ordinary. They have basically said, ‘This is OK.’ ”

      Questions over his residency prompted Santorum to announce Wednesday that he is withdrawing his five school-age children from Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Midland, Beaver County. The No. 3 Republican in the Senate, Santorum owns a $106,000 home next door to his wife Karen’s parents in Penn Hills, but he and his family split time between there and a $757,000 house in Virginia. Santorum’s annual Senate salary is $157,000.

      “He‘s admitted he’s not a resident. I’m going to put up a motion for him to pay back the entire amount,” said Penn Hills School Board member Erin Vecchio, chairwoman of the local Democratic Committee.
      http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_274635.html

      just another DC elitist.

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    • barak hussein osama arafat
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:24am

      Palin/Santorum the perfect team.

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:40am

      @CAPTAINlamebrain – He owns a house there. Schools are paid for by property taxes. He owns a house there. Did you read your own post? He owns a house there. He splits his time between 2 homes. Does that mean his child is not able to go to school in EITHER place because he is not there full time?
      I would imagine, since the house is next to his in-laws, that they care for the child frequently. I also doubt the child is only going to school when he is in town. Which means that the child must be living there 9 months out of the year. So, somebody is living there!

      Sounds like the Capn needs to go back to school on how to destroy other people.
      Either that or be quiet so the adults can keep working on SOLUTIONS, and not just poo-pooing everyone who doesn‘t belong to his ’club’.

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    • Locked
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:50am

      I‘m not a huge fan of much of Santorum’s social views, especially the fact that he doesn‘t believe there’s a Constitutional basis for basic rights to privacy. Biggest issue I see is that he seems to be running as a social conservative, not a fiscal one. Technically this should make member of the Tea Party movement antsy (although it reality I doubt it). More importantly for a national campaign though, is that independents are pro-fiscal conservatism, but generally sway to pro-social liberalism. Santorum has been part of several events that will turn these voters off.

      -Tried to make teaching ID mandatory when “No Child Left Behind” was being formed
      -Compares homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia
      -Was against helping people in Hurricane Katrina, saying in effect “if you get screwed, it’s your fault for not being prepared enough. You knew it was coming”
      -Going off the point above, he also wants to make US Weather Service data restricted, since private companies can try to sell it.
      -Unlike the Bush administration proper, Santorum came right out and said “Iraq has WMDs.” Oops!
      -As said, doesn’t believe in privacy rights. Government in your lives, folks.

      No, I don’t think Santorum is the candidate needed for 2012. Give us a fiscal conservative who’s a social libertarian and has popular support, please.

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    • CaptainKook
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 8:51am

      He owns a HOUSE there – whrer he was not living.

      His PIMARY RESIDENCE is in Virginia, yet he had that PA country paying for his kids charter school membership.

      Get it?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:03am

      These people are all in to pull from Ron Paul
      so Mitt can win, he may even be funding these
      fake Patriot losers so they will run.

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    • jackrorabbit
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:06am

      According to him, it is his conservative values and his ability to beat “blue states” that make him the best candidate, but he lost to a democrat in his last election by more than 10 points.
      Herman Cain in 2012 He stands for real radical changes to the tax code and the spending allotment.

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    • Islesfordian
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:11am

      Captain kook,
      Where were his CHILDREN resident? Where was his wife resident? If he paid property taxes in PA and his children were living there and what is the problem with them going to school there?

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    • fmingram
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:13am

      To the poster who believes Palin/ Santorum is the perfect team. LMAO…..if you want to lose. C’MON, if anyone thinks Santorum has a prayer, they don’t know squat about politics. I’m not a single issue voter, but Santorum is a huge lightening rod when it comes to social issues like gay rights. This is one Republican that will never get my vote. NO WAY.

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    • motes_art
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 9:42am

      I wish people would stop disqualifying Gingrich based on being divorced. It’s so ridiculous. Reagan was divorced, and turned out to be one of our greatest presidents. Reagan started the ‘no fault divorce’ train rolling by making it law in California when he was governor their. People make mistakes; people change. Get over it!

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    • el presidente
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:11am

      Santorum is a born-againer. Not a good choice for President.

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    • 101
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 10:11am

      Tea Party favorite Ron Paul is still leading in the GOP race!
      Ron Paul 2012

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    • D0ntTread0nMe
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 11:05am

      Yawn… total non-event… he’s basically a great guy but the only man in the race that has a chance without solid name recognition has to be Herman Cain… sorry bud it’s not gonna work out…
      http://www.mythoughtsfromthemiddle.blogspot.com

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 12:46pm

      Any body but BO! Even a dead FROG!

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    • six6six
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:29pm

      Just Google Santorum.

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    • Jefferson
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:37pm

      Google the word “Santorum” ( if you have a strong stomach)

      He’s an empty suit. A frothy mixture….lol

      No substance, no record, no nothing but a bunch of one liners.

      Ron Paul is the REAL DEAL. This is the last chance to get it right folks. We are on the edge of a cliff, and it aint lookin’ good.
      Ron Paul 2012
      RESTORE AMERICA NOW!!

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    • KOCHLEFFEL
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 1:59pm

      And an other one want’s to be President, this is not good it shows there is big trouble ahead
      for the Republicans.

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    • Secret Squirrel
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:01pm

      .
      The republicans can do better……………….I hope.

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    • old white guy
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:25pm

      santorum is a good man and a conservative. too bad the media were against him during his senate run. i would think the msm will go all out now that he has announced. conservatives have to call out the msm everytime they try and slam a conservative. santorum has to tell them they are liars to their faces in the coming interviews.

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    • american1st
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 2:29pm

      no RINO’S no NEOCONS 2012

      Santorum is not what this country needs! his far right social views turn off the independents, and i have never even heard of him being associated with fiscal conservatism, or his being a constitutionalists, his candidacy is just more establishment GOP nonsense..

      Ron Paul is still the best choice in this race…

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    • rangerp
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:04pm

      @Locked

      -Compares homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia
      -Was against helping people in Hurricane Katrina, saying in effect “if you get screwed, it’s your fault for not being prepared enough. You knew it was coming”

      If you read your Bible, you will see that homosexuality, bestiality, are comprable -they arell all a sin, and are a sexual perversion. Just because Lady Gaga, Madona, and the rest of the ilk on MTV are all for homosexuality, does not make it good. Gays have a life expectancy about twenty years younger for a reason. They live a sick life style

      Study a little history from the days of Calvin Coolidge. See what he did when folks in congress wanted to help the poor farmers of Texas. Not everything is fixed by the federal gov. When it is, we create a class of people who just stand there with their hand out. Hope this is readable, I just got my eys dialated, and can not see real well

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    • rangerp
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:11pm

      @Jefferson

      The Bible pre-dates our great constitution. Marriage is between a man and a woman. The founding fathers knew well that homosexuality was wrong. George Washington saw to it that a lieutenant was removed from service when he attempted to have a homosexual relationship with a private. The majority of our founding fathers were Christians, and while many had differnet views, and came from a myriad of denominations, you will not find any writings from the founding fathers giving rights or credibility to homosexuals. Check out that list that was read in front of congress back in 1963 showing the 45 goals of communist for the take over of the U.S. Notice that number 26 was to make homosexuality seem normal. Why when it was read aloud, did not one member of congress stand up and object? I can tell you why, they knew that it was wrong. Once again, letting Madona and Lady Gaga set the morality of a nation is a :bad thing”. Every nation or civilisation in world history that went the homosexual route died within two generations. Again- I apologize for spelling – my eyes are still dialated (eye doctor, not wacky weed).

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    • Eric_The_Red_State
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:18pm

      Why didn’t someone tell me a Dead Frog was running.
      You need not look any further!!

      YATZEE

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    • JRook
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 3:48pm

      Oh wow another strong GOP candidate running on irrational criticisms and statements he can‘t defend and promises he won’t be able to keep. But I will give you he sounds a tad more intelligent and rational than Palin or Bachmann….. but like how tough is that.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 5:49pm

      Another RINO wasting our time.

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    • Joe Palin
      Posted on June 6, 2011 at 6:19pm

      Loser.
      Period.

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