Surging Santorum Visits Brown County, Ohio
Here are some of the “big things” Santorum identified:
- (about changing our current posture with the rest of the world) “Our country has done more for humankind, for freedom, for liberty, for human rights and an increase in the quality of life in the entire world than any country in the history of the world, and we have nothing to apologize for.” … “In a Santorum administration, our friends would know they are our friends, our enemies would respect us. If they don’t respect us, they would fear us.”
- (on the dependency culture) “We’re on the precipice if we do not win this election of having every man, woman and child in America now dependent upon the federal government for your life and your health. When that happens, America as we know it changes.”
- “We need regulations and regulators. But we need them with the attitude that ‘We want you here in America. We want you to make things here in America. We want you to succeed in America. We want you to comply with our laws. But we’re not here to punish you, we’re here to work with you. We’re here to make sure that you have an opportunity to succeed. Because when you succeed, America succeeds.’”
- “Do you believe the government should be dictating and controlling every aspect of your life, or more and more of it? That we are a great country because we were built from the top down? Or do you believe this country is great because we were built from the bottom up?”
- (Refuting President Obama’s April 13, 2011, contention that “we would not be a great country without” the entitlement programs created since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, thus meaning that this was not a great country until then) “I believe America was founded great.”
The biggest of Santorum’s “big things” concerned the true nature of the relationship between our nation’s two key founding documents:
An increasing number of those on the progressive left would like to dispense with the Declaration (of Independence). They would like to move it off the stage, into the shadows, so they can just have this Constitution alone — a “living, breathing” Constitution. …
You see, a Constitution can “live and breathe” and change if it is not anchored to something eternal. That’s what the Declaration (of Independence) is, in the words that you all know … “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” That is the heart of America.
… The French Revolution had a constitution not dissimilar to the American Constitution. But the French Revolution was not based on God-given rights. It was based on three things. Equality — good. Liberty — good. Fraternity — problematic. Where did we get our rights from? Paternity — God. … Where did their rights derive? From each other, from whoever has the levers of power.
This is what the Supreme Court is moving towards. This is why (Ruth Bader) Ginsburg doesn’t like our Constitution, much less our Declaration. Because she, they, want to create the rights and responsibilities. If we cut loose from the Declaration, cut loose from God-given rights, cut loose from the moral enterprise that is America, then we leave a very cold dangerous, frightening America to our children. That’s why this election is the most important election ever. Ever.
Santorum’s delivery during this, the final segment of his speech, was a bit choppy, and needs to be tightened up. But even as less than perfectly presented, it thoroughly impressed an audience which almost seemed to be rooting for him to say exactly what he said — heck, for anyone to say it, because very few candidates, even those who really share the values, have had the forthrightness to articulate these critical matters for far too long.
A badly underperforming economy, no matter how awful, will likely not be enough to guarantee Barack Obama’s defeat; after all, the Great Depression decade didn’t stop pioneering dependency and class warfare demagogue FDR from achieving the first two of his three reelections. The “big things” can be, if only Obama’s opponent and a unified party hammer them constantly, consistently, and understandably. Rick Santorum appears to be the only candidate with the ability and inclination to do that, which is why the GOP faithful are flocking to him as their best hope.
The Irrelevance of Obama’s Religion
According to Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you, and once a Muslim, always a Muslim.
That fact has become relevant in the campaign for the Republican nomination for the presidency ever since Sen. Rick Santorum called into question Barack Obama’s religion when Santorum alleged the president was motivated by “some phony theology, not a theology based on the Bible” and also referred to Obama’s “radical Islamic policies.”
First of all, let’s stipulate that religion has no place in American politics–with one important exception: If someone has misstated his religion and misled the electorate, the issue becomes not one of religion but of truth and honesty.
Barack Hussein Obama’s Muslim father, Barack Hussein Obama, Senior, conferred his Islamic middle name, derived from Hussein Ibn Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad, on Barack Hussein Obama, Junior. At least in the eyes of Islam, our president is a Muslim, although he has said that “Hussein” is an African name and that he is a Christian.
The case should be closed but isn’t for a variety of reasons.
The president has said that his Kenyan father denied abandoned his Islamic faith before he abandoned his family. He was raised–in part–by his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham Obama, an atheist.
Much of his upbringing was provided by his maternal grandparents after his mother married another Muslim, Lolo Soetero, took her son with her to live his formative years in Muslim Indonesia where he attended a Wahabi school in Jakarta and ultimately turned young Barry over to her parents while she pursued her education and career.
All that abandonment had to have warped her child but none of the above proves Obama is a closet Muslim or a religious hypocrite who followed in his father’s footsteps by turning his back on Islam.
The president’s collegiate life is still cloaked in mystery although it is known that he had Muslim roommates and travelled to Indonesia during his years at Columbia University and subsequently visited his father’s Muslim family in Kenya. And, of course, he fondly wrote of dreams inherited from the Marxist father he resented for dumping his family but, again, none of that proves he is really a Muslim and not a Christian.
Antagonizing America’s only ally in the Mideast, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=13822.)
I will vote for anybody, ANYBODY, who gets the Republican nomination. ANY Republican would be better than four more years of Obama. Anybody. And if the American public can’t see that, then they deserve what they get. Problem is, the rest of us will have to pay the price if those people who don’t vote Repbulican fail to see it our way.
Santorum is getting better at articulating what the central theme of the election has to be: freedom vs tyranny. It IS NOT just the economy, stupid. That’s one-shot Romney’s only bullet; and it’s a dangerous and high risk strategy because the economy has a tendancy to improve on it’s own and because the marxists will manipulatate the data and use their propaganda arm to finger-wave the horror away.
And besides, it really isn’t just a matter of the economy. The obama thugs are no different than any tyrants of the past. The only way to overcome pravda is to tell the entire story in the clearest possible terms so that real people can hear what is happening and how dangerous it is. It has to be more than “my turn” in politics as usual. Politics as usual hands the country to the marxists forever.
I want to support a fighter. I thought Rick Perry would do it but he dropped out.
Santorum is my fighter now.
One of the things I like about Santorum is that he is an unapologetic Catholic. He puts everything about himself out there for people to see and doesn’t try to make people believe he is whatever his current crowd wants to see like Romney and Obama do with their ever-changing speeches to try and garner support. Santorum says what he believes and he doesn’t change just because someone might get offended by what he says. The political courage that displays in an age of Political Correctness is incredible all by itself.
The fact that I also happen to agree with him on how we need to fix the moral issues and not just the economic ones doesn’t hurt either. Start with the moral problems, responsibility for your actions being the biggest one in my book, and everything else will fall into place. We ended up where we are because of the number of “adults” told their entire lives that nothing was their fault. That responsibility for what they “need” will be taken care of by the government. THAT is the fight we have to win.
American people must(have) to see what is happening to the USA under Obama .How he is changing the whole workup of the constitution, his total disregard for the people.He is out to destroy our way of life and make us pay for the unfortunate way that third world countries are living.Never mind how much the America people have helped them for many years.He is out to turn the USA into a third world type of country, than he and the george soros of the world order (his words) will have realised their goals. The USA must get its life back on track and not let obama have any more time in the White House.
Thank you Del.
Tom Blumer, I never heard of you before, but you are my new hero. You are so right-on, I couldn’t have said it better, though you have echoed my feelings perfectly.
What a refreshing point of view on PJ Media. Yes, Santorum is a fighter and he is authentic. I predict that his popularity will continue to rise, not with Karl Rove and the elites, but with hard working men and women who are not ashamed of their religious beliefs and their heartfelt patriotism.
Go Rick.
He may be your hero. He’s Obama’s wet dream. And my nightmare.
“This idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do,” Santorum complained to NPR in 2006, “ 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 .”
Satan is coming, Satan is coming. This guy is hilarious.
I can see Dana carvey on SNL, reprising his role as the Church lady, mimicking Sanctorum
Santorum is not perfect but is ok and better than Orromney. But your 3rd item in your “big things” list is just daydreaming. Regulators are not to be friendly and make things in America, they exist to harass and annoy only. I know you want to believe otherwise and that someday there will exist the perfect, nice, friendly regulator, just ain’t gonna happen.
Sanctifacistcontrollerism. Santorum is no conservative
He believes sex for pleasure should be made illegal. No wonder he’s so friggin angry.
Terry:
You can relax and take some meds. I’ve yet to find any bill that Rick’s offered up that would attempt to regulate either your culpable mental state prior to sex or your use or nonuse of condoms. He has spoken about many beliefs, a large number of which he has stated (and has no contrary record of) do not belong in the law.
The fascist comments are not appropriate to him, but likely are to our current potus.
Anybody else notice how PJM’s Romney sychophants have cooled their jets now that it is 1000% clear that the voting public views McMitt as the absolute last and worst choice?
They are down to less than one fawning article a day and one or two slimes against whoever it is that the voters prefer today over the Smear Merchant.
Just a month ago, they were in a veritable swoon about the Merchant’s inevitability.
I mean, Rick’s ok, but the unmistakable message is that the public likes anybody but McMitt.
But at least the trusty PJM staff aren’t throwing hissy fits because they aren’t getting their way. Other sites are in full dungeon about it.
and I wonder how Drudge’s stats are doing this year? Personally, I’m a little tired of McMatt imposing his manias on me and have stopped going to a self-styled news aggregator that wants to manipulate me with the same techiques that MSNBC uses. It’s not like Drudge is the only place to keep up with current events.