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Subscribe to RSSRick Santorum's comments over the weekend about President Obama's "phony theology," pre-natal testing, and likening today's problems to World War Two, have the potential to hurt Santorum with general election voters, even though they could help in the short term with very conservative voters, NBC's Domenico Montanaro reports.
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I have another thought on Rick's rhetoric over last weekend...
Abolishing the department of education and home schooling kids is one more stepping stone to keeping women barefoot & pregnant in the kitchen!
Why does the GNOP HATE women?
I don't think so, take the slippers off and get out of the projects
Now that is funny Buck... :)
My elderly mother saw Santorum on Face the Nation and declared him "nuts". So, I'd say, Santorum's rhetoric will hurt him badly with middle-of-the-road, mainstream Americans.
The people of Pennsylvania gave their opinion of Santorum in 2006 when he lost to Bob Casey by 18 points.
Santorum the Vatican candidate once again is out of touch with 88% of the people of the USA ..His silly cult beliefs make him ANTI AMERICAN..he will divide the USA not unite us !
Only those whose think their religious beliefs should trump the rights of all, is the group voting for Santorum. They are all for smaller government and less regulations until it comes to your private lives and personal choices.
Like in Virginia the republicans have already passed laws making birth control illegal and are just waiting for the governor to sign away men and women's rights.
Freedom in tea land appears to be the republicans taking your rights away.
Really, I was just in Virginia and they were still selling condoms and prescribing birth control. When was birth control made illegal in Virginia because I probably broke the law.
Like I just said they are waiting for the governor to sign it. It has passed both houses of your state congress. It is the same person-hood amendment that the republicans tried to get passed in Mississippi and Colorado and the people rejected it in large numbers.
I think condoms may still be legal, but birth control pills won't be.
You are in Virginia, I think I would check up on this, because it is in the news in the rest of the country.
Americans First--the new law doesnt ban birth control no matter how ill inconceived the concept is. Just researched it and you should check up on stuff before you quote outlandish comments.
Right wing extremists love what he says. Normal sane people don't. He will lose big time if the GOPers are stupid enough to nominate him.
MSNBC again showing it is the Obama propaganda network.
Tamara Hall didn't pretend to hide her contempt for Santorum.
Any statement by a Republican is "controversial" to MSNBC !
The only contempt I've seen displayed is by Rick Santorum. He can't even say Obama without spewing spittle all over the mic and the crowd.
Bob in Virginia: Welcome Governor Bob! How's that legalized rape of women law workin for you?
Santorum's new movement: The American Taliban. Next he'll be for outlawing music; although, in Romney's case, that might be a good thing. The fewer people who hear Mitt sing, the fewer votes he loses.
The front page of the Des Moines Register said that Obama is trailing the top 3 Republican candidates in Iowa. That truly is good news for America. A better leader in 2012 will be needed to straighton this country back out. Obviously we all know that the real reason for the housing crisis was the liberal control of Fannie and Freddie. George Bush tried to regulate them in 2003. That was rejected by liberal democtrats likeBarney Frank aka Frank/Dodd....
New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: September 11, 2003
The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.
Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.
The new agency would have the authority, which now rests with Congress, to set one of the two capital-reserve requirements for the companies. It would exercise authority over any new lines of business. And it would determine whether the two are adequately managing the risks of their ballooning portfolios.
The plan is an acknowledgment by the administration that oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- which together have issued more than $1.5 trillion in outstanding debt -- is broken.
The only group it is obvious to is the dense far-right wing. The rest of us understand the the housing crisis had many contributors, with the primary contributor being the free/easy no document loans offered by Wall Street, bundled into those silly little derivatives.
I actually agree reddev that there were many contributors but the primary contributor wasnt free/easy no documents loans offered by wall street. Those loans were created by Fannie and Freddie and sold to funds that sliced and diced them into various securities. Those silly little derivatives you mentioned were just easier access to low cost of capital funds that wouldnt have a market to be sold to if there wasnt a demand. Wall street just offered low cost of capital funds via these securities (and of course they collapsed because the rating agencies did a very poor job of understanding the risk and how they were leveraged) it was the mortgage companies and fannie and freddie that eliminated any semblance of underwriting criteria offering loans to anyone with a pulse. Of course now Obama wants to bail all of these people out. I am not defending Wall Street and they certainly have created too many issues by not making risk, reward and behavior all tied together but lets face it they were just providing the cheap funds and they would still have been cheap if the underwriters had done their job.
The federal government forced lenders....all lenders to make bad loans. Now, banks have been around for centuries. They KNOW how to lend money. They know how to calculate risk. They are good judges of determining a client's ability to pay the money back. The Goverment stepped in and, under the guise of helping everyone get a house, screwed up the system that had developed over hundreds of years.
Ahh, but the banks had an out. They make you a huge loan they know you can never repay, and immediately sell the contract, (and the risk) to someone else. After extracting their fee of course.
That someone else then bundled all this debt along with student loans and even car loans into something they invented called derivatives. These are sold to investors. The investors are told that these "investments" are rated triple A, when in fact they are a bomb waiting to explode.
Like tossing the hot potato around in a circle and the last person holding it gets burned. LOL
Yes making sure everyone regardless of ability was qualified for a mortgage was a liberal idea that decimated housing. The next bubble will be the expanding cost of health care caused by Obamacare's intention to give everyone a "Go to the Dr. free card" with no responsibility for what it costs or who has to pay for it. Another liberal recipe for disaster....
I really like Rick Santorum, but I voted for Mitt in our Caucus.
The only exception I take with Ricks rhetoric is the point he made about the free pre-natal testing leading to more abortions. Well yes, it probably does. That much is true, but I don't believe that it is conspired to be that way.
Seems like that was a stretch on Rick's part. Like trying to sift the fly poop out of the pepper. LOL
Santorum is a sad man.
His comment about pre-natal care leading to abortions to "cull" the ranks of the disabled/handicapped may have been a peep into his own soul....
His lost a child in the mid-nineties and have a 3 year old with the genetic disorder...sadness is Rick Santorum!
Rickie, Rickie, Rickie ... you need to STOP using big words that you don't understand. Words like theology, patriotism, morality, justice, fairness, cat, dog, ......
Santorum won't get the GOP nomination unless the Republicans decide to commit political suicide by supporting him.
Santorum is just the GOP flavor of the month...and a very unappealing flavor at that.
Still waiting for Obama to be Presidential (* sound of crickets*)
All I can say is that Santorum and his cult must think the american public is not only stupid but ignorant. Good luck from a retired clam digger
Ever since the American Revolution, I feel that this experiment has been going in philosophical reverse. The patriots who fought and died to start this country were the most liberal progessive thinkers on the planet. And I bet most poeple don't know that the Mayflower sailed from Leiden Holland. The puritants had been in Holland for a number of years before sailing to the Americas. This was because the Dutch were the most tolerant with regard to religion.
When I listen what the GOP is spouting off on with regard to infinging on what I believe are individual rights I feel that they really want this country to go back to the dark ages.