Lou Dobbs: 'It’s Awfully Nice' of the Media 'To Help Everyone Understand the Dangers of Rick Santorum'
Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs issued a truly delicious smack down to America's press Sunday.
In the midst of a lengthy discussion about the so-called “Contraception Controversy” on ABC's This Week, Dobbs said, "It’s awfully nice of the national media and the Democratic Party to help everyone understand the dangers of Rick Santorum" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):
As the conversation ensued, substitute host Jake Tapper referred to "the contraception debate" before asking George Will if he’s concerned with Rick Santorum falling “into the trap of making this about contraception, which is not necessarily a winning issue for Republicans, as opposed to making it a debate about religious liberties.”
Will correctly replied, “There is no contraceptive debate in the sense that no one running for president wants to ban contraception. Nobody.”
The Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page injected the false media narrative “Santorum does,” which generated great protest from Will, Dobbs, and even ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
After Page capitulated, former Clinton press secretary Dee Myers said, “You know what, most women don't want Rick Santorum’s advice about whether or not they should use birth control.”
This led Dobbs to marvelously observe, “These are choices that are going to be made individually by voters, and it’s awfully nice of the national media and the Democratic Party to help everyone understand the dangers of Rick Santorum. But the Republican primary process will make that evaluation irrespective of our assistance genuine or manufactured.”
And that will include people like Page continuing to misinform the public about Santorum wanting to ban birth control.
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When is it ok to call a spade
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:00pm.
When is it ok to call a spade a spade? This Page idiot is not misinforming, he is LYING. The media will outright knowingly lie about Santorum, but absolutely refuse to tell us the truth about the democrats.
Well, when the white gardner
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:08pm.
Well, when the white gardner at the White House asked where the 'spade and the hoe' were, he was fired immediatly!!!
"...Dee Myers said, “You know
Submitted by TruthMonger on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:06pm.
"...Dee Myers said, “You know what, most women don't want Rick Santorum’s advice about whether or not they should use birth control.”
I guess we have no say regarding our potential children. Men are just the sperm donars...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Dee Dee Myers
Submitted by MrLuigi on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:18pm.
I'm still trying to figure out why ANY insurance plan has to cover women's contraception, so forcing religious institutions to violate their teachings is all the more abominable. At the risk of offending any female newsbusters readers, I've accepted the "it's my body" mantra. Since it is "your body" I believe you should pay for your own contraception. Ms. Myers is not interested in Santorum's advice on contraception, and I'm not interested in paying higher premiums so she can get free spermicide.
For over 30 years we have
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:08pm.
BINGO! For over 30 years we have been told to "stay out of my bedroom!!!".
Okay, I will. That means I do not want to pay for your IUD, Pill, Abortion, Morning-After, etc etc.....How about that?
This is bully politics.
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:57pm.
Straight up.
Most Americans don't understand the fundamental ideal of "rights of conscience" but do understand being "with it" or "behind the times", so that is what the volunteer propagandists in America have made it. Combined with plenty of inuendo that the reverse is the Catholic Church, or Santorum, peering into your bedroom.
There is no slander that the press is not prepared to make of its political opposition.
And im not interested
Submitted by misterbee241 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:48am.
in anything that airhead Meyers has to say.
Thanks to "Unplanned Parenthood-Scheduled Abortion"...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:07pm.
...there is no shortage of contraceptive options out there. The Libutards, Administration Press and the Lame Stream Media want to keep the focus away from the Freedom of Religion and Church/State Separation issue which is what it is really all about.
sweet lou
Submitted by markprice1983 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:11pm.
A little off topic, but did anyone catch Dobbs on O'Reilly last week. BOR (as in bore) cut him off and changed the topic when Dobbs brought up the Keystone Pipeline. I really wanted to hear what Dobbs had to say, but the clueless O'Reilly once again stepped all over it for "the folks."
O'Reilly is a sanctemonious,
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:19pm.
O'Reilly is a sanctemonious, condascending psuedo-'populist'............and since he's strapped on the knee-pads for Boy Barry a couple of times allready, he's got to 'get Barry's back' with regards to some of this information that might make the WON look bad.
And if Bill (Ted Baxter) O'Reilly is nice to Barry and other
Submitted by Rush Fan on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:36pm.
Libs, the mainstream media will compliment him for being "nonpartisan', and help him sell his books.
The Lamestream is just plain deliberately lying about Santorum
Submitted by DaMav on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:17pm.
The backlash against the media will be huge after the 'not paying much attention' crowd realizes what is going on. Thanks, Newsbusters, for help making that happen. And to Dobbs and Will as well; whoda guessed?
The Lamestream is just plain deliberately lying about Santorum
Submitted by DaMav on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:17pm.
The backlash against the media will be huge after the 'not paying much attention' crowd realizes what is going on. Thanks, Newsbusters, for help making that happen. And to Dobbs and Will as well; whoda guessed?
Lou will
Submitted by Bodini on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:24pm.
Lou will quickly become persona-non-Grata on another Marxist-media outlet if he keeps telling the TRUTH!
free
Submitted by Tjexcite on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:25pm.
As it is now a right to free birth control. Not only cheep and available but free for all. They should just put birth control in the water supply, it will come to that as some think that way and if you don't like it you are against women rights. You have to go to a government office to get the right to have a baby too.
Contraception, abortion, and chicken nuggets
Submitted by MCLANTIERE on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 2:42pm.
I guess the only thing that the Government feels is "off-limits" to impose on any one is the murder of one's unborn child. For EVERYTHING ELSE ... there's GOVERNMENT!
Contraception is a RIGHT to be paid by anyone Barack Obama TELLS them to pay.
The same goes for Government forcing kids treat Government Soylent Green chicken nuggets ... instead of the lunch their Mom sent (made with LOVE) -- but without the proper nutrition that Barack TELLS THEM TO include.
Pssst ... does this sound like a P-O-L-I-C-E S-T-A-T-E yet?
Exactly Right
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 3:07pm.
Contraception is a "Women's Health Issue", and thusly, needs to be provided for "free" from the federal government.
If this becomes the accepted belief, then indeed, quality chicken nuggets, (or any other food for that matter), becomes an "Individual's Health Issue", and the supply thereof needs to be assured by the federal government, for "free", if need be.
There is no end to this.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
and sex, drugs and rock 'n roll
Submitted by mom_rox on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:20pm.
Who knew when that phrase was coined, that s,d & r was supposed to be provided "free".
"free" contraceptives
"free" drugs (medicines)/needles
"free" music downloads
What I thought was so funny about the segment, was Clarence Page's agreement with Lou Dobbs after he stated that Santorum wants to ban contraceptives:
Dobbs: "...but in public policy choices, he's (Santorum) always come down on the side of making it (contraception) possible for everyone else."
Page: "Right"
"Right"??? Then what was all the fuss about, Clarence?
George Will
Submitted by pbthinker on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 3:32pm.
As usual, George Will hits the nail on the head. I hope Lou Dobbs enjoyed his last stint on This Week. LOL I'm amazed the Democrats are wasting all this time on contraception and the MSM is thinking this is so great they're helping them with it. I'm still waiting for the MSM to ask Obama about Black Liberation Theology, and I'm sure I'll be waiting for a real long time. To me, that's more scary and real than the boogie man they're throwing at Republicans about contraception.
I'm sure the Dems consider it time well spent
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:40pm.
If the Dems can get the message out in the popular culture that Republicans want to outlaw birth control, and have that message hit home to even 5% of the population, they will consider it time well spent.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Amazing
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:46pm.
Stephanolpolos brings up contraception in a debate, railed on it for 5 minutes out of nowhere.
Couple weeks later, Obama admin mandates contraception be available in every insurance plan not tied to employees directly employed by a church, but still to everything else even church related or sponsored, says they'll give churches 1 year to change their church doctrine to accommodate the god called government.
Media latches on, follows the messiah and runs stories on "women's issues" as if that is the issue at all. Nevermind the Constitutionality, that's beside the point in their agenda-driven thinking.
Obama admin couple days later changes who must pay for it, demanding insurance companies provide certain services for free and claiming to "accommodate" the church by who pays for it. As if there is any Constitutional authority to mandate anything of the sort. But he was a Constitutional lecturer, so apparently he knows it better than Madison.
Hearings on Capitol Hill, Democrat women walk out, complaining of no women on a panel about a Constitutional issue, claiming instead, as media and messiah, that it's a women's issue hearing. It is not.
Santorum vaults to the front of the media's rifled barrel. Contraception center stage.
President Obama, leader of the federal government, running the nation into the dirt for 3 years, having little understanding of America and hating what he does understand, trampling on the Constitution, going around Congress just because he wants to, announcing over and over that he'll do more of that, pitting Americans against each other at every turn, implying everyone's problems will go away and Utopia will ensue if we could just get the evil rich to pay their so-called "fair share", which Obama won't define, while 47% of Americans don't pay any federal income taxes yet that's deemed fair, with unemployment reportedly at 8.3% in the same month 1.2 million people fall off the unemployment rolls in 1 month, an historical record and which the media pays little attention to in the calculation of the drop in the reported unemployment.......
........Yes, contraception, that's the most pressing issue of our time, as we teeter on the brink of economic disaster, about which we are being lied to every single day as the President, aka the perpetual candidate in campaign mode roams the nation trying to convince the citizenry that he's the best there ever was and every ill of the nation is the fault of some other entity.
Your post
Submitted by Benjamin on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:56pm.
sums things up pretty well. Welcome to Ameritopia!
⇒ Ain't it, though?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 4:55pm.
If I didn't know any better, I'd think Dick Morris was right about his theory that Stephanopolis played the Grinder's monkey for the White House.
Contraception and the Catholic Church
Submitted by MediaMike on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:24pm.
The Catholic church is against contraception and abortion. That's their right under our Constitution. People like Page would deny citizens that right ... he says Santorum, in his heart of hearts, is against contraception. So?
The most amazing thing about this entire issue is that Pelosi, Biden, Kerry, Kennedy, etc. all call themselves Catholics. In their heart of hearts, they don't believe in Catholicism and they will be surprised where they go when they die.
I wonder how Santorum will do in a general election
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:26pm.
He seems like a genuine nice guy, I wonder if his strong stance on social issues will help or hinder him
http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=15747356&sid=77&cid=77
⇒ Well, Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:30pm.
Step on out there and offer an opinion. Everybody else does. Well, almost everybody else does.
the thing is I am not sure Cool
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:09pm.
I voted for Mccain last time and thought it would be a no brainer this time
I think you and I both don't trust Romney very much. I honestly have reservations about a President Santorum. I can't explain it.
⇒ Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:18pm.
I submit you are choosing to worry about issues over which the President has no authority in the first place. Ask yourself those niggling questions in the following format:
Does the President have the authority to . . . ?
well cool
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:25pm.
People made the same case about Obama nearly 4 years ago.
Obamacare is now law and he has stopped defending the defense of marriage act.
⇒ Only the idiots, Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:37pm.
Those with any sense, knew he would break any promise he wanted in his quest for a Socialist America.
To be honest, Shawn, the only thing that's even come close to shocking was his decision to keep GITMO.
You thought he was for traditional marriage? Really? Seriously?
Of course....
Submitted by NC Cop on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:41pm.
Obama said so. It must be true. ;)
its more has to do with your question
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:07pm.
I am not surprised about his political views. Its more the fact he has abused his power.
I am surprised he stopped the defense of marriage act.
He overstepped his power. The same could happen with Santorum.
⇒ In what way, Shawn?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:13pm.
If such were available, most of us could go back into the archives and show you what we really expected from an Obama Presidency, and today we'd only note he was more devious than we could have imagined.
So tell me, what could Santorum possibly do, as President, that keeps you up at night.
I'll grant he would say "yes" to a whole slew of entitlement reductions, so if that's your worry, Obama's your man.
i was honest cool
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:29pm.
I don't want to vote for Obama, but I have concerns about Santorum I can't explain at the moment
Here is an interesting article that is not biased that I found interesting about why Santorum would lose a general election
http://www.redstate.com/joshleguern/2012/02/13/three-reasons-santorum-wi...
your concern is that the LSM
Submitted by TruthMonger on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:32pm.
your concern is that the LSM will be able rip him to shreds without lifting a pinky..
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:56pm.
Did you read the money quote? or just the headline?
It's down at the bottom of the page you linked to.
"Is all of that true? No. But it doesn’t matter, President Obama will have close to a billion dollars and the mainstream media at his side."
If anything, this gives me even more belief Santorum can win.
Last couple of days, the media have even been showing the picture of Santorum wearing a cowboy hat, hats are a usually serious no-no for a candidate. But you know what? Nobody's taking the bait. He looks better with a Stetson than without.
I read the quote and the headline
Submitted by shawn. on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:13pm.
In a Pennsylvania Press Club luncheon in Harrisburg last summer, Santorum declared, "I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement."
That sure does not make me feel like he wants my vote.
⇒ OK, Shawn
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:26pm.
"Libertarian" is an idea most of us are not willing to embrace. It stretches from polygamy, through heroin legalization, all the way to Ron Paul's admission he would have sat back while the Holocaust was in session.
We should have started with your own beliefs rather than your acting like you're afraid of Santorum's intentions.
Don't like it?
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:30am.
Then join the Libertarian party or go vote for Ron Paul.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Yeah, the Sunday morning shows = DNC Campaign ads
Submitted by krendler on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:30pm.
Obama and the DNC couldn't afford what they get for free on Sunday mornings.
Anybody watch MTP this morning? The usual 5 libs versus 1 conservative, Gregory and some white house correspondent for the nytimes (btw, are all black female "journalists" required by law to be rabid, unabashed Obama supporters?) were gushing over how great the economy was doing, feeding off of one another. Of course, when the one conservative, Gellispie, pointed out how many people have simply given up looking for work, Gregory quickly moved on. Prior to that episode, it was a lot of poking fun at Romney, with Gregory implying Mitt was a buffoon and didn't know how to talk.
And it's only going to get worse from here on out.
Guarantee you the mood at NBC will be as somber as a funeral home the day after Obama loses the election.
Lawmowers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by GregE on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:50pm.
John Deere should be mandated to provide FREE LAWNMOWERS!!! It's a MEN'S issue and this is what MEN of America want!!!!!!!!!
Now get it done, its fully CONSTITUTIONAL, apparently!!!
And while you're at it........kids want free Klondike bars. Make it so!!!!!
STOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
⇒ Greg
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 5:59pm.
Can I get one of those clown noses, too?
I just feel like I should do something for that Klondike bar.
I want 'free'
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:36pm.
I want 'free' surfboards.................and 'free' guitar strings......................oh, yeah, and 'free' gas too!!! It's been well over $4/gal here in Hawaii for most of Boy Barry's term - HE OWE'S ME!!!!!
Well since GUNS are a RIGHT
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 10:42pm.
Well since GUNS are a RIGHT why are they not FREE???
Oh but wait just second....
Submitted by GregE on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:38am.
.........You are forgetting who is implementing these decrees. There is no Right to Bear Arms when the Obama is doing the decrees.
sometimes the left is right
Submitted by giatn on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:36pm.
Nominating Santorum will mark the end of ANY chance of defeating Obama. The country
has no interest in the extreme right, justifiably so. The opposition research against Santorum
is overwhelming. The tea people MUST stop the insanity of rejecting the ONLY candidate
that can win. They have tortured the country with Trump, Bachman, Perry, Cain, Gingrich,
Romney, Gingrich, Santorum. It's Romney or Obama period. Wake Up.
My response to your statement
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:39pm.
My response to your statement is - I want Palin to jump in!!! And..............let's have a discussion about 'torturing' the country.
Palin couldn't even beat
Submitted by goldwater89 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:11pm.
Palin couldn't even beat Obama in Alaska...
Really - do you work for
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:29pm.
Really - do you work for Yahoo news??? Can you give me an electoral vote prediction here on the 19th of February???
And with a handle like 'Goldwater', I think you'd be a little careful about making such blatent predictions.................
Wasn't Goldwaters running mate the father of Stephanie Miller???
⇒ goldwater
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:26pm.
what's your knock against Sarah Palin?
Palin couldn't beat Obama in
Submitted by CT on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:42pm.
Palin couldn't beat Obama in Alaska.
So....
Submitted by NC Cop on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:39pm.
Santorum is the "extreme" right??
Also, there are just as many people out there that say nominating Romney is a guarantee for re-electing Obama. In fact, it's been said about every candidate at one time or another.
⇒ Dyslexic Giant
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 6:41pm.
I'll vote for Romney if I have to. I'll d@mned well expect you to vote for Santorum if he's the candidate also.
I'm not real keen on the Father of American Socialized Medicine, Mitt Romney.
I agree giatn. Santorum is a
Submitted by goldwater89 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 7:10pm.
I agree giatn. Santorum is a far-right whack-job. He lost his Senate seat by nearly 20% in 2006 because Pennsylvania got tired of his constant Bible thumping. He's so far out of the mainstream it's not even funny.
So would you consider Barry
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:11pm.
So would you consider Barry Soetoro Barack Hussein Obama to be in the 'mainstream'??? And since you seem to be pushing for Romney - is he in the 'mainstream'???
Good luck on getting an answer, Killa.
Submitted by UpNorth on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:31pm.
AuH20 is just another Mitt-en man. His posts bear a striking resemblance to Balboa's, a quick, alleged thought and then gone, til he gets his next set of points.
You've heard of the 'drive-by
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:35pm.
You've heard of the 'drive-by media'??? We've got 'drive-by farters'..................it's taken a while, but I've figured out who a lot of them are - at least the ones who are still around.
And I don't think my question was incendiary or contentous, was it???
Not to a rational person, Killa.
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:16pm.
Oh, there I go, looking for rationality, again.
More like frat house drunks, puke in the corner then run from the room.
Fot the record
Submitted by CT on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:39pm.
I've seen Rick Santorum up close and fortunately he is unelectable.
Ron Paul's lunacy maybe the only candidate more unelectable than Santorum, to his credit I believe Paul knows that.
Newt Gingrich has had some of the best original ideas, but unfortunately he is quick to put on his crazy suit and scare the children.
To call Mitt Romney a stiff would be an insult to all graceless prigs, unless you are concerned about the height of trees in your neighborhood.
I am a Christian and a Conservative disgusted with the Republican candidates for president. I am still reserving my anger for the potential candidates that did not run.
OK - having said all that,
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 2:06pm.
OK - having said all that, what's your point??
Interesting.
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 5:51pm.
How is Santorum unelectable?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Pennyslvania is a democrat party state
Submitted by Radical1979 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:28pm.
It's a victory when we can get ANY republican in office.
Expecting the government to stay out of our private lives and let us run our business's is sooo out of the mainstream....for liberals.
Tea Party for Mitt Romney
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 8:33pm.
Can anybody remember the single galvanizing event for the Tea Party? I think it was socialized medicine similar to what Romney instituted in Massachusetts. One about which he was caught saying a month or two ago that it might not all have to be scrapped. Also his big idea was granting "wavers" to all 50 states, thus leaving the laws in place to be eased in at a future date.
So the fiscal conservatives will go the way of self-described "fiscal conservative" Olympia Snow who "heard history knocking" in the form of national health care. A social conservative is simply the most believable fiscal conservative, outside of Ron Paul. I saw this four years ago when "fiscal conservative" Giuliani couldn't find a social spending bill he had a problem with, kind of like "fiscal conservative" Arnold Schwarzenegger. The last couple of elections have really exposed the lie of the fiscal conservative.
Everything is always in flux from "in fashion" to "out of fashion" with squishes in the middle.
Hypothetically
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 9:38pm.
Hypothetically, would you support a Republic form of government, where the feds had no authority to institute a national health care system, but each state could be left to their own devices to do as they pleased regarding health care, as long as they took no federal dollars to support their state run health care systems? I know it's a stretch, but it's just a hypothetical question.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Last I checked we DID live
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:01am.
Last I checked we DID live under a government like you described, then obama happened.
right on
Submitted by michiganruth on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 10:30pm.
you're gonna get creamed on newsbusters for saying that giatn, but you're absolutely right.
Rick Santorum probably doesn't want to "ban birth control," but he dislikes birth control far too much for my taste.
my disaffected Jewish friends are desperate for a non-Obama alternative who won't throw Israel under the bus, but they will not vote for Santorum. and there's my college-senior daughter, who refuses to vote (again) for Obama, but who will never support anyone who lectures her about sex belonging 'only within the sanctity of marriage for procreative purposes'. don't get me wrong: that is a perfectly fine thing to believe, but it's a PERSONAL belief, not something we want our president to be deciding for us.
When has Santorum or ANYBODY
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:06am.
When has Santorum or ANYBODY said they would decide these things for anyone? The only party deciding things for people are the democrats.
O.K. she wasn't a witch, but...
Submitted by thestalkinghorse on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 10:37pm.
Don't forget Christine O'Dumbell. That worked out great too!
McCain worked out really well too, huh
Submitted by ohio granny on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:10am.
So Christine O'Donnell was defeated but look how bad Obama defeated McCain. McCain was the republican establishment candidate and that worked out really really well, huh ??? I can't help but notice when someone mentions O'Donnell or Sharon Angle they NEVER mention what a bad candidate McCain was.
Fortunate but true.
Submitted by CT on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:12pm.
I was about to say unfortunate but true. I voted for him once but found him to easily be led by the Republican Party boss politic of the day, recall his support for Arlen Spector over Pat Toomey because he was told to do so.
Problem is Rick Santorum IMHO is a self-righteous nut job, always has been. Listening to him I hear a whiner and lately a screecher in the high pitch Hillary mode. I do not hear or see anything presidential in Santorum’s voice or protestations.
i am not sure why he is doing
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:18pm.
i am not sure why he is doing so well...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
I believe Romney is losing momentum
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:30pm.
If Santorum is the nominee, he will have to do a very good job of convincing the American people he will not try to force his views on the American people or Obama will win another election
santorum will probably fade
Submitted by TruthMonger on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 1:43pm.
santorum will probably fade very soon the more his views come out
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Please think
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 5:55pm.
This coming from someone who desperately wants to force his views on the American people.
I realize this is going to be a shock to you, but when we vote for government officials, we are voting for people who will use the machinery of government to impose their views and philosophies on society.
Your choice: vote for someone who will force the view that people really are better off taking care of themselves upon society, or vote for someone who will force the federal government to regiment every waking and sleeping hour of your daily life.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
i dont want to force my views on people
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:05pm.
I also don't believe big government is a good thing. What I said is true. Lots of people are concerned about Santorums views.
I don't share Santorum's views
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:13pm.
I don't share a lot of Santorum's views, shawn. I also believe that he will not try, through legislation or executive order, to force his social views on America. I certainly don't share a lot of Obama's views, yet he is imposing his beliefs. Yet somehow, the MSM has everyone believing that it's Santorum that we have to fear?
I think you are too easily swayed by the MSM.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
I take everything the MSM says
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 6:21pm.
...........with a grain if salt. I like to rely on facts and logic
I have said on many occasions Santorum is a stand up guy and I like him personally.
I only stated that I not sure I am ready to vote for him and I did not like his comment about libertarians.
Fair Enough
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:33pm.
I'll put you on the spot with another question: Who do you think is more "libertarian friendly", Obama, or Santorum?
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
For now its Santorum
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:37pm.
However that is subject to change because I don't know too much about him at the moment
⇒ Newsflash, Shawn!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:40pm.
Did you hear the latest?
Obama just promised hot steamy streaming sens-o-rama holographic porn for everyone during his second term.
You kidding me?
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:42pm.
You ABSOLUTELY want to impose your views on people!
I am far less worried about Santorum's views than I am about the Shahinshah.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
like the usual Unsane post
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 8:05pm.
Plenty of blanket statements and accusations but short of proof or facts.
Like the usual shawn post
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 9:33pm.
Plenty of shawn's favorite hobby: whining.
Here is a very nasty fact: you have made no bones about how you think pot should be legal. That is one example of your wanting to force your views on society.
Another: you think prostitution is no big deal and should be legal. Yet again, an example of you wanting to force your views on society.
Need I go on?
You may go now.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
nope
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:00pm.
I believe in the law. Regardless of my views, I believe laws have to be passed before it is forced on people like liberals and gay marriage.
Last I checked.having a point of view is not forcing anything on anybody.
Let's try this
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:11pm.
I'll keep this simple: do you or do you not believe that pot should be legal?
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Unlike you
Submitted by shawn. on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:25pm.
I don't dance around questions. Yes I do. However if the MAJORITY of people do not want it, I do not believe legalization should be forced through.
Thank you
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 11:38pm.
Then congratulations, you want to force your morality on other people. Why? Because in spite of your adding a wishy-washy disclaimer at the end, you still advocate it and work to advance the cause, regardless of what the majority believes. Nothing is wrong with that, but I never again want to hear your whining about people "forcing their morality on you."
You are a hypocrite.
I don't dance around questions either. The problem is not me, but you. One, you don't like the answers you get from me, so it's easier to pout and whine about "dancing around questions". Two, ESPECIALLY when a lengthy explanation is required, you whine about having to actually read more than what is printed on a single page in a Dr. Seuss book. In both cases it's much easier than being intellectually honest. It's definitely much easier than being somewhat mature.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
Lou Dobbs is usually pretty good
Submitted by lrgon on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 10:21pm.
The Bushehr Nuclear facility in Iran comes immediately to mind. Here Lou showed his moxie when on Lou Dobbs Tonight exposed a $5 Million dollar grant that Iran got indirectly from the Department of Energy in 2007 to help the Iranians with their nuclear power program.
The grant was awarded according to Dobbs to a Russian Institute whose scientists worked at the Bushehr Province providing Iranians nuke expertise. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOieYqZ1X60
Despite a congressional committee investigation the Bush adminstration was left pretty much protected from any impregnating fallout due to the mainstream media's prophylactic coverage.
Lou Dobbs needs to target Santorum for voting for an unconstitutional bill that included funds to Planned Parenthood. Here we have more friendly media prophylactic protection for a politician that voted to fund a pro-abortion lobby organization so that they could buy contraceptives to dispense to women.
Where in the Constitution is congress authorized to give out contraceptives at taxpayers expense?
That senator Santorum is about as lax in his Catholic follow through as Nancy Pelosi is not the issue. The issue is that Santorum cast most of his votes while in the Senate on the unconstitutional column.
Good find, lrgon.
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 10:44pm.
You would have more credibility, however, if you didn't say that Iran got $5 Million dollars. The Youtube video states, at the 37 second mark, that the U.S. Department of Energy is funding two Russian institutes with about $4,000,000. and those institutes help Iran with their nuclear program in Bushehr. So how much actually went to the Iranians? I couldn't tell from the video. One dollar would have been too much. But your post leads us to believe that the they got the entire grant.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Huh?
Submitted by Unsane on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 7:43pm.
Dobbs is a flake that has gone off the deep end long ago so I question everything he says.
As I do spammers and plagiarists like you.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
I Pick Rick !
Submitted by Free Stinker on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 12:37pm.
So Liberals think "Birth Control" is synonymous with "Abortion" ?
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