Thursday, February 16, 2012

Santorum Latest Republican Hypocrit

Unemployment is at 8.5%.  If you factor in those who are working fewer hours than they would like, plus people who have given up searching for a job, the rate rockets to 16%.  Add in the slow recovery and massive cuts to local government services and you would expect Republicans to be salivating over their prospects of winning the White House.  Instead they keep shooting themselves in the foot.
Rick Santorum is the latest Republican candidate to take aim at his own appendage.  Santorum is the current flavor of the month for the Republican nomination.  He leads Romney in most national polls.  Naturally the Romney campaign responded to the Santorum surge in the only way they know how; by unleashing a barrage of attack ads designed to make Santorum look like a religious zealot.
Romney’s gnomes dug up some footage from 2006 where Santorum states that although he believes contraception is wrong he would set his personal beliefs aside when governing.  Five years later he tore down that distinction.  Romney’s people found a clip from October 2011 in which Santorum states flatly that contraception is wrong; calling it a license for illicit behavior.  He plainly states that he believes sex should occur only after marriage for sole the purpose of procreation.
Rick Santorum is certainly entitled to his beliefs and we respect him for apparently practicing what he preaches.  And, as a devout Catholic, his views mirror the teachings of the Catholic Church.    However the Senator is not running for President of the Catholic Church.  And even if he were he would be out of step with 99% of Catholics on the subject of contraception.
The Senator also believes that marriage should be strictly between a man and a woman; he wants to exclude gays from serving in the military and is a pro-life advocate.
This is the same Rick Santorum that takes to the stump on a daily basis with his anti-big government rhetoric.  He wants less regulation, lower taxes on corporations and millionaires and a radical downsizing of all things Washington.  He says over and over again that he wants government to stop interfering in our lives…
…except on social issues. 
Rick Santorum is just the latest hypocritical Republican to rail against big government intrusion while at the same time promoting government oversight on the most personal of issues.  In Rick’s world government has no place in the boardroom; but it has reserved front row seat in the bedroom.
In these difficult economic times the American people are concerned with supporting their families, securing their retirement and making a better life for their children.  Denigrating gays and outlawing contraception may play well with the conservative base.  But it won’t win you the White House.  
  
  
        

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