Category: Rick Santorum

Hope And Change Under Attack By Christianist Jingle!

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by Smitty

Do not be taken in by this bubbly video! If not for the massive efforts of Barack Obama, unemployment would be 25%, the national debt over $20 trillion, and children would be praying in a non-Mecca direction in schools.
President Obama has barely restrained the onset of the second Dark Ages, on which course Bush the Diabolical had set the country. It was only by timely application of some hard left rudder that the ship of state was spared stacking up on Capitalist Shoals.

‘Game On’, these girls say. As though Hope and Change was some sort of game! How severely disrespectful of the truly serious efforts of Barack Obama to find ideologically pure, politically reliable candidates for the highest offices in the land.

Hope and Change must be defended, lest the narrative be blown away, and stand revealed as Despair and Stagnation. Without revealing the inner raaaaacism involved, this family must be blasted for its lack of diversity*. Otherwise, they could continue to to threaten the Holy Narrative with a series of upbeat, wholesome jingles, provoking the remnant of rational, conservative Americans to good works, heterosexuality, fidelity, fecundity, and a disgusting resurgence in liberty overall.

Do not let this anti-evil succeed, no matter how good it sounds!

via Hot Air

A reference to an article that I can’t find online; must be in Our Dumb Century.

Is Matt Drudge Not A Mitt Romney Fan?

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by Smitty

Ouch:

Quite the triumph of the negative advertising will, Mitt’s 3% victory in Michigan. Alas for Romney,

Rick Santorum is the leading Republican presidential contender in Ohio, according to a new survey in the state.
The Quinnipiac University poll released Monday showed the former Pennsylvania senator with 36% support among likely Republican primary voters, followed by Mitt Romney at 29%, Newt Gingrich at 17% and Ron Paul at 11%.

Can Mitt’s squadrons of carpet bombers drop enough negative ordnance on Ohio to pull that out in time for Super Tuesday?

It remains to be seen. As Protein Wisdom noted yesterday,

Romney: “obviously, I want to make sure that we maintain the progressivity of the code”
Yes, obviously. Because that’s what “severely conservative” candidates do: maintain “progressivity” — or, to put a finer point on it, maintain one of the 10 planks in the Communist Manifesto, the graduated income tax.

I don’t know why Jeff G. has been unable to regain the happiness in slavery he seemed to be enjoying at Woodstock with the band. That tax code, which does not seem to have any point as far as funding a balanced federal budget goes, is really more of an iron rod by which We The People are punished, divided, and ruled.

Anything said by any candidate of any party has got to be given the litmus test of liberty. The ‘p’ word is anti-liberty at all points. I hope that Romney’s handlers are keeping an eye on this blog and noting that, in spite of whatever sort of Lefty dog-whistle is afforded by ‘progressivity’, usage of that term is an air-raid siren for conservatives that ol’ Willard is full of Mitt.

But maybe those handlers are paying attention:

What precisely am I deciding here? The contents of Romney’s core convictions? The presence of those convictions? Scroll down the page to the public figure Tea Party endorsements at the bottom: when this toss-off of a web site puts itself alongside some un-named “Sen. Demint Adviser”, and hasn’t even been updated to include Gov. Jan Brewer’s “OK, sure” endorsement of Mitt, you know it’s a joke. One is tempted to speculate that the Left is fronting this site more as a poke at Mitt’s lack of Tea Party support.

However, I don’t wish to sound all Bill Quick in my tepid attitude toward Romney. There really is too much at stake not to support Mitt, should his megatonnage of negative advertising result in the GOP nomination amidst the rubble. Mitt shall have bought the nomination fair and square, in that case. I also respect Mitt’s unwillingness to ‘set his hair on fire‘ while commanding the bombastic advertising campaign. I suppose that means Mitt won’t give us the Full Klinger, in his quest for the Resolute Desk. Fine. Some level of restraint is good in a Presidential candidate, insofar as his megalomania is concerned.

However, we all need to be relentless, hair aflame, and as serious as lung cancer about liberty. About turning the Information Age into something that means less government. About holding public figures accountable. About blowing the face off of the zombie of Progress, and, metaphorically, every sad little tool who preaches this false progressive gospel.

Let us soldier on and ensure that Mitt at least respects the actual Tea Parties, for all he probably hates them. ODERINT DUM METUANT.

The Ad Is Just Fantastic, That Is Really What I Think. Oh, By The Way:
Which One’s Pink?

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by Smitty (via American Power)

The non-snobby one with the Santorum sign at the end, of course:

Maybe I’m the only one who immediately thought of. . .

but Santorum’s ad is dated 18 January, more than a month before Rick pointed out the Orwellian snobbery of #OccupyResoluteDesk saying everyone should go to college.

I’ll weigh in agreeing with Santorum, and against Walter Russell Mead; education is where you, subjectively, find it. Conversely, technology, like laquer, can make a turd shiny, but has little effect on intrinsic turdiness. #OccupyResoluteDesk is a prime, expensive, and particularly petulant example.

Now, I hold an engineering undergraduate degree, and two master’s. I have intentions of returning to the ivory tower to pursue a doctorate in Computer Science, one of these decades. Why? Mostly because I like the mental chess match of check-mating a problem with software pieces.

Now, my father earned a G.E.D., and my brother has a high school diploma. Does my relative nerdiness within my family translate into superiority? Probably it could, if I was the sort of fool who prized intellectual point scoring over wisdom.

That’s the beauty of American Exceptionalism: it keeps the smarmy academic types in line when, despite Nobel Prizes, Academy Awards, and more degrees than a thermometer, one man’s vote is as good as another, and the biggest doof can point to the purportedly smartest guy in the room and say: “No, there are not 57 states, you godforsaken Commie.”

I wouldn’t accuse Rick Santorum of being perfect, but we’re choosing a POTUS, not a savior here. Speaking of which, #OccupyResoluteDesk’s handlers are, even now, preparing him for another outburst of Bush blaming:

Rick Santorum On Meet The Press

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by Smitty

Rick Santorum does a fine job standing up to the job the American media won’t do with respect to any public figures on the Left:

Santorum is using more ‘Teatard’ phrasings like ‘equality of opportunity’. Will the hefty Catholic presence in Michigan make the difference for Santorum on Tuesday? I rather hope so.

One of the great things about the lengthy GOP barroom brawl for the nomination is that the candidates are going to be drawn further to the sane, conservative viewpoint. This is by necessity; where else will fresh troops be drawn to campaign against #OccupyResoluteDesk? The Ruling Class GOP brand is going to die, die, die. And that’s a good thing.

UPDATE (RSM): Meanwhile, interviewed by Neutral Objective Journalist George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s This Week, Santorum expressed a common view among religious conservatives:

“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” Santorum said. “The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”

This was “controversial” for some reason. If Santorum attended Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church, Stephanopoulos wouldn’t be offended.

Rick Santorum Hears Hillary Clinton’s Caution About GOP Campaign Rhetoric, Delivers Cupcake And Pony Speech

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by Smitty

Speaking to Tunisians, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, in summary “Pay no mind to those zany Republicans; they’re just talking election-year smack.” Via Alan Colmes, via Tampa Bay Online:

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton advised an audience in Tunisia on Saturday to “not pay attention” to the comments made by candidates vying for the Republican presidential nomination, saying the often overheated rhetoric of the campaign doesn’t reflect U.S. policy.
Speaking at a town-hall style event in Tunisia, the North African nation that sparked the “Arab Spring” revolts, Clinton said the partisan remarks made during campaign events “certainly don’t reflect the United States, don’t reflect our foreign policy, don’t reflect who we are as a people.”

In a way, one must agree with Madame Secretary: talk of American Exceptionalism, equal respect for religious faiths, liberty, and national sovereignty are not embraced by the American people, as a whole, due to the presence of crypto-Marxists like Mrs. Clinton dragging down the country.
Via Memorandum, we have Politico reporting that Rick Santorum heard the Secretary of State’s words and walked back much of the rhetorical heft of his Americans for Prosperity speech today:

Stepping up his assault on Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum delivered a slashing speech Saturday morning that portrayed the establishment favorite as an elitist and unreliable conservative.
Santorum, appearing before over a thousand conservative activists gathered in suburban Detroit for an Americans for Prospertiy conference, emphasized his immigrant roots, modest background and conservative credentials in an impassioned address that won him a standing ovation.
“I didn’t blow in the wind when things were popular with the elite,” Santorum said. “Because I don’t come from the elite.”

Oh, wait. I may have misread that. I guess we’ll have to wait for Stacy to get some bandwidth and sort out what really happened for us.

Update: linked in a massive recap at The Camp of the Saints.

Stacy McCain Infiltrates Koch-Brothers Cabal Of Extreme Extremism

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by Smitty

Are we supposed to believe that this

so-called: ‘Michigan Prosperity Forum’ is anything other than an organizing even for foul extremists, bent on overthrowing Holy Progress?

As Dr. Melissa Clouthier has reported, Americans for Prosperity is merely a front group for those bad, bad Koch brothers, whose hidebound commitment to pre-Progressive ideas like capitalism marks them as severe in their dangerous commitment to extreme extremism.

‘Prosperity’ is just another capitalist dog-whistle, attempting to rally those of equally archaic mind to the notion of dangerous life outside the protection of the state.

McCain notes that he was trying to get in before Rick Santorum’s speech:

Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum have also been invited to speak at the event.

Correct thinking Americans must pay no attention to these antiquated notions of personal liberty and freedom of conscience in religion! Also, do not check back later, when Stacy McCain will have a full report on this event. We know that anything Santorum has to say will fall flatter than a Romney speech.

Remember: Barack saved you from the awful burden of freedom.

On a slightly less absurd note, The Right Scoop has Levin’s Santorum interview.

Snarlin’ Arlen Does What He Does

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by Smitty

Specter is no spectator on Santorum’s claims at the AZ debate:

“I said will you support the president’s nominees? We had a 51-to-49 majority in the Senate. He said, ‘I’ll support the president’s nominees as chairman,'” Santorum said.
But Specter said on The Michael Smerconish Program on Thursday morning that that wasn’t the case.
“He is not correct. I made no commitment to him about supporting judges,” Specter said. “I made no deal.”
Specter also scoffed at the notion that Santorum’s backing helped him turn aside the primary challenge from then-Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). (Toomey again ran for and this time won Specter’s seat in 2010, when Specter switched parties but lost the Democratic nomination.)

Twice under the Pennsylvania Dutch bus; once for the judicial endorsements, and once for Toomey? That calls for a song:

via Althouse

Meanwhile, Richard McEnroe points out that Rick Santorum is rockin’ the buggies in Pennsylvania from his vantage under the double Dutch bus:

Mr. Santorum gaining steam in Pennsylvania and now leading former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 45%-16%. The other two candidates are in single digits: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich comes it a 9% and Ron Paul at 7%.

That goes a long way to walking back Santorum’s 2006 under-bus excursion, when he got punted out of the Senate.

Rick Santorum Takes First National Lead

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by Smitty

Santorum leads Mitt Romney 38 percent to 23 percent in the new poll, while Gingrich is in third place with 17 percent.

The two crucial points here are:

  1. Keep up the doubt about Rick Santorum. We must accept whatever our Ruling Class Overlords tell us. Pay no attention to these numbers.
  2. Continue to heap abuse upon Stacy McCain. He likes it. His quest for recognition of his skill and acumen is purely superficial; and attempt to hide his masochism.

via Vision to America via reaganpal157