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Rick Santorum On Meet The Press

Posted on | February 26, 2012 | 13 Comments

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.

Category: MSNBC, Neutral Objective Journalism, Rick Santorum

Comments

13 Responses to “Rick Santorum On Meet The Press”

  1. AngelaTC
    February 26th, 2012 @ 3:37 pm

    They won’t die that easily.  GW Bush ran and  won on Ron Paul’s platform.   Look where that got us.

    There’s essentially one party, and it worships the state.  The Democrats worship the hand holding the carrot, while the GOP worships the hand holding the stick.  

    There’s simply no room in electoral politics for legitimate smaller government advocates, especially those who want to restrict both of those appendages.

  2. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    February 26th, 2012 @ 3:47 pm

    Maureen Dowd, comes out of seclusion to trash all the GOP candidates…but I think on this Oscar night when a silent film is being honored…Ms. Dowd reminds me of someone…  

    Maureen Dowd would be so much more bearable if she were a silent film star.  

  3. DaveO
    February 26th, 2012 @ 4:03 pm

    In Campaigns-Past, Santorum’s opinion of the role of any church in governing America would have had the Dem footsoldiers out buring Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson in effigy.

    Today’s RC Church bishops, and the newest cardinals may just destroy that tactic.

    Still waiting for ads of Robertson and Santorum as BFF to impose Christianist Theocracy to appear by tomorrow.

  4. Beto_Ochoa
    February 26th, 2012 @ 4:04 pm

    I saw what you did there.
    Are there any living?
    Didn’t think so.

  5. DonaldDouglas
    February 26th, 2012 @ 4:18 pm

    I’ve got it here: “Full Interview: Rick Santorum on ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos'”.

  6. Bob Belvedere
    February 26th, 2012 @ 6:13 pm

    Mzzz. Dowd writes about her ‘warm Catholic Family’ – yeah, they were so good they produced a shrewish harpy.

  7. Sirkowski
    February 26th, 2012 @ 10:21 pm

    In lockstep with the Vatican.

  8. ThePaganTemple
    February 26th, 2012 @ 10:32 pm

     No he’s not. Regardless of Pro-Life issues, the Vatican is filled with a bunch of leftist pacifist Islamist coddling freaks, which Santorum is not.

  9. Pathfinder's wife
    February 26th, 2012 @ 11:18 pm

    Sirkowski: Santorum is hardly in lockstep with the Vatican (anymore than I believe Romney is in lockstep with the Mormon temple in SLC or Perry or Bachman was in lockstep with, I don’t know, Jerry Falwell or Hagee or whatever that fellow’s name was).
    Pagan: The Vatican has been changing quite a bit in the past few years.  It has been a quiet change, but many of those lefties are no longer there.

  10. Pathfinder's wife
    February 26th, 2012 @ 11:21 pm

    That said, and his personal feelings aside: Santorum could stand to tone it down a bit with the church talk for at least a little while.

    Just an observation; never give your enemies the knife they’ll stab you with.

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  12. ThePaganTemple
    February 27th, 2012 @ 11:20 am

     The church talk doesn’t bother me, what bothers me is this things I’ve heard about him dissing the libertarians in the party. Not cool.

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