Archive for the 'Santorum' Category

Rick Santorum known for outrunning expectations

Voters seeking a constitutional conservative for president who are overlooking or underestimating Rick Santorum might be doing so at their and the country's peril. As Quin Hillyer, a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom and an editor of The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday that a diverse array of Jewish and pro-Israeli organizations have [...]

Santorum enjoys New Hampshire poll bump but trails far behind Romney

I will say this for Rick Santorum: He's one of the more well-spoken bigots I've heard in a while. His defense of his absolutist position on gay marriage, delivered in front of a largely hostile crowd of college Republicans in Concord, NH, was concise, By Rick Pearson Chicago Tribune On the last day to submit [...]

Santorum tangles with voters over gay marriage, health insurance

Campaigning in New Hampshire, Rick Santorum is displaying the spunk and charm that sustained him in Iowa, but also the lack of polish of a candidate who has had little public scrutiny. By Jennifer Rubin On the ground in New Hampshire Rick Santorum is drawing big crowds. In polls he is surging and is certain [...]

After Santorum Left Senate, Familiar Hands Reached Out

An audience of college students boos some of his answers on the legality of same-sex marriage. After every other conservative alternative to Mitt Romney crashed and burned (libertarian Ron Paul is in a category of his own), from the rubble emerges Rick Santorum. But he isn't just the last man standing. He is the first [...]

Santorum faces skeptics as he seeks votes in NH

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum was booed as he left the stage at a College Convention in Concord, New Hampshire Friday. The former Pennsylvania senator got into a debate over gay marriage with several people who attended. DES MOINES, Iowa – Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum shrugged off reports late Thursday that the vote count [...]

Santorum, Riding Wave, Sharpens Aim at Romney

Rick Santorum headed to New Hampshire with a new lease on his political life, having come within eight votes of a seemingly impossible win in Iowa's caucuses on Tuesday. His sudden rise to the top tier has also given Gotta say, every time I read a headline that makes me think I'll like Rick Santorum [...]

Santorum on the upswing in GOP race

BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Now for the "Top Story" tonight, joining us from Bedford, New Hampshire, the aforementioned Rick Santorum, who may be the hardest working guy in politics and it has certainly paid off last night. So am I making any mistakes in my BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Rick Santorum, flying high off his victory in [...]

Santorum refers to Romney as 'that candidate'

Rick Santorum thinks that no one in America ever dies because he has no health care. Why does Santorum think that? Because he has to. So, here's the thing: Rick Santorum's political ideology is gross and hateful and wrong. His well-known desire to marginalize people in multiple non-privileged classes is frequently justified with outright lies [...]