en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/2245228 Comments by nowathand http://tv.breitbart.com/planned-parenthood-releases-pro-contraception-mandate-campaign/#IDComment305091790 This is especially troubling for Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney who - once again - will have a hard time drawing a stark contrast to Komrade Obama. They've all funded Planned Parenthood. Under the Ron Paul presidency, the federal government will stay out of personal life, education, and certainly doesn't give taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood. The only role of the federal government in the Ron Paul presidency is the role given by the founders: national security. Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:40:13 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/planned-parenthood-releases-pro-contraception-mandate-campaign/#IDComment305091790 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303333285 The way to win over Christians, Catholics and Mormons who are getting fed moralizing, feel-good self-help, works-righteousness deification of sinners, personal stories and sermons based on movies INSTEAD of God's Word is to say "I'LL DEFEAT JIHADISM AND FIGHT FOR EVERY FETUS. ISRAEL....AND FETUSES." It doesn't matter if you've funded Planned Parenthood or voted for foreign aid to Israel's enemies. You just gotta say "ISRAEL AND FETUSES." Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:50:33 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303333285 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303275333 Wow, they went down 9% under Bush. I don't think any pro-life person would find that statistic remotely satisfying. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:04:07 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303275333 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303261958 Weird, because I've pointed you to many instances where I said I'd potentially vote for the Constitution Party candidate, or for Herman Cain. You know why there are no GingrichBots, SantorumBots or RomneyBots? Because those candidates are exactly the same. Same on big government (they love it), debt (they're all talk), individual liberty (they don't believe the Constitution protects privacy, Rick has even verbalized this), wars ("9/11 changed everything"), and on lying (they all do a lot of it). Non-Romney is a myth, unless you are talking about someone UNTAINTED by GLOBALISM, SPECIAL INTEREST, WORLD POLICING, and NANNY STATE. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:37:32 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303261958 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303258418 I agree with you that the result of people like me voting third party could mean Obama gets a second term, but I fear that result not much more than I fear Romney or Santorum. Maybe a mass exodus and record-setting defeat (Santorum's used to that) is what the GOP needs. I don't see much of a difference between the two realities. What do you think Russia and China will do if we strike Iran? These things cost money, and we owe $14 trillion to China. Will the dollar be healthier under Romney or Santorum? Probably not, based on the scenario I just listed, and the fact that Santorum still doesn't fully believe in a free market system, nor is he interested in ending marijuana prohibition which costs our countries billions and also hundreds of lives in border violence. Will the unjust and endless wars and drone attacks stop under Romney or Santorum? Both of them thought the Iraq War was the right decision. Will abortions go down under Romney or Santorum? They didn't go down under pro-life President Bush. Santorum's biggest problems on the issue (other than his funding of Planned Parenthood) is that he doesn't want to look at addressing it at the state level, and his self-righteous rhetoric and proselytizing isn't winning minds over, it's alienating them. So, no. If Obama wins over Romney or Santorum, I'm not seeing where the downside or upside is. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:31:31 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303258418 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303243873 I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I think Santorum and Obama are too similar on too many issues: foreign policy, the war on drugs, and the way Santorum wants to tamper with the market with his manufacturing bias and go the more expensive route when it comes to the border (Paul would bring troops from Afghanistan and other places). Santorum has voted for NDAA, torture, Guantanamo Bay, the Military Commissions Act, the Patriot Act. I think with the dollar being downgraded, we need someone who isn't going to start us on another expensive war. I would have voted for Herman Cain, but none of the other GOP candidates besides Paul. Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:05:40 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303243873 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303239443 Naw. I'm from Newt Gingrich's moon colony. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:57:31 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303239443 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303238641 STOP APPLYING LOGIC TO A FEELING! It FEELS GOOD to say you are pro-life, yet fund Planned Parenthood, defend preemptive invasions, and pretend to have found WMD's in an attempt to justify said world policing. If Rick Santorum thinks that by giving families a triple tax advantage and by saying "straight marriage is good!" from the White House (in his imagination) that he is healing America's broken homes, then LET HIM BELIEVE THAT! Come on, man. CONTRACEPTION is DANGEROUS! Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:56:09 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303238641 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303236020 You said Tea Partiers are cool, in the context of an article about Rick Santorum getting Democratic help. I thought you might be able to defend him. That's OK if you can't. I don't think anyone can. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:51:42 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303236020 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303234455 I'm just wondering about something. Does Rick Santorum qualify as a Tea Party candidate when he supported/supports 2.3 billion tax increase to pay for an Amtrak trust fund, the Bridge to Nowhere, "k street" coal subsidies, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the Military Commissions Act, Planned Parenthood, attempting to procure $80 million in coal subsidies, foreign aid, sanctions, increased meth sentences, No Child Left Behind, voted with Barbara Boxer on S Amdt 3230 - Gun Lock Requirement Amendment, taxes in the Internet Access Tax Bill and was the key vote for Debt Limit Increase Resolution? Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:48:43 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303234455 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303230522 I guess it's REAL FUNNY that Obama will get another four years if pitted against "Marijuana Death Penalty" Gingrich "African-Americans Don't Want Marriage" Santorum or "I Don't Care About Poor People" Romney Rasmussen polls indicate that Dr. Paul does the best against Obama. Thousands have turned out for Veterans rallies for Ron Paul in the last week, and - since he doesn't take hundreds of thousands in coal lobbyist money - Ron Paul's biggest supporters are the troops. I'm sure you find all that really funny, too. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:42:07 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303230522 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303228667 Thank you for a substantive response. Where again do Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney disagree with Obama? It's not on education: Gingrich voted to start the Department of Education. Romney and Santorum supported No Child Left Behind. Obama's huge on education at the federal level. It's not on individual liberty: Obama, Gingrich, Romney, and Santorum have all been for the Patriot Act, the $1 trillion war on drugs. It's not on foreign policy: While Obama called the Iraq War "needless" on the campaign trail, he left our troops there for his first 2 years in office. Santorum held a press conference to announce they found WMD's when they didn't. Romney wants to increase military spending, and Gingrich has all sorts of big ideas for world domination (he's friends with globalists), starting with the Mars Colony. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:39:08 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303228667 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303216124 Where is Obama vulnerable? It's gas prices. We need someone who can deftly defend the full economic impact - here and abroad - of Keystone XL. Romney can do that. Unfortunately, Rick Santorum's economic plan isn't far off from Obama's health care plan in terms of government involvement. Rick wants to triple the tax break for having a kid, and wants to give manufacturers exclusive tax breaks. That may seem superior to no tax cuts at all, but particularly the latter is playing winners and losers. Truthfully, though, Romney's plan is flawed, too. The only candidate who can debate Obama is Ron Paul because he is truly different than Obama. Paul can debate Obama on Obama's flip-flops and his un-Constitutional drone attacks and war on drugs. Obama will get sympathy from the American people on Obamacare because his suppression of the free market is making more people dependent on the government, and he can point his finger at Santorum, Gingrich and Romney and their past connections to Planned Parenthood. The others proved in the last debate - with their government-based solutions, pandering and position changing exposed - that they are too much like Obama. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:18:57 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/02/27/dems-launch-robo-calls-supporting-santorum-in-michigan/#IDComment303216124 http://tv.breitbart.com/mi-gov-romney-will-win/#IDComment302678316 Ridiculous attacks like...Rick Santorum's own statements. Send a message! Vote for the guy who voted for a $2.3 billion tax increase to pay for an Amtrak trust fund, the Bridge to Nowhere, "k street" coal subsidies, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the Military Commissions Act, Planned Parenthood and who also will lobby for more government to annul gay marriages, and more spending to start World War III with Russia and China. Romney is the kettle, Santorum's the pot. Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:22:38 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/mi-gov-romney-will-win/#IDComment302678316 http://tv.breitbart.com/santorum-responds-specter-opposing-me-shows-how-strong-of-a-conservative-i-am/#IDComment301078712 That's why the troops came out in huge numbers for a Veterans For Paul rally. Did you sign that petition to ban alcohol yet? I think OWS is stupid, but your stereotyping is not only wrong, but it's also why I'm 100% convinced Rick Santorum will never win a general election. He alienates entire groups of people. He promises to annul all existing non-straight marriages, kick all the troops out who are serving openly, and wants to keep women from the front lines. That's not how you win, in case anyone was wondering. He also alienates minorities when he insinuates that their skin color causes them to hate marriage. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:14:44 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/santorum-responds-specter-opposing-me-shows-how-strong-of-a-conservative-i-am/#IDComment301078712 http://tv.breitbart.com/santorum-responds-specter-opposing-me-shows-how-strong-of-a-conservative-i-am/#IDComment301031600 So, the Arlen Specter campaigning is explained...by a proven liar. We're still waiting on a strong defense of the war on drugs, NDAA, Patriot Act, Bridge to Nowhere, steel bailouts, $10m coal subsidies commitments (for a cool $900,000 in lobbyist pay), funding Planned Parenthood... We're also waiting for you to apologize for saying "Ron Paul is disgusting", and for falsely claiming to have found WMD's. That's alright, though, Santorum. You do your thing, conservatives will vote for Paul. Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:38:55 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/santorum-responds-specter-opposing-me-shows-how-strong-of-a-conservative-i-am/#IDComment301031600 http://tv.breitbart.com/perry-romney-paul-have-interesting-partnership-during-debates/#IDComment300710800 So, that's why Paul made a negative ad about Romney last month? Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:20:43 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/perry-romney-paul-have-interesting-partnership-during-debates/#IDComment300710800 http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2012/02/24/specter-santorum-lied/#IDComment300678521 It's not like Rick Santorum lied when he said during a debate that the CIA findings on blowback were "not true". Or when Rick Santorum disputed the notion that anyone dies due to a lack of health insurance: "The answer is not what can we do to prevent deaths because of a lack of health insurance. There’s — I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of lack of health insurance." Or, when Rick Santorum answered this question, in 2011: "As a champion of family values and keeping America strong, would you continue to destroy families by sending nonviolent drug offenders to prison?" Santorum's response: "Uh...wow...the federal government doesn't do that." Santorum voted to raise federal meth sentences while in the Senate. More quotes that will win over independents: “The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong.” “If hunger is a problem in America, then why do we have an obesity problem among the people who we say have a hunger program?” "We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons." "I would argue, this right to privacy that doesn't exist in my opinion in the United States Constitution." Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:26:36 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2012/02/24/specter-santorum-lied/#IDComment300678521 http://tv.breitbart.com/perry-romney-paul-have-interesting-partnership-during-debates/#IDComment300670698 OH, NOES! So it's Romney and Paul's fault that Santorum is the most liberal candidate in GOP history. I never realized that it's Romney and Paul's fault that Santorum voted for: No Child Left Behind the Military Commissions Act of 2006. NDAA The Patriot Act The Bridge To Nowhere CAFTA taxes in the Internet Access Tax Bill expansion of the war on drugs a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL) a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies. OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50% raiding social security and he voted against the Campaign Reform Act of 2001, and against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation What the Establishment hates is when you expose the cronyism. Whether it's Jack Abramoff, Huawei, . The Establishment hates Ron Paul BECAUSE HE. CAN'T. BE. BOUGHT. There's something "not right" about him, because he follows the Constitution. Rick Perry and Rick Santorum have begun this conspiracy theory and it's really sad because Paul DOESN'T WAFFLE, or CHANGE HIS TUNE. Paul made the criteria VERY SPECIFIC for whom he would endorse or be the running mate of: Someone who would move CLOSER to him on individual liberty and nation-building. Mitt Romney is not moving in that direction. GET A GRIP ON REALITY! So, they have nothing to be afraid of. The Ricks seems so interested in altering Paul's campaign - which is based on facts -, maybe they can get a job in Paul's campaign. Unfortunately, it doesn't pay the kind of money lobbyists do. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:11:42 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/perry-romney-paul-have-interesting-partnership-during-debates/#IDComment300670698 http://tv.breitbart.com/perry-romney-paul-have-interesting-partnership-during-debates/#IDComment300669483 Yes, because Dr. Paul's the Texas candidate with all the homoerotic rumors, the effeminate mannerisms, and the strange Brokeback commercial. Oh, wait. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:09:24 +0000 http://tv.breitbart.com/perry-romney-paul-have-interesting-partnership-during-debates/#IDComment300669483