Vote for Santorum?

Volume 2, Issue 43- October 28- November 3, 2011

International Tribune

Named as one of the “Most Ambitious” American politicians by PoliticsPA.com, a political junky-insider site in 2002, Rick Santorum is not giving up his dream of someday making it to the White House.  And just like what he said this time, “he is in it to win.”   Let us give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he will. 

 

Who is Rick Santorum?

A true patriot, Santorum wants to defend America no matter what it takes.  He supported the war in Iraq and was very sure that weapons of mass destruction were being produced by Saddam’s government.  And maybe he still adamantly believes so after a wasteful gargantuan defense spendings that cost American tax-payers billions of dollars and spawned an inevitable graft and corruption that extended from the bank of Euphrates to the shores of America.  He introduced the term Islamic Fascism and blamed Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for engaging in a dialogue with Iran and Syria.   During his last campaign stop in Greenville, South Carolina this week Santorum also made an announcement for his support of selective assassination of foreign scientists working on nuclear weapons.  Santorum was especially forceful regarding countries who pose a nuclear threat advocating for the selective assassination of scientists from countries such as Russia, North Korea and Iran.  He has conveniently forgotten that America also has the most extensive nuclear arsenal in the world and employs countless American scientists working on this particular project.

In terms of religion, Santorum is a devout Roman Catholic.  He is a son of Italian and Irish immigrants.  He was listed at one time by Time magazine as one of the most influential evangelists in the country.  During the Boston Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal, Santorum blamed the liberal city of Boston as the cause and effect of the scandal and said: “It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning private moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.”  

Rick Santorum is also known as one of the most daring political figures in America today for his ‘in your face’ type of politics.  A conservative right-wing Republican presidential runner, Santorum has been perceived as the candidate who speaks the most about social issues that are ailing the nation such as abortion, gays in the military, gay marriage, immigration and many more.  His overwhelming stance on such subject is very simple-he is completely against all of them.  Santorum has openly stated his strong opposition to amnesty for undocumented immigrants. He supports the construction of a barrier along the U.S.–Mexican border.  He promotes healthy, stable, and traditional family therefore, homosexuality and gay-marriage is out of the question.  Santorum voted to outlaw abortion for any reason, with the exception when his wife Karen was going to die if her pregnancy was not ended.  So, at 20 weeks, one month before what doctors consider ‘viability’, Karen Santorum labor was artificially induced and the infected fetus was delivered.  “Abortion in any form is wrong,” said Santorum in 2000, three years after the tragedy.

With the Republican primaries looming on the political horizon and many of its runners are trying to get the social conservative voters to push them forward over other GOP candidates the big question remains, can this eventually help or hinder Santorum's quest for the GOP presidential nomination?  For Rick Santorum, it is that time to sing the tune and dance the step whether right or wrong– to remain competitive in the race.  

Seriously, will you vote for Santorum?