I have already posted in Santorum Endorses Romney the letter that Ric Santorum sent to his supporters stating his reasons for supporting the presumptive nominee.  Here’s the truth, the Republican party is looking to delete Obama in November, the party doesn’t need this candidate hanging out there that some may believe would run in a third-party, or have a large group of supporters not voting.  That’s the one thing Republicans’s fear, the Christian conservatives choosing not to vote.  Do I believe that Santorum honestly supports Romney, not on your life.  Do I believe that the Republicans are trying to get votes, yes.  Do I think this will solidify the party and make the Republicans a strong unit able to easily defeat Obama?  Not on your life.  This primary season has been unbelievable nasty and has given a lot of political ammunition for the Democrats to use.  While each side starts to move more towards the center to reach the average voter Romney has the problem that he’s never had the faith of the Republican right.  And Obama is going to make sure to show the tapes and speeches of Santorum and Romney against each other.  I don’t see any way for the Republicans to gain strength and move forward to victory.  I am looking forward to an entertaining election season though.

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Now Rick Santorum has left the presidential primary race.  I am so grateful for that.  Now I am very sorry for the reason he left.  I would have preferred that he had left due to some sort of political reason, mainly people realizing that he is crazy and not voting for him.  My prayers do go out to his daughter.  Now what does this mean for the Republican party?  If you noticed in the reports Santorum conceded by calling Romney.  This is an unofficial sign of either his support or his belief that Romney is the best chance for the Republicans to beat the president or he is showing his support.  Either way there is now time.  Time for the Republican party to rally and unify under one candidate.  Can this be done?   Or will Gingrich or Paul rally more support.  It has seemed since the beginning that there have been Republicans trying to find the “anti-Romney”  is there still time?  Or is the “anti-Romney” leaving the race now.  I hope that this race now becomes about issues and the economy, but I fear that this race is going to become about Religion, considering that the three left standing are a Mormon, a Catholic, and a Protestant, and no I don’t see them all going into a bar together.  I am hoping for the best preparing for the strange.

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-calls-mitt-romney-concede-180027008.html

I am sorry about Santorum’s daughter and I pray for her health, but I am so happy to have this nut job out of the race for the presidency.

More to come tomorrow.

Nope sorry, there isn’t a holiday that is actually going to bring us the perfect Republican candidate for president.  Super Tuesday is the day where ten different states have their contests that will bring more delegates than all the other contests combined.  This day is pretty much and make or break day for most candidates, and normally is the day that candidates know whether or not they will have the nomination.  Currently that isn’t the case.  It’s too close to call.  Most believe that Romney will edge out the Super Tuesday contest, and be the victor, because most states have gone to proportional voting as opposed to the “winner take all” style of the past, there isn’t going to be the big jump in delegate numbers that other candidate would have seen on Super Tuesday.  While I pray that anyone but Santorum or Gingrich gets the Republican nomination, it is still too close to call.  I hope though this day will narrow things down, and make it a race that is easier to digest.  I have no faith that the Republican party can find a candidate that will be able to rally enough Republicans to beat the president.  Obama is a very strong force and when he goes into full campaign mode we will see him pull no punches.  I will be interested to see what happens this summer, and especially after the convention.

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Now as any of you have read I’m not a fan of Gingrich, because he’s an arrogant politician.  Santorum though is just plain nasty.  Seriously, a man who is running on the Republican ticket doesn’t seem to know when to keep his mouth shut.  Today in the Huffington post found a speech given by Santorum at Ave Maria University in 2008 where he stated that Protestantism is out of sync with main-stream Christianity. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/18/rick-santorum-protestantism_n_1286471.html?ref=politics Now I know that as a Catholic I am NOT in the majority in America.  Protestants are the majority in America.  That’s a fact that has been true since the founding of this country.  Now did Santorum know he was going to run for election in 2008, no, but did he know that he is a high-profile Republican, yes.

Rick Santorum‘s comments on homosexuality range from ridiculous, to ludicrous, to just plain mean.  His most famous quote is from 2003 AP Interview where he said, after the Supreme Court came down with the decision to protect homosexual consensual sex at home, “then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.”  Doesn’t Santorum know there are Homosexual Republicans? Santorum is so far out of touch with even main-stream conservatives you have to wonder what river he’s paddling his boat down?

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“One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country,” the former Pennsylvania senator explained. “It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be”:

SANTORUM: [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It’s supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal…but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen…This is special and it needs to be seen as special.”

While I agree with his sentiment, I do not agree with the federal government legislating morality.  If he wants to teach this to the world become a deacon and travel the world.  Now there are more and more things that I do not like about this candidate specifically, but this is to answer my previous rant.  I hope the winter is treating all of you well.  Thank you.

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Hello blog readers.  It’s time for another installment of “Your Republican Presidential Candidates.”  This week is Rick Santorum.  Now, who is Santorum.  Well when you do a Google search of Rick Santorum “gay” shows up next to his name.  Why you may ask? Activist Dan Savage decided to go after Santorum when he equated being gay to pedophilia and bestiality.  He has an in your face style of politics, and because of that Santorum has a lot of work cut out for him, he doesn’t always play to the rules of the party and in turn lost his seat as senator by 18 points.  Santorum is the only recognized practicing Catholic in the list of candidates which gives him a unique position among the other candidates.

Santorum is for strong “traditional family values.”  That would be no abortion, no partial birth abortion, no to gay marriage, things of that nature.  This is where most of his Christian support comes from.  He wrote a book in 2005 called It Takes a Family that outlines a lot of his political beliefs.  Santorum believes that undocumented immigrants should be immediately deported and that we should enforce existing immigration laws.  Also that English should be the United States’ official language.  Santorum believes intelligent design should be taught in the classroom, and has fought for the “Workplace Freedom Act,” which required all employers to allow employees to have time off to observe religious holidays and to wear religious articles, if it does not cause undue hardships.

Santorum is a fighter for family and a belief in tradition that he feels will hold the country together.  He has a problem though with sticking his foot in his mouth.  His ideas and beliefs are not extremely far from what mainstream Republicans believe, but the way that he says things and the way that he allows himself to be a talking point is not the way a future president should act.

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