National Politics - 2016

Rick Santorum: On The Warpath

“ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS” || By FITSNEWS ||  Rick Santorum has found the sweet spot … or so he thinks. The fiscally liberal “Republican” – drummed out of the U.S. Senate over a decade ago by Pennsylvania voters – rose to prominence during the 2012 election cycle by shamelessly pandering to the GOP’s…

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“ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS”

|| By FITSNEWS ||  Rick Santorum has found the sweet spot … or so he thinks.

The fiscally liberal “Republican” – drummed out of the U.S. Senate over a decade ago by Pennsylvania voters – rose to prominence during the 2012 election cycle by shamelessly pandering to the GOP’s dwindling sanctimonious social conservative electorate.

It was worth four million votes … and first-place finishes in eleven states (including early-voting Iowa).  But Santorum got nowhere near the GOP nomination.  And with better-known evangelical candidate Mike Huckabee mulling a 2016 bid of his own (threatening to eat into Santorum’s base of 2012 support), the sweater vest-wearer has been forced to stake out new ground on the campaign trail.

What’s he come up with?  A new militant brand of social conservatism – a fusion candidacy which incorporates the bigotry he’s known and loved (loathed) for with the sort of rabid global military interventionism typically reserved for the likes of U.S. Senator John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Rick Santorum: Jesus H. Warmonger.

During a recent speech at The Citadel – early-voting South Carolina’s famous military college – Santorum fleshed out the details of his militant Christianity.

Santorum said point blank America needs to stop negotiating with Iran – adding if the Islamic nation continued down the path toward nuclear capability then the United States needed to stop them.  And not just with sanctions, with war if necessary.

Santorum also stated his support for providing money and weapons to the current Egyptian and Jordanian governments, as well as the Peshmerga Kurds in Iraq.

“Stop giving them bandaids for their wounded and caskets for their dead,” Santorum said.

Never mind that the Peshmerga Kurds in Syria are viewed by the U.S. government as “terrorists,” or that arming them is likely to infuriate Turkey – where several U.S. military bases are located.

One of the problems of being everywhere … constantly fighting all sides of various conflicts.

According to Santorum, the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a war not against a specific terrorist organization but a religious war – and to him, the only way to deal with radical jihadists is to kill them.

In fact Santorum went to great pains to make clear that this was a religious war and should be treated and labeled as such.  He also talked about the “enemy from within” and Muslims in this country, but did not specify how he would handle the threat.

Our guess is it won’t be an expansion of individual liberty …

“What concerned me with Santorum’s speech was the tangling of his personal religious beliefs with the military might of the United States,” one soldier who listened to Santorum told FITS.  “Although not stated openly, the rhetoric sounded like a modern day crusade.  He said every Islamic extremist group is the same, the only difference is the level of violence they are willing to tolerate.  That Islam is not a religion of peace and never has, they want a caliphate and are doing what Mohammad did in 622 AD.”

Ok …

So let them …

Seriously … American intervention in the Middle East has been a disaster.  One that’s cost our country trillions of dollars and thousands of lives … and accomplished nothing.  Well, nothing aside from the creation of a new enemy that’s supposedly more dangerous and more motivated to do America harm than the last enemy we were fighting.

How is that keeping us safe?

It isn’t …

Sadly, the battle for the hearts and minds of Americans appears to have been won by the warmongers – which means the military money presses are once again warming up.

Like Santorum …

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Point of Order February 26, 2015 at 9:20 am

“and to him, the only way to deal with radical jihadists is to kill them.”

Well, to be fair to Rick, that’s only after we pay them to fight govt’s the CIA doesn’t like.

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grandtangosuglydog February 26, 2015 at 9:35 am

If you add a Trump, mix in a bit of Palin, with a dash of Hucklebee and some Walker..Bam..you have a huge batch of Santorum. With candidates like this..what could possibly go wrong with the GOPs presidential hopes? Mission accomplished!

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Dan Savage February 26, 2015 at 11:24 am

Also known as a huge batch of frothy fecal lube.

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Actual Headline February 26, 2015 at 2:33 pm

Rick Santorum: On The Butt Crack

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Yippee! February 26, 2015 at 9:48 am

Can’t wait for primary season! Trump will have dumped FitsNews by then, so who will be “our” new $uper $erious canidate? Palin? Huckabee? Nugget? No way Walker, Bush, Perry, Christie or any real established candidate will openly associate with this embarrassment.

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Torch February 26, 2015 at 10:31 am

Nugent/Palin 2016.

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nitrat February 26, 2015 at 1:54 pm

As always, Trump will drop out before it’s time to tape another season of ‘Celebrity Apprentice’.
The ‘equal time’ laws won’t allow him to do both.

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Carl February 26, 2015 at 6:16 pm

blah blah you fat bastard big government prick.
Get a job.

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Centrist View February 26, 2015 at 9:50 am

sweater vest-wearer = sweater vester

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vicupstate February 26, 2015 at 10:14 am

FITS belittles Santorum, but he was the last man standing against Romney in 2012. No one other than Romney won more primaries/caucuses. In a crowded field, he at least placed.

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Nah February 26, 2015 at 11:11 am

He did well against the winner of a primary that couldn’t beat a sitting President that at one point close to historic lows before the elected?

Hmmm….Santorum wasn’t even close electorally…many states he won were because most the other contenders had dropped out…I don’t know Vic, doesn’t seem convincing to me.

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RogueElephant February 26, 2015 at 10:15 am

I wish this has been that never was would just crawl back into his hole and pull it in behind him. He could use Christie as the plug for the hole. There, two problems solve at once. Damn I’m good.

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flip February 26, 2015 at 11:44 am

One has to appreciate his faith and stand on ‘life’ issues however it appears he comes around every 4 years for a paycheck from the party.

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nitrat February 26, 2015 at 1:52 pm

Like Mike Huckabee and Christine McDonnell, I suspect they get to pawn off a lot of regular living expenses as campaign expenses when they run and run and run.
McDonnell is facing charges about the lengths she went to to live off her campaign contributions.
But, I think there are more politically sophisticated candidates like Santorum and Huckabee – among other perpetual candidates; didn’t Alan Keyes get caught doing this? – who really know how to run the scam without getting caught. So far.
That leaves more of their personal money in the bank.

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Carl February 26, 2015 at 6:14 pm

Nitrat,
You are a blabbering piece of big government shit. A fat bastard that loves Obama and every other failed politician and policy.
How bout get off your ass and get a job, and get off this blog you impotent pecker head .

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nitrat February 26, 2015 at 11:22 pm

troll…lol at the troll.

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nitrat February 26, 2015 at 1:43 pm

This op-ed has poll results from the Public Religion Research Institute and you can click on a link.
For all the influence on the GOP by the likes of Santorum and people like him, they are not only a minority in the country, a minority in the Republican Party, but a minority of Christians…just another fringe faction that the GOP has to cobble together to get to a majority now and then.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/opinion/frank-bruni-republicans-evangelicals-gays-and-abortion.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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flip February 27, 2015 at 8:30 am

Wow.Mom run off with the preacher?

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Soft Sigh from Hell February 26, 2015 at 7:00 pm

Ol’ Frothy is frothing at the mouth?

Watch out, it may not be rabies.

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Soft Sigh from Hell February 26, 2015 at 8:28 pm

Do these Bible fringers use Lemon Pledge as face soap?

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Lennon Durden February 27, 2015 at 6:47 pm

I love a man in a nice-fitting sweater vest.

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Lenny Musso March 19, 2015 at 3:46 pm

That’s what makes Rick Santorum a GREAT fellow fascist! I’m proud to call him a close personal friend! <3

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