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The Spectacle Blog
Rick Santorum had an excellent answer on a question from the audience about how faith would influence his decisions.
He didn’t so much talk about his own faith but focused on the bigger picture. He described The Constitution as the how (or how to manual) but the Declaration of Independence is the why and thus our rights are God given, not government given.
Santorum pointed out that if you believe rights are government given then all those rights can be taken away by government.
Very nicely put.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.26.12 @ 10:02PM
Romney and Gingrich stated the same thing. So did Ron Paul who is a complete idiot.
Jack in Wi.| 1.26.12 @ 10:54PM
Hussain: The only idiot here is you who are backing a fool like Romney. He and Gingrich flip and flop just like carps in the bottom of the boat before I hit them over the head with a club. Ron Paul was the life of the party. I loved all the times the other chaps said. " I agree with Ron Paul. "
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.26.12 @ 10:59PM
Ron Paul is a lib. If you like that I'm happy for you.
Clint| 1.27.12 @ 6:00AM
You Wouldn't Know Real Conservtism If It Jumped Up And Bit Ya RINO-CINO Mittens' Kitten.
Read George Washington's Farewell Address, Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, The Old Right And Get Back To Us.
" George Will, "Today, we have a very different kind of foreign policy. It’s called Wilsonian. And the premise of the Bush Doctrine is that America must spread democracy, because our national security depends upon it. And America can spread democracy. It knows how. It can engage in national building. This is conservative or not?"
William F. Buckley, " It’s not at all conservative. It’s anything but conservative. It’s not conservative at all, inasmuch as conservatism doesn’t invite unnecessary challenges. It insists on coming to terms with the world as it is …”
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In Florida.
spike59| 1.27.12 @ 6:23AM
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In Florida.
and is trying to pretend the Texas Tinfoil Hat Twerp didn't exist
Hobbes| 1.27.12 @ 9:46AM
Santorum is living in Cloud Cukoo Land. There are natural rights, not god given rights. Jefferson didn't believe Jesus was a god. You people know nothing about Jefferson. Read a book other than the Bible...which you don't read either.
2Anglico| 1.27.12 @ 10:11AM
Right, and "natural rights" come from where....?
Hobbes| 1.27.12 @ 10:39AM
Natural rights' are a condition of human 'being' that doesn't need to be qualified by some higher rational power.
reason not religion| 1.28.12 @ 10:38AM
Natural rights surely did not come from your imaginary skyman, if they did man would still own slaves, man would still treat women as second class citizens, man would still kill man for working on Sunday, and man would still condone genocide to glorify their god.
Now, only the delusional, irrational, fundamentalist and dangerous believe these things. Intellectual evolution and the Enlightenment are the reason for your inalienable rights so cherished in the USA.
Let us all stop and take a deep breath and remove the illogical religious indoctrination you were ingrained with as a child; and please apply some reason and commonsense to the discourse.
Bob Grant| 1.26.12 @ 11:21PM
Hack,
Just promise me one thing. When you take Clint fishing, treat him like one of those carps.
Clint| 1.27.12 @ 6:03AM
Grant, Promise Us One Thing. When You Let Mittenuys s Have His Way With You, Make Sure He Also Buys You Dinner.
The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On Mittens' Kitten's Tail.
Clint| 1.26.12 @ 10:25PM
Dr.Ron Paul Is A Veteran Military Officer, A Physician And A Congressman & You're A Flubkie Stooge For The RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail....
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In Florida.
Dai Alanye | 1.27.12 @ 12:06AM
Where in hell are the "chickenhawk" charges? Clint is letting us down these days.
Clint| 1.27.12 @ 6:12AM
" The New Hampshire Gazette
The Chickenhawk Hall Of Shame
name:
Willard Mitt Romney
rank:
Chickenhawk First Class with DistinguishedFleeing Cross
date-of-birth:
March 12, 1947
home state:
Michigan
missed opportunity:
Vietnam War
excuse:
None to speak of
preferred activity:
Trying to talk people into becoming Mormons
occupation:
Climbing ambition's greased pole
When your daddy's a Governor and a Cabinet Secretary, it's amazing how your odds of being drafted diminish."
The Tea Party Rebellion Steps On Mittens' Tail.
spike59| 1.27.12 @ 6:28AM
Dai, you just HAD to feed the troll, didn't you?
Hobbes| 1.27.12 @ 9:49AM
Q. Who is the only candidate to serve in the armed forces?
A. The one who isn't a NeoCon chickenhawk.
spike59| 1.27.12 @ 6:27AM
Drronpaul is a fraud and a phony; a faux fiscal conservative who never met an earmark he didn't like-a fake Constitutionalist who makes promises that he could not, under the Consitution, fulfill as President-a conspiracy-loving whackadoodle who claims that, having been utterly unable to manage a third-rate newsletter, would be fully qualified to run the Executive Branch of the US government-he's a stain on the GOP, and will be remembered as the Republican Party's version of Lyndon Larouche
Christopher C| 1.27.12 @ 2:45AM
Why is it that most commentators seem to focus on whether or not Romney or Gingrich is more likely to be a Reagan-like conservative, when it was Rick Santorum (and Mike Pence) who were speaking at length about the US need to re-connect with Constitional principles way more than a year ago.
The fact that Mr Santorum was able to refer to the proper source of human rights from the Declaration of Independence - that they are indeed God-given rather than government grudgingly-allowed - should not be in the least surprising.
Granted, Mr Santorum's sense of urgency about the need to quite radically diverge from business as usual seems muted. But for goodness' sake, he's on record from quite some time ago as someone who knows, and appears honestly and unaffectedly to believe in, the Constitutional principles that the US desparately needs restored.
jo blo| 1.27.12 @ 7:19AM
Not NEARLY enough discussion of this sort of thing these days.
Morality is the key to our problems.
Welfare = sloth, ill-gotten-gain, envy
Corruption = pride, ill-gotten gain, greed
Massive debt = result of the above
and on and on.
But our genius pundits keep discussing things in terms of the symptoms, instead of the causes.
Thanks guys. Heckuva job you're doing.
Mr. Goldstein, thank you for this.
martin j smith| 1.27.12 @ 7:29AM
Santorum needs a lot on MONEY to make a difference in this race. I doubt he has it.
Nancy in NC| 1.27.12 @ 9:54AM
I believe I will send him some.
PattyMor| 1.27.12 @ 8:16AM
Yes, morality plays into the welfare state. But it also plays into the trashing of the Consitution. If the Constitution and its enumerated powers had not be trashed, the immoral would pay for their own mistakes. If mistakes were not paid for, there would less mistakes made.
Nancy in NC| 1.27.12 @ 10:04AM
Morality is definitely a big part of the equation. One only needs to look to Keysian economics. John Maynard Keynes was a pedophile; the lowest form of a snake, no offense to snakes. John Locke and Adam Smith were moral men.
Is anyone surprised how many embrace the Keynesian way?
Derek Leaberry| 1.27.12 @ 8:54AM
Yes, Rick Santorum is correct. He will also receive my primary vote no matter if he has no chance at the nomination. Yet let us remember that what Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence was meant for white men alone. Any other interpretation of the Declaration shows ignorance of Jefferson's world view.
Hobbes| 1.27.12 @ 9:51AM
You are an expert at showing ignorance. Jefferson believed Jesus was a man, not a god. Read the Jefferson Bible you nimrod.
Derek Leaberry| 1.27.12 @ 12:10PM
I never mentioned Jefferson's concept of who Jesus was? Please improve your reading comprehension.
Nancy in NC| 1.27.12 @ 9:59AM
Jefferson was a man of his times, and evil as it was, slavery was part of the times. But we got rid of slavery, but it still exists in part of the world...most of the Arab world for sure, and parts of Africa.
It's a waste of time to discuss Jefferson, other than his ideas. Don't act like liberals and throw the baby out with the bathwater. Jefferson's world view was predominant then, and unfortunately, still exists in some parts today.
But Jefferson's words still have meaning, and Santorum seems to be the only one on that stage that seems to believe them...or understand them.
Derek Leaberry| 1.27.12 @ 12:17PM
Actually, I greatly respect Jefferson and am only critical that he was overly enthusiastic in believing that all white men had the ability to think critically or deserved the franchise. Most white men have proved undeserving of the vote. The country would have been better off with a limited franchise for white men. Furthermore, the 15th and 19th Amendments were terrible mistakes and today acts as bulwarks for socialism and big government welfarism.
Margie| 1.27.12 @ 2:54PM
Well said, Nancy.
Margie| 1.27.12 @ 2:52PM
Hey, "Clint"~ Got a question for ya:
How come you didn't jump up and heap your usual filth at me when I asked the question as to whether or not you're Tyrrell?
LOL!
reason not religion| 1.27.12 @ 9:47PM
Your god also gave us slavery, mysoginy, bigotry, racism and genocide. Why are these not celebrated gifts from god?
Oh, that's right; educated man found them to be evil and reprehensible and eradicated them. Your god only mandated them.
For god so despised the world he drowned every breathing creature including man. Ahhhh, the love!
FeFe| 1.28.12 @ 2:02PM
The depth of the hatred toward Santorum is not over social positions Obama himself holds but knowing this monstrous centralization of power in Obamacare will not stand. The "inevitability" the opposition craves is not in Mitt Romney as the nominee but enshrining health care as a "right." Can the Romney enacted Mass. Cap & Trade be far behind? "There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead," no sooner spoken than forgotten by another moderate leader assuming office, Julia Gillard. "Iron clad" promise on an EU referendum from Tory David Cameron but no less promised by the LiberalDems and Labour parties too only to meet casual disregard once in office. More fool us.
Not only is Santorum's Declaration of Independence reiteration of the "Why?" of our founding being to secure God Given Rights not only informative and soaring oratory (and free of charge compared to Newt's grandiose pitch as President Earmark), but laying groundwork for the coming deeper discussion the nation must have regarding the repeal of Obamacare and entitlement reform. Regardless of any election outcome, Rick Santorum's campaign, stump speeches and townhall questions have served to fully inform a section of the electorate in the constitutional conservative path needed and to recognize deviations. No individual mandate, no carbon dioxide tax, no Wall Street bailouts socializing losses and privatizing profits -- Santorum stands alone on that stage for individual sovereignty, the de facto head of the TEA Party though he makes no shout-out of "9-9-9." Leadership.
Umeka Ewings| 4.11.12 @ 3:18PM
That was not all he said. You can't say that Rick Santorum's position on every debate during the presidential election is not based on his personal religion because Rick Santorum can not due a interview or answer a question with out bringing up God, even when he's not speaking of his personal religion. You can live your life based on your religion, as a person your entitled to that but you can not run a country based on religion it'll be chaotic.