Rick Santorum is a poster-boy for what drove away voters from Republicans during the Bush years. He supported all the worst expansions of the Federal Government when he should have stuck by his "conservative" principles and voted against them. He's created multiple Federal agencies, supports bailouts, helped double the Department of Education, allowed the Federal Government to spy on U.S. citizens without warrants, supported every interventionist war, is an outspoken supporter of foreign aid, supported a terribly irresponsible expansion of Medicare, and has a history of being very anti-muslim and anti-homosexual. He's unelectable.
1994 - He supported Federal health insurance mandates for private citizens.
1996 - He voted for the anti-gun Lautenberg Amendment to Federally strip citizens of gun rights if they are convicted of a certain misdemeanors.
2001 - He voted for No Child Left Behind, further federalizing education in America, and doubling the size of the Department of Education, in both employees and in budget size.
2001 - He voted for the USA PATRIOT Act.
2001 - He voted to bailout the airline industry with Federal tax-dollars.
2002 - He voted for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
2002 - He voted to create the TSA, which now unconstitutionally searches people in airports, bus stations, subways, train stations, on highways, and more.
2003 - He voted to expand prescription drug entitlements with his support of Medicare Part D, which is now a $7 Trillion unfunded liability.
2004 - Endorsed pro-abortion candidate Arlen Specter.
2006 - He was the #1 most lobbied member of Congress.
2006 - Made list of most corrupt members of Congress.
2008 - Wrote an article titled Vote For Foreign Aid.
2008 - Endorsed Mitt Romney as his first choice in 2008 election.
2011 - Advocates a trade war with China.
2011 - Advocates sodomy laws used to imprison homosexuals.
2011 - Says that foreign scientists should be treated like members of al-Qaeda.
2011 - Advocates the TSA racially profiling Muslims.
2012 - Says that he would bomb Iran.
He voted to raise the debt ceiling at least 8 times.
He worked with Hillary Clinton to ban "inappropriate material" in video games.
“I came to the House as a real deficit hawk, but I am no longer a deficit hawk. I’ll tell you why. I had to spend the surpluses. Deficits make it easier to say no.” -- Rick Santorum, 2/5/2003 (source)
"If you're a conservative, there really is only one place to go right now. I would even argue farther than that. If you're a Republican, if you're a Republican in the broadest sense, there is only one place to go right now and that's Mitt Romney." -- Rick Santorum, 2/1/2008 (source)
"I don’t want to go to a trade war. I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business." -- Rick Santorum, 10/11/2011 (source)
“And I stood up from the very beginning back in 2003 when the Supreme Court was going create a constitutional right to sodomy and said this is wrong we can’t do this. And so I stood up when no one else did and got hammered for it. I stood up and I continue to stand up.” -- Rick Santorum, 10/22/2011, (source)
"I have always been a supporter of uniform laws on values that undergird the family. That's why I supported the Federal Marriage Amendment - you cannot have 50 different marriage laws. And you cannot have 50 different abortion laws." -- Rick Santorum, 2011 (source)
"Don’t give me this idea — I hear this: ‘Oh, you’re a moralist. You’re trying to impose your values.’ Everybody’s trying to impose their values. That’s what America’s about." -- Rick Santorum, 12/29/2011 (source)
1994 - He supported Federal health insurance mandates for private citizens.
1996 - He voted for the anti-gun Lautenberg Amendment to Federally strip citizens of gun rights if they are convicted of a certain misdemeanors.
2001 - He voted for No Child Left Behind, further federalizing education in America, and doubling the size of the Department of Education, in both employees and in budget size.
2001 - He voted for the USA PATRIOT Act.
2001 - He voted to bailout the airline industry with Federal tax-dollars.
2002 - He voted for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
2002 - He voted to create the TSA, which now unconstitutionally searches people in airports, bus stations, subways, train stations, on highways, and more.
2003 - He voted to expand prescription drug entitlements with his support of Medicare Part D, which is now a $7 Trillion unfunded liability.
2004 - Endorsed pro-abortion candidate Arlen Specter.
2006 - He was the #1 most lobbied member of Congress.
2006 - Made list of most corrupt members of Congress.
2008 - Wrote an article titled Vote For Foreign Aid.
2008 - Endorsed Mitt Romney as his first choice in 2008 election.
2011 - Advocates a trade war with China.
2011 - Advocates sodomy laws used to imprison homosexuals.
2011 - Says that foreign scientists should be treated like members of al-Qaeda.
2011 - Advocates the TSA racially profiling Muslims.
2012 - Says that he would bomb Iran.
He voted to raise the debt ceiling at least 8 times.
He worked with Hillary Clinton to ban "inappropriate material" in video games.
“I came to the House as a real deficit hawk, but I am no longer a deficit hawk. I’ll tell you why. I had to spend the surpluses. Deficits make it easier to say no.” -- Rick Santorum, 2/5/2003 (source)
"If you're a conservative, there really is only one place to go right now. I would even argue farther than that. If you're a Republican, if you're a Republican in the broadest sense, there is only one place to go right now and that's Mitt Romney." -- Rick Santorum, 2/1/2008 (source)
"I don’t want to go to a trade war. I want to beat China. I want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the world to do business." -- Rick Santorum, 10/11/2011 (source)
“And I stood up from the very beginning back in 2003 when the Supreme Court was going create a constitutional right to sodomy and said this is wrong we can’t do this. And so I stood up when no one else did and got hammered for it. I stood up and I continue to stand up.” -- Rick Santorum, 10/22/2011, (source)
"I have always been a supporter of uniform laws on values that undergird the family. That's why I supported the Federal Marriage Amendment - you cannot have 50 different marriage laws. And you cannot have 50 different abortion laws." -- Rick Santorum, 2011 (source)
"Don’t give me this idea — I hear this: ‘Oh, you’re a moralist. You’re trying to impose your values.’ Everybody’s trying to impose their values. That’s what America’s about." -- Rick Santorum, 12/29/2011 (source)
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