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Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 10:53 am
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 11:29 am
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 11:32 am
I love the completely irrelevant god part tacked onto the end.
I'm from the UK so probably don't hear Republicans speaking speaking as often as you do, but from what I've heard they seem to do this a lot:
*Make a point*
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 12:30 pm
*Waits for Min to blame this on Libertarians*
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm
(April 11, 2011 at 12:30 pm)theVOID Wrote: *Waits for Min to blame this on Libertarians*
I just wish Libertarians would realize they're being used by the Republican party and then thrown away when it comes time to make policy (just like how the Democrats treat progressives).
Santorum is no libertarian but enough libertarians enable people like him.
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April 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 1:04 pm
(April 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm)theVOID Wrote: The Libertarians are? Huh, because only 48% of the tea-party at a rally where Ron Paul was speaking were Libertarians, and that is with a highly skewed audience where the Ron Paul fans come out in force, the actual number of Libertarians in the tea party is probably more reflected by Ron's vote at a tea-party rally focused on Palin, Bachman etc, he got a mere 8% of the vote there.
Yeah, he's much more a tool of the religious right than anything else.
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 1:12 pm
(April 11, 2011 at 1:04 pm)Jaysyn Wrote: (April 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm)theVOID Wrote: The Libertarians are? Huh, because only 48% of the tea-party at a rally where Ron Paul was speaking were Libertarians, and that is with a highly skewed audience where the Ron Paul fans come out in force, the actual number of Libertarians in the tea party is probably more reflected by Ron's vote at a tea-party rally focused on Palin, Bachman etc, he got a mere 8% of the vote there.
Yeah, he's much more a tool of the religious right than anything else.
Agreed, that wasn't my point. I've noticed that libertarians frequently vote for the Republican thinking that this move will bring "less government". Since the days of Reagan saying "government IS the problem", Republicans talk a good game but don't walk it when it comes time to make policy.
Last election is a great example. Prior, they spoke of "big government" and after the election, it seems like one abortion legislation piece after another.
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Sure they're being scammed, it looks even worse from the outside. At least Bush didn't lie about being "small government", the republicans need to lie it seems, otherwise they wouldn't stand a chance.
It's like your recent "Budget cut" theater, the government had already spent $50 billion in the time it took them to negotiate $39 billion in cuts - That's despite the republican voters putting in Rand Paul who proposed $500 billion in cuts...
Two party systems is a scam, you guys need MMP.
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RE: Rick Santorum warns against dangers...
April 11, 2011 at 7:36 pm
All politicians need to lie by virtue of the system they operate in.
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