Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Rick's Story
This story describes Santorum's career after losing his senate seat in 2006. It talks about his life as a columnist and some of his viewpoints at that time. It's not really a position article, yet more of a informal article about Santorum's job after the Senate.
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It's interesting how Santorum has managed to stick to his views. I would've enjoyed to view many of his columns that he created back in his columnist days. “A Catholic is required to form his conscience in accordance with the church’s teachings on faith and reason.” He certainly didn't hold back in how he felt about others wrong-doings in the church teachings. I find it funny that he strongly believes in doomsday and that "society would be thrown back to the 1800's and a deadly struggle to adapt." That's Ridiculous. He received these views from reading a stupid book…Like come on. I'm glad the man had a place to pour his feelings out for the world to see. I think it's a little weird.
ReplyDeleteIt really is true that Rick is very consistant. You don't see him change up very often, and that might be one of the major things that sets him aside from Romney. However he will probably regret holding nothing back from his columns, which, like liam said, are kind of weird.
ReplyDeleteI like how this article lets you see a bit of Santorum away from all his campaigning. It's interesting to see what he was doing before declaring election. During his early days as a columnist, Santorum stated his goal as “I hope to provide some ideas that could help restore America’s confidence in the conservative movement.” I guess he's really fulfilling that goal-- on the campaigning path.
ReplyDeleteSantorum is very consistent, very true, but he is also very right wing, which he tends to be proud of. I would rather a moderate candidate like Romney over Santorum because he would be able to vote with either side on separate decisions. Santorum might be the most right wing, and the most consistent, but I would rather someone who takes both sides of an argument over someone who just looks at the staunch side of things.
ReplyDeleteI think that Santorum being very consistent in his ideas and feelings is going to carry a long way for him. I believe that in the end he will not get the nominee because he is so right wing. I do think him being so consistent and not changing his ideas will make the race much closer in the end.
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ReplyDeleteSantorum's past as an editorialist demonstrates that he really is issues-oriented, that he has strong opinions, and that he is genuine in his beliefs. All of these characteristics are driving his suddenly succesfull campaign, as they are all things that Mitt Romney is perceived to be lacking. But just because Santorum's message is definite and consistent does not mean it is a good one. A lot of what he says in regard to his "obsessions" (abortion, gay-marriage, Iran) is offensivly ignorant. Just because somebody believes strongly enough in the bible's literal interpretation to compare gay marriage to marrying animals does not mean he should be leading the country. It probably means he shouldn't.
ReplyDeleteSantorum is very consistent in his beliefs and ideas, and this will definitely be something that will be helpful to him becoming a nominee for the election. However, him being very right wing kind of counteracts his consistency. I think people would rather see someone a bit more moderate.
ReplyDeleteI like that Santorum has been able to stay true to his beliefs, like everyone else on this blog has expressed. I agree with the article in that Santorum, "...struggles to lift his message above fist-shaking outrage and (sometimes literal) prophecies of doomsday". Santorum seems to have a lot of questions and not many answers---that is not necessarily a bad thing. I thought this excerpt written by Santorum is absurd: “Within 10 years, clergy will be sued or indicted for preaching on certain Bible passages dealing with homosexuality and churches".
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