Santorum: GOP needs to talk more about values

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Rick Santorum on Friday proposed amending the Constitution to ban gay marriage and abortion as part of a broad appeal to social conservatives he’s wooing in his race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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He also proposed reinstating a ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military as well as teaching abstinence-only sex education courses in schools and ending taxpayer dollars for contraception. And he promised to fund organizations that promote marriage and counsel against abortions.
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“We have to have strong families and strong culture to have a free and prosperous and strong America,” Santorum said.
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Not going to happen. The GOP has punted on social issues, focusing instead on things like foreign policy and economics (despite the fact that moral issues shape both). What you’re left with is two useless parties:
  1. An openly immoral party
  2. A party that only pays lip service to moral/social issues.
 
The Republicans have to stay strong on moral issues, because they are the only ones that truly matter.

We are better off as a poor nation that doesn’t kill its own children or recognize sodomy as a perfect place for a child to be raised.
 
ishii said:
We may be slouching towards Gomorrah, but atleast we’ll have jobs.
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You can’t win elections if you talk about family values. Majority of people prefer economics over values. This is why I brought it up
 
Gift_from_God said:
You can’t win elections if you talk about family values. Majority of people prefer economics over values. This is why I brought it up
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Maybe, maybe not. You can talk about both, can’t you? One doesn’t have to completely ignore the need for a moral renewal in America - wouldn’t you agree? I think Santorum correctly identifies the connection between a healthy economy and a morally virtuous nation. Of course the economy will be the main issue in the next election (barring a foreign policy emergency). But the next candidate can certainly focus on social issues, family values as well.

Ishii
 
Rick is the best we have (for someone running for president this election) that I know of. But he won’t win. He doesn’t have Fox supporting him or have the press all over him for one reason or another.
 
Not_Sure said:
The Republicans have to stay strong on moral issues, because they are the only ones that truly matter.
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Not entirely. Economic issues matter, just not nearly as much.

Now, if the Democratic party had their social issues more in line with Church teaching, they would be the more Catholic party, since their fiscal stance is more in line with Church teaching. Not in line, but more in line.
 
as part of a broad appeal to social conservatives he’s wooing in his race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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…or maybe he just really believes it.
 
Rick Santorum is right on the issues
dakotavoice.com/2011/11/rick-santorum-is-right-on-the-issues/

Rick Santorum has announced his “Faith, Family and Freedom” tour in Iowa.

Santorum may be dragging the rear in the line-up of Republican presidential candidates, but I am grateful to him for being the only candidate who insists that the so-called “social issues” remain an integral, explicit part of his agenda.

That’s not to say that the other conservative candidates disagree with Santorum’s take on these issues — traditional values, abortion, marriage — but Santorum has been the only one to insist that you cannot consider the economy independent of the way the individual human beings who make up the economy behave.

Polk County Republican Chairman Kevin McLaughlin in Iowa takes issue with Santorum’s insistence on pushing the social agenda.

McLaughlin says, and he’s far from alone on this, that candidates at this time should just be talking about the “stuff that is putting money in people’s pockets.”

Santorum insists that there is a “moral component” to economic problems and that claims that one can be discussed meaningfully without the other are bogus.

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Swiss_Guy said:
Rick is the best we have (for someone running for president this election) that I know of. But he won’t win. He doesn’t have Fox supporting him or have the press all over him for one reason or another.
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What makes you think Fox doesn’t support him? He has been on America Live quite a few times and I think Hannity also has had him on. Not sure if he has been on O’Reilly.
 
Cider said:
What makes you think Fox doesn’t support him? He has been on America Live quite a few times and I think Hannity also has had him on. Not sure if he has been on O’Reilly.
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Imho Fox doesn’t like him as much as some of the other candidates.🤷
 
ishii said:
Maybe, maybe not. You can talk about both, can’t you? One doesn’t have to completely ignore the need for a moral renewal in America - wouldn’t you agree? I think Santorum correctly identifies the connection between a healthy economy and a morally virtuous nation. Of course the economy will be the main issue in the next election (barring a foreign policy emergency). But the next candidate can certainly focus on social issues, family values as well.

Ishii
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A moral renewal in America would take votes away from the Democrats. Why would they want that?

The more immoral we become, the more power the Democratic party will have.
 
bbarrick8383 said:
A moral renewal in America would take votes away from the Democrats. Why would they want that?

The more immoral we become, the more power the Democratic party will have.
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And the more trickle down immorality we will have.

Ishii
 
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