"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
In 2006 when Rich Santorum was running for office in Pennsylvania, he needed to appeal to Independents and Democrats to win... Back then he was holding hands and singing "Kumbaya" with Barbra Boxer, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden... A far cry from the TeaBagger candidate of today.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
"At a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa on Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum singled out blacks as being recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs, telling a MOSTLY WHITE audience he doesn't want to "make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money."
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
"At a campaign stop in Sioux City, Iowa on Sunday, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum singled out blacks as being recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs, telling a MOSTLY WHITE audience he doesn't want to "make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money."
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I doubt there's a napkin big enough to wipe that off his face
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
As far as Senator Santorum's remarks about President Obama's comments on abortion --- there was nothing offensive about that. It is a fact that AT ONE TIME, people used the same argument that Obama made about abortion to defend slavery -- and just as Abolitionsist were correct in challenging and campaigning against the incorrect and immoral position that people of color were "less than human" .. Pro-Lifers campaign against the incorrect and immoral position that a human fetus is "less human".
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Sending a prayer to the Santorum family, their little girl Bella is in the hospital. She suffers from a serious genetic disease which most don't live to their first birthday. : ( She has beaten the odds so far and hope she recovers from whatever setback she is experiencing.
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