3 Reasons Rick Santorum is for real

Rick Santorum has minimal baggage compared to every other serious candidate in the race. Barack Obama and Mitt Romney both carry serious baggage: their records. Romney is the father of Romneycare which required taxpayers to help pay for abortions. Obama has bankrupted us. He has imposed Romneycare on the entire country. And he has launched an assault on the entire country’s religious liberties with the Obama Mandate.

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Mitt is still thinking like a liberal

Imagine the huge impact on the U.S. if we could find jobs for teen age males and engage them productively before they get themselves into trouble. What a boon this would be for America. The beauty is that it doesn’t require a government program. It simply requires more freedom, freedom to let each worker sell his or her productivity for what the market will bear.

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Mitt Romney’s less than resounding support for the unborn

By Tom Quiner With Catholic and other faith-based organizations under attack by President Obama and his Mandate (see “Why Obama just shot himself in the foot”), pro-lifers are looking for a candidate who will go to the mat for their cause. Will Mitt Romney? Pro lifers trust Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich on the subject.…

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Nomination through character assassination

By Tom Quiner Mitt Romney and the Republican Establishment (RE) are doing grave damage to the Grand Old Party. Mr. Romney has spent $17 million in Florida alone with a single thrust: to smear Newt Gingrich. Gingrich has spent about $5 million to defend himself and counterpunch against the Romney assault, an assault joined by…

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In defense of Mitt Romney’s tax returns

By Tom Quiner Quiner’s Diner has invested thousand of words beating up on Mitt Romney. Next to Ron Paul, he is the easiest Republican candidate for Barack Obama to beat in our view. He’s taking heat for dragging his feet on releasing his income tax records. Why? Because it will reveal that most of his income…

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Venture capitalism vs. venture socialism

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_bQgFBDZjo&feature=player_embedded] Mitt Romney is under attack for the successes and failures of Bain Capital while he was there. Whatever you think of Mr. Romney, and I have concerns about him as a candidate, I would like to point out that Bain Capital used private money to make more money. Let us contrast…

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Romney divides Republicans

By Tom Quiner Mitt Romney did an excellent job in the Republican debates last year. He knows his stuff. He’s pretty quick on his feet. He comes across as presidential. And he’s likable. He has squandered much of these positives with the barrage, no, with the tsunami of negativity he and his surrogates unleashed on…

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Romney is willing to retain parts of Obamacare

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5JjBHq8_0&feature=player_embedded] Mitt Romney appreciates aspects of Obamacare. This is understandable. After all, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid modeled Obamacare after Romneycare health insurance legislation enacted in Massachusetts when Mitt Romney was governor. Mr. Romney said his legislation provided consumers with “incentives” to purchase health insurance. This is a nicer word…

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Robust conservatism vs. mellow moderation

By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jzno_apP1Q&feature=player_embedded] Newt Gingrich represents robust conservatism. Mitt Romney represents mellow moderation. That’s how I see it based on their respective records. Mr. Romney has a splendid resume, but he’s a manager, not a visionary, a technocrat, not a general who will lead the charge against the radical liberalism choking America to death.…

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