Rick Santorum (r) in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.
Friday night republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum held a rally in Lee’s Summit, Missouri as a prelude to Tuesday’s beauty contest primary.
Bluto: What? Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: [to Boon] Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough…
[thinks hard of something to say]
Bluto: The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
[Bluto runs out, alone; then returns]
Previously:
Rick Santorum (r) in Lee’s Summit, Missouri (February 3, 2012)
Sen. Will Kraus (r): warming up the crowd about urban schools at the Santorum rally (February 4, 2012)
Rick Santorum (r): ….Barack Obama runs around talking about the right to health care. Where do rights come from? [voices: “God.”] They don’t come from the government. They don’t, but the government cannot [inaudible] you a right. If they can give you a right, what can they do? [voices: “Take it away.”] Take it away from you. And the other thing they can do is they can tell you how you’re gonna exercise that right. They can tell you what you’re gonna get and what you’re not gonna get because they’re giving it to you.
Look at just what happened last week in the Catholic Church. I know many of you were at Mass this past week. [applause] But in most dioceses in the country, about a hundred and forty of ’em, was, a letter was read by bishops, outraged, outraged, that the Federal Government would tell Catholic institutions in America that they have to provide abortifacients, morning after pills, sterilization services, as well as contraception as part of free health care in their health care policies. Every Catholic institution. Even though the Catholic Church specifically teaches against those things. And Catholic institutions were outraged that they would do this. I told the Catholic bishops when they were promoting it and shilling for Obamacare, careful what you wish for. Because when the government gives you something then they can force you to do things because it’s now, they now have you, right. They got what they deserved. They fell, they, they fell in bed with the secular left and then wondered why they’re forcing them to do what the secular left wants them to do….
Teabagger logic. It’s not a right, and if you don’t have it, the government can’t take it away from you. And if you’re not gonna get it, they can’t tell you that you’re not gonna get it.
Rick Santorum (r):….The reason this economy is sputtering is because our economy and our people are not used to being put under a yoke that we have been put under by this administration [cheers, applause]….
The yoke is on you.
….And if you look at the other issues that frame, well, actually, it started the tea party movement, which is the conservative backbone of Republican Party right now. [applause] Right? [cheers] You look to the reasons why the tea party movement was created, it started because of the sell out of the Bush administration, John McCain, and [inaudible] Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, for the Wall Street bailouts. When things got tough and everybody was in a panic, when Goldman Sachs went to them and said, we need your money, they said, yes….
….Ladies and gentlemen, we need somebody who’s much more multidimensional than, than, than Governor Romney and not as multidimensional and every idea in the world as Newt Gingrich. [laughter, applause] I probably should, no moon colonies, I promise. [applause] Right?….
….So I appreciate the tea party and their standing for the Constitution. It is a great guide for a president that has been lost. I can tell you, having served in Washington in the nineteen nineties and in the early part of the, this century, you didn’t hear this thing mentioned very often when it came to government. And I know a lot of people are frustrated that the Republicans, it’s true, Republicans lost their way. And I, too, am not perfect in the sense that sometimes I voted for the thing, I look back and say, why did I do that? Well, sometimes you need some people to remind you. Sometimes things have to get so bad that we realize how far we strayed. We all became too comfortable. And I know there’ve been a lot of folks that are critical of, of Republicans for the work they did. I would just say this to the tea partiers, where were you when we needed you? Where were you when you had to come out to remind us and stand up and fight. And so [inaudible] you’re here now. And this is your moment. Not just tea party, but conservatives all across the [inaudible], this is our moment. This is our opportunity….
* IOKIYAR
….We have to [inaudible] understand what our heritage is. It’s not just the Constitution. But it’s that other document that the left tries to ignore. Push away. They try to expunge it because it is a threat [inaudible]. You see, the left believes, as I said before, that rights come from the government and from the Supreme Court or from some other government [inaudible]. But we all know, because of that other document, which isn’t the how of America, it’s not the owner’s manual, it’s the why of America. When people talk about American exceptionalism, believe it or not, they’re not referring to our Constitution. They’re not referring to our system of government, not referring to our military or our power. They’re referring, I believe, to these words, we hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal and endowed by their [pause] [voices: “Creator.”] with certain unalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. [applause]….
….I remind everybody that at the time of the revolution there was another revolution. It was in France. And if you look at the French Constitution, there’ve been about eighteen of ’em since, we’ve had one. Why? Is it because or Constitution was written better? No. No. [inaudible] Or Constitution wasn’t written that much better than the French Constitution. Or any of the interim French Constitutions. The problem was France. From the very beginning of the revolution until now. It’s that France has a different Declaration of Independence. The reason for the French revolution, unlike the American revolution, was not that the king denied us our God given rights. The reason for the French revolution, there were three words, liberty, fraternity, and equality. Liberty and equality, that’s what those, words of our declaration, right? But that third word is not. There are two different words. One was fraternity, brotherhood, the other was, and that’s where the rights came from [inaudible], as opposed to, creator, God. It was a secular revolution. And when you give enormous power to people, guess what happens? They take that power and they build guillotines. Because they have no rights they have to respect other than the rights that the government gives you.
And so when the left, as they’re doing in America today, tries to marginalize faith, tries to marginalize the declaration, tries to marginalize where we get our rights from, it is why I say this election is the
most important election in American history. Because they are undermining the very essence of what American’s [inaudible]….
Freedom fries rule.
….A lot of folks look at me and say, you know, Rick, we really like you. We like you best, but you can’t win. Hear it all the time. If you look at Florida, who had the highest favorability ratings in the State of Florida on election day? [voices: “Rick.”] Me. Who had the highest positive negative in the country, most of the polls? I did. Yet, people say I can’t win. They say, well, you know, you can’t win. Well why can’t I win? You know, you’re one of those social conservatives. [applause] You’re one of those social conservatives. [cheers] You talk about faith and family and we just want to hear about jobs. You see, America isn’t about jobs….
No mas. You can’t win. You’re an idiot. I’m going to crossover in Tuesday’s republican primary beauty contest so I can vote for you. To punish your party for the hour of my life I spent in Lee’s Summit listening to you which I’m never going to get back.
…I was appalled yesterday to hear Governor Romney say that he doesn’t care about the very poor. As long as the safety net is there, if it’s, if it’s broken I’ll fix it. But he cares about the ninety-five percent of America. Doesn’t care about the very poor or the very rich. We already have one president who cares about ninety-nine percent. We don’t need one that cares about ninety-five percent. We need one that cares about a hundred percent of America. [applause][cheers]….
I’m not so sure he thought this one through.
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2010 – Highlights
The data presented here are from the Current Population Survey (CPS), 2011 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), the source of official poverty estimates. The CPS ASEC is a sample survey of approximately 100,000 household nationwide. These data reflect conditions in calendar year 2010.
* The official poverty rate in 2010 was 15.1 percent – up from 14.3 percent in 2009. This was the third consecutive annual increase in the poverty rate. Since 2007, the poverty rate has increased by 2.6 percentage points, from 12.5 percent to 15.1 percent.
* In 2010, 46.2 million people were in poverty, up from 43.6 million in 2009-the fourth consecutive annual increase in the number of people in poverty.
* Between 2009 and 2010, the poverty rate increased for non-Hispanic Whites (from 9.4 percent to 9.9 percent), for Blacks (from 25.8 percent to 27.4 percent), and for Hispanics (from 25.3 percent to 26.6 percent). For Asians, the 2010 poverty rate (12.1 percent) was not statistically different from the 2009 poverty rate.
* The poverty rate in 2010 (15.1 percent) was the highest poverty rate since 1993 but was 7.3 percentage points lower than the poverty rate in 1959, the first year for which poverty estimates are available.
* The number of people in poverty in 2010 (46.2 million) is the largest number in the 52 years for which poverty estimates have been published.
* Between 2009 and 2010, the poverty rate increased for children under age 18 (from 20.7 percent to 22.0 percent) and people aged 18 to 64 (from 12.9 percent to 13.7 percent), but was not statistically different for people aged 65 and older (9.0 percent).
Do the math, Rick, Mitt only cares about eighty-four percent.
* it’s okay if you’re a republican
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