Erick doesn’t endorse any candidate.

Erick, you really are pulling out all the stops to quash any hope for a place or show finish for Santorum. Looking forward to what else you have to offer.

Unless one of the other governors in the race mount a serious attack on Romney he will be the candidate. I still have hope for Perry and his Forest Gump Strategy, but this whole thing could be decided by March.

Contact your priests, rabbis or psychiatrists and start bracing for the emotional trauma of running another establishment Republican for POTUS.

Obviously it’s something personal for you.

Erick you are stretching, stretching, stretching. As a fellow Perry supporter my advice is… give it a rest. None of the candidates, including our own, are blemish free. What’s incumbent on us is to recognize where these candidates operated within a set of conservative principles, and where they have not. Sitting on the board of a company that appeals to homosexuals in an arguably objectionable fashion simply puts the lie to the left’s rhetoric about Santorum being some kind of intolerant Neanderthal on this stuff. As for Santorum’s loss in 2006, not only was this a big Dem year, it was against a strong opponent in a Democratic state. And, against the advice of the consultants, he refused to hedge his conservative stands for short term electoral gain. One would think this would be cause for admiration on this site.

Take a chill pill and face the fact Romney will be the GOP standard bearer.

in his message, unrelated to politics by the way, but I thought it appropriate to where we, Perry supporters, are at this stage. Lets be mindful that George Washington lost 2/3 of his battles before he won the war. And it is war, on conservative principles and their standard bearers.

While Santorum, I think, should be lauded for his righteous positions on some very key social conservative issues, he woefully lacks in governing executive experience. There is nothing there, but a 12 year paper trail of votes, some being called into question now and do not reconcile well at all with the current economic situation. My prayers to evangelical Iowans and abroad is that wisdom and discernment be yours when choosing a candidate to right this wrong turning vessel.

And to Iowans in particular I pray that their vote not lead them to “drought stricken pastures” from a Pastor that may have lost his way in the political process.

but we don’t need to blow small issues out of proportion.

Arlen Specter – While Santorum made the choice to endorse Arlen over Toomey for the sake of strict constructionist judges. Arlen’s defection to the democrats instead of his typical toeing of the GOP party line makes it a hard one to swallow.

Pork – While bringing home bacon for your district is not how the deficit was run up, he was slow to the party in acknowledging that pork barrel spending was indicative of all that is wrong with the favors and buy-off culture of Washington DC. Again, a tough pill to swallow, but he really didn’t differ much from Jim Demint in this.

There are some other real issues I’m not overly impressed with Santorum’s record on (Medicare Part D, etc.). However, to hold it against him for being a Senator because Obama was a Senator OR because he lost big to a “Pro-life Democrat” in a bad election year when PA normally leans Dem, usually tempered by the moral issues, which wasn’t the case with Casey in 2006 OR because he just can’t win all seem like disingenuous reasons to flatly oppose any candidate.

It’s been difficult for me inviting my friends who are gay and lesbian to church. Some of my friends do not know Jesus because of the language people like Santorum use.

They believe the church hates them because of the rhetoric of people like Rick Santorum.

And I’ll tell you something else, they’ll never vote Republican, some of our mutual straight friends won’t vote Republican because of people like Santorum.

We don’t have to abandon our values (I’m a born again, evangelical and I believe that homosexual acts are immoral), but there’s a difference between acknowledging that and homophobia (fear or lack of understanding of gays). Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich are people who acknowledge their moral values, but their not homophobic. I’d say Rick Santorum is a borderline homophobe.

‘Often when principle and paycheck come in conflict, paycheck wins. Principle does not always feed a family.’

Compare that with: ‘…we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor…’

Don’t think they took that oath seriously? Read the history books and see how many of those men ended up impoverished or dead.

My great grandfather had 11 kids. He was a subsistence farmer in east Texas. During the Great Depression, he and his family ate sweet potatoes for 2 years straight. That’s breakfast, lunch and dinner. During that same time, his sister offered him $300,000 in those days’ dollars. She won it gambling, apparently something she was very good at. At any rate, my great grandpappy, who believed that ‘ill gotten gain’ was just that, refused the money. Put yourself in his shoes for a moment. Yeah. Anyway, I’d be wlling to bet there’s not a single person in office in America today, from dogcatcher to the prez, who would do that. Was he crazy or stupid? Some would say so. But I tell you this: you could entrust your entire life’s savings, CASH, to a man like that and when he delivered it as you asked, you’d not be missing a penny. THAT’S principle.

And its all but dead in our country today.

Thanks for exposing this, Mr. Erickson.

Gay and Lesbian people are something like 2-4 times as likely to attempt suicide as their straight counterparts. It seems logical to focus mental health services on them. I’d rather Santorum be associated with this organization than with one of those kooky Michele Bachmann gay rehab camps.

There are some real reasons not to vote for Santorum, but it seems like your love of Perry has led you to through fairness out the window.

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I had at one time liked him a little ,then in the debates totally done him in for me, with his whining and with he did everything in the Senate (like Bachmann in the House). He is not a good candidate for our nominee.
I’ll take Gov. Perry the other Rick he has more experience.

I’m a proud sufferer of Santorum Derangement Syndrome, but this is a stretch. UHS is an enormous corporation — one with actions, staff, and institutions all over the country. Keeping tabs on everything that they do to make sure that you’re not contaminated with the homosexuality is unrealistic and a little crazy. Moreover, sitting on the board of a corp is not something that puts you in complete control of the most mincing of a company’s particulars. I am not responsible for everything that a company does if I buy from them, or work for them — just what’s within my sphere of influence. I don’t see why Santorum’s sphere of influence should be exaggerated just to get a hit piece in.

Oh yeah, I guess since I’m being critical of Erick, I should say something about Perry. Heh.

Reading through these posts it seems a lot of “Santorum” supporters are angry that Eric has the audacity to question “the consistent conservative” about his hypocrisy. Guess honesty, character and values take a back seat to rhetoric for these “Bauchman” I mean “Cain” I mean “Gingrich” I mean “Santorum” backers. I suppose “anybody but Obama” isn’t just the rally cry of the deluded fools who support Romney after all. It seems there’s a large contingent of fair weather followers who lash out at anyone who attacks the flavor of the week. Having been conditioned through this exercise we are calling a primary to overlook the faults of any candidate faux news is promoting. These “values voters” in their obsessive quest to find someone anyone acceptable to “independents” will not doubt complete the pattern by selling out to Mitt Romney exactly when faux news drops the facade and openly states Mittens is their only hope to defeat Obama. It’s truly an indictment of our civilization to see how many people let the media doing their thinking for them.

Perry 2012…. Integrity Experience Results.

I heard that Santorum had a gay staffer. Rumor has it–that Santorum even treated him with respect!

This frontpage comment reminds me much of the Kerry tactic–hey, we’ll turn off those Christian idiots by saying that Cheney’s daughter is gay.

It’s insulting, but impotently so.

Erick, I am a big fan of yours and this great website you did so much to develop. The frontpage is unworthy of this guilty-by-gay-association stuff.

touts family values as the reason per The Weekly Standard