Rick Santorum responded to the very recently pro-choice Mitt Romney that his fears about the SBA List pledge are unjustified and tells him to sign it. I dig it.
As Marjorie Dannenfelser makes clear, the hospital issue that Governor Romney raised is actually not an issue — it is not anywhere near the center of the abortion fight and nobody is proposing to make it so. The pledge does, however, ask candidates to select appointees to “relevant Cabinet and Executive Branch positions, in particular the head of National Institutes of Health, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Health & Human Services,” not “a broad array of key positions in the federal government,” as Governor Romney writes. I would expect a pro-life candidate to agree to such a simple proposition, just as I would expect a pro-business candidate not to appoint a union boss to head the Department of Labor or someone from the Environmental Defense Fund to head the EPA. So, now that Marjorie has allayed Governor Romney’s stated concerns with the pledge, I would suggest he be asked to sign it once again.
Yeah, what he said.
June 19, 2011 at 3:07 am
Santorum for President!!!
June 19, 2011 at 4:09 am
Mit Romney is who the Republican establishment and people like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly want. If I am wrong, then why does Sean Hannity spend 99% of his time whining about wealthy people having to pay taxes and the need to give them more tax cuts and only 1% of his time mentioning abortion. THEN he confidently contradicts the Catholic Church's teachings on artificial contraception after proclaiming that he is a Catholic. These are teh types of Republicans that are backing spineless politicians like Mit Romney. If Romney is the nominee, I along with MANY pro-life Americans will NOT support him. Most pro-lifers do not care about tax cuts for wealthy Americans. In fact, most of us worry more about the unborn than the wealthy and well-connected. I want to see the Republican establishment to care at least 99% about the unborn and 1% the wealthy and well-connected who are having no problems defending themselves in these days.
June 19, 2011 at 5:44 am
To the anonymous commenter at 11:09 pm:
Obviously, you do not listen to Rush as he does not support Romney. He consistently points out that Romney is the GOP establishment candidate, NOT the conservative candidate, and he has long lost his tolerance for RINOs and non-conservatives within the Republican party. In fact, go to the following link for audio of Rush's recent verbal disgust with Romney's defense of "global warming".
http://freedomslighthouse.net/2011/06/07/rush-limbaugh-on-romneys-global-warming-comments-bye-bye-nomination-audio-6711/
Do your homework and get your facts straight before posting! We need to stick to facts and be clear in this upcoming election.
June 19, 2011 at 2:25 pm
NO. YOU don't get it. I remember CLEARLY that when Huckabee, a STRONG PRO-LIFER, was running for the Republican nomination back in 2007/8, he was downplayed and criticized by the wealthy Republican establishment (and YOU know exactly what I'm talking about – it's that segment of our Party that is the closet-pro-choice, socially liberal but fiscally-conservative-in-a-way-that-only-benefits-the-wealthiest-of-the-wealthy-at-the-expense-of-middle-and-low-income-Americans segment of the party)and well-paid pundits like Sean Hannity (who parades his Catholic upbringing while openly dissenting from Magesterium of the Catholic Church). I will not support a candidate just because he calls himself a Republican.
June 19, 2011 at 2:30 pm
without his signature Romney cannot be held to a pro-life position. Is it like being espoused. If there is a problem, Romney ought to enlighten the writers and then sign the document.
June 19, 2011 at 4:38 pm
I Like Rick Santorum, the way he lives his life and his pro-life stand, but he cannot win. He comes off of 2 failed elections. He needs to go back and rebuild his credibility.
In 1992 the pro-life movement was marginalized and in the minority. Since then, by lots of faithful prayer and work, we are in the majority and making progress. This has happened incrementally, not all at once. Most of the progress has been made one person at a time. If we do not elect a pro-life president we will continue to struggle and lose ground to an unelected, anti-life, pro-abortion, anti-family, anti-faith bureaucracy and I don't know if we can survive that as a country.
We need to elect the most pro-life, conservative candidate who can win. That's how politics works.
I don't blame Romney for not signing. Most politicians don't sign things like the declaration, on the left or right. You just get lots of flack with very little gain in support.
SBA needs to continue to work, build their base and influence just like Emily's list has. They do a great job. Emily's list requires loyalty more than signatures. SBA can do the same.
June 19, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Anonymous,
Putting words in all caps doesn't make what you say any truer. Guys like Levin have openly expressed concerns with Romney, and Rush is certainly not backing him. As for Huckabee, the man is a big government conservative, and I for one am ecstatic that he's not in the running. There are plenty of good pro-lifers running that we don't have to back phonies like the Huckster.
June 20, 2011 at 2:40 am
SANTORUM 2012
June 20, 2011 at 7:06 am
twit
June 20, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Santorum the best!!
June 20, 2011 at 5:05 pm
I won't vote for Romney under ANY circumstances, and neither should any self-respecting pro-lifer. If it means Obama gets reelected, so be it. If pro-lifers vote for Mitt Romney, they will almost certainly wind up regretting it because he is NOT pro-life.
If the GOP is stupid enough to nominate him, faithful Catholics and other pro-lifers should vote 3rd party.
June 20, 2011 at 11:59 pm
I will never vote 3rd party — did that once and it got us Clinton — again! Third party = OBAMA's second term.
Having said that I will never vote for Romney in a primary or in a general election. He is a pro-abortion, global warming believing, gay marriage backing RINO and I just could not vote for him. I would sit out the election rather than vote for Romney. Thank God I also believe he will never get the nomination.
–Laura
June 22, 2011 at 4:53 pm
This is what the Susan B. Anthony List thinks is a pro-life pledge?
I’m as anti-abortion as one can be, but I wouldn’t label any candidate for political office as being “pro-life” just by his/her signing this pledge. I couldn’t find a definition of “pro-life” on SBA’s website. Nor could I find any stated position on the lives of embryos outside the womb or (so-called) euthanasia.
Pro-life? Really?
The real issue here is duping voters into believing that the signers of this pledge are pro-life. That’s not necessarily true. Unfortunately, it got a lot of press coverage. Things like this can really influence an election and yet leave us just where we were before. It’s a shame.