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Santorum to GOP: Don’t nominate ‘Tweedledum’ like Romney
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that Republicans can’t win if they nominate a “Tweedledum” like former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. In an Monday interview on CBS, Santorum told host Charlie Rose that if he could stay in the race until the convention, delegates would want to nominate a true conservative…
‘Occupy’ protesters call Santorum ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’ at Oklahoma speech
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum received some inhospitable greetings from ‘Occupy’ protesters at a speech in Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, yelling “racist” and “fascist” towards the former Pennsylvania senator. About 20 protesters gathered at the state capitol building and repeatedly chanted “Get your hate out of our state” and “Women’s…
Santorum aide: Obama has ‘radical Islamic policies’
Alice Stewart, the press secretary for GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum, issued an apology Monday afternoon, claiming she misspoke when criticizing President Barack Obama’s environmental agenda by calling it “radical Islamic policies.” Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, Stewart continued the Santorum campaign’s efforts to clarify his statements over the…
Santorum: Americans don’t ‘die because of lack of health insurance’
In a feisty exchange with a student in Sioux Center, Iowa Monday evening, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said that, in his opinion, lack of access to health care has no effect on America’s mortality. According to ABC News, the former Pennsylvania senator was pressed by the student asking about…
Santorum thinks role of science should be to say ‘we’ll never know’
Would-be presidential candidate Rick Santorum just can’t seem to get his head around the scientific method, which involves looking for explanations of things you don’t yet understand and developing possible answers in the form of testable hypotheses. Instead, he apprears to believe that anything for which science doesn’t currently have…
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