Rick Santorum

On the Iraq War

Iraq Had WMDs

“Regretfully, Saddam Hussein has displayed remarkable staying power and a powerful appetite for acquiring weapons of mass destruction.” (10/10/2002)

MR. RUSSERT: Senator Santorum, leading up to the war. In October of 2002, this is what Rick Santorum said, “Saddam Hussein’s regime, is a serious and grave danger to the safety of the American people.” “Given the threat posed to he world by his weapons of mass destruction programs...” Would you now acknowledge that that was not correct?

SEN. SANTORUM: What I would say is that we have found weapons of mass destruction, they were older weapons, but we have found chemical weapons. The report was just released not too long ago that, that said that there were over 500 chemical weapons found in Iraq. ...they were working—and we have certainly lots of information about the fact that they were working with other terrorist organizations, including al-Qaeda, and that they were, in fact—had camps that they were—while they were training Baathists, they were also training terrorists to be used. (9/20/2006, Meet The Press)[1]

On Climate Change

After the Pope came out in support of addressing the issue of climate change, Santorum peddled the typical conservative lie that the science on climate change has not been decided, telling Fox News “Any time you hear a scientist say the science is settled, that’s political science, not real science, because no scientists in their right mind would say ever the science is settled,” 2015 [[2]]

"That’s important but I think there are more pressing problems confronting the Earth than climate change.” 2015 [[3]]

Santorum also turned to another Conservative cop out strategy on climate change, saying that throughout history the earth has gone through warming and cooling cycles. While this is true, it conveniently ignores the fact that never in the earth's history has the planet's levels of C02 spiked so dramatically and never has the earth experienced a warmer trend of this magnitude, as the planet's temperatures have increased far past the usual rise during a warming trend. "I believe the earth gets warmer and I also believe the earth gets cooler," Santorum said. "And I think history points out that it does that and that the idea that man, through the production of CO2 — which is a trace gas in the atmosphere, and the man-made part of that trace gas is itself a trace gas — is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, just patently absurd when you consider all the other factors, El Niño, La Niña, sunspots, moisture in the air. There's a variety of factors that contribute to the Earth warming and cooling." 2011 [[4]]

Santorum continued, stating that climate change is a conspiracy by liberals to increase government regulation. "To me, this is an opportunity for the left to create — it's really a beautifully concocted scheme because they know that the earth is gonna cool and warm," Santorum said. "And so it's been on a warming trend so they said, 'Oh, let's take advantage of that and say that we need the government to come in and regulate your life some more because it's getting warmer.' Just like they did in the '70s when it was getting cooler. They needed the government to come in and regulate your life because it's getting cooler...It's just an excuse for more government control of your life," Santorum added. "And I've never been for any scheme or even accepted the junk science behind the whole narrative." 2011[[5]]

On Abortion and Contraception

Let's make the most of a bad situation...otherwise known as Rape

'We have horrible things happen. I can’t think of anything more horrible. But, nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation.' (2/20/2012) [6]

God won't bless America if abortion continues

'I don’t think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year.' (Feb 2012) [7]

Sex is meant to make babies. And only married people should do it. Period.

[Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It’s supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal…but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen…This is special and it needs to be seen as special. (2/15/2012) [8]

On Israel and Palestine

No such thing as Palestinians

'All the people that live in the West Bank are Israelis. They are not Palestinians. There is no Palestinian. This is Israeli land.' (2/21/2011) [9]

LGBT issues and the American Left

Men shouldn't marry men...or kids, or dogs for that matter

'In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality.' (4/23/2003) [10]

Consensual gay sex should be illegal

'If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.' (4/23/2003) [11]

The left hates the West

'They hate Western civilization at the core. That's the problem.' (2/23/2011) [12]

Vote on the authorization of the use of force in Iraq

Santorum voted yes on the authorization of the use of force in Iraq[[13]]

Top Political Donors

Rick Santorum is a candidate for the 2016 Republican nomination for President. He previously served as the U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania. Here is a list of his top donors over the course of his political career, ranging from 1989-2014. [[14]]

1.Blank Rome LLP—$194,950

2. Federated Investors Inc —$173,265

3. K&L Gates—$146,354

4. Blue Cross/Blue Shield—$123,240

5.Exelon Corp—$115,239

6. Comcast Corp—$98,500

7. Reed Smith LLP—$89,700

8. Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney—$86,434

9. CONSOL Energy—$83,247

10. Cigna Corp—$71,360

Other Wikis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rick_Santorum

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Santorum_Rick