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Faith of the future - Christian Rick Santorum may represent their best chance (IrishCentral)

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:30:08 PDT

Rick Santorum, yesterday or tomorrow’s man?A headline in this past Sunday’s New York Times screamed “Divided by God” The article, by Op-Ed columnist Ross Douthat, argued that it is “tough to pull together as a nation” with all of the religious diversity and tension out thereThis is understandable Archbishop Dolan is out there butting heads with the Obama administration, while Rick Santorum continues his culture wars crusade READ MORE

Some wide-ranging thoughts on Rick Santorum’s exit from the race for the Republican presidential nomination (IrishCentral)

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:30:15 PDT

Rick SantorumRick Santorum, finally and reluctantly, has decided to suspend his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination For some time now, the writing on the wall has been getting ever clearer for the former Pennsylvania senator There was no way that he could overcome Mitt Romney’s overwhelming lead and garner the 1,144 delegates necessary to be the nominee Polls showing that Santorum would probably lose his home state, as well as the hospitalization of his severely ill daughter, were the last straw for the campaign READ MORE

GOP’s Rick Santorum knows nothing about America’s immigrant heritage (IrishCentral)

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 06:15:16 PDT

Rick Santorum (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)Specifically, I recommend to the Republican presidential candidate a much heralded debut novel by Lyndsay Faye entitled The Gods of GothamThe book is set in the 1840s, just as the Famine Irish were pouring into New YorkNeedless to say, not everyone was pleased at this influx, and Faye includes snippets of the most vile anti-Irish, anti-Catholic writings of the day“The popish countries of Europe are disgorging upon our shores, from year to year, their ignorant, superstitious, and degraded inhabitants, not only by tens, but by hundreds of thousands, who already claim the highest privileges of native citizens, and even the country itself READ MORE

Rick Santorum should be the GOP's presidential candidate (IrishCentral)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 05:30:08 PDT

Rick SantorumLadies, it looks like the hot fashion trend this year - thanks to the GOP - may soon be a burqaAfter all, Mitt Romney has just announced that as president he would cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood Don't look startled, at this stage he's probably cut America's military spending if he thought it would help him clinch the GOP presidential nominationBut not to be outdone in the jaw-dropping rightward lurch, Rick Santorum is already on record as saying a women's place is really in the home, bearing children READ MORE

Rick Santorum is unable to win Catholic vote and it is costing him victory (IrishCentral)

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:30:12 PST

Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney during a presidential debateAnother Super Tuesday another strange reality for Rick SantorumThe most Catholic candidate in history is losing the Catholic vote-- to a MormonIn Ohio the exit poll showed Mitt Romney well ahead among Catholics It was not even close, 43 per cent to 30 per cent READ MORE

GOP problem as Mitt Romney is winning states he won't win in November (IrishCentral)

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:15:29 PST

Mitt RomneyRepublicans are breathing a sigh of relief right now that Mitt Romney is back at the head of the race but they may be relaxing too soonCurrently Rick Santorum holds a significant lead in Ohio the biggest prize of all on Super Tuesday while he is also ahead in many states in the southHis lead there and in Republican leaning states present the major problem for the GOPMitt Romney will win in many states such as California and New York where a more moderate breed of Republican votes but the GOP has very little hope of carrying those states in November READ MORE

Why Rick Santorum is no John F Kennedy (IrishCentral)

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 05:17:44 PST

By: Irish Voice Editorial

Rick Santorum is not running for Pope, despite indications to the contrary. The Republican presidential contender has embarked on an aggressive attempt to place religion at the heart of American politics, and in the process upend the separation between church and state which has been a hallmark of this country.

Rick Santorum brings a bootstrap work ethic to the GOP campaign (IrishCentral)

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:15:16 PST

Senator Rick SantorumThe GOP primary campaign blasted through the states of Michigan and Arizona, blazing its way to the the epic 10 state battle of Super Tuesday, coming up in less than 6 daysMitt Romney won Arizona and all of its delegates with a solid win, but barely eked out a victory over Rick Santorum in Romney's native state of Michigan As a result the Michigan delegates will be shared evenly between Romney and SantorumAt the beginning of this whole GOP contest, Rick Santorum was not given much of a chance READ MORE

Why Rick Santorum lost Catholic vote in both Michigan and Arizona to Romney (IrishCentral)

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:15:15 PST

Mitt Romney and his wife AnnWhat to make of the fact that Rick Santorum lost the Catholic vote in both Michigan and Arizona to Romney?Quite a lot really Two immediate things, Catholics are clearly more moderate than Rick and secondly, many were scared off by the militant rhetoric Santorum let loose with during the past week Amazingly, it wasn't even closeCBS's exit polls showed that 37 percent of Catholic voters in Michigan supported Santorum while 43 per cent were behind Romney READ MORE

Is Rick Santorum running for President or Pope? (IrishCentral)

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 06:00:14 PST

If you don't want to go to college, have sex or befriend gay people have I got a presidential candidate for youThis weekend we learned even more AMAZING FUN FACTS about Rick SantorumFirst he told us that college in the United States is just a giant left wing indoctrination camp for elitists, which is presumably the only reason why President Obama says its important to go'President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college – what a snob!' Santorum, who has a B READ MORE

Michigan Catholics prefer Mormon Mitt Romney to Catholic Rick Santorum (IrishCentral)

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:01:21 PST

By: DARA KELLY

Even though presidential candidate Rick Santorum is Catholic and has made it known that he is a man of faith, surprisingly it is Morman Mitt Romney who appears to have won over the Catholics in Michigan, where the Republican primary will be held on Tuesday.

GOP Rick Santorum is a danger to society (IrishCentral)

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:30:20 PST

Rick Santorum (REUTERS/Joshua Lott)The 2012 presidential election is over, although this might come as news to many It was forfeited again this week, as it has been for weeks now, by an increasingly foolhardy right wing overreach that has spooked the less conservative centerRelentless opposition to every item on the Obama administration’s agenda hasn't reaped major electoral dividends for the GOP, but it has exhausted us all Put simply, thanks to all the endless stonewalling, the choice that has emerged this cycle is between Yes We Can and No You Can't READ MORE

Madness for Church and GOP to oppose contraceptive use for women or men (IrishCentral)

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:45:35 PST

Rick Santorum The Catholic Church and the Republican Party are utterly wrong in opposing contraception in health care plansSurveys show that Catholics by a wide margin of 16 per cent believe that contraception should be offered in every health care plan as a matter of factWhether a person wants it as part of their plan is their own business and no one elses, no matter where they workFighting the contraception issue makes the church look once more like it is targeting women READ MORE

Paddy Powers refunds gamblers who bet on Rick Santorum for Iowa caucus (IrishCentral)

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:23:52 PST

By: ANTOINETTE KELLY

In the end even the bookies couldn't pretend: the measly eight votes separating Mitt Romney from Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses hardly constituted a win or a lose.

What the Bible says to women - shut up and stay home (IrishCentral)

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:15:35 PST

God - the man in questionPeople who enjoy condemning their neighbors with the use of bible verses written long before running water was a feature in most homes really ought to dig into the book a little deeperWomen especially should take a little look, because it has lots of advice to share with them, such as - Timothy 2:12: I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silentTitus 2: Women must be discreet, chaste, home keepers, good, obedient to their husbands, so that the word of God be not blasphemedPeter 3: Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands READ MORE

Who wants to shower with Rick Santorum? (IrishCentral)

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:00:15 PDT

Republican presidential laughing stock Rick Santorum was on Fox News Sunday yesterday morning It depresses me to bring this up, because it's asinine and I resent having to even think (never mind write) about it, but speaking to anchor Chris Wallace he tried to posthumously justify the now historic Don't Ask, Don't Tell farce by suggesting that gay men showering with straight men in the military would have unspecified scary consequences'The problem is that sexual activity with people who you are in close quarters with who happen to be of the same sex is different than being open about your sexuality,' Santorum saidThat quip raised Fox host Chris Wallace's eyebrows, forcing him to ask Santorum if he was suggesting gay soldiers would 'go after' their straight colleagues READ MORE

Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum going nowhere (IrishCentral)

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:35:25 PDT

Can we just agree to wind up the Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum presidential runs now? They're going nowhere of any great consequence and most of the country already knows it They may even know it themselves Why am I impatient to see the back of them? Because they're raging fundamentalists posing as populists Because they represent the most backward bigoted echoes of the past READ MORE