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    Santorum launches 2016 campaign

    Santorum launches 2016 campaign, with focus on 'working families'

    Published May 27, 2015 FoxNews.com



    NOW PLAYINGRick Santorum to declare candidacy for president

    Rick Santorum announced his second campaign for the White House on Wednesday, striking a populist tone as he railed against "big government" and "big money."

    The former Republican Pennsylvania senator made his announcement surrounded by factory workers on the floor of a business near his western Pennsylvania hometown, a setting designed to showcase his focus on the working class.


    He held up a piece of coal in one hand -- highlighting his family's working roots -- and an American flag in the other. In announcing "I'm running for president," he vowed to get rid of executive orders and regulations that are costing Americans jobs, as well as scrap the "corrupt federal tax code."


    While hoping to build off his solid performance in 2012, Santorum begins the race as a heavy underdog facing a crowded field.


    The former senator was the Republican runner-up in the 2012 presidential primaries and beat out nominee Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses. He also won 11 state races during the primaries. But Santorum faces a steep challenge this cycle in carving out a political niche for himself – as one of several social conservatives in contention.


    As of Wednesday, the RealClearPolitics average of polls showed him ranking 10th, behind such social conservatives as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Ben Carson, both declared candidates.


    The prospective Republican field already includes four sitting senators, four governors, four former governors, two business leaders and a retired neurosurgeon. Santorum becomes the seventh candidate to have formally announced.

    He tried Wednesday to position himself as the working-class candidate. In a dig at well-funded competitors, he said: "Working families don't need another president tied to big government or big money."


    Santorum claims his experience could pay dividends the second time around. Most of the GOP's recent presidential nominees, Mitt Romney and President Ronald Reagan among them, needed more than one campaign to find success in the nomination race.


    "This is a long process," Santorum told reporters recently. "One of the things that I feel very comfortable with -- I've been through this process before." He said it's a "completely wide open race."


    Santorum served in the Senate from 1995 to 2007.


    He began his political career in 1990 as a long-shot candidate for a House seat. In that race, he knocked seven-term Democratic incumbent Doug Walgren out of office. Santorum would go on to become part of the “Gang of Seven” in Congress made up of a new breed of GOP lawmakers. The group, which included now-House Speaker John Boehner, made headlines by going after House Democrats as well as focusing on the House banking scandal.


    Santorum won election to the U.S. Senate in 1994. He was 36.


    Six years later, he won re-election to a second term and would go on to chair the Senate Republican Conference -- the third highest-ranking party leadership position in the Senate.


    Despite his past political record, Santorum is significantly trailing some of the GOP frontrunners vying for a shot at the White House.


    Fox News, which will host the first Republican primary debate in Cleveland in early August, said it would limit participation to candidates who are in the top 10 of an average of national polling.


    Three other Republicans also are expected to formally announce their White House campaign plans in the next two weeks: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., former Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former New York Gov. George Pataki.


    Democrat Martin O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland, is also expected to enter the race this weekend. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont are also Democratic candidates.

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    Rick Santorum Launches Populist Presidential Campaign Outside Pittsburgh: ‘I Stand wi

    Rick Santorum Launches Populist Presidential Campaign Outside Pittsburgh: ‘I Stand with You, the American Worker’

    by Matthew Boyle
    27 May 2015
    CABOT, Pennsylvania

    CABOT, Pennsylvania — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who finished second place in the 2012 GOP presidential nominating contest, nailed his announcement speech here early on Wednesday evening—hammering ISIS, open borders advocates, the permanent political class in Washington, and the failures of both parties—all while real American workers stood by his side.

    Holding a large piece of coal after introducing his family and thanking the employee-owned Penn United Technologies, Inc.—which lent him the floor space of one of their factories for his announcement speech—Santorum noted how his grandfather brought his father to the United States at age 7 from “fascist Italy.”

    “He didn’t come for this,” Santorum said, holding up the coal before lifting an American flag to symbolize freedom: “He came for this.”

    Santorum walked through how he grew up in West Virginia before his family moved to Butler, Pennsylvania, just down the road from here. “In the late ’70s, like many of you, we saw the economic devastation here in Southwestern Pennsylvania and across this country, particularly in the area of manufacturing,” Santorum said. “This is a result of the excesses and indifference of big government, big labor, and, yes, big business. Here in Southwestern Pennsylvania we lost over 100,000 jobs in what seemed to be overnight. That has to and did leave a mark on all of us.

    “Afterwards, big government and big business told our workers that times have changed, American workers can no longer compete with low foreign wages and those jobs were gone forever. Well, what about those politicians? For all of those years, what did they do? What did they do for those communities across this area and across this country in small town America? They had no plan and they provided no hope. To that I say: no longer.”

    The crowd went wild.

    Santorum’s spokesman Matt Beynon told Breitbart News on scene that there are two reasons Santorum picked this Penn United factory as his launch location. First is he grew up 10 miles down the road, where his parents worked at the VA facility.

    “His parents worked at the VA facility in Butler—and he grew up on the VA grounds in World War II staff housing,” Beynon said. “All his friends at the time—even though his parents worked for the VA—they worked in the mills, the mines. He grew up in blue collar America, in Southwestern Pennsylvania.”

    The second reason, Beynon said, is because Santorum visited this exact facility when he ran for U.S. Senate in 1994. “At the time, it was just one building,” Beynon said. “Since then, they have this entire campus, they have 600 buildings, and, by the way, it’s employee-owned, too. It really just epitomizes what he views can be a renaissance in American manufacturing. Why don’t we have more Penn Uniteds across this country?”

    In his speech, Santorum implored Americans nationwide not to “sit idly by as big government makes it harder for our workers” a government that then “turns around and blames them for losing jobs overseas.”

    “Working families don’t need another president tied to big government or big money,” Santorum said as the crowd cheered loudly. “Today is the day that we begin to fight back!”

    The crowd broke into uproarious applause.

    “I am proud to stand here among you and for you—the American workers who have sacrificed so much—to announce that I am running for president of the United States,” Santorum said.

    The crowd roar was deafening as everyone present—hundreds of workers who just got off the clock before the event started at 5 p.m., and people from at least 32 different states supporting Santorum’s campaign—waved American flags and “Santorum for President” campaign signs.

    “I offer a full vision,” Santorum said. “One that’s clear and conservative, that has plans for reform, and that has a proven track record from my time in service.

    “Step one in taking back America, step one: Let’s scrap the corrupt federal tax code and the IRS that goes with it. It’s time to give America a simpler, fair, flat tax. It will create millions of good-paying jobs and rebuild our factories and increase take-home pay for workers in America, powered by the shale revolution and the renewable revolution—powered by those two revolutions, we have regained the title of the world leader in energy production.

    “With low-cost energy, our whole plan, I promise you you will regain the title of the world leader in manufacturing. We will shrink government, we will reduce spending, we will revoke every executive order and regulation—“

    The crowd cheering loudly again forced him to stop for a moment.

    “We will revoke every executive order and regulation that cost American jobs,” Santorum said. “On day one, we will work to bring back America and put Americans back to work.”

    From there, Santorum hammered the permanent political class and Wall Street wing of the GOP on immigration—noting that, without naming them specifically, Republicans who support amnesty and massive immigration increases like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in effect stand with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

    “American workers deserve a shot at these jobs,” he said. “For the last 20 years, we’ve brought into this country both legally and illegally 35 million mostly unskilled workers. The result? Over that same period of time, workers’ incomes and wages have flatlined.

    “Hillary Clinton and big business, they have called for a massive influx in unskilled labor. Business does it because they want to control costs. Hillary does it, well, she just wants votes. Their priorities are profits and power. My priority is you: the American worker. If you don’t believe me, don’t take my word for it. Yesterday, the largest pro-worker immigration group [Numbers USA] just published a survey that only one candidate got an A for standing behind American workers, and he’s standing here today.”

    The crowd roared again, forcing Santorum to wait before he spoke again.

    Santorum called for a president who won’t “divide” Americans on race or class but will “unite” Americans together behind a common good: getting American working families back in control of their destinies. He called for education reform that makes sure Americans get good educations, rather than a destructive process run by government.

    “The first step in that process is joining me in driving a stake in the heart of Common Core,” Santorum said.

    He also called for ensuring that American veterans—especially wounded warriors, people he grew up around since his family worked for the VA—have the best medical care and benefits possible, before shifting into discussing foreign policy. “I saw the cost of failed political leadership,” Santorum said, before channeling Ronald Reagan: “The Obama-Clinton team, they don’t understand that peace comes through strength.”

    The crowd broke out into loud applause again, chanting for nearly a full minute: “USA! USA! USA!”

    “When I see our heroic veterans dying, waiting in line at the VA, because these very same leaders don’t care enough to give them what they’ve earned—the best medical care in the world—I say join me and take back America and help them get it!” Santorum yelled as the crowd roared again.

    “As you can see, Commander-in-Chief is not an entry-level position,” Santorum continued, prompting laughter. “The White House is the last place for on-the-job training. It’s critical that both our allies and our friends know what to expect from our next president.

    “Last month, I was featured in an online magazine. That’s usually a good thing—but in this case, that online magazine was the magazine of the Islamic State, ISIS. Under the headline ‘In The Words Of Our Enemy’ was a headline and a quote.

    “After 12 years of legislative and warning about the gathering storm of radical Islam, they know who I am and I know who they are. In that article, I described who they are and how to defeat them—and ladies and gentlemen, if I’m the next president, we will defeat them.”

    Santorum continued by noting that “as president” he will “stand for the principle” that “every life matters,” noting too that he’d fight for religious liberty rights for all Americans.

    Santorum then highlighted his record in the United States Senate.

    “While watching these announcements here coming up this week, you’re going to see a lot of folks saying what they’re going to do—and that’s what they do, so how do you know who to trust?” Santorum asked the crowd rhetorically. “You look at their record. I went to Washington and said I was going to fight corruption. I delivered. I went to end welfare, to reduce poverty, to put people back to work—and I delivered.

    “I went to give patients control over their healthcare through Health Savings Accounts, and I delivered. I went to end partial-birth abortion, and I delivered.

    “I went to impose sanctions on Syria and Iran and to protect the state of Israel and this country and I delivered. I went to cut taxes and promised never to raise them, and I delivered. Our record of standing for you and standing up to big government is clear, 92 percent conservative voting record.”

    Santorum argued that his conservatism makes him more electable than Wall Street Republicans who stand up only for special interests.

    “How does someone like that get elected in [a House district just outside Pittsburgh], in one of the most Democratic areas of the state? How does someone with a conservative voting record get elected twice in the state of Pennsylvania where there’s over a million more registered Democrats than there is Republicans?” Santorum asked. “Because I stood for you and against big government in Washington, D.C. Fighting in those races, both here in Southwest Pennsylvania and across Pennsylvania, I know what it’s like to be an underdog.”

    Then Santorum discussed how in the 2012 presidential campaign, “no one gave us much of a chance.”

    “But, we won 11 states,” Santorum said. “We got 4 million votes. And it’s not just because I stood for something. It’s because I stood for someone: the American worker. I promised then as a I promise you now—I will take money and power out of Washington, and put it back where our Constitution says it belongs: in [the pockets of] the people who earned it.”

    The crowd began shouting: “Rick! Rick! Rick! Rick!”

    “Last race, we changed the debate,” Santorum said when they stopped. “This race, with your help and God’s grace, we can change this nation.”

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    Here we go again, 10,000 Republicans running in the presidential primary, almost all of whom are conservatives, splitting up the conservative majority GOP base into tiny little pieces, diluting their limited money pool of modest contributions so that no one candidate can match the huge money given to RINOs by the megarich liberals. And again the RINOs will get their guy nominated by a simple plurality. The treacherous shyster, back stabbing, Judas Goat, Marko Rubio already has more than 40 million bucks because big money likes him because he is for amnesty. No way are obscure people like Ben Carson or Mike Huckabee going to match those mega bucks.

    Conservatives have got to stop being stupid. I really believe that agent provocateurs from the enemy are encouraging these mega numbers of candidates to sabotage efforts to get a conservative nominated. The vast majority of the GOP base is conservative. We need to unite around one guy who will represent all of our diverse issues and tell all of the others to ignore their bloated egos and unite around one guy for the greater good of getting a conservative the GOP nomination. That would be inevitable if conservatives would stop being a bunch of dumb ass armatures and use hard headed commonsense.

    For Christ sake conservatives, stop the stupidity of running around in circles chasing 10,000 candidates.

    We have the perfect candidate in Scott Walker, who, unlike ALL of the other “conservative” candidates, has come out unequivocally to securethe border and against amnesty.
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    Quote Originally Posted by csarbww View Post
    Here we go again, 10,000 Republicans running in the presidential primary, almost all of whom are conservatives, splitting up the conservative majority GOP base into tiny little pieces, diluting their limited money pool of modest contributions so that no one candidate can match the huge money given to RINOs by the megarich liberals. And again the RINOs will get their guy nominated by a simple plurality. The treacherous shyster, back stabbing, Judas Goat, Marko Rubio already has more than 40 million bucks because big money likes him because he is for amnesty. No way are obscure people like Ben Carson or Mike Huckabee going to match those mega bucks.

    Conservatives have got to stop being stupid. I really believe that agent provocateurs from the enemy are encouraging these mega numbers of candidates to sabotage efforts to get a conservative nominated. The vast majority of the GOP base is conservative. We need to unite around one guy who will represent all of our diverse issues and tell all of the others to ignore their bloated egos and unite around one guy for the greater good of getting a conservative the GOP nomination. That would be inevitable if conservatives would stop being a bunch of dumb ass armatures and use hard headed commonsense.

    For Christ sake conservatives, stop the stupidity of running around in circles chasing 10,000 candidates.

    We have the perfect candidate in Scott Walker, who, unlike ALL of the other “conservative” candidates, has come out unequivocally to securethe border and against amnesty.
    There is a lot of sense to what you're saying. I'm still trying to figure out how we ended up with John McCain back in 2008!

    At this point, I'm all in for supporting Scott Walker over the other Republican candidates, with maybe the exception of Rick Santorum. However, with that said, I don't think Santorum will gain the momentum he needs. Right now, Scott Walker, is at or near the top in most polls. I pretty much agree with you that we should all get behind Walker and keep him positioned near the top.

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    Scott Walker has long been a champion of EB-5 visas, which grant permanent U.S. residence.

    Critics call visa program a 'scam' that sells green cards

    http://www.alipac.us/f9/scott-walker...rogram-319617/
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    Scott Walker has long been a champion of EB-5 visas, which grant permanent U.S. residence.

    Critics call visa program a 'scam' that sells green cards

    http://www.alipac.us/f9/scott-walker...rogram-319617/
    Those EB-5 visas don't even begin to compare to all of the illegals the rest of the candidates, with the exception of Santorum, want to amnesty! Unfortunately we're not going to get a candidate that we agree with across the board. Nope, there will be no 'pie in the sky' for us. We are going to eventually need to come together on the candidate that offers us the best chance for no amnesty, a secure border, and full enforcement of our immigration laws. Folks need to decide for themselves if Walker is that man. Right now, for me, he's looking better than anyone else.

    Perhaps one of the moderators here on ALIPAC can do a poll and see where the majority of ALIPAC members stand. I would definitely be interested in knowing what everyone's thoughts are on who we should support.

    I keep seeing folks comment on how bad this guy or that guy is, but I'm not seeing but a couple of us actually say who we could support.

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