Former Pennsylvania senator and GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said yesterday at a campaign stop in Iowa that he worries “about anti-government rhetoric,” according to a local paper and to Washington Post reporter James Hohmann, who tweeted about the remark:
Santorum: “I worry abt anti-government rhetoric. I want to make sure we’re talking to ppl where they are and not just to make them angry.”
— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) May 28, 2015
Really? The Santorum we know has spent the entire Obama presidency stoking mistrust of the federal government. Here are just fifteen examples, in no particular order, of Santorum’s anti-government rhetoric in the past few years.
1. When he claimed that Obama is a ‘tyrant’ hell-bent on destroying America
2. When he said that Obama “intentionally turned his back on evil and let it prosper around the world”
3. When he argued that Obama is establishing a secular theocracy that will carry out the “persecution and prosecution” of Christians
4. When he had this calm reaction to Obamacare:
5. And this reaction to Obamacare
“If we have a system where the government is going to be the principal provider of health care for the country, we’re done. Because then, you are dependent on the government for your life and your health…When Thatcher ran for prime minister she said – remember this, this is the Iron Lady – she said, ‘The British national health care system is safe in my hands.’ She wasn’t going to take on health care, because she knew once you have people getting free health care from the government, you can’t take it away from them. And the reason is because most people don’t get sick, and so free health care is just that, free health care, until you get sick. Then, if you get sick and you don’t get health care, you die and you don’t vote. It’s actually a pretty clever system. Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you. That’s how it works.”
6. And this reaction to Obamacare
7. When he claimed that in Obama’s America, religious people are on “the path” to being beheaded like clergy in the French Revolution
8. When he warned that Christians must fight “persecution” in America to stop us from turning into Nazi Germany
9. When he claimed Obama is faking a war with ISIS and allowing the persecution of Christians
10. When he warned of the hidden Obamacare agenda of using pre-natal testing to “cull the ranks of disabled” who are “less able than the elites who want to govern our society”
11. When he said the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities would empower the government to kill his daughter
“In the case of our 4-year-old daughter, Bella, who has Trisomy 18, a condition that the medical literature says is ‘incompatible with life,’ would her ‘best interest’ be that she be allowed to die? Some would undoubtedly say so.
So if the state, and not Karen and I, would have the final word on what is in the best interest of a child like Bella, what chance would a parent have to get appropriate care in the days of increasingly government-funded medical care?
Proponents have said that Section 7 would not affect a parent’s right under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, but the education standards of CRPD do not repeat the parental rights rules of past U.N. human-rights treaties. Omission of these rules combined with Section 7 could lead to the elimination of parental rights for the education of children with disabilities.
These issues become real for parents because, despite what the proponents insist, ratifying the treaty will require changes to U.S. laws to comply with the U.N. provisions. Section 4 requires any country that adopts this treaty ‘to adopt all appropriate legislative, administrative and other measures for the implementation of the rights recognized in the present Convention.’”
12. When he claimed the health care reform’s contraception mandate is “a descendent of the French Revolution”
13. When he told Bryan Fischer that business owners who refuse service to gay customers have been sent to “reeducation camps” and pastors will soon be jailed or martyred
14. When he said the Democrats are worried Obama will go to Indonesia and “bow to more Muslims”
15. And, last but not least, when he said that the president “has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions”
“Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans – helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.”
