Rick Santorum

2010-02-10T19:54:14Z

Marklifestyle: /* Liberal Obsession with Santorum */

[[Image:Rick Santorum.jpg|right|thumb|Rick Santorum]]
'''Rick Santorum''' served as [[United States]] [[Senator]] from [[Pennsylvania]] from January, 1995 through January, 2007. During that time, Santorum was known for his [[conservative]] political views. A [[cult]]-like movement among [[liberals]], and particularly [[homosexual]] activists, vilified Santorum for his forthright and truthful statements. In the Senate, Santorum stood for traditional values, and fought for [[traditional marriage]]. His "Santorum Amendment" to the No Child Left Behind Act sought (albeit unsuccessfully) to support the teaching of [[intelligent design]] in [[public school]]s as a legitimate scientific theory.

In 2006 [[Bob Casey, Jr.]], the [[pro-life]] son of a popular former Pennsylvania governor, defeated Santorum as part of a [[Democratic]] sweep in that election. Casey subsequently endorsed [[Barack Obama]] for president in 2008.

Currently Senator Santorum is on a lecture circuit decrying the dangers of terrorism and pointing out the obvious flaws of President Barack Hussein Obama's policy of negotiation with rogue states such as Libya or Iran.

==Liberal Obsession with Santorum==

[[Liberals]] became obsessed with Santorum, particularly after he stood up for traditional marriage and drew an analogy between support for [[homosexual marriage]] and other illegal forms of marriage and conduct. Rather than dispute the analogy, liberals were quick to [[liberal tricks|feign offense]]. Dan Savage the respected newspaper columnist had a redefining of the Santorum, which now means the mix of the colon and the DNA left by the donating partner after said partner pulls out. -- that homosexuality is just one step away on the slippery slope towards many other disgustingly immoral proclivities. Since they had no legitimate arguments, they could only resort to [[liberal namecalling]] and personal attacks.

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Bush v. Gore

2008-03-16T14:53:54Z

Marklifestyle: States rights vs. fedreral

'''Bush v. Gore''' was the case brought before the [[Supreme Court]] to decide [[United States presidential election, 2000|the year 2000 Presidential election]] which had been held up with neither candidate [[George W. Bush]] nor [[Al Gore]] conceding defeat. A number of lower court cases in the [[Florida]] courts had already been fought, and the U.S. Supreme Court had unanimously rejected one recount order. Ironically, the Gov. of Texas who ran on the platform of states rights over Federal, went directly to the Federal courts, mainly violating his own platform, which he would do again and again during his Presidency. The case was heard on December 11th, 2000 over one month after the election had taken place. The Florida Supreme Court had just ruled in a controversial split decision that court personnel would do a partial manual recount in four counties, according to procedures that were never revealed, based upon the specific request of Al Gore's camp as to which counties he wished to see the recounts done. They were the counties that had majority Democratic populations. The recount standard was done differently from county to county and sometimes from counting team to counting team.<ref>http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/display.html?terms=Bush%20v.%20Gore&url=/supct/html/00-949.ZPC.html</ref> The Supreme court overturned that plan 7 to 2, and then in a 5 to 4 decision ruled that the time to find additional recounts method had passed. In effect, this solidified the results as they had been recorded, allowing George W. Bush to claim victory and enter the [[President of the United States of America|Presidency]].

Independent news agencies later did their own recounts, trying to simulate how the Florida court might have done it. They found that under most scenarios, the recounts would have favored Bush, but that the court could have manipulated the process to declare Gore the winner.<ref>http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.ballots/stories/main.html</ref><ref>http://www.slate.com/?id=2058603</ref>

Many people were unhappy with the courts intervening in the election. [[Republicans]] complained that the Florida supreme court tried to alter the certified count with procedures that had never been used before. [[Democrats]] were unhappy that the US Supreme Court stopped the Florida supreme court's decision to force a recount.

==Further reading==
*[http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=65000590 ''A Blatant Conflict of Interest], [[Theresa LePore]] should recuse herself from the Palm Beach vote-count process'', John Fund, OpinionJournal, November 12, 2000.

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