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Romney, Santorum trade barbs over former senator

February 22, 2012 RSS Feed Print

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Republicans Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are sparring over Santorum's support for his former Senate colleague, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.

Romney and Santorum traded barbs Wednesday night in a nationally televised debate in Arizona less than a week before that state's primary.

Santorum backed Specter in his 2004 GOP primary battle against a more conservative Republican, Pat Toomey. Specter narrowly defeated Toomey and went on to be re-elected that year. He switched parties and became a Democrat in 2008 but lost in the party's primary in 2010.

Romney says Santorum's support for Specter led to the passage of President Barack Obama's health care plan.

Santorum says he backed Specter because he promised to support President George W. Bush's conservative judicial nominees.

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Santorum and Romney and Obama and Gingrich all are known to change positions according to the political winds as they blow.

Ron Paul is steadfast and with more years experience than any of the others. Ron Paul is the straitforward truth of our founding principles here to guide us in this dark hour.

John of NY 7:08AM February 23, 2012

It's funny how this article does not even mention the man who won this debate......Ron Paul.

Instead, it focuses on the "fake" (Santorum) and the "empty suit" (Romney) as if these two are the only candidates in this race. In case you missed it, Ron Paul handed Santorum his butt on a platter, and most likely ended the presidential aspirations of this right-wing clown.

When the discussion turned to foreign policy (namely Iran), Santorum, Romney and Gingrich all tried their usual scare tactics, talking about "radical Islam" and nuclear weapons; two subjects that instill fear in the minds of the truly ignorant in our society. It's sad that these people could not learn from the lies of the past, when they were told that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction", and that Kuwaiti badies were being pulled out of their incubators and dropped on their heads. Now, they are being sold another bill of goods with the lies of an Iranian nuclear weapon. Come on people.....let's not forget who we are dealing with. Even if these cave-dwellers somehow develope even a crude nuclear weapon, Israel is more than capable of taking care of them. I would feel safer under a Ron Paul administration, where our nation's defenses are stronger, and no other country would dare to challenge us. I don't lose any sleep worrying about Iranian boogeymen coming to get me on our soil. Let's get real now and stop believing the lies of the establishment. All they want to do is control by fear, and put another puppet in the Oval Office. It's time to stop buying into their hype and start thinking rationally!

Ron Paul 2012!!

Bob Vondruska of CA 2:36AM February 23, 2012

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