Newt Gingrich vs. Rick Santorum

I will point out however, that the point is you should not refute at all in Round 2 as I stated in the rules, the point of Round 2 was develop your candidate more. Now its time to rip Santorum for me as I said we would rip each other in the third round. Lets begin shall we? If Rick Santorum was so conservative why did he: 1. During the Bush the administration, Santorum helped lead the GOP away from their principles, by concocting all kinds of government spending programs designed to create new government dependent constituencies that would be loyal to the GOP. 2. Rick Santorum voted for the first new federal entitlement program since LBJ (Medicare Part D), the largest federal intrusion into the classroom in history (the failed No Child Left Behind), the largest pork barrel infrastructure bill in history (including the infamous "bridge to nowhere"), and thousands of earmarks. 3. Santorum helped turn a balance budget into huge deficits and set the stage for the Democrats to regain control of the Congress and White House. 4. Rick Santorum is the poster boy for everything that was wrong with the GOP during the Bush administration. As a result, he got booted out of office in 2006 along with the rest of the GOP Congress. He lost to a conservative Democrat by a whopping 59% to 41%. 5. During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan (with Gingrich) vetoed a transportation bill from a Democrat Congress because it contained 150 earmarks. During the Bush Administration, Santorum helped to Sheppard a transportation bill through a GOP Congress that contained over 1,000 earmarks (including the "bridge to nowhere"). Bush signed it. This alone should tell us all how much of a so-called "conservative" Santorum is. 6. Santorum also endorsed liberal GOP Senator Arlen Specter over his conservative challenger Pat Toomey in 2004. Specter won the primary and the election. Thanks to Rick Santorum, Arlen Specter was around to cast the deciding vote for Obamacare in the Senate. In 2010, Specter switched to the Democrat Party and lost to his primary challenger. Pat Toomey won the Senate seat. More of Rick Santorum's "conservatism" can be shown in the ad I placed made by the good people at the Rick Perry campaign. To tell you the truth I think if people had to choose between Newt Gingrich's record of his number of wives vs. the number of times Rick Santorum spent trillions of dollars, I think the public would go with Newt over Santorum and chances are Newt can take on anyone who questions his morals which while have been questioned have not become an incredibly gigantic block for him. I would also like to say that (not including the decimals) there is a 9% difference in Obama vs. Gingrich and 8% when he takes on Santorum, but remember that anything can happen from now to then and remember that Santorum presided over a Bush congress which Obama will infamously show off, but Newt did not. Instead Newt stood with Ronald Reagan and stoop up to Bill Clinton. Remember that Newt was the last person to balance the budget. Chances are Gingrich would be more aggressive than Santorum in a general election in debates and ads. By the way that welfare reform, knows as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, was indeed help made and pushed through by Newt Gingrich who was the speaker of the house at the time. Without his crucial support it may had not been passed as he was the most powerful man in the house. Basically, Santorum is in many ways agreeing with the plans Gingrich has so why not Gingrich anyway? I have noticed something that Newt has on his site that Rick does not have on his....well actually several things: He does not have a full page for energy reform which could save the country a lot of money, he does not have a full page to deal with immigration, and he does not have a Day One plan. How about that? Now you have said that Gingrich is a flip-flop but, he has changed his views as many people do over time, but has Santorum admitted that he changed his views? No! He has said anything about changing his views so he must support raising the debt and so on about my other proof of what he has done. Santorum may not be a flip-flop but he is just one big flop on the United States of America, a flop we can do without. Its not like we have not seen corruption before, but who is to say that Gingrich is only in for money? He has never ran for the presidency ever, until now which shows he really cares about this nation. http://www.freerepublic.com... http://www.sun-sentinel.com... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.newt.org... https://www.ricksantorum.com... http://www.youtube.com... http://www.youtube.com...