Intro: "Rick Santorum's wife granted a rare interview Thursday, telling conservative talk show host Glenn Beck that she initially had been against her husband running for president but finally concluded it was 'God's will.'"
GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum with his wife, Karen, as he campaigned at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast in Myrtle Beach, SC, 01/15/12. (photo: Charles Dharapak/AP)
Karen Santorum: Rick's Presidential Run Is 'God's Will'
26 February 12
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ick Santorum's wife granted a rare interview Thursday, telling conservative talk show host Glenn Beck that she initially had been against her husband running for president but finally concluded it was "God's will."
Speaking in deeply spiritual terms, Karen Santorum said she had been reluctant to throw her support behind the idea because her husband's failed 2006 Senate re-election campaign had been so brutal. Also, she said, her husband had become more involved with the family after leaving the Senate, and was even coaching Little League.
But she said she prayed on the matter, and finally changed her mind after the passage of the 2010 health care overhaul.
"I did always feel in my heart that God had big plans for Rick. Eventually it was there, tugging at my heart," she said. "When Obamacare passed, that was it. That put the fire in my belly."
Karen Santorum has been largely behind the scenes during the campaign, busy in part taking care of the couple's youngest child, Bella, who suffers from a terminal disorder.
She has been speaking out more lately, a shift that has coincided with growing concerns on the part of the Republican's supporters that his comments critical of contraception and some prenatal testing could harm his standing among women.
She turned up on Beck's Internet television show toward the end of a more extensive interview that began with Rick Santorum saying that his wife loves the talk-show host - "loves you more than me sometimes," he joked.
Karen Santorum also defended her husband's performance in Wednesday's debate, saying that he was right to admit to having made mistakes while in Congress. She said it is inevitable to sometimes lose one's way in Washington. "You really have to keep your prayer life in order," she said, "and really keep faith and family the top priority always. And keep your feet on the ground. Because you can get lost."
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Yeah ..... this article was obviously professionally proofread to the most rigorous standards of a graduate of the Texas Educational System.
I think a good dose of LSD would give them all an improved perspective.
First is because I am from CA, which as a Blue "donor state" pays $60B/yr more in federal taxes than we get back in federal spending, we are subsidizing the very Red States who are dragging us all down. CA on its own would have the world's 8th largest GDP, and that $60B/yr could be spent here far better in fixing our roads, our schools, our energy and water systems, etc.
Second is that in an America that peacefully "Balkanizes" into more philosophically aligned nations wouldn't have a mostrous $1T/yr global military Empire anymore, we would get back to guarding our own shores without the foreign adventurism, again freeing up more money to help ALL of us, no matter which new "American Sub-nation" you reside in.
Third is Washington DC's complete dysfunction and actual outright corruption. Flush it down the toilet, and start over at the "Mini-State" level, at a minimum it should be more responsive to its people than the Federal Government is today.
If we aren't going to "Balkanize" like this, then at a minimum we need a new Constitutional Convention. But I would imagine these Red States would screw THAT up too just like they did the first Constitution by leaving open slavery, etc.
Be careful what you ask for. . . .
Plus, I think the best way for "change" to come to those States is for them to see the success of the alternatives. If a "Republic of California" became one of the strongest nations on the Earth just by implementation of some basic wise Progressive policies, those new countries would look at their hell-hole and decide to follow our example. But right now, they are PREVENTING wise policies for ALL of us through their control in Washington.
Agree. When I saw the headline, as a (rare)liberal native Texan and fan of Moyers & Co., I thought, I'll post this on FB, etc. But I'd be embarrassed to do so in its current uncorrected form. The absolutely valid message gets lost in annoyance at the repeated sentences out of context.
There are plenty of fine people living in Texas-just like any other state. In fact, when I used to live there, I never heard the kind of hate speech I see on this site today.
I said "TODAY".
"The LAST thing I want to hear from any Texan cretin or any histrionically anti-Fed from my or any other state is how uber-patriotic of an American they are."
Isn't that redundant?
I've read enough of Rand's work (teeth gritted all the way; she was a godawful writer who couldn't resist lecturing, indeed preaching, at the expense of actual storytelling) to know that ALL her writing seemed like a fever dream.
Isn't that a hoot ? And yet, quite darkly, a rejection of critical thinking is a totally logical - even predictable - outcome resulting from the assumption of a "platform" like anti-science to begin with.
Such willful and deliberate stupidity - such *aggressive* idolatry and pride in ignorance is not new to the World, but these collective boneheads certainly seem to take it to an incredible level.
This very "political platform" is nothing more than a thinly veiled and childish attempt to "legislate" the Texas secession from the Union that these people have, (perhaps sadly) never been able to effect in actuality.
Great reference to Texas "hero" Sam Houston above. It stops short of mentioning the fact that the *same day* that Sam Houston, President of the Republic of Texas *did* warn the Texas Legislature against the folly of "firin' up a war" with the Industrialized North, the legislature, in an apoplexy of the same wisdom and foresight that they seem somehow to *still* retain to this day, *DEPOSED* Sam Houston as President the same day he made those comments.
Sam Houston, after all, was one of the very few Texans who had actually *traveled* North to see for *himself* what was meant by the phrase: "Industrialized Military Force".
As ever, Texas fantasy prevailed. Out with Houston, in with ignorance and arrogance.
During the Civil War, the Union was defended by the Republicans and states' rights, nullification and slavery were defended by the Democrats. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the two parties switched sides. Now the Union is defended by the Democrats and states' rights, nullification and the former slave-states of the South are represented by the Republican Party.
The Republican Party at this time has embraced nullification. They are attempting to nullify the results of the 2008 and 2012 elections in which the voters elected and then re-elected President Obama. The doctrine of nullification was on the losing side in the Civil War. We must not let it be victorious now. The election in November, 2014, is all about nullification.
Be well.