Santorum Airs First Ad of Presidential Race
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is airing the first candidate ad in the Republican presidential race, a 60-second radio spot that talks about the immorality of government debt and his "courage to lead."
Santorum Airs First Ad of Presidential Race
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will become the first candidate in the Republican presidential race to run an ad, beginning Monday with a 60-second radio spot that talks about the immorality of the government's massive debt and stresses his "courage to lead."
Santorum's campaign has bought time on satellite radio to broadcast the piece nationwide, and will add placements on radio stations in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. Campaign officials would not discuss the cost of the ad buy.
In the spot, Santorum speaks over a a music track about the immorality of saddling future generations with federal debt, saying it is wrong to "charge the next generation for the excesses of today." He goes on: "Someone has to have the courage to go out and tell the american public we can't afford the government we have right now."
Here is a link to Santorum's advertisement.
In other Santorum developments, he appeared on the Rush Limbaugh Show Wednesday, part of an intense blitz of media appearances, and disagreed with Mitt Romney on climate change. Santorum said it's "patently absurd" to believe that mankind's actions are causing temperatures to rise or fall, considering natural factors.
Santorum uses fiscal issues as a smokescreen, and not very effectively I'd say. Not that it matters; he constituancy is mostly parochials who care little about domestic policy beyond making abortion and gay marriage illegal.— Pearz36- I live in Santorum's hometown (well atleast where he claims residency in PA) and know his pedigree. He claims to be a fiscal conservative (which is part of my ideology) but he doesn't walk the talk.
In 1997, he supported Western Pennsylvania's "Regional Renaissance Initiative". It was an 11-countywide ballot initiative asking the voters to raise their taxes for two new stadiums for the Pirates and Steelers. Sports welfare is not a fiscal conservative position.
And the rest is history for those in Philadelphia don't realize. When the ballot initiative was defeated, legislators in Harrisburg came up with "Plan B". That's how Pittsburgh AND Philadelphia got their new stadiums.
Sorry, but Santorum failed the litmus test on fiscal conservatism.
Gary J. English
avigilantone@yahoo.com— avigilantone - I live in Santorum's hometown (well at least where he claims residency in PA) and know his pedigree. He claims to be a fiscal conservative (which is part of our ideology) but he doesn't walk the talk.
In 1997, he supported Western Pennsylvania's "Regional Renaissance Initiative". It was an 11-countywide ballot initiative asking the voters to raise their taxes for two new stadiums for the Pirates and Steelers. Sports welfare is not a fiscal conservative position.
And the rest is history for those in Philadelphia don't realize. When the ballot initiative was defeated, legislators in Harrisburg came up with "Plan B". That's how Pittsburgh AND Philadelphia got their new stadiums.
Sorry, but Santorum failed the litmus test on fiscal conservatism.
Gary J. English
avigilantone@yahoo.com— avigilantone - I'm curious to hear the ad. I wonder if he'll mention anything about the immorality of issuing a Congressional subpoena to the comatose woman in Florida, Terry Schiavo to appear in Congress so he and his fellow Republicans can judge her medical condition.— CommonSense in Philly
- How does getting voted out of office qualify you for President?— t-bone
- I'm disappointed that the new ad doesn't tell me more about the man, his background and his family. I'd have thought he would emphasize the fact that his mother was a virgin who was forced by an overbearing government to leave his home town of Nazareth and travel to Bethlehem, his background in the building trades (carpentry), his ability to raise the dead, etc.— 1980
- What's most amazing is that he finds people who will contribute to his campaign.— jimmymack
- Santorum's first ad: Dear Americans, if you like the Taliban's style of governance, than please by all means vote for me. Like most of you, even though I really hate Islam, I admire the way they are so pious and religious. So, imagine Iran but Christian and if you like that image, vote for me!
Paid for by ignorant bigots and big money GOP weirdos.— Barry O - I believe his campaign theme is "Vote for me because I'm one crazy mother..."— mtairy1
Too hard to believe, the fact that he's throwing money away on the lost cause of this bid shows his fiscal insanity.- We need him nominated as a sure loser. End the Republican control of the House.— orange rhino
Comment removed.- Funny how Mr. sanctimonious had no objections to voting for the bush tax cuts while he was in the Senate, the cuts that helped create this crisis. Talk about your mental midgets, sanctorum is the poster child.— mike l
- Watching this buffoon make an idiot out of himself - again - before being driven back under his slimy rock will make this fall a bit more entertaining.— CiceroSpuriousDeodatus
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