Senator Rick Santorum made a quick stop at the Palace Theater, next to the Pizza Ranch in beautiful downtown Luverne, Minnesota, on Monday 30 January 2012. Luverne, Minnesota, you say? Why, yes, Luverne, Minnesota:
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He talked about his faith and his family, about the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. He talked about our God-given rights—if government gives you rights, they can surely take them away. He talked about what it means to be an American.
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Mostly he talked about families as the foundation of our nation.
Audio: Santorum in Luverne: Family not the State
And he talked about how problems in families lead to problems in our economy and the rest of society. The home is the first economy.
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I did a quick check on the prison statistic at the end of the last clip. Wiki says 2.3 million, plus twice that on probation or parole. That is a sad state of affairs.
Senator Santorum wrapped up his remarks with a call to action:
“This is the greatest country in the world. Go out in this caucus and gather people who believe this.”
It was a good crowd, a good turnout for a winter’s evening in Southwest Minnesota. The Question & Answer period touched on Mitt Romney’s attacks on Newt Gingrich and visa-versa (which he deflected, mostly), the spiraling cost of higher education (Intellectual elitist left-wing indoctrination, he replied), 2nd Amendment (A+ NRA), health care & Obamacare (it’s a phony economy, consumers have to be involved in their own health care), and wasteful government spending (he’s running his campaign debt free).
I don’t know how many folks will turn out to caucus for the Senator next week in Minnesota. Hopefully the people who make his sweater vests in Minnesota, do. I know alot of liberals don’t like his principles and I’m good with that. I don’t like some of his Pennsylvania positions; I haven’t made up my mind yet on which Non-Romney to support. It was nice to see this Rick is just as nice in person as at the debates on TV. There’s something to be said for that.
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- Worthington Daily Globe (w/video)
- KSFY Sioux Falls
- KEYC Mankato
- KARE11 Twin Cities (live shot)
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