santorum to throw his hat in the ring

christiefan915

christiefan915

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Mr. sanctimonious tax scofflaw is going to run for prez. I guess morals and family values don't extend as far as paying property taxes. It'll be a real hoot if he tries to pretend that PA is his home state.

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.) had tax trouble he needed to sort out on his Pennsylvania home.

The Republican presidential contender had a lien filed against him on his suburban Pittsburgh home after he was late on his 2009 property taxes.

Penn Hills township filed a lien against Santorum for just under $500 last fall for his unpaid 2009 property taxes, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. He paid the tax bill a few months late, which meant he was slapped with a $40 late penalty. His 2010 taxes on the Penn Hills house, which they bought in 1997 for $106,000, were paid on time.

The Santorum family spends most of its time at a larger home in northern Virginia, but they have maintained their house in Penn Hills next to his in-laws' home. This isn't the first time the former senator has fallen delinquent on the property taxes.

The township filed a $275 lien against him in 2003 and the Penn Hills school district went after him for slightly over $200 in 2001. Santorum paid off both liens within a year, according to the Post-Gazette.

Santorum's residency was an issue in his 2006 reelection bid, which he lost to Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).

Santorum will announce his presidential bid in Somerset County, southeast of Pittsburgh, on June 6.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box...-announce-run-santorum-owes-taxes-on-pa-home-
 
The partisan response screams out he should be a member of Obama's cabinet with his tax problems. The real response is this guy doesn't have a chance in hell. He won't be in the race for long.
 
That man is a stunning hypocrite. Here's an example of his deceitfulness.

" Former House speaker Newt Gingrich is seeking “forgiveness” from voters as he mulls a 2012 presidential bid. By talking openly about his past indiscretions, and making “no bones,” as he told Fox News this week, “that there were times I did the wrong thing,” Gingrich appears to be courting skeptical social conservatives.

Will Gingrich’s redemptive tack fly in Iowa? Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, another potential contender making frequent sojourns to the Hawkeye State, has a unique take. He tells National Review Online that it is fair to question someone’s behavior but emphasizes that past mistakes should not preclude a candidate from being able to make a case for the presidency. In other words, you will not find Santorum wagging his finger on the trail.

For the record, Newt Gingrich is on this third wife and he's been divorced twice. He married his first wife in 1962. (He was 19 and she was 26.) He left her following an affair with the woman who, after his first divorce, became his second wife. This was 1981. In the mid-90s (during the Clinton scandals) he was having an affair with the woman who, after his second divorce, became his third wife.

And now here's Rick talking about divorce with Michelangelo Signorile:

Well, I would say that first and foremost the thing that his broken down the family is divorce, has had the biggest impact on family disintegration in America and is a huge problem. And I think you’re right in suggesting that folks who are marriage advocates don’t go out and say look, we need… John McCain, to his credit, said that his greatest failure in his life was his divorce… [divorce] hurts families, it hurts children, it hurts moms, it huts dads. It’s a destructive and coercive element in our society with respect to families.

It must've hurt Newt's former wives, then.

And again from the wonkroom:

Santorum is far less generous to those with whom he disagrees, including President Bill Clinton. Asked whether he thought Clinton was morally fit to stay in office following his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Santorum — who voted to convict Clinton — told the Dallas Morning News in February of 1998, “I would say no, he’s not.”

“I think it’s a sign of decadence and decay. Which is a threat to the fabric of this country,” Santorum was quoted as saying in the Washington Post in January 1998.

So when a Democrat is unfaithful, he is not morally fit to hold office and the infidelity is a sign of decadence which threatens the fabric of society, but when a Republican is unfaithful he gets a qualified pass ("Does he think he did wrong? He did? Ok, then he can go.")

Rick Santorum, moral relativist. Hypocrite.

http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2011/03/rick-santorum-is-hypocrite.html
 
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