2012 Republican Primary: Rick Santorum's Stances

Written by Derek Thomas Thursday, 19 May 2011 06:10

Rick Santorum is formally running in the republican 2012 primary for president of the United States. Santorum is a staunch social and fiscal conservative on the issues that the US is facing. Which may be what individuals in Iowa are searching for, even so if perhaps he wins there will he take the remaining states together with his ideas on the issues for Americans?

Rick Santorum is formally running in the republican 2012 primary for president of the United States. Santorum is a staunch social and fiscal conservative on the issues that the US is facing. Which may be what individuals in Iowa are searching for, even so if perhaps he wins there will he take the remaining states together with his ideas on the issues for Americans?

Rick Santorum is unquestionably pro-life and feels that "a child is a child" and regardless of whether that infant is created due to violence then it's still at no-fault of the baby. Consequently he claims that in the case involving rape and incest abortion should be against the law. He guided the ban of late term abortions and would seek to nominate judges that will put an end to abortion as president in 2012. Santorum is convinced that the insufficient finances to our social security program is because of the declining population rate attributed to abortions. He claims that he's stunned President Obama says he will defend civil rights but won't protect the rights of babies. He is against stem cell research and funding of any firm that supports or carries out abortions.

He supported the Paul Ryan budget which would get rid of 60 billion dollars in waste as an effort to minimize the debts and alter entitlement programs. He argues these government plans are primarily open-ended and invite receivers and healthcare companies to spend anything they would like on the government's dime. He believes we must make the Bush tax cutbacks permanent which will quit punishing people who have labored for their income. He believes that the top income earners in the US are employment makers.

Santorum is completely in opposition to homosexual relationships and thinks that the courts should not determine issues of defining marriage. He thinks unions are a slippery slope to ultimately provide gays and lesbians the ability to get married. He said on unions, "it's a baby step -- Look, we'll take half a loaf now, and then after we've accomplished that then, you know, people will feel comfortable with it, and then we'll take the final step." He believes civil unions are a slippery slope to at some point grant gay people the right to get married.

Santorum supports the second amendment which gives Americans the legal right to bear arms. When a senator he endorsed a bill that restricts lawsuits against firearm suppliers in 2005. He also unveiled a bill referred to as the sportsman privacy protection act which would stop the federal government from accumulating the social security numbers of responsible people.

Santorum believes that the US cannot be the universal guardian of all countries which encounter political turmoil. Still, he claims there usually are things that we are able to do ahead of time to help prevent international atrocities in foreign lands. In Libya he claims if we had implemented earlier measures to engage diplomatically then we might have been able to urge Gaddafi to step down. If nations around the world are a danger or a future danger he thinks mediation is necessary. He claims we must not just play a minor role and not care about what is occurring all over the world, but take tactical and economic steps to support individuals that are at risk from dictators elsewhere. Rather than asking the United Nations, we ought to accomplish precisely what is ideal for America.