Despite co-sponsoring a bill limiting medical malpractice lawsuits to $250,000, Santorum supported and aided his wife when she sued her doctor for $500,000 in 1999. Santorum co-sponsored the bill twice before he helped his wife sue for double that amount.
MUST SEE VIDEO: ABC News recently confronted Santorum about the issue and this is what happened:
Please Check Out These Other “Threads” in the #UnravelTheSweater Series:
- Series Intro: Operation #UnravelTheSweater
- Rick Santorum’s Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Hypocrisy
- Rick Santorum – #1 Recipient of Lobby Money
- Santorum: Separation of Church and State “Makes Me Want to Throw Up”
- Colleague Support for Rick Santorum? Crickets…
- Rick Santorum’s Effusive Promotion of Mitt in 2008
- Rick Santorum’s Serious Electability Issues
- Romney SuperPAC Hits Santorum on Spending – Fact Check Verified
- Santorum’s Courage Betrayed by Willingness to Sacrifice Core Principles
- Rick Santorum vs. Protestant Christians
- Santorum’s Poor Record of Charitable Giving
- Rick Santorum – Unprepared and Unqualified
- Rick Santorum – Lots of Rhetoric… Little Action
- Fleshing Out the Truth About Rick Santorum
- Big Government Rick Santorum is NOT the One
It is obvious that if Santorum wins the nomination, Obama secures a second term. Why conservatives cannot understand?
Many Republican worry that Gov. Romney This is will not be able to prosecute the case against Obamacare all that effectively. The fact is, I think, Gov. Romney is the one who can do this best. He can say this, “We know that President Obama is a learner, but he is a slow learner and a terrible learner as well. In liberals’ eyes Obamacare is their beloved Obama’s signature domestic achievement, but that is sth he learnt from me I’m willing to day’You are welcome’, Mr president’, unfortunately, he failed to learn well.”
if anyone on this site has a line into Mr. Romney, I hope he preps for the next debate with the guy who helped him before the FL debates. He cannot allow Santorum to get away with the bull he spouts.
I am a huge Romney supporter.. but I think it’s important to find legitimate things to argue for Romney over Santorum. This $500,000 vs $250,000 malpractice suing issue I don’t see as one of them, so far, after taking a look at that video. I think Santorum’s argument is legitimate — he supported his wife in something that directly affected her, and he was right to support her in that. It isn’t clear that the specific $250,000 limit that he supported in the bills he sponsered was the aspect of the bill that he felt was most important.
On the other hand, here are the real issues — Santorum simply has not had the experience as an executive leader of an organization, on the ground, on the “front lines” so to speak, that we need. Romney has. Santorum does not have the experience effectively managing money and being fiscally conservative. Romney has. And as for all the moral/social issues, Romney is the choice here too! Romney is the one who has had experience deeply considering issues such as debt, health care, and doing so in a fiscally and socially conservative way, as best as one can do while also respecting and working with those with differing points of view, and still being able to get solutions passed. We need a leader who can lead the whole country to the right answer, not one who just says “I’m right, and you’re wrong!”, and only leads the half of the group who already agrees, while alienating the other. Romney is the one who has demonstrated he can do that, too. Santorum hasn’t.
Go Mitt! :-)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/20/can-conservative-backlash-sustain-santorum/
But Gingrich, and the doubts about his general-election viability, only provided the opportunity for Santorum. The means for his rise was provided by the political mistake of another presidential candidate: Barack Obama. The Obama decision to require — with new powers granted to the executive branch under his 2010 health law — that religious institutions pay for pills and procedures antithetical to their beliefs, revived the culture wars in a wholly unexpected way. That was like rocket fuel for Santorum’s rise.
(Whether there was deliberate mischief here by Obama in trying to roil the Republican race or if it was simply Democrat dogma, it was a mistake that will haunt Obama until the end of this election cycle. Tin ear. If there was mischief involved, only time will tell whether it was worth the damage Obama did to himself.)
Steven, respectfully I disagree. Total medical bills were around $20,000 and their award was over $300,000. He very easily could have limited the lawsuit to $250,000 and he did not — their decision was to pursue $500,000. In fact, he could have made his wife’s case a model or example case to follow what he was demanding as a lawmaker.
Santorum’s pursuit of a dollar amount far exceeding the limits he seemed to passionately wanted to enact is either an example of simple greed or hypocrisy — I will leave it up to you to decide which is worse.
The fact that Santorum can so easily double-talk his way through that brief encounter with a straight face is all the more reason to eschew him as a candidate. This one example is what Americans have come to hate in the career Washington, big government lifers.
But I do agree wholeheartedly with Steven on the point that Santorum is completely disqualified to be POTUS due to his lack of executive leadership experience. Look for an #UnravelTheSweater post from me very soon on this very topic. Steven’s is spot-on here. In my opinion, though Santorum has many disqualifying weaknesses, none of them comes close to this huge weakness of his.
Vic , Keep unraveling that sweater . Santorum is no match for smooth talking Obama . We need turn that sweater into a big ball of yarn . Some where in all that yarn is a glowing endorsement for Mitt Romney that Santorum gave to his friend Mitt during the last election . He called Mitt a conservative and a great man of his word and now his story has changed . Hmmmm
Donna, thanks.
To your point, I am working on a coming post regarding Santorum’s endorsement of Governor Romney along with all supporting, effusive comments.
Please get all your friends, associates, and family members to start following MRC from now on. Though Nate and team have been at this for years, in many ways, we are just getting fired up.
All of us are quite frankly enraged by the cowardice of the “conservative” media, even at FOX and AM radio, and we plan to make it known here at MRC!
We can be far more effective as you all get the word out. I cannot stress this enough.
They want us to beleive that Santorum stand in principles. What’s his prinicple then? He preaching out there contraception is harmful……so, can we beleive this guy his medicine cabinet is free of contraception?? Santourm is not trustworthy.
Independetns for Romney!
@Vic Lundquist
Good point, Vic. I’ll have to look more deeply into the issue. But I think the point of my post — the “gut feeling” I was getting at — is that we do need to be careful to not get too enthusiastic about fundamentally faulty criticisms, and to criticize using level-headed, factual, and legitimate arguments. I’ve seen too many bad arguments that really turn off those who know the inside scoop. We’ve seen it over and over done to try to criticize Mitt. I just want to make sure we don’t go down the same path against Santorum. So as long as these are legitimate criticisms, that have “meat” when you research deeply behind the claim, I’m all for getting the message out there!
Steven: Agreed — Absolutely!
One of the guiding principles of the UNRAVEL operation has been to be objective and focused on facts and to find multiple sources where possible.
I must admit that with Gingrich and his many horrible character flaws (unabashed arrogance, constant condescending rhetoric, self-absorbed agrandizement, etc.), I went after him to point these out in my MRC articles. Though there is plenty of evidence to support the obvious, those lines of attack are in fact personal in nature — by definition. I don’t regret those attacks and I will take that approach again with Gingrich if he gets another 10 supporters because I think he is a fundamentally flawed human being that is imminently unqualified to be a leader.
As to Santorum, we decided as a team to stay away from his personal weaknesses and focus entirely on his record.