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    Santorum calls Occupy protesters 'radical element'

    By STEVE PEOPLES | Associated Press – Mon, Feb 13, 2012

    TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum clashed with Tacoma Occupy protesters Monday night during his first visit to a state he said would be a "momentum changer" heading into Super Tuesday.

    Minutes into Santorum's speech, protesters began chanting and shouting. They rarely stopped over the next half-hour.

    "I think it's really important to understand what this radical element represents," Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told hundreds of supporters gathered outside the Washington Historical Museum. "What they represent is true intolerance."

    Police dragged away two protesters in the midst of Santorum's speech.

    The event took place next to the Occupy protest camp site. Santorum, who trails rival Mitt Romney in fundraising and organization, depended on the Washington Republican Party to organize Monday's event.

    "I understand their frustration. For three years they haven't been able to find work," Santorum said after his supporters chanted, "Get a job."

    Santorum is the first Republican presidential candidate to visit Washington state this year. It holds nonbinding presidential caucuses on March 3.

    Since winning three contests last week, Santorum has tried to portray the presidential contest as a two-man race with Romney. When he was able to ignore the protesters, he directed most of his criticism at President Barack Obama but took a swipe at the health care plan Romney signed into law in Massachusetts.

    "RomneyCare was the model for ObamaCare," Santorum said.

    He campaigns in Idaho Tuesday morning and will visit North Dakota, Michigan and Ohio later in the week.

     
    • MadMax
      MadMax  •  2 mths ago
      What we need is more radicals. Come on people, get off the couch, put down the remote, and take to the streets. That's the ONLY way we're going to stop this runaway political gravy train -- free ourselves from corporate control over our government and our lives, and restore our Democracy.

      "Government OF the people, BY the people. FOR the people, SHALL NOT perish from the earth." -- A. Lincoln, Honorable Republican
    • deborah
      deborah  •  3 mths ago
      But its perfectly normal to bilk tax payers out of billions of dollars for special interests. You are just paying them back. Right Mr 2006 most corrupt politician in Government?
    • Progressivesareusers
      Progressivesareusers  •  Worthington, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      He thinks the ows protesters are unruly , wait till the rest of america that is silently #$%$ off , along with gun owners finally has had enough and starts protesting chit is going to hit the fan !
      • freedomlover
        freedomlover 3 mths ago
        progressivesareusers newt gingrich is more anti gun than obama it was obama that signed legislation that allowed gunners to protest in a national park aacross the river from dc i would think you would have happy about that but no he is far less anti gun than newt lets hear some #$%$ about that teagagger
      • Casualcat
        Casualcat 3 mths ago
        @Eric ... the GOP has spent the last 3yrs campaigning against an imaginary president.
    • Dennis S
      Dennis S  •  3 mths ago
      There is only one out of the whole bunch worth voting for. And it's not Rick.
      • Bo Loney
        Bo Loney 3 mths ago
        Obama.
      • Progressivesareusers
        Progressivesareusers 3 mths ago
        RON PAUL 2012 FOR HOPE !
      • KennethJ
        KennethJ 3 mths ago
        Romney 2012 for real change in Washington from the only outsider in the race to be our President. The man knows how to restore America to the greatest nation in the world.
    • Michael
      Michael  •  3 mths ago
      Senator Frothy McLube...please, someone shut his ignorance down...
      • Bill K
        Bill K 3 mths ago
        That anybody at all would thumb up such a meaningless post (name calling and no substance) is a testament to the pandemic of Autism that is now overtaking us. Even if you hate the man, you need to keep it real.
      • Q
        Q 3 mths ago
        The wanting of the shutting down of his ignorance is legitimate commentary Bill K. Can't you read or are you a Senator Frothy Lubs fan?
      • Casualcat
        Casualcat 3 mths ago
        Ok .. how does this work fo you...

        IF Rick Santorum is elected. He WILL do everything in his power to force every woman who becomes pregnant as a result of rape to have the rapists child. This is the policy of the Vatican master he serves.
        That is beyond sick.
    • carpenter
      carpenter  •  3 mths ago
      "True intolerance" is a good way to put it. We can no longer tolerate the inequities of the system that coddles the wealthiest. We're sick of business as usual on Wall street. We're sick of petty fighting in Congress. We won't tolerate the raping of our natural resources and workers for the sake of a corporation. We want a better life for ourselves and our kids. And we won't vote for someone that represents the status quo.
    • Gordon
      Gordon  •  Portal, North Dakota  •  3 mths ago
      If it is considered radical for everyone in the country to pay their fair share, then you will have to count me in.
      • Wayne
        Wayne 3 mths ago
        Gordon, he is talking about the WAY they protest!
      • Jim
        Jim 3 mths ago
        So Gordon, it that is your position? I assume then you are ticked off too about the 50% of the workers that pay nothing at all, right? Or are you just anther of Obama's minions that hate anybody that makes $250,000 or more per year and want to redistribute their wealth? You know, a lot of those people are small business owners and they don't get to keep all of that sum as their income. If we actually do tax the hell out of them, they will be forced to layoff some of their employees. Is that what you want Gordon?
      • Casualcat
        Casualcat 3 mths ago
        @Jim ..which 50% would that be?
        Avg household income .. under 45K. Gas doubled in 4yrs. Food prices doubled. Education and clothes all up over 25%.
        Now then ... how much more should they pay in? Where do you take money from when there is none?
        Half of the 50% you revile had good jobs and were paying into the system until tax cuts for the rich got added into two wars with resulting housing meltdown pushed them into the none paying category.
    • edwin
      edwin  •  3 mths ago
      The reason for these occupy protests is guys like Santorum !! What an IDIOT
      • Tami
        Tami 3 mths ago
        And it's not for Obama (who was the one insisting we had to bail out the banks)
      • Casualcat
        Casualcat 3 mths ago
        That was the great demigod dubya that did that.
      • edwin
        edwin 3 mths ago
        tami needs to get her facts straight,you republicans protected these banks!!!
    • everything4lessstore.com
      everything4lessstore.com  •  3 mths ago
      He says they represent "true intolerance"? Seriously? This #$%$ sucking religious wacko personifies intolerance himself. I think the 99% have been quite tolerant the last 30 years while the rich have systematically enacted laws to enrich themselves and rigged the political system so that no matter what we the 99% get the shaft. Leave the state now Sanitarium before someone gives you a well deserved kick in the old rear end.
    • Spot
      Spot  •  3 mths ago
      If you ask me, I would say that politicians are the radical element.
    • RAGE
      RAGE  •  3 mths ago
      He respects their right to protest as long as they do in in the privacy of their home.
    • Big D
      Big D  •  Allentown, Pennsylvania  •  3 mths ago
      No Rick, what you represent is "true intolerance". What they represent is America's disgust in the deceitful ways of our government.
    • tony
      tony  •  3 mths ago
      Whats radical about Quit spending money the USA doesn't have?"
    • Echo
      Echo  •  3 mths ago
      Santorum's correct,Brain dead people are easier to manipulate than radicals.
    • Charles
      Charles  •  3 mths ago
      Republican candidates in the 1960s said the exact same things about protesters against the Vietnam War. They gave us Richard Nixon, too. We know how both those things turned out.
    • nomen nescio
      nomen nescio  •  Tacoma, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      Oh yeah, Rick was in town, I forgot all about it. Working for a living makes it hard to keep track of politicians.
    • douglasc
      douglasc  •  3 mths ago
      dude has got no business in this washington or the other one.
    • resigned
      resigned  •  St Louis, Missouri  •  3 mths ago
      Santorum should have the same comments after speaking to the Tea Party
    • rob
      rob  •  3 mths ago
      Occupy is a Radical element huh?.....wow.....In the 90's, Con-gress was complicit in repealing legislation that was there to "protect" everybody. Repealing Glass Steagall for example, allowed Wall St. to get away with the financial crisis. Isn't that radical? The folks in Washington and Wall St are the real terrorists.....from within.
    • Arturo
      Arturo  •  3 mths ago
      you think PA rejected you so you can be their president? please,we deserved somebody with much higher IQ as our president.
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