{"id":7933,"date":"2015-01-20T03:47:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7933"},"modified":"2015-01-20T03:47:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T03:47:30","slug":"now-its-santorum-again-thinking-about-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7933","title":{"rendered":"Now it&#039;s Santorum, again, thinking about &#039;16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Good grief. Now we have a former senator from Pennsylvania climbing aboard the GOP Presidential Bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p>Rick Santorum is considering another run for the Republican Party presidential nomination.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. <em>Rick Santorum!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/01\/rick-santorum-criticizes-mitt-romney-114374.html?hp=r3_3<\/p>\n<p>This is a big deal. The senator ran for the White House in 2012 and declared war against those who use contraception to protect themselves against unwanted pregnancy. Santorum, a devout Catholic, doesn&#8217;t believe in contraception &#8212; in accordance with church doctrine. Contraception became his signature issue, to the dismay of Republicans who actually\u00a0employ contraceptive\u00a0measures to prevent pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Santorum washed out of the 2012 GOP primary season, but he might be coming back for more.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Republican primary voters need to ask one critical question: If the voters of his own state refuse to re-elect him to the U.S. Senate in 2006, why should he ask all Americans to cast their <em>presidential<\/em> vote for him in 2016?<\/p>\n<p>Santorum lost his re-election bid to Bob Casey, a pro-life Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>When the\u00a0ballots were counted, Casey had 59 percent of the vote; Santorum had 41 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Where I come from, that&#8217;s what I call a landslide loss.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief. Now we have a former senator from Pennsylvania climbing aboard the GOP Presidential Bandwagon. Rick Santorum is considering another run for the Republican Party presidential nomination. That&#8217;s right. Rick Santorum! http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/01\/rick-santorum-criticizes-mitt-romney-114374.html?hp=r3_3 This is a big deal. The senator ran for the White House in 2012 and declared war against those who use contraception &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7933\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Now it&#039;s Santorum, again, thinking about &#039;16<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[679,881,1144,1941,3543,3907,3952,4980],"class_list":["post-7933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-bob-casey","tag-catholic-church","tag-contraception","tag-gop","tag-pennsylvania","tag-republican-party","tag-rick-santorum","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}