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Mysteriously, Puerto Rico doesn't vote for Santorum

POSTED BY: ANTHONYT
UPDATED: Monday, March 19, 2012 07:39
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Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:19 PM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important


Hello,

It appears that Romney is the winner. I'm flabbergasted that Santorum's position didn't inspire the populace.

--Anthony


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Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:35 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


SERIOUSLY?!? Well, you know, probably not enough of them read English to understand that ballot...that must be it!



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Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:40 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!


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Originally posted by Niki2:

SERIOUSLY?!? Well, you know, probably not enough of them read English to understand that ballot...that must be it!




Is that some thinly veiled racist remark ?

I don't even see why they get a vote at all. Let them be free and run their own business.





"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

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Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:40 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


They get a vote because they're United States citizens.

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Sunday, March 18, 2012 5:49 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Oh, but they're PUERTO RICANS !!!!!!!

That MUST pro-rate their voting rights!

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Sunday, March 18, 2012 6:03 PM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


Quote:

Originally posted by Niki2:

SERIOUSLY?!? Well, you know, probably not enough of them read English to understand that ballot...that must be it!




Quote:

The literacy rate of the Puerto Rican population was 94.1% in 2002; when divided by gender, this is distributed as 93.9% for males and 94.4% for females.[3] According to the 2000 Census, 60.0% of the population attained a high school degree or higher level of education, and 18.3% has a bachelor's degree or higher.[4]



Unlike most schools in the United States, public school instruction in Puerto Rico is conducted entirely in Spanish. English is taught as a second language and is a compulsory subject at all levels. In the early years following the 1898 American occupation of the island, the opposite was true: public schooling was entirely conducted in English and Spanish was treated as a special subject (the practice ended in 1915).



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Puerto_Rico

They seem to speak English just fine; they just decided that among the group of worthless candidates the GOP threw up this year, ol' Frothy isn't their particular flavor.

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Monday, March 19, 2012 6:51 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I was snarking, Mike, in case you didn't notice. I thought it was pretty obvious. Sounds like they may be doing somewhat better in the education area than we do...

And yes, Puerto Rico and a number of other places, is a commonwealth of the U.S. Not a state, an unincorporated territory. Yes, they are American citizens, but they can't vote in the Presidential election, only in primaries. So I guess their delegates count, but they can't vote in the general, which seems weird.



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Monday, March 19, 2012 6:59 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Apparently Santorum didn't take the loss with aplomb:
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Just a few hours after Mitt Romney's landslide victory over Rick Santorum in Puerto Rico's Republican presidential primary, the Santorum campaign put out an e-mail release titled "Santorum campaign congratulates Romney on Puerto Rico victory."

But the statement Sunday night from the campaign of the former senator from Pennsylvania was anything but congratulatory.

In the release, Santorum communications director Hogan Gidley said, "Rick Santorum has a consistent core – and he showed that when he went to Puerto Rico and took a locally unpopular but principled stance about English being the official language of America. Mitt Romney on the other hand, switched another one of his positions to gain favor in Puerto Rico, by saying that Puerto Ricans shouldn't have to learn English if they want to become a state. We all know Mitt Romney will do and say anything to get votes, and this is just another example of that."

Santorum did take a controversial stand on English as a condition for Puerto Rico's possible statehood last week in a newspaper interview on the island. He later said to an extent that he was misquoted or taken out of context.

He told CNN National Political Correspondent Jim Acosta that both English and Spanish should be required if Puerto Rico were to become the 51st state.

"Obviously Spanish will be spoken here on the island. But this needs to be a bilingual country, not just a Spanish speaking country," Santorum told Acosta.

The Romney campaign reacted to the Santorum campaign statement Monday morning.

"Sen. Santorum is lashing out at Mitt Romney because voters know we won't get the economy going again by replacing one president with no job creation experience with another with no job creation experience," Romney press secretary Andrea Saul told CNN. "Sen. Santorum doesn't understand how the economy works and also doesn't understand that English has been an official language of Puerto Rico for over 100 years." http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/19/santorums-congratulato
ry-statement-anything-but-congratulatory/
, tch, children; play nice!

Apparently Romney's wrong as well, since it says BOTH English and Spanish are the official languages.

It was fun for a while, but this primary season has gotten downright boring with all the circus atmosphere, lies and idiocy coming out of their mouths. I wish now they'd just get on with it and (gawd forbid) act like adults!



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Monday, March 19, 2012 7:20 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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I wish now they'd just get on with it and (gawd forbid) act like adults!
How can they act like adults when their audience is a bunch of children? Somewhere along the way, 30% of the population decided to hand over their brains to someone else to do their thinking for them. All these folks want is a lot of sound-bites to get exercised over.

So yep! Bring on the Klown Kar!

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Monday, March 19, 2012 7:39 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)


I loved this quote:

Quote:


"Sen. Santorum is lashing out at Mitt Romney because voters know we won't get the economy going again by replacing one president with no job creation experience with another with no job creation experience," Romney press secretary Andrea Saul told CNN.



Hell, even Romney's own staff can't help but throw him under the bus! What exactly do they think Romney's "job creation experience" consists of? Firing people? Leading Massachusetts to a job-creation record of near-worst in the nation?

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservatives." - John Stuart Mill

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