It's sickening how Santorum is using the condition of his daughter to gain the sympathy vote of

[AlinPA]

the republican right wing. It looks like his main talking point. Desperation.

[onehandle]

1. Missed that. What's her condition? nt

[AlinPA]

3. This article describes the condition.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/gop-hopeful-rick-santorum-campaigns-with-a-seriously-ill-daughter-at-home/2011/11/28/gIQAMWdHAO_story.html

[HopeHoops]

2. Gee - didn't someone obscure do that? What was her name?

Some nobody from Alaska. I forget her name.

[maximusveritas]

4. I disagree completely. It's a big part of his life, so it's natural for him to talk about it

If anything, attacking him for this is sickening.

[AlinPA]

6. Bull. He's running on it as an example why he wants to dismantle the healthcare program

and to get the "social conservative vote.

[Lint Head]

8. In a political since it's unnatural and sickening for him to use his

daughter in such a manner.

[PA Democrat]

16. Please see my post below as to why the issue is relevant.

[maximusveritas]

18. ok, in that context, I can understand the OP's criticism more

At first, I was thinking he was just criticizing Santorum for talking about his daughter, using her to gain sympathy from voters.

[PA Democrat]

20. The OP and I both have watched Santorum's repulsive behavior here on PA for years.

If he did not bring his child's disability up time and time again and USE her to spread lies about health care reform I would definitely agree. As a parent of a child with disbilities he makes me sick. He is vile.

[Peregrine Took]

28. I think its bad of him to use her politically for sympathy, however.

A dad with class would protect her privacy but he is a classless weirdo.

[SoCalDem]

5. I was not aware that she was handicapped.. Makes the abortion ore plausible though

If they already had one handicapped child, finding out their expected child had Trisomy18 would have been devastating news.

[WillowTree]

14. How would they have known in 1996 that years later they'd have a handicapped child?

[SoCalDem]

17. Since I did not know about her, I had no idea which one of the litter she was

[NNN0LHI]

7. Sorry, I am not going to judge him on this issue

I have bigger fish to fry.

Don

[AlinPA]

10. After watching him here in PA for so long, I guess I'm just sick of him.

[NNN0LHI]

12. Well, I am not going judge you either so its all good

[appleannie1]

9. He has free health care for her yet he is a frontrunner in wanting to deny that to others.

And before I get slammed for saying so, read the article. He says so himself.

[DesertFlower]

13. i agree. no slamming here.

[emilyg]

11. Don't agree. It's his

daughter - part of what he is. Surely you can find somthing better to pick on.

[PA Democrat]

22. I would agree if he didn't use his own child as a means to push an agenda that denies health care

to other children with disabilities. He brings her up as an example of why universal health care is bad. He thinks it is fine to price health insurance out of reach for people (and children) with pre-exisiting conditions.

[PA Democrat]

15. Sickening on many levels. He is a hypocrite and a filthy propagandist for the insurance industry.

“I look at how society with socialized medicine treats children like Bella, and children like Bella don’t survive,” Santorum told The Des Moines Register Monday, the first leg of a three-day swing through Iowa. “Children like Bella are not given the treatment that other children are given.”

Santorum said the new health care law, championed by President Barack Obama, will mean disabled people are denied care more often, and repealing it is the best way to address mounting national debt.

He said that disabled children are denied care today.

“It’s not like this isn’t happening now,” he said. “But it will happen more under a much more budgetarily-driven health care system.”

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/04/26/172049/santorum-survive-bella/


Rick the self-proclaimed "Jesus candidate" is fine with children with disabilities being denied care, as long as the children are POOR.

[PA Democrat]

19. Rick Santorum says he bought insurance on the open market that would cover his daughter.

SANTORUM: I had insurance under my employer. And when I decided to run for president, I left my job, I lost my insurance, I had to go out and buy insurance on the open market. We have a child who has a pre-existing condition and we went out and we said, we like this plan…we have to pay more because she has a pre-existing condition. Well, we should pay more. She’s going to be very expensive to the insurance company and, you know, that cost is passed along to us…I’m okay with that.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/12/02/380582/santorum-insurers-should-discriminate-against-pre-existing-conditions/

Most families would not be able to afford the premiums faced with the same situation. Furthermore, this was prior to the passage of the HCR Act, so any insurance he was able to purchase on the open market would not have covered a pre-existing condition for at least a YEAR. That would spell bankruptcy or DEATH for most American families.

Santorum deserves to be exposed for his hypocrisy and complete lack of human comapssion. He's a pig.

He brings up his daughter's disability time and time again to spew his propaganda and lies.

He gets NO PASS from me.

[AlinPA]

21. His reference to his daughter is always connected to his talkng point of eliminating the healthcare

reform system. He is using her. I watched him in PA a lot before his daughter was born and he is a slimy character.

[PA Democrat]

23. Long time Santorum watcher here as well.

[karynnj]

24. I think it was after the HCR act because he said that he lost his insurance when he quit

his job to run for President - that likely was after the 2011 start of that provision for children. He benefited from HCR and apparently does not know it.

[PA Democrat]

27. I think you are right about the timing.

Do you think he was really unaware that they benefitted from HCR? I am torn because I know he's not the brightest bulb, but is really THAT dumb?

[Iggo]

25. Didn't even know he had a daughter.

[SixthSense]

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[jillan]

29. Rick - aren't you the same guy who doesn't think other children with her condition should have H.C.?

Fuck YOU!

[Louisiana1976]

30. K&R--Rick is a hypocrite.

[madrchsod]

31. i will restrain my self by saying he`s a thing......