Santorum's office can't find record of his questioning war

[Rose Siding]

Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's office acknowledged yesterday that it cannot locate public statements of the senator questioning the Iraq war, despite the senator's claim last week that he has publicly expressed his concerns.
...
In an interview last week, he said he had publicly and privately raised questions about efforts to contain the insurgency and to limit Baathist involvement in the new Iraqi government. He made his remarks in response to a charge by his leading Democratic challenger, Robert P. Casey Jr., that Santorum has failed to "ask the tough questions" about Iraq.

Robert L. Traynham, Santorum's spokesman, said a search of Nexis, a news database, and the office's press clippings had not turned up any account of those comments. He noted, however, that the office's records are incomplete because the office is unable to record everything the senator says.

"I do a lot of interviews on TV, on radio, with print reporters who don't happen to write everything I say," Santorum said yesterday. "The fact that it hasn't turned up in print doesn't mean I haven't said it."

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/12467681.htm

[RoBear]

1. OMFG.

Is there no end to their lying????

[Walt Starr]

2. Ahh, the old 'just because there's no record of it doesn't mean I didn't

say it' defense.

Kinda like the 'you can't prove a god doesn't exist' bullshit fallacy.

[Cocoa]

6. "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence"

Saddam might have moved Santorum's comments to Syria, or they could be buried in the desert.

[Jackpine Radical]

16. Flash: Bush invades Iran, launches search

for Santorum's missing antiwar statement.

[FiveGoodMen]

35. Now that's what I call irony!

[Mark E. Smith]

3. Maybe Tricky Rick was alone when he said it?

[rfranklin]

7. Wouldn't that be a kind of bestiality?

Alone with himself? Sex with a beast?

[dancingme]

4. Maybe it's filed under Man On Dog insurgency

if his office keeps looking, I'm sure they will find it.

[Stand and Fight]

5. Laughable....

I have to wonder if Santorum even takes himself seriously anymore... What a dope. :eyes:

[rodeodance]

9. I have this vision of his office staff working frantically trying to find

some account of this. te he.

[Stand and Fight]

20. Yeah... Find or create? n/t

[Cocoa]

8. Casey to Santorum: "please provide a link"

[forintegrity]

10. LIAR!!!

LIAR, pants on FIRE...cuz you're butt is on the line with 2006 right around the corner!


Such an ASS!!!

We must all have "stupid" written on our foreheads?


Ya can't find it because it NEVER happened, asshole!

[underpants]

11. Sorta like Roberston in reverse

pRick is saying he said something he didn't not saying he didn't say something he did.

Actually Rush did the same thing as Rev.Pat just last week and Rove has made it part of his "genius plan" for a while now.

[Cocoa]

12. Santorum is doing what Bush did with the "trifecta"

most of the commentary about Bush's trifecta quote is about the callousness of it, but a separate thing about it was that it was a lie. Bush was claiming that he had qualified his promises of deficit reductions, when in fact he had never done it. The Bushies could never produce any Bush quote where he made those three exceptions.

[central scrutinizer]

13. google "santorum" then hit

the "i'm feeling lucky" button

I'm sure he will find it there

[Teaser]

14. The "Alternate Reality" defense.

"I did question the war. But I did it in 'Universe B', so of course there is no record here in 'Universe A'."

[karynnj]

15. You know the war is going badly

when Santorum claims he raised questions about the insurgency. I think he did raise questions about the people who WERE raising questions about missmanaging the war.

[Javaman]

17. The new spin on lying!!

"Just because I didn't say it, didn't mean I didn't say it!"

Logic like that, has to make ones head explode.

Don't be surprised if one of these jackasses comes out and claims to have written King Lear or authored the Gettysburg Address. "just because I didn't say write it, doesn't mean I didn't write it!"

Or have clambed Everest or swam the English channel. "Just because I didn't climb it or swim it, doesn't mean I didn't climb or swim it!"

Be prepared folks, this is worst than lying, this is the most contemptible pile of shit that has been put forth yet by these fucking cowards.

Just because he didn't do it, doesn't mean that he didn't do it.

I loath and hate them.

colossal failure*.

[Cocoa]

18. Jean Pirro is joining the search for Santorum's comments

she thinks it might be on page 10.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

19. ROTFLMAO. Excellent post!

:applause:

[MissB]

22. .

:spray:

[BattyDem]

26. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[ninkasi]

21. Lying asshole

Mr. Man-on-dog says, "I do a lot of interviews on TV, on radio, with print reporters who don't happen to write everything I say," Santorum said yesterday. "The fact that it hasn't turned up in print doesn't mean I haven't said it."

It's the PRINT REPORTER'S fault. Now,if I were a print reporter, I would think that the mere fact of Santorum's questioning the war, a big about face for him, would merit writing about it. Bad, lazy print reporters! Not Santorum's fault for not saying it. As we know, Repukes never take responsibility for anything. And it's probably Clinton's fault, anyway.

[daleo]

23. Maybe he said it in a dream

I mean, that ought to count.

[Reciprocity]

24. Proof they just make up shit.

[VegasWolf]

25. The dog ate it. nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

27. Isn't it funny how everyone that's not doing so hot in the polls

are distancing themselves from the war?

Santorum is looking at -4% in the latest approval ratings so now he pretends he questioned the war.

War supporting politicians are so yesterdays news, or so it would appear. :)

Santorum, you're a lying sack of feces and the people are on to you.

Sha Na Na, Sha Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye!

[Roland99]

28. Yeah, like the "fact" that because WMDs haven't shown up...

doesn't mean they don't exist either.




Someone give that schmuck a cookie.

[MGKrebs]

29. Wow, they are just mass-producing the BS now.

It seems that virtually everything the high profile conservatives say is just flat out lying.

[are_we_united_yet]

30. Uhhh

yeah sure whatever.

[corporatemedia]

31. Other records haven't "turned up" for Tricky Ricky...

For instance, take the form that he used to get a tax break by criminally claiming he lives in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania -

"The county has never found that I filed for it, and to my recollection, I didn't file for it," Santorum said. "The point is, the question is, 'Am I a resident?' Yes. 'Am I entitled to this? Yes.' "
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_331494.html


IS HE A RESIDENT?

YES, of Virginia.

IS HE ENTITLED TO IT?

NO, because he has to live in Allegheny County, PA and submit an application form.

WHY WON'T HE REFILE THE FORM?

Because he would have to LIE on a form that provides for up to ONE YEAR IN PRISON for false statements.


VA 3 Senators.
PA 1 Senator.

439 days until we even the score.

For the complete story -

http://santorumcybergate.blogspot.com/

[NNN0LHI]

32. He said it to jeebuz. Don't that count? n/t

[Orion The Hunter]

33. The only thing that should be going on in Santorum's office...

..is packing up and clearing out his personal effects since he will be getting voted out of there soon enough! The man is nothing but an embarassment.

[go freedom]

34. "Hey, I Questioned the War!!!"

"Lemme show you where I threw my medals over the White House wall!!!"

"Oh....wait....I don't have any medals..."

"Ummmm....None of us chickenhawks do...."