Rick is clearly, as they say, “of the cock.” I don’t have a problem with that, but he does.
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“I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely … The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.”
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And if he really believes that shit I think he is either a certifiably crazy paranoiac or too stupid to have ever figured out how to dress himself, and he seems to dress himself okay, so the option for me becomes just “crazy or doesn’t-really-believe-it”. And I think he really believes it.
I read an update on the lawsuit against Andrew Shirvell, the Catholic übernut Michigan lawyer who stalked and obsessively blogged about the openly gay U of MI student body president, claiming he was an orgy throwing neo-Nazi among other things. The update said that Shirvell is currently living in PA. I’m kind of surprised he hasn’t been showing up at the debates and waving a towel while screaming “RICK!” as they remind me of each other (save that I don’t think Santorum is a closet gay [I hope not anyway]).
I’m changing my vote to crazy.
I don’t think he is crazy, but the result of unchecked religion. If western civilization hadn’t pretty much tamed religion and removed much of its power there would be a lot more Santorums running around forcing their primitive and dangerous beliefs on everyone else.
Yeah, but Rick’s even more Catholic than the pope. Most Catholics I know are like, WTF??? My dad’s very devout and he absolutely can’t stand Santorum. (Of course, my dad’s also a committed liberal)
Still, most of the Religious Right tend to be evangelical Protestants. Rick’s a special breed, in a way.
-raised Catholic, now lapsed.
Yeah, I mean if you look at the most “out there” behavior of Santorum, I think it’s tilted in favor of “this is a man who has an actual psychological problem”. This is compounded by having “yes men” around it. (ETA: I realize that moon quote was Gingrich)
I think I mentioned this awhile back but my SO had the opportunities about 2 years ago to sit in an intimate meeting of large Santorum donors. Maybe 25-30 people in the room including his handlers.
He said he’s never heard or met someone who was so completely and utterly assured of their victory in anything. That he would stop at absolutely nothing to get what he wanted – except he didn’t think of it as “what he wanted” but rather the only possible way to avoid total and absolute destruction. There was no talk of a strategy, there was no talk of being out of the public sphere for so long, there was no talk of a “long road ahead” aka not being a favorite. He was sick with power but the real sickness was in his own mind.
The last thing he said was “I was actually scared, both for him and the other people in the room. He sounded exactly like a cult leader”.
Thanks for that story, lindsaybluth. I’ll take that as a data point (though sadly an unverifiable one).
His condemnation of mainline Protestants is less Catholic bigotry than playing to Evangelicals, who deplore theological liberalism in the churches they split from in the last century.
(He’s pulling an old trick of equating theological conservatism with economic/political conservatism, implying that it’s not just heresy to only follow a Social Gospel, but to be for social goods at all.)
Somewhere I have seen a video of Rick in the middle of a hundred supporters doing a laying on of hands, with him in the middle. It looks charismatic-evangelical to me, and I thought it interesting that his campaign appears to cross the Papist-Antipapist line to draw on evangelical religion for a Catholic candidate.
There are “charasmatic Catholics” who do the laying on of hands, talking in tongues, and such. My mother has attended several of their services in the company of her parish priest. He’s very conservative when it comes to church matters and though their antics were unfamiliar to him, he did not object to them theologically. A-Froth is not stepping outside his Catholic persona when he does such things.
I’m certainly not trying to defend him, I just view him with a lot of sadness and a touch of empathy as well as have a grueling hatred of his handlers/enablers.
I see Gingrich as a horrible, greedy opportunist and Romney as an inexplicable flip flopper. He’s rich and he loves his wife so why not spend more time with family rather than do this thing he’s not even assured of getting.
A Dutchman responds to Santorum’s insane remarks about the Dutch being a nation of tulip loving granny killers.
Same here. Good answer.
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker column gave Santorum the maximum 4 Pinnochio rating for his statement about euthanasia in the Netherlands: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/euthanasia-in-the-netherlands-rick-santorums-bogus-statistics/2012/02/21/gIQAJaRbSR_blog.html
I’d think that a politician could make the case for his/her position on issues like abortion or euthanasia without resorting to easily checked falsehoods. I appear to be wrong again.
I think a bumper sticker that says, " A Vote For Frothy is a vote for the Middle Ages."
Or something more clever.
The nutjobs down the street from us have a “Santorum 2012” sign on their front lawn.
Somebody should design Frothy Smurf just for his campaign.
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What really pisses me off is that the only person who would quote that many COMPLETELY FALSE and sensationalistic “facts” about the Netherlands ganking Gramps and Gammy is somebody who is either so completely stupid or completely crazy that he thinks it’s true or so completely amoral he doesn’t care, or some combination thereof, and yet it probably won’t cost him a single vote among his base.
QFT and it raises to many questions. Why doesn’t the base care if someone is stupid, batshit crazy, or that amoral? Which (or all) of these attributes describe the base? I guess that it’s a little of each.
I caught a brief statement Santorum made to his supporters in Michigan, the gist of which is that perhaps Church and State do not need such a great separation in all things.
The belfry called: his bats are missing!
~VOW
I’d bet he’d be singing a different tune if a Muslim or a Jew were in office.
Naw, it’s the same tune because Barry Soreto is Muslim AND Jewish, but we still get to give him grief over listening to his Protestant pastor sermonize all those years. Do try to keep up!
I put “other” because I don’t thing “Bat-Shit Crazy” is a real diagnosis.
I do think that he is gayer than a three dollar garden party. Or at least very confused. Like at home, he is making a woman’s suit to go over his body, out of real women.
I can totally see him putting on makeup and tucking his penis in and dance to trance music.
“It rubs the a-froth on its hands…”