# Stupid Santorumisms **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 20, 2012, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417 "2012-02-20T14:10:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/41 "2012-02-20T23:25:21Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Mr. Santorum Y U NO LIKE [POPE](http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/benedict-issues-forceful-environmental-message)? Wouldn’t it be funny if the Pope called Santorum up and told him to stop speaking against what the Catholic Church believes? Threatened him with excommunication maybe? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/42 "2012-02-20T23:29:06Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > has anyone ever seen Santorum and **Starving Artist** in the same room together? I mean the similarities in reasoning are startling; blame the evil lib’rals for everything wrong in society. You know you’ve just called up Beetlejuice, right? Anyway, can’t wait for the explanation of how young men who enter the priesthood were somehow taught that it’s OK to fuck children by their (presumably liberal) parents and peers. Should be hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/43 "2012-02-20T23:55:52Z")
> [@DianaG](#): > > As a brilliant friend of mine said “Apparently he believes that when life hands you rape, you need to make rapenade.” Is it Rape Month? Rapenade is half-off during Rape Month. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/44 "2012-02-21T00:12:41Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I wonder what Santorum’s view is on Catholic universities like Notre Dame or Villanova. He does know that they exist, right? Notre Dame is a bad example. They [clearly went apostate](http://www.notredamescandal.com/Commentary/tabid/461/Default.aspx) when they allowed President Obama to deliver a commencement speech. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/45 "2012-02-21T00:23:09Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Is it Rape Month? Rapenade is half-off during Rape Month. It must be a clearance sale, because Rape Month is almost over. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/46 "2012-02-21T00:23:52Z")
> [@bup](#): > > My \*guess \*- it’s pure speculation - is that he sees the Crusades as a reaction to Islam conquering regions by force. Islamic forces took Spain by force, and did battle with Charles “the hammer” in France. Sort of Christianity’s home turf. So in an early ‘war on terror,’ crusaders took the fight to the terrorists. > > It’s a comforting narrative if your ancestors were crusaders. The real reason was that they thought the Saracens had WMDs, of course. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/47 "2012-02-21T00:47:39Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > The real reason was that they thought the Saracens had WMDs, of course. [Just machine guns and a funny pronunciation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis_Saracen). His Crusades revisionism is the flip side of the more liberal story of evil Crusader invaders who forced the completely peaceful and cultured Saladin to defend himself. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/48 "2012-02-21T00:54:53Z")
Just posted on Rachel Maddow’s blog, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mkIag1drw](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mkIag1drw) From 2003: > [@](#): > > All the rights in the Constitution, which are individually based rights, according to our founders were not there for the individual’s gain, but the reason we established those rights was for the common good. The right to privacy is not the right to a common good. It’s a me-centered right, that obviously started in the sexual revolution with contraception and obviously quickly evolved to abortion, and now has found its way into the marriage debate. And all those acts that were self-giving acts, self-sacrificing acts, have been polluted by this right to privacy. So, two-way TVs in everyone’s home it is then. No need to thank us, it’s all for the common good. By the way, we’ve checked your wife’s medical records and the Fuck Police will be stopping by later to confiscate her birth control pills, Comrade. You might also want to dispose of those “toys” in your nightstand, unless you want to be brought up on formal charges of Doing Things in a Sexual Realm that are Counter to How Things Are Supposed to Be. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/49 "2012-02-21T14:48:01Z")
From the Philadelphia Enquirer Dec 17 2009 Why? Well, maybe because Americans don’t like being told what to believe. Maybe because we have learned to be skeptical of “scientific” claims, particularly those at war with our common sense - like the Darwinists’ telling us for decades that we are just a slightly higher form of life than a bacterium that is here purely by chance, or the Environmental Protection Agency’s informing us last week that man-made carbon dioxide - a gas that humans exhale and plants need to live, a gas that represents less than 0.1 percent of the atmosphere - is a dangerous pollutant threatening to overheat the world. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/50 "2012-02-21T15:16:33Z")
Speaking of Santorum, is it just me, or is the GOP nomination race turning into battle of the douchebags? Robot Romney and his fancy underwear, Newt and his patriotic adultery, and Santorum and his contraception nonsense. It’s like they are trying to out douche each other. Maybe it’s just me. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/51 "2012-02-21T15:42:15Z")
“They are taking faith and crushing it. Why? When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is a government that gives you rights. What’s left are no unalienable rights. What’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the the guillotine.” [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/santorum-obama-leading-christians-to-the-guillotine/](http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/santorum-obama-leading-christians-to-the-guillotine/) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/52 "2012-02-21T16:09:49Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Speaking of Santorum, is it just me, or is the GOP nomination race turning into battle of the douchebags? That is synonymous with, “Who is the most conservative?”, which is the most important thing about being nominated by the GOP. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/53 "2012-02-21T16:18:30Z")
It’d be nice if candidates could [stop using the Bible](http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/02/news/economy/obama_tax_rich_jesus/index.htm) to justify their campaign platforms. I wish you people would stop picking on Santorum. About the only thing that might get the Republican Party back to being more centrist and less insane is for someone like Rick to get nominated and be soundly defeated in November. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/54 "2012-02-21T16:25:58Z")
No matter which douchebag they choose, they will be soundly defeated in November, I believe. Will this lead to reform within the Republican party? Less insane? Don’t hold your breath! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/55 "2012-02-21T16:26:06Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > I wish you people would stop picking on Santorum. About the only thing that might get the Republican Party back to being more centrist and less insane is for someone like Rick to get nominated and be soundly defeated in November. Not worth the risk that he might actually win, as low as that is. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/56 "2012-02-21T16:28:23Z")
I understand the strategy, but I can’t share the blissful certitude over the “let’s hope they run their craziest motherfucker!” gambit. Not when it was the goofy specter of a President Palin, nor a Bachmann, nor now. I just don’t have enough faith in the electorate. If he does win the nomination, Dan Savage better form a contingency escape plan. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/57 "2012-02-21T16:38:32Z")
Headline on Drudge is ‘Santorum’s Satan Warning’. Developing… Should be good. ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/58 "2012-02-21T16:39:49Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I understand the strategy, but I can’t share the blissful certitude over the “let’s hope they run their craziest motherfucker!” gambit. I remember when the idea of Reagan as president was a joke on All In The Family. And 8 years of W… ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/59 "2012-02-21T16:42:09Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I understand the strategy, but I can’t share the blissful certitude over the “let’s hope they run their craziest motherfucker!” gambit. Not when it was the goofy specter of a President Palin, nor a Bachmann, nor now. I just don’t have enough faith in the electorate. Nothing would energize the centrists and the left more than the possibility of a Santorum presidency. Unless a woman’s right to \*vote \*gets taken away between now and November, it’d be a lock. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/60 "2012-02-21T17:58:47Z")
Santorum’s latest stupidity is simple, willful ignorance of basic English lexicon, by [misusing the word _theology_](http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-santorum-20120221,0,1045225.story). It’s pretty clear that what he should be saying is just the word _ideology_, but I guess he thinks it sounds more evil to say that the administration promotes a different _religion_, rather than simply a different idea or principle. Buy a dictionary, stupid. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417.md?page=4)