# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/81 "2012-02-21T23:15:11Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Time and time again, he’s showing himself to be so far out of touch with mainstream American culture that he keeps making references to things America as a whole LIKES and considers GOOD THINGS as if they’re negatives. Sex, contraception, college education, the auto bailout, prenatal testing, green energy, the right to privacy, and now Woodstock? That’s it! **Starving Artist** is actually _Rick Santorum_! Amazing how he finds time to post about Joe Paterno in between campaign appearances, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/82 "2012-02-21T23:41:55Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > and now Woodstock? If he badmouths Snoopy he’ll be in _real_ trouble. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/83 "2012-02-21T23:54:02Z")
He’d have to do it in that muted-trombone voice, though. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/84 "2012-02-22T00:03:04Z")
> [@bup](#): > > From **luci** ’s article: Was this uttered like he was acknowledging that sexual freedom leads to gayness, and he didn’t realize he was outing his unspoken urges? Is he another Republican repressed gay man? > > Or did he say it with a different inflection? I love one of the comments on that story: > [@Stig Fostervold](#): > > Sexual freedom? Oh yes, how horrible such a thing must be. Sexual captivity and oppression on the other hand, those are great. > > Or wait, that doesn’t sound right. ---
**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 22, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/85 "2012-02-22T00:05:47Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > That’s it! **Starving Artist** is actually _Rick Santorum_! Amazing how he finds time to post about Joe Paterno in between campaign appearances, isn’t it? Already called that in post #35. They do sound remarkably similar. And have the same sort of logic circuits as well. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/86 "2012-02-22T00:38:33Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Time and time again, he’s showing himself to be so far out of touch with mainstream American culture that he keeps making references to things America as a whole LIKES and considers GOOD THINGS as if they’re negatives. Sex, contraception, college education, the auto bailout, prenatal testing, green energy, the right to privacy, and now Woodstock? What are you talking about ? He said Woodstock was great ! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/87 "2012-02-22T00:39:42Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > To be quite candid, I’m not comfortable with the use, in contemporary discourse (particularly contemporary _political_ discourse) of the word “Christendom” itself. It bears too many connotations of countries having “official” religions, and terms such as “blasphemy” having legal meaning in the civil and criminal codes. > > It’s probably just my personal baggage. What I find interesting is that the “Liberal” European countries that some conservatives love to deride mostly are part of Christendom. England’s official church: Church of England Denmark’s official church: Lutheran Church Malta’s official church: Roman Catholic Germany doesn’t have an official church, but there is a church tax that many people pay that normally goes to one of four main religions, although you can opt out. Most French, Spanish and Italians identify as Roman Catholic. You get the picture. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/88 "2012-02-22T01:21:00Z")
It’s better for Obama if Romney is the nominee, but it’s better for America if Santorum wins the GOP nomination. Ideology divorced of reason, compassion or compromise has been the GOP battle plan for some time, it needs to go, and I can think of no better flagship to put it on full display than the USS Santorum. ---
**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 22, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/89 "2012-02-22T02:13:00Z")
I have never seen a candidate so totally consumed with human sexuality. Is there any issue he doesn’t eventually connect the dots to carnal debauchery? It’s like Six Degrees of Rick Santorum, only it’s usually only two degrees. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/90 "2012-02-22T02:30:03Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > It’s better for Obama if Romney is the nominee, but it’s better for America if Santorum wins the GOP nomination. Ideology divorced of reason, compassion or compromise has been the GOP battle plan for some time, it needs to go, and I can think of no better flagship to put it on full display than the USS Santorum. You think Santorum has a better show of beating Obama than Santorum? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/91 "2012-02-22T02:34:52Z")
Bella English had an interesting column in today’s Boston _Globe_ about her first encounter with Santorum back in 1995: > **[Rick Santorum and me - The Boston Globe](https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2012/02/21/rick-and/fflucqNP5aC0BemPy9uoRL/story.html)** > > On my first day of work at the Philadelphia Inquirer, in September 1995, an editor handed me a news release and told me to cover a press conference. I was new in town, and had never heard of the guy whose name was at the top: Rick Santorum. He’d been... > [@](#): > > On my first day of work at the Philadelphia Inquirer, in September 1995, an editor handed me a news release and told me to cover a press conference. I was new in town and had never heard of the guy whose name was at the top: Rick Santorum. He’d been elected the previous year to represent Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. > > My story in the next day’s paper began this way: “Sen. Rick Santorum threw a news conference yesterday, but there was one hitch: He forgot to tell the host.’’ > > … > … > …The press conference was held at a shelter for homeless mothers and children in West Philadelphia. I called to confirm some details and was told by the dumbfounded director that there certainly was no press conference happening there. > > When I read to her from the news release, she said that the senator was simply due to stop by and meet privately - privately - with staffers and a mother on welfare. > > “We generally don’t do press conferences here on behalf of politicians,’’ the director explained and then lobbed my question back to me: “What’s the press conference about?’’ > > We were soon to find out. Santorum swept into the shelter and, as I wrote, “patted his red power tie, fastened his middle jacket button, stuck his hands in his pockets and addressed the TV cameras. Homeless women and children who live in the temporary shelter had been shooed out of the lobby.’ > … > … > … > > Back in 1995, Santorum said he had stopped in at the shelter to “see how we’re doing, to see if the things we have put in the [welfare reform] bill are working.’’ He went on to say that family and friends - not the government - should provide day care. > > … > .. > … > > Santorum had his own words to explain things. As he told one mother with five children, who had completed an office skills course and was looking for a job: “The key is work, responsibility, and attitude, right?’’ > > The woman nodded. > > “To make you be responsible, right?’’ > > Again, she nodded. > > But she had two words for Santorum: “Day care. I came here and that’s what made the biggest difference for me.’’ She was referring to the care the center provided her while she was studying. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/92 "2012-02-22T02:55:17Z")
> [@Alley\_Dweller](#): > > 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. Heh, I went to a Catholic college that asked Rick Santorum to give a commencement speech. He went into a long lecture blaming Columbine on working mothers\*. Several students and at least one faculty member walked off stage. Later he was told he would not be welcome back. HA! Yeah, insult a good portion of your audience. Smooth moove, Ricky. \*Originally I was told the subject was abortion, but when I googled for and article about it, I found out otherwise. Unfortunately, I’m looking but I can no longer find it. Shit. At any rate, the topic shouldn’t matter, I suppose. The fact that he pissed off a _Catholic_ college should be enough. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/93 "2012-02-22T02:56:49Z")
[“If we look at the shape of Mainline Protestantism in this country, it is a shambles. It is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT9bbadUapo&feature=player_embedded) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/94 "2012-02-22T03:09:03Z")
Triangular. Or maybe rhomboid. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/95 "2012-02-22T03:10:43Z")
> [@Snarky\_Kong](#): > > You think Santorum has a better show of beating Obama than Santorum? Well, _ **I** _ certainly think that… wait, what? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/96 "2012-02-22T03:21:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Well, _ **I** _ certainly think that… > > wait, what? 😕 Replace the second instance with Romney. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/97 "2012-02-22T03:24:15Z")
The question is, can Santorum defeat Santorum? The answer is, it [Depends](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depend). ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/98 "2012-02-22T03:35:59Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > It’s better for Obama if Romney is the nominee, but it’s better for America if Santorum wins the GOP nomination. Ideology divorced of reason, compassion or compromise has been the GOP battle plan for some time, it needs to go, and I can think of no better flagship to put it on full display than the USS Santorum. There are two problems with this plan. [ol] [li]Voters.[/li][ul] [li]There are people out there who hate Obama so much they will vote for anyone to get him out of office.[/li][li]There are lots of hardcore Republicans out there who will vote Republican no matter who the nominee is.[/li][li]There are a lot of really, really stupid people out there who believe the drivel being spoon fed them by the likes of O’Reilly and Limbaugh.[/li][/ul] [li]The Republican Party appears to have ceased to exist as anything but a vehicle for the most hardline conservatives. Should Santorum win the nomination but lose the election, I can almost guarantee you that the party response will not be, “Damn, maybe we went too far. How’s about we move a bit back more to the middle?” It will be, “Damnit, I knew we weren’t conservative enough! We gotta double-down on our hardline Christianity and tax cuts! Who’s next?”[/li][/ol] ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/99 "2012-02-22T04:08:14Z")
This isn’t here yet? When I saw this on last night’s round of news shows I thought for sure someone would run to post it. > [@](#): > > 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. Stupid made-up right to privacy making whores of us all! [Watch him say that here.](http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/20/10460819-santorum-privacy-ruined-everything?fb_ref=.T0McdikpwWg.like&fb_source=home_multiline) ---
**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 22, 2012, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417/100 "2012-02-22T04:27:07Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Stupid made-up right to privacy making whores of us all! [Watch him say that here.](http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/20/10460819-santorum-privacy-ruined-everything?fb_ref=.T0McdikpwWg.like&fb_source=home_multiline) He’s absolutely right! There is no such thing as a right to privacy in the constitution. The government has the right to tell you what to do in your bedroom, who to do it with, and when to do it. The government may monitor you to ensure that sex is for procreation only. If we do not do this, then we are no more than animals rutting in the mud. Filthy animals screwing for pure pleasure. Groaning and moaning with lust as they perform in a wide variety of positions and maybe even with many partners at the same time, and with pictures and everything and Oh my God!!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-santorumisms/613417.md?page=6)