It’s my expectation that’s probably an example of playing to people like the 24% of Republicans who think Obama is the Antichrist. Apparently the Christian Apocalypse fans have a whole conspiracy theory going about how US military bases have guillotines all set up for the upcoming mass beheading of Christians by the Antichrist/New World Order. Google Christianity + guillotines and you’ll get quite the eyeful of lunacy.
That’s a good catch. It’s sort of like when people say being gay is a choice, they are pretty much outing themselves as bisexual or gay.
Speaking as an actual straight man, I realize I could not choose to be sexually attracted to men. Hell, I don’t even choose which women I’m attracted to, let alone the fact that it is women.
Or really, anything that’s a matter of taste. I didn’t choose to like spaghetti and pepperoni pizza any more than I chose to find women attractive. Dieting would be a heck of a lot easier if people could just say “OK, from now on I like brussel sprouts and cabbage” and make it so.
I thought you were exaggerating… Holy spit! Those people have foresworn human intellect and are thinking entirely out of their anuses!
(Sheesh! Even my anus can think more clearly than those guys!)
This stuff makes the Time Cube look rational in comparison!
Don’t forget Man On Dog…
The first time he meets the Pope, he’ll probably lecture the guy for not being Catholic enough.
Yeah, but Rick being a Catholic wouldn’t believe in the whole Apocalypse thing – that’s a Protestant belief.
Rick’s just fucking scary.
He reminds me of the OLD Family Guy, where Peter hijacks the Pope (JPII, wow it’s old) to convince his dad to be nicer. His father then proceeds to harangue John Paul for not being strict enough.
Also, sometimes I think that the old adulterer Gingrich is a better Catholic than Santorum. The latter is pretty much a fundamentalist. You’re not required to believe in things like evolution (or contraception even, if you’re American…) if you’re a Catholic, but not believing puts you a bit outside the mainstream.
Whoa, we have guillotines on our military bases? Cool.
There will always be the base, in America winning with 60% of the popular vote is a twice in a century landslide.
The FOX news spin crap is *why *Santorum is great, Romney will never be the GOP’s boy, if nominated FOX and friends will throw bile at Obama relentlessly and WHEN Romney loses that’ll be ok because conservatives really didn’t care for him anyway, but the hostility for Obama will remain, the divisiveness will continue to fester.
If Santorum is nominated the core of Republican values will be on display, uncompromised, for the moderates they’ll be polished and refined to trigger ancient animosities but from the mouth of Santorum they’ll come off as intransigent, xenophobic, and backward. And you naysayers will argue he’ll refine his image and polish his turds but I disagree, what Palin is to stupid he is to ‘family values’, and this election will change the meaning for Americans of those two words.
A typical example of government inefficiency and waste. The private sector would come up with some kind of mass decapitation device from a helicopter rotor and Ginsu stake knives.
Wow. Because the military needs guillotines to kill people quickly and efficiently? Or is this some sort of Highlander thing, where the head must be removed to absorb their epic faith power?
I hear they’re stored in the brass ball at the top of the flag pole.
It has to be decapitation to fulfill a prophecy in Revelation. Still, I would think American ingenuity could improve on 18th century technology from the French Revolution for separating heads from necks. Maybe if we got Apple Computer working on it…
:eek: At least we can look forward to full employment for us tumbrel drivers!
For the Xian zombie vampyres, right? 
What, ya think Jesus Christ Superstar and/or Godspell* would just be way too easy for the Universe to pull off?
CMC fnord!
- Being a Methodist, in the 1970’s, leads directly to knowing way too many songs from Godspell. I swear Reverend Phil (AKA the Minister of Music) never looked like a hippie!
Well, I misread yours, I NEVER thought it was directed at me…so we are even and happy !!
I’m really suprised Ricky’s anti-evolution stance hasn’t become MORE of an issue…google Santorum Amendment.
Naw, a guy like you, with no self-control would probably get as big as a house AND cause localized cabbage and brussels sprouts shortages.
Not to mention really adding to greenhouse gas emissions!
Does anyone else think there’s a possibility that Santorum is actually gay, knows he’s gay, and his total obsession with ensuring all things are ‘non-gay’ is his way of reflecting this and convincing himself otherwise? There’s just too much anger, smugness and superiority in his actions for him to be anything other than a repressed, guilt-ridden closeted man with what he sees as a huge gorilla on his back.
I think the same thing of Old Freddie Phelps too – huge amounts of guilt hidden by religious fervour, constantly berating others for their ‘sins’, having lots and lots of kids to ‘prove’ his heterosexual manlinessand deflect attention from his real cravings etc… Same story as the old guy in ‘American Beauty’too.
Methinks he doth protest too much. They all protest too much. MUCH too much.
Is everybody sitting down?
Apparently his statements about a ten percent euthanasia rate, and half of those involuntary - are untrue.
He’s becoming Rick Perry hilarious.