Rick Santorum

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited January 2012 in The bottom bracket
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/ja ... torum-iowa

Apart from his homophobia, sexism, warmongering, climate change denial, belief in creationism, and likening of liberalism to paedophilia, he seems like an alright kind of fella.

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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    He's anti abortion, in any situation, even though his wife was saved from death (so the story goes) by precisely that.
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  • bianchimoon
    bianchimoon Posts: 3,942
    afx237vi wrote:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/04/history-of-rick-santorum-iowa

    Apart from his homophobia, sexism, warmongering, climate change denial, belief in creationism, and likening of liberalism to paedophilia, he seems like an alright kind of fella.
    Heard him on TV this morning, makes you worry for the future of humanity :(
    All lies and jest..still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest....
  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    Fast forward to 2013 and he'll have been caught with an underage rent boy. Always happens.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    thegreatdivide wrote:
    Fast forward to 2013 and he'll have been caught with an underage rent boy. Always happens.

    Haha, I thought the exact same thing. The phrase "he doth protest too much" springs to mind.
  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    The man's a nutter !!!
    God help us if he gets in the driving seat !!!
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  • crown_jewel
    crown_jewel Posts: 545
    He is certifiable. It's best not to watch this election year in America. Not gonna be pretty.
  • Mike Healey
    Mike Healey Posts: 1,023
    I occasionally wonder why evangelical christians don't follow Leviticus and call for the return of the death penalty for witches, since both witchcraft and homosexuality call for it in the Old Testament. Strange, that.

    "Thou shalt not sufffer a witch to live" - Salem, bring it on!
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  • crankycrank
    crankycrank Posts: 1,830
    Our presidential candidates must be quite amusing to the rest of the world. If I wasn't crying myself to sleep every night thinking of the possibility that one of these arseclowns gets elected I would be laughing as well. :shock: Mrs. Thatcher seemed left wing next to this bunch.
  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    He's freakin' mental that man is. Please say that there is no way he can get elected? Pleeease?
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    crankycrank wrote:
    Our presidential candidates must be quite amusing to the rest of the world. If I wasn't crying myself to sleep every night thinking of the possibility that one of these arseclowns gets elected I would be laughing as well. :shock: Mrs. Thatcher seemed left wing next to this bunch.

    :lol:

    The number of people who voted for him is a bit of a worry, but I wonder if even the powers that be in Tehran are watching CNN and thinking, "WTF? This guy's a mentalist!"

    This will be a fun campaign to watch.

    OT, Mitt Romney's wife's dad and granddad were Welsh, apparently.
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  • Gizmodo
    Gizmodo Posts: 1,928
    Type 'santorum' into Google or Bing and see what the top result is. His competitors seem to have setup a website to muddy his name. :D
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  • Keith47
    Keith47 Posts: 158
    He is insane. End of.
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  • neiltb
    neiltb Posts: 332
    you have to wonder whether he can really believe some of the stuff he says!
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  • Yossie
    Yossie Posts: 2,600
    Gizmodo wrote:
    Type 'santorum' into Google or Bing and see what the top result is. His competitors seem to have setup a website to muddy his name. :D

    Type Santorum into The Urban Dictionary and see what you get ....

    Personally I'm too scared to post it on here.
  • crown_jewel
    crown_jewel Posts: 545
    He actually believes it should be illegal to have sex outside marriage. And then he gets crazier.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    There has to be an appropriate anagram of his name.

    I see the word anus but then get a mental block for some reason. :lol:
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Remember the reason for the Galactic President in Hitchhiker's Guide folks!
    "a role that involves no power whatsoever, and merely requires the incumbent to attract attention so no one wonders who's really in charge"
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  • proto
    proto Posts: 1,483
    edited January 2012
    I think a better reference from Hitch Hiker's Guide would be this:
    To summarize: it is a well known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

    The Book (Peter Jones) speaking, if I remember correctly.
  • Aggieboy
    Aggieboy Posts: 3,996
    Frank the tank wrote:
    There has to be an appropriate anagram of his name.

    I see the word anus but then get a mental block for some reason. :lol:


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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    Ron Paul's interesting.
    The rest of them are mental.
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  • crankycrank
    crankycrank Posts: 1,830
    TheStone wrote:
    Ron Paul's interesting.
    The rest of them are mental.
    Interesting, yes. Mental, oh yessss!! http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/ ... etters.php
  • mask of sanity
    mask of sanity Posts: 610
    To even stand a chance in US politics there are a number of things you have to claim to believe/reject:
    1) Evolution - either reject it, imply that it's on equal grounds with intelligent deign, believe it's controlled by god or that it's 'microevolution' only.
    2) climate change - reject it
    3) religion - have to be Christian and generally reject the idea of separation of church and state
    4) abortion - be against it
    6) gays - be against same sex marriage
    7) socialist healthcare - reject it and misrepresent countries that have a better healthcare system then their own (a lot!!!)
    8 ) Stem cell - only allow state funding for adult stem cells

    America is f*cked! I swear half of them don't believe what they say, they just have to say it due to the stupidity of a large proportion of the US population. I'm glad I don't live there!!
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... idates-say
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  • crown_jewel
    crown_jewel Posts: 545
    mask of sanity wrote:
    To even stand a chance in US politics there are a number of things you have to claim to believe/reject:
    1) Evolution - either reject it, imply that it's on equal grounds with intelligent deign, believe it's controlled by god or that it's 'microevolution' only.
    2) climate change - reject it
    3) religion - have to be Christian and generally reject the idea of separation of church and state
    4) abortion - be against it
    6) gays - be against same sex marriage
    7) socialist healthcare - reject it and misrepresent countries that have a better healthcare system then their own (a lot!!!)
    8 ) Stem cell - only allow state funding for adult stem cells

    America is f*cked! I swear half of them don't believe what they say, they just have to say it due to the stupidity of a large proportion of the US population. I'm glad I don't live there!!

    This does describe the Republican agenda. Most Americans describe themselves as independent, with Democrats second most common, and Republicans last. So thankfully the group who believes the above is a distinct minority. Loud, but a minority.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,174
    Crown Jewel wrote:
    mask of sanity wrote:
    To even stand a chance in US politics there are a number of things you have to claim to believe/reject:
    1) Evolution - either reject it, imply that it's on equal grounds with intelligent deign, believe it's controlled by god or that it's 'microevolution' only.
    2) climate change - reject it
    3) religion - have to be Christian and generally reject the idea of separation of church and state
    4) abortion - be against it
    6) gays - be against same sex marriage
    7) socialist healthcare - reject it and misrepresent countries that have a better healthcare system then their own (a lot!!!)
    8 ) Stem cell - only allow state funding for adult stem cells

    America is f*cked! I swear half of them don't believe what they say, they just have to say it due to the stupidity of a large proportion of the US population. I'm glad I don't live there!!

    This does describe the Republican agenda. Most Americans describe themselves as independent, with Democrats second most common, and Republicans last. So thankfully the group who believes the above is a distinct minority. Loud, but a minority.

    Nah, that describes the Democrat agenda - the Republican's are far more right wing than that :wink:
  • crown_jewel
    crown_jewel Posts: 545
    Hahaha. You may have a point.

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