It is ALWAYS the fault of someone or something else. ALWAYS.

Conservatism fail? No way. I HAS to be something else.

(And the delusional reality from stupid will ALWAYS find a way to continue.)

The more I listen to this guy; the more I am convinced the Teapubs have no chance...No chance in Hell

Mix in a little MccArthyism, a little Sarah Palin, a sprinkle of Rush Limbaugh, a splash of David Duke with some Catholisism; and you get a case of inbreeding gone wrong....phew...No chance

… we’ll just take care of our own problems. We’ll just get our families off to work and our kids off to school and we’ll be okay. So with the optimistic spirit of America, sometimes, sometimes it’s not okay. It’ll be harder for this generation to figure it out. There’s no cataclysmic event.”

So Rick was the economic melt down of 2008/2009 not a cataclysmic event? Rick's idea of fixing things is to go in reverse with the Tea Begs and the rest of the GOP. Ahh... the good old days only they weren't so good.

Yeah that’s right Rick, blame the media for repeating things that YOU said…… Some how I get my head around this 'holy-er than thou' idiot becoming President......I can't imagine why.

"something like 65% of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction"

It's probably higher than that, but they don't all blame it on the President. The same polls show him ahead of Romney by 6-8 points.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we need someone who understands, who comes from the coal fields, who comes from the steel mills, who understands what average working people in America need to be able to provide for themselves and their families,” he said.

Rick, who the heck are you talking about? Lots of people's grandparents were poor. That doesn't mean you have the slightest clue how the 99% live.

Obama WAS Hitler. In his capacity as a time traveling Muslim space alien terrorist, he personally started WWII. You won't hear the mainstream media say that, but they're terrorists too.

*sigh*

Tell me, fellow Americans, just how effing stupid do you have to be to believe that? And yet, right around 15% of us think that crap is true.

Maybe when the Chinese take over, they'll be able to get this country back on track. When people like Ricky Santorum get this much attention, we are obviously not intelligent enough to take care of ourselves.

which poll is that?

This bible thunping goody two-shoes needs to go the way of ole delusional Bachman and GO AWAY....

“Ladies and gentlemen, we need someone who...understands what average working people in America need to be able to provide for themselves and their families,”

So how can you be focused on what 'average working people in America need' when you're so busy attacking other people's theology, attacking prenatal care and a woman's right to reproductive services and contraception, making vague, inarticulate and downright baffling references to WW II, and worrying about whether gays people are allowed to marry each other?

It is ALWAYS the fault of someone or something else. ALWAYS.

Does he even realize he is using the already over played Palin card; It's the liberal media's fault.

And Rick's grandfather was poor in Italy.

Santorum the Vatican candidate once again is out of touch with 88% of the people of the USA ..His silly cult beliefs make him ANTI AMERICAN..he will divide the USA not unite us !

Was he comparing Obama to Hitler outright? No, but he certainly was making an insinuation that he thinks will carry him toward the front of the right-wing voters. Curious also is why it is only Christian morals that the government "steps on". Catholics can refuse to allow access to birth control, but ask if Muslims should be allowed to force their girls to cover their heads and they'll scream 1st amendment rights!

I have to admit I'm disgusted by all of them on both sides. Our political system has degenerated into an attempt to get power or hold power, while purposefully accomplishing nothing to make the other party look bad. Even when a party is in full control they blame the other for their inability to accomplish anything. And basically WE suffer.

Behold the fall of the once mighty empire known as America. We died not with a bang, but with the shrug of a shoulder...

Hmmm... Rick Santorum must have a terrible temper and anger management issues - because his family and friends are too afraid to tell him the truth. None of them have had the courage to take Mr. Santorum aside, and let him know that his chances of getting elected POTUS are the exact same as him becoming the next Grand Vizier of BoogaBoogistan. Mr. Santorum's wacky and conservative Christian religious views and beliefs will not fly with most voters.

Does Rick have any idea exactly how ignorant he sounds when he opens his mouth? A third grader can speak more eloquently and make more sense. For example:

Obviously, World War Two was pretty obvious.

It's obvious that Rick is not bright enough to make an intelligible speech, much less run a country.

In front of the Ohio Christian Alliance, he said the 2010 health-care bill signed by the president encourages aborting children with disabilities by requiring prenatal testing that can detect if a child will not be born healthy.

Where is it stated that anyone is required to have amniocentesis or any other type of prenatal testing?

This guy is a nutcase. The only reason that he is doing as well as he is in the polls is because the media have to sensationalize everything. They did this with Gingrich a few weeks ago, resulting in his surging in the polls. Now he is a nobody. Santorum would not be doing as well as he is doing if the media didn't create a frenzy in order to sell newspapers, magazines, get people to click on their stories on-line, etc.

Xdollz: While you are looking at the polls, look at the rest of them. All of the GOP contenders are polling very low, while Obama has an approval rating at around 50%. To put things into a poll perspective, it is pretty obvious Romney isn't doing so hot, and then you have Paul and Gingrich polling between 1 and 3% above the option "None/Any/Unsure."

To the contrary of your comment, Obama's chances are looking pretty good. I predict a close general vote, comfortable electoral win. PollingReport.com has the best overview of all national polls. Check it out.

"when I was rambling on and on about how americans were being optimistic hoping Hitler would end up being an alright guy, and I kept trying to draw parallels to today, I wasnt comparing Obama to Hitler and how today people are being optimistic and thinking Obama MIGHT be a good guy, until it's too late and we realize he isnt a good guy...oh no, we already know Obama is the anti-christ...it's just that half this nation isnt waking up to that reality. Unlike WWII we are trying to sound the alarms. No, the only parallel im trying to make is that 1/2 this nation wont wake up to Adolph Obama, I mean Barak Obama's evil ways and we are tired of waiting until all the jews are burned in internment camps. I dont understand why the Liberal Media always twists what I say, Obama is simply the anti-christ...we're just trying to save America from being absolutely destroyed by his muslim afro-centric theology or ideology or whatever you want to call it, I know Obama's a Christian...see there you go again, twisting my words" - Santorum

I guess the hate for Obama gins up the fake excitement for these nutcases?

glad im not a republican....

InPS,

Your post is full of bigoted words:"Vatican candidate" "silly cult". Please stop it.

Santorum can be critiqued for being anti science, anti women's rights, against funding of education, even a narrow understanding of his religious beliefs as a Catholic.

These views do indeed divide him from mainstream voters.

A few more interesting facts about Rick Santorum:

As a Butler Area public schools student he was nicknamed "Rooster," supposedly for both for a cowlick strand of hair and an assertive nature.

Santorum added a provision to the 2001 No Child Left Behind bill that would have provided more freedom to schools in teaching about the origins of life, including the teaching of intelligent design along with evolution. The bill, with the Santorum Amendment included, passed the Senate 91-8 and was hailed as a victory by intelligent design theory promoters. Before the bill became law, however, scientific and educational groups successfully urged the conference committee for the bill to strike the Santorum Amendment from the final bill. Intelligent design supporters in Congress then preserved the language of the Santorum Amendment in the conference committee report of the legislative history of the bill. The Discovery Institute and other intelligent design proponents point to this report as "a clear endorsement by Congress of the importance of teaching a variety of scientific views about the theory of evolution." In 2002, Santorum called intelligent design "a legitimate scientific theory that should be taught in science classes."

Santorum introduced the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 which would have prohibited the National Weather Service from publishing weather data for free to the public where private-sector entities performed the same function commercially. The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association was galvanizing support to lobby against the bill, but it never passed committee. The motivations surrounding the bill were controversial, as employees of AccuWeather, a commercial weather company which is based in Pennsylvania, donated $10,500 to Santorum and his PAC. The liberal advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington subsequently listed Rick Santorum as one of its "most corrupt politicians", citing the bill as one of several reasons.

Santorum's endorsements have been identified as factors in his 2006 defeat. Despite then-President George W. Bush having a 38% approval rating in Pennsylvania, Santorum said in a debate that "I think he's been a terrific president, absolutely."

Now you know.

Santorum is as close as anyone could come to a certified "nut job". I don't understand WHY Republicans continue to try to combine church and state, and then attempt to declare the United States a purely "Christian" country when they KNOW that people first came here to have FREEDOM of religion.

I can't find anything I like in ANY of these Republicans, NONE OF THEM. Not to mention their behind the scenes planned attack on American Workers, the middle class, and American Senior Citizens.

Obama / Biden 2012

When you republican/tea bags defend santorum I just laugh. How can you defend stupid?

Senator Santorum is trying to spin his earlier comment by claiming that he does not understand the term "theology." Clearly when he attacked Obama's theology he was continuing the ridiculous accusation that President Obama was "attacking religion" when the decision was made to force religious organizations to include birth control in their medical insurance benefits. President Obama led a compromise decision that did not require those religious organizations to pay for birth control, but Republicans continued their "war on religion" charges. Santorum's charges on President Obama's "theology" was clearly a continuation of that specious argument.

Rick Santorum is wrong on several levels. President Obama has not increased environmental legislation substantially, much to the chagrin of many of his supporters. There is much damage remaining from the decimation of environmental regulation by the Bush administration yet to be rectified, so that the current state of environmental regulation has not yet returned to the Clinton administration levels.

Santorum's strange theology tells him that the Earth was "created" by God for the use of human beings. President Obama feels an obligation to preserve the Earth for future generations. What is wrong with that?

Santorum earned $1.3 million in 2010 and the first half of 2011. The largest portion of his employment earnings — $332,000 — came from his work as a consultant for industry interest groups, including Consol Energy and American Continental Group. Santorum also earned $395,414 in corporate director's fees and stock options from Universal Health Services, and $217,385 in income from the Ethics and Public Policy Center think tank.

Hey Rick, GET A JOB! (just not President)

American Girl - to be frank, the first people came here to have freedom to practice their religion, which was mostly Puritanism, and was very uncommon in Anglican England.

The thing is, it's 2011, and America is not a nation where only Christian ideologies dictate public policy. People like Santorum seemingly have a very difficult time understanding that, and the fact that our government is INTENDED to be run with a secular mindset. He's basically telling us that his individual beliefs will control his actions if he's elected, and not what's best for his constituents and the country. I get that that appeals to a certain section of America, but I honestly hope the majority of the country realizes exactly what is wrong with it, and him.

It looks like Obama/Biden in 2012.

No way, an idiot like Santorum can get more than maybe 40% of the vote in the general, and that is being generous.

Romney could come a lot closer, but the GOP is so messed up, they can't hold their nose long enough to nominate him.

The GOP is dead. I think the Tea Party had more to do with their death than anything else.

Last Summer, when they were willing to destroy the economy over stupid things like taxing the rich, they signed their own death warrant.

Now that the dialog has become birth control, they are, what did the Munchkins say? " ...morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely, undeniably, and reliably- dead!"

RIP the GOP. Tea Party bigots, you lose.

We Can Do It:

I don't like or agree with much of anything that comes out of the Republican Party of today. That said, and through enlightening arguments with friends, I've come to realize that I actually may have chose to be a Republican in previous generations of the party.

In principle, I agree with much of what a Republican is supposed to be, but they need to get rid of the extremists, lobbyists, and lock-in-step mentality of the party of today. It is a little telling when they all vote the same, say the same things, and give the same talking point based interviews on all of the networks. A little genuine thinking and speaking from the heart would go a long way with me. Instead, they get their morning emails on how to spin everything into overblown fear and pettiness.

Where are his handlers? The things he says are outrageous; and he apparently thinks his audience is dumb as he is. "As we all know, 90% of Down Syndrome kids are aborted". Absurd! There are absolutely no statistics to back this up.

He uses words that he doesn't know the meaning of. He doesn't know the difference between 'theology' and 'ideology'. Some kind of president he'd be--he'd need a translator by his side when talking to someone who speaks English.

What a fool.

For the last 2 election cycles I've listened, hoping to hear a candidate say HOW he/she would contribute to solving the problems WE face daily. Waiting for IDEAS to aid America in going forward and to continue to thrive as a nation.

But the GOP seems to have hit on a resolution they feel will work, even tho it did not in 2008. They should have been in the catbird's seat with having had 8 years of a Republican administration, but they skipped right over all that needed fixing about the economy, banking, investing, housing, and went straight to negative about the opposition, and blaming the media. NO thoughts, NO ideas, NO solutions, other than more of the same crap that had put us all at risk in the first place. Because local elections gave some successes, without national vetting or the electoral vote to consider, they seem intent on the same process.

And it's STILL apparently the ONLY action they seem to consider. Win. Win at all costs.

And that 'all costs' is the real bugger, isn't it? Because WE are the costs. Our children, and our homes, and our health, and sadly, apparently now also our faith are the costs. And yet they think blame is an accepted way of communication.

So, even though I only have ONE vote, it will NOT be won over on the negative, the pitiful, the needy, the whiny, blame game. I would not let my kids play it, and I won't accept it in ANY leader.

The Republicans' dirty campaigns against each other are a strong indicator that its Ole Boy Network will stop at nothing to fight an even filthier campaign against President Obama. These stop-at-nothing oligarchs prove over and over again that they would run a rabid squirrel as a Presidential candidate, if they thought the nasty little thing would advance their interests.

Meanwhile, Rickety Dick Santorum owes a lifetime's worth of apologies and penance to actual members of the Greatest Generation. This creep has made a career of dining lavishly at the public trough, while whining about the morals of anyone who doesn't feel like handing him the dessert tray.

Speaking as a Baby Boomer, I see in Santorum the absolute Ground Zero worst of the Baby Boom generation. He is a self-righteous, spineless, cowardly, tantrum-throwing, crybaby bully, who reflexively blames anyone else for his deficiencies -- and yet he is also the face of an ugly, smug past that Americans need to put behind us.

From the article: "Today, Santorum did not use the word 'theology,' instead attacking the president's 'ideology.'"

So the GOP's favorite blithering idiot is crab-walking away from his hateful remarks and blaming the media for them? This sounds like Santorum is displaying a profound lack of personal responsibility and accountability! He's a true-blue Republican, all right!

I have yet to hear or see one Republican earn up to one of their stupid mistakes. To them it's always the fault of someone else.

I don't believe you. Lets see his school records. When he produces his transcripts, thats when I'll believe that. Prove it!

Despite your protestations to the opposite, DB Akron, by his sycophantic, knee-jerk pandering to his base, Rick Santorum really puts the id in idiot.

Mr. Santorum issued his "theology" remark while pandering to religious conservatives. He's now finding that such remarks won't carry him as far as he thought they might. And so now he's backtracking, saying in effect that he didn't mean what he had actually said.

As time goes on, it's going to become more and more difficult to determine whether Santorum actually means what he says, or whether he's merely throwing words around as he slices the air.

TO: mozzie-600 who wrote:

"Where are his handlers? The things he says are outrageous; and he apparently thinks his audience is dumb as he is. "As we all know, 90% of Down Syndrome kids are aborted". Absurd! There are absolutely no statistics to back this up.

He uses words that he doesn't know the meaning of. He doesn't know the difference between 'theology' and 'ideology'. Some kind of president he'd be--he'd need a translator by his side when talking to someone who speaks English.

What a fool."

You are exactly correct, but did you read last week where Grover Nordquist announced that is EXACTLY what Republicans are looking for? Nordquist said that Republicans DON'T want a thinker or a leader, all Republicans want is someone who will sign their name on whatever Nordquist hands them.

That means if Republicans were to get in, no matter which Republican they choose, it will STILL BE Grover Nordquist pulling all the strings.

Now didn't we overdose on that when Bush was in office, I sure did. Just say NO to Republican puppets!

Obama / Biden 2012

Real Amercian -

The liberal advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington subsequently listed Rick Santorum as one of its "most corrupt politicians", citing the bill as one of several reasons.

I looked into this Group and it's actual track record. What citizens for the Responsibility and Ethics does do is put together lists of possible facts that may or may not be connected. There are no memo's, no witnesses, no email, no interviews, no video tapes, no wiretaps - nothing but Santorum had this donor belonging to this industry, and Santorum voted for, sponored, or co-sponsored bills or amendments that MAY have benefited the donor.

On that list only in 2006 the only two or three "corrupt' polititians actually ended up in the ethics committee and 1 or 2 of those actually ended up in court. The one I remember was Rep. Jefferson of Louisiana.

Why Santorum was not returned was because he bought a house in Virginia, moved there and rented his Pittsburgh Home. I am from Western PA, I can tell you that the one thing they really hate is any politician who spends all their time out of state.

Bob Casey Jr was the son of a popular governor of Pennsylvania. He seized the moment of Santorum being out of state and cast him as an outsider, and out of touch and unsympathetic with Pennsylvanias because he moved.

Bob Casey has done only 2/3's of the work Santorum did while Santorum was still living full time in PA. Not only that, but Santorum nearly doubled his work output after moving to Virginia. The far majority of what Santorum did both while living in PA and Virgina was directed to benefiting Pennsylvania.

that means that santorum was delivering the earmarks and PORK BARREL to Pennsylvania and they KICKED HIS SORRY ASS TO THE CURB ANYWAY???

It comes down to this... Santorum cannot possibly represent me or mine or anyone I know with these asinine comments. His head is so far up his ass he can't even see the train coming his way. What a jerk.

Smitty

I don't believe you. Lets see his school records. When he produces his transcripts, thats when I'll believe that. Prove it!

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2011/08/26/santorum_to_visit_penn_state.aspx

http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/candidate/Rick-Santorum/

http://www.newson6.com/story/16976070/political

And Rick upon request probably will have no problem releasing his records. Nobody has asked yet - and you probably don't want to maintain a Rick is stupid Mantra.

Smitty.....and his Birth Certificate as well!!!!!! DB Akron....whilst I.Q. may quantify a level of smarts, it does not provide an adaquate measurement of the ability of the holder to use those smarts in a practical application "understanding is a virtue hard to come by".

" not a theology based on the Bible"

There is really no other way that can be interpreted, whether taken out of context or not.

db akron you probably don't want to maintain a rick is stupid Mantra. Why? Hey the rick is stupid mantra works well for him. Your defending stupid

I don't think any of thse people could be called truly stupid (although Perry might have been a special case). But you don't get to this level by being stupid. Stupid is just an overused term meaning "I don't agree with you and I can't be wrong, therefore you must be stupid, so that I can feel superior."

NOTE: Highly intelligent people have a higher than normal incidents of speech problems and dyslexia.

Wow! You must have an IQ over 200 based on your note. Here are all of your "speech problems and dyslexia" in bold. The corrections to your misinformation are in italics.

Really apreciate you(r) comment. I had neglected to completely follow up. I knew that Santorum was a Lawyer (BTW Obama is Not permitted to practice - he voluntarily surrendered his license in 2008. You might want to find out why). - His license is "Voluntarily Retired." He doesn't expect to ever use it again so why pay all the fees and pay for malpractice insurance. There are NO ISSUES OR DISCIPLINARY ACTIONS on record with the Illinois Bar.

Santorum is a Lawyer, - His law license is SUSPENDED, not for malfeasance but because he didn't bother to pay the licensing fee for multiple years. He could have avoided the fees by taking the administrative actions both Obamas took. Michelle filed the paperwork to make her's "Voluntarily Inactive" so she didn't have to pay the fees or carry insurance.

According to the PA disciplinary board, in order to get readmitted, Santorum would have to take "a minimum of thirty-six (36) hours of accredited PA CLE courses with a minimum twelve (12) of those hours in the area of Ethics."

By the way this is from multiple media sources - "His career highlight -- or at least the one drawing the most attention -- may have been representing the World Wrestling Federation. He lobbied state legislators in Harrisburg on the league's behalf, arguing that the oiled-up musclemen should be excused from federal steroid regulations." Way to go Rick!

Universities he attended were Penn State University & the University of Pittsburgh.

Degrees obtained - Bachelor of Arts in Political Science - With Honors, and an MBA in 1 year, and JD in Law with Honors.

That is a(n) IQ range of 135 - 145. - Where does this come from?

That is (a )degrees in 3 fields, not one like Obama. - Not that this matters, but Obama has two degrees, BA in Political Science and JD in Law.

Sorry, but those nasty little things called FACTS do matter even if the Republicans wish they could be ignored.

Palin via Tina Fey while channeling Santorum: It's the lame stream media twisting my words by repeating 'em verbatim?

LMAO.this never gets old. All we need to do is change the GOPher's name...

Of course he was comparing Obama to Hitler. This piece of misinformation sells well among the uninformed. In actual history, documented by Shirer (The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich), who was a correspondent in Germany during the 1930's, the German National People's Party (DNVP - the leading Conservative Party) formed an alliance with the Nazis (NDSAP) and helped Hitler rise to power in 1933. Right wingers who like to compare Obama to Hitler have it backward. They are the hard right wing of the Republican Party - the ultra-nationalist, hate-mongering group most like the Nazis. The DNVP was composed mostly of the wealthy aristocrats and millionaire industrialists -sound familiar?.

Well said, Bill.

Its become nauseating having to read story after story about men and women from the Neanderthal party, who have offered nothing, and resisted everything, in meeting the challenge to resurrect the economy from the economic treason committed by 10% of our banking, hedge funds, invest banks, rating agencies, and commodity traders.

Yet here we are hearing the same lines over and over again (for thirty years now) about "tax cut for the wealthy" defunding all oversight agencies of government" "dismantle the social systems of government" "in acting laws in states that deny white collar, blue collar, workers the ability to negotiate with states or private industry.

I say to the Charletons and Neanderthals PROVE IT, show where tax breaks have produced jobs, accelerated our economy. In the last 60 years the bottom feeders of job creation are as follows, G.W.Bush=.028%, G.H.Bush=.059%, R,Reagan=2.11%, The top three-LBJ=3.73%,J.Carter=3.11%, and B.Clinton=2.77%

In the last three years more manufacturing jobs have been created than in the last 15 years, coming from a economy headed for depression three years ago, I would say some in government have done a reasonably good job in spite of the neanderthals and charlatans of the GOP, who can claim absolutely no credit for the gains we see today, as they have opposed everything enacted to stabilize the economy.

I am an autistic retard and I'm NOT falling for Santorum's and the RW CONServative GOP Tea-publican's falsehoods and lies.

I was born and raised in Ohio. I thank the many good people in Ohio that looked after a severely poverty stricken boy with a good head on his shoulders. They bought wild blackberries from me that came from the thickets and briers of the wild. They laughed with me and offered home-made remedies when the chiggers made my life miserable(nail-polish on your privates, anyone? It worked!) .

The farmers agreed to allow me to glean corn from the harvested fields that their machinery had missed. The teachers allowed for a bright young boy to make up tests when he missed school to care for his ill mother or younger siblings. The local grocers allowed us to run a tab when my dead-beat dad was several days late with the child-support check. So did the poor elderly gentleman down the road that sold us coal by the bushel.

I wished to seek my fortune in a much more moderate climate in then lucrative Florida at the age of nineteen. I could never do so without the blessing of my benefactors. I traveled from the city of my employer to my childhood home 90 miles away to gain their approval. I was greeted with hearty hugs to see me again and best wishes in my new endeavor. A few tearful requests of when they would see me again was met by my own tears when I explained that I did not know.

I find it hard to believe that such a wise and heartfelt people would buy the goods peddled by Santorum. Their deeply held religious faith may attract someone like Santorum. Their wisdom of pretenders of faith will likely drive them to walk away in silence. I think this charlatan is barking up the wrong tree. Iowa seems the place to be, not Ohio.

Any person who questions the religious "theology" of any other individual must not have any faith in his or her own "theology".

Any person who compares any individual to Hitler, even through thinly veiled insinuation, must not have any ideas of their own to present.

Anyone who supports that person needs serious self-introspection and a thorough re-examination of his or her own values, or lack thereof.

Rick ... go get some air. You are a hateful man. And it aint presidential.

I watched a college lecture on CSPN over the weekend. It was about FDR and his presidency before Pearl Harbor. In 1932, 1936, and 1940 what were the Republicans talking about? How Social Security was a failure, onerous government regulation, a socialist president, freeing the banks from scrutiny, less taxes for the wealthy, class warfare being waged againist the rich, ending/stopping government jobs programs, activist judges and conservative morality issues. Exactly what they are talking about today. I guess their 78 LP is stuck. Guess they didn't get the memo: we live in a download world now.

Them voices! Them goddamn voices! They just keep ah dragging me down! Yep. Ricks purely pixilated.

A snowball's chance in hell. He will never, never, never, never get the nomination. The republicans KNOW this!!! Mac-Hi--larious!!!

Too bad Rick Sanitorium wasn't in "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". He would have fit right in but maybe not....even the lunatics have standards...."Med's Ricky!!!!!"

"Too bad Rick Sanitorium wasn't in "One flew over the cuckoo's nest". "

I think McMurphy would have whooped him out of disgust.

(BTW Obama is Not permitted to practice - he voluntarily surrendered his license in 2008. You might want to find out why).

I guess Republicans are allergic to facts.

I mean really! Do the people of this country want a leader, president, and spokesman for our country to be a person who does not know the difference between THEOLOGY and IDIOLOGY? If you think the answer is yes, you have a serious problem with being ignorant and stupid at the same time.

(BTW Obama is Not permitted to practice - he voluntarily surrendered his license in 2008. You might want to find out why).

I guess Republicans are allergic to facts.

It looks like MSNBC doesn't appreciate me posting links.

snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp

Scrambolo - it does appear that the GOP is well-versed in idiotology, however.

Devil's Son, those that fail to learn from past mistakes are destined to repeat them. Thank you for reminding us of a catastrophe in the past much like our own today. Thank you for reminding us that the same failed policies of yesterday are openly espoused today by many in powerful roles as government leaders. Thank you for reminding us that their opposition led this nation from dire straights to prosperity equal to none in the world history.

I find it incredible that a modern nation of people far more advanced than those in the 1930's would entertain following the policies of known losers of the fairly recent past. My Dad and his siblings were starving children during the Great Depression. He worships FDR for delivering their salvation. Yet he condemns President Obama for following in the footsteps of FDR. He insists that you can never spend yourself out of debt. I agree with him that a family or business budget can never do this.

Government is not a family or business. They are government required to spend on infrastructure and the unemployed to jump-start a depressed economy. The newly employed will contribute income taxes to handsomely pay for the government debt that may occur. The Hoover administration vs. the Roosevelt administration proves that starving the beast is a recipe for disaster. Feeding the fuel of the hard-working American people is the only way to reduce the debt and restore prosperity to all. Feeding that fuel also closes the great growing divide between the haves and have-nots.

I think that is the greatest cause of partisan divide in our country today. Feeding the rich more and more in the belief that we will soon become rich is false hope and lie for a fool. Feeding the average American with fair wages has always held the greatest hope for a prosperous nation, both for him and his wealthy employer.

Commonsense101 #1.65: Best expressed and most sensible comment I've seen today, including my own. Thanks

Commonsense - your tales are great. The problem with the conservative factions is they want those tales for themselves. But these are your tales, without the conservative spin. Poor Romney can't spin these as his own because he was born with a silver spoon. FDR was great, because despite being born with a silver spoon, he empathized with the common effort. You are a true American with a great narrative. Please keep telling it to anyone who will listen, and more importantly, to anyone that appreciates the effort of what is Americanism.

Message to the rightwing lemmings:

You are doing a MIGHTY GREAT disservice NOT only to yourselves but to the whole country if you support this extreme LUNATIC Sanatorium to run this country. Take off the rose colored glasses, and see the truth. You guys really need to let true facts sink in your brainwash noggins.

The GOPers have NO ideas how to fix this economy, and are held in bondage to their oligarch donors who controls them. THUS, the promise of jobs in their 2010 campaign, was a big lie!! The trickle down economics has not and will not work! So now, they will campaign on social debates to cajole your conservative sensibilities. But the truth is their plans ONLY makes matter worse.

One example: Repeal healthcare - so pre-existing conditions is no longer covered - including pregnancy! And they don't want abortion, but they will cut the healthcare needed by women for a healthy pregnancy. So no prenatal healthcare?! No birth control pills to prevent unwanted pregnancies, that may end up as a pre-existing condition? And if the woman/couple is/are jobless, how will she feed this child? Or what if born to an abusive person - then you have child abuse issues. Plus all the GOPer cuts on education, so we'll bring up illiterate children in this country?!! GOPers wants war as it's a profit for the 1% (Haliburton) So, will they bring the draft back, if nobody signs up? They don't want gays or women in the military, so is their purpose to make women as breeding mares for future soldiers?? This goes on and on and on.

Bottom line, all the GOPers really care is getting your vote, but DON'T expect that you will get anything in return to save your miserable life!! So save yourself time and gas, and forget your lying and ugly candidates.

I am just glad we have a very sensible president that in spite of all the blockage, have manage to do a lot, and stir us to the right direction. If these VILE Rethugs stop being obstructionists and actually listen to their constituents, they will be on the side of the president, and most likely we will even be much farther ahead in resolving our problems. So be part of the solution and NOT the problem. Forget your god-awful candidates.

Subsailor - Clinton never gave his license up before becoming president. What lawyers will tell you is that the only time you voluntarily give up your license is to avoid the black mark of having your license revoked. In Obama's case, he lied on his application for the Bar exam.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&source=hp&q=clinton+law+license+suspended&aq=1&aqi=g2g-m1&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=19e9ee15f54a17c0&biw=1117&bih=354

And Smitty - doesn't feel so good when the shoe is on the other foot? Santorum doesn't have any more need to show his record than Obama does. Fair is fair!

Rick Santorum is historically correct that the US sat on the sidelines while WWII started. But he doesn't want to mention the reason why. Roosevelt wanted to join the war in '39, but couldn't, because the conservatives, as it was, the Rick Santorums of the day, wouldn't allow it. They were either, like Ron Paul, strictly isolationist, or, like others, sympathizers with Nazi Germany. So, since Rick brings it up, should we ask the question: Why did you conservatives oppose fighting the greatest evil to confront humanity in the twentieth century?

Just stick a fork in the whole Republitard line up. They're done. NONE are electable and the GOP knew it going into this thing because after the village idiot from Texas and his eight years, the GOP knew they didn't stand a chance against Obama. There's just too much money to be made in elections of this scale so they had to have a field of some sort.

NOTE: Highly intelligent people have a higher than normal incidents of speech problems and dyslexia.

DB Akron - How about citing a source for your statement? While you are at it, post a citation for where you gleaned that Santorum has an IQ in the 135-145 range, or is that something that you heard on Fox News? You statements mean absolutely nothing coming from someone who struggles with proper spelling, grammar and punctuation such as yourself, as noted by subsailor585, unless you can back them up with references. BTW, Political Science is the major usually chosen by students who are too lazy or ignorant to follow any other career. It's equivalent to a degree in art history...useless. Earning an MBA in one year is not unusual and certainly doesn't suggest higher than normal intelligence. A degree in law is also unimpressive. Do you have any idea how many people in this country with a JD in Law are unemployed, not because of the economy but because there are too many in that field? It's an easy degree, something that those who can't do anything else obtain.

Rick calls some members of the press "less than erudite". Anyone with even the slightest modicum of erudition will inform you, with utmost veracity, that even the lowliest of the lowest members of the press, those that now work for Murdoch, are far more erudite than little Ricky. Ricky, over the last weekend, has proved himself to be the culmination of the dumbing down of America.

I loved this one from DB Akron-

...does do is put together lists of possible facts that may or may not be connected. There are no memo's, no witnesses, no email, no interviews, no video tapes, no wiretaps - nothing

kind of sounds like anything you might catch on the Faux News Network....

“Ladies and gentlemen, we need someone who understands, who comes from the coal fields, who comes from the steel mills, who understands what average working people in America need to be able to provide for themselves and their families,” he said.

OOPS: The majority of coal miners and steel mill workers are PRO-UNION because they KNOW that the Owners will not assist in their general welfare (PAY) and Safety (OSHA).

PS: What Party opened their doors in the 50's and 60's and welcomed the "Dixiecrats, the Southern Democrats, the Segregationists, the Neo-Nazis, the Neo-Facists, the White Supremest, the KKK, and the wacko-Fundamentalists, and now those from the Libertarian Party?

Vote "R" and you will find out. They have sold their Souls to the Corporate Store, Koch Bros. included.

Degrees obtained - Bachelor Political Science - With Honors, and an MBA in 1 year, and JD in Law with Honors.

That is a IQ range of 135 - 145.

NOTE: Highly intelligent people have a higher than normal incidents of speech problems and dyslexia.

Sources please! Where in the hell did you get the idea that the number of degrees held can determine IQ within a 10-point range? People taking standard IQ tests can vary 10 points from test to test. As for intelligent people having higher incidences... I simply have to see a source on this!

Everything that is not correct, is because it is a misunderstanding. Now it is Santorum's turn to backpedal. Before it was Mitt's 'I do not care about the poor' and 'I love firing people'. Before that Newt's 'English is the language of prosperity' and there is of course his questionable, and quite liberal, family values. When will it end? When will people realize that these are a bunch of idiots fighting to be first in line. This is very close to a self repeating episode of the 'Three Stooges'. Clearly, idiocy is pervasive in the GOP.

Then, of course, there is is comment by one of the blind ones here....

Just look at the polls.. something like 65% of Americans think the country is heading in the wrong direction.

I ask you... WHAT POLLS?!??! The ones run by Faux News??? Then, I would have to say that that number is probably incorrect, as I am sure they made it higher than that. If you asked me I would tell you that most of the people I speak to are optimistic about where we are. Is it as good as it can be? OF COURSE NOT! Is it better than it was when Bush left office? ABSOLUTELY.

You people, (you know who you are), need to stop and think for yourselves. Stop allowing Faux to tell you what to think. GROW AN OPINION for yourselves. Emancipate yourselves from the stupidity that you surrounds you. Life is not great, then again, it will never be. If it is not what we have to bitch about now, we would find something else to bitch about.

Every time Santorum opens his mouth, he puts his Tea Bag in hot water. Do we want a president who can't say what he means or mean what he says?

Man up, Ricky, and issue an apology to President Obama. Then go back to lobbying...that's all you're good for.

That is a IQ range of 135 - 145.

That is a degrees in 3 field not one like Obama.

NOTE: Highly intelligent people have a higher than normal incidents of speech problems and dyslexia.

Hope you aren't choking over the feet you logged in the back of your throat!

Santorum thinks Intelligent Design is a 'legitimate scientific theory"....

1) it's not a scientific theory
2) anyone that thinks it is a scientific theory has whatever other academic accomplishments immediately negated by the overwhelming stupidity of intelligent design.

Basically, someone could get a bunch of degrees and then join the Flat Earth Society - same thing here. That person would be an idiot, regardless of how many degrees they have.

the Vatican candidate once again is out of touch with 88% of the people of the USA ..His silly cult beliefs make him ANTI AMERICAN

You're as bad as the people saying that President Obama is a foreigner and trying to stir up hatred because his father was from Kenya.

A quarter of all Americans are Catholic. Most of them voted for President Obama. A lot of them do not like Rick Santorum. And far from being a cult, there are over a billion Catholics world wide and 65 million self-professed Catholics in the United States. As a religion, it dates back 2,000 years and was founded in the Middle East by a man named Jesus.

The Vatican does not run candidates in US elections, any more than President Obama is a foreign terrorist plant.

The only thing that makes Santorum look good in this election, is the virulent, uninformed bigotry against Catholics, such as the drivel you profess.

Opposing freedom of religion, and attempting to oppress the largest single religious denomination in America is what is ANTI-AMERICAN.

As time goes on, it's going to become more and more difficult to determine whether Santorum actually means what he says, or whether he's merely throwing words around as he slices the air.

As time goes on, it sounds more and more like Santorum is merely spouting off whatever nonsense he thinks will appeal to 'the base' and making a pig's ear out of it at that.

The see-saw popularity of candidates like Santorum and Gingrich underscore one poignant fact: Mitt Romney would make a horrible President.

As a religion, it dates back 2,000 years and was founded in the Middle East by a man named Jesus.

I love you, commonsense, but that statement is not factual. I'm sure you didn't mean to write that.

@ DB Akron...." he voluntarily surrendered his license in 2008. You might want to find out why"

Pres. Obama voluntarily retired his license and Michelle voluntarily placed her license on inactive status. These actions are quite common when a lawyer does not work in a field requiring an active license. I hope you were not trying to give credence to the disproved e-rumors/lies that there was any impending disciplinary reason for this action. There most definitely was not. Unless you are intentionally perpetuating lies, you should do your own research. If I misunderstood your intent, please excuse me.

Love how DB Akron has yet to address the facts posted after his last attempt to distract with nonsense about law degrees and how much work Santorum did before getting fired by the people of PA. Reality's well known liberal bias, bites again.

Let's face facts:

The GOP as a whole do not care about the well being of America, they care about the person or corporations who give them money. If they widen the gap of rich and poor, the poor could have a boot on their neck for centuries to come. The GOP would love for the Federal government to disappear but forget this nation is not made up of GOP men voters.

Not only do the GOP attack teachers, cops and fire fighters, they attack anyone who has a decent job. Any young teen and women between the ages of 13 to 50. On top of getting rid of Social Security.

What blows my mind is the thought of any man, woman or young adult voting for the GNOP.

In my state Virginia they are about to pass a bill that is consider legalized rape, by requiring a female in the early months of her pregnancy 1-3 take and ultrasound. And of course the only way to take a ultrasound at that stage in the pregnancy is through the vagina. Talk about invasion of privacy. I hope the someone sues the state for making rape legal. The GOP is the majority all men with the exception of one woman who YElled at the top of her lungs about this disgusting law.

Being a former United States Marine that protects this nation, how did it come to this?

This whole "liberal media" thing is a tactic of crazy conspiracy theorists. Just like activist judges are a tool to discredit those that act as a check on unConstitutional legislation. It can't be your beliefs or positions or legislative goals that are unacceptable to the majority of Americans, it can't be that the facts don't line up how you would like them to, so it must be the SOURCE of those facts.

Just add on another layer of intrigue and explain away any challange to your beliefs. You know, instead of actually questioning those biases and perhaps adjusting your position to reconcile with the truth. Who needs the truth when we it makes us feel so good to lord our beliefs over others???

Santorum seems like some character out of a Margaret Atwood type novel. Convincing parts of the populace through his relatability and seemingly charming demeanor, to voluntarily crawl back half a decade.

Good comment, Sarah. Santorum is on top for now, but it remains to be seen if the far-right fringe has the numbers to propel him going forward.

Will less extreme GOP primary voters wake up to who and what Santorum really is underneath that 'nice-guy-in-a-sweater-vest' exterior before it's too late for them to back out?

The GOP looks more and more desperate every day.

The truly interesting part of all of this is to actually look at the actual count of votes ANY of the candidates have garnered in their "wins". Has any candidate received even one million votes in any of the primaries yet ?

The GOP Presidential nomination process is nothing more than rats fighting over crumbs.

If the last year and a half of GOP control of the House has not convinced America how truly stupid and Evil the GOP has become, then anyone who votes for these idiots deserves to be poor, broke, unhealthy and dying under the reich which will surely follow if they gain full control of the government.

Will less extreme GOP primary voters wake up to who and what Santorum really is underneath that 'nice-guy-in-a-sweater-vest' exterior before it's too late for them to back out?

My brother is a 'convervative atheist' nihilist type of voter - and no more than 2 weeks ago he told me that he was "liking Santorum"...

I told him about some of the insanity that comes out of his mouth, and he was like "WTF? Really?"

He mostly reads Drudge and watches Fox when he does watch news. The rest of his info he gets from his peers (mid Georgia). He had no idea. So I showed him more, the vids, the recordings... he almost tipped over in disbelief. I think this is common right now, a lot of low-information people unaware of ol' Frothy's mental instability.

@sarah,

I read your link about Karl Rove's "Rightwing blogger playbook"...I see them EVERYWHERE NOW!! Everyone needs to read it...

And they play it like a fine tuned harp :)

Jo Ann,

Here you go...

http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2011/8/26/151725/396/Diary/TACTICS-FOR-EFFECTIVE-CONSERVATIVE-BLOGGING-By-Karl-Rove

And furthermore, can we please knock the Hitler crap off. That's such an insult to every person who fought or died defending the world from that maniac. There is nothing comparable about any current politician, to Hitler.

I think Santorum's a nutjob. I think Romney's a robot. I think Paul's an elf and Gingrich is the Pillsberry Doughboy, needless to say I don't have a ton of repect for this crop of candidates. Well, except for Paul, I do respect him, but that doesn't change the fact that he looks like an elf. Anyway, as much as I disagree with them all, they are NOTHING like Hitler.

Just like Obama is nothing like Hitler. If you think he is, you need to retake History 101. What an insult to my grandfather, and the whole greatest generation. I bet they WISH Hitler HAD been like Obama, it would of saved multitudes of lives.

Gross.

Thanks Sarah,

Everyone needs to be informed! Karl Rove (and his followers) are TOO MUCH!

@subsailor: Ref: your corrections to DB Akron post. You missed "apreciate".

Social Security was established in 1935. 77 years and it is broke.
President - Roosevelt (Democrat) Democrats controlled both House & Senate

Fannie Mae was established in 1938. 74 years and it is broke.
President - Roosevelt (Democrat) Democrats controlled both House & Senate

War on Poverty started in 1964. 48 years...$1 trillion of our money is confiscated
each year and transferred to "the poor" and they only want more.
President - Johnson (Democrat) Democrats controlled both House & Senate

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. 47 years and they are broke.
President - Johnson (Democrat) Democrats controlled both House & Senate

Freddie Mac was established in 1970. 42 years and it is broke.
President - Nixon (Republican) Democrats controlled both House & Senate

The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence
on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion
a year and we import more oil than ever before. 34 years and it is an abysmal failure.
President - Carter (Democrat) Democrats controlled both House & Senate

Obamacare created: March 2010.
President - Obama (Democrat) Democrats controlled both House & Senate

These guys are great!!!!!

Did twenty years in the service. Just got my retirement cut! Medical went up for me as well!! Thanks Obama

Another quote from the mouth of Mr. Santorum:

"We're not here to serve the Earth. The Earth is not the objective, MAN is the objective. And I think a lot of radical environmentalists have it upside down."

It's good to know exactly where he stands.

Listen up, GOP.

DB Akron says: I knew that Santorum was a Lawyer (BTW Obama is Not permitted to practice - he voluntarily surrendered his license in 2008. You might want to find out why).

Any proof to back up this statement? You might want to find out why and let us know!

DB Akron says: I knew that Santorum was a Lawyer (BTW Obama is Not permitted to practice - he voluntarily surrendered his license in 2008. You might want to find out why).

Any proof to back up this statement? You might want to find out why and let us know!

LOL If you want to see the standard, worn out, over used right wing plays in full action just see DB Akron's posts. He gets his ass handed to him on his original post of completely debunked bogus crap and what does he do? He reverts to Clinton.

"I think Santorum brain is the size of an Aspirin"

In 2010, the United States accumulated over $3.5 billion in new debt each and every day. That’s more than $2 million per minute. You people say what a great job this guy is doing with the numbers and the facts right in front of you to see.

The Treasury Department estimates that our debt to China is approximately $1.16 trillion. That is nearly $15,000 in debt for the average American family. YEA OBAMA can we get some more!?!?!?!

YEAH Mike,

It's just a damn shame we didn't keep track, down to the day, DURING THE BUSH YEARS!

8 years of insanity,

and now you're mad?

When you listen to the tape of Santorum supposedly saying "blah" people, it's very clear he says "black" people. When you listen to Santorum's reference to WWII, it is obvious he is connecting the President to Hitler.

Santorum is throwing red meat as fast as he can in hopes the media can't keep up, and then when he is busted he lies about it. Blaming the media plays well with the far-right fringe, but it will not get him even a VP position in the primary let alone winning the general election.

Scott-1935555

So how can you be focused on what 'average working people in America need' when you're so busy attacking other people's theology, attacking prenatal care and a woman's right to reproductive services and contraception, making vague, inarticulate and downright baffling references to WW II, and worrying about whether gay people are allowed to marry each other?

As already pointed out, Santorum makes it sound like women will be forced to have prenatal testing -- another of his rhetoric games -- when of course it is only the insurance industry the will be required to offer prenatal testing and women can decline if they choose. Also, ironically, prenatal testing is actually pro-life in that it helps protect a fetus from possible complications.

But the real controversy is how can the religious radicals in this country be against prenatal testing, which would only be conducted with the woman's consent, yet favor actually forcing doctors to read from a government-issued script (religious edict) and perform an unnecessary ultrasound (in some states requiring the ultrasound to be via vaginal penetration) AGAINST the woman's will? They insult the inteligence of women, and we know they want to do this in an attempt to shame and humliate women--WTF?

Are these fundamentalists, like Santorum, really so unable to see the hypocrisy here? And are they really so unable to see that legislation like "Personhood' or the forced ultrasounds or forced drug testing, etc. IS Big Government -- Especially when paid by the tax payers, but also invading peoples privacy, freedoms, and rights?

Are they really so lacking in Rule of Reason? OMG, throw the Teapublicans out!

kaybeetoys -- Another quote from the mouth of Mr. Santorum: "We're not here to serve the Earth. The Earth is not the objective, MAN is the objective. And I think a lot of radical environmentalists have it upside down." It's good to know exactly where he stands.

Agree. His anthropocentric mindset doesn't get what is obvious to thinking people that if we don't take care of the planet, we perish as well as all the other beings who share it with us. I'm worn out watching this 'clown car' of republican nominees implode.

But the real controversy is how can the religious radicals in this country be against prenatal testing, which would only be conducted with the woman's consent, yet favor actually forcing doctors to read from a government-issued script (religious edict) and perform an unnecessary ultrasound (in some states requiring the ultrasound to be via vaginal penetration) AGAINST the woman's will? They insult the inteligence of women, and we know they want to do this in an attempt to shame and humliate women--WTF?

Ain't that the $25,000 question??? But you forgot to add... All while calling themselves the party of limited government.

kaybeetoys

Another quote from the mouth of Mr. Santorum:

"We're not here to serve the Earth. The Earth is not the objective, MAN is the objective. And I think a lot of radical environmentalists have it upside down."

It's good to know exactly where he stands.

According to the Bible, man has dominion over the Earth...BUT AS STEWARDS -- Not to harm or exploit animals or the environment, and Santorum dang well knows this (and ignoring the fact that a lot of Americans don't believe in the Bible anyway--but then he has no intention of representing them). And as if breaking Godwin's Law wasn't bad enough, Santorum was obviously scrambling for cover from yet another obnoxious statement.

The man believes this stuff. If he was just lying to gin-up the base (like Gingrich does), he wouldn't be so creepy. But the man believes this stuff!

American Girl -- Nordquist said that Republicans DON'T want a thinker or a leader, all Republicans want is someone who will sign their name on whatever Nordquist hands them.

He's also on the board of the NRA. More reason not to listen to such a dangerous person.

Sarah-3043284

And furthermore, can we please knock the Hitler crap off. That's such an insult to every person who fought or died defending the world from that maniac. There is nothing comparable about any current politician, to Hitler.

Agreed. Unless genocide of a whole lot of people is involved, Godwin's Law holds. This is commonly known in formal debate, and usually learned by those who practice law -- Let me guess, Santorum missed that day because he out on campus preaching from a soap box.

http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2011/8/26/151725/396/Diary/TACTICS-FOR-EFFECTIVE-CONSERVATIVE-BLOGGING-By-Karl-Rove

Good link Sarah. Looks like the right is following orders.

Yeah, the first time I read it, it almost made me puke. Unbelievable.

Good link-but it left off "When in doubt, reference Hitler."

UC,

Good point, but why do you have to be such a Nazi about it??? ;)

The things that Obama are doing when it comes to his view of religion is the very thing that did happen with Hitler. Water religion down and destroy it from the core and then when you go to do things that are terrible for our society there will be no one left to speak out against the evilness that is being distributed.

This is why I'm seriously considering voting Independent.

On an unrelated note, havin fun yet, is your name a reference to Nickelback's "How You Remind Me"?

I thought was Presidents Day down there? My mistake, it's just Stupid Monday!

Feisty, let the idiots keep ranting, it just makes more people wake up and not vote for the baggers. Although all that popcorn makes me have to work out more to shed the extra weight the popcorn puts on a person.

Gee, he says something, and then it's auto taken out of contex. LMAO on these baggers. Weeeeeeeeeeeee.

Although all that popcorn makes me have to work out more to shed the extra weight the popcorn puts on a person

Don't sweat it SallyAnn - getting out & knocking on doors for OUR President will shed that weight in no time! ;o)

you better go packing because I would not go a knockin on any doors in Chicago

oh Santorum... my grandmother said "if you are digging yourself in a hole.. the first thing you do is shut up". Keep digging yourself in deeper, we already know you are not presidential material, this confirms it.

rather a critique of what he called the "extreme" environmental regulations of the Obama administration.

Uh, is that his extreme environmental or extreme Islamic regulations? Tis all about the 'code' words.

Buck Naked Sr - Clearly you don't know Chicago but you just love to post about it - showing your lack of knowledge.

Yep, Santorum just keeps putting his foot in his mouth. At what point does he realize he's shooting himself in the foot each time he talks? Not that he can help himself -he's too dumb to know what he's doing. But, let's face it- the guys having fun! Hasn't had this much attention in YEARS!!!!

"He also defended comments about World War Two that some saw as linking Hitler and President Obama."

If you go back you will find similar remarks from segregationists about Martin Luther King Jr.

It would be nice if just once a journalist asked Santorum to list President Obama's "extreme environmental policies". When he answers "cap and trade", please remind him that cap & trade was a republican idea.

In order to keep your God given rights to personal freedom, vote in 2012 for anyone other than a Republican.

Jody, you apparently did not get the memo: any idea President Obama has is a bad idea, even if they were first a good Republican idea. Ask John Boehner, tax cuts are a good idea, unless President Obama wants them, then they are a bad idea and they won't help the economy or create any jobs.

rather a critique of what he called the "extreme" environmental regulations of the Obama administration.

What "extreme" environmental regulations? BHO is as lax as the last guy in the Oval Office, fer Pete's sake.

You know, I've gotta go with Lawrence O'donnell and others who support Santorum for presidential candidate. Let's finally have it out, in a showdown. Let the right wing win Pennsylvania and the South (though not necessarily) and lose the popular vote by a landslide that will finally shut these nutcases up about how much public support they have.

While I have no illusions that the bulk of the country is not to the right of me, I know an equal number is to the left of Santorum. The right would like us to think Obama won through some fluke. Blaming it on running the wrong candidate. Let's give them their choir boy and watch the overwhelming majority of live-and-let-live Americans trounce his ass, in a bad economy, and shut these people up once and for all. (another fifty years anyway)

The total repudiation of Barry Goldwater by American voters shut these people up once, and ushered in the most liberal period in modern history. I say let's do it again.

Yeah Santorum!!!!!

Funny thing that Santorum discusses the greatest generation---that would be the same generation of President Obama's grandfather and great-uncle, who both served in World War II.

Contrast that to George Bush---as President with his nation under attack and going to war, he cut taxes and told us all to go shopping. And Santorum wants to say we didn't have a cataclysmic event---I remember watching those planes fly into those towers and that is as much cataclysm as I hope to ever see. Our nation was ready to respond and make shared sacrifices and the Republicans blew it.

Job1

http://www.infowars.com/obama-administration-demanded-power-to-indefinitely-detain-u-s-citizens/

"They were they greatest generation, because when their country needed them, at a time of great peril, they met the challenge. Your country needs you. It’s not as clear a challenge. Obviously, World War Two was pretty obvious. But at some point, they knew. Remember, the greatest generation for a year and a half, sat on the sidelines while Europe was under darkness."

So which is it, Rick? They met the challenge, or they sat on the sidelines?

"Obviously, World War Two was pretty obvious."

And this is a guy who home schools his kids.....

Yeah John. But if you get your information from an Alex Jones website, we know you'll believe anything. This particular story (without Alex's spin) happens to be true and I think a matter of great concern.

I have duly noted it is job 1 for John737278. Check back for a heads up after we take care of John737277.

"Less than erudite." Rick Santorum has just provided the best description of himself, ever.

And Rick claims that pre-natal screening will cause more abortions? You know, there are statistics that prove providing birth control to women reduces the number of abortions. Does that mean that Rick, by opposing birth control is advocating for increasing the number of abortions? Using his own logic, it must mean that.

@David-SF

Goldwater would puke at the "New GOP." (Santorum/Romney). Santorum is no Barry Goldwater and Mitt is not his father. That said, I can hardly wait to see the President twist these two Poltroons like a pretzel in the event either one of them is the nominee.

On another issue: Can't wait for the high gas prices in the summer when our "Patriotism" is tested by the Presidents' Iran policy which I support. Would you pay 5 bucks a gallon for gas if it meant the stopping the Iranians nuclear ambitions? Just askin?

Torpedo,

If the question is do I support the lifting of artificial prices on gasoline that were instituted to further the economy post-WWII? Do i support gasoline competing on equal footing with other energy resources that would further their development and make them cheaper than gasoline? Do I support the richest corporation in the world finally paying taxes instead of getting taxpayer money? Do I think that saving the planet itself is worth some pain to make the transition that we have selfishly put off for decades?

Let me think for a nanosecond.

Ladies and Gentlemen I believe we have another "Duh!" moment.

We've all known a Santorum or two in our lives. Most Americans by the time they reach adulthood do all they can to avoid these hysterical, angry finger waggers...Can you imagine an entire political party being dragged under the pull of this 'sky is falling' nutjob? I don't believe for one moment this extremist who fancies himself America's Ayatollah could be elected President. On the other hand, he is testing whether the two party system can stand under the death grip of the right wing's religious fanaticism. We've gotten through the Strom Thurmond and Barry Goldwater debacles, but how would you like to be a moderate Republican running for Congress right now....having to explain to would be voters that the nut jobs who think we're a theocracy don't speak for you.

TO: Jon-1321288 who wrote:

"...And Rick claims that pre-natal screening will cause more abortions?..."

Republicans have always been obsessed with the American People's personal sex lives, so much so that when they thought President Bill Clinton had an affair, Republicans DEMANDED, and sued for, all the juicy details.

Obama / Biden 2012

TorpedoYou:

I agree totally. It is a great disservice to Barry Goldwater to compare him to Santorum. Goldwater had Jewish relatives and was very suspicious of mixing religion with politics. He also believed in personal liberties - and embraced gay rights in his old age. Goldwater would have more in common with Ron Paul than Rick Santorum. I disagree with Barry Goldwater on so many things, but Goldwater was a great American.

David-SF Bay Area

How about an ethical question. If someone came up with a new energy source that pretty much eliminated the need for fossil fuels, would it be ethical to introduce it to the market knowing you would be putting nearly a billion people who either directly or indirectly in the energy sector out of work?

Beyond...Very true. Goldwater didn't pander. You took him at face value. A man of his convictions. I cannot say the same about Ron Paul or his son.

And to American Girl..What's wrong with ALL the Juicy details? We have a Republican Sheriff here in AZ who just came out of the closet. Can hardly wait.

John,

An ethical question

How many people will be put out of work when the planet ceases to support us as a species. Unlike your question, mine isn't hypothetical.

F**K Barry Goldwater AND his handpicked successor, John McCain. I completely agree that Goldwater was another cut of conservative, but it doesn't make him a great American that he isn't Santorum. Though I have to admit it's a giant step.

I lived in the time of Goldwater and saw the bills he sponsored and the votes he cast. No matter how differently flavored it may be, ultra conservatism doesn't work now and it didn't work then. Barry Goldwater was in the pocket of the rich and said 'to hell with the poor' with the best of them. If I remember right, Barry wanted the income tax repealed. And before you slice it too thinly, Barry Goldwater was the epitome of the American exceptionalism that Santorum is spouting now.

It takes more than not being Santorum to be a great American.

Who said mine was hypothetical?

By the way, I know the earth is overpopulated. Look at what our government is doing considering our civil rights. It is only a matter of time until we are eating soylent green, and will have no choice in the matter.

I said yours was hypothetical!

Is there something you are hiding, you ethical devil, you?

Huh? I thought all the stuff from fast food restaurants WAS soylent green.

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but how would you like to be a moderate Republican running for Congress right now....having to explain to would be voters that the nut jobs who think we're a theocracy don't speak for you.

Yup, that's the icing on the cake

Go Santorum

Did you see that story a couple of weeks ago about the pink slime that McDonalds was supposedly not going to put in their burgers any more. My question is how long it has been in there in the first place, and if the FDA is supposed to protect us, where were they?

Why aren't you posting over there instead of being off topic once again?

You need to put the Alex Jones hyperbole under a story about Obama and his use of power

I didn't need pink slime after I found out McDonalds was the largest purchaser of cow eyes in the world.

And your post and this one have what to do with Santorum? Just wait for it. A story pertinent to your canned response will come up any time now.

The GOP is putting more"butt goo" in our political sandwich than McDonalds put "pink slime" in our actual sandwiches.

How was that?

Buck Naked Sr

you better go packing because I would not go a knockin on any doors in Chicago

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.........Good thinking, 'cause if you go knock'n on doors in Chicago buck naked, you get shot!

I already know that. why my 2nd Amendment question collapsed?

bucknaked

I see you just joined. If you're a paid troll they should ask for their money back. Begone troll. You're bringing down the property values.

troll is that a noun or a verb?

buck,

yes

Barry Goldwater may seem like a mild conservative compared to the wild right-wing conservatives we see today. He may turn over in his grave with disgust at the conservative movement today or rise from his grave in full support of the hard right-wing. Nobody knows. I say let him rest in peace as the most radical conservative of his era. He worked hard for that position and must lie in peace with the minority that supported his position in that day.

I would sincerely like to ask Boehner, O'Connell, Cantor and Ryan if that is the epitaph they would like emblazoned on their gravestone. A hard right-wing conservative that left the main street of America with extreme views never to be fulfilled. I would pose the same question to all of the Republican field of Presidential candidates if I could hold their feet to the fire. I can't and they would all agree to disagree on their legacy until the last shovel of dirt covers their graves.

I find that a sad commentary to any man. A wise man should always strive for respect and sincere grieving for his passing. A wise man should expect respect from a grieving family and community that marks his passing as a loss due to his contribution to family and society. A wise man would look not at his triumphs of today, but his triumphs that leave his world in a better place because of his own contributions.

I fail to understand how a religious zealot or an avowed atheist can leave this world while taking all they can and leaving this world without the slightest contribution to his brothers. They may see a successful life by taking all that they can. I see a life wasted in greed and self-indulgence.

john-737278: Yes, in a blink of the eye, because most of those would then be working within the new energy field. Next, I would because that product could save the entire planet.

Santorum the" Vatican candidate" is trying to set up a theocracy. Once again the GOP is out of touch with 88% of the people of the USA ..His cult beliefs make him ANTI AMERICAN.. He and the GOP are a dividing wedge, and will divide the people of the USA not unite them !

And this is a guy who home schools his kids.....

The Santorums home-schooled their children in Virginia while collecting between $70,000 and $100,000 in cyberschool tuition from the Pennsylvania school district in which they supposedly resided. This was one of the reasons Pennsylvania voters kicked him out of the U.S. Senate in 2006.

Santorum has spoken out not only against federal involvement in public education, but state involvement as well. He believes all public education should be funded at the local level. Imagine the kind of disparity in educational quality that would result from such a policy!

Quoting the former Senator: "Where did they come up that public education and education bureaucracies was the rule in America? The idea that the federal government should be running schools-- frankly much less that the state government should be running schools--is anachronistic."

It's on tape, Rick. I'm waiting to hear how you're going to spin it as a misrepresentation by the media.

How can the News or any human being let this San dude get away with his racial overtones?

Santorum: I will scare the sh!t out of all white people, make them think of slavery days. That will force them to vote for them. They have 15% can they get another 35% of whites to vote for them.

Because 99% of all blacks will vote for President Obama, 85% of hispanics, and 20% of white. If you count those up you have 51% easy. even his they stop 6 million people from voting President Obama would still get 51% of the vote. Good Luck GOP.

Rick Santorum said on CBS News, The President subscribe to phony theology based on the bible. This speech was to a group of mad bible thumping tea-retards in Ohio, they were jumping up and down like nuts screaming that rick is God, this is getting crazy. God please help us from these nutty religious extremists. "Please, Please"

Santorum sounds like he would like to be the Jefferson Davis of the 21st century. He is a very dangerous man.

Give me Democracy not theocracy......that is the essence of the First Amendment.

Thanks for sharing that with us:) I don't agree with what you said, but hopefully you feel better now:)

I wish the Catholics would stop saying things like "the president is going against the church". Um, congress, president, the supreme court, and the citizens of this country run, this country....not the pope.

oh Tom Tom TOM.. so sad you are in your myopic little world. "I wish the press and politicians would quit the stagey bickering about perverts' rights to marry and other stupid social issues".. because they are not YOUR social issues does not mean they are not important to others.. my life is neither perverted or stupid, and could NEVER be reduced by the likes of YOU, you ignorant regressive jerk.Go back to your man cave.

I'm tired of the right trying to portray Obama as the "other". I believe a small portion of it has to do with race, big scary powerful black man trying to raise taxes , change the system, and take from you. Rick's remark was easily supposed to suggest that Obama is either atheist, or Muslim, he's "other", Hes not like him or you. I cant believe that serious presidential candidates are still allowing their base to think hes from Africa, Muslim, & anti American.

It is amusing that some fool on the far right speaks of the president as near-to a Hitler.The right wing of the Republican Party are using exactly the same theories as then Germans fascist party's.The bigger the lie, the more believable . The fact that Ricky baby,s I.Q. may be quite high , does not necessarily exclude him from being a fool,it just means that he is capable of being educated to an acceptable level, but whether he used his education to be disciplined in his thoughts or behaviour is highly questionable

What this Country need not is WWIII. Vote "R" and we will have WWIII. North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, and Syria (and maybe one or more other Countries) will be on one side against the U.S. and our Allies. Barren lands will be our reward.

If it was not so sad to hear Hitler and Obama comparisons it would be funny-----Do these morons know that the first thing Hitler did was smash the Labor Unions----smash the Communist Party-----Signed a concordat with the Vatican and Pius the 12th-----Signed axis with Mussolini who declared war on the U.S. three days after Pearl Harbor----Signed deals with Siemens,Volswagen., Krupp Steel, I.G. Farben to supply them with slave labor and on and on. All of Big business in Germany supported Hitler, so to call Hitler a Socialist is just plain ignorant. Then when Hitler came for the Jews there was no one left to help them. And with all that Watson of IBM,Dupont Chemical,Henry Ford continued to do business with Nazi Germany. Intolerance and Ignorance equates Santorum with Hitler---not Obama.

I'd love to have seen the look on Adolph Hitler's arrogant Aryan face if anyone had dared compare him to a man whose father came from Africa.

If there is a hell as Christians claim, Hitler is surely in residence there, roasting over hot coals and being stabbed with a thousand pointy sticks.

I once again suggest that Santorum give up lying for Lent. I don't think he really wants to join Hitler.

No Charles they don't know. They are uneducated, ill-informed babbling fools who haven't quite figured out yet it's not 1950 anymore and things such as google, video, and the Internet are available to everyone. Most pathetic part, they aren't the least bit interested in actually knowing anything.

Rick Santorum is supported by the Tea-ReTards religious extremists, hate & racist insane people. Rightwing nutjob wackos that was started by the Kocheads. Most of them are uneducated white supremacists trailer park trash. They are beyond Weird and the are playing Russian roulette with our Country. Wake up America.

There are a lot of people with high IQs and college degrees who are ignorant. Ignorant and stupid are not the same thing. Even Bill Clinton said of GW Bush after meeting him, "The man's not stupid. But he doesn't know anything - he doesn't WANT to know anything."

Dear Mr. Santorum, Stay the heck out of my sex life.

sloppy - makes no sense you know!

Hussein means "Good", Promient, Royal. So go for it! You are giving him the respect it deserves!

I must say I agree with Johnson. It always baffles me when christains support things that harm the environment. Mr Santorum made the comment that the earth is here to serve us but His bible in Deuteronomy and Leviticus says the environmentalist are closer to what God says is good stewardship of the planet. It amazes me that someone form Pennsylvania could view with distain environmentalist given the rape of their land by strip miners. This barely coded ideology that makes him say that president Obama is morally inferior and pushing his ideals on people stink of hypocrisy. Becareful Mr Santorumn in your zeal for the church, the point is that the church is NOT supposed to be running the country. I get a headache when I think of his stand on contraception.For people who are SO opposed to the safety net, Im always puzzled by their stances to promote poverty through more children per family. While I agree that abortion is murder I also know from practical living that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure

sloppy - Who are you - Santorum in disguise???? Certainly sounds as stupid as him!

Are you ready to defend the government's attempts to trump religion? Or are you unaware that is happening? Or are you glad that is happening? Because the government has no power to do so. The 1st amendment to the Bill of Rights declares the government has no such power. Or are you in league with Ginsberg, a woman who is under oath to defend the Constitution, but a woman unable to do so?

tom, even if the contraception thing is stepping over the line, which is debatable, it is so minor that nobody cares, other than the people looking for mud to sling at Obama. Go ahead and tell American women that their health care coverage should be at the whim of their employer's religion, and see how many votes you get.

Oh, tom, you either missed reality or are just a troll. He isn't stepping over any line. He compromised (many, including myself) agreed with the first idea, but he compromised and your precious religious businesses don't have to buy birth control...who cares about the women? Oh wait...he got them what they needed to stay healthy and still didn't say your precious business had to pay. He cares a lot more about them than the Catholic church does. Go find a dose of reality. The only people stepping on rights are ones insisting there one religious group should get to boss everyone around.

Tom, the majority of people in this country are in favor of a government run by the people, not the Vatican. Religion has no place in our government. If churches set up business, then those businesses must abide by the same laws as other businesses, no exceptions. Santorum keeps using the word "theology" - his view of the US is that everyone live under strict Catholic doctrine and that will save the economy, etc. This view is NO different than extreme, radical, Islam. I know you think otherwise, but do you actually understand what "freedom of religion" is about? Mr. Santorum and his ilk would very much like to take our religious freedom away. And as a woman, who the frig are you or anyone else to tell us when and how to have children, raise families, and stay home instead of pursuing a career? Once again, the men know what is best for the little women. That alone, sir, will lose the Republicans this election. Despite what some far righties want, we still have the right to vote.

Tom: geez, at least come up with a sane argument. Even the vast majority of Catholic WOMEN practice birth control. If you want women in burkas, you're in the wrong country. Women here pay for birth control in their health insurance (and your viagra too by the way). Religious freedom doesn't mean you get to impose your religion on everyone else. Thank heavens we have Justice Ginsburg...doesn't that just IRK the hell out of you? A woman and someone who is NOT Christian. Well if that don't beat all.....never should have given em the right to vote, eh Tom?

This is very true, santorium and most other extremist right wingers would love to take our Country to the same style "religion should rule the government" government rule that is so chastised by these same political and religious extremists.

Republican belief/'Christian' system.

You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own!

You have to be against government programs, but expect your Social Security checks on time.

You have to believe that government should stay out of people's lives, yet you want government to regulate only same-gende­r marriages, what a woman does with her uterus, and what your official language should be.

You have to believe that pollution is OK so long as it makes a profit.

You have to believe in prayer in schools, as long as you don't pray to Allah or Buddha!

You have to believe that only your own teenagers are virgins and hetrosexual.

You have to believe that a woman cannot be trusted with decisions about her own body, but that large multi-nati­onal corporatio­ns should have no regulation or interferen­ce whatsoever­.

You love Jesus and Jesus loves you and, by the way, Jesus shares your disdain of LGBT’s and Obama!

You have to believe that society is color-blin­d and growing up black in America doesn't diminish your opportunit­ies, but you wouldn't vote for a Black president.

You have to believe it is wise to keep contracept­ives out of schools, because we 'ALL' know if teenagers don't have access they won't get pregnant.

You have to believe that the ACLU is bad because they defend the Constituti­on, while the NRA is good because they defend the Constituti­on.

You have to believe that socialism hasn't worked anywhere, and that the Nordic block and Australia don't exist.

You have to believe that the federal government doesn’t have the right to mandate healthcare­ but states have the right to disenfranc­hise voters.

Tom--the 1st amendment was designed to protect a free peopl from religion, not the other way around---Read Thomas Jefferson on the subject.

Poor tom. LOL

well put. is santorum running for president or grand inquisitor of the inquisition. his views on so many subjects may have been appropriate for a candidate running in midieval europe, but not for one running in the 21st century. perhaps he should change his name to torquemada santorum. christina knight

sloppy joe -- Are you 12? Do you really think that using the President's middle name like a junior-high insult is going to win any arguments for you? Do you even have an argument, besides hate?

Post #7 is nothing but invective. Does invective bother you, Jock59801? Is this discomfort with invective one way discomfort? Since Hussein is his name, then Hussein is fair game. Like, say, Shrub? Remember calling someone Shrub? Since, like Hussein, Shrub immediately identified the person,.....oh well!

You are right Tom, that comment is invective, but it wasn't the one I responded to. I can't keep up with everything.

I tried not to use invective against Bush; but if I did, you guys are indeed showing me how stupid it sounds.

Skookum, I can't vote your post up more than once. So well said!!!

Ya' 'know Tom, people who actually pay attention and want to be taken seriously don't use playground names of any kind. Just like I, and the majority of other concerned citizens, did not refer to former President Bush as "shrub". I never voted for him and disagreed with just about everything he ever said or did, I did not disrespect the fact that he was President. So, Tom and the rest, continue throwing snowballs, because when your name is at the top of the post, many of us skip right over. I like reading well thought out but differing opinions. I don't read childish silliness posted by supposed adults. To quote my older brother when he and I were fighting as children - "grow up!"

Comparing a bad economic situation to the rise of fascism and Word War II is a very bad analogy that would get someone laughed out of any ninth grade debate class.

Now, if we take your example of burying your head in the sand and ignoring economic realities, a much better analogy would be Herbert Hoover, who did nothing at all after the Wall Street crash, thus deepening a huge depression. But that analogy works far better when used against the Republicans in the Senate and the House, who are the ones with their heads in the sand. Obama has tried to do something, only to be stymied by the Republicans.

Santorum's statements are just meant to play to the fear and hate that dominate among his supporters. He also seems completely ignorant of the fact that Roosevelt could not enter WWII earlier because conservatives opposed getting involved. The rise of American libertarianism of the variety we see in Ron Paul, was strictly isolationist and wanted to stay out of something they saw as an exclusively European affair.

Poor Buck: if saying "Nazi" enough times were enough to get us scared of the bad bogeyman in the white house, don't you think it would've worked by year three? Are you vying to become the "no nothing" party of 2012?

And if Buck knew his history he would realize that the group of people sticking their head in the sand in 1939 are the same group that stick their head in the sand now on issues like the economy or environment. In both times it is conservatives. Roosevelt would have joined the war in 1939 if not for conservative opposition, some of whom sympathized with Germany.

I just wish Buck would either learn to spell or in the very least learn to use spell check. A little bit of coherent thrown in would help as well. A typo here and there is expected but geez, I need a translator to decipher most of his posts.

Since senator Santorum is such a knight in shining armor, he should use use his influence to help rescue the RC church, of which he is a part, from the moral darkness that has befallen it, and threatening its very existence. It is disgrace that the church has such an epidemic of pedophile priests, and the church responds to the problem by shuffling them from parish to parish, or shelter them in treatment facilities. He delights in attacking president Obama for being a member of the Rev. Wright's church, while he never addresses the evil in his.

It is good to see that the latest BIG LIE is that the right is out to outlaw birth control. Are these rightists the ones with 1 or 2 or 3 kids? Please respond.....

Tom, Republicans love birth control, in the form of repression of women. Bayer aspirin tablets, between the knees....

Democrats want access to birth control that actually allows women to enjoy their own personal sex life, because women are, you know, PEOPLE.

Republicans have a nasty habit of wanting religious freedom for themselves, and religious control over everyone else...

Yes, tom. It is called hypocrisy. They use it. That doesn't mean they won't tell everyone else they shouldn't. Look at Santorum. He is hypocrisy in action.

Santorum believes that States have the right to limit all forms of contraception. And he has stated that he personally opposes contraception. And he believes that rape victims should carry any fetus caused by a rape to term. He counsels that God gives challenges to us all, and we just have to grin and bear these challenges.

Tom: don't read much eh? Never heard of the "personhood" amendments now being pushed by Republicans in several states and supported by each of the Republican knee jerk nominees for President? Those would outlaw many forms of birth control.

Beyond Democrat: Could you make a more ridiculous argument? What's the point of having "all forms of contraception" if your state outlaws it? American women have been there, done that and are not going back. You hold on to that burka just in case though...you never know. Maybe you'll get your wish one day and the US will throw out the Constitution...we all have to grin and bear your types.

Tom,

Very few Republicans would like to outlaw contraception. Many would like to limit it greatly and one who happens to be running for president would like to end ALL forms of contraception including condoms. Santorum believes that any attempt to stop conception is a mortal sin and that by allowing it he would be guilty of a sin of Comission. This is no rogue utterence he has stated it many times in many venues (I campaigned against him and have heard it in person and on talk radio, read it and seen it on video.

jkh

Luke 6:20-21 Then he looked up at his disciples and said: 'Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.

'Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. 'Blessed are you who weep
now, for you will laugh.

Luke 4:16-19 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the
synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll
of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where
it was written:

'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.'

Matthew 25:34-36 Then the king will say to those at his right hand, "Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me."

Mark 10:21-22 Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.

Mark 12:41-44 He sat down opposite the treasury, and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums. 42 A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny. 43 Then he called his disciples and said to them, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury. 44 For all of them have contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on."

Luke 14:12-14 He said also to the one who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Luke 16:19-25 "There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man's table; even the dogs would come and lick his sores. The poor man died and was carried away by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.

In Hades, where he was being tormented, he looked up and saw Abraham far away with Lazarus by his side. He called out, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am in agony in these flames.' But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in agony.

Luke 11:39-42 Then the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? So give for alms those things that are within; and see, everything will be clean for you. "But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds, and neglect justice and the love of God.

Luke 12:16-21 Then he told them a parable: "The land of a rich man produced abundantly. And he thought to himself, 'What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops?' Then he said, 'I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, 'Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God."

Those of the far right disavow these words yet call themselves "Christians". "Devil Worshipers" would be more apt.

Amen!

good point, jock. And why is it always up to us to understand what right-wingers "really mean?" Poor William F. Buckley, if he only knew, erudite conservatives are no more.

It was a thinly-veiled code to say to his base: "Obama may be a Muslim, (wink), he's not our kind of Christian since he doesn't base his theology on the Bible, and he's different from us you know how." His press secretary's Freudian slip of "Muslim extremism" was a surprise only that she said it. "Theology" was chosen deliberately. It is indeed a new low.

@ kerf turf, I've had exactly the same thought: "The Antichrist is a sniveling bully disguised in a sweater vest? That's all it takes?"

Why aren't the more rational, tolerant Christian leaders doing more to speak out against the increasingly barbaric message of knuckle-dragging fundamentalists like Santorum?

It always seems that when fascism rears its head in America, it's whining about Mom, apple pie, and Jesus -- who surely would have opted to die of embarrassment if he'd stayed on the mortal plane and witnessed all the atrocities and idiocies carried out in his name.

Maybe the Mayan Calender did get it right. If the extreme right-wingers are elected to office, they will cause the Doomsday event. Remember December is the mid-point between the Election and Inauguration Day. The plot thickens as the "Anti-Christ" and his "Demonic Hordes" prepare for their final victory.

Well you get the idea.

Randall - You get full credit. I've read through quite a few posts. Many "maroons," and only one moron. Points for you tonight.

Most creditable historians agree that FDR wanted to ensure the dis-assembly of the British Empire would be a result of the war. He (FDR) was largely a stooge for Stalin thanks to the influence of his wife and his communist advisers. He bled the British treasury until it was empty before starting lend-lease. And Wilkie by the way, was a supporter of FDR's policies. Pick up a book and read it some time.

As an aside, in 1936 England had a secret treaty with Japan to go to Japan's aid against the US should Japan think the US was going to intervene with the islands Japan got as booty from the Kaiser in WWI. Port Hornsby? Port Moresby, maybe.

FDR decided we'd go to war with Germany. History says we should have. But FDR acted the part of a dictator, taking the most basic choice, war or peace from the American people. We were in shooting wars with both Japan (AVG) and Germany months before Pearl Harbor.

There is nothing I like better than really bad revisionist history. FDR had a personal friendship with King George and Queen Elizabeth and nothing you posted could be further from the truth.

Actually Wilkie was an interventionist, and FDR tried to get him to join the Democratic party after the election. But, you are right. The GOP was largely controlled by isolationists before WWII.

There is nothing I like better than really bad revisionist history.

Revisionist history is what happens when you read creditable historians rather than relying on credible historians.

Most creditable historians agree that FDR...

Good catch, RedDev!

It was Port Moresby in New Guinea and FDR was Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

Picky, picky, picky.

tom,

FDR didn't decide to go to war with Germany. Hitler declared war on the U.S. shortly after Pearl Harbor. Like you said, "[p]ick up a book and read it some time."

Tom,

Sorry I am a day late but who the hell are you talking about? I have studied history for almost 40 years and have NEVER seen that view from a credible historian. Numerous biographies have been written which accuse Roosevelt of many things but hardly plotting with Stalin to overthrow rge British Empire. You may have missed the biggest breakthrough of the war, the atomic bomb, which was hidden from Stalin and given to the Brits. Almost all such crap comes from a misunderstanding of the relative positions of the armies at the time of Yalta. At that time it appeared as if the Soviets would occupy all of Germany before we could cross the Rhine. We had just survived the Battle of the Bulge and had no idea that Germany would throw every man woman and child they could muster at the Red Army while surrendering to Western forces. Of course Roosevelt and virtually all Americans wanted independence for all European colonial possessions it has been the US foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine. This does not mean some nefarious pro Stalin cabal was afoot.

jkh

Tom,

Germany declared war on the US. The year 1936 was a busy one with the death of a King and the abdication of another, the Spanish Civil War , The US Neutrality Act which made it illegal to ship war material to Britain, The US, British French and Russian Naval Accords from which the Japanese walked out and a host of other enormous political events none of which included a secret treaty between Japan and Great Britain. Britain was in negotiation with Japan vis a vis China until the outbreak of the Sino Japanese War in 1937 that isthe only major diplomatic ouyreach to Japan other than the Japanese walk out of the 36 Naval Conference.

jkh

sadmoronsvote2--I have to agree with you. The more I hear from Santorum, the I fear him. He truly thinks he is right about everything and that his God is by his side. I remember when Clinton and the Lewinski thing was news and everyone was so upset about it because the President "lied" I was glad, not because I had anything against Clinton, but because it proved he was human and more than cabable of making mistakes and he knew it. The worst kind of leader this, (or any other country) can have is someone who thinks they are right by the grace of diety. All the world needs is for the US to become another Iran...the world will end it that happens. I happen to think that we are standing too close to the edge of WWIII as it is, we need a leader who is familar with the word "compromise" Santorum proves he is not that person every time he opens his mouth.

Santorum is made to order for about 57% of the Republican Party. We forget that something like 25 to 30% of the country believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible. They are opposed to virtually all forms of sexual freedom and believe in absolutely NO form of a right to privacy. Moreover, because they believe that God has ordained that we are his holy people (together with Israel), we must have a strong defense to play for God's team against the Beast in the upcoming Armageddon. Moreover, they do not believe in evolution and believe that global warming is just another theory like evolution. These are immutable beliefs on their part, and Santorum is their guy. He doesn't have a wild eyed look like Michelle Bachman, so he's even better - with 6 children to boot. You can call him scary, but it will not affect the horde that is falling in love with him. Fortunately, he maxes out at about 43% in terms of a general election. More ominously, Newt has adopted most of his social positions, and Romney might personally be very comfortable with them.

4 More years of the guy that was "purchased" LOL

After reading over the comments left here, I cannot help but be left with the impression that ifa ll of the intellect displayed by them were converted to water and dumped into a kiddie-sized pool, I could not manage to wet the tops of my feet were I to wade into it. Most parrot the childish idea that anyone with whom they disagree is automatically mentally deficient by virtue of that. Anyone with an ability to analyze what they hear for themselves instead of slavishly echoing the mass media's knee-jerk reaction to it would realize that Mr. Santorum's remarks were not a commentary on the Mr. Obama's or anyone else's religious beliefs. He was likening the president's zealous pursuit of so-called "green technology", regardless of how much harm it does to the economy, the federal budget and the taxpayers he is supposed to be serving to a belief to which one holds despite all reason. In this, I believe he is quite accurate, given the evidence. Mr. Obama's imperial imposition of his "healthcare" imperatives on those whose religious beliefs are very much contrary to them oversteps the powers granted to him by the Constitution he pledged to uphold and defend in his Oath of Office. Those whos reasoning is so shallow not to see the peril of permitting a president to do so may live to see the horrors to which this can and inevitably will lead. If one man can trample on one of the articles of the Bill of Rights, what will there be to stop him, or one of his successors, from trampling upon the rest of them? For the sake of all of us, wake up!

Epic fail! Please do try again.

Anyone with an ability to analyze what they hear for themselves instead of slavishly echoing the mass media's knee-jerk reaction to it would realize that Mr. Santorum's remarks were not a commentary on the Mr. Obama's or anyone else's religious beliefs. He was likening the president's zealous pursuit of so-called "green technology", regardless of how much harm it does to the economy, the federal budget and the taxpayers he is supposed to be serving to a belief to which one holds despite all reason.

Quoting Mr. Santorum:

"It's not about you. It's not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your job. It's about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.

Spin it all you like, John Lacourrege.

You won't actually feel dizzy until you stop.

They don't understand logic or reason. It's useless. No way in HELL any of them are getting elected. It's like the GOP has given up. Every day that passes it seems more and more people can see how ridiculous they are.

Talking about how we should not place the earth above people, and then say how the bible tells us to be a husband to the earth. Guess what, idiot, does a GOOD husband RAPE his wife?!?

Screw the earth and we screw ourselves. So, if you REALLY want to to what's in human beings' best interest, TAKE CARE OF THE EARTH!

Sorry, I shouldn't call people idiots. Just got angry for a moment. They're just misled, in my opinion. Sorry for the harsh words.

He probably knows the difference between theology and ideology but he is thinking about theology all the time. In fact, it appears that theology IS his ideology.

His ideology is his theology which is idolatry.

Santorum knows what the difference is. He also knows the people who show up to hear him speak are the very same people who show up at rallies carrying signs that say "keep your government hands off my Social Security". He knows full well his audience is a bunch of illiterates that can be lead by their noses and lack the wherewithal to actually find out anything for themselves. He intentionally tosses that BS out because his dumbed down followers lap it up. It's the very reason he stood silent and said nothing when the crazy McCain hold over lady at one of his speeches started her moronic babbling about Obama being a Muslim. Yes, Rick knows full well that his only hope is to win over the illiterate loons. To McCain's credit at least had a tiny shread of dignity left and corrected his raving loon. How much of your self respect and dignity you must have to toss away to whore yourself to the lowest common denominator like Santorum is doing right now. He's merely the current king of the dimwits. Problem with that, the dimwits tend to switch candidates more often than they change their underwear.