Posts tagged as Rick Santorum
Bizarre Candidate Warns Against American Executions of Monarchs
Potential American president Rick Santorum isn't even pretending to make sense anymore: "When you marginalize faith in America, when you remove the pillar of God-given rights, then what’s left is the French Revolution. What’s left is the government that gives you right, what’s left are no unalienable rights, what’s left is a government that will tell you who you are, what you’ll do and when you’ll do it. What’s left in France became the guillotine."
Who Will Protect Catholics from Rick Santorum?
Rick Santorum, eager to show that he will stand up for Catholic values, has been saying things about the recent Health and Human Services regulation that now requires Catholic universities and hospitals to provide access to contraception and the morning-after pill. Santorum has accused the Obama administration of being "hostile to people of faith, particularly Christians and specifically Catholics.” He's even gone so far as to vow that he "will make it an issue every day of this campaign," until the Obama administration reinstates conscience protections. Santorum has also spoken up forcefully against same-sex marriage, which the Pope has—yes, again—recently condemned (in some really extreme terms, too). READ MORE
Black Man Angry
If all white men were like the ones on stage in SC GOP debates lastnight, you wouldn't speak to one white man in the USA! READ MORE
The Cathovangelical: Rick Santorum's Quest for a National Abortion Showdown
It's a fine how-do-you-do. Fifty years after Democrats struggled to prove that their candidate for President "just happened to be a Catholic," now they face the prospect of painting a Republican challenger as a dangerous follower of Rome's socially extreme dogma. READ MORE
Early Press Mentions Of The Republican Candidates
Opposition research—political Dumpster diving perfected by Lee Atwater and Roger Stone—has been a part of American politics for nearly 200 years. Your familiarity with Willie Horton, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and John Edwards' $400 haircut is a tribute to its irritating persistence as a campaign tool. What follows is oppo research, but we do not aim to inflict damage. In fact, The Awl's effort, a collection of early media mentions of the Republican candidates (sometimes appearing under their given names), may actually endear these Presidential hopefuls to you. Or am I the only one charmed by 11-year-old zoo booster Newton Gingrich? READ MORE
Politician Comes Out In Favor Of Ice Cream
Ah, yes, we're at that part of the presidential campaign. Say, the next time Rick Santorum is in New York, someone take him by the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. Hilarity is sure to ensue. Or maybe learning! Nah, just kidding, it would be hilarity.
Rick Santorum Wins Race To Iowa
Well, how-dee-do. Rick Santorum, who is a crazy person who was accidentally elected to the Senate, and who is now a lawyer, a lawyer who does not believe there is a right of privacy in the United States, because how could "liberty" possibly have anything to do with "privacy," and also he's never read amendments IV and IX, is shortly on his way to the fine state of Iowa! He is there meeting with the middling-far right, which is not actually that big in Iowa, because in many ways Iowa is a state of nice people who do not like mean people, which means the Santorum Show is not going to go over that well. Iowa has the kind of Christians who may not like abortion but also don't really believe in being mean to people, and Santorum has a mean streak a mile long. Also he is a douche. Also: PALIN IN '12, WAHOO!
What Black People Should Do Now
Former Senator Rick Santorum suggests that President Obama could just as easily set a good example for black people-who hate marriage-by getting his wife loaded at some neighborhood dive. Everyone knows fancy dinners and Broadway shows are for white people anyway.
