The fact that him saying stuff like this isn't stopping Santorum from exploding from behind in race after race should indicate that the typical Republican voter likes to hear that A) there ain't nothin' wrong with 'merica and B) if there is somethin' wrong with 'merica it is best fixed by a hefty dose of Jesus all up ins.
The Republican primary voter these days is a trained monkey that only watches opinion clips that are non-critical of their favorite candidates. They also subscribe to the belief that TEH LIBURULS have used media to conspire to make said candidates look as biased and unappealing as possible, so any criticism of the actions of candidates can actually be routinely ignored.
Apparently a guy who works with his hands a lot, is uncorrupted by the liberal machine that is education, and would love to see more religious influence over legislation. In other words, all the people who were already on board the Rick Santorum train anyway. I guess what I'm getting at is that he just alienated pretty much everyone that wasn't already a lock to vote for him, which seems like a pretty stupid political move when you're running a tight race in a primary.
Cain wasn't dumped because of his complete lack of a coherent program, he was dumped because he had penis eruption issues.
Santorum is aimed like a gun at the Republican wingnut primary voter, the only ones left now that the general idiocy and flamebaiting has turned off most of the low-intensity GOP voters. Meanwhile, Santorum is like kryptonite for independents -- if they agreed with any of his maniacally theocratic Dominionist viewpoints, they wouldn't be independents. So the more he flaps his lips, the deeper he digs his hole nationally. Not that he cares about that....
Why not, since that is exactly what it says. The First Amendment does not (only) prevent the State from founding a religion, it protects us from a state endorsed religion. That was kind of, y'know, the whole fucking point. The federal government cannot adopt legislation based on the moral precepts of any religion, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, whatever. Just because there are a lot of Christians doesn't mean they get to outvote the Bill of Rights. Santorum, and apparently you, are completely out of your fucking minds here. The United States does not have an official government-endorsed religion, and as Thomas Jefferson clearly says above (along with several other Founding Fathers), it was never intended to and in fact was designed to avoid such an error thanks to the First Amendment.
Because there is enough wiggle room and room for interpretation for people to have their own interpretation. They'll just say "Well, what it MEANS is..." And anyone taking this tack has plenty of experience doing this with their respective holy documents so, to them, you're just putting your interpretation up against reality. I know. That's what I said.
Wait. Aren't these the same politicians that denounce Iran and the Taliban Afghanistan for being theocracies?
Well, obviously they're bad. They're Islam theocracies. Not proper god-fearing, religious folks who believe only in good things.
Just to update on Bachmann: Her congressional district was recently redrawn putting her home in a district run by a six term Democrat. Bachmann then announced she'll run in her current, redrawn, district. On paper her new district still includes her conservative base plus more Conservatives. She has no Democrat opponent yet. However, a recent poll shows her support hovering at about 34% and she's just off a failed presidential bid that did manage to draw in a bit of money, money that might be skittish to redonate (if that's a word). Also she missed 70% of votes while running and was all celebrating her roots in a different part of Minnesota. So it's kind of a toss up right now. A good campaigner would blow her out of the water but...well, you gotta find a good campaigner. Herman Cain...he uh...well, he's Caining around I guess? He loved Hoekstra's racist ad He really is a more successful/less failfull Trump
The "privatization of faith"??? WHAT IN THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT. Even his clarifications are dirty, mentally dirty. Still, at least he will be in the spotlight a while longer, to further publicly discredit his own opinions.
At this point I think he's just playing to The Daily Show. Next thing you know he'll change his campaign motto to 'Can Impregnate Emmy Rossum By Farting Into Her Pussy'.
Santorum doubles down and clarifies his remarks on Obama being a "snob" for telling kids to think about getting a post-secondary education and why he wanted to throw up on JFK's separation of church and state speech.
I thing this was in Leviticus too. So it's Newt and Santorum that harbor this racist belief that, without a teleprompter, Obama would, I don't know, start rapping or calling for white women. Santorum's speechwriter: Seth Leibsohn
OH please please please let this carry over into the national election I would give my firstborn to watch Obama shit all over "All of my friends are sports team owners" Romney when neither has flashcards in front of them
That's exactly why I was arguing against Lum's position vis-a-vis the primaries. I hope and pray that Santorum is chosen, because wingnuts deserve the very public, very decisive, very definitive smackdown from the voting public that they seem to be clamoring for. Romney doesn't represent all that, so a defeat of Romney isn't the broad, public rejection of the nutjob platform.
That's a great theory until the Euro tanks in July, the US economy tanks in August, and we get President Goddam Santorum in November.
I used to think who was President really didn't matter too much. The 2000 election demonstrated the error of my thinking.
If Romney wins I'll be annoyed, but oh well. If any of the others get the nomination and somehow win I'll be fucking terrified.
Santorum says that if Puerto Rico wants statehood, it would be required to adopt English as its official language. Because, uhh... He didn't really explain that part. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...rico-must-adopt-english-if-it-wants-statehood
