Santorum's going to blame his daughter privately, though publicly he will say that quitting shows what good heterosexual family values he has that America would do well to adopt.
I have to wonder what protests are going to happen as per like the protests that happened 4 and 8 years ago that seemingly have vanished from the internet as they seemed to always be against Ripukelickins?
I would open with all the protests against the republicans from Dick Nixon to W bush and put it to music but Not even The internet has anything to contribute it seems.
Where are my minions? where is my army of Stupid Fools? why has no pie graced the face of Mitt Romney? where are those angry mothers against a war and the death of their sons and daughters? were are the land off the free and the home of the brave? I don't like Sissy politics and there are wars to be ended.
Dose anyone know what I am looking for?
Were you really hoping for Santorum to upset Romney, Paul? I agree with your assessment that he wasted his brief momentum by making everyone feel really uncomfortable about Republican "values", but you say that like it's a bad thing. It's the best use of that frothy waste of space that I could imagine.
In his statement he mentions his comparative lack of money, but, he adds, he ran a different kind of campaign - he touch a lot of hearts. Millions of voters, he continues, millions!
Rather sounds like the perfect despot, doesn't it? My people love me because I tell them how to run their lives and graciously limit their choices.
@ 24, I can't speak for Paul, but the general sense I've gotten is that the longer Santorum stayed in, the more Romney would have to fight him instead of Obama, and maybe more division would have been sown between the establishment 'pubs and the base. Perhaps even a Santorum nomination WAS something to hope for - I'd be nervous of it, but having a real radical might have provided the same kind of blow to the national GOP that the 1996 gubernatorial run of Ellen Craswell did to Washington's.
Entertaining read, though I think I disagree with the basic premise that abandoning the lunatic rhetoric could've allowed him a legitimate shot at the nomination. In doing so, he'd have picked up some support from some moderate/mainstream repubs, but then also lost a sizable contingent of the wingnut faction that represents his base. Like the evangelical movement in general, his campaign was doomed from it's inception.
@28, I think he's done well stealing Romney's "inevitability" thunder, and reminding large swathes of the Republican base that they really don't like or want Romney at all, for months now. Also (as stated in the OP) I think he's done a wonderful job reminding people that the whole social conservative pole of the Republican tent is fucking crazy. Santorum's going away but he's practically guaranteed that the War on Sex is going to continue to be an issue throughout the election, and hopefully beyond.
I don't think (despite Paul's assertions) he ever had a real chance at the nomination, and I'm glad for that; not confident enough in Obama's chances that I'd want the alternative to be as dangerously crazy (and energizing to the dangerously crazy right-wing base) as Santorum.
I don't think I actually disagree with Paul or you on anything substantial here; I'm just more inclined to be glad than angry to see Frothy dribble away. Good riddance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDGORiD82…
Seems some Republicans are not acknowledging facts and dwell solely in fiction?
Or should I say All of the Repukelickens are lost in illusion.
Why the anger? Why "Fuck you"? Santorum getting the nomination would've scared me. As much as I hate that smarmy, slimy Mittens, were something tragic to happen in October of 2012 and deliver the republican as a shoo-in, I'd take him over Santorum.
I agree that he's done - in 2016 the R's will have the varsity team competing, for a change. Inasmuch as they HAVE one, of course. But we'll see fatso from NJ, Rubio, Daniels, and perhaps Bush the younger (Jeb), lining up against Hilary. There'll be no room for comic relief from Mr. Frothy.
It seems as if former Senator Santorum somehow got stuck with someone who was on Palin's campaign. Pandering to bigots and coming up with disastrous sound bites didn't work in 2008, and I wonder why someone thought they would work in 2012. I guess I don't understand American politics: I'm sure someone will tell me tens of millions of people respond to hate rhetoric dog whistles and it's the only way to bring out a certain voter bloc.
@29 - If the Republicans don't take the White House, they will not become more moderate. They will double-down on their extreme positions.
Take as proof their problem with women. Romney trails Obama by double digits with female voters. In fact, among women of reproductive age, he trails Obama by a staggering 64% to 33%.
Yet just last week, Scott Walker invalidated Wisconsin's equal pay law, dictated the nature of doctor visits for women seeking abortion, banned insurance exchanges from covering abortion, and removed the requirement that sex education provides instruction on birth control and added a required focus on abstinence.
And it's not just one nutcase in Wisconsin doing this. Republicans are playing these games all over the country STILL - despite the ever-growing, highly measurable alienation of female voters. So, no - I don't expect them to learn a lesson from this.
"How does it feel to be a Republican these days," I ask my GOP friends. They just look down and shake their heads.
What levide said @29. For three decades I've watched the R's grow more insane (with the possible exception of Bush I). I keep thinking it can't possibly get worse, and then next cycle I'm proven wrong again.
Don't console yourself with the notion that batshittery will never make it into the Oval Office. First, it's a bottom-up strategy and the vermin are already infesting school boards, county boards of supervisors, and state legislatures nationwide, largely below the radar of most liberally-inclined people (because they lack the passion of the right wing), and second, the sheer mass of whackadoodles is steadily dragging the center (and the left) to the right.
The fellow lacked the stature of a president. Imagine him in situations other presidents
have faced. His over the top attitude about women, civil rights, the military, etc. , to me
indicate too narrow a view. We are still living the results of narrow, self-centered
conservative politics. The current administration has done a fine job considering
the ludicrous behavior and childish antics of the Republicans.
The way things are looking, the Right does not expect to win but will tantrum through it to the end.
Our politicians are strange in USA. If you ever read a foreign paper, you can see that foreigners like Germans or Indians follow our elections with intensity, as if it were a major spectator sport. They will know all the candidates names, whereas do you know all the politicians in Germany? I have sometimes followed their elections, and it is very lowkey. Of course I hate their candidates as well. Who really are we and what are these fucked up candidates?
All the presidents should be made to play basketball instead of debate. Whoever wins the basketball match is the president. Instead of suits, they have to wear trunks that show off their knobby knees. It would be degrading in the extreme. We would invite Germans to watch.
Presidential campaign starts on a couple of bucks? Are you an idiot? ALL presidential campaigns, except the actual nutcases, are are mounted by well heeled (wealthy) individuals.
You spoke my heart, Paul...as long as the God Squad loons have nutjobs like Dickie Boy as poster boys, the sooner progressives can take the wheel to usher in free thinking and innovation for our advancement in the 21st Century.
AMEN!!!!!!
FUCK YOU SANTORUM, psychotic catholics who think like you and the tea reBOOBlican party.
Just a BTW, santorum, your wife had a defective child in her MID-forties, just like palin. Maybe thinking you've had enough kids instead of putting your wife through the trauma of having that child, who probably will not live to see her teen years, would have been the correct and moral thing to do. But no . . .
Beside being neutered YOU should continue with that LOBOTOMY you're been undergoing. Please let them finish the operation.
I can't believe inbreeds like you are allowed to exist in MY world. Please leave.
I love this, Paul.
-Christian Science Monitor
he he.
http://www.google.com/search?ix=seb&sour…
I would open with all the protests against the republicans from Dick Nixon to W bush and put it to music but Not even The internet has anything to contribute it seems.
Where are my minions? where is my army of Stupid Fools? why has no pie graced the face of Mitt Romney? where are those angry mothers against a war and the death of their sons and daughters? were are the land off the free and the home of the brave? I don't like Sissy politics and there are wars to be ended.
Dose anyone know what I am looking for?
Nobody cares what you think. But keep telling us how mature you are, like a kid trying to stay up past his/her bedtime.
Rather sounds like the perfect despot, doesn't it? My people love me because I tell them how to run their lives and graciously limit their choices.
What a goon.
Lame troll is surprisingly effective.
I don't think (despite Paul's assertions) he ever had a real chance at the nomination, and I'm glad for that; not confident enough in Obama's chances that I'd want the alternative to be as dangerously crazy (and energizing to the dangerously crazy right-wing base) as Santorum.
I don't think I actually disagree with Paul or you on anything substantial here; I'm just more inclined to be glad than angry to see Frothy dribble away. Good riddance.
"Next time he's gonna be the moderate. Think about that."
Yep. He will be the "moderate" candidate for the Republican nomination.
The question is: In four years, will 51% of the American people see him as a "moderate" that they'd rather have than whomever the Democrats run.
Seems some Republicans are not acknowledging facts and dwell solely in fiction?
Or should I say All of the Repukelickens are lost in illusion.
Take as proof their problem with women. Romney trails Obama by double digits with female voters. In fact, among women of reproductive age, he trails Obama by a staggering 64% to 33%.
Yet just last week, Scott Walker invalidated Wisconsin's equal pay law, dictated the nature of doctor visits for women seeking abortion, banned insurance exchanges from covering abortion, and removed the requirement that sex education provides instruction on birth control and added a required focus on abstinence.
And it's not just one nutcase in Wisconsin doing this. Republicans are playing these games all over the country STILL - despite the ever-growing, highly measurable alienation of female voters. So, no - I don't expect them to learn a lesson from this.
"How does it feel to be a Republican these days," I ask my GOP friends. They just look down and shake their heads.
Don't console yourself with the notion that batshittery will never make it into the Oval Office. First, it's a bottom-up strategy and the vermin are already infesting school boards, county boards of supervisors, and state legislatures nationwide, largely below the radar of most liberally-inclined people (because they lack the passion of the right wing), and second, the sheer mass of whackadoodles is steadily dragging the center (and the left) to the right.
You have Republican friends?
have faced. His over the top attitude about women, civil rights, the military, etc. , to me
indicate too narrow a view. We are still living the results of narrow, self-centered
conservative politics. The current administration has done a fine job considering
the ludicrous behavior and childish antics of the Republicans.
The way things are looking, the Right does not expect to win but will tantrum through it to the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7pv7sO5G…
FUCK YOU SANTORUM, psychotic catholics who think like you and the tea reBOOBlican party.
Just a BTW, santorum, your wife had a defective child in her MID-forties, just like palin. Maybe thinking you've had enough kids instead of putting your wife through the trauma of having that child, who probably will not live to see her teen years, would have been the correct and moral thing to do. But no . . .
Beside being neutered YOU should continue with that LOBOTOMY you're been undergoing. Please let them finish the operation.
I can't believe inbreeds like you are allowed to exist in MY world. Please leave.