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2012 Fuck You, Rick Santorum
Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM
Dear Rick Santorum,
If you weren't such a total moron, you could've been your party's nominee right now. There was a span of maybe one week on either side of your wins in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri when you could have taken advantage of your own party's revulsion against Mitt Romney and crested the polls to victory. Those two weeks were the only point in this whole godforsaken race when Romney was vulnerable. You were the only person in the whole world who could have toppled him before he bought the Republican nomination. And you blew it.
You blew it in part because you thought the same things that handed you a victory in Iowa—your lack of organization, your inability to prepare a speech ahead of time, your distrust of outsiders—would lead you to victory in the national campaign. Only a very stupid person would think that. Some of the best presidential campaigns start on a couple bucks and a dream, but in order to capitalize on that early momentum, they have to transition from vanity campaigns to a real organization. It's one of the first real tests to prove that a candidate has presidential mettle, and you proved the exact opposite: You were superstitious about having a plan, distrustful of preparation, and scornful of experts. That's not what anyone—except maybe a few fringe nutjobs—wants in a candidate.
But that's not the main reason why you blew it. You blew it because you couldn't—not for a single minute—manage to hide your bigotry from the world. The spotlight fell on you and you had to let your hatred out. You said horrible things about gays, women, unreligious people, tolerance, sex out of wedlock, and science. You just couldn't help yourself. Your obsession with the genital areas of total strangers isn't just unhealthy—it's downright sociopathic.
You caused the impossible to happen, Rick. You caused the Republican Party to wince in shame at its own bigotry. Republicans are proud of their bigotry as long as it's couched in even the most simplistic euphemisms. (Think of the shoddy way Newt Gingrich handled Juan Williams at that debate, and the way he was applauded for barely concealing his consideration of Williams as something less than a full human being.) But you spoke too plainly, and Republicans could see themselves in your ever-present grimace, and they had to shy away from what they saw because it was just too disgusting.
And so what now? The rumors say that Fox News won't take you back because you accused them of "shilling" for Romney. I'm sure you think you're going to run for president in 2016, but you'll find even fewer people willing to stand up for you after losing this battle so publicly and in such a stupid fashion. I'm sure some think-tanks will take you, and the Christian bigots will hire you to go stump against gay marriage in a few states. I think that's probably most likely to be your legacy: Fighting a losing battle against the future for a dwindling fringe population of religious bigots.
Oh, no, wait. That's not going to be your legacy. Your legacy was already decided a long time ago. You're a real piece of shit, Rick Santorum. You're a fecal smear on history, and your stink will only last so long before you'll get washed out of our memory forever.
(heart,)
Paul Bobby Constant
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Seems some Republicans are not acknowledging facts and dwell solely in fiction?
Or should I say All of the Repukelickens are lost in illusion.
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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.
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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.
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.
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