Everything Rick Santorum Says is Stupid and Sad. It's Stup-ad.

This is something I was jotting down notes on today, when I found that Melissa McEwan from Shakesville already covered a lot of what I was going to post about.  But two things make me need to post about all the sad stupid things Rick Santorum has been saying lately, anyway:  Hey, when she's right, she's right (Melissa is more often right than not. This is why I haunt her site and frequent her comments).  Also: everything Rick Santorum says is really stupid. And, also: he was my senator. I've been watching him since he became my senator. I've been watching him since he stopped being my senator.  He never got any better.

So to break things down, here's some of the dumb shit that has frothed out of his word-hole, lately:


We don't need food stamps because obesity rates are so high. Hi, my fake name is Vixen, and I'm fat. As a result of being fat and also dieting, I know all the things about being fat. You can be malnourished and be fat. You can be hungry and be fat. Your body needs nutrients, and cup o' something and mac'n'cheese and the other foods available to poor people are not full of nutrients, but are full of calories and fat, and boy, can you get fat on'em, but guess what? You still aren't well-fed. You can eat  them and still be hungry for "real food". You're just fat and hungry and probably wishing you could lay your hands on a vegetable. And is he saying fat mommas and daddies don't have any right to be able to feed their lean and hungry children? Because, you know, kids don't work or have a lot of money, but they have to eat. And old people have to eat, too. Same stories about food availability apply. Fat =/=well-fed.

Everything undocumented workers do is illegal.  They breathe illegally.  They sleep illegally. They love their kids illegally. They work and pay taxes they get no benefit from illegally.  They love this country and it's opportunities illegally.  They think this is one of the best places to live and raise a family illegally. Why does Rick Santorum think that working hard, paying taxes, and raising your family should be illegal?   Oh, yeah, because some of these people are Hispaniards, or something. I fail to believe he has really thought about this topic at all.

People die because of bad decisions, like having a body made of meat.  This is terribly stupid stuff. If a person fails to seek medical care for small things, like routine check-ups, it could very well be because they did not favor paying for that stuff over other considerations, like food and rent. Also, because most people are not doctors, they aren't the best judges of when they really need to see a doctor. Also--I think he doesn't understand the whole: "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" notion, and his statements about pre-existing condiations actually is nonsense. Obviously, it would be better if more people were paying into the insurance system as it currently exists, and that includes the healthy (this drives down costs as amortized over the whole insurance "pool")--oh and if it would be better for Santorum to pay more for his child (no criticism re: his disabled daughter, here), does he get that not everyone who has a disabled child can afford more under the "oh, pre-existing condition" label? And that people who were born with a disability or pre-existing condition grow up and have to be responsible for themselves--and might be priced out of mere existence, if they need insurance to pay for their basic needs?

Marriage equality=kids know about teh ghey sexes. I went to public school, and I failed to be instructed about blowjobs or even how to properly address a vulva, should I ever come across one other than my own. I did not learn about the reverse cowgirl or fixing the spike, nor the benefits of prostate stimulation. I did not learn that if I was attracted to women, this was okay. And it might have helped if that was brought up during my sex ed. I knew it was true. I just thought other people might need to be educated about that, was all.  I have no idea about the moral superiority of eating cock over eating pussy, but I don't think there is one. I mostly just concentrate on whether I am making my partner(s) happy with what all I'm doing. It may scandalize Rick Santorum to know this, but gay, lesbian and bisexual people exist and actually have spouses, lives, kids, and are a part of society. When I was a youngin' introduced to adult straight couples, no one bothered me with whether they were all about the Mish or hangin' with third parties or experimenting with anal. It was not my little baby bidness what they all were doing--as it is not anyone else's business whay gay folks are doing--for fuck's sake! Rick Santorum, get yo' mind out of other folk's bedrooms! Mind your own beeswax!

I'm thinking that what Santorum's deal is, that he came to his conclusions first, then came up with bullshit justifications for why he has his positions after the fact. It's amazing how he can ignore, though, all the human business that fits outside of his assumptions. It's like he doesn't understand how anything works.  But he still thinks he has anything to say about how people should live.