Everything Rick Santorum Says is still Stupid and Bad--

There is no truer point that I will make this year than that I genuinely think former PA Senator Rick Santorum is the awfulest of all awful people who have ever run for president. I mean this, even knowing Pat Buchanan ran for president, and that Richard Nixon and George W. Bush even became Presidents. I don't think David Duke or Randall Terry are worse. I simply believe, down in my heart, with the kind of pure child-like faith in which I once believed in--

Oh fuck. I never believed in God, Santa, or the Tooth Fairy. I'm just not a faith-based kind of person. But I believe, truly, probably from observation and the public record, that Rick Santorum is The Worst. Becausse he says things like this:

Santorum says Obama agenda not "based on Bible" :

A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed to prevent gas prices rising and was using "political science" in the debate about climate change.


Obama's agenda is "not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology," Santorum told supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement at a Columbus hotel.

When asked about the statement at a news conference later, Santorum said, "If the president says he's a Christian, he's a Christian."

But Santorum did not back down from the assertion that Obama's values run against those of Christianity.

I could unpack all of that and make it the worst thing anyone pretending to even be a conservative ever said--should a president regulate gas prices?  Is that a really a control Santorum wants to see someone exert over the market? Did our Founding Fathers make any attempt to define what a religion is or make any litmus test for religion as a barrier to office?  Absolutely not! But there is Rick Santorum, establishing the standards for religion, and saying Obama doesn't meet them.  Probably because Obama is a Protestant.  Awesome. That's the kind of religious Catholic/Protestant intolerance our religious-freedom-seeking forebears could totally get down with--and reject and hope we found a new continent for them to start a country on.

Also, he's not really fond of public schools, as in, he hates all education, but let's pretend he just hates public schools.

"We didn't have government-run schools for a long time in this country, for the majority of the time in this country," he said. "We had private education. We had local education. Parents actually controlled the education of their children. What a great idea that is."

Santorum's campaign did not respond to multiple requests for an explanation of whether he was calling for an end to public schooling as it now exists. But the former Pennsylvania senator has previously made his antagonism known. Campaigning in March, Santorum took a shot at public schools.

"Just call them what they are," he said. "Public schools? That's a nice way of putting it. These are government-run schools."

 

"Government" being the really bad thing he keeps running to have a little control of.  Also, he doesn't like pre-natal screening for things that might effect the health of the baby that he thinks is a real person, except he doesn't think it's health matters, right?

Prenatal tests are a standard part of modern medical care. The Department of Health and Human Services says such tests "help keep you and your baby healthy during pregnancy. It also involves education and counseling about how to handle different aspects of your pregnancy."

After devoting much of his speech to the health care law, an occasionally testy Santorum found himself the subject of reporters' regarding his socially conservative stances.

One could point to heroic operations upon little pre-born babies with spina bifida, heart defects, or whatever,  that never would have happened if pre-natal screening didn't exist. 

Why does Rick Santorum hate disabled babies? Seriously. He's such a conflicted and dopey thinker. I really can't stand how bad his thought processes are.