And I'm guessing he could do very well in South Carolina.
Don’t worry, though. We’re still going to have Romney vs Obama.
So let the general begin already. And let’s not deceive ourselves over what it’s about: power far more than principle.
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And let’s get one thing straight about this latest Red Knight anointed by the churlish Republican base. Santorum, whose views on sexual morality are close to medieval and whose neocon foreign policy (e.g., bomb Iran) won’t fly after a decade of disastrous wars—and who, on top of that, was once considered one of America’s dumbest senators by his peers on Capitol Hill—has very, very little chance of getting close to the nomination. He doesn’t have the money, the infrastructure, or the appeal beyond the hard right. The pundits will talk about his history as a blue-state senator, but the fact is that when Pennsylvania voters learned how truly right-wing Santorum was, he lost by 18 points in 2006 (he hasn’t held office for five years)—which, as Molly Ball of The Atlantic points out, “was the biggest loss ever by an incumbent Pennsylvania Republican senator.”
National Journal
And, fresh off his “win”, he’s stumbling….
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Thursday that he did not compare homosexuality to having sex with animals in a 2003 interview.
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“In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality,” he added. “That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing.”
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When CNN anchor John King confronted him about the quote on Thursday, Santorum denied that it equated homosexuality with bestiality.
“Hold on a second, John,” he said. “Read the quote. I said it’s not. It is not. I didn’t say it is. I said it’s not. You know, I don’t — I’m trying to understand what you’re trying to make the point. I said it’s not those things. I didn’t connect them. I specifically excluded them.”
Raw Story
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday found himself being booed by a group of students [at New England College] after he failed to convince them that legalizing same sex marriage would also mean that polygamy was acceptable.
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For his final question at the event, Santorum was asked if he would work to overturn existing same sex marriage and medical marijuana laws. “I don’t believe we can have 50 definitions of marriage in this country,” Santorum opined. “I’ll use an extreme example: Because you’re 19-years-old and female, you’re allowed to live in this state. Because he’s 30-years-old and a male, he’s not. Well, obviously we’re not getting there and that’s an absurd example. But it is — if you’re certain amount of gestational age or if you were born and there are some states that advocated for mercy killings, for example, euthanasia, and you can be euthanized if you’re in one state but you can’t be if you’re in another state. Those are things that I think are counter to the Constitution.”
“I don’t know my medical marijuana laws very well to be honest with you,” he added. “I feel that they are a hazardous thing for society and so I would — well, I formed that opinion from my own life experiences and having experienced that. I went to college too.”
That answer earned the former Pennsylvania senator loud and sustained boos as he tried to exit the stage.
Raw Story
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