Rick Santorum Is Still an Asshole |
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| By: twolf1 Thursday January 20, 2011 6:55 am | |
Rick Santorum — frothy mix, racist:
The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer, is that, is that human life a person under the constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that human life is not a person then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.’
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What a dick.
Santorum may be the most hated politician in the country. Sadly, he hails from my neck of the woods. Santorum and the Pirates — will we ever live them down?
find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.’
Rick will defend himself by saying African Americans have high rates of abortion and try and deflect the issue.
Our reply should be whether its a higher minimum wage, money for schools, healthcare, daycare anything to help African Americans provide for or help raise a child Rick has been pretty much against it all.
Rick will try and deflect and say that this is payback on White because African American slaves did not have the right to marry. Our reply should be Rick still doesn’t want Gays to marry.
now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.’
Is the money quote this is thinly coded hate speech implying that with Obama in charge Whites need to fear the Black Overlord “who will determine who are people” Rick is implying Obama will force people to have abortions in the future.
This is a variation on the Rights Obama will put Gun Owners in Camps and Sarah’s Government Healthcare Death Camps Meme.
Rick has some talented Racist Public Relations people working for him his message fits in with and piggybacks off of other people’s message.
The problem is he does not get as much credit as he would if he said something Original.
The Benefit he gets less blame if an other GOP shooter gets caught.
How ever any attack on an Abortion Doctor or Clinic well…we got you on the hook now Rick.
The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer, is that, is that human life a person under the constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that human life is not a person then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.’
Rick the Supreme Court answered this one as you well know when they made the abortion rules.
Also Moron your ideas about abortion spring from Catholic ideas. Well the Church was fine with abortion for centuries as long as the whole baby was not out of the mom in delivery a midwife or the mom, father, etc could kill the baby and it wasn’t murder.
The church only changed its stance on abortion after Science the baby had a heart beat separate from the Mothers.
You know Science Rick that thing you deny when we talk about evolution, about how the universe was not formed in 7 days but over billions of years.
Tell me Rick why do Fundies get to choose the science they believe?
Why didn’t God tell the Church centuries ago about babies having their own heart beat independent of the mother?
Maybe God really doesn’t think abortion is Murder Rick after all she/he left it up to science to tell you the baby had a heart beat.
Santorum’s remarks: Typical for someone with all the physical characteristics of inbreeding.
In 1987, the Alan Guttmacher Institute collected questionnaires from 1,900 women in the United States who came to clinics to have abortions. Of the 1,900 questioned, 420 had been pregnant for 16 or more weeks. These 420 women were asked to choose among a list of reasons they had not obtained the abortions earlier in their pregnancies. The results were as follows:[3]
71% Woman didn’t recognize she was pregnant or misjudged gestation
48% Woman found it hard to make arrangements for abortion
33% Woman was afraid to tell her partner or parents
24% Woman took time to decide to have an abortion
8% Woman waited for her relationship to change
8% Someone pressured woman not to have abortion
6% Something changed after woman became pregnant
6% Woman didn’t know timing is important
5% Woman didn’t know she could get an abortion
2% A fetal problem was diagnosed late in pregnancy
11% Other
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-term_abortion
Notice the biggest reasons for having a late term abortion women did not know they were pregnant and it was hard to make arrangements to get an abortion.
So by not teaching sex ed, not making abortion easier to get early in a pregnancy Rick and the fundies did infact force many women to have abortions when the babies were more developed more human more alive but still not legally human.
Rick can debate with us all he wants about when life begins but words are nothing I look at actions and Ricks actions if I believe Ricks arguments and judge him by his own logic cause babies the most harm and pain.
The Supreme Court has held that bans must include exceptions for threats to the woman’s life, physical health, and mental health, but four states allow late-term abortions only when the woman’s life is at risk; four allow them when the woman’s life or physical health is at risk, but use a definition of health that pro-choice organizations believe is impermissibly narrow.[16
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-term_abortion
Rick is against abortion for any reason right so the babies life is more important than the mother’s life? It seems Rick has already decided who can Live or Die?
Is the power of life and death only for Whites Rick?
Oh, fer Gawd’s sake! Can they stop with the abortion issues as a way to ramp up the votes!
They really don’t give a shit. After that baby is born they want to starve it!
Sanitorium PROVES every time he goes on ANY program where he actually has to open his mouth, that lies, racism and his overt bigotry spills everywhere he moves.
He is one of the best examples we have in America today of the WORST KIND of hate and bigotry that can be found in this country… He would fit right in with Tom Coburn’s and Jim InHoffer’s people in Uganda..
Because Santorum is such an expert of reproductive services and issues of race…
If you love kids so much Rick why are you against government healthcare? Europe people live longer and pay less money for medical care.
Here in America Mexican immigrants but not farm workers live longer than Whites and African Americans with free market healthcare.
Why bother bringing children into the world if you won’t take care of them Rick? Kids are like puppies you have to provide for them, feed and clean them up you have to take then to the vet.
Oppose healthcare you hurt kids, oppose the government creating jobs you oppose parents having the money to provide for their kids.
Since humans are never going to stop having sex Rick you are creating the need for abortion that and more kids in foster care.
Ay yi yi… and a sibling of mine LOVES this dickhead and actually sits down to eat meals with him. SHUDDER!!!!!!!! I cannot choose my relatives, but I can say that Santorum needs to STFU, fwiw. What a racist nasty belligerant ignorant stupid jerk-off @sshole.
last i heard BHO was 1/2 white too….dont let the facts get in the way Sanctomoian
This is both factually dishonest and terribly offensive. Santorum has faded well back in the pack of frothing 2012 GOP hopefuls, so maybe he feels the need to channel Palin and make a really stupid comment (“blood libel,” anyone?) and get some headlines. It worked, apparently.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog
Rick is the biggest GOP Fundy Candidate to the Right of Sarah. If the GOP gets rid of Sarah then Rick will step in and he will try and appeal to the fundy’s and racist wings of the GOP.
Huckabee will try and get the not so racist fundies. Lets see who does better in the GOP primary.
To people like Santorum, mixed race = all black.
It’s amazing how the media sets the discussions. Unemployed? Oh well that’s not news, next up Congress will tackle abortion—-again.
Losing your house? Oh well that’s not news, next up Congress will tackle the pressing need for health insurance premiums for everyone!
Can’t afford food? Oh well that’s not news, next up Congress will one by one recite the Constitution.
Sanctimonious Santorum strikes again. What a racist jerk.
Who is paying Santorum to open his mouth again?
To the best I can tell, you have not made a single comment that didn’t include pimping your blog. Not one. I might have gone to check it out at one point or another if the topic appealed to me but now there’s no chance at all.
Ask them why if the GOP is really against abortion why after Reagan, Bush, Bush 2 etc has abortion never been outlawed the GOP had 20 years and even house and senate majorities to outlaw abortion but it never happens.
20 years to pick Supreme Court Justices but it never happens. Why because the GOP needs an issue to rally voters and if they solve the abortion problem then they lose that issue.
GOP voters are being played. Lefties don’t wait years for the ship to come in Obama played us we want him gone. Because he is not fixing America like he said he would.
Every GOPer running for President who does not want to be a Woman’s much less Sarah’s VP. CEO big shot GOPers alpha males can’t take orders from a woman.
While I try to avoid any kind of discussion like this with my family (because, believe me, it’s just not worth it), I have raised this issue once or twice. It goes nowhere because they are all avid Sarah Palin worshippers, plus they listen to RushGlenn 24/7. Their pat answer is that it’s all the Democrats’ fault, and no amount of real facts and statistics will dissuade them from their pre-packaged viewpoints. and that’s the way it is for most conserveratives, esp the fundies like my family. Reason and logic and facts have no place in their fabricated worlds.
Righto. Only white men get to decide who is a person. /s
Santorum probably has to sanitize the drinking fountain before taking a sip.
They’re not going to stop. They’ve pulled out the bigger bullhorn after that quack in Pennsylvania (who was not licensed and performing *illegal* abortions even under the most generous reading of the law) got arrested yesterday.
I tried to turn their own language in the immigration debate against them (as in, “What part of *illegal* isn’t sinking in?”), but it’s like trying to drill a hole in a tree with a rigatoni noodle.
Some Oligarch or other who wishes to dangle the bright shiney object of distraction known as frothy santorum…. go figure.
Kock brothers i presume
Don’t be silly. In his office there’s a seperate drinking fountain. But equal, ya know.
Well, yeah, and not really snark if yer a rightwing fundie, unfortunately. And believe me, many people, both women and men, absolutely subscribe to this notion, more’s the pity. That’s why santorum was trotted out to spew this biliousness; it plays well to the base.
mebbe, or the Scaife’s or even Pirate Murdoch… or some such similar crook.
Think we should just start responding to everything with “Yeah, that’s great. What about jobs? What about the fraudclosure crisis?”
I think that would be awesome.
Screw this has-been asshole. I don’t really give a good hoot as to his opinion of “when life begins.” Last time I checked, Rick Santorum was NOT a physician, and has zero medical training. Therefore, while he is entitled to his stupid opinion, I am equally entitled to call BS. As far as his patronizing attitude towards the President, color me unsurprised. Just go away….
They’re the only REAL property owners, dontchyaknow.
Here is a truckload for Ricky boy:
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Well it’s certainly too important a decision to leave up to the lil wimmin.
BLOG WHORING ya think Peg???
I’d be verrrry careful about making the ‘when life begins’ in any way a medical question.
Sorry to hear about your recent tumble down the stairs. Good luck healing quickly. I, too, wondered where you were but hoped you were on some fabulous vacation or something. Glad to see you here again. Take care.
Thanks for your well wishes. I was lucky I didn’t end up worse. I was wearing down booties, and stepped on one without realizing it. Then tried to lift the foot that was not free. Those booties are deadly. Would recommend using them only while sitting still. Not to be walked around in as they are too loose to be safe.
“when life begins” is NOT the relevant question anyway, it’s a red herring.
http://bgladd.blogspot.com/2008/04/diploid-dave-et-al.html
yipes!
Glad you are on the mend eCAHN, and glad you didn’t take a tumble at the Gunks! ;)
When life begins is certainly where the conversation gets drug down into a quagmire. No one will ever agree on this issue and I don’t think there’s a medical middle ground to be reached.
WTF? How does this ignorant has-been Santorum get a forum still?
Should anyone really be surprised? Rick Santorum was [ALWAYS an ignorant Asshole. Invoking race and president Obama has become a rallying cry the extreme-right wing in this country. What baffles me is why these clowns are given a platform-considering their history are spew their hate and ignorance? that is my question.
Because he’s says what the Oligarchs want him to say? It whips up a frenzy in the rightwing base and pits them against dreaded “Democrats”???
See my response, above. It’s what the Oligarchs want. Pitting the small people against one another is the name of the game. Thus, we’re all distracted from how badly the elites are ripping us off and turning the USA into a banana republic. Part of the ongoing Kabuki Show.
Yes, Santorum is probably the most hated politician in the country. He has been consistently vile over the span of his career.
Which means Obama will probably offer him a job.
Once an Asshole/Always an Asshole – Rich Sanitorium is the poster boy for ‘assholism’.
Funny how rats like Santorum come crawling out of their rat holes since they smell ‘blood libel’ on the water!
Santorum is amazingly stupid for an alleged sentient being…
Where in the constitution does it say a fetus counts as a person? Is a woman who is pregnant at the time of a census supposed to count the unborn baby? No. Not even 3/5 of a person.
I just wonder how many “unwanted” babies he has adopted? I ask this of every damned anti-choice bigot. How many kids do you support? None, then STFU.
In North Dakota. Guarding the border.
Azi-nay ?
Outlaws abortion for his people, forces it everywhere else.
Who alleged that?
I’m REAL late to the thread, but eCAHN I wish you well and a speedy recovery!
N yeah, the whole ‘when life begins’ is a red herring from the issues of women’s rights . . . . an Xtian Misogynist red herring.
Twolf, perhaps there will come a day when we won’t have to give these ratfucks like Santorum one single key stroke of our white space and time . .
Wouldn’t that be grand . . . ;-)
As we know, Santorum and his fellow travelers don’t consider women to be people, either…we’re just walking uteruses.
Sadly, I fear it’s gonna be a while — judging by the new crop of anti-science wingnuts and things like the new Texas textbooks and Noah’s Ark theme park.
There is no more despicable entity on earth than Rick Santorum.