For starters, does he realize that married women (men too!) use birth control? The impression that Santorum finds the prevalent practice of birth control “harmful to women” is, frankly, mind-numbing. If he meant to focus on teen sexual promiscuity, he surely could have, and thereby might have sounded less out of touch.
Now, he qualifies his religious views by saying he doesn’t vote against contraception “because it’s not the taking of a human life” (in other contexts he has emphasized that as a legal matter he has no problem with contraception). But how does that square with his professed belief that a candidate’s values are essential to understanding and predicting his behavior? Perhaps that’s an abortion-only rule. (And really, where are George Stephanopoulos’s questions on this topic when you need them?)
In any event, this sort of thing undermines Santorum’s electability argument. (Current polling match-ups between President Obama and each of the two frontrunners, before the GOP has a nominee and before Santorum’s record is out there, are virtually useless.) This is how, in part, he lost Pennsylvania — by appearing extreme and schoolmarmish, too far to the right of average voters in a purple state. If he is the nominee in 2012, he might get some blue-collar fellows, but what about those women in Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc.? And what about more secularized suburban communities? Fuggedaboutit.
I don't have much of a problem with having to follow God's laws.
I have a huge fucking problem with someone else telling me what God's laws are and forcing me to follow them.
Again, that's the taliban. And that's what this idiot thinks is right, the government being in charge of setting and enforcing God's laws for the citizens.
I have a huge fucking problem with someone else telling me what God's laws are and forcing me to follow them.
God said murder and stealing is wrong. Do you have a problem with the government telling you that.
What we have right now is a left wing kook satanist. Would you rather follow satans law? You can't possibly get a worse president then this pervert in the white house.
Santorum isn't my first second or third or fourth for fifth or hundredth choice. I don't even really like him. But I would pick him over Obama 365 out of 365 days of the year over the dark skinned murderer. I would agree with you if you had someone saying God said no TV. No more TV.
I would agree with you if you had someone saying God said no TV. No more TV.
He'd start out saying we're only saying don't murder and steal and he'd end up putting in laws for whatever he thought was right for our sake, in God's name.
That's what they all do after a while, which is why you can't let them get started.
They get power and control mad.
They wouldn't ban TV though, they'd only restrict the shows that could get aired.
