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I hope Rick Santorum gets the Republican nomination. Because I want, once and for all, to shine the unflinching light of hard public scrutiny on the festering hate and stupidity that is the Conservative social platform, and expose it to be the bigoted, hateful, un-American travesty that it is, and has been... and that's without even going into the personal disgrace it will heap on this particular individual, who is so richly deserving.
Yesterday, speaking to a group of pastors and ministers in deep red suburban Dallas, Santorum said two things that succinctly sum up both the moral vacuum of the social conservative position and the compelling and pervasive lack of self-awareness exhibited by pretty much every politician espousing them.
First, discussing California's overturning of Proposition 8, Senator Frothy Mix tried to go on the offensive against the President (who had absolutely nothing to do with the verdict, but why let something like a little factual truth get in the way of your righteous indignation, Rick?).
Santorum said, with a straight face and absolutely no hint of irony, "The 9th Circuit decision yesterday said if you believe in traditional marriage between man and a woman and exclusively that it's because you are a bigot. Your belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on hatred and bigotry. That's what they just wrote."
Yes, you dumb fuck, that's exactly what they wrote. And you know why? BECAUSE YOU'RE GODDAMNED BIGOTS. Change the words "Man" and "Woman" to "black" and "white" or "Jew" and "Muslim" or "Blonde" and "Brunette" and try to tell me that it's not discriminatory. Anyone who believes that some legal contract cannot be freely entered into by ANY two consenting adults is a bigot, and deserves to be derided, shamed, and ridiculed as such until they shut up or join the twenty-first fucking century.
And, as bad as that is, that's SOP for the GOP - playing the victim from the position of moral tyranny (the current, ongoing attempt to cause a flap because the new health care insurance laws will require church-run institutions like hospitals and universities to provide health insurance that includes contraception and reproductive services to the women in their employ is so much First Amendment bullshit, it's laughable - which means that it's going to be a recurring distraction until and unless someone says, "Look, you ignorant fucks, the Constitution states 'Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion' -- and that phrase comes before the bit about 'or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'"
However, Frothy Mix also came right out and admitted, in what could have been a fairly horrible personal tragedy, that he is pretty much entirely fucking useless in an emergency. Seriously, this makes Bush the Dumber's stunned expression while reading My Pet Goat look damn near competent in comparison.
Here's the transcript from NPR's piece on All Things Considered yesterday, so you can see the context, and Santorum's own ghoulish words... where he's playing his own disabled child's nearly dying in his arms for laughs.
WADE GOODWYN: Santorum spoke movingly of his disabled daughter Bella. He described how she stopped breathing at home one night in his arms, and he stood there stunned, begging her to breathe. His wife, a nurse, grabbed the child out of his arms, threw her on the bed and administered CPR. That night at the hospital...
SANTORUM: I got a call from my daughter Sarah Maria, who was 10 at the time, and she said, Dad, how's Bella? I said she's hanging in there. It's still touch and go. She said, Dad, Mom, save Bella's life. I said that's right. She did, honey. She said, Dad, you didn't do anything.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
SANTORUM: I said, well, honey, Daddy is a politician. I talked to her.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
SANTORUM: Mommy is a nurse. She saved her.
That's right, Rick. You're a useless windbag who couldn't think to do anything more effective than pray for a miracle, while someone who actually knows something stepped in and saved you from the heartbreak your own failure would have permitted to take place. This is your Republican party, people, writ as small and personal as it can be. The one claiming the moral high ground would have done nothing as his daughter died, because he was incapable, and was rescued by someone with the smarts, skills, and wherewithal to act.
Mommy is a nurse. You know, a health care provider. A woman. Exactly the kind of person you, and every political fucksock like you, is trying to prevent from practicing good medicine by being assbaskets about health insurance reform, health education, and restricting access to affordable care.
So, yes, please, Republicans - nominate this canker. Let us, at long last, lance the national boil of the conservative's lies and begin to heal the nation.
Yesterday, speaking to a group of pastors and ministers in deep red suburban Dallas, Santorum said two things that succinctly sum up both the moral vacuum of the social conservative position and the compelling and pervasive lack of self-awareness exhibited by pretty much every politician espousing them.
First, discussing California's overturning of Proposition 8, Senator Frothy Mix tried to go on the offensive against the President (who had absolutely nothing to do with the verdict, but why let something like a little factual truth get in the way of your righteous indignation, Rick?).
Santorum said, with a straight face and absolutely no hint of irony, "The 9th Circuit decision yesterday said if you believe in traditional marriage between man and a woman and exclusively that it's because you are a bigot. Your belief of marriage between a man and a woman is purely irrational based on hatred and bigotry. That's what they just wrote."
Yes, you dumb fuck, that's exactly what they wrote. And you know why? BECAUSE YOU'RE GODDAMNED BIGOTS. Change the words "Man" and "Woman" to "black" and "white" or "Jew" and "Muslim" or "Blonde" and "Brunette" and try to tell me that it's not discriminatory. Anyone who believes that some legal contract cannot be freely entered into by ANY two consenting adults is a bigot, and deserves to be derided, shamed, and ridiculed as such until they shut up or join the twenty-first fucking century.
And, as bad as that is, that's SOP for the GOP - playing the victim from the position of moral tyranny (the current, ongoing attempt to cause a flap because the new health care insurance laws will require church-run institutions like hospitals and universities to provide health insurance that includes contraception and reproductive services to the women in their employ is so much First Amendment bullshit, it's laughable - which means that it's going to be a recurring distraction until and unless someone says, "Look, you ignorant fucks, the Constitution states 'Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion' -- and that phrase comes before the bit about 'or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.'"
However, Frothy Mix also came right out and admitted, in what could have been a fairly horrible personal tragedy, that he is pretty much entirely fucking useless in an emergency. Seriously, this makes Bush the Dumber's stunned expression while reading My Pet Goat look damn near competent in comparison.
Here's the transcript from NPR's piece on All Things Considered yesterday, so you can see the context, and Santorum's own ghoulish words... where he's playing his own disabled child's nearly dying in his arms for laughs.
WADE GOODWYN: Santorum spoke movingly of his disabled daughter Bella. He described how she stopped breathing at home one night in his arms, and he stood there stunned, begging her to breathe. His wife, a nurse, grabbed the child out of his arms, threw her on the bed and administered CPR. That night at the hospital...
SANTORUM: I got a call from my daughter Sarah Maria, who was 10 at the time, and she said, Dad, how's Bella? I said she's hanging in there. It's still touch and go. She said, Dad, Mom, save Bella's life. I said that's right. She did, honey. She said, Dad, you didn't do anything.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
SANTORUM: I said, well, honey, Daddy is a politician. I talked to her.
(SOUNDBITE OF LAUGHTER)
SANTORUM: Mommy is a nurse. She saved her.
That's right, Rick. You're a useless windbag who couldn't think to do anything more effective than pray for a miracle, while someone who actually knows something stepped in and saved you from the heartbreak your own failure would have permitted to take place. This is your Republican party, people, writ as small and personal as it can be. The one claiming the moral high ground would have done nothing as his daughter died, because he was incapable, and was rescued by someone with the smarts, skills, and wherewithal to act.
Mommy is a nurse. You know, a health care provider. A woman. Exactly the kind of person you, and every political fucksock like you, is trying to prevent from practicing good medicine by being assbaskets about health insurance reform, health education, and restricting access to affordable care.
So, yes, please, Republicans - nominate this canker. Let us, at long last, lance the national boil of the conservative's lies and begin to heal the nation.
