My dissection of Senator Frothy Mix

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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.

Comments

[cheez-ball.livejournal.com]

The Rep Party should never have allowed this...santorum...to run.

And, fwiw, the gov't mandated that all insurance companies cover birth control at no cost. The Catholic Church decided to operate a health insurance company. But they're now throwing a temper tantrum because they don't want to follow the rules. Like they were already doing in 28 states without complaint. Their own doctrine states that birth control can be used without sin therapeutically. Guess what? Periods are REALLY F-ING PAINFUL for many, many women. And that's treated with birth control. AND 98% of Catholic women use birth control. So all this hurf! durf! is nothing more than politics.

I suppose an equivalent thing would be if a Catholic Church decided to start brewing beer and selling it. But then had a temper tantrum, claiming "tyranny" and "religious persecution", because they had to follow all the same laws about sale and distribution as everyone else. Purely hypothetical, of course. I know of a few churches that make and sell wine but they follow the same rules as everyone else.

What's really got me pissed is all the personhood bills and initiatives going on across the country. This is supported by all of the GOP candidates. I don't even know where to begin with the rage. It's like nothing else is working so they're going after gays and women.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Of course they're going after gays and women.

After all, these people are dicks. Where else could they stick themselves, since their own ass is already occupied by their heads?

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Even under the "best" of circumstances for the GOP, the progress of tactics is always a race to the extreme before the nomination, then a race to the center during the run-up to the general election. It always works that way, because those are the kinds of voters one needs to win during primaries versus the kind needed to win general elections. I really think that Mitt Romney will have no trouble making that pivot and dashing centerward. I don't think Rick Santorum can; he really is, naturally, wholeheartedly, honestly that much of a jerkwad. (That I think Gingrich is honestly as much of a jerkwad as he appears as well should not set aside how Santorum and Gingrich are different kinds of jerkwads. I think Santorum is a righteous moral jerkwad, and G is a hypocritical, amoral jerkwad. Completely different animals.)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Likey props.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I, of course, agree with you on all points here, because I think you're right on all three of them.

[farchivist.livejournal.com]

My summation of Rick Santorum is effectively summarized by this macro:

[cheez-ball.livejournal.com]

Then he shouldn't treat cavities, infectious disease or cancer. Because he should accept what God gave him. They're gifts, donchaknow?

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

GOP, the party that puts more value on the life BEFORE it's born than on that same life after.

[ivy]

I desperately want the technology to make that man be pregnant.

[curvemudgeon.livejournal.com]

Robert Winston, a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, told London's Sunday Times that "male pregnancy would certainly be possible" by having an embryo implanted in a man's abdomen – with the placenta attached to an internal organ such as the bowel – and later delivered by Caesarean section.

- From tehPEdia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_pregnancy#In_humans)

Might I also suggest using a hammer as anesthesia?

[feyrieprincess.livejournal.com]

"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."

HELL YEA
Beautifully put.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

Of course, the reason why Santorum had such a thing for Dallas is because you get churches with that attitude, all of the time. We had one such character, the Rev. O.T. Otwell, who would start up schools or daycare centers or other facilities involving children, and then pitch fits when he was told he needed licenses and inspections. How dare Caesar tell him how to run his God-loving business? Oh, he used to bellow about religious persecution, and then scream about how God was going to punish Dallas for our sinfulness unless the authorities backed off. (During one of his many rampages in 1990, Otwell claimed that the flooding we had all spring and summer was God's punishment for Dallas authorities trying to supplant His authority. Molly Ivins commented that this was really God's punishment for building Dallas on a floodplain.)