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RKP5637

(67,084 posts)
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 04:05 PM Jan 2012

"Rick Santorum's Top 10 Most Outrageous Campaign Statements"

More at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/758876/rick_santorum%27s_top_10_most_outrageous_campaign_statements/#paragraph3

1) ANNUL ALL SAME-SEX MARRIAGES: Arguing that gay relationships “destabilize” society, Santorum wouldn’t offer any legal protections to gay relationships and has pledged to annul all same-sex marriages if elected president. During his 99-country tour of Iowa, Santorum frequently compared same-sex relationships to inanimate objects like trees, basketballs, beer, and paper towels and even tried to blame the economic crisis on gay people. As Santorum explained back in August, religious people have a constitutional right to discriminate against gays: “We have a right the Constitution of religious liberty but now the courts have created a super-right that’s above a right that’s actually in the Constitution, and that’s of sexual liberty. And I think that’s a wrong, that’s a destructive element.”

2) ‘I’M FOR INCOME INEQUALITY’: “They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality,” Santorum said during an event in Pella, Iowa in December. “I think some people should make more than other people, because some people work harder and have better ideas and take more risk, and they should be rewarded for it. I have no problem with income inequality.”

3) CONTRACEPTION IS ‘A LICENSE TO DO THINGS’: Santorum has pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception and allow the states to outlaw birth control, insisting that “it’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

More at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/758876/rick_santorum%27s_top_10_most_outrageous_campaign_statements/#paragraph3

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LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
9. The list would be easier if it was the 10 outrageous comments made the past week
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 05:50 PM
Jan 2012

The man is such a Dick!

yardwork

(61,536 posts)
3. #8 is contradicted by #10
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 04:14 PM
Jan 2012

If he really believes point #10 - that people with preexisting conditions don't deserve to live - then he obviously doesn't really believe that his daughter deserves to live. So #8 is a lie and is actually a "tell" - Santorum himself believes the evil thing he's accusing Democrats of believing.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
5. Video clip where Santorum says Obama should be anti-choice because he's black
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 04:20 PM
Jan 2012
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10174193

He is shocked that a black person would have the nerve to "decide who is and who is not a person". Santorum doesn't come right out and say why. Maybe it's because he thinks blacks barely meet the requirements themselves, in his mind?
 

DataException

(38 posts)
8. #2 is a straw man -
Wed Jan 4, 2012, 05:48 PM
Jan 2012

Obviously people that "work harder and have better ideas and take more risk..." should make more money. I don't believe that anyone has argued otherwise.

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