OMG!! Santorum's brilliance! "Every problem that the State Department has, the answer is diplomacy."

[Bucky]

This is, I shit you not, Rick Santorum's greatest quote ever!
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/santorum-intends-abolish-the-state-department#break

The fact that Santorum wants to eliminate the State Department – created in 1789 as the first U.S. cabinet agency – is itself foolish. But to appreciate just how ridiculous this position is, consider his misguided reasoning.

Pressed by Beck about the practicalities of firing the entire State Department, Santorum responded with a critique of the department’s single-minded focus on international diplomacy.

“It’s like, if all the tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail,” Santorum said. “Every problem that the State Department has, the answer is diplomacy. Why? Because if it’s not diplomacy, they don’t have a job.”

No shit, Ricky. If all you ever try to do is use your reasoning abilities to solve your problems, soon enough you want find a reasonable solution for every dang problem you got! Would YOU want to live in such a dangerous world where reason and communication was the solution to all your difficulties? (*shudder*)

As a follow up, I want to take a second to admire the writer who was able to type out the phrase "Pressed by Beck about the practicalities" and not have his head explode.

[karynnj]

1. the current Secretary of State's wife called him Forrest Gump with attitude years ago

When she refused to support his Senate run.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Fuck, only 15 more Fundie religious fanatics and capitalist tools to go. In the end, one will win.

[Bucky]

3. So my daughter had me watch Hunger Games on DVD last year

I think she was hoping for one or some other contestant to win. I was briefly amused, but I didn't particularly which one won.

I think one of them was named Catpiss. That can't be right. No, I think that's what they called her. Something stinky. The parallels to the Republican nomination contest are quite eerie, aren't they?

[Botany]

4. This is from the onion, right?

[rafeh1]

5. Br Rick belongs in a sanitorium

Along with the morans who voted for him

[pampango]

6. Diplomacy (negotiation) certainly takes a RW backseat to unilateral American action either

military or otherwise. The right loves to tell other countries what the US is going to do rather than using diplomacy (negotiation).

[treestar]

7. same with war

That's the hammer of the Department of Defense. Appalling how he thinks diplomacy a bad thing. It's that PNAC America is militarily strongest and should force the rest of the world into shape thing.

[spanone]

8. Poor rick missed school on the very day they taught what the purpose of the state dept. is.

dumbass

[whatthehey]

9. Damn those State Dept nabobs! What do they think they are, diplomats?

[olddots]

10. he is the ultimate turd maggot

YAY Rick ! watch his poll numbers serge because this may be this weeks dumbest repuke statement , but its only Tuesday .

[tabasco]

11. He's crazier than I thought.

I didn't think that was possible. He's a real kook. The frightening thing is that he was elected to the UNITED STATES SENATE in Pennsylvania. Might not be so shocking in Alabama or Oklahoma, but fucking Pennsylvania --- come on! You're supposed to be one of the more grown-up states.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Rick knows that sometimes, the solution is to use the land bridge to Kamchatka

and save your bonus cards until you've got a full set of infantry, artillery and cavalry. Then you make a big push to occupy all of Australasia, get the 2 extra armies per round, and look at a dash to Africa and South America - worth 5 armies between them, and just as easy to defend as Africa alone!

Rick know that people with only Diplomacy as an answer are living in the past (100 years, to be precise), and keeping their horizons narrowed to Europe and the Mediterranean. Whereas Rick is willing to take the big Risk, for the whole world!