Thank you, Rick Santorum

[question everything]

OK, I am still here, not hit by lightening.

Was on ABC This Week. They were talking about McDonnell, and this is what Santorum said:

I don't know how you could think you could take any of this, I mean, even if there is no quid pro quo. And maybe that's the law in Virginia, you're allowed to accept gifts, and that's OK.

But it's not OK. I mean, even if the...

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-white-house-press-secretary-jay-carney/story?id=21659578&page=8
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I read the complete story on TIME yesterday and was thinking the same thing: how can you go on a $20K shopping spree and think that this is OK? That you've "broken no law?" It is not about the law, it is about the audacity, the whole idea that you can ask someone to pay for your wishes.

[Thinkingabout]

1. It may have broken laws if the giver and receiver did not report the large gifts on their income tax

[oldandhappy]

2. Audacity -- that is the word

And there are a few other words, also, but you know them!!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

3. He was throwing Christie under the bus last week, too. I found myself silently cheering him on.

[question everything]

4. Santorum did?

I disagree with everything that Sanorum stands for, including describing high education as "snob," but, at least he has yet to show that what he stands for and what he says and does are only loosely related.

We shall see.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. He's just bashing his potential opponents for 2016

Ricky is a fraud, with zero moral compass. He also had his own legal issues about where he really lived.

[question everything]

6. Bash along. The more the merrier

The greatest gift we will get, regardless of who our nominee is, will be Santorum as the Republican one.