Is Santorum nuts?

[dsc]

Arm chair diagnosis are always dangerous but OMG. Hour after hour of diatribe against gay marriage. It will end civilization. It will corrupt children. It will cause divorce. And on and on and on. There is a word for people like this. It is obsessive. Does Pennsylvania have no problems? Do I live a scant 25 miles from paradise? Who would have thunk it?

[Sweetpea]

1. Yeh , i know some religious people and after 5 mins , their rants

would have been over.

[SheBop]

2. Yes, yes he is.

I didn't realize that was up for debate.

:toast:

[neoteric lefty]

3. Yeah, I wonder how this guy

ever got elected. I know Penn. is not a liberal as some states, but this guy makes some of the old-time RWers look tame by comparison. Scary stuff.

[Dogmudgeon]

8. How "Man-On-Dog" Rick got elected

Guns.

God.

And lots of the long Green.

When he was first running against Harris Wofford, it was non-stop pro-life and RKBA rhetoric for three solid months. A HUGE budget went into getting Santorum elected, and he won by the slimmest of margins.

He's going to have some problems in '06 when he runs again. Whether Kerry wins or not, by 2006, the tide will be going out on the Neo-Con madness, taking the trash out to sea with it.

--bkl

[oustemnow]

28. Pennsylvania politics are weird

On the state level, you have Lisa "Rum and" Boscola, John "Two-Face" Lawless, and, then, on the national scene, this clown Santorum.

That being said, I don't believe for a minute that Santorum believes any of the crap that he spews. He's realized that queers are an easy target and he can score easy political points off of them, and he doesn't care how ridiculous he looks while doing so as long as it keeps him in office and in the dreaded liberal media. Sort of like James Bakker, et al. In fact I'd be wiling to bet that Slick Rick has some pretty kinky habits locked away in his closet.

[AlCzervik]

4. I don't know if he's nuts or just pure evil.

I was watching for awhile but i chnged it, i couldn't take that smarmy ass snarky smile of his.

[coloradodem2005]

5. Do you know that Santorum sounds like Sanitarium?

Coincidence? I think not.

[virgdem]

15. Yes, you hit the nail right on the head...

I've been thinking about the similarity of his name to that of a Sanitarium - a mental one like Bellevue (New Yorker here). He is crazy as a loon, isn't he. But then, most of them are. I happened to catch Barbara Boxer this morning as she refuted the reasons that the FMA was being debated. She brilliantly dismantled their arguments one by one and then went on to explain what this was really all about - one of their WMD's (Weapons of Mass Distraction). One of the best speeches. She just hit it out of the park.

[madaboutharry]

21. As I have already said, that is why I call

him Senator Rick I Belong In a Sanitarium.

[LittleApple81]

6. Does he have nuts? Hmmmmm.... Good question...that might be a reason

for his behavior... non-nut compensation, you think?
Or maybe small-nut compensation?

[LittleApple81]

7. Sorry, I misread your question before. But he really does have more

problems than simply mental ones. I think he is a pervert that is afraid of his own tendencies (man on dog, remember?)

[Zen]

9. He is as blind and stupid as a piece of constipated _______!

He has no humanity - a really really awful person.

[koopie57]

10. anyone that self-rightous

and arrogant cannot be all there. He is sort of missing a dose of reality.

[DemWitch]

11. Nuts... no

Zealot, yes... and that's what makes him so dangerous... someone like him gets a little bit of power and watch out... even Arlen is afraid of him...

[whistle]

12. Well Santorum is just two eyes short of.......

...Sanitorium! That is one place where people severe problems are kept from doing harm to the general society. Congress on the other hand does not need people who are afflicted with what Santorum has. You say he is from Pennsylvania. Perhaps he swam in the Monongahela River once too many times.:crazy:

[PA Democrat]

13. Pennsylvanian here, and Santorum has made ME nuts

In 2000, he ran these campaign commercials which featured all bazillion of his kids (he does not believe in birth control) and there were people who voted for him because of those commercials. Idiots.

[Jerseygirltoo]

41. including the dead fetus one?

I hope in 2006 Pennsylvania will make him Sans Forum

[GoneOffShore]

14. Not only a bigot

but, methinks he does protest too much.
He is so frightened of homosexuals that perhaps he is deeply in the closet. That plus the fact that he is a serious Mel Gibson style Catholic.

[doctorbombeigh]

17. We have a winnah!

I agree. Anyone with that much homophobia is obviously a closet-case.

[RoBear]

25. I agree.

The only people I know with that kind of fixation are repressed homosexuals with a lot of self-hatred. I hope he finds the courage to come out and get over his loathing of himself.

[Hippo_Tron]

16. Of course not, he's doing it "for the children"

:eyes:

[walldude]

22. He's a Catholic huh...

Well maybe he ought to clean up the pedophiles in his own house first before he starts attacking consending adults.

[kiahzero]

18. Where is this diatribe?

It's not on either of my CSPAN channels.

[dsc]

24. It had finally ended around 1030

I would assume barring a need for curing insomnia it won't be rebroadcast anytime soon.

[cboy4]

19. Wouldn't it be interesting to see how much porn

this right-wing extremist has on his
home computer?! :evilgrin:

Gay porn perhaps?? He's sure obsessed
with gay people, isn't he?

[JohnnyRingo]

20. I live 10 miles from it

...they don't even have plates on the front of their cars over there.

Just Weird

Disclaimer: I do love PA people.

[GoneOffShore]

30. I live in PA

and I remember what Carville said about this place in 92.

'We'll treat Philadelphia and Pittsburgh like the big Eastern cities they are and the rest of the state like goddamn Alabama!'

He's absolutely right. In fact, we've got more hate groups and militia people than Idaho or Alabama put together.

And don't forget: Santorum, latin for asshole.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

23. Is this a trick question?

Has he noticed that gay and lesbian couples have been living together in loving relationships for a LONG ass time and nothing bad has happened as a result?

What a tool.

If there's one thing I am willing to take an actual physical ass-kicking for, it is for the right of homosexual people to live in peace and acceptance and have all the rights and benefits given to me and my husband.

So there. Stick that up your ass, Rick.

[TeacherCreature]

26. He is anti-choice

kind of a dilema huh?

[iconoclastic cat]

27. Santorum? Eeew!

http://www.spreadingsantorum.com

[blm]

29. He's doing what he always does - carry water for RevMoon.

I think he should be asked if Moon and his pairings of men and women in mass weddings is his idea of a healthy marriage in our society.

Santorum is a Moonie tool masquerading as a Catholic to get elected in Pennsylvania.

[dsc]

33. This guy is scary

Anyone can fake outrage at an issue like this for ads. But this was hours of diatribe. Moon is no piker on the anti gay team but Santorum is off the charts. I honestly doubt that Falwell could have spoken as long as this nut.

[gumby]

34. Moon?

Really?

[blm]

35. Really. Cross reference Santorum and Sun Myung Moon.

.

[gumby]

37. Yeow

Of course I knew Santorum was a kook.... thanks

[RetroLounge]

31. Santorum is now a noun as well (Frothy Fecal Matter)

Santorum : noun: The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.

http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/index2.html

I thought it was a super idea and asked my readers to nominate sex acts for the honor of being known as a "santorum."

http://www.thestranger.com/2003-05-29/savage.html

RL

[gauguin57]

32. Santorum translation:

Santorum is Latin for ASSHOLE.

I spend much energy just pretending he's not my Senator. Of all the wacky politicians we have here in PA, Sactimonium is at the top of my list for IMPEACHMENT. I do think there's some degree of mental instability there. Or perhaps just good old-fashioned EVIL!

[Mandate My Ass]

36. Stupd. Arrogant. Messiah Complex

He's a full-blown loon and loons with power are dangerous.

After his wife's miscarriage he brought the dead fetus home to show his other children. He's got issues.

[bushwakker]

38. The real question - Is Pennsylvania nuts?

I thought for sure Sanitorum wouldn't get a second term...

[GoneOffShore]

43. There are parts of PA

which don't support 'Little Dickie', but they're mostly in the big cities. He's convinced the rural areas and the fundies that he's a 'Friend of the Fetus' and 'Foe of Fags'. That's all he's needed to get elected. One of the reasons we had Bob Casey.

[kohodog]

39. Can you say "homophobe?"

He is one sick puppy. Hope he goes up against a dead guy next election! (But then * would appoint him to the Department of Purity.

[leftofthedial]

40. all fundies are mentally ill

[Cats Against Frist]

42. I watched the entire thing

and then I wrote him a letter.

I don't believe this guy is just crazy. He's a powerful zealot with a lot of money. I have NEVER NEVER NEVER heard a speech so packed full of lies, hate, bad information, appeals at sentimentality, low blows, dogma and just wacky bullshit, in my life.

He IS the face of the GOP fascist wing that is quickly engulfing their party.

[Mike Niendorff]

44. re: "Is Santorum nuts?"

Yes.

Next question. :)


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