Santorum: Father First, Senator Second

[MountainLaurel]

Just reading this man's name makes me :puke:

In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.

Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.

"That's my little guy," Santorum says, pointing to the photo of Gabriel, in which his tiny physique is framed by his father's hand. The senator often speaks of his late son in the present tense. It is a rare instance in which he talks softly.

He and Karen brought Gabriel's body home so their children could "absorb and understand that they had a brother," Santorum says. "We wanted them to see that he was real," not an abstraction, he says. Not a "fetus," either, as Rick and Karen were appalled to see him described -- "a 20-week-old fetus" -- on a hospital form. They changed the form to read "20-week-old baby."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html

[formerrepuke]

1. OK, ok...he has feelings and is a great dad.. but he's still a bastard.

[Ian David]

3. I'm sure his kids' therapists will thank Santorum for this

They'll spend many hours on the couches of various therapists about how daddy brought a dead fetus home to play with.

[DemGirl7]

2. That is gross....

Does Santorum have some mental problems....really,what kind of sick freak would thing do that type of thing...:puke: I mean I know he supposed to be super religious, I know some people that act supper religious but they won't do a sick thing like that. Santorum really needs to get some help...that is not normal.

[HockeyMom]

4. Let's hope the warped Santorum's never have a miscarriage

Shudder at the thought of what they would do with that.

[Ian David]

I bet they hold funeral services over their mom's maxi-pads

"Look, kids. Mom's menstruated again. Do you remember what I taught you about menstruation? This is your mother's punishment for the sins of Eve in the Garden of Eden. There's another tiny little baby lying dead on the maxi-pad again. Let's sing to it and cuddle it and kiss it before we bury it. Go get the camera so we can take some photos with Baby Moses on the maxi-pad."

[MountainLaurel]

14. Baby Moses on the maxi pad!

:rofl:

[ClassWarrior]

5. "Please Daddy... I don't think you're spending enough time in the Senate."

<LOL>

NGU.

[beyurslf]

6. What'd they do with him after that? Bury him in the garden by Old Yeller?

[Bleacher Creature]

7. SEVEN Children!!

What a selfish, egotistical pig. The world is already overpopulated, and this guy thinks it's okay to strain the planet's resources even more, just so that he can either: (a) Satisfy a need to leave his "mark" on future generations; or (b) Fulfill a desire to comply with the arbitrary rules that his particular religion places on him.

[Roland99]

8. Gabriel Michael?

good grief.

The names of the two Jewish high priest archangel titles.

[elehhhhna]

9. PA's paid over 100K to him to homeschoool his kids, tho he lives in VA...

Paying for Santorums' school costs questioned

The senator lives in Va. His children attend a cyber school paid for by his Pa. school district.

By Jennifer C. Yates

Associated Press

SLEAZY LYING THIEF.

PITTSBURGH - A suburban Pittsburgh school district is reviewing whether it should continue paying for the children of Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) to attend a cyber school even though the senator and his family live in Virginia.

Penn Hills has spent $100,000 educating Santorum's children at an Internet-based school since 2001-02, said Erin Vecchio, a school board member who requested the review. She is also head of the local Democratic committee.

"I'm concerned, because taking away from my kid. That $100,000... could be going to my kids, a computer or something," said Vecchio, who has three children enrolled in Penn Hills schools. "I'm sick of this man saying that he lives in Penn Hills when he doesn't."

Santorum's spokeswoman, Christine Shott, said she did not know whether the senator and his wife, who have six children, had ever stayed in the two-bedroom house they own in Penn Hills.

The Santorums bought the house for $87,800 in 1997, and it was assessed for $106,000 last year, records show.

The couple's home in Leesburg, Va., was assessed at $757,000 this year, tax records show.

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[MountainLaurel]

10. 2BR house, six kids?

No Ms. Shott, I really don't think he's stayed there, do you?

[elehhhhna]

11. AND A RENTER! Kid you not. House is leased to others.

He's a fake phoney stealing lying reep.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

13. Isn't residency one of the issues the Rs used to bring down...

Daschle? Time to turn the tables on Senator Frothy Mixture.

[JohnnyBoots]

12. I thought it was douche bag first, biggot second, senator third