Kathleen Parker—the very-nearly-thinking person’s conservative pundit—sent Rick Santorum a love letter in today’s Washington Post. Just the headline is going to give ol’ Rick wood (“Santorum’s Resurrection”). Parker:
Both pro-life and pro-traditional family, Santorum is an irritant to many. But he insists that such labels oversimplify. Being pro-life and pro-family ultimately mean being pro-limited government. When you have strong families and respect for life, he says, “the requirements of government are less. You can have lower taxes and limited government.” Sometimes referred to as the conscience of Senate Republicans, Santorum also may be viewed as the nation’s superego, reminding us of our moral charge at a time of swift cultural change. It is human nature to resist those perceived as morally superior, however, especially in the American Era of Id. Despite Santorum’s friends’ insistence that he is personally humble and nonjudgmental, communicating that may be the candidate’s greatest challenge.
It’s means a lot to those of us Santorum regards as a threat to “strong families”—gay and lesbian couples with families, single mothers who head up families, women who work outside the home to support their families, women who go to college to better support their families, etc.—that the former senator is personally humble and strives to strip us of our civil rights without getting, you know, all judgmental on our asses. But Rick Santorum sees no limit to government interference where the private lives of Americans who makes choices he regards as “anti-family.” One of the reasons the man opposed the Supreme Court’s decision overturning sodomy laws was because it limited the government’s “right” to regulate the private consensual sexual conduct of straight people. No one who has said, as Santorum has, that a right to privacy “doesn’t exist in my opinion” can be called a fan of limited or small government. And as for this…
For his trouble, Santorum’s enemies have treated him viciously, as a quick Google search will confirm. But Santorum is, miraculously, unfazed.
Rick Santorum equates gay relationships to pedophilia and bestiality, goes to the floor of the Senate and declares that married gay couples are a threat to homeland security, blames Catholic sex-abuse scandals on Americans “accepting of a variety of different lifestyles” and it’s Rick’s “enemies”—hey, that’s me!—who are vicious. Because we had the nerve to make fun of a man who would persecute us, have us arrested in our own bedrooms, and take our children from us. Poor Rick Santorum!
The WaPo photo shows yet another severe case of blower’s cramp.
Exactly! How dare you sodomites smear Santorum!
He has been treated viscously
Who would dare to unleash these vicious attacks on Rick (“Man-on-Dog”) Santorum? I blame the Pit Bull lobby.
@3 I think it’s Santorum that is the viscous one.
This makes perfect sense to me. If you get rid of people Mr. Santorum considers undesirable, then the government will not have to spend tax money getting rid of people Mr. Santorum considers undesirable.
Run, Rick, run! I cannot even express how much I am looking forward to watching every TV talking head in the country try to repress a smirk every time they say your name.
I had to laugh at the last couple of sentence of your quote from Parker’s article — she’s basically saying, his greatest challenge is how awesome he is.
“So, tell, me Rick, what is your biggest weakness as a candidate?”
“Well, I’m just so moral and honest and good. That’s going to be a real problem for me…”
Man on Dog! Man on Dog! Man on Dog!
Why does Parker say that Santorum has a burning desire for an energized three legged stool? Is everything just a big joke now?
And how come these discussions of his Presidential aspirations merely say he lost his Senate seat in 2006? He was crushed. Spanked by a Democrat and thrown out of office by voters who clearly knew him and wanted no more of him. It bodes ill.
As a native of PA, I must speak up to #10. Not only was he beaten, he was beaten by a Casey. And not Bob Casey who was dull, but at least knew how to stand on certain issues, but a Casey with the personality of wet cardboard. The voters looked into those dull, lifeless eyes on an expressionless face and said “I think we prefer you to the douchschnozzle in office right now.”
As for the virtual BJ this person gives him, it’s nothing new. I grew up near the War College in Carlisle PA. And it was supposedly on the list for base closures one year. I’d been on a tour there and knew what was really on that lovely little site. It had NO CHANCE of ever being closed. If NORAD goes down, that’s the next place for headquarters. In addition to the “School of the Americas”. However, when they revised the list, Carlisle wasn’t on there. He came to town to do a huge speech about how he’d saved the base. Bull. He wasn’t even in Washington when it was debated. The dude’s a hack.
Viscous? As in “a measure of the resistance of a fluid which is being deformed by either shear stress or extensional stress”?
10 – Yes, will Santorum, everything is a big joke, as he is nothing but a big joke. I personally can’t wait for the day when it comes out that he’s been having an affair with a male prostitute ala Haggard. I’m counting the days till this shitbag is pushed off his self-imposed pedastal.
douchenozzle – the best word EVER to describe him! 11 FTW!!!
@9: ASS TO ASS!
Treat others how you would want to be treated. That’s why Santorum is such a target.
Gotta love all the Freudian analysis — Santorum is the Super-Ego, struggling to bring sanity to the American Era of the Id. ( He’s a super ego, alright.)
Who the hell still quotes Freud? Further proof that conservatives have just been dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century, just in time for decade two of the twenty-first.
Nikki in MN lives in a cave.
golf clap for #3.
We warned you, Dan.
When the Santorum hits the fan you may want to get your goggles, it’s gonna get messy…
I don’t get how Republicans, who have overseen now on two occasions the largest expansion of government in peacetime (cold war) and peacetime (war started under Dubya), bracketing the largest reduction in deficit spending by a Democrat can possibly still operate under the public delusion that they support limited government.
I mean, honestly. I know that politicians and pundits lie and pander, but prominent conservatives have abandoned the Republican party precisely because it cannot seem to reduce spending and government size.
Rick Santorum equates gay relationships to pedophilia and bestiality.
President Obama equates gay relationships to pedophilia and bestiality and incest.
Compare and Contrast….
Santorum is in cahoots with The Family of C Street fame. He is a dominionist and he, along with that very corrupt organization, should be discredited by every means possible.
Wow, not only does she use Freudian logic, she MISuses it. It saddens me. Especially since she is obviously engaging in displacement and reaction formation.
“He’s not judgmental, he is just expressing his view that you fags are evil and are undermining society.”
I prefer Santorum wiped up quickly with a washcloth which has been soaked in very hot water. Followed by a dry one.
#16 — You beat me to this point. Most conservatives wish to halt biological education, and have it regress about 150 years. It’s no surprise they’re behind immensely on their psychology as well.
Nice volley, Dan…thanks.
I have to admit that I originally read the title as “Viscous Enemies.” It is quite interesting how a word can make you think before reading something.