The eleventh commandment is dead and buried. Saint Ronnie must be spinning in his grave.

That's going cost him three Hail Marys and four Lord's Prayers.

The last Republican candidate who called a NYT reporter an asshole got elected. (Or, rather, "elected.") Maybe this is Rick's way of proving he's the real thing.

To be fair, the reporter only asked about Santorum's comment that Romney is "the worst Republican in the country."

Selectively quoting someone is a dick move, the very sort of thing that just got Rove in trouble in the WSJ.

Santorum lacks enough spine to be a Democrat. They have to put up with far worse than this from Faux News every single day.

@4 is right. I think Santorum is a shitbag and he reacted like a baby in this case, but he's actually got a valid point. He originally said Romney is the worst Republican to put up against Obama on healthcare, since Obamacare is not far off from Romney care. Taking that to mean: "Romney is the worst Republican in the country" is bullshit.

When God told him to run, He didn’t say it was going to be easy. God’s making Santorum work really hard to fulfill God’s will. It’s wearing Rick a little thin, it’s testing his patience and fortitude, but it’ll happen. God told him so.

Of course, now that Rick lost his temper (not okay unless you’re a deity) and cursed, God’s taking back the promise for the presidency. He can be an evil bastard sometimes, but them’s the rules.

Slog Commenter frankdawg really nailed Ricky-Boy's psych state the other day. The more we see him act out, the more I believe it.

How in the world are you supposed to be the leader of the free world, facing hostile foreign leaders, demanding rogue nations stop producing nukes, and having to deal with 50 Senators plus 435 Representatives, when you can't handle a question from a NYT reporter.

If if you do get mad enough to utter an explicative certainly don't have every one run around trying to make you into being the victim.

Later, in the campaign...

April:
"If you haven't downed a fifth of bourbon and ran naked through the streets, you're not a real Republican."

May:
"If you haven't climbed a tower with a rifle, you're not a Real Republican."

June:
"If you haven't fallen on your knees on the beach, pounding your fist and yelling YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! OH, DAMN YOU! GODDAMN YOU ALL TO HELL! you're not a real Republican."

The CBS news video in this Huffington Post article has more context:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/26…

Does he use this filthy language around his children?!!!

man old bully?!?

@10

I like where that wound up.

He should have been out of this race months ago.

Mild, by some measures...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucE78-C2…

I'm glad this is being mentioned today because it totally stood out to me when I read it last night. Devoutly godly people (supposedly) do not swear! (I've seen many fundies violate this and most of the cleanspoken people I've met are unbelivers, but...) Think of that time in The Simpsons when Flanders had a breakdown and let out with a hearty "Hell!" and every gasped. That's what this is like.

When Biden slips a "fucking" because he thinks the mike won't catch him, it's not a big deal because he hasn't placed himself as God's representative of some skewed morality in the world of politics. And neither has Obama, or the Bushes, or the Clintons, or Cheney, or Gore, etc., and how many times have they lost composure and sworn openly on the mike? Composure, Frothy. Remember the Old Testatement proverb (from Proverbs, I think): "The man who controleth himself ruleth a city." It was written for you.

That said, I do agree with @4 and @6.

@17- I didn’t like Bush and didn’t want him to win the election, but I didn’t hate him until he swore on a hot mic. He showed right there that his whole evangelical “I‘m the best Christian EVER!” routine was winning people over even while showing his hypocrisy. (Of course I was young then.)

I agree with your point that it is a big deal because he’s pinned his whole campaign on being God’s BFF.

Biden, Obama, Bush1, Clinton: no problem; they didn’t speak God-talk with every utterance like Bush2 and Santorum.

Today, it's swearing, tomorrow, you want to marry your dog, right?

I'm still hoping to see whichever one of these jokers gets the Nom detonate messily in his first debate with the O. I see him responding to the first lie that comes across his bow with, "But [Governor/Senator/Congressman ___] that's simply not true. The truth is..." and watch the lying liar explode in a pants-shitting, screaming, nigger-slinging conflagration and storm off the stage.

@18 I remember that! "He's a capital-A asshole." He was foolish rather than uncontrolled, though, as usual. Here Santorum let his emotions get the best of him. Or maybe he was trying to pull off a Gingrich. Bad move either way.

And Dubya talked to the fundamentalist base, but he didn't soak himself in piety like the sanctimonious Santorum does. I always worry for these holier-than-thou folks because I know they're just setting themselves up.

In other news, the character assasination has begun. It's just being reported that Tayvon had been previously suspended from school because of marijuana possession. See! I told you! He was a troublemaker!

Speed and momentum are debatable, but decline is correct. I don't know how a GOP nominee becomes THE Presidential candidate without winning some highly populated states, many of those are on the coast, and I don't know how Santorum can reinvent himself to appeal to moderates in those coastal states.

Am I the only one who suspects an Obama 2012 mole is making key soundbite decisions in the Santorum campaign?