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The Washington Post is just reporting that Santorum is going to announce his withdrawal from the GOP primary today. Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich have not indicated their interest in removing themselves. Some speculate that Santorum plans to team up with Newt so he can be on the first flight to the new American colony on the moon, so that he can teach aliens the ins and outs of safe sex on the moon.
Rick Santorum’s Google problems are old news. Some of Mitt Romney’s car problems are old news too. Perhaps the most memorable was the report of Seamus, his Irish Setter, being strapped in his dog carrier to the top of the family station wagon for a 12 hour car ride on interstate highways, traveling at 60 or more miles per hour. The runny brown liquid dripping down the back windshield didn’t seem to phase Mitt, but Tagg, Mitt’s oldest son, thought it was “gross.” After all the kids joined Tagg in voicing their disgust, Romney did what any other “common sense conservative” would do and hosed down the car and the dog, before continuing on his journey. It was an example of what was identified by Fox News as “emotion-free crisis management.” Most reporters who have written about this incident, have suggested that Romney was heartless, and abusive to his family pet. Yet some might suggest that this episode was staged. After all, no Christian Mormon would intentionally torture the family pet. Instead maybe Romney was sending a message to terrorists around the world: “If I’d do this to my family pet, think what I’d do to you!”
The second “car problem” is the sheer number of cars owned by the Romneys. We know Mrs. Romney has at least two Cadillacs. Mitt himself has admitted to owning a Mustang,
and a couple of trucks, although he may no longer own the Dodge.
The more recent “car problem” for Mitt is the car elevator that he plans to install in his California Beach home. The elevator itself is estimated to cost $60,000.00 and the cost of the lobbyist used to expedite the approval of the permit was $20,000.
Contrast Romney’s attitude toward elevators for his cars to installation of elevators for disabled Americans. As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney was hostile to requirements for elevators imposed by the Americans Disabilities Act (ADA). In two items flagged by a Democratic operative, Romney vetoed legislation that would have improved elevators for the disabled. On another occasion, in June 26, 2006, Romney vetoed an improvement project with the price tag of $40,000, with his line item veto, preventing an elevator from being brought into compliance with standards set in the ADA. On that same day Romney vetoed another project to bring another facility into compliance with the ADA.
It is not bothersome to me that Romney is worth Millions of dollars. What bothers me is that Romney has lost touch with the reality of most American families. Just because Mitt can afford an elevator for his cars, doesn’t mean he SHOULD spend that money on such an extravagance. Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was worth substantially more than Mitt Romney; Billions rather than Millions. At one time Sam Walton was the richest man in the world. He wore clothes from Walmart and drove a 1979 Ford Half-ton pick up truck because he needed a vehicle in which to haul his dogs.
As a child he helped his mom run a small milk business. Sam describes that “we learned how much hard work it took to get your hands on a dollar, and that when you did, it was worth something.”
Mitt Romney has been described as having created a “ coast-to-coast buffer zone of luxury.” It is not the fact that he can afford the car elevator, it is that he would spend his money on it! How could the President address the economic crisis facing our country if he can’t remember how hard it was to get his hands on a dollar, and what it was worth when he earned it?
Rick Santorum, the Conservative Christian candidate for Commander in Chief, made a bold, definitive, statement of national import yesterday. The same guy that assails any American for having sex for any purpose other than procreation, and who advocates “life” as occurring at the moment of conception, once again became an advocate for life. This time it was championing the cause of “life” in Afghanistan. Showing bold and unprecedented courage, Rick Santorum asserted that the Afghan people deserved an APOLOGY if 16 women and children were murdered in their sleep by an American soldier. Santorum was careful to limit his demand for an apology to a finding that the attack was unprovoked, it was not a mistake, it was inadvertent, it was “deliberately done by an American soldier,” and the civilians who were shot in their sleep, and then set on fire, were in fact innocent. Thus Rick Santorum didn’t want to pass judgment if the soldier in question mistakenly, accidentally, walked a mile to the mud brick homes of the sleeping women and children, broke into three homes, shooting some victims at point-blank range, execution style. Others were gunned down if they had the nerve to try to flee. When the soldier tossed blankets on the bodies and set them on fire, he might have done so inadvertently, or he may have been simply trying to roast hot dogs and the victims got in the way. Who knows, the children might have been having unholy dreams. Five other people were wounded, but there was nothing mentioned about an apology for them. After all, they were not dead.
Santorum criticized President Obama for apologizing for the inadvertent burning of copies of the Quran which was perceived by the Afghan people as outrageous. Thank God the Republicans have a candidate who values the importance of all life, whether an embryo or a slumbering Afghan child. According to the new personhood laws, killing of an embryo would have the same punishment as killing a five year old child. Evidently those laws should be amended to say that an American, white, embryo from a Christian family should be afforded the same rights as any other American, white, Christian child. If the mother of that embryo takes birth control pills, and the fertilized egg never implants, that mother should be guilty of murder. However, if that fetus develops into a five year old child who is Muslim and Afghan, and they are murdered in their sleep, the mother, unquestionably, deserves an apology.
Rick, we have to recognize you are a champion for what is right, and good, and fair. Some people think that an apology is appropriate when on the occasion of expulsion of excessive gastric acid or flatulence, being late to dinner, not flossing enough, or missing a birthday. You however recognize that there are other times when an apology is also required, and murder is one of them! Thank you Rick for having the fortitude to say what we knew. For some of us labeled as members of the “elite,” or those who might be thought of as “liberals,” an apology might not have occurred to us. Afghan women and children aren’t protected by the U. S. Constitution, but they deserve the common decency of an apology when they are murdered in their sleep!
Rick Santorum not only has a Google-problem, but he also has an “apology-problem.”
Rick Santorum was famous long before he ran for the Republican nomination for President because of his Google Problem. Dan Savage made sure of that.
The internet is full of articles today about the results of the super Tuesday primary results. However the observation that seems to be lost is the weakness of the field that still haunts the Republican Party. Once Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and Palin were not contenders, there was hope that maybe the GOP candidates would engender more respect. Wrong! There was Newt, the visionary, with his ideas of colonizing the moon.
Then there was Ron Paul advocating abolishing all drug laws so that there would not be violations of drug laws.
Mitt Romney has been so weak that the Man in the Moon beat him in Georgia, and Rick Santorum beat him in Tennessee and Oklahoma. Rick Santorum has become famous, not for his economic policies, but for his various sexual positions.
Even if you disregard Rick’s unhealthy obsession with telling men and women around the country when, with whom, how often, and for what purpose, they should have sex, there is still a fundamental problem with Rick Santorum as President. If a person decided to run for President, it seems the first and most important job would be to ensure that he was on the ballot in every state. It wouldn’t do any good to convince people to vote for you if you weren’t somebody for whom they could vote. Even a 5th grader running for Student Council would understand the importance of getting their name on the ballot. Either through ignorance or negligence, Rick Santorum failed to get his name on the ballot in Virginia, a state with 49 delegates. In Ohio, Santorum failed to file delegate lists in several counties, so that even in some counties where he carried the popular vote, he lost delegates to Romney. Exaggerating the fundamental failing of Santorum, he said, when confronted about this screw-up, “I’m not worried at all.”
Regardless of political ideology, there should be some minimal competency characteristics that all Americans should demand of their candidates. Attention to detail, reliability, and dependability should be characteristics of all candidates, regardless of their political party. It seems Rick has focused too much attention on the sex lives of the American electorate, and not enough on his own political future. What if he forgot to take the black box with him on vacation? What if he forgot to show up for the peace talks with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad? When Rick Perry forgot what he was talking about in a debate he said “Oops,” and dropped out of the race shortly thereafter.
Why haven’t people demanded the same of Santorum?
As I watched Rick Santorum’s speech on Super Tuesday, I found myself switching channels, bored to death. So was his poor son! Poor guy, he tried so hard.
Headlines this morning hail Mitt Romney as the winner of the Michigan Primary. With 99% of the votes counted Romney is reported to have received 41% of the vote and Rick Santorum only received 38%. However the actual winner is yet to be determined. As of 8:30 am this morning, the number of delegates awarded to Romney and Santorum was 11 each. Michigan has 14 congressional districts and each receives two delegates. Two more delegates go to the candidate who receives the most votes. Thus there is a total of 30 delegates. With 22 of the 30 delegates awarded, it is still not clear who actually won the Michigan Republican Primary.
Given the outrageous things said by Romney and Santorum leading up to this primary, the real winner was President Obama.
Romney made memorable comments about his love of the tree height in Michigan, and tried to relate to the people involved in the auto industry by explaining that his wife drives two Cadillacs. Santorum called the President a snob for encouraging higher education. Here is what our President said.
Rick Santorum announced that the notion of the separation of church and state made him want to “throw up.” Yet even more amazing was Rick Santorum’s robo calls encouraging Democrats to vote for him. The reasoning was that Obama would more easily beat him than Mitt Romney, so Democrats should vote in the Primary for him. Think about this. Rick Santorum was encouraging Democrats to vote for him, not because they agreed with his policies, but because he was more likely to loose to Obama than Romney. The word “traitor” comes to mind. By making these robo calls, Santorum was spending campaign money to encourage a scenario where the Democratic candidate would more easily win in November. We knew Santorum had a problem with abortion, homosexuality, contraception, separation of church and state, and that he has a “google-problem.”
It now seems that he has a “Republican-problem.”
In a recent interview Rick Santorum suggested that if you are an enemy of the United States “you are going to get very nice treatment from Obama. But if you are a friend you will get thrown under the bus.” I guess that means Osama bin Laden was a friend of the U.S. as he got a bullet in the head and thrown under the ocean.
Santorum has been treated by Obama with respect, so he must be an enemy of the United States.
Today’s post is by guest blogger Torie.
“No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg” – Frederica Mathewes-Green
Having been born well after Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird and Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court decisions which affirmed a Constitutional right to privacy, permitted unmarried women to obtain contraceptives and legalized abortion, I have no first hand knowledge of what life was like for women before these rulings. Sure, I knew that women once used Lysol as birth control and knitting needles for self-induced abortions, but I somehow viewed these as aberrations. I had no appreciation for the immense suffering and desperation women and their families faced during that time, until Rick Santorum’s rise in the Republican primaries and his increasing misogyny.
I had always dismissed Santorum as a serious candidate. I thought given his extreme views on science, homosexuality and women that his campaign would have crashed and burned months ago. I never thought the rights women literally died for would ever truly be taken away. Yes, anti-choice candidates and politicians might propose legislation that would infringe upon those rights, but I could not imagine those rights ceasing to exist. I had to learn about life for women before Griswold and Roe. I needed to understand what life could become for me and the millions of other women should Santorum ever make to the Oval Office.
Below is an excerpt from the book “The Worst of Times” and a graphic description of life before Roe.
I graduated from medical school in 1954. During my medical training, I saw women being treated for septic abortion, and as a resident I took care of lots of them. I have no idea what the real abortion numbers were in those days, but I’m pretty sure we just saw and identified as “abortion patients” the tip of the iceberg–women where something went wrong and they had no private doctor. I suspect that no more than one in five abortions was actually listed as an abortion, maybe even less.
The women on the wards were generally more seriously ill than the private patients. Now, that may be due to their generally inferior health status. They didn’t have the advantages of good nutrition and hygiene. They didn’t get regular health care or any kind of maintenance care. They also tended to be black, and the private patients tended to be white, but this was probably typical of the times. However, it didn’t mean that white women got better abortions. They all got lousy abortions.
The technique of the criminal abortionist wasn’t limited to a catheter or coat hanger. Many of them injected some kind of caustic substance–bleach or something like that–into the uterus. The uterus would contract to get rid of the irritant, but there was a high risk of complications.
Potassium permanganate [a dark purple salt] was another common choice. The abortionist dissolved some of the crystals in water and inserted the solution into the uterus through a syringe or catheter. On the street, women heard that potassium permanganate would work, but they didn’t get all the details of how to use it, and we would see women who would just insert the crystals into the vagina.
By the time these women got to the hospital, they would have terrible burns or even actual holes in the vaginal lining, because the crystals had simply eaten away the tissue. The irony is that placed in the vagina, potassium permanganate didn’t abort the pregnancy, but it sure did a lot of damage to the vagina.
The complications we typically saw on the ward were severe pelvic inflammation and infection, with pelvic abscesses which had to be drained. Many women got an ilius, or shutdown of their intestines. They had to have a nasal-gastic tube so we could just keep their intestines quiet until they started to function again.
They would also get a generalized peritonitis. Some patients died of “uremia”–at least that’s what would be written on the death certificate again leading statisticians to miss the abortion connection. Uremia is an extremely severe infection with septic shock and kidney shutdown.
Hemorrhage was sometimes a complication, although often these women died at the time of the abortion, before they ever got to a hospital. With a perforation in certain parts of the uterus, where the blood supply is concentrated, it would take only a few hours–a day at most–for the woman to bleed to death. If it isn’t that part of the uterus, perforation could take several days to cause death.
With illegal abortion, there were lots of ways to die. The lucky ones made it through. The not-so-lucky ones died fairly horrible deaths.
In the 1950s and early ’60s, in spite of that always-full hospital ward, no one talked about abortion as a public health problem. It was just a fact of life, and you dealt with it the best way you could–taking care of the complications. It was the women’s rights movement and not public health concerns that made abortion legal.
I remember that when I first went into private practice in 1961, if a woman wanted her tubes tied, she had to get her husband’s written permission. I thought that was way out of line. Her body didn’t belong to her husband! Besides, she didn’t have to sign for his vasectomy. But that’s how it was.
For as long as I can remember, I have been in favor of making abortion legal, because I always thought that a woman ought to have the right to control her body.
Overturning Roe, banning contraception will not stop women from seeking abortions and birth control. A woman will do whatever she feels she has to do to exercise control over her body, no matter the consequences. Reversing Roe is in no way pro-life. It will not save women and babies. It certainly will not change our country for the better. In fact, without access to safe and legal abortions, more women will die. Their spouses will be left alone. Their children will be left motherless. Their parents will be left without their daughters. This circle of tragedy will continue to expand as our society loses parts of itself.
Long before Bristol Palin vowed to Oprah she had become a born-again virgin, Karen Santorum, wife of presidential candidate Rick Santorum, sought her own heavenly hymen restoration. Yes, prior to marrying a man who opposes birth control and non-procreative sex even for married couples, Karen Santorum lived with a man old enough to be her dad who co-founded the first abortion clinic in Pittsburgh. Seems Mrs. Santorum only opposes premarital sex, birth control and abortion for others.
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