Is Rick Santorum running for President or Pope?
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This weekend we learned even more AMAZING FUN FACTS about Rick Santorum.
First he told us that college in the United States is just a giant left wing indoctrination camp for elitists, which is presumably the only reason why President Obama says its important to go.
'President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college – what a snob!' Santorum, who has a B.A. and M.B.A. AND a J.D., said this weekend to laughter and cheers from his Tea Party audience.
Then Santorum called America's colleges 'indoctrination mills,' which prompted applause from his resentful conservative audience eager to stick it to those egghead professors. You'll be waiting a long time before he refers to Americas churches as 'indoctrination mills', of course.
Still, defending willful ignorance takes courage, but throughout his career Santorum has always believed that patronizing as many people as possible is a winning political strategy. Having won none of the college graduate vote to begin with, perhaps he feels he can split the difference.
Most impressive of all though, Santorum told us this weekend that he doesn't believe in the separation of Church and State, an absolutely foundational principle of the Founding Fathers. In fact, President John F. Kennedy's vows to keep his private faith out of his public life actually sickened Santorum, he revealed.
'I don't believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,' Santorum told ABC's This Week yesterday. To underline his point Santorum revealed that Kennedy's 1960 speech in Houston made him 'want to throw up.'
He continued: 'To say that people of faith have no role in the public square? What makes me throw up is someone who is now trying to tell people that you will do what the government says,' Santorum said.
Clearly people of faith should be writing our laws, running our hospitals, censoring our art, teaching our children and declaring our wars. You know where you stand when people of faith are in charge. Just look at Afghanistan.
At this rate President Obama doesn't even need to campaign.
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IrelandNorth | Feb 29, 2012, 07:00 AM EST
University/college degrees are just another currency. The mor prolific they are the less their exchange value, until the stag eis reached where you require a PhD to become a janitor, or a $1m to buy a sandwich. Besides, I think Santorum is over complimentary about colleges. Education is establishment propaganda after all.
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warlocks | Feb 29, 2012, 01:47 AM EST
hey as a Catholic i would never Vote for Santorum he better go live in Europe we don't need the Catholic Church ( the Vatican) Calling the shots or making Laws on how to Run the United States . They can't root out the Rotten Corruption in their own chruch. as much as i don't care for Romney but their is very little choice . Obama has to go !! Let Religions take care of Religion and stay out of all Politics. its not their Business. I'm for seperation of Religion from Fed. & State Gov.
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warlocks | Feb 28, 2012, 07:58 PM EST
Tonight,in Michigan and Arizona, the Clown Show continues, the circular firing squad now down, effectively, to two equally horrible choices for the GOP. Romney terrifies the right wing of the party - which now controls the party that once had many moderates and more than a few liberals - for they don't have a clue where he stands on anything. Saint Santorum, on the other hand, terrifies the old GOP, the genuine conservatives and the few moderates-in-hiding - for they know all too well where Santorum stands and where he stands is a sure loser come November. Neither candidate can moderate their extreme positions sufficiently to win the general election. This is a disaster of the GOP's own making. EphraimKibbey,hollabackgurl, McNamara31 and eiriamach(as always), great posts!
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EphraimKibbey | Feb 28, 2012, 03:56 PM EST
Can a PARTY divided against itself long endure? The GOP has lost its moderates who now call themselves independents, too ashamed to associate with the current farce. In Michigan, half of the few who still claim membership, will vote for Crazy Rick because he fires them up appealing to their archaic beliefs. The other half will vote for pragmatist Romney who will say or do anything to get their vote because they think he might have a chance of winning in November. The Democrates will actually decide the GOP primary by voting for Rick as the clearest opposite to the President. What used to be the Grand Old Party of Lincoln is no longer in any way "Grand." It is now just the "Old" party spouting reactionary drivel to those too afraid to move into the 21st century with their children. America spent 8 years being run down by the Bush administration's give away to the 1%. After a promising start at recovery in 2009, the GOP put on the brakes again in 2011. Many of us limp along because of them. The auto industry is an example of what America could be again if it would just put these people's ides's in the trash heap history where failed policies belong. Vote for a Democrate and your own best interests.
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hollabackgurl | Feb 28, 2012, 12:56 PM EST
A party of birthers, creationists, theocrats, climate-change deniers, nativists, gay-bashers and anti-abortionists cannot govern America.
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McNamara31 | Feb 28, 2012, 11:57 AM EST
American politics and elections have degenerated into an utter farce. The GOP wields the sword of religion and family values purely as “tool” to pander and win votes. The past primary debates were nothing but a disgrace and humiliation of America in the face of the world. The so called “conservatives” sink lower each week trying to scrape some more votes from the bottom feeders in their party. As this side show goes on our real problems of debt and war and broken infrastructure grow worse each day. This party is allowing the 20% of extremists within the GOP to be its voice and have men like Sheldon Adelson fund its Super Pac’s with their hundreds of millions stamping out the individual voter’s voice. Then candidates like Santorum tell our children its “snobbish” to go to college while he himself holds several degrees. He continues to tread a very fine line with his rhetoric and the separation of church and state and sounds more like a Christian Mullah than a candidate each day. Its time for America to get the money out of politics and consider more political parties like Europe. Our two party system is bought, sold, propagandized, and broken beyond repair.
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timnolan1 | Feb 28, 2012, 10:03 AM EST
Santorum is conservative, so why do so many people have problem with that? So he disagrees with homosexuality, he disagrees with contraception, he believes that life begins at conception. Why do so many people have a problem with that? Are you threatend by this? Does it cause you consider the depravity of your own lifestyle and come to grips with your own arrogance? I think the social issues are relevant, people don't want a President who favors infanticide, partial birth abortion,and other barbaric acts no doubt. Moreover, people want a leader with moral backbone. I find it interesting that the Irish from Ireland are so opposed to this guy. Why would the Irish turn on one of their own, a Catholic. It seems that the Ireland is going the way of Engand, a country that has lost its soul. Furthermore, is these very values espoused in Catholocism that were the impetus for the Irish to rise up and declare their freedom and independence.
Lastly, the above comment about if you like Santorum, don't go to college, don't have sex, bla, bla is stupid and arrogant. Not much point in going to college if you are conservative? So I suppose if you declare yourself to be a liberal than you are eligible to go to school. What an interesting University environment you would have, nothing but liberals everywhere you go; not that would really make for a "well rounded education." You have to hand it to the lefties, they are the most closed mind people on earth.
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Chris1791 | Feb 28, 2012, 09:19 AM EST
You really need to change the name of this publication. I would never have thought "IRISH" and I use that term very loosely would HATE CATHOLICS SO MUCH! I thought the majority of Irish were Catholics. The hate in the article & the pure HATE MONGERS with the ant-Catholic comments are unbelievable. If you idiots don't think brain washing happens in colleges in the US you are nuts. You must not have visited any colleges. Most of the comments look like they come from George Soros's Media Matters. You also do not understand our Consitution at all. It's freedom OF religion not freedom FROM religion. You atheist have a religion it's called secularism. So you push your crap religion everyday by attacking anyone or anything religious. The people with the stupid hateful comments need to be excommunicated from Catholicism. You are NOT Catholic. Get a new religion and go elsewhere. You are the most pathetic Catholics I have ever seen. I realize your are from snub nirvana Manhattan. Every person I have ever know from Manhattan are hateful snobs is it in your water? I am going to a background check on Cahir O'Doherty and I bet I will find NOTHING but hate.
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eiriamach | Feb 28, 2012, 07:32 AM EST
Which institution is the "indoctrination mill": US colleges, or the USCCB? Fortunately for the US, Santorum is no William F. Buckley! He never read Buckley's eloquent "God and Man at Yale," so he does not know that Buckley criticized academic freedom, i.e., professors critiquing the nation's political and economic policies. Academic freedom remains in both teaching and research. American public and private secular colleges teach critical thinking. They train students to become autonomous thinkers. It's still a radical approach that distinguishes American post-secondary education from third-level education in other places. Buckley would have liked universities to become what Santorum claims they now ARE-- "indoctrination mills" for theology and economics. But the best proof that they still teach critical thinking and not ideology is that Santorum, with three degrees, somehow managed to resist the liberal indoctrination that he claims professors impose. His own politics is the best argument that his criticism of higher ed is false. Public higher ed may be our last defense against the idea that those who pay the bill (taxpayers) get to decide what the "product" will be.
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EphraimKibbey | Feb 28, 2012, 12:07 AM EST
@PiperMac52 - I know that "Sanitarium" SAYS that he would not support codifying his reactionary religous beliefs into American law, but how can I believe him watching GOP state after state doing just that. Laws against gay marriage which are obviously in violation of the equal rights amendment, laws requiring doctors to rape women with ultrasound devices if they choose to have an abortion and personhood bills that define a zygote as a human being contrary to the beliefs of 70% of the nation's populace have proven that, once in power, the GOP will do everything it can to turn America from a democracy into a theocracy. Where are the JOBS the GOP promised us if we voted for them? @lokionline - I too thought that way. Then I had a flashback to 2010, when college students and disillusioned democrates stayed home and independents, impatient at the slow recovery, voted for the GOP. Talk about not having the President's back! It would be a cruel twist of fate if we ended up with Crazy Rick as president. At lease we know Romney doesn't hold ANY beliefs to put into law.
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seanomelb | Feb 27, 2012, 10:12 PM EST
Patricia he may not be hitler but he certainly is a middle of the road right wing christain fascist
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lokionline | Feb 27, 2012, 07:59 PM EST
PatriciaMarya,you were doing well with your post. Then you ruined it by mentioning Hitler which undermines your arguments .
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seanomelb | Feb 27, 2012, 05:14 PM EST
This man is a danger to the free world.A religious zealot.Will he incarcerate all ths who disbelieve him If elected. he'd become The USA's first petty little dictator.Heil Santorum And the ignorant teahadists applaud him how sad for the USA.
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PatriciaMarya | Feb 27, 2012, 04:18 PM EST
This man who has three advanced degrees has the blatant nerve to call our President a snob because the POTUS wishes all of our youth to have an equal opportunity to higher education in order to level the playing field in today's competitive global world and no one in that audience called Santorum out as a Hypocrite? They instead cheered and laughed?
And some of the IC commentators call the journalist anti-Catholic because he is stating the facts? I cannot believe that the circumstances written about in "Brave New World" have arrived. I thought Dick Cheney was frightening when he created the Mercenary/Corporate Contractor form of Military that has not only bankrupted our country but destroyed the lives of decent men and women who were "conscripted" via the use of the National Guard and the stop-loss form of draft for our Volunteer Military.
Santorum stands ready to ruin what is left of our nation's common decency and I call out anybody who considers this man valid as beyond stupid. Problem is that no one is noticing that this is the way Hitler came into power by appealing to the lowest form of intelligence and pandering, pandering, pandering.
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