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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jjkleprechaun | Feb 27, 2012, 01:53 PM EST
Just for your info, Cahir, the late President Kennedy did, indeed, vow to keep his "private Faith" out of his public life and did it to such an extent that he kept it out of his private life as well...those facts have been known for years. As for Rick Santorum, you are deliberately and with malice of forethought and contortion of the spoken word telling the Irish world just how much you hate the Roman Catholic Faith. You are a failure in my opinion where the IC is concerned. May God forgive you.
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lokionline | Feb 27, 2012, 01:16 PM EST
I am beginning to think that Santorum would be the best GOP nomination for America.
If Romney wins you will get a nasty but essentially meaningless debate in the fall between two centrists. The basic Regan/Clinton/Bush/Obama Washington consensus that has governed in essentially the same way for the past 30 years will simply continue regardless of who wins the Presidency.
On the other hand if Santorum is the GOP candidate you are likely to get a more clarifying debate in the Fall which will help resolve just where the majority of Americans stand in regard to the social issues that have plagued American politics.
Perhaps it is time to stop prevaricating about the 'culture war' and get to the heart of the issues that appear to divide the US.
I think this would be of benefit to Catholics of all political persuasions
If Romney wins you will get a nasty but essentially meaningless debate in the fall between two centrists. The basic Regan/Clinton/Bush/Obama Washington consensus that has governed in essentially the same way for the past 30 years will simply continue regardless of who wins the Presidency.
On the other hand if Santorum is the GOP candidate you are likely to get a more clarifying debate in the Fall which will help resolve just where the majority of Americans stand in regard to the social issues that have plagued American politics.
Perhaps it is time to stop prevaricating about the 'culture war' and get to the heart of the issues that appear to divide the US.
I think this would be of benefit to Catholics of all political persuasions
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hybernia | Feb 27, 2012, 01:09 PM EST
Rick Santorum should stop drying his hair in the microwave oven.
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katiemac | Feb 27, 2012, 12:31 PM EST
Santorum is asked what he believes and answers candidly, and apparrently courageously, since he is guaranteed to be lambasted by liberal twits like Cahir at every turn. In a world where most politicians' belief systems blow like the wind in whatever direction the current audience requires (I call this the "love the one you're with' syndrome.), Santorum's consistency is refreshing. He doesn't ask that you believe what he believes, or that you live as he lives, he simply asks that he not be required to financially support the ruinous hedonism of the left. Misneac, you are correct. Irish Central is, at the core, incredibly anti-Catholic, it is run by efete, pseudo-intellectual, elitist liberals. But then so is Ireland.
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maryosullivan | Feb 27, 2012, 11:59 AM EST
Would Santorum give people of all faiths an equal say in the public square? Or, as I suspect, would
each faith be required to get his ok before
speaking?
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hollabackgurl | Feb 27, 2012, 11:46 AM EST
You should visit Ireland if you think IrishCentral is anti-Catholic (which it certainly is not). Santorum's a fanatic who doesn't believe in the separation of Church and State. Journalists are simply doing their job to inform us of this fact.
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misneac | Feb 27, 2012, 11:28 AM EST
Iam a relatively new viewer of this website , and am appalled at the continuous anti catholic selection of articles . This site calls itself " IRISH CENTRAL " ! what a laugh , it is so bigoted and biased with no balance .
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Willipotts | Feb 27, 2012, 11:28 AM EST
Rick Santorum is seriously psychotic and a closet puretin!
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PiperMac52 | Feb 27, 2012, 11:23 AM EST
Rick Santorum is obviously running for President though he is a practicing traditional catholic having been asked by the liberal media his views on certain issues( a set up), he answered. The media asked him knowing full well what his answer would be. Have they ever asked Obama the same question, or about his affinity for Islam and his radical branch of Christianity as per Rev. jeremiah Wright? Of Course not. He gets a pass. Santorum does not intend to establish his beliefs as law if elected, nor could he.This whole conversation is a moot point and clearly a smear campaign from the left.
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danielk | Feb 27, 2012, 11:16 AM EST
IrishSpring444's rant sounds like the attacks made on another intellectually-bankrupt shill for the left - Thomas Jefferson, who was also villifed over two hundred years ago by those who tried to use relgion to push their political agendas.....O'Doherty is not attacking the Catholic Church, simply Santorum's exaltation of ignorance....If an Iranian religious leader had made Santorum's remarks, Republicans would be saying how evil they were and how Americans should appreciate their freedoms...
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mrkennedy | Feb 27, 2012, 10:55 AM EST
Cahir, you sound like you may be jealous of Santorum. Are you interested in being voted the new Pope after Pope Benedict retires this year at 85 so that you can continue to downgrade the Catholic teachings!!!
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carrickcourt | Feb 27, 2012, 10:45 AM EST
What is the rant by IrishSpring444 all about? i wonder if they know. I would agree about Santorum. He is getting the support of Tea Party Republicans with his crazy talk no doubt but turning off the middle of the road USA voters.
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donal1951 | Feb 27, 2012, 10:44 AM EST
We broke the no-Catholic-can-be-president rule in 1960, when I suspect most Catholics registered to vote cast their ballots for John F. Kennedy. As a result, I don't see Roman Catholics feeling compelled to vote for Sen. Santorum or Speaker Gingrich. We Republicans want the strongest candidate to face Barack Hussain Obama in November.
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Nicoletta | Feb 27, 2012, 10:44 AM EST
I presume that the faith of your fathers is Catholic. You insult their memory by your continual anti-Catholic insults. They would be particularly bemused by your equating them with Islamists (last paragraph.)
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