Imagine the impossible: After ELEVEN frontrunners in the Republican Presidential race, we finally have former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania as the present frontrunner.
This is a literal nightmare, as Santorum would take us back socially to the 1950s; economically to the Gilded Age or 1920s; and would send troops and bomb Iran on his first day in office.
Rick Santorum would try to outlaw contraceptives; outlaw all abortions under all circumstances; reverse “don’s ask, don’t tell” in the military; promote theocracy in America, with his fanatical religious convictions; set out to wipe out most of the New Deal and Great Society; promote the end of any regulation of corporations and banks; promote the interests of the oil industry at the expense of the environment; cut taxes on the wealthy much more than even the Bush tax cuts; and promote military intervention all over the world in the name of American “exceptionalism”!
And there is more, enough to make us wish for George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism”, or the time of Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford or Richard Nixon!
This country would be so damaged and divided, more than ever before, and make us long for the “good old days” of earlier Presidents, who no matter how controversial they were, were never as extreme and fanatical as Rick Santorum would be.
Rick Santorum is a mental case, a danger to the stability and advancement of America, and those who wish he was the Republican nominee, thinking it would be easy for Barack Obama to defeat him, had better think twice and wish that he NOT be chosen, as one can never know for sure how those citizens among us who are emotional and ignorant and overtly “religious”, might not see Rick Santorum as their “Jesus Christ” who can save the country!
This potential for a Santorum Presidency is the most dangerous threat to our future since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, even surpassing the candidacy of Barry Goldwater in 1964, and we must hope that Mitt Romney is able to overcome this challenge, as no matter what one thinks of Mitt, at least we know he is sane and stable, and no threat to the future of the nation, were he to occupy the White House in 2013.
Your statements about the dangers of a Santorum presidency is on the mark. One thinks back to the time when Hitler ran for office in the 1930’s in Germany. Most German voters simply did not believe that he would actually do the things he said he would do. They wanted change and got it in spades, along with disaster for the whole world. Can American voters be counted upon to appraise the consequences of a putting a clever reactionary in the Oval Office? I fear that the impact of “Citizens United” which a 5-4 US Supreme Court decision imposed, may provide the unlimited money flow for brainwashing propaganda. This could lead to our national ruination unless there are more
voices like yours and an angry and unafraid Obama who will take the gloves off during the campaign
In an interview on CNN with Piers Morgan, Santorum said rape victims should ‘make the best of a bad situation’ if they get pregnant and give birth to the ‘gift from God’
He said, “I’ve always, you know, I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created – in the sense of rape – but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you. As you know, we have to, in lots of different aspects of our life we have horrible things happen. I can’t think of anything more horrible, but nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation and I would make the argument that that is making the best of a bad situation.â€
The emotional and physical trauma endured during and after a sexual assault often leaves a woman feeling robbed of any control over her own body and welfare. So this man wants to take away from a this woman, a victim of rape, any remaining control and make it illegal for her to terminate a rape pregnancy!
Whew! This man is one sick lunatic and the idea of him stepping into the oval office sends me into an episode of nausea.