Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R) on Monday stunned the hosts of Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” by charging that their show essentially “invented” Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.
Remember when Newt was the crazy old coot of the Republican Party? Compared to more recent Republican leaders (e.g., Trump, Cruz, Carson, and Santorum) he now seems like the epitome of political sanity.
Source: Gingrich Tells Fox Hosts: Trump Is The Candidate You ‘Invented’ (VIDEO)
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum encouraged viewers to Google him in Thursday’s undercard Republican presidential debate, an unfortunate choice of words that reminded many of his search engine woes fueled by sex columnist Dan Savage.
Is Rick Santorum the stupid candidate or is Rick Santorum the totally insane candidate? It’s getting so that I can’t keep track of the Republicans anymore.
Source: Twitter Melts Down When Rick Santorum Urges: ‘Go And Google’ Me
Ok, so I just Godwined. So Bite Me. The ad is devoid of content but is brilliantly manipulative nonetheless. Santorum should be ashamed of himself.
When Santorum was asked “to compare his criticism of President Obama for ‘favoring pornographers over children’ for allegedly not targeting child pornography — with [Santorum’s] lack of criticism of Penn State icon Joe Paterno in that school’s child sex abuse scandal or the Catholic church’s child sex abuse scandal” Santorum ran for the door and called the questions “insulting.”
Sure it’s a “gotcha” question. The difference is that Obama isn’t “soft” on child porn. That charge was just a campaign stunt on Santorum’s part. But Santorum really is soft on child rape. When asked about the very real crimes perpetrated by the Church and (Penn) State, Santorum wouldn’t even reply with a bland “Where crimes are committed, I condemn them, as would every person of faith.”
DuMont, Santorum spar over child porn, Penn State, Catholic church – Chicago Sun-Times.
and in Politico. The bad news: Politico says that Santorum “gave Paterno a congressional commendation.” Could be, but I can’t find it. What I do find is that Santorum sponsored Jerry Sandusky for the “Congressional Angels in Adoption” award. If I’m right, I’m sponsoring Politico for the BiteMe Award for Sloppy Journalism.
This is an actual Santorum quote from the Fall of 2011:
“If you think that we can be a society that kills our own, and that disregards the family and the important role it plays, and doesn’t teach moral values and the important role of faith in the public square, and then expect people to be good, decent and moral when they behave economically, if you look at the root cause of the economic problems that we’re dealing with on Wall Street and Main Street I might add, from 2008, they were huge moral failings. And you can’t say that we’re gonna take morality out of the public square, morality out of our schools, God out of our schools, and then expect people to behave decently in a country that requires, capitalism requires some strong modicum of moral consciousness if it’s gonna be successful.”
Mr Frothy Lube can Bite Me!
via Santorum: Same-Sex Marriage Helped Destroy The Economy | rightwingwatch.org.
According to a column in The Independent Florida Alligator, Santorum said in 2006: “This idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues … that is not how traditional conservatives view the world.”
Columnist Thomas Ryan comments:
“Why would anyone who believes in shrinking government think the government should manage family life and the choices of consenting adults in the privacy of their own homes?
“In addition to his urges to regulate personal behavior, Santorum has referred to the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell as “social experimentation with our military right now, and that’s tragic.”
“If Santorum were a real small-government guy, he wouldn’t be following in the homophobic footsteps of current and former communist states in which homosexuality is illegal.”
You tell ’em, Tom!
Santorum describes it this way: “I can tell you professor after professor who docked my grades because of the viewpoints I expressed and the papers that I wrote. There’s no question that happened . . .I used to go to war with some of my professors, who thought I was out of the pale, these are just not proper ideas . . . There is clearly a bias at the university.”
Professor Robert Friedman served as chair of the political science department in the late 1970s when Santorum was a student. He responds: “Maybe he believes it, but he doesn’t have a very good memory . . . He wasn’t very conservative.”
For more setting straight of Santorum’s record, see Karen Heller: Santorum’s profs beg to differ.
America’s Finest News Source, the Onion, quotes Michigan resident Dan Banks: “So, when [Santorum] said that Satan was currently attacking the United States, he meant exactly that. Satan, the devil himself, is attacking the United States. Rick Santorum believes this is a real thing that is actually happening. I…wow. Just wow.”
I admit it — nothing I write even approaches the hard-hitting journalism of the Onion.
Found at the Santorum blog.
Let’s see, Catholics make up a majority of the Supreme Court. A Catholic is President of the Senate; a Catholic is Speaker of the House of Representatives. Now, outspoken Catholic Rick Santorum is running for President. Nothing wrong with that — except that he wants to tear down the wall of separation between the Catholic Church and the US Government. That alone would qualify Rick for a Bite Me, but when he whines about how people of faith (i.e., his faith) have been excluded from public life, he can Double Bite Me.
Santorum renews attack on JFK’s speech on church and state – chicagotribune.com.
Romney says he’s got it all locked up. Santorum says Romney is a big fat fibber. (Romney, Santorum camps at odds over delegate math – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs.)
The New York Times shows the delegate count but doesn’t explain the implications.
But the Bitemaster explains the math:
To win the convention on the first ballot, you need a majority of the total delegates
Assume Romney wins just half the remaining delegates
Here’s the delegate count from the New York Times: RepublicanDelegateCount-20120308
Current NY Times delegate count: http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates