Bye Santorum!

Santorum is out of the race now, leaving us with only Romney and Gingrich to entertain us until November. How sad; neither Romney or Gingrich looks anywhere near as good as Santorum looks in chaps! Why'd Santorum have to disappear so soon? At least we have been given a solid promise from Newt Gingrich that he will stay in the race. I guess it's time to start looking for Mitt Romney's hidden records from his tenure as governer of Massachusetts (Republicans didn't learn a thing from Nixon, did they?) and start taking lessons from Newtie-boy on family values! Here's a song for Rick Santorum's short run for president!

 

Santorum Is Already Doing Satan's Job

You heard it here first! Rick Santorum just issued a statement that all god-fearing conservatives are supposed to just...........believe........describing President Obama's Christian beliefs and the connected theology (basic, Protestant Christianity) as somehow "inferior" to his own! Will it ever stop?! This is 2012, for Christ sake! It seems that Obama's positions and questions concerning safety improvements in oil drilling technology have prompted Santorum to align himself with God, almighty, and declare Obama's religion to be in error, instead of simply having an intelligent discussion or debate with the President. Here's a quote from CNN on the subject:

"The comments came at an event in Columbus shortly after the former senator from Pennsylvania said efficacy and safety improvements in oil drilling technology are considered by the president to be "a dangerous technology."
"It doesn't fit his pattern of trying to drive down consumption, trying to drive up your cost of transportation to accomplish his political science goal of reducing carbon dioxide," he said.
Obama, he continued, is not motivated by "your quality of life.”
“It's not about your job. It's about some phony ideal, some phony theology,” Santorum said. "Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology. But no less a theology.”

How is a policy concerning an industry the same thing as a theology? Unless, of course, all the money generated by this particular industry is what Santorum calls "God"........That's quite possible. But I do not believe that is the case for Obama. Obama simply has a different outlook than the people who financially support Santorum. And the bible does not have a position on the oil industry. The bible does have a position on something else, though: Santorum's "Christian" attacks on Obama's Christian beliefs sound a lot like nasty spiritual accusations meant to rile up unthinking but otherwise harmless people. In biblical Revelations twelve, the entity who accuses the Brethren is identified as Satan. Not that I believe in an actual Satan, but the principle is still valid; stirring up a bunch of lies and false rumors against someone, using fear and superstition to do so, is petty and low. It should be well beneath the dignity of anyone running for president. Apparently, it is not beneath the dignity of Rick Satorum!

Rick Santorum Running For President?

Rick Santorum thinks he may run for president. I guess I should have seen this coming. I guess, as conservative, republican candidates go, he's ok...........he could always be worse; but here's my question about him: why, oh why, does his religion have to enter into so many of the statements he makes concerning the general public; and why, oh why, is religion an avowed focal point of his professional decision-making? I respect his religion and what he claims it has done for his family, I really do. But I have my own religion, and it differs from his. If he were president, I would be very nervous about my country being run by his religious notions and ideas, which he has claimed should work for everyone. His religion will not work for me. I do not want it forced upon me at all, I do not want my children pressured at school, or anywhere else, by proponants of Santorum's religion. Any time he enters a public building, forum, or venue to serve the population at large, he needs to check his religion at the door.