TagsTagsThe thing about Rick Santorum is that he's genuine. He really believes that anti-science reactionary bullshit he spouts. He's not just saying it to get elected, unlike Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. The reactionary Republican base senses this genuineness; they see Santorum as one of them. And this has now catapulted ...
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I commented yesterday that it was almost unbelievable how crazy the right wing rhetoric is getting, and here's yet another example from reactionary candidate Rick Santorum, speaking in Oklahoma and telling the crowd that the science of global warming is a myth, now totally disproven and rotting in the dustbin ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Science, Global Warming, Climate Change, Fracking, Bad Craziness, Republican Party, Atavism
Rick Santorum's big wins last night in Minnesota, Colorado, and Missouri are important signs of the power of reactionary religious thinking in today's right wing. Of all the candidates, Santorum is by far the most fanatical; he's absolutely opposed to all contraception, wants to see abortion made completely illegal, is anti-gay ...
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Rick Santorum misses the days when women would die in horrible agony from having back-alley abortions. Ah, good times. Look at what’s happened just in our tolerance for abortion. Fifty years ago...60 years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, ...
Rick Santorum, Religious Right, Abortion, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Health Care
In an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan, Rick Santorum spelled out the inhuman belief system behind the anti-abortion crazies: Santorum To Rape Victims: 'Make The Best Out Of A Bad Situation'. SANTORUM: Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, ...
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As we noted last week, four of the GOP candidates for President of the US failed to get on the ballot in Virginia, because of irregularities in their petitions. And now, the same thing is happening in Illinois, where Rick Perry and Rick Santorum may be booted off the primary ballot. ...
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Ballot box via ShutterstockAstounding. Despite their huge campaign staffs and multi-million dollar budgets, four of the GOP candidates for President of the US have failed to get on the ballot in Virginia. The hilarious irony in this is that it may be Republican-sponsored new regulations for checking signatures on petitions that ...
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Wow, Rick. You don't seriously believe that having a convicted criminal for a father is better for children than having two parents of the same sex, do you? MANCHESTER, N.H. -- For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum on Friday drew attention away from his efforts to ...
Rick Santorum, Anti-Gay, Gay Marriage, Homophobia, Religious Right
Rick Santorum received another round of boos today in New Hampshire, for stating what is a completely mainstream Republican Party position: "Gays Aren't Entitled To Marriage Or Military Service." Santorum argued that gay people shouldn’t have the “privilege” of enlisting in the armed forces or marrying because “we decide what’s ...
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At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire today, the audience booed Rick Santorum when he answered a question about gay marriage by comparing it to polygamy. A college-age audience member at a town hall meeting in Concord asked Santorum "how you justify your belief based on these morals you ...
I can't figure out whether Rick Santorum is being really smart or really, really stupid here, but The Daily Caller's Jamie Weinstein is absolutely horrified: Santorum commits Republican sacrilege: Attacks Ronald Reagan. BRENTWOOD, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum committed one of the gravest sins in Republican politics on ...
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It's too close to call yet, but if Ron Paul wins tonight, Iowa evangelicals will have voted to legalize pot.
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This election will go down in history as the time when the religious right completely stopped trying to hide anything about their atavistic agenda, and just let everything pour out in a flood of bigotry and misogyny. Rick Santorum, as one of the most fanatical and deranged representatives of this cult, ...
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Today's idea made of pure fail: Pizza Ranch proprietor promises to rename his chicken salad "Santorum salad" in Rick's honor. twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen/st... — Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) January 2, 2012
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The Iowa Caucus is now basically in a three-way tie, with Rick Santorum rising. The Republican caucus in Iowa is headed for a photo finish, with the three leading contenders all within two points of each other. Ron Paul is at 20%, Mitt Romney at 19%, and Rick Santorum at ...
Iowa Caucuses, Republican Party, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum
How can you tell which GOP candidate is the most fanatical fundamentalist, in a pack of fanatical fundamentalists? He's the one who gets the coveted endorsement of Birther Bob Vander Plaats of the Iowa "Family" Leader: Rick Santorum wins support of influential Iowa evangelical. Influential Iowa conservative activist Bob Vander Plaats ...
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Rick Santorum is infamous as one of the most determined religious fanatics in US politics, an activist who believes Christian creationism should be taught to all American children in science classes, and a persistent Republican advocate for injecting fundamentalist Christian religion into the political process at every level. Speaking at the ...
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Here we go again with the right wing's bizarre obsession with evolution. For more than a century religious conservatives have been waging a war of denial against reality itself, and there's no sign of a cease fire yet. Rick Santorum has long been known as one of the GOP's most overt ...
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Our quote of the day comes from Jonathan Martin's poignantly titled piece for Politico, "Is Rick Perry Dumb?" “If Karl Rove hadn’t been my consultant, I would not have been agriculture commissioner today,” Perry told the Dallas Morning News in 1994, adding: “My brain is like a chicken pot pie. ...
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The new Gallup poll out today shows that among teabaggers (hey, Andrew Breitbart himself said he was "proud to be a teabagger"), Rick Perry's strong, uncompromising Neanderthal message is really resonating: Tea Party Supporters Backing Perry for GOP Nomination. PRINCETON, NJ -- Rick Perry's candidacy has attracted strong initial support ...
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The Republican base has spoken, and they're very impressed with Rick Perry's creationism, climate change denial, and extreme religious fundamentalism: Perry Zooms to Front of Pack for 2012 GOP Nomination.
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Rick Perry may not have accomplished much in college, but as governor of Texas he can lay claim to one stunning achievement: he's far and away the United States record holder for executions. In his nearly 11 years as chief executive, Perry, now running for the GOP presidential nomination, has ...
Rick Santorum, Fundamentalism, Religious Right, Republican Party, Execution
Here's a roundup of GOP reactions to the fall of the Gaddafi regime; predictably, none of the presidential candidates give any credit to the Obama administration, but Rick Santorum comes right out and says "this indecisive President had little to do with it." "Ridding the world of the likes of ...
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Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum says any doctor who performs an abortion should be arrested and "criminally charged" -- even in cases of rape or incest. This is the Republican Party's idea of "limited government."
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