02.16.12
Posted in ALL, Cartoons, Election 2012, Health, Media, Newt Gingrich, Religion, Rick Santorum
at 12:49 am
The Republicans’ current non-Romney stand-in, former senator Rick Santorum, is widely regarded as out of touch and a little bit 14th century, even among mainstream pundits used to grading G.O.P characters on a steep curve. But one thing they all agree on is how devoted he is to his faith. Sure, Santorum may want to improve the Land of the Free by requiring all public policies to be based on Rick’s faith, but gosh darn it, he really believes in it, unlike those “cafeteria Catholics.”
But then how to reconcile Santorum’s love-thy-neighbor religion with his stance on, well, Jesus, nearly anything? Wanting states to have the right to ban birth control? Equating gay sex with child rape and bestiality? Blaming priests’ abuse of children on progressive culture?
What’s more, while he obsesses over what’s happening in people’s bedrooms, there are at least ten significant Catholic church teachings which Santorum (and fellow-Catholic Gingrich) violate (see Juan Cole’s piece at Informed Comment).
So perhaps those so-called values voters responsible for Santorum’s surge should stop looking for the anti-christ in the White House and take a closer look at the guy atop their shoulders.
(In fact, if you plug Santorum’s recent campaign schedule into Google Earth you see a highly disturbing pattern…)
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01.04.12
Posted in ALL, Cartoons, Election 2012, Government, Mitt Romney, Religion, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Satire
at 12:06 pm
Iowa Republicans came together last night in schools, courthouses, and cornfields to decide which brand of crazy they will put up against President Obama in November. And the results were crazy-close.
The G.O.P.’s pro-corporate crazy candidate beat out its Christian-right crazy candidate by a mere eight votes, representing the highest level of indecision by Iowa Republicans to date between religious interference and corporate control.
Yet anti-government crazy finished a respectable third, reflecting the desire by many in the G.O.P. to return to a more utopian time before oppressive regulations discouraged companies from spilling oil into waterways and denying lunch-counter service to black people.
“… representing the highest level of indecision by Iowa Republicans to date between religious interference and corporate control.”
The race moves to New Hampshire next where anti-government crazy has traditionally performed well, but corporate-subservience crazy may yet win the day. Religious-right crazy is not expected to finish strong in the Granite State, but is likely to rebound in South Carolina, when religious zealotry, corporate domination, and anti-government extremism will compete once again for the hearts of Republican voters.
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