Santorum, College Students Argue Gay Marriage

[chrisrobin]

I've been following this shit for too long. Every time I hear or see "The Frothy One" all I can think of is a dog dry-humping my leg. I don't pull him off if he promises me dinner and drinks.

 

[kallipolis]

Santorum’s very strong position on “family” issues is very acceptable to the Republican leadership. But, in another reflection of his Catholicism, he is also the only Republican candidate who is prepared to say that how well the poor are doing is an important reflection on how successful the US is. And that will go down like a rat sandwich with the neo-liberal Republican leadership, who fetishize tax reductions for the wealthy, and regard universal public healthcare as a Marxist-Leninist conspiracy.

My inner conspiracy theorist suggest that this may be part of the reason that, now that Santorum looks like possibly having some influence, the likes of Fox News are dumping on him with that reference to Santorum's dead child. We should recall that Fox News is owned by News Corp., whose CEO Rupert Murdoch has anointed another candidate to wear the crown much more susceptible to Murdoch's advice.

Winning the Republican nomination may never have been Santorum’s objective. I suspect his real objective may be to influence the ultimate outcome by winning delegates for the selection convention – delegates that he can then encourage to vote for another candidate when he withdraws from the race. By doing so he would hope to secure influence, and ......................

 

[Kulindahr]

Santorum’s very strong position on “family” issues is very acceptable to the Republican leadership. But, in another reflection of his Catholicism, he is also the only Republican candidate who is prepared to say that how well the poor are doing is an important reflection on how successful the US is.

Interestingly, early evangelical Lutheranism in the U.S., as represented by a guy named Wilhelm Loehe, regarded the condition of the poor in a community as a mark of how well Christians were following Christ: if Christians were much wealthier than their neighbors, they were not being Christlike.

Unfortunately his influence got swamped by the insecurities of another batch of Lutherans whose insecurities led them to see prosperity as God's assurance they were doing well. Had that not been so, there's a good chance that Lutherans in this country would be putting 'evangelicals' to shame, because Loehe favored the ancient assignment of revenues from a church, of 1/3 to the poor.

I watched a professor run the numbers and estimate the effect that would have on the country, first from Lutherans, then from all Christians. The assumptions were all Christians tithing, and then a third of that going to the poor. I don't remember the numbers, but at the time the result was that if government subsidized all the housing of all the poor, no one would nee any other government programs.

So, where are the Christians?

My inner conspiracy theorist suggest that this may be part of the reason that, now that Santorum looks like possibly having some influence, the likes of Fox News are dumping on him with that reference to Santorum's dead child. We should recall that Fox News is owned by News Corp., whose CEO Rupert Murdoch has anointed another candidate to wear the crown much more susceptible to Murdoch's advice.

Winning the Republican nomination may never have been Santorum’s objective. I suspect his real objective may be to influence the ultimate outcome by winning delegates for the selection convention – delegates that he can then encourage to vote for another candidate when he withdraws from the race. By doing so he would hope to secure influence, and ......................

EEK! I just got the image of Santorum heading up DHS.