How many warning signs will it take to prove to the country that Rick Santorum is clearly the worst choice of a candidate for president in recent memory? The sweater vest-wearing Holy Roller would not only be bad news should he win the Republican nomination, but he would set the country back years, if not decades.
Never has there been a candidate who seems to hate sex, and anything related to it, more than Santorum. If that’s not reason enough to send this joker back to the hole he crawled out of, there are also a plethora of other facts that are rather unsettling about Ricky.
Allow me to start with the comments that Santorum’s wife, Karen, made on Glenn Beck’s web show last Thursday, as reported in the Washington Times. According to Karen, Santorum’s recent rise in the polls is due to the “will of God.”
“I personally think this is God’s will,” Karen Santorum said. “I think He has us on a path, and I do think there’s a lot more happening than what we’re seeing.”
Well, allow me to tell Karen what I personally think: you and Rick are absolutely insane. If this isn’t a warning sign that there is a crazy person running for president than I don’t know what is.
“The want [to be president] is a mission to make the culture a better culture, more pleasing to God,” Karen continued. “For us it’s all about making the world a better place.”
Is it conceivable that this woman has never heard about the separation of church and state? Is it really a good idea to do interviews preaching that some higher power has sent Rick on a “mission” to lead the country on a trip that would set it back for years?
But alas, Santorum’s crazy train rolls on.
Rick has made his thoughts clear on issues like gay marriage and women’s reproductive rights: he’s against both. He’s also not fond of stem-cell research, cloning, and according to an article in USA Today from 2003, he would support laws prohibiting polygamy, adultery, and sodomy. In fact, he’d support anything which promotes “a healthy, stable, traditional family”.
What world is this man living in? Clearly he resides in a Puritanical alternate universe where there is no debauchery and every man, woman, and child follows the “word of god” to a tee. I’m sorry Rick, but that ain’t our world. People in the United States are free to do as they please, and the fact that Santorum would work to take away our freedoms just rubs me the wrong way.
Santorum also believes that there is “no such thing” as global warming and announced on Glenn Beck’s show that he would have a policy of “drill everywhere” – after all, according to Rick, there is “enough oil, coal, and natural gas to last for centuries.” He has also referred to the predominant theory of global warming as “junk science.”
I’m sorry, but a guy who believes an imaginary man who lives in the sky sent him on a mission to become president shouldn’t be commenting on science at all. In fact, he should be locked up in a rubber room, free to rant and rave about his destiny and faith to all the other crazies who care to listen.
There are so many things that make Ricky unfit for any form of political leadership but this next one is just bizarre.
In 1996, Santorum’s wife gave birth to a boy who was born premature and died a few hours later. Rick then took the corpse home and, according to The New York Times Magazine, introduced it to his other children.
The one thing scarier than that? This man is trying to become leader of the free world.
Gerry Wachovsky is a graduate student and columnist for the Daily 49er.
