Ultimate wrote:That's not even the worst thing hes suggested. Hes a terrible human being.

Matt_B wrote:

Ultimate wrote:That's not even the worst thing hes suggested. Hes a terrible human being.

Yep, a terrible human being, but the perfect Presidential candidate for the conservative wing of the Republican party.

BrandySpears wrote:CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) has begun in DC: Prayers for Frothy

God has known who will win the 2012 election since he decided at the dawn of time itself. But just in case everything we believe about religion is untrue, let's pray for God to pick our guy right now.

http://www.joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... y-mix.html

Shrunk wrote:

Matt_B wrote:

Ultimate wrote:That's not even the worst thing hes suggested. Hes a terrible human being.

Yep, a terrible human being, but the perfect Presidential candidate for the conservative wing of the Republican party.

Not if they actually want to win.

I also can't help but wonder why we hear so little from conservatives who are dismayed that their political philosophy has been tied to a a bunch anti-intellectual reality-denying religious zeaolots? Perhaps they are only just coming to realize that the useful idiots are quickly becoming useless.

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Shrunk wrote:

Matt_B wrote:

Ultimate wrote:That's not even the worst thing hes suggested. Hes a terrible human being.

Yep, a terrible human being, but the perfect Presidential candidate for the conservative wing of the Republican party.

Not if they actually want to win.

I also can't help but wonder why we hear so little from conservatives who are dismayed that their political philosophy has been tied to a a bunch anti-intellectual reality-denying religious zeaolots? Perhaps they are only just coming to realize that the useful idiots are quickly becoming useless.

Well I have said that time and time again.

GOP just does not want to win this one. It is allowing the right to test the waters with a fundie. Could also be a way of cleaning out the fundies in the GOP; let them have a go as they are not going to win.
Let Obama win and allow him to clear up the mess their Congress made.

It would give them another 4 years to pick a proper candidate and also the Dems will have to find another candidate. A much stronger position.

FACT-MAN-2 wrote:The race to the bottom is on!

chairman bill wrote:

FACT-MAN-2 wrote:The race to the bottom is on!

Question is, whose bottom are they racing towards, and has it been properly lubricated?

But Dan Smith’s tearful story made me think of a man who once said that children conceived by rape “are gifts from God.” His words implied that God sanctions rapes to give women a gift and that’s why he opposes abortion even in cases of rape. I assume he also feels the same way when little girls are raped and impregnated by their own fathers. It must be a “gift from God.” This man is also currently defending the Catholic Church in it’s efforts against same-sex marriage and contraceptives. Yet, he has remained silent about the egregious sin of child rape committed by many Catholic priests and the lengths that the Church has gone to, to cover up those sins. That man is Rick Santorum, the current leader of the Republican Presidential field and the man who is held in high regard by the Christian Right. I wonder what Rick Santorum would say about boys who get raped. Is it a “gift from God,” as Santorum says when women are raped and impregnated? Keep in mind that a priest allegedly told a boy he was raping that “this is what God’s love feels like.” Will Santorum say that it’s different when a boy or a man is raped? In Santorum’s sick mind, when women get raped, they should be thankful for the gift God is giving them. It would be very interesting to know what Santorum thinks about Catholic priests and their obsession with little boys. I’m not saying that Rick Santorum supports pedophilia and I’m not saying he supports rape. But I think he definitely has questions to answer. And so does the Catholic Church.

If any state was going to produce a Republican who might understand the dangers of unbridled oil and gas drilling — and specifically, of the drilling process known as “fracking” — you would think it would be Pennsylvania.

The state, after all, is the home of Dimock, a town near the crucial Delaware River watershed that has become the Erin Brockovich-worthy example of what can go wrong when fracking goes completely unregulated. As Vanity Fair reported in its shocking 2010 expose of the situation, Dimock is “the place where, over the past two years, people’s water started turning brown and making them sick, one woman’s water well spontaneously combusted, and horses and pets mysteriously began to lose their hair.” Similarly, the state has most recently seen a massive fracking blowout in Canton — one in which the Environmental Protection Agency subsequently found evidence of contaminated groundwater. And it is the state where a landmark Duke University study found “evidence for methane contamination of drinking water associated with shale-gas extraction.”

So when former Pennsylvania senator turned Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum late last week cited his roots in the Keystone State as reason to support more fracking and oppose any regulation of the process, it provided a disturbing example of the power of Big Money over our political system.