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But it’s not that far leap.

Great job on the Birth Control issue guys.  Keep up the good work.  

In related news about horrible white guys embarrassing the rest of them, Goodbye, dip$h*t.

Well, he got his talking points, he was programmed to speak to the fringe and it worked!  By seven whole percent.  

Romney defended his one term as governor of Massachusetts, saying he erased a large deficit to balance the budget, eliminated government agencies and applied the lessons of private enterprise to running the state government.

By being a moderate.  Shh!  He’s a right wing loon now… here’s hopping everybody forgot.

“I want to get my hands on Washington, DC,” Romney said.

I hope he means the city instead of this guy:

Because otherwise that’s gonna muddy the whole “I’m a homophobe just like you” message he spent crapping out this week.

More fun with Mitt:

He detailed a laundry list of pledges to the crowd about social issues, saying that if elected president he would fight for a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman,

At least this week.

that he would reinstate the Mexico City policy, that he would cut off funding for the United Nations Population Fund — which he said “supports China’s barbaric One Child Policy”

Hmm.  Seems like he’s already on the path to making friends globally.  Any things else?

— and that he would cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood.

Unless women have a problem with that, and considering they vote more than men, I would imagine this softens too.

But congratulations, Rombag!  At least today, in the little petrie dish of fear mongering, you are KING OF THE LOONS!  

Try not to suck in Maine, ‘kay?

What a day!!!

          First, Karen Handel exits: 

Karen Handel, vice president for public affairs at Susan G. Komen for the Cure, resigned on Tuesday following public outcry over the announcement Komen would pull funding from Planned Parenthood. After Komen reversed its decision, The Huffington Post reported thatHandel drove the decision to defund Planned Parenthood over abortion politics and crafted the strategy to clean up the public relations mess that ensued.

Although she acknowledges her involvement in the Planned Parenthood decision in her resignation letter, she also decries what she calls “gross mischaracterizations” of the situation and maintains that the decision was not about politics:

I am deeply disappointed by the gross mischaracterizations of the strategy, its rationale, and my involvement in it. I openly acknowledge my role in the matter and continue to believe our decision was the best one for Komen’s future and the women we serve. However, the decision to update our granting model was made before I joined Komen, and the controversy related to Planned Parenthood has long been a concern to the organization. Neither the decision nor the changes themselves were based on anyone’s political beliefs or ideology. Rather, both were based on Komen’s mission and how to better serve women, as well as a realization of the need to distance Komen from controversy. I believe that Komen, like any other nonprofit organization, has the right and the responsibility to set criteria and highest standards for how and to whom it grants.

What was a thoughtful and thoroughly reviewed decision — one that would have indeed enabled Komen to deliver even greater community impact — has unfortunately been turned into something about politics. This is entirely untrue. This development should sadden us all greatly.

She leaves as she entered and worked - a liar.

Well, we’re all disappointed that someone like you was allowed anywhere near the levers of women health so, good bye and good riddance, bad person.

          Then, Prop 8 is overturned!

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for a likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that a lower court judge correctly interpreted the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedents when he declared in 2010 that Proposition 8 – a response to an earlier state court decision that legalized gay marriage – was a violation of the civil rights of gays and lesbians.

And of course, this gives the four stooges a talking point for this election, and Rick Santorum (who is insane) something to freak out about, which I’ve had my fill of.  When are they going to put sleeves on that sweater vest and make it a straight jacket?

Still.  Awesome.

AND THEN THIS!!!  THE SPIDER-MAN TRAILER!  AND IT’S AWESOME!

Seriously. This much good in one day?  I’m going to go play the lotto now.

Jackass.  

“I don’t believe breast cancer research is advanced by funding an organization that does abortions where you’ve seen ties to cancer and abortions,” said a hoarse Santorum on “Fox News Sunday.”

In fact, a 2007 study published by the Archives of Internal Medicine studying 105,716 women found no link between breast cancer and abortions. Abortion services account for about three percent of Planned Parenthood’s activities, while cancer screening and prevention accounts for 16 percent.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum sounded off on the Susan G. Komen for the Cure decision to cut off funds to Planned Parenthood for breast exams, which it reversed in part Friday.

First, lets be clear, Komen reversed nothing.  They bought themselves time and space by saying they’ll review it. But as long as Karen Handel is making decisions, it’s not going to happen.  So prepare for that.

Second, I call douche.  He’ll deny climate change, but back this “science?”  How convinient.

While I enjoy the chaos going on in the Republican nomination process, I want this guy on the next boat to “You’re a jackass, please crawl back into your hole” ville.  

You’re probably thinking “where are the jokes?”

My answer:  I’ll throw you punchlines when there’s something worth spinning into something amusing.  Tragedy + Time = Comedy.  Right now, every time he opens his mouth, it’s tragedy.

He tarnishes every intelligent, compassionate Christian who walks this planet.

Back to the 1650s, you lunatic Quaker.

Jesus, the media want this thing to be over, don’t they?

Four states.  Iowa with it’s non binding caucus, New Hampshire with it’s… tinyness, South Carolina with it’s right-wing lunacy and then Florida which is own bag of cats.

FOUR.

Now admittedly, there were five thousand Republican debates, so that probably made it seem like this thing has been going on forever, but it hasn’t.   And while the first big state with a diverse population has weighed in…  this is where it stands:

So even if you buy the idea that Mitt is getting 50 delegates (There’s a debate as to whether they should go proportional), Nevada and Maine each have more delegates than Florida and they are coming up.

So what’s the rush?

Yes, I have a horse in this race.  A partisan one.  I love watching Gingrich go after Romney like a crazed wolverine, because I do not like the idea that Mitt thinks he can just buy his way into the oval office.  He spent 16.7 million in Florida alone (him and his Super Pac).  I love watching Mitt go from being mean, to soft, to confused, to singing the elderly to sleep.

And yes, I love that the Republicans are the ones bearing the brunt and the horror of this “Citizens United” ruling which states corporations are people, which is why a corporation of one person was able to give Newt Gingrich $10 million dollars.

But more importantly, why should three tiny states and one big one that caters to very specific issues get to close the deal on this? 

They shouldn’t.  And I’d be saying that whether this was a Republican Primary or a Democratic Primary.

If there’s even a chance I’m going any of these four still running in the primaries could be president (HAHAHAH!  Santorum, Paul… No chance.  But needed to say it), I want to know them on a cellular level.

There are 46 other states out there who deserve to have their balls cupped by the Republican of their choice.  Gentlemen - at least Romney and Gingrich for now - start your cupping.

Santorum, you might want to get a latex glove.

Shocking, because I thought it was his $parkling personality and connection to the common man.

Seriously, this is news like Katherline Heigl’s new movie getting a 3% critic approval on Rotten Tomatoes… a big fat duh.

May the richest lunatic win.

WASHINGTON — Fresh off a triumphant victory in the South Carolina primary, former Speaker Newt Gingrich came to Florida with the wind at his back. What he may not have known was that he would be riding those winds into a wall of money. A newly feisty Mitt Romney, fighting for his political life, and his loyal super PAC unloaded on Gingrich in the Sunshine State with a massive spending binge that included wall-to-wall attack ads in a repeat of the assault that knocked Gingrich from the top of the polls in the run-up to the Iowa caucus.

The biggest spender in Florida — the most expensive state in the Republican primary to date — has been the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future. Run by a trio of former Romney advisers, the group has spent $10.7 million in the state. The vast majority of that — $9.9 million — has gone into a barrage of ads, on television and radio, and direct mail attacking Gingrich. That’s more than double what pro-Gingrich super PAC Winning Our Future is spending in Florida.

This is the opposite of what happened in South Carolina, where Winning Our Future was able to match the spending of Restore Our Future and provide Gingrich with room to win.

#SantorumInsane courtesy of @thinkprogress  

Okay, so, if you’ve been following me you know what I think about this guy. He is batcrap crazy and the fact that he’s still in the race is both appalling, hilarious, and damaging to the Republican party. So, obviously, I’m for him staying in and shining a light on what a substandard crop they’ve raised for the 2012 harvest.

This falls more under “Appalling” 

If you can’t stomach to watch it, here’s the gist:

SANTORUM: Well, you can make the argument that if she doesn’t have this baby, if she kills her child, that that, too, could ruin her life. And this is not an easy choice. I understand that. As horrible as the way that that son or daughter and son was created, it still is her child. And whether she has that child or doesn’t, it will always be her child. And she will always know that. And so to embrace her and to love her and to support her and get her through this very difficult time, I’ve always, you know, I believe and I think the right approach is to accept this horribly created — in the sense of rape — but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you. As you know, we have to, in lots of different aspects of our life. We have horrible things happen. I can’t think of anything more horrible. But, nevertheless, we have to make the best out of a bad situation.

I love the “we” here.  Who’s we?  Are you the raped?  The rapist?  Or just some sweater-vested idiot shouting ignorance from the sidelines.  

Share this.  Retweet it.  Every single woman of voting age should shout as loudly as they can to the heavens that this is a guy who considers you a monorail for babies.  ANYBODY’S babies.  Because whatever might come out of your womb is more important than anything that might come out of your mouth, your career, or your time on this planet.

That’s his message to half the electorate:  ”Thanks for breeding, now shut up.”

Dig this quote from the lunatic in the sweater vest who walks like a man.

I was so outraged by the president of the United States for standing up and saying every child in America should go to college. Well who are you? Who are you to say that every child in America should [go to college]? I mean, the hubris of this president to think that he knows what’s best. 

 I have seven kids. Maybe they will all go to college. But if one of my kids wants to go and be an auto-mechanic, good for him. That’s a good paying job: using your hands, using your mind. This is the kind of snobbery that we see from those who think they know how to run our lives. Rise up America, defend your own freedoms. And overthrow these folks who think they know how to orchestrate every aspect of your lives.

Outraged?  Really? 

Then you’re probably the same ignorant hillbilly who wants to know “Who does Michelle Obama think she is” asking our kids to be healthy.

 Yes, how dare the President want every child to be educated as best they can and to have every opportunity that can be afforded them?  What a d*ck!

“Hubris.” “Snobbery.”  What’s the matter, can’t say “Uppity?”  Afraid it might come out “Blah?” 

“Rise Up, America!”  - Did you find that in KKK literature?

Nobody’s telling your child he or she can’t be an auto-mechanic.  But if that auto-mechanic could have been a doctor, or a physicist, or found a cure for something… and never got the opportunity, that’s a bad thing.  

(Unless that person is a woman, I guess, in which case, Santorum would expect her to stay at home and raise a litter.)

This man is poison.

This man is insane.

This man shouldn’t be allowed near anything with a big red button - be it the nuclear codes or the one at Staples that says “Easy.”

“Who are you to say every child in America should go to college?” Yes, America.  ’Eff you and whatever dreams and opportunity you might have.

Rick Santorum might need his car fixed.

Hey, New Hampshire.  South Carolina.  Put this idiot out of our misery, will you?

First, from here:

Let’s get something straight.  I understand this is personal.  But by putting this photo on his desk in a public office, it’s not.  His decision was to do the above.  My decision is to find it creepy as hell.

He is insane.  He is batcrap crazy.  And courtesy of 9 people in Iowa, he is “Surging.”  Here is the face of your evangelical candidate, America - a guy who brings a dead fetus home so his kids can play with it like a doll.

You want to talk about Ron Paul’s letters from 1990?  Talk about this clear indication of a mental breakdown this loon in a sweater-vest had in 2005.  

LOOK AT HIM.  LOOK AT HIS PAST.  LOOK AT HIS QUOTES.

Look at his actual quote on actual issues, courtesy of “The Week.” (and reactions culled from the reporter)

1. Opposing birth control
Quote: ”One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country…. Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that’s okay, contraception is okay. It’s not okay. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.” (Speaking withCaffeinatedThoughts.com, Oct. 18, 2011)

Reaction: This is “pretty basic: Rick Santorum is coming for your contraception,” says Irin Carmon at Salon. “Any and all of it.” Threatening to “send the condom police into America’s bedrooms” is pretty bad politics: More than 99 percent of sexually active women have used some form of birth control, and “helping people get access to birth control is actually a popular issue,” supported by 82 percent of Americans. But a national contraception ban is “clearly the world Santorum wants.”

2. Keeping moms at home
Quote: ”In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might find they don’t both need to. … What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else — or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon — find themselves more affirmed by society? Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism.” (Santorum’s 2005 book, It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good)

Reaction: Santorum is actually right, says Bonnie Alba at Renew America. Degrading “the stay-at-home wife and mother while idolizing women who chose careers” is “certainly part and parcel of the feminist ideology which has twisted our society into a pretzel of me-ism.”

3. Re-spinning the Crusades
Quote: ”The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American Left who hates Christendom. … What I’m talking about is onward American soldiers. What we’re talking about are core American values.” (South Carolina campaign stop, Feb. 22, 2011)

Reaction: ”If you were worried there wouldn’t be a 2012 candidate touting the pro-Crusades platform, then today is your lucky day!” says Jillian Rayfield at Talking Points Memo. The religiously sanctioned European military campaigns were aimed at recapturing Jerusalem, and “along the way the Roman Catholic forces massacred thousands of Jews, among others.” I know the Crusades predated the U.S. by a few centuries, but how exactly does this military campaign reflect “core American values”?

4. Rejecting the very idea of “Palestinians”
Quote: ”All the people who live in the West Bank are Israelis, they’re not Palestinians. There is no ‘Palestinian.’ This is Israeli land.” (Campaign stop in Iowa, Nov. 18, 2011)

Reaction: ”The striking thing about his comments is that they represent an even more conservative position than that taken by the Israeli government,” says Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post. Israel’s anti-Palestinian position itself isn’t “accepted by much of the world, but it seems that the very least a potential U.S. president could do is accept the definitions used by the Israeli government.”

5. Reminding America that some view Mormonism as “a dangerous cult”
Quote: ”Would the potential attraction to Mormonism by simply having a Mormon in the White House threaten traditional Christianity by leading more Americans to a church that some Christians believe misleadingly calls itself Christian, is an active missionary church, and a dangerous cult?” (Santorum’s Philadelphia Inquirer column, Dec. 20, 2007)

Reaction: Santorum was responding to Mitt Romney’s famous speech reassuring evangelical Christians that he shares their values, and to be fair, “Santorum’s ultimate verdict on Romney was more or less positive,” says Dan Froomkin at The Huffington Post. But he draws plenty of “distinctions between Mormonism and Christianity that others have avoided lest they seem overly inflammatory.”

6. Dissing welfare programs that “make black people’s lives better”
Quote: ”I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money; I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.” (Campaign stop in Iowa, Jan. 2, 2012)

Reaction: ”This is the sort of subtle racism” that should, but won’t, harm Santorum among Republicans, says Steve Benen at Washington Monthly. Why did he single out black people when talking about cutting government aid?

7. Bringing race into Obama’s abortion views
Quote: ”The question is — and this is what Barack Obama didn’t want to answer — is that human life a person under the Constitution? And Barack Obama says no. Well if that person — human life is not a person, then — I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, ‘We’re going to decide who are people and who are not people.’” (CNS News interview, Jan. 19, 2011)

Reaction: Equating fetuses to slaves got Santorum some pretty bad press,says David Weigel at Slate. But critics don’t “appreciate how mainstream Santorum’s point is among pro-life activists” who commonly “consider their work a continuation of other movements that protected human life and elevated the status of people whom the law doesn’t consider ‘human.’ In the 19th century, it was African-Americans; in the 21st century, it’s children in the womb.”

8. Equating gay marriage to loving your mother-in-law
Quote: ”Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?” (Santorum’s Philadelphia Inquirer column, May 22, 2008)

Reaction: Did noted “homophobe” Santorum just admit to a “weird sexual relationship with his mother-in-law” and brother? says Michael J.W. Stickings at The Reaction. He may be atop the Republican heap, “but make no mistake about it, Santorum’s still a bigot and a moron.”

9. Comparing homosexuality to “man-on-dog” sex
Quote: ”If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does. … That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing.” (AP interview, April 7, 2003)

I could go on, but I ask you.  Read this.  Retweet it.  Repost it.  Spread the word.  Research it yourself.

This lunatic needs to keep his personal decisions out of our public policy.

He is not running for President.  He is running for Pope. 

And let’s be clear: Guy who’s been out of work for a year and a half, or under employed for eight… Rick Santorum isn’t going to fix the economy, bring jobs back to America, or do anything to make your life better.  He doesn’t care if your home is foreclosed, your business is shuttered, or you die in a box.

This is an unstable man who will, the day after he gets into office, do everything in his power to trigger the rapture.  He will kill us all.  Okay?

Stop this.

Now.

…well, one that isn’t accidental, at least.

Rick Santorum, languishing at 10% in Iowa, realizes… he’s looking for a few good men… who like men and a few good women… who like women… to ignore the fact that he hates them and has built his entire campaign on that. And now, he’s got a plan to get their vote.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorumexplained how he would win support from gay voters despite his long opposition to same-sex marriage Tuesday night on Fox News’ “On The Record” with Greta Van Susteren.

 Van Susteren asked how he could get votes from “the gay citizens of Iowa” despite being endorsedTuesday by Bob Vander Plaats, the president and CEO of The Family Leader. The Christian conservative activist ran an ultimately successful electoral campaign to oust three judges on the Iowa Supreme Court after they voted to legalize same-sex marriage.

 “Well, look, I have nothing against gay people. They have rights of every other citizen. But what they did in Iowa and what some are trying to do — not all gays — but some are trying to do is change the laws of this country with respect to what the definition of marriage is,” Santorum said. “We have a public policy disagreement. I know there are a lot of gays who are strong on national security and believe in lower taxes and getting this economy moving, and welcome them to join our campaign.”

You can see the whole video by going HERE and read the entire insanity of his plan by visiting Huffpo HERE…

But this is the funniest damn thing ever.

So not only is he a screaming homophobe, but he’s delusional at best and flat out stupid at worst.  I hope this guy stays in through the bitter end, because I haven’t laughed this hard since he opened his mouth YESTERDAY.