Seriously.
If he fails to best Mitt Romneyin the race for the party nomination, Rick Santorum would be open to serving as vice president, the former Pennsylvania senator told the Christian Broadcast Network on Monday.
Here’s a partial transcript of the interview with CBN’s David Brody, which will air later this week:
Brody: If he for some reason asks you to be the vice presidential candidate on his ticket? I know, after is all said and done. Would you even consider it?
Santorum: Of course. I mean, look. I would do in this race as I always say, this is the most important race in our country’s history. I’m going to do everything I can. I’m doing everything I can. I’m out there. In the last 10 months, I’ve had five days off. Two for Thanksgiving, and three for Christmas.
I’ve been working every single day. My wife and my kids, we’re just busting our tail, because we know their future and all of our children’s future is at stake in this election. And I don’t want to be the guy who has to sit with my granddaughter, 20 years from now, and tell stories about an America where people once were free. I don’t want to have that conversation.
Brody: So, you’re keeping your options open.
Santorum: I’ll do whatever is necessary to help our country.
Yeah, after your last few classless days, I’m sure Mitt’s gonna welcome you with open arms.
Between this and raving on the steps of the Supreme Court today, I’m wondering if you should be taken in for observation.
Help our country? I’m terrified you’re going to harm yourself. Note to his family: Please keep the sharp things away from Rick.
Lunatic.
Now Rick Santorum has something to say about Obama having something to say about Trayvon Martin:
“Santorum said on Friday that the president should “not use these types of horrible and tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America.””
What is driving a wedge in America are things like George Zimmerman shooting an unarmed Trayvon Martin and the police in Florida still not taking him in for questioning.
What should be helping the country deal with it, are things like the President helping to put things in focus.
What’s making it worse are asshole candidates using it to pander to a base. The one that doesn’t like the black guy talking. The one that’s indifferent to a black kid getting shot.
Which reminds me: Congratulations, Santorum, on your resounding win in the GOP primary in Louisiana.
You’re despicable, both of you.
Nobody.
And yet, today, he decided to get all indignant at Barack Obama for having an opinion about a racially motivated child-killing in Florida.
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich harshly criticized President Obama for commenting on Trayvon Martin’s race as he extended condolences to the 17-year-old shooting victim’s parents on Friday. Obama said, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” a remark that Gingrich said he found “disgraceful” and “appalling.”
“What the president said, in a sense, is disgraceful,” Gingrich said on the Hannity Radio show. “It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background.
“Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn’t look like him. That’s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot. It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian American of if he’d been a Native American. At some point, we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American, it is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.”
No, asshat. He’s not saying it would have been OK if a white kid had gotten shot. But thanks for the race-baiting.
What Obama is saying - which any rational human being would understand if they weren’t desperately fishing for anti-Obama white guy votes - is if the President had a boy, that child might have looked like Travyon, and if that child had walked around George Zimmerman’s neighborhood, George Zimmerman might have shot that child.
Because of the color of that child’s skin. Because he was black.
Which WOULDN’T have happened is if one of your children put on a hoodie and walked around the neighborhood. Because that child would be white.
But between this and your indigence at the DeNiro joke, you’re officially the David Duke of this election. You’re fighting for the ignorant white vote while pretending to be the intellectual. I’m sure that’s going to work out FABULOUSLY.
Now run down to Louisiana and play nice with your friends who look like you, you puffy, arrogant sack of crap. There are votes to barely get and an election to lose because you are an unelectable loon.
Quite possibly the greatest political parody video ever made in the history of man.
Another day, another panderous, idiotic position. He’s the Gumby of ignorance, no matter which way you twist him… something stupid is going to come out.
Making the rounds of the Sunday news shows, Rick Santorum reaffirmed his criticism of President Barack Obama as “a snob” for supporting a platform of universal higher education.
The former Pennsylvania senator argued that Obama’s encouragement of students to go to college ignored both the reality and ambitions of those who wanted to pursue more technical careers. In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he sounded a more conspiratorial note. Two days after calling colleges “indoctrination mills,”Santorum suggested that the president’s encouragement of college degrees was a back-door effort at philosophical base building.
“Barack Obama is a person of the left,” he said. “He is someone who believes in big government. He believes in the values that are, unfortunately, the dominant values, and political values, and overly politicized values, and politically correct values that are on most college and university campuses.”
The appearances by the on-again off-again GOP frontrunner laid to rest any question as to whether he would back down from his criticism of Obama’s education policy (he clearly isn’t). But they also did very little to clarify the source of Santorum’s objection.
It’s unclear whether Obama ever said that every child in American “should” go to college. Nor is it evident that he has said he “wants everybody in America to go to college,” as Santorum claims he has. The president did say in a recent speech that “every child deserves a great school.” He also has said that “higher education can’t be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.” In August 2010, the president pledged to ”make sure we’ve got a world-class education system for everybody.”
You’ve heard of “No Child Left Behind?” This is “No Child Left A Chance.”
Santorum’s inferring that the President doesn’t appreciate what “regular Americans” can do. That by suggesting they should all have access to a higher-education, he’s somehow saying that “people who work with their hands” are somehow less important.
You know, people that do gritty, down to earth, regular person manual stuff. Like lawyer and Senator Rick Santorum does… n’t.
I am dying to watch this clown debate Obama, but we know he’s not going to get this far. So let’s just pick apart his weak argument, shall we?
College isn’t about just an education. It’s about helping a kid find out what their opportunities are - to shine a light on their talents, inspire them to figure out who they want to be when they become adults.
It’s letting them know there are more roads to travel than the one that leads in and out of whatever town, suburb, city or life they happen to have been born into.
I went to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to get a degree in journalism. In the process, I learned I wanted to do stand-up comedy, which brought me to writing, which brought me to writing for television.
That didn’t happen randomly - it happened because when I decided to be a writer (I understand that’s debatable if you know my work) I met people who knew how to turn that into a career. They gave me skills I still use today. More importantly, they gave me knowledgeable encouragement and the confidence that I could succeed.
And in every career, for every young adult, there’s a path like that, that can be found through a college, a community college, or some place of higher learning.
It’s also a place where a young adult can try, and fail, to figure out who they want to be. Journalism not working out for you? Switch to Law. Law sucks? Move to engineering. Not a good engineer? Learn to fix puppies. Whatever.
Or maybe decide “You know what? I want to be the best auto-mechanic in the rural Pennsylvania area.” And that’s fine.
But if that person had the potential to cure a disease or create the next Apple, it’s a crime he or she wasn’t exposed to the skills, tools and people who could offer that as an option.
Just like it Rick Santorum:
He obtained an undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a law degree degree from the Dickinson School of Law.
Now, does anybody think we’d be listening to this jackass if he stopped his college education at “My Mother’s Kitchen High School” No. He went to a Catholic High School, then to a public college, got an MBA, and then went to Dickenson, which touts this:
Law school is a time for embarking on a career and building friendships. An extensive assortment of student groups, along with student-sponsored activities and events, give students the opportunity to not only enhance their overall learning experience, but also to participate in the life of Penn State Law.
Hey, that sounds good, right? Learn. Make friends. Widen your world view.
This isn’t an “indoctrination mill” as Rick likes to call it. It’s being exposed to people who aren’t exactly like yourself. It’s easy to not like gays, or show disdain for “Blah” people when you live in a bubble and exist in a vat of vanilla ice cream.
Yet this “mill” was good enough for him. Then. But for your kids, now - he wants them to have all the opportunity of one of the Duggars.
Maybe Rick Santorum wants a world of undereducated Americans, people that can fix his cars and plumbing… maybe, worse, like Newt Gingrich, he wants an army of child labor to sweep the floors.
But the President isn’t saying everyone HAS to go to college, the President is saying everyone should have the opportunity to go. Just like he did, just like Romney did, just like Santorum did and just like I did.
That’s what this is about: Santorum maintains Obama is a snob because Obama has the gall to believe every kid deserves to know their options, see their potential and then make an informed decision about what they want to do with their life.
But since “informed” is the last thing Santorum is counting on for votes, what other position - regardless of how hypocritical it is in the face of his education and degree - could he possibly take?
Is that the people behind this…
And this:
And this:
Don’t understand that women have power and worth something. Even it’s something like this.
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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.
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.
This is not going to help him with “Electability.”
Or “Sane.”
Or even “human.”
Wow. Just… Wow.
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.
