So first, the @HUFFPO story that triggered this.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum criticized a “Saturday Night Live” skit that poked fun at his anti-gay marriage views by showing him seated at a gay bar in the Castro section of San Francisco.
Santorum — depicted by actor Andy Samberg in the sketch, titled “Yet Another GOP Debate” — suggested that the segment was “bullying” during an interview with New Hampshire radio station WGIR on Sunday. The former Pennsylvania senator said he had been “hammered” by “the left” for his support of conservative principles.
“The left, unfortunately, participates in bullying more than the right does,” Santorum said. “They say that they’re tolerant, and they’re anything but tolerant of people who disagree with them and support traditional values.”
Gee, guys, not used to being the underdog, are ya?
First Rick Perry’s wife says he’s being victimized because he’s Christian (Perry defended his wife’s position), and now Rick Santorum is complaining that the mean old left is picking on him for his position on gays.
The victim card? Seriously? From these guys?
Considering their entire candidacies are based on finding people to demonize and victimize - Santorum the gays, Perry the Latinos - it is a treat to watch them both get battered in the polls for these actions and yet whine that they’re being picked on.
First: You guys started it. Don’t throw a punch if you can’t take one. That said..
Second: It’s not bullying. Nobody’s threatening you, nobody’s taking away YOUR rights, nobody’s trying to minimize your self-worth. This is debate.
Mr. Perry: You are the majority. I think 76% of this nation identifies themselves as Christian. So perhaps it’s your “The meek shall inherit my predator drone” approach to your faith that people are bumping against.
And Mr. Santorum: Just because something isn’t “Traditional” doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Lots of traditional things have gone away - women can vote now, for example - and that’s not always a bad thing.
Third: You guys are tanking in the polls because you are BAD CANDIDATES. Perry is going full Yosemite Sam. And Santorum is so dull people would rather watch a painting of grass growing dry… than watch him do anything.
And in response, they’re crying that they are being bullied. I disagree. I think it’s the opposite, and I think there’s some good to find in this.
When Cain or Romney or anybody else sends Rick Perry and Rick Santorum back home with a full diaper and an empty future, it’s not because they were bullied.
I’m going to believe that maybe… just maybe… it’ s because people realized Santorum and Perry were the bullies.
That Santorum and Perry were the ones that picked fights with people they thought were too small of a group to defend themselves, or too weak to fight back. It’s a lesson they should have learned from Michele Bachmann, and they did not.
Yes, most of the GOP field have these same beliefs… but it’s not their ONLY message. I disagree with the candidates and nobody on that slate will get my vote, but at least they are standing FOR something… not simply standing ON somebody to make themselves feel taller.
These couple of Ricks? (See what I did there?) I think, I hope… they are losing because people don’t like bullies. Whether they are soft-spoken bullies from Pennsylvania or brash, loud ones from Texas.
Maybe even in politics, maybe if you can’t play nice, you shouldn’t play at all.
Really?
I’d say “We hadn’t noticed” but then I saw the polls. Apparently we have!
You were a candle that nobody really wanted, that burned out much faster than we every could have dreamed.
But what we knew of ye, we the ye apparently didn’t like.
Whether it’s your past insinuations that Texas could secede from the union, or the fact that - as many have pointed out - we tried “Loose Canon Texas Governor” before and we all saw how that worked out…
Maybe your anti-vaccination rants or catering to insane parts of the Tea Party?
All we can tell is every time you opened your mouth and talked, a few more people got that ”ew, I threw up a little” taste in their mouth. Check it:
So, I guess: Thanks. Thanks for popping your head out of the gopher hole for 12 seconds and giving us a few laughs.
And by all means, keep swinging. You’re fun to watch, like when one of those guys in “Jackass” gets his junk kicked by an angry mule. But… in so far as actually seeing your name on the ballot? Sorry dude. Time to find another dream.
Might I suggest cartoon acting?
Remember all the hullabaloo about oversees ballots counting? How when certain Republican candidates thought soldiers would be voting GOP they screamed about the soldiers, and the flag, and how important it was their vote count?
I do. You do too. Texas seems to have short term memory problems.
Local Democrats are up in arms about a controversial voter ID bill that would exclude veterans’ identification cards from the short list of photo IDs required to cast a vote in Texas.
Ann McGeehan, director of the Secretary of State’s elections division, said last week at a seminar in Austin that photo ID cards issued by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are not acceptable forms of military ID to vote, according to a recording provided by the Texas Democratic Party.
Jordy Keith, a spokeswoman for the secretary of state, backpedaled Friday on that determination.
Passed after Gov. Rick Perry declared voter ID an emergency issue in the last session, the strict bill is touted by Republicans as a way to reduce voter fraud but decried by Democrats as an effort to lower voter turnout among minorities and the elderly, disabled and poor.
Texas voters, beginning next year, cannot cast a ballot without one of the following forms of photo identification: a Texas driver’s license; a Texas concealed handgun license; a U.S.passport; citizenship papers; or a military identification card.
Veterans eligible for VA medical benefits receive the VA cards, which include photos.
Not allowing holders of the VA card to vote would largely affect veterans who are young, homeless and traumatized by war, said Charlie Jones, head of Texas Democratic Veterans.
So, to be clear… your permit to carry a gun in Texas is a valid document to vote, your permit to carry one for your country is not.
Stay classy, Texas.
