Just some from the collection of the absolutely dumbest Rick Santorum quotes. (bearing in
mind that this dipshit’s legal resumé
includes house attorney for the WorldWideWrestling Federation!)
“There are no Palestinians. All the people who live in the
West Bank are Israelis. There are no Palestinians.” (except for all those folks who
lived in the nation of Palestine until would be Israelis, abetted by Great Britain, decided
they weren’t Palestinians anymore.)
“There are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle
and aren’t anymore. (My note: No there aren’t,
regardless of what Mike “It’s my closet and I’ll lie if I want to” Pence says)
I don’t know if that’s the similar situation or that’s the case for anyone
that’s black. It’s a behavioral issue as opposed to a color of the skin issue,
and that’s the difference for serving in the military.” (So all those formerly Black persons are
reformed and no longer Black?)
“In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever
to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality.
It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.” (Clearly,
Rick Santorum doesn’t approve of man-on-dog marriages. What is missing here is
the fact that in essentially every single civilization the definition of marriage
has been primarily a legal one determining property ownership. Marriage got
more complicated when religious leaders decided to inset themselves into the
process.)
“What we should be teaching are the problems and holes and I
think there are legitimate problems and holes in the theory of evolution.” (so,
extrapolating this to a concrete situation: we should not teach the math
concepts we do know, but rather those we don’t (this was his answer in a public
school setting.)
“I don’t want to go to a trade war, I want to beat China. I
want to go to war with China and make America the most attractive place in the
world to do business.” (Rick Santorum wants to fight China. Someone
tell him that China has more than 1 million more in military uniform, has
nuclear weapons including submarines, and has 4 times the population of the US.)
"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." (I
got nuthin’ here, res ipsa loquitur, see below)
"The social security system in my opinion is a flawed
design, period. But, having said that, the design would work a lot better if we
had stable demographic trends. . . .The reason social security is in big
trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third
of all the young people in America are not in America today because of
abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion." (So
it wasn’t because of that whole Baby Boomer thingy? What Santorum is categorically ignorant of is
that the average number of births per woman of childbearing age in 1971 (pre
Roe V Wade) was actually just slightly lower than in 2011, during the Great Recession!
The actual impact of Roe V Wade on live births is by the highest estimate available,
slightly less than one in twelve. This makes Santorum wrong by a factor of four.
And he wanted to handle the US budget?
"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." (The History department at
Penn State (Santorum’s alma mater) must have loved this one. Historically, the
Crusades were sooo much about aggression by European Christendom against Islam.
The current attitude, held by far too many is similar, in that all Muslims are
seen as Jihadists (not so). Yet, if I compare all Christians to Westboro Baptist
Church or the KKK, I’m anti-Christian.)
I hope this list of blithering statements from this moronic talking head provides some insight as to why
he must be ignored.
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