UNLIMITED GOP 2012 PRIMARY CANDIDATE THREAD

[Doktor Howl]

In case anyone was actually thinking HC's 9-9-9 plan sounded like a good idea, here's this:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/tpc-does-herman-cain/

In Cain's world, a typical household making more than $2.7 million would pay a smaller share of its income in federal taxes than one making less than $18,000.

HAR!

[Cramulus]

Despite the fact that he was doomed from the beginning. I almost feel sorry for him.

Almost.

He is, like Bachmann and Perry and Spears, naively and vacantly staring at the spotlights, with no concept that the world will turn on him, that those aren't spotlights, they're headlights.  And he will never, ever understand why what's about to happen to him has to happen, just like Britney Spears never understood.

He, like Spears before him, has become convinced that he is The Main Character, and he's just thrilled to discover that America has realized this.

I'd feel bad for him if he wasn't an evil person.

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

He does have a good singing voice, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADaC7AahRM

[Luna]

Santorum... 

"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," the former Pennsylvania senator explained. "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":
SANTORUM: [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal...but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen...This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/19/348007/rick-santorum-pledges-to-defund-contraception-its-not-okay-its-a-license-to-do-things/

[PopeTom]

If it's special then shouldn't you share it with as many people as possible?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Santorum... 

"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," the former Pennsylvania senator explained. "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":
SANTORUM: [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal...but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen...This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/19/348007/rick-santorum-pledges-to-defund-contraception-its-not-okay-its-a-license-to-do-things/

Oh my god, that guy is a douche. Also, he's homophobic and thinks sex is for procreation... hello, repression.

[Juana]

Oh, Santorum, you crazy Catholic.

[Luna]

Santorum... 

"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," the former Pennsylvania senator explained. "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":
SANTORUM: [Sex] is supposed to be within marriage. It's supposed to be for purposes that are yes, conjugal...but also procreative. That's the perfect way that a sexual union should happen...This is special and it needs to be seen as special.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/10/19/348007/rick-santorum-pledges-to-defund-contraception-its-not-okay-its-a-license-to-do-things/

Oh my god, that guy is a douche. Also, he's homophobic and thinks sex is for procreation... hello, repression.

It is startling that those in the media and academia appear most disturbed by this aberrant behavior, since they have zealously promoted moral relativism by sanctioning "private" moral matters such as alternative lifestyles. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

-Rick Santorum, on the Catholic abuse scandals, 2002

[Precious Moments Zalgo]

I almost feel sorry for the guy.  It has got to be painful to live with so much cognitive dissonance.

[PopeTom]

I think to be a member of the modern Republican party you need to have the cognitive areas of your brain removed or drugged into submission.

[Juana]

Of course it's the fault of icky filthy liberals.

I almost feel sorry for the guy.  It has got to be painful to live with so much cognitive dissonance.

He probably uses the Church as a salve.

I think to be a member of the modern Republican party you need to have the cognitive areas of your brain removed or drugged into submission.

The Republicans have an attractive narrative for people who are frightened by change and the self-righteous, and I'm pretty sure it's easier for most people to cling to that and stop thinking altogether.

[Cain]

Moral relativists made the Catholic Church kidnap children from their parents and give them to more "deserving" (read: religious and conservative) families, and made priests abuse children.

Is Santorum aware that free will is a component of Catholic theology?

[Luna]

I almost feel sorry for the guy.  It has got to be painful to live with so much cognitive dissonance.

I almost feel sorry for his wife.

[Cainad (dec.)]

I almost feel sorry for the guy.  It has got to be painful to live with so much cognitive dissonance.

I almost feel sorry for his wife.

I almost feel sorry for the rest of us, having to share a planet with the likes of him.


Wait, scratch the "almost" in that.

[Luna]

I almost feel sorry for the guy.  It has got to be painful to live with so much cognitive dissonance.

I almost feel sorry for his wife.

I almost feel sorry for the rest of us, having to share a planet with the likes of him.


Wait, scratch the "almost" in that.

When Santorum goes down in flames, Imma send Dan Savage a fruit basket.