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Christie gets to the chopper?

From the, “does this helicopter make me look like a fat head?” department; it seems New Jersey Republican Tea Party (GOTP) Governor Chris Christie, the “shining knight” of GOTP budget cutting and fiscal responsibility is using the state’s helo for private jaunts, including using it to attend his son’s high school baseball game. And people are noticing.

Democratic state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty said in a recent the Associated Press (AP) interview, “Governor Christie obviously doesn’t include himself in his hollow call for shared sacrifice,”

Now if that’s not an understatement I don’t know what is. But then again, Christie is your typical GOTP type. He slashes his state’s budget, drastically cutting public services, and then rides around in the state’s helicopter for personal business. He’s the quintessential new conservative leader. Give to the rich – including yourself – and screw the poor, elderly and middle class. His days of being able to pass himself off as being fiscally responsible are finished, as may be any aspirations of not only running for the White House but possibly of being re-elected. In today’s world you can’t say one thing and do another. When you prance around wielding a cost cutting knife insisting public employee unions share in the state’s fiscal austerity, and then you fly off to personal events, well, you’re 15 minutes are just about used up. What makes it more interesting is as a federal prosecutor, he cracked down on elected officials who misused public funds. Should there be a special prosecutor appointed to see what the Governor’s up to?

And in this time of fiscal trials, after being caught red-handed abusing state monies will the governor reimburse the state of New Jersey? Of course not! The governor’s spokesman, Kevin Roberts, has declared that the governor has no intention of paying anything back, and that he will not reimburse the state for Tuesday’s chopper ride. “The use of air travel has been limited and appropriate,” he is quoted as saying in The Star-Ledgerof Newark.

How exactly is flying to your son’s baseball game “appropriate” Mr. Roberts? Were you “beaned” by fly balls repeatedly as a child?

According to AP reports it’s just a trifling little sum, “state helicopters cost $2,500 an hour to operate. Col. Rick Fuentes, superintendent of New Jersey’s state police, said in a statement there was ‘no additional cost to taxpayers or the State Police budget’ for the ride to Montvale in Bergen County.”

So, you were heading to the game Colonel and offered to give the governor a ride? How exactly is there no “additional cost to taxpayers or the State Police budget”? Is everyone in New Jersey’s finest as morose as you?

Ah, but wait for it, if you thought the helicopter ride was outrageous, it appears once at the game Christie and his wife, Mary Pat, along with an aide, were picked up in a car, driven by a state trooper, and chauffeured to the bleachers — a distance reportedly about 100 yards — and then only watched the game for a few innings?

Are you kidding me? You fly to the game in a state helo (a personal flight) and then you are driven the whopping distance of 100 yards to the bleachers, and you don’t even stay for the whole game!? How much did it “not” cost the people of New Jersey to have a State Trooper standing by to drive the governor to the stands!? That Trooper couldn’t have had better things to do!? Like, oh I don’t know!? Catching crooks maybe!?

So, just out of curiosity Colonel, how many times has the governor used the state’s rotary wing asset since being elected?

Fuentes said Christie has used state helicopters 35 times since taking office, but did not detail which trips were personal and which were for state business.

Didn’t detail which trips were personal and which were for state business!? Excuse me!? Did you hit your head – numerous times – when you were a child!?

Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, told the AP that the governor’s judgment is being questioned.

“He has been asking everyone else in the state to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and share in the sacrifice of all these budget cuts to education and so forth,” Murray told Bloomberg News. “There were so many pieces to this that should have screamed out, ‘Don’t do it!’ It makes the governor seem that he’s tone deaf.”

Seem like he’s tone deaf!? No, it makes him look like the hypocrite he is. He’s a liar and a hypocrite; and everyone around him – to include Col Fuentes and Mr. Roberts – need to resign for covering up for him. There needs to be a special prosecutor appointed and the New Jersey State Legislature needs to look into impeaching this moron. How dare you cut and slash education funds and then fly around Peter floggin Pan! You’re a disgrace and you need to understand it’s time for you to shut your pie hole on anything to do with ethics or fiscal responsibility. Now, just go away.

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Posted by PEB on June 2, 2011 in 2012 Election, Lunatics, Politics, Tea Party

Tags: 2012 Election, Chris Christie, Politics

Mr. Flip-flop says the President is ‘ineffective’

31 May

The former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, is calling Barack Obama “one of the most ineffective presidents” he’s ever seen, and says he thinks he can beat him next year.

Yeah, OK. That’s assuming two things; first, that you can win the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) nomination, and currently are trailing – of all people – Rudy Giuliani in the latest poll; and second, the GOTP far-right religious fanatics will allow a Mormon to be their standard bearer. The first I believe you can over come, the latter, not so sure.

In an interview with NBC, Romney said that while the President wasn’t responsible for the recession he inherited, “he made things worse. He’s failed.”

Exactly in what universe did he make things worse? He saved the auto industry from collapsing, which would have been a financial disaster of monumental proportions costing hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars; he used the stimulus to rebuild a badly neglected national infrastructure, saving hundreds of thousands of jobs; the unemployment rate is dropping (albeit very slowly – but still dropping); the stock market has come back to strong numbers, and we’re creating jobs each month. You, Mitt, are a two bit, flip-flopping used car salesman.

Romney also said the President lacks “a cogent assessment” of world affairs. The GOTP hopeful claimed, “The Arab spring came, one of the greatest opportunities we’ve seen in decades, and we’ve been flatfooted.”

What exactly should he have done? I understand under the Bush/Cheney presidency it was the “doctrine” of the United States to meddle in other country’s internal affairs; but that’s not our job. That’s none of our business. I find it very interesting how quickly conservatives want to tell other countries how to do things, but cry “foul” if anyone dares to even suggest anything to the U.S.

Romney, who says he’s planning to formally announce his candidacy later this week, also said he doesn’t think his Mormon faith will be an obstacle to winning the GOTP presidential spot, “we’re not electing a pastor in chief, we’re electing a commander in chief.”

Yeah, that’s going to play well in the Bible Belt; a Mormon cracking wise about electing a pastor-in-chief. Have you forgotten Mitt how fast you fell from political grace when Huckleberry started that whisper campaign in Iowa about you being a Mormon? Face it, you’re running a very tough uphill battle to convince the rabid far-right to nominate you, and if they do? Well, it will be because they see you as the proverbial sacrificial lamb, hoping to finally be rid of you. Oh, and beyond the religious hurdle, your own fellow GOTP types are going to skewer you on your Romney-care plan.

Good luck Mitt old boy, you’re going to need it.

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Posted by PEB on May 31, 2011 in 2012 Election

Tags: 2012 Election, Mitt Romney, Politics, Tea Party

President mocks GOTP immigration stand

30 May

A few weeks ago, while visiting El Paso, TX, President Obama countered Republican Tea Party (GOTP) calls to focus on border security saying their demands had been more than met by his administration but “they’ll never be satisfied.”

On his first trip to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming president, Obama boasted of increasing border patrol agents, nearing completion of a border fence, and screening more cargo.

“We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement,” Obama said. “But even though we’ve answered these concerns, I gotta say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time.”

“Maybe they’ll need a moat,” he said mockingly to laughter from the crowd. “Maybe they’ll want alligators in the moat.”

“The question is whether those in Congress who previously walked away in the name of enforcement are now ready to come back to the table and finish the work we’ve started,” he said.

But of course the GOTP immediately disputed the President’s contention, “The president’s off talking about comprehensive reform. We’ve been down that road before,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, GOTP -Va., told reporters. “I believe, in turn, we should do things that actually produce some progress and results.”

Rather than continue to make deals with conservatives who believe they have some kind of mandate – and to try to talk to some GOTP members of Congress who once supported a comprehensive overhaul have turned against it – The President has taken his argument directly to the country.

“I am asking you to add your voices to this,” President Obama said in El Paso. “We need Washington to know that there is a movement for reform gathering strength from coast to coast. That’s how we’ll get this done.”

He said what was at stake was nothing less than the basic American idea: “You make it here if you try.”

The far-right conservatives of the GOTP don’t care what this President will ever offer up on any subject. They will oppose whatever this President puts forward. So, the President has done the only thing he can, he’s taken his arguments to the people. But, to the GOTP immigration is just one of the many topics they’ve decided is a watershed topic to exploit rather than to fix. They’ve decided that legislation such as the Arizona “show me your papers” law is the way to go. They’ve no desire to help the reportedly 11 million illegal immigrants already here to ever have a chance at becoming a citizen. Apparently for the far-right, only their “kind of people” have a right to live here. You know – the far-right conservative, white, Christian kind.

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Posted by PEB on May 30, 2011 in 2012 Election, Immigration, Politics, Right Wing Crazies, Tea Party

Tags: 2012 Election, Immigration, Politics, President Obama

Cain enters 2012 GOTP presidential race?

22 May

So, the Godfather of pizza has decided he’s the right man to run as the GOTP presidential candidate? Spit-take (again), cleans off computer keyboard and monitor screen … Really? Seriously, Herman Cain, the man who saved a pizza chain by downsizing and putting thousands of its employees out of work; the far-right host of a talk radio show; the man who has never held a single elected office; the man who is a tea party favorite; wants to be president?

“In case you accidentally listen to a skeptic or doubting Thomas out there, just to be clear … I’m running for president of the United States, and I’m not running for second,” he told a crowd at Centennial Olympic Park on Saturday.

So, now we have another “businessman” running for the GOTP nomination. It just gets better and better. I wonder if any of his Tea Party followers will be requiring that he show his birth certificate? After all Hermann, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but you’re like one of a hand full of African-Americans attending Tea Party rallies.

According to news reports, “Cain supports a strong national defense, opposes abortion, backs replacing the federal income tax with a national sales tax and favors a return to the gold standard. He said President Barack Obama ‘threw Israel under the bus’ because he sought to base Mideast border talks partly on the pre-1967 war lines, and criticized the Justice Department for challenging Arizona’s tough crackdown on illegal immigration.”

“We shouldn’t be suing Arizona,” he said to cheers. “We ought to send them a prize.”

Yeah, because legislation aimed at another race is definitely something that should be celebrated in America today. You’re joking right?

So far Cain has raised a whopping $16,000 for his bid. His “supporters” are hoping he’ll “tap into the Tea Party-fueled desire for plain-speaking citizen candidates”. What they – his “supporters” – don’t realize is what a vast majority of Tea Party members want is “plain-speaking white male Christian citizen candidates”.

Cain has a master’s degree from Purdue University and has worked as a mathematician for the Navy, worked at Coca-Cola, Pillsbury and Burger King, as well as running Godfather’s Pizza franchise. Well one thing his resume says is he’s ready for any number of jobs in the food service industry, but it doesn’t mean he’s ready for the White House.

The GOTP will never nominate him. Why? Because he’s Black; it’s as simple as that. Romney and Huntsman stand a better chance of winning the GOTP nomination as Mormons than Cain has of winning it as a Black man.

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Posted by PEB on May 22, 2011 in 2012 Election, Politics, Right Wing Crazies

Tags: 2012 Election, Hermann Cain

Mitch Drops Daniels Out?

22 May

Republican Tea Party (GOTP) Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has decided he won’t be seeking the party’s 2012 nomination for president. And like the stand up kind of guy he is, he decided to inform his supporters in an email sent to the Indianapolis Star saying he is caught between conflicting duties: family and country.

“The answer is that I will not be a candidate. What could have been a complicated decision was in the end very simple: on matters affecting us all, our family constitution gives a veto to the women’s caucus, and there is no override provision,” he said.

In a companion note to supporters, he added that he is “deeply concerned, for the first time in my life, about the future of our Republic” but that his family was the most important factor in his deciding he wouldn’t run.

Yes, like so many other far right conservatives (courting the Tea Party faction) Daniel’s is “for the first time” in his life “deeply concerned … about the future of our Republic.” Funny thing this new found concern; funny because it’s only now he’s concerned, but he was never concerned during his tenure in the Bush Administration when he was intimately involved in making decisions to send the country into an unnecessary and illegal war in Iraq, and to destroy the economy by giving tax cuts instead of raising taxes to pay for his bosses misadventures.

“In the end, I was able to resolve every competing consideration but one,” Daniels wrote. “The interests and wishes of my family is the most important consideration of all. If I have disappointed you, I will always be sorry.”

Yeah, yeah, it’s always amazing how these guys use family as the excuse not to run. I’m sure that’s a serious portion, but maybe he just decided he didn’t want to get his butt kicked not by President Obama, but by his own party. In polling for the GOTP nomination he has consistently come in way, way, way, way back in the pack, garnering only 3.3% of the vote, and falling behind every far-right wing nut the party has to offer including Palin (10.6%), Paul (7.3%) and Bachmann (4.3%) ; and he even falls in behind Newt (7.7%). The only so-called contender with worse numbers than Daniels is Santorum who polls in at 2.0%. So, please Governor, how about a little honesty here, you decided not to run, because your wife told you not to be a moron and run when no one in the party wants you.

Daniels becomes the latest in no doubt what will become a long line of Republicans opting not to run as the GOTP struggles to find someone to challenge President Obama in 2012.

You’ll remember the first to go was when Boss Haley Barbour decided not to run way back in April, and of course the word on the proverbial street was he had privately been encouraging Daniels to run instead.

Then, just last week, FOX PAC employee and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, who had won the 2008 Iowa caucus, said God had told him not to run.

And then there was Donald Trump who had made headlines pressuring the President to prove he was a citizen, who dropped out of the race when four things happened. First, the President provided his “long form” birth certificate. Second, the President made Trump look like the jackass he is at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Third, the President sent in the Navy Seals to kill Bin Laden. And fourth, NBC announced it was going to go with Celebrity Apprentice for one more season.

Of course when it comes down to it Daniels never had a chance. You see, he’s the former Office of Management and Budget director under President George W. Bush. Yes, he’s the guy responsible for driving the economy off of the cliff. How could he possibly have run? Every GOTP contender would have chopped him to bits over the state of the economy. It was never going to happen.

Then there was the issue of his family. It’s tough to run as the “family values” party’s nominee when you have such an unusual marital history, not to mention his record as governor.

In 1993, his wife Cheri filed for divorce and moved to California to remarry, leaving him to raise their four daughters in Indiana. She later divorced the guy she divorced Daniels over, and she and Mitch reconciled and remarried in 1997. Far right-wing types tend to frown on revolving door marriages. And it doesn’t look good for the “First Lady” to have been in today’s vernacular, a “Ho”.

One of the more bizarre aspects of his aspirations came as he was “weighing” the possibility of a run while talking about rising budget deficits and national debt — even though his former boss grew the scope of government and federal spending during his tenure, while Mitch was the head of the Office of Management and Budget director under Bush. It des complicate the whole idea of convincing voters that you’re the guy for the country to entrust with fixing the financial crises.

The reality check was simply Mrs. Daniels didn’t want to go under the cosmic microscope running for the White House would have shoved her under and the huge fact her husband simply wasn’t electable. No amount of spin can change the fact he was the guy telling the President of the United States (Bush) what to do economically when the wheels came off. You can’t be so intimately involved in one of the worse Presidencies of the 20^th century and think you can escape unscathed. So, now do us all a favor; go back to Indiana, and fade away.

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Posted by PEB on May 22, 2011 in 2012 Election

Tags: 2012 Election, Mitch Daniels

Any Republican running against Obama can beat him?

20 May

So, Sean Hannity said yesterday (19 May 11) on his radio show, that “any of the Republicans” running, or thinking about running, against Obama can beat him … spit take – clean off computer keyboard and screen. Look, I know Hannity has a “special” audience dynamic to play to, but really? How about some kind of “real” analysis Sean?

There is not a single GOP candidate who has said they’re running or who might run – today – who has a snow ball’s chance.

Romney and Huntsman will never win the nomination because the far-right “God fearing Christian” side of the GOTP will never nominate a Mormon.

Newt is a joke and has zero chance.

Santorum and Pawlenty are not electable … especially after Santorum’s claim that John McCain doesn’t understand “enhanced interrogation”. It’s slips like that which show how unready some of these people are for the big leagues.

Would love to see Palin or Bachmann jump into the race just because it would make it very “interesting” – both would be adored by the same far-right groups opposed to Romney and Huntsman – but please, these two are the best and the brightest women in the Republican party? Palin can’t name a single Supreme Court case she disagrees with, and Bachmann thinks humans and dinosaurs coexisted together? Neither is remotely electable.

Whoever runs for the GOTP in 2012 is little more than a sacrificial lamb – which is why Huckabee dropped out, and shows he’s a lot smarter than I ever gave him credit …

The latest polling numbers against GOTP contenders shows the President ahead by double digits against everyone one of the GOTP contenders:

Obama 52 Romney 40

Obama 53 Gingrich 35

Obama 52 Pawlenty 38

Obama 51 Daniels 33

Obama 54 Palin 35

Obama 54 Bachmann 33

Obama 51 Huntsman 31

Even in polling by Rasmussen, none of the current crop even comes close, and when Ron Paul is running around talking about legalizing heroin and prostitution, yeah he’ll play well in Peoria …

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Posted by PEB on May 20, 2011 in 2012 Election, Polls

Tags: 2012 Election, Politics, Sean Hannity

Huckabee uses Holocaust to make point at NRA Convention?

30 Apr

Well, the Huckleberry is at it again. During a speech at the annual NRA convention he called himself a “gun-clinger and a God-clinger” while never talking about his plans to maybe, possibly, sort-of run for the Republican Tea Party (GOTP) presidential nomination next year.

Of course the Huckster’s comments were supposed to be a slap at a remark President Obama once made about conservatives clinging to their guns and religion.

But wait, the quick witted Huckles also said although the President has apparently helped gun owners since becoming President – such as allowing them to pack weapons on Amtrak trains and in federal parks – it wasn’t because he was their friend, and that attacks against gun owner’s rights would speed up if he – Obama – were re-elected. Of course, in true right-wing crazy world fashion Huckster didn’t elaborate on his claims, and he didn’t need to – wink, wink, nudge, nudge …

Huckleberry appealed to the far right-wing NRA membership by saying he’d come to the convention in Pittsburgh not to run for president but simply to “celebrate America and celebrate its values” – including God, family, and a Second Amendment meant to safeguard freedom, not just hunting and target-shooting. Yep, he had come to take part in celebrating God, family and guns; because you know what they say, “the family that shoots at other families together, stays together.”

But of course he just couldn’t leave it at that, after all if Michelle Bachmann was going to use the holocaust to attack tax increase, than Huckles couldn’t be out done, and he used Nazi Germany’s murder of six million Jews to suggest the next election – in 2012 – would determine the future of the country. And to illustrate his point he told a story about a comment his daughter wrote in a guest book after his family visited a Holocaust memorial in Israel years ago.

“Why didn’t somebody do something?” Huckabee said she wrote.

By these comments, just as Crazy Michelle had done, Mikey also tried to portray the current administration as being as bad as Nazi Germany, and the president as being Adolph Hitler. The inference was that we – today’s generation – shouldn’t have our children and children asking, “Why didn’t someone stand up to this evil President who took away our guns? Why?”

Considering Bachmann and Huckabee are running high in GOTP polls tells us that we – today’s generation – should be concerned with answering the question of some future generation, “Why didn’t someone stop these lunatics from running and winning?”

Of course, thank God, most Americans see through this far-right extremism and aren’t buying it. But it plays well to crowds like the NRA, Tea Party and Becks-R-Us.

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Posted by PEB on April 30, 2011 in 2012 Election, Guns, Lunatics, Politics, Right Wing Crazies, Tea Party

Tags: 2012 Election, Mike Huckabee, NRA, Politics, Tea Parties

Trump says Obama wasn’t qualified for Ivy League?

25 Apr

So, let me get this straight, Donald Trump said President Barack Obama had been a poor student who did not deserve to be admitted to the Ivy League universities he attended? Donald Trump, who attended such prestigious colleges as the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and who then filed for bankruptcy multiple times, is now baselessly questioning the President’s educational credentials? Trumper offered absolutely no proof for his claim but said he would continue to press the matter as he has the legitimacy of the president’s birth certificate; which means he will continue to spin fairy tales and pull contrived stories from his fourth point of contact – also know as his hair.

“I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?” Trump said in an interview with The Associated Press. “I’m thinking about it, I’m certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.”

I’m concerned that you’re considered a serious contender for the GOP nomination, and that your hair is natural. Let’s see the roots. What kind of nonsense is this? Now we want to see a candidate’s birth certificate and transcripts? What’s next Trumper? You’re going to demand to see his shot records? Are you eventually going to have your crack team looking into if he’s really black?

Actually Trumper, President Obama graduated from Columbia University in New York in 1983 with a degree in political science after transferring from Occidental College in California. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he graduated magna cum laude 1991 and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. Less than 20% of students graduating from Harvard do so as magna cum laude. What did you graduate at Wharton Don?

Did you graduate summa cum laude?

Did you graduate magna cum laude?

Did you graduate cum laude?

Or was it just see ya laude?

In an interview with the Associated Press, Trump said President Obama’s refusal to release his college grades were part of a pattern of concealing information about him.

“I have friends who have smart sons with great marks, great boards, great everything and they can’t get into Harvard,” Trump said. “We don’t know a thing about this guy. There are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president.”

Whoa there Wiggy, “there are a lot of questions that are unanswered about our president?” Well, how about unanswered questions about you Trumper?

Such as, how does someone who attended a military school until graduating in 1964 and graduating from college in 1968 avoid service in Vietnam? Why did you not serve Don? Enquiring minds would like to know.

Why have you been married three times? Don’t you possess any people skills? Or are you the typical family values conservative who has a wife and a mistress, ala Newt, Ensign, etc?

What’s your real worth; not that imaginary worth or that vastly over inflated self worth, but your true financial worth? Or are you a bankrupt pauper trying desperately to stay one step ahead of your creditors?

Is there a real person under that piece of taxidermy?

Are you “running” for the GOP nomination because you believe in America, or because you believe “there’s a sucker born every minute”?

Fact is Trump you’re a mediocre business man who’s filed for both personal and business bankruptcy multiple times; you’re a mediocre husband who’s been divorced multiple times; you’re a mediocre reality show host looking to boost his ratings; and you’re a publicity whore. Now go away.

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Posted by PEB on April 25, 2011 in 2012 Election, Lunatics, Politics, Right Wing Crazies, Tea Party

Tags: 2012 Election, Donald Trump, Politics

Santorum enters 2012 White House race?

19 Apr

Former Republican Tea Party (GOTP) Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is setting up a fundraising committee allowing him to take those crucial baby steps toward a 2012 presidential campaign.

Santorum, who significantly lacks the name recognition and fundraising organization of his better-known rivals, is a favorite among the right wing of the GOTP primarily because of his anti-gay and anti-abortion stands. He recently claimed America’s Social Security funding issue was due to too many abortions in America.

“It’s time for America to be America again — an America that rewards innovation and hard work, that stands by our allies instead of our enemies, that protects even the most vulnerable of our society, and an America that says every life is to be cherished,” Santorum told supporters in an email that was sent as he announced his plans on Fox News Channel. “That’s what I believe in and that’s why I’m taking this next step in a possible run for president.”

It’s time for America to be America again? What country have we been? Or is this a new twist on the same old theme, “We’ve got to take America back”?

Of course, “an America that rewards innovation and hard work” is Tea Party code for “we’ve got to continue tax cuts for the wealthy and cut social spending to those welfare queens driving Cadillacs”.

“… an America that stands by our allies instead of our enemies”. Is Tea Party code for, “… an America where we bomb first and ask questions later, an America where we tell our allies, ‘It’s our way or the highway.’”

And, “… an America that protects even the most vulnerable of our society, and an America that says every life is to be cherished,” is the Holy Grail for the far right wing religious fringe which bases all of its voting decisions on abortion; so, woman, don’t even think of having an abortion in Santorum’s America. If you’re raped, too bad! If you might die having that baby, too bad! There are no abortions in Santorum’s America, no matter what!

On Gay and Lesbian issues Santorum made headlines in 2003 when he declared, “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.”

After taking a lot of heat for his avowal, Santorum released a statement, wherein he did not dispute the accuracy of the quote, but criticized the AP and the “liberal” media for “misleading” the story.

“I am a firm believer that all are equal under the Constitution,” he said. “My comments should not be construed in any way as a statement on individual lifestyles.”

But, wait for it, according to unedited excerpts of the taped interview released the same day, by The Associated Press, Santorum spoke at length about homosexuality, and he made clear he did not approve of “acts outside of traditional heterosexual relationships.”

His views on both abortion and homosexuality are based on his Christianity, and that’s what is the most troubling about candidates like Santorum. It’s this attitude that pushing one’s so-called far right Christian values into the arena of public office is OK, but no one else’s views are permitted. For candidates like Santorum there is no separation between Church and State, unless you’re a Muslim. For the far right Christians of the Tea Party movement Islamic Sharia law is abhorrent, but Christian Sharia law is fine. Fortunately, Santorum’s appeal is fairly limited to the far right, and that areas already pretty crowded with Palin, Bachmann and Huckleberry.

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Posted by PEB on April 19, 2011 in 2012 Election

Tags: 2012 Election, Abortion, Gay Rights, Politics, Republican Tea Party (GOTP), Rick Santorum, Rightwing Extremist Activity

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Christie gets to the chopper?

Mr. Flip-flop says the President is ‘ineffective’

President mocks GOTP immigration stand

Cain enters 2012 GOTP presidential race?

Mitch Drops Daniels Out?

Any Republican running against Obama can beat him?

Huckabee uses Holocaust to make point at NRA Convention?

Trump says Obama wasn’t qualified for Ivy League?

Santorum enters 2012 White House race?

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