Rick Santorum Is Nothing More Than a Slightly Polished Pat Robertson
There are a couple of old sayings that come to mind when one thinks about the current rise of presidential candidate Rick Santorum. One saying proclaims that every dog will have its day, and the other saying proclaims that even a blind hog can manage to serendipitously stumble across an unoccupied, slop bucket every now and then. And judging by this sudden interest in Santorum by the state of Iowa, January 3rd just might be the day, and the Iowa caucuses just might prove to be the slop bucket, as Santorum has finally emerged from the shadows of what seemed to be much taller, seemingly insurmountable candidacy buildings that represent his peers and his competition.
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And with the rise of lowly Santorum, it looks like almost everyone will get a chance to be behind the wheel of this merry-go-round of the GOP nomination, if one can just manage to stay on long enough. Next in line should be Jon Huntsman, but then again, the fact that his mind isn’t navigated and totally dominated by one track just might disqualify him from leading the drone parade.
Now with as much time as Santorum has spent in Iowa, it’s not out of the question to expect that he just might come away with a win or at least a very high placing, which would be monumental for a candidate whose political makeup fits the prototypical profile of a backup quarterback, because the Republicans may eventually settle on Santorum, but he was never the intended destination. He wasn’t even a high-ranking alternative. The argument could easily be made that the only candidate that is less known in the polls than Santorum is Jon Huntsman. And the only thing that is almost as politically saddening as Huntsman’s drab numbers is being relegated to the back of the nominee bus, only a couple of seats ahead of Huntsman’s drab numbers, and no one knows the inadequacy of bringing up the rear from the irrelevancy of the bench like Santorum, because up until just recently it’s where the majority of his candidacy has been.
But as the constant, conservative cravings for a Jesus candidate with an NRA membership, who can enforce family/conservative/right-to-life values on one hand, while constructing a small arsenal of ammunition that’s just large enough to fend off those pesky Muslims, pesky gays, pesky illegal immigrants, and most importantly of all those pesky Blacks who just might snap if something happens to THEIR PRESIDENT, Santorum’s turn in the Ronald Reagan sun will probably come to pass, because outside of Michele Bachmann no other presidential nominee embodies that vile, socially engineered, agenda-driven, judgmentally flawed vinegar of the Christian right-wing like Santorum.
He is a professional ‘Yes Man,’ and when the Christian right tells him to jump; he’ll be able to count the cracks in the ceiling before the Tim Tebow wannabes can finish telling him how high! He represents everything that is ineffectively inept about the conservative ideology overall, which is what most progressives and even some moderate conservatives like Rudy Giuliani try very hard to stay away from politically. Now Santorum, like all of the other candidates, loves to give praise to Ronald Reagan, but the puritanical, big stick that he carries around in hopes of beating his opposition into submission with reminds me a lot more of Pat Robertson than Reagan. Maybe Santorum should be running to become Robertson’s replacement on “The 700 Club,” because that is exactly the kind of environment where his message would thrive, not in the diversity of a general election.
And as much as progressives are not going to want to hear this, Santorum is actually intellectually viable, and he’s more logical and more articulate than Michele Bachmann, which makes him far more dangerous and much more of a threat. During a debate, he actually outgunned Ron Paul on the blind idiocracy of anointing the states as the unadulterated, best decision makers, as he inadvertently made a case for the need for a federal government. That tells me two things. One, Santorum can think for himself, but the other thing that it tells me is that such independent deductions will be at a selective premium, because he will only think independently when it serves the bidding of his master’s agenda, which is the social engineering of the Christian right.
This is why Santorum might do well in Iowa and other socially conservative states, but if the Republicans are so self-absorbed that they would rather elect an absolute, feel-good, preaching to the choir candidate instead of a candidate who could possibly take a page out of their hero’s book, Reagan, and appeal to Independents and those so-called Reagan Democrats, it could easily lead one to believe that all of their malarkey about their urgent concerns about the debt, overspending, the decline of America and the ineffectiveness of government are nothing more than fear tactics designed to get them elected, so they can unleash their real agenda of ram rodding their philosophical penis down our throats, and Rick Santorum appears to be more than happy and a step ahead of willing to do just that!
For example, in an era of American decline; when the world is catching up with and in some cases passing right by the United States in global productivity, what purpose does it serve for the Rick Santorum’s of the world to be out waging these socially conservative crusades against relationships issues like homosexuality? With statements like:
“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. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality,”
Santorum proves that he is indeed a slave to the Americanized Christianity of the Christian right. And with his threat to have gay marriages invalidated, through some modernized, Jim Crow legislation, he proves that he is willing to use the supposedly dreaded, big government to make it all happen.
Now ask yourselves this one simple question. What does any of this have to do with the price of tea, oil, trade, manufacturing, or jobs in China? And the answer to that question is very little, because Rick Santorum’s fascist, love-connection propaganda will do very little to remedy one iota of it! You can’t honestly focus on jobs, when your only job is writing some kind of Santorum/Monroe doctrine for acceptable behavior in the bedroom as overseen by Santorum and the Christian right!
Outside of some of Ron Paul’s political bipolarizations, no other candidate should concern progressives any more than Santorum. His mad scientist dreams of socially engineering his conservative, anti-liberal, anti-Separation of Church and State, Frankenstein should guarantee a record-high, progressive turnout in November of 2012 if he becomes the GOP nominee. Santorum has the ability to be the next President Bush 43, but he has the marching orders to be next Pat Robertson Jr. Either way, progressivism as we know it would be burned alive at the stake, while the Christian right looks on for the next victim to crucify.
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I agree that all the hot-button stuff like anti-gay marriage, back-door attempts to prevent abortion, contraception, and family planning, and deporting all undocumented immigrants and their children are a smoke screen for what the Republican party’s backers really want, which is removal of regulations on things like pollution and credit card interest rates, and exemption from paying fair individual and corporate taxes. That’s why they’re pouring millions into campaigns. They’ll get back hundreds of times what they spend, and wreck the country, if we let them win.
The anti gay marriage issue, just like the abortion issue, takes the public eye off what’s really happening in this country. Be assured, the plutocrats who orchestrate the Republican party, will always have access to everything they want, while denying them to the peasant classes, aka cannon fodder.