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Thursday, February 23, 2012

With all the campaign blather about retro social issues such as contraception, the Republican race to the bottom of the past gets more disorienting by the minute.

Hearing would-be president Rick Santorum … orate, you wonder what year it is.

Perhaps 1965, when that satanic cabal otherwise known as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut birth control ban.

The decision led to what Santorum sees as a landscape of evil, although many Americans would call it freedom from government interference in their private lives.

The former Senator from Pennsylvania is, quite simply, obsessed with other people’s business.

Meanwhile the business of business is, of course, sacred; God has decreed (Santorum got the memo) that government have no role whatsoever in private enterprise, except to hand out tax breaks.

Republicans generally are peddling this gospel, deviations from which are apostasy, punishable by the affixing of that dreaded scarlet label RINO (Republican in Name Only).

No RINO he, Santorum is simply marketing his version of the GOP's post-modern brand.

Call it back to the ‘50s. Any century will do.

Let's do the time warp again...


Posted by Kevin Riordan @ 10:34 AM  Permalink | 16 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:58 AM, 02/23/2012
    "Republicans generally are peddling this gospel"...do you know any republicans? None of the ones I know are buying into his nonsense. Ricky's 15 minutes are almost up, so why not wait until the big primaries come up before painting all republicans with your broad stroke brush of cluelessness.
    jimmymack
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 4:54 PM, 02/27/2012
    Funny mack how you seem to fear Santorum. If you were not concerned, you would not even give him a second thought. As for the gospel comment, how childish and insulting. No one thought Obama would win in 2008, but he did. He has not made good on one of his many empty promises. Our economy has only worsened with him in charge. Dare I say God help us if he wins another four years which he will not.
    Bob H
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:03 AM, 02/23/2012
    people do realize that Santorum has previously voted for federal funding of contraception?
    I think at this point, many liberals just see Santorum was the epitome of all they hate and no longer are willing to see any sort of reason or look through the fact before they talk or write about him. I may support him just to infuriate liberals. Perhaps they will all finally move to Canada if he wins.
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:55 PM, 02/27/2012
    Why do you think "liberals" would be infuriated by this?
    prenestino
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:06 AM, 02/23/2012
    Let's define "retro" issues. These are issues that liberals can't win a debate on. Take abortion (please!). Why is it that the left opposes counseling from anyone who might counsel against abortion? Why does the left oppose parental consent, or an ultrasound before an abortion? Because their arguments crumble in the wake of the evidence that what the woman carries is a human being. So what they need to do is hide behind a theoretical "right to choose", or prevent women from getting a perspective on abortion other that what comes out of Planned Parenthood's slaughterhouse.
    jmc
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:56 PM, 02/27/2012
    jmc - this is absolute nonsense.
    prenestino
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:27 AM, 02/23/2012
    nice character assassination. what do you have to say about obama's links to wall street, acorn and former terrorists ?
    the_chief
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:27 AM, 02/23/2012
    nice character assassination. what do you have to say about obama's links to wall street, acorn and former terrorists ?
    the_chief
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 11:33 AM, 02/23/2012
    i don't know why my comment posted twice. i only hit the button once
    the_chief
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:29 PM, 02/23/2012
    Yo chief...How can you assassinate something that was dead already? The guy is a crackpot.
    Paul1215
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:32 PM, 02/23/2012
    Chief, I see you've read the Repub Playbook chapter on Misdirection.
    philharmonic55
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:40 PM, 02/27/2012
    I remember very well how people were screaming that Bush was to blame for the high gas prices. Obama is blaming the Repbulicans. I hate politics. Democrats and Rebublicans are nothing bu liars. Is anyone blaming Obama? Gas will most likely hit $5.00 + but mid Spring. I do not want another four years of this character and I don't want any of the Republicans either. Who can get us out of this mess? Where is the change Obama promised? I lost my job two years ago and have and advanced degree. I am STILL out of work.
    Bob H
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:06 PM, 02/27/2012
    Perhaps a writing course and a spelling refresher would help you find work. Just saying....
    jimmymack


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Metro columnist Karen Heller has been an Inquirer staff writer since 1986. She has won national, state and local awards for feature writing, investigative reporting and criticism, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. E-mail Karen here; read her columns here.

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