Just when I think Rick Santorum can’t possibly seem any more like scum and any less like a viable presidential candidate, he opens his mouth and spews even more vitriol and idiocy.
According to ABC News, at a recent speaking engagement to a Tea Party group in Pennsylvania, Santorum had this to say about President Obama:
The ‘president’s agenda’ is ‘not about you… It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your job…It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology…Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.’”
Obviously, Santorum is trying to garner votes through false information and fear. Obama is a Christian, and even if he wasn’t, would it really matter in the grand scheme of things? Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that the President must be a Christian. Our country has no national religion and “claims” to believe in the separation of the Church and the State. Therefore, the President’s religion shouldn’t be a factor, yet it always seems to be!
And Santorum knows how to play to that. He calls his opposition un-Christian and, by proxy, anti-American. Do we really want someone like this to even have a shot at the presidency?
Of course, representatives from Santorum’s camp understand how counter-productive his statement was and are now attempting damage control as you can see in the following statement:
‘The President says he’s a Christian and Rick believes that and has even said so publicly many times,’ National Communications Director Hogan Gidley said in a statement. ‘Rick was talking about the President’s belief in the secular theology of government — and how believing that theology is dangerous because government theology teaches that it’s perfectly fine (to) take away our individual God-given rights and freedoms. Our founders wrote the Constitution to protect our individual rights and freedoms, but it’s clear that President Obama believes the government should control your life. Rick Santorum believes in the Constitution and will always fight to protect our freedoms.’”
What I learn from this is that Santorum (and his camp) doesn’t want the government to run our lives; they want religious government, which would be what Santorum would bring to The White House, to run our lives.
That isn’t the nation our forefathers wanted. They had first-hand knowledge of the fate of the people when religion and government ruled as one. Do we really want that? Santorum does.
Although Santorum would not be my first choice…. I do understand what he was saying and the “spin” you’ve put on it isn’t right or honest. You are correct, Santorum doesn’t want the government to run our lives or regulate how and when we do something. The further the “government” stays our of our lives the better we are! You can’t “tax or spend” your way out of debit, you can’t regulate “stupidity, you can’t “redistribute” intelligence, determination or drive and you sure can’t “mandate”participation. The federal government needs to stay out of our checkbooks, churches, garages, gun safes, kitchens and bedrooms! The less regulation we have the more freedom we enjoy. The “American Dream” is something to strive for not to be given away…..
Kelly,
We agree on Santorum not being a much of a choice as a nominee, but our paths diverge from there. You claim that Santorum doesn’t want the government to run our lives, yet he is planning on imposing his “religious” beliefs on the country if he should become President. He’s said as much in numerous town hall meetings and debates. His views on abortion, traditional marriage, etc will be the views of the nation; at least that is his plan. To me, that goes directly against the claim that “The further the ‘government’ stays our of our lives the better we are!” Santorum has no plans to stay out of our lives, much less our bedrooms.
Additionally, Santorum only believes in his specific form of Christianity, which is Roman Catholicism. He claimed in a 2008 speech that “mainline Protestantism is in shambles and gone from the world as he sees it.” He has no respect for other faiths besides his own, even other Christian faiths. If you doubt my claim, copy and paste this web link: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/02/18/427529/santorum-excommunicates-45-million-christians-mainline-protestants-are-gone-from-the-world-of-christianity/
As I tried to make clear in the blog post, my reason for posting this was to further expose the type of person Santorum is. He’s not looking out for every American as a President should. He’s looking out for those who are just like him. That’s not the way it works, whether one is Republican or Democrat.