Rick Santorum claims as President he will "vigorously enforce" laws against pornography. Well that takes care of any chance HE might win the GOP nominaton.

"And here's ANOTHER reason why you shouldn't vote for me."

Courtesy of Rick Santorum's campaign website:

The Obama Administration has turned a blind eye to those who wish to preserve our culture from the scourge of pornography and has refused to enforce obscenity laws. While the Obama Department of Justice seems to favor pornographers over children and families, that will change under a Santorum Administration. 

I proudly support the efforts of the War on Illegal Pornography Coalition that has tirelessly fought to get federal obscenity laws enforced. That coalition is composed of 120 national, state, and local groups, including Morality in Media, Family Research Council, Focus on the Family, American Family Association, Cornerstone Family Council of New Hampshire, Pennsylvania Family Institute, Concerned Women for America, The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, and a host of other groups. Together we will prevail.

Okay I have NO idea where this guy gets the nerve to say that the Obama administration  favors "pornographers over children," but if he thinks this is a winning platform for him he is spanking the wrong monkey... no that's not the right term.

Polishing the wrong bishop? No that doesn't sound right either. Choking the wrong chicken? Nope. Oh I got it, barking up the wrong tree. Sorry, I knew I had it somewhere.

Look in all seriousness, there are much MORE important problems then worrying about people seeing other people have sex. And Santorum needs to remember that he is running for President of the United States, not deacon of his local church.

It might also be informative to the Frothy Mixture to learn that the states that he needs to support him for President, are also the ones that consume the most online porn.

Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds. 

"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.

Like I said, going after porn is probably going to stop Santorum's  momentum in its tracks.

Homophobia is alive and well, as illustrated by the compilation of 100 tweets by people who claim they will kill their own children if they turn out to be gay.

Courtesy of The New Civil Rights Movement:

Here are 100+ real tweets from real people who used Twitter to tell the world that if their child turned out to be gay or lesbian they would murder them. Yes, there actually is a hashtag, #ToMyUnbornChild, which, among other things, has been encouraging people to tweet they will kill their children if they are gay. Those who include the #ToMyUnbornChild Hashtag also are tweeting loving, warm thoughts, like, “I can’t wait to meet you<3,” and, “If you are gay, I will love you unconditionally. Same if you are straight or anywhere in between,” but also despicable ones, like these below.

I will caution to steel yourselves before clicking the link above. What was tweeted by these people, many of whom consider themselves Christians, is truly horrific. 

As the father of a gay child it actually broke my heart to read what these people have tweeted, and I can only hope that if ANY of them were to be blessed with a child that they would love him or her unconditionally, as ALL children deserve to be loved.

Mitt Romney continues to underwhelm America, one voter at a time.

Okay that's probably unfair, right?

I mean we all can't be as smooth as President Obama now can we?

"And if it weren't for prayer warriors interceding, and creating a prayer shield around us, oh my gosh you'd think you'd just be in a fetal position somewhere, covered up in the covers in our igloo up North." More craziness from Palin's speech to the Extraordinary Women Conference. Update!

Okay I found this portion of her screech to be especially egregious, as Alaskans have for years been trying to dispel that bullshit image that we live in igloos up here. Even the native Alaskans never really did build igloos, despite every Hollywood stereotype that said otherwise.

So now what does arguably the most famous Alaskan do? She continues to perpetuate the myth.

As if I needed yet another reason to dislike the woman.

I also found it interesting that she used the term "fetal position" which is exactly how the movie Game Change depicted her after she became overwhelmed with the responsibilities of her VP candidacy. (Perhaps somebody DID see that move after all, hmm?)

The rest of the video shows her continuing to play the victim, screeching that Christians are being persecuted, and telling of how she never retreated, but only "reloaded," when things got tough. (I guess "reloading" is what she was doing when she hid in her Wasilla home when her job got too tough for her, or after she quit her post as governor in the face of ethics charges, or what she was doing when she virtually abandoned her house the summer that Joe McGinniss lived next door.)

By the way, apparently Palin's new word of the day is "Orwellian."

Update: Apparently Palin CANNOT give a speech without bringing up the Trig Truthers and  declaring that she could have proved he was her son by showing her stretch marks.


No you idiot, you need a birth certificate, not the raisin tummy that resulted from the birth of four children!

That would be the natural response of ANY parent who had nothing to hide by the way.

And of course since she brought up her Trig mythology she also had to bring up her Track mythology.

Essentially same shit, different day with this idiot.

Mitt Romney's approval numbers among Republicans even lower than John McCain's at this time in 2008.

According to this poll by Gallup.

A little more than one-third of Republicans say they would vote "enthusiastically" for either Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum if either candidate were to win their party's nomination for president. Slightly fewer say they would vote enthusiastically for Newt Gingrich. This level of enthusiasm is similar to Republicans' feelings about voting for Romney in early 2008, but lower than the enthusiasm level for that year's eventual GOP nominee, John McCain. 

Did you get that, the enthusiasm level for Romney is actually twelve points lower than it was  for John McCain at this time.

Do we remember what the McCain campaign decided they needed for a "game changer" in order to bring back the GOP base?

Palin speaks on March 18, at the Food City pre-race ceremonies.

Romney would NEVER voluntarily put Palin on the ticket after the shit she's pulled. But then who else?

Rick Santorum? Not likely as his numbers are even lower than Romeny's

Then who could possibly bring Romney that much needed Evangelical support?

Michele Bachmann? Nah, she's as stupid as Palin.

Rick Perry? Same problem. (Though he DOES have bigger breasts!)

My feeling is that he needs an Evangelical woman. And it would certainly not hurt that she was also a governor.

But don't worry, despite my good friend Geoffrey Dunn's recognition of Palin's ultimate, and ultimately doomed, end game there is NO WAY the establishment GOP will let her anywhere near the 2012 ticket.

Though to be honest they may not really want Romney anywhere near the ticket either.

Sucks to be them!

Sarah Palin giving a screech, I'm sorry a "speech," at the Extraordinary Women conference.

This is only a little over four minutes, but Palin manages to pack it full of screechy defensive remarks about the attacks on her family, her simplistic views on politics an motherhood, attacks on the media, and an incredibly shrill diatribe about some perceived attacks on conservative women and "Christians in general." (Somebody should probably tell her that those attacks are coming from HER side of the aisle.)

You might want to move small animal and children away from the computer before you play this video as her voice has been known to sterilize frogs at twenty paces.

P.S. I was forced to remove the previous post as somebody took down the Vimeo video while I was sleeping. Gee thanks!

Perhaps my all time favorite Christian.

A Presbyterian minister who constantly told everybody, including Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Atheists, that he liked them "Just the way you are."

I actually discovered Mr. Rogers as a young adult.

I was working with children after I graduated from high school and sometimes there would be time set aside for educational television for those that wanted to watch.

The choices were always PBS which would show Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, and the Electric Company back to back.

Since I was still very young and really just entering adulthood, I did not immediately take to Mr. Rogers.  I thought his slow way of speaking and running explanation of everything he was doing was kind of creepy and a little strange. But it did not take long for me to notice that the younger children responded in a very profound way to his show, and I learned to not only respect his message but even to recognize the value of how carefully he explained things so that the children would understand.

And if you think that his methods only worked with children then I invite you to watch Mr. Rogers in 1969, appearing before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Communications. His goal then was to support funding for PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in response to significant proposed cuts by President Nixon.

Watch how he turns a combative Senator John Pastore into a supporter of PBS, and children's broadcasting, in less than seven minutes.

Fred Rogers did not judge those who did not share his faith, or use his program to proselytize to the innocent children who adored him. He simply lived his life as he felt his faith dictated that he do, and just look at the positive impact he had on us all.

I only wish that when I pictured Christianity today that it was Fred Rogers kind open face that imagined, instead of Franklin Graham's, or James Dobson's, or Rick Santrorum's.

But it's not.