In 2008 speech Rick Santorum claimed that Satan hates America and is attacking it through some surprising venues. Uh oh!

"What? Do I have some frothy mixture around my mouth?"

In 2008 Rick Santorum gave a speech at a Catholic University, in which he may have completely destroyed his chances of EVER being seriously considered for the GOP nomination.

While speaking of Satan, you know the devil, Santorum claimed that he has focused his attacks on America. (On account of the fact that we are so damn awesome!)  And in Santorum's bizarre religious worldview these attack came first through higher education.

Because you know smart people are so easily tricked by imaginary hobgoblins.

According to Santorum: "The place he was, in my mind the most successful, first successful, was in academia. He understood pride of smart people, he attacked them at their weakest, that they were in fact SMARTER than everybody else. And could come up with something new and different, pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth. Play with it because we're smart. So academia, a long time ago, fell."

So just to drive home the point that Santorum seems to be making is that intelligence is a deficit that allows the powers of darkness, and sin, to systematically destroy this great nation.

In contrast if you are a simple minded moron, say somebody who actually supports Santorum, YOU are the shining example of what this country stands for. Congratulations Jethro, you're a role model!

Ah but if Santorum stopped there he might STILL be able to maintain the support of many on the religious right, they hate smart people anyhow, but Santroum is frothing out of control and turns his attention to the religion that he believes has been corrupted by Satan. Oh you are going to love this!

Frothy Mixture: "Once the colleges fell, and those who were being educated in our institutions, he next was the church. Now you say wait, the Catholic Church? (Remember he is speaking to Catholics) No, we all know that this county was founded on the Judeo-Christian ethic. But he Judeo-Christian ethic, was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic. Sure the Catholics had some influence but, this was a Protestant country, and a Protestant ethic. Mainstream, mainline Protestantism. And of course if we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism, it is in a shambles, it is gone. From the world of Christianity, as I see it. So they attacked mainline Protestantism, they attacked the church, and what better way to go after smart people, who are also believe their pious, than to use both vanity and pride to go after the church."

Here is the audio of these remarks courtesy of Mediaite.

Now here's the thing. The overall LARGEST group of Christians in this country are, you guessed it, Protestants.

51% of Christians are Protestants. Only about 24% of them are Catholics.

Now how do you think these Protestants are going to respond to Santorum blaming their religion for allowing Satan to take over America? And if your political base is exclusively made up of religious voters, and you anger over 50% of them, what do you think that does to your chances of winning the GOP nomination?

In other words, can you say buh-bye Frothy?