Over the weekend Rick "Frothy Mixture" Santorum decided to stop using that frustrating internal self editing process and just let his inner Cotton Mather run free.
Here is what he had to say, courtesy of the
Huffington Post.
"I've repeatedly said I don't question the president's faith," Santorum told host Bob Schieffer, denying what some have said was a signal that Santorum had challenged the legitimacy of Obama's Christianity. "I've repeatedly said that I believe the president's Christian -- he says he's Christian. But I am talking about his worldview, the way he addresses problems in this country, and they're different than most people view it in America."
In other words, he's a Christian, but not the right KIND of Christian. I see what you did there Frothy.
In a speech to Tea Party conservatives on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio, Santorum had dismissed Obama's politics as being based in "some phony theology."
"It's not about you. It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs," Santorum said. "It's about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible. A different theology."
An incredulous Bob Schieffer began his interview with Santorum Sunday by asking, "What in the world were you talking about?"
"I was talking about the radical environmentalists," Santorum said, suggesting that they believe man should protect the earth, rather than "steward its resources." "I think that is a phony ideal. I don't believe that's what we're here to do ... We're not here to serve the earth. That is not the objective, man is the objective."
In other words, according to Santorum's "theology," the planet earth is specifically put here to be environmentally raped and stripped of its resources even IF that condemns future generations to enormous suffering or even the end of the human race as we know it. So THAT'S what a Christian is?
Earlier in the day on Saturday, Santorum had also said that health insurance plans shouldn't be required to cover prenatal testing, because that testing results in more abortions, as well as contending that government-run public education was "anachronistic."
"Free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done, because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society," Santorum told the Ohio Christian Alliance conference.
Asked by Schieffer about his claims that prenatal testing leads to more abortions, Santorum insisted that this was "a fact."
"We're talking about specifically prenatal testing, and specifically amniocentesis, which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb. And in many cases -- and in fact in most cases -- most physicians recommend, if there is a problem, they recommend abortion," Santorum said.
On this last point it kind of sounds like Santorum is directly challenging Sarah Palin's pro-life stance, and special needs parenting credibility.
As she stated to the
newspapers and in
her book, pro-life Palin supposedly had the amniocentesis procedure done at 12 weeks, even though it is not supposed to be performed until between the 15th and 20th week of pregnancy. (Of course Palin had to have "had" the procedure, or else how could she explain knowing about Trig's condition
before he was born?)
Here is Santorum saying that, not only does that procedure place the fetus at risk, but that there is no reason for an anti-abortion advocate to even have it done.
Aha! So the gauntlet has been thrown. What say you to that Sister Sarah?
And let's also remind ourselves that this rhetoric has done NOTHING to damage Santorum's standings with the faithful (As of right now he leads Romney by
eight points nationally), and in fact this kind of talk might be the very thing that has brought him to the front of the pack.
So there you go Americans. THIS is who the Republicans think should be the leader of the free world.
Still considering staying home this November?
