MacGillis on "Sen. Santoravola"

by Michael Sean Winters on Feb. 21, 2012

Alec MacGillis at TNR notes that within minutes of the Santorum campaign voicing a complaint that the mainstream media is pidgeon-holing their candidate as a social issues extremist, the candidate goes on a tear that confirms he is a social issues extremist. MacGillis narrates the most recent examples, in one of which, Santorum compares the situation of the United States today to that of the rise of fascism. The comparison is not only offensive, Santorum needs a history lesson. He said, "But remember, the Greatest Generation, for a year and a half, sat on the sidelines while Europe was under darkness, where our closest ally, Britain, was being bombed and leveled, while Japan was spreading its cancer all throughout Southeast Asia. America sat from 1940, when France fell, to December of ’41, and did almost nothing." Perhaps, Mr. Santorum is unaware of Lend-Lease or the other efforts FDR took to aid the British and the Soviet Union before Pearl Harbor. In hindsight, it is easy to fault FDR for not joining the Allied war effort explicitly, except back then, you still needed an act of Congress to go to war and FDR correctly understood he did not have the votes for such a declaration of war.

Santorum is a neo-con who

Submitted by Austin (not verified) on Feb. 21, 2012.

Santorum is a neo-con who appears to want war, war and more war. He wants to attack Iran, pump up the defense budget to an even greater bloat, and pay for it by cutting Social Security and Medicare. Note that he has not himself served in the military. Santorum is a chickenhawk, and chairborne ranger who is anxious to send other people's children off to fight and die in his foreign military adventures. The man is a fraud.

Re: Santorum's idiocy: My

Submitted by Jim McCrea (not verified) on Feb. 21, 2012.

Re: Santorum's idiocy:

My mind is made up; don't confuse me with facts.

And the people said: Righty-o, Ricky.

He's also the likely nominee

Submitted by Michael Bindner (not verified) on Feb. 21, 2012.

He's also the likely nominee if he can pull Super Tuesday together.

If Santorum gets the

Submitted by Austin (not verified) on Feb. 21, 2012.

If Santorum gets the nomination, the GOP will suffer a beatdown much like 1964. It might be a good thing in the long run for the party though. Perhaps those in the party with an IQ above body temperature can finally get some traction and stop trying to please the religious right imbeciles who have infested the party of William F. Buckley Jr.

Slowly but surely, the religious right is driving out of the party anyone who is capable of critical thinking. The GOP does not have many Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Jews, and increasingly intelligent young people, due to a lot of hysteria about gays. Soon it will be a party of middle aged to elderly, semi literate Evangelicals who love Rick Santorum.

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