The problem with Rick Santorum is that every time he talks about sex, that little part of all of us that wants to run into a preschool and yell “f**kslut” or go to a born-again church and scream about how God loves to come in our backyards for our milkshakes, well, it just grows a hundredfold, and the restraint that most of us show just flies out the window. As a Senator, however, Santorum finds himself frequently faced with many of the most pressing issues of penis insertion that have ever faced America—and so he must speak, lest his lack of self-control be manifested by f**king his desk on the Senate floor. (There’s a knothole that’s just the right size, y’know.)
Read Kathryn's column for more of same. Come on, Kingfish, surely you don't want to have to explain this hire to Christians you actually want to vote for you, right? Shoot, if a candidate had a blogmeister who wrote so filthily, and in such a deranged manner, about anybody -- Christian, atheist, liberal, whoever -- I'd worry about the judgment of that candidate.
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alwsdad, The hypocrisy of Marcotte's position, and the hypocrisy of much of the left, is that she engages in populist rhetoric, while at the same time she seethes with contempt for the things that matter most to much of the working-class: their religion and their morality. The "little guy" she sticks up for and the "holy-rollers" that she hates are pretty much the same demographic group. The angels and the devils in her cosmology are one and the same.
Reginald, that's a pretty good answer. I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say "pretty much the same", but there is undoubtedly a lot of overlap between those two groups. But I don't think there is anything hypocritical in advocating policies that help someone get health care for their children while simultaneously disagreeing with their views on, for example, gay rights. Marcotte uses too much hyperbolic language in discussing the issues, but for "much of the left", those are both perfectly reasonable positions to hold and not hypocritical at all.
alwsdad, Marcotte's hypocrisy is not disagreeing with the overwhelming majority of work-class opinon on moral and religious concerns; it is doing so in such a bigoted and sadistic way, as if the bile and vitriol she pours on Christianity does not apply to those who hold Christianity dear, ie (again) the overwhelming majority of the working class whom the left claims -- let me stress "claims" -- to represent. Solidarity means more than appreciating it when people vote the way you tell them to. Fancy that.
Would this be Rick "Man-on-dog sex" Santorum we're discussing here??? If he says/believes those things about gay Americans, he can and should rightly be dismissed as the christianist nutzoid case he is. Blog on.
Hey curiouser and curiouser, What's wrong with man/dog sex? As long as each of them consent to the act, why would it be wrong?
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