Santorum endorses Obama

 

Dear John,

The Republican Party is nuts.

Inside the "circle" of sanity, no one argues that taxes can never be raised; indeed that taxes MUST go ever lower!

Or consider Ron Paul suggesting that people without health insurance be left to die (a fit of ideological apoplexy reprising Palin's nutty chatter about death panels which, truth be told, have long been operated by the very insurance companies conservatives laud).

Or consider Herman Cain advocating the electrocution of illegal aliens.

Or Rick Perry bragging about the frequency of capital punishment in Texas.

Or Etch A Sketch Romney insisting that every dollar corporations earn goes back "to the people."  http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/03/22/149156716/romney-aides-etch-a-sketch-gaffe-wont-be-easy-to-erase

Or Michelle Bachmann badmouthing vaccination, the single greatest boon to human health in the history of humankind.

Or Newt Gingrich calling for children-of-color to serve as school janitors.

Or, or, or...

Or Rick Santorum satanizing Obama one day, and the next suggesting our Kenyan Muslim Leninist Anti-Christ is preferable to Romney. 

I sometimes wonder if religious conservatives champion moral rigidity because they sense barely-repressed craziness in themselves. 

Watch closely and you will see that many preachments are dedicated to the conversion of the preacher more than the conversion of the congregation.

CBS News: "Santorum: Might As Well Have Obama Over Romney": http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/03/22/santorum-might-as-well-have-obama-over-romney/ 

When threatened by economic adversity and the grinding angst brought by epochal change, people "run off the rails"  (See "Pagan and Christian in a Time of Anxiety" - http://books.google.com/books?id=VBI6JppgQBAC&source=gbs_similarbooks)

And so, rather than work with "the political opposition" to achieve viable compromises that advance The Common Good (however falteringly), the GOP --- captive to "Christian" absolutism --- contends that unflinching fidelity to "Impossibly Pure Principles" makes compromise not only unnecessary but reprehensible.

Rendered incapable of meaningful political action, these paralyzed people -- praying for "divine intervention" -- use (and abuse) the "Godly Principles" of "pending Apocalypse" to inflame people's fears, propagating a  bunker mentality that distills to psychological, social and political paralysis. 

Pax on both houses,

Alan

Another view of our Kenyan-born, Muslim socialist, anti-American, job-killing quisling, whose Anti-Christ aspiration is to surrender the United States to a One World Government headed by Arab sheiks. 

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/NewsRoom/HarrisPolls/tabid/447/ctl/ReadCustom%20Default/mid/1508/ArticleId/223/Default.aspx