Bill Press: Is Rick Santorum running for president or pope?

[highplainsdem]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/views/os-ed-billpress-021612-20120216,0,7123748.column

Welcome to the emerging Republican Party platform for 2012: No birth control. No sex outside of marriage. And no sex inside of marriage, except for the purpose of procreation. Now, it's perfectly acceptable for Rick Santorum to hold and preach those beliefs about sexuality, no matter how medieval. But he's running for president of the United States, not for pope. Is that what the American people want to hear? And is that really what Republicans want to campaign on?

What's even more disturbing is the fact that Santorum's crusade against contraception doesn't stand alone. It's part of his long-time war against women. In his 2005 book, "It Takes a Family," for example, Santorum scolds working mothers for using the excuse of having to help support the family only because it "provides a convenient rationalization for pursuing a gratifying career outside the home."

So many women are working outside the home today, charges Santorum, not because they have to, but because "the radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness." Asked recently by David Gregory on "Meet the Press" to explain or defend that statement, Santorum -- in a stunning display of masculine courage -- blamed his wife for helping to write that paragraph.

But it was Santorum himself, not his wife, who dumped on women yet again last week when he expressed concerns that "emotions" might prevent women from handling a greater role in combat under new Pentagon rules. He later backtracked, claiming he was talking about men's emotions, not women's. But he's wrong on either count. Men and women have already served side by side in many combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, where, according to data compiled by icasualties.org, more than 100 female soldiers have given their lives.

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. According to Rachael, he is "American Gothic"

Looked sort of like this with the flashlight-under-chin effect at one of his hastily called events:

[Old and In the Way]

2. More like American Psycho, I think.

Only he's going to do to the entire country what Patrick Bateman did to the small circle of acquaintances in the movie.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Problem is that Rick is running like this

because the crazee has truly taken over the asylum.

[Redstate Bluegirl]

4. I've already said that here!

Check my posts

[NC_Nurse]

5. Yeah, except that he doesn't care about murdering the already-born. He hasn't gotten with the church

anti-war, anti-death penalty or universal healthcare stances. He's a fairweather Catholic like most of the RW'ers. It's only the sexual freedom of women that they can't abide. Losers and hypocrites, the lot of them.