Careful what you wish for. Santorum is a grave danger to America

[The Second Stone]

There have been a number of posts in various threads and forums about how people would like to see Santorum as the Republican nominee because he is so easily beatable.

Please stop this and consider. I thought Reagan and Bush II were hopeless clowns nobody would vote for. I was wrong. Santorum is much, much worse, and we must make sure he does not occupy the White House. He is a zealous religious fascist. No major candidate in the history of our nation threatens interests he disagrees with as blindly as Santorum.

As bad as the Republican field is, none represents the fascist danger that Santorum has laid bare in the past few weeks.

[Turbineguy]

1. But....

he will match Ayatola Khameni whim for whim!

[LisaL]

2. I completely agree with you.

Santorum at the very least appears to be smarter than Bush, and Bush was elected twice.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. He scares me.

But to tell the truth, they all scare me.

What's worse--a psychopath like Romney or Newt, or a psychopath with an addiction to hairshirts & chastity belts like Santrum?

[Autumn]

8. That's an easy question,

a psychopath with an addiction to hairshirts & chastity belts like Santrum is a hell of a lot worse than either Romney or Newt.

[Jackpine Radical]

11. Exactly.

[Autumn]

4. He scares the fuck out of me

Bush never made me as nervous as he does.

[spanone]

5. he scares the bejeezuz out of me....he's a theocrat...thru & thru

[RevStPatrick]

6. Totally agree.

I don't think we should "support" any candidate on the other side who we can't live with as president because we think he or she would be "easy to beat." You never know what's going to happen, and if he gets the nomination, there is always a possibility that Mr. Frothy could actually end up in the Oval.

I don't want to see Romney in the Oval either, but if that were to miraculously happen, I could live with it. Barely...

[LisaL]

9. Exactly.

9 months is a huge amount of time in politics. You never know what's going to happen.

[grasswire]

7. The True Believer

Read the book.

And be scared.

[Louisiana1976]

10. Well said. K&R

[jeff47]

12. Reagan and Bush II were the "insider's" choices.

Thus they had a much, much easier time covering up their deficiencies.

Santorum isn't. The "insiders" hate him. If he's the nominee, he will not be treated with the necessary deference to cover for his insanity.

We liberals need to stop cowering in fear of our opposition. If mass delusion occurs and Santorum gets sworn in, we can make the country as ungovernable as the Republicans have since 2010.

[LisaL]

14. Nobody said anything about cowering.

[jeff47]

15. Nobody except for the OP and most of the replies so far.

They're all about fear of Santorum.

[LisaL]

20. Nobody is cowering.

What I don't want to hear is nonsense of how Santorum would make a better opponent.

[jeff47]

24. Santorum would make a fantastic opponent

He drives away all but the religiously insane.

If your response is "but what if he wins?" then you are cowering. Might as well be worried that the sun won't come up tomorrow.

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. well exactly the GOP establishment will only fain support for him if he becomes the nominee like

they did for Goldwater in 64 or the Democratic Party establishment did to McGovern in 72.

Furthermore both Bush Jr and Reagan had handlers who they listened to and who controlled their message, Their more controversial opinions were toned down and their social conservative message was honed and tuned to appease social conservatives in a way that avoided alienating the economic conservatives. Santorum is absolutely unrestrained in what he has to say. His positions would be fringe even in rural America.

[meanit]

22. With all due respect

the Democrats have a very poor track record of making anything ungovernable or difficult for the Republicans. Besides, if Santorum is the nominee, he will get the right wing corporate millions behind him.

[jeff47]

25. Modern ones, yes. That's what we need to work on

Politicians (and supporters) who aren't terrified of being who they are.

As for corporate millions, that's not going to happen. Santorum is all about theocracy, and "big business" and theocracy aren't compatible.

[cleanhippie]

13. If this country elects Santorum as POTUS, this country deserves everything that comes from it.

Might actually be the only the the religious in this country wake-up to what having a "christian nation" really means.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. And I used to think Nixon was bad

Yet each successive iteration of a repuke has gotten worse and worse and worse.

[dmr]

18. It's all that air time he's getting to spew his insanity is what's scaring me.

All those insane ideas that he spews out every day - over and over and over again is giving license for others to spout the same kind of insanity. Look what Palin did for the discourse in this country after the 2008 campaign.

Santorum reminds me of some of the crazy fanatics that Jack McCoy would try to prosecute over the years on Law & Order - while their attorney tries to get them off due to mental deficiency. Honest, it reminds me of an episode that aired on TNT last night.

[Initech]

19. All 3 scare me - Romney, Gingrich, and Santorum.

All three are just vying for the title of cirst preacher. Voting for any of them would be like voting for the Taliban.

[JoeyT]

21. K&R

And even if someone isn't willing to admit that Santorum could beat Obama in an election, disaster can happen. Just as an example a health condition could crop up removing Obama from the race. (There's virtually no chance of it, of course. But that isn't the same thing as zero chance.) Then what? We're fucked, that's what. There's no way we could get a candidate into the race with sufficient name recognition on short notice.

At least with Romney there would be a country to take back in the next election. Yeah, it'd be worse for the wear, but it would still exist.

[rustydog]

23. Bush may be long gone, but there is still that Supreme Court who appointed Bush

[aquart]

26. After W, I never consider any moron beatable.

Government by bigoted billionaires is NOT a good system.