Duggar family campaigns for Rick Santorum Monday in Huntsville

[trof]

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Jim Bob Duggar, star of television network TLC's "The Duggar Family," a show about a family with 19 children, brought a bus full of those children to Huntsville Monday to campaign for Rick Santorum." As president, he will lead in the conservative cause," Duggar told a press conference outside the west Huntsville Walmart on University Drive.

"Don't give up today," son Josh Duggar told the crowd of about 30 people, referring to polls showing Santorum trailing both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Alabama and Mississippi.

Daughter Jill Duggar said the family prayed about which candidate to support and chose Santorum because he "has a track record to prove he will do what he says." Santorum is also "pro-traditional marriage," Jill Duggar said, to which her father added, "Amen."
http://blog.al.com/breaking/2012/03/duggar_family_campaigns_for_ri.html

[HockeyMom]

1. 19 kids is traditional marriage?

Where?????

[liberal N proud]

2. Extremes that fit

They are perfect for each other

[tularetom]

3. Jesus, what a picture

A busload of Duggars in the Walmart parking lot.

Boggles the mind, don't it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

26. picture this....

[jschurchin]

4. A fruit loop family.......

Campaigning for a froot loop candidate. That fit's.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Yeah, fuck this Gawd Klux Klan.

"Don't judge the Duggars! They're just normal people who think differently."

SORRY. With that "pro-traditional marriage" horseshit, their hate is now out in the open. They're brainwashed hatemongers sponsoring a racist, anti-gay, sexist hatemonger demagogue for the purpose of making America into a Christian theocracy. Nutjobs campaigning for nutjobs. Fuck 'em.

[Swamp Lover]

6. I love the smell of open-mindedness in the morning.

It's great when our intolerants go off on their intolerants.

[HughBeaumont]

8. Yeah, that's just what I AM!! INTOLERANT!!!

What are you saying? I should RESPECT a bunch of hate-preachers who wish to deny human beings simple civil rights? I should RESPECT a bunch of bastards who imply there's something WRONG with four of my relatives??

FUCK that. You can play nice all you want, I'm goddamned sick and tired of this 19th century bullshit trying to be mainstreamed.

[wendylaroux]

19. hear hear!!

my hats off to you,beavers dad.

[hamsterjill]

30. here! here! (Seconded)

Thank you for expressing just how I feel. I am tired of being asked to tolerate extreme hate and stupidity because I am expected to respect that these people are "different".

They aren't "different". They are the same bigots and hate-mongers that have been around for centuries. THEY just have a television show!

[Swamp Lover]

36. Rush, Sean or Glenn couldn't have said it better.

No use people living their own lives and making their own decisions when they have you to dictate what they should believe.

[HughBeaumont]

38. WHAAAT??? Oh please. You're just last-wording because you have no argument.

Nobody's "dictating" anything. What the hell are you talking about???

Prior to this appearance, I found the Duggars to be slightly off-putting due to their patriarchal and controlling family practices but generally harmless. Their endorsement of Santorum, combined with their "pro-traditional marriage" position (translated: anti-gay) just full-on thrust their hatred onto a national platform.

This decision is a bad one and, since this is a free country (pFFFFFFFFFFT), I have every goddamned right to voice how bad this 19th century hate-filled mindset is for humanity. Public figures deserve no quarter when they talk bull paddies.

[Swamp Lover]

41. No, really. Diversity of thought and belief is bullshit.

There should only be a very narrow way of thinking about things and gratefully, you are available to tell everyone the narrow way we should all think. Much easier if differences are discouraged.

[HughBeaumont]

42. Nice red herring. Gonna grill that later?

Homophobia is hatred. THAT'S the issue.

[Arkana]

59. We don't have to tolerate intolerance to be truly "tolerant".

Nice strawman though.

[SammyWinstonJack]

52. ...

[sharp_stick]

12. Fuck that

This be quiet and better than the fuckwads is pathetic. The Duggars are theocrat quiverfull wannabe rapturites and nothing more. The only reason they support santorum is that they feel his "leadership" will push the country into a fundamentalist paradise ala the goddamned taliban and I ain't having it.

[paulk]

13. pointing out that what these people want

is crazy dangerous is not "intolerance"...

The nation/world envisioned by the Santorum/Duggar mindset doesn't have a place for you or me.

[Tom Ripley]

16. Fuck that noise; those fecund grifters can go to hell

[XemaSab]

28. I know a lot about their brand of Christianity

and the person you're responding to is right.

They're assholes who think gay people should find Jesus or be killed. Gay people, witches, and kids who mouth off to their parents.

[snooper2]

29. We don't have to be "open-minded" to stupid ideas or ignorant people

Just like "respect my beliefs" bullshit....

I respect your right to have ignorant beliefs and follow mythical tales written by people who couldn't figure out why earthquakes happened. I don't have to "respect your beliefs" though...



The Druggars are a cult who are breeding and bringing more ignorant quivershills into society. I don't have to be open minded about that. I can mock though as they are fairly entertainment worthy

[hlthe2b]

9. I get a visceral reaction--just to the mention of their name...

That some celebrate such reproductive irresponsibility (and YES, given the serious problems worldwide associated with declining resources and overpopulation, it IS irresponsible, sorry) as well as grotesque ignorance (Palin, is but the mere highest profile example) should have all of us weeping in despair for our future.

[HughBeaumont]

10. I've always said Quiverful families are a punch to Mother Nature's stomach . . .

. . . there are just way too many people on this earth as it is, and oil's a dwindlin'.

Then there's the fact that they're trying for more, which puts the mom's life in danger and in turn means they're shunning science (environmental and medical) and deluding themselves.

Now they're hatemongers. Awesome. People like this are given TV shows.

What's scary is this: How many Palins and Duggars that breathe among us that AREN'T on TV! It's the beginning of the Idiocracy for sure . . .

[stuntcat]

17. yup

For the rest of my life I'll blame them personally for the animals going extinct and the oceans dying and forests lost. Does that sound nuts? I mean it. They're horrible, terrible examples of why Humanity needs to make an evolutionary leap, like yesterday.

[lunatica]

7. LOL!

The family made up 2/3rds of the people there!

[no_hypocrisy]

11. What? No "Kate Plus Eight"?

Santorum's neglecting a real celebrity endorsement . . . . .

[Justice wanted]

37. She's an evil woman--Remember she is divorced.

[joeybee12]

14. You know, some of the people who watch their trainwreck show

probably don't realize how criminally insane they are...best to keep out of politics if you want to keep your audience.

[HughBeaumont]

15. Now that their hatred is unveiled, I'm wondering how this is going to play out for them.

Not just their show, mind you, but public appearances. They're pretty safe . . . wherever it is in Arkansas they live . . . but if they travel anywhere else on the studio's dime, will they be picketed?

[joeybee12]

20. That would be nice...

Although since I don't watch the show I don't know if they ever venture out of their small area.

[hamsterjill]

31. Hey, the Bates family is getting a show, too.

The Bates family, who also have 19 children, are now getting a show on TLC. So the Duggars had better watch out because the gravy train may have some competition.

Kelley Bates has actually given birth more times than Michelle Duggar because Michelle Duggar has had twin pregnancies.

And yes, I know, it's a SAD commentary on American television that shows like THIS are considered entertainment. What happened to the nights when we used to be able to go home from work and actually watch something on television that was entertaining and had a little bith of substance?

[piratefish08]

18. training their girls to be good baby-raising breeding stock.........

but shhhhhhhh...... don't disrespect. there's beliefs involved.

[bluedave]

21. Now here's a guy

who needs his sac slit and his leg run through it

[Tom Ripley]

22. Duggars + Wal Mart + Santorum + Alabama....it's like Hee Haw without the music and boobs

[Fawke Em]

23. Hee Haw was much more entertaining and high brow.

While I don't give two shits about the boobs, the music was good, the jokes hokey enough to be funny and the show was made in America, unlike the goods at the WalMart.

[Arugula Latte]

35. Ha!!!

Great line!!!

[piratefish08]

24. Santorum, that motherfuggin' Duggar hugger.......

[Uncle Joe]

25. If everybody followed the Duggar "traditional" example, the world's population would be 66.5 Billion

"Feed the Children" would need to change their name to "Feed Everybody" and "Soylent Green" would most definitely be on the menu.

Thanks for the thread, trof.

[azurnoir]

27. oh what a perfect fit

so not surprised

FWiW a few years back when someone posted something like Duggar has 17th I really thought someone was posting about their dog having puppies, hadn't seen the show and still haven't either

and Santorum the episode where he and his wife brought the body of a fetus she had miscarried home so their children could say goodbye was one the most macabre politically exploitative things I've ever heard

[Taverner]

32. They seem made for each other: a bunch of narcissists who masturbate to themselves

[Erose999]

33. Tater tots for everybody!

[Tom Ripley]

39. I really did laugh out loud

nicely done

[SammyWinstonJack]

53. Tater tots casserole for everybody!

[Erose999]

57. Somebody made Duggard "tater tot casserole" for one of our office parties. It was pretty good, but

honestly you can't go wrong with potatoes and cheese and salt, lol. I can't imagine eating a diet of only tater tots and cheese though.

[Erose999]

34. I have heard Newt is bringing out the snake handlers and polygamists to his campaign appearances.

[JitterbugPerfume]

40. disgusting

[Douva]

43. Why do the Duggars get a free pass from the media?

If the media would stop fawning over the Duggar family and start digging into the dangerous, misogynistic, and downright bizarre religious beliefs that inspire them to keep producing children at the rate of a Ford assembly line, most Americans would be aghast to learn what these sweethearts of reality TV actually believe. If the Duggars practiced Islamic sharia law or belonged to a Mormon polygamist cult, they wouldn't be appearing in quirky human interest segments on 'Good Morning America'; they'd be appearing in an exposé on '20/20.' But because they're part of a radical CHRISTIAN sect, the media simply accepts and perpetuates their well-honed façade as a large, happy family that just happens to have old-fashioned values. Because most of the major news outlets face constant accusations of being "left-leaning" and "anti-Christian," and because the Duggars are so wildly popular in middle America, most journalists are too afraid to explore the family's beliefs and acknowledge that the Duggars are actually disciples of a dangerous cult: http://the-duggar-cult.angelfire.com

[HughBeaumont]

44. It might taper off if their homophobia gets taken to task.

I'm looking for a Kirk Cameron statement along these lines from Jim Dumb: "Geez, it's getting so a guy can't freely find something wrong with gay people without others getting all miffed and calling me that ugly "homophobe" word!!!"

[DLevine]

45. I agree with you.

There is nothing to admire about the Duggars. Their "family values" are appalling.

[Erose999]

48. Well TLC does have another show about Mormon polygamists, but they don't make the rounds on daytime

talkshows like JimBob and Michelle + 20.

[SammyWinstonJack]

54. LMAO!

...inspire them to keep producing children at the rate of a Ford assembly line,...

[trof]

46. I guess it worked. Santorum wins AL primary.

This isn't even funny any more.

[SammyWinstonJack]

55. I never thought it was even remotely funny. And if that religious nutcase happens to

win the nom. and defeat Obama, I WILL find a way out of this pop stand of a country. And that is true of Rmoney, too!

[Darth_Kitten]

47. The men campaigned, the girls did what they were told and made sandwiches.

[Arkana]

49. Did they all arrive in a clown car and jump out squirting seltzer and throwing pies?

[HughBeaumont]

50. A bible Art Clokey extravaganza would probably have made it more interesting for sure.

[Botany]

51. A crowd of thirty people?

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. Mostly Duggars.

[HughBeaumont]

58. Apparently not the first homophobic thing a Duggar has said:

http://freejinger.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7276