Wait, there are Santorum fans in England?

[LynneSin]

:wtf:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-santorum16oct16,1,6387284.story?track=crosspromo&coll=la-news-politics-national&ctrack=1&cset=true

It is a four-alarm fire for conservatives, who are bringing water buckets from all corners of the political world. Across Pennsylvania, pastors are preparing to stuff voter guides into their Sunday bulletins. In Washington, D.C., Paul Weyrich, a national conservative leader, hosted a conference call to give a pep talk to Republicans in Pennsylvania. In England, some Santorum fans are planning to cross the Atlantic to help campaign.

Seriously, don't the Brits have enough to worry about with their Yankee Poodle Tony Blair?

[napi21]

1. Good to hear! Maybe Rickey can move to England and work

with the Poodle! Maybre they'd like him better there?

[LynneSin]

3. We have so few allies left - let's not make it any worse

I think England would appreciate Rick Santorum about as much as they would appreciate an outbreak of the bubonic plague

[LeftishBrit]

13. Don't even SUGGEST such a thing! Arrghh, the thought of it!

Aaarrrrrggghhhhhhh, the very idea!

Santorum is certainly not the sort of person who'd be popular in the UK. Mainstream politicians here tend to be to the left of Bush at any rate. Our Tory leader Cameron would probably be a conservative Democrat rather than a Republican in American terms. There is a large wing of the Tory party that is well to Cameron's right, but even someone like Michael Howard wouldn't be quite so bad as Bush or Santorum.

Right-wingers here tend to be either (a) penny-pinchers who don't want to pay any taxes; (b) xenophobes and racists who hate immigrants, asylum-seekers and other 'bloody foreigners'; (c) hangers and floggers who think the UK just hasn't been the same since we abolished the death penalty in the 1960s; or (d) some combination of any or all of these. Only a rather small minority are religious fundamentalists, and Santorum would, I think, be seen as rather ridiculous by most people here.

Anyway - WE DON'T WANT HIM! You're welcome to keep him!

ETA: LynneSin expressed it rather more succinctly.

[YOY]

15. I think B'Stard is a perfect picture of a Ultra RW Tory

with a pinch of Francis Urkett thrown in for realism's sake.

[Hav]

2. .

There are rightwing freaks in every country.
But I doubt that those who love Santorum would like Blair.

[LeftishBrit]

14. You're right.

Though Blair is horrible on foreign policy, and by British Labour standards right-wing on most issues, his government did institute civil partnerships for gay couples - and that on its own would probably make real Santorum fans foam at the mouth.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

4. Unsurprising.

Even though British political leanings are generally to the left of Americans' there are still a fair number of lunatics in this country.

[Greeby]

5. So you're saying

I shouldn't be pro-active in supporting the Democratic Party, huh? :eyes:

[LynneSin]

8. Just warning you that there are some lunatics in your country too

Let's hope they never get in control

I'd rather keep the freepers in here in the colonies than to unleash them to the rest of the world.

And we love all the help that we can get.

:pals:

[Webster Green]

6. "pastors are preparing to stuff voter guides into their Sunday bulletins"

That's illegal, isn't it?

[SteppingRazor]

7. No, that's legal...

It's illegal to say "vote for this guy." But it's legal to say "this guy stands for this, and his opponent stands for this" and then let your congregation vote however they choose.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

9. I've got his poster on my bedroom wall

He's my dream guy.

Seriously though, that's really weird. It's possibly a fundie Christian thing as the only time I've seen him on UK TV was in relation to the Silver Ring Thing.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Maybe they're confused.

And they think they're campaigning for Santorum.

[CJCRANE]

11. I doubt it. Probably Santorum's relatives. n/t

[zbdent]

12. All those xeroxed absentee ballots

postmarked from the same address of a print shop in London ... and strangely, all in the same handwriting ... all for widdle Rickey ...