Rick Santorum Is Frothing at the Mouth Again

Rave on Senator. Rave on. Every time Santorum (R-PA) decides to speak out for the GOP cause, he becomes a portrait of the Republican lunatic fringe in exquisite detail. In the famous Associated Press interview with Santorum on April 7, 2003, the Senator said, regarding the sodomy laws which were being considered by the Supreme Court, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.” In November the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws in states which still had them. Later on in the interview, Santorum ranted about “man on dog sex”, which occasioned the interviewer to say he had not expected to be talking to a United States Senator about “man on dog sex” and that it was “freaking” him out. Santorum is a zealot. He rages against abortion. He and his wife Karen have seven children, including an infant that died in 1996. When the Terri Schiavo case came up, Rick Santorum took every opportunity to get on-camera and to rail about murderers and the godless left. Out of respect for the Schiavo family, Santorum cancelled a public meeting on Social Security. He did not cancel his closed fundraising events, however. Santorum's public outrage is often at odds with his personal life. Although Santorum loudly supports capping lawsuits for pain & suffering at $250,000, in 1999 his wife sued her chiropractor for pain and suffering in the amount of $500,000. She won $350,000. One of Santorum's sponsors is Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart contributes to Santorum's campaigns through the Wal-Mart PAC. It also gives him free trips in the company jet to places like Florida when Santorum needs TV face-time re high-profile right-to-life issues. A new Wal-Mart in Santorum's home city of Penn Hills, PA will put many of Santorum's constituents out of work. But Rick-the-Prick has higher moral matters on his mind. Yesterday, he raised the Senate filibuster fight to a fever pitch when he said, “I mean, imagine, the rule has been in place for 214 years that this is the way we confirm judges. Broken by the other side two years ago, and the audacity of some members to stand up and say, How dare you break this rule. It's the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942, 'I'm in Paris. How date you invade me. How dare you bomb my City?. It's mine.'” Now that is really odd. Oh, not the context, Santorum rants and raves and says things that are nonsensical whenever he opens his mouth. The odd part is that in March when Senator Byrd (D-WV) compared Republican threats to change Senate rules to Hitler jamming legislation through the German Reichstag, Santorum rose up in high dudgeon and declared, "Senator Byrd's inappropriate remarks comparing his Republican colleagues with Nazis are inexcusable." Rave on Senator Santorum, voice of the fanatic far-right fascist faction. The more you talk, the sillier the GOP sounds. Rave on.