I haven't blogged much this week due to the beautiful weather, why be inside staring at a computer screen when I can be outside do anything else? I wasn't even planning on writing anything today, I was going to just enjoy another day outside. Well that all changed because of one man: Rick Santorum.
I was on buzzfeed.com and saw this video. Well, needless to say, I thought it was a joke video. It even had the really cheesy gravely voice guy who does all the crappy summer horror movies narrate it. Just to make sure I popped on over to Rick Santorum's website to check it out. Now if you clicked on the link then you also went to the first page on the site, a donations page. Not a little biography on the candidate or his stance on some issues, a donation page is the very first thing they throw at you. Come on Rick, I thought you were a family man, at least buy me dinner before you want me to go all the way with you. ( Just for fun I checked out Romney's, Paul's, Gingrich's and Obama's pages to see if they had the same front page. Well you can see for yourself.) I figured since family is Santorum's main platform, he would want to show off his lovely family, which he does on the site, but the site makes it clear that if one thing is more important than family and that's apparently your money.
Now I want to make this clear I am not a liberal, I am not a Democrat, I am a registered Independent and I would rather get mauled by a bear than associate with any of our main parties.
I have been following the GOP's primary pretty closely, I was underwhelmed by Obama's first term and was hoping that someone from the GOP would show some promise. When all hoped seemed to be destroyed by the likes of Michelle Bachman, Rick Perry and Herman Cain, one man stepped up and showed America that the GOP could produce even shittier candidates. To be perfectly honest I had no idea who Rick Santorum was until his run in the Iowa Caucus, but I was excited. I was hoping maybe that he could be a strong candidate that would be more in touch with the American people. I watched his entire victory speech after Iowa and was surprised. Here was a man whose grandfather was an immigrant coal miner and spent his whole life working hard to give his future generations a better life, that is the American dream after all. Then everyone got to know Rick just a little too much.
Here are just a couple of my favorite youtube clips on Rick Santorum (be warned you may want to watch this on an empty stomach). Here's Santorum on gays in the military and on a famous JFK speech ( oh here is the actual speech where JFK hopes that one day religious intolerance will no longer exist), oh and here is Santorum on the unemployment rate ( once again this is a man whose budget will increase our national debt. Probably a safer bet if you didn't lecture us on the economy Rick). Now you can't get the full story on a candidate by watching clips which is why I went to his website. On his website you can read how he will cut any regulations on CO2 emissions (because our planet is so healthy as it is) and how he will secure our border (forget the fact that our borders are safer than ever). Please go look at his videos, my favorite is the one where people are being herded like cattle off a cliff until Rick Santorum saves the day!!!
Our country is in a sad state, no one can deny that. This is why a candidate like Santorum can have success. He is a leech, feeding off peoples fears and emotions, stripping down any rational thought that voters have. Doom and gloom candidates come out of the woodwork during hard times, its easier to manipulate voters burdened by hardship. Santorum sticks to issues like abortion and gay marriage because they are hot button topics that rile up strong emotions amongst the masses. Rick Santorum is a fear monger standing upon his soapbox preaching his message of intolerance and ignorance. I don't know if there is a good candidate out there, all I know is that Rick Santorum must not, should not and will not be the next President of The United States of America.
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