HOLY BATCRAP!!!! Rick Santorum is doing a book signing in Delaware

[LynneSin]

He's coming to the local Barnes & Noble on Concord Pike on August 10th at 6:30pm.

I shall now spend the next hour emailing this information to every progressive group in the Philadelphia area!

He's suppose to be signing books and having a discussion - my only question - "Why are you so scared of college educated women like me?"

[stepnw1f]

1. If Only I Could...

I'd walk up to him wearing a papier mache dildo on my head.

[Fenris]

2. "Do you find missionary-only sex fulfilling, Senator?"

"And more importantly, what the fuck is with making your kids touch your stillborn child?"

[Mz Pip]

8. Ugh! He did this??

That is just bizarre. I'm sorry for the family's loss but there is just something macabre about making your kids touch their dead sibling. Creepy.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Ilsa]

12. Someone on DU posted that they took it home

for a few days. Gross.

Now i strongly believe in the bonding process for stillborn babies, but this was really weird.

[GOPisEvil]

10. WHAT?! He did WHAT?!?!

What a freak!

[Fenris]

11. You didn't know about this?

Second paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum#Personal_background

[GOPisEvil]

13. My goodness...what a freak.

I hope Bob Casey sends him to a chair at Fox News next year.

[LynneSin]

14. The baby's name was Gabrial and yep, it's true!!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html

In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.

Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.

[GOPisEvil]

15. A FRAMED PHOTO?!?!?!

Oh my...

[LynneSin]

16. Oh he had his other kids pose for pictures with the fetus

Not kidding you!

[GOPisEvil]

17. OK, that's just creepy...

I always knew he was strange, this confirms it.

[LynneSin]

18. Yep, and you thought your elected officials were warped

Personally I didn't think you were allowed to bring dead bodies home from the hospital. I mean, that thing had to start stinking after awhile since basically it was a rotting corpse and there the kids are cuddling it.

[GOPisEvil]

3. Is this the bookstore I bought books at?

Ack! That rat bastard needs to stay away!

[LynneSin]

4. Oh does he ever

I think I took you to Borders since it was the place next to CompUSA

[GOPisEvil]

6. Oh yeah...well...whatever, what's he doing in a blue state?

I mean, if he came to Texas, I'd understand.

[LynneSin]

7. He should do these booksignings in his home state!!

Back in Virginia!

[JohnKleeb]

22. eww we dont want that

[JohnKleeb]

21. Hes the senator of a blue state

I really do think Casey can beat him though knowing what I know about the state of Pennsylvania. I didnt know he wrote a book though.

[LynneSin]

24. Oh he wrote a doozy of a book

In his book he says it's a waste of money to send girls to college. Basically he wants us to stay at home and pop out babies until we die of exhaustion. He also feels that families where both parents work are just greedy and if they cut back on some of the unneeded stuff (You know food) the mother could then stay home and raise the kids.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05187/533421.stm

[JohnKleeb]

25. What an asshole

[LynneSin]

26. That's why we want him to go home to his home state of Virginia

His residence in PA is a 2bed/1bath $100k home in a low-tax neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh that he rents out to his niece. He, his wife and their six living kids have permament resisdence in Leesburg VA where the Penn Hill School district in PA pays to homeschool his kids

[JohnKleeb]

27. Yeah Ive heard about that

Yeah he was born in Winchester and lives in Leesburg, a place I know all too well. I think Casey can beat him really, I hope so, Santorum is one of the worst they got and hes the third highest republican in the senate, he would likely be majority whip if reelected as Frist is retiring and McConnell is likely to assume hopefully minority leader.

[alarimer]

37. Holy Crap

He really said that about not bothering to send girls to college? I thought that attitude went out years ago. Of course I know this is Santorum. Maybe I should move to PA so I can vote against this clown. What an asshole.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Wish I could

be there (Love Delaware, btw)-I'd wear a "radical feminist" badge and then tell the bozo why.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Ask him why he put a holy card

on the front cover of his book.

[BreweryYardRat]

19. Mind giving him a message from me?

Here it is:

"You're a pathetic bigoted scumbag who's helping inflict serious damage on our country, and God WILL punish you for it."

I'd do it myself, but I can't get up there, and I doubt he's ever going to be in Florida.

[LynneSin]

20. Doubt he'll be in Florida?

Unfortunately your state is filled with idiots who think he's great. Hell Jeb Bush and Terri Schaivo's family will be there to introduce him.

It's a shame how your state has been hijacked by these hypocrites because I honestly believe your state is definately a progressive one but with your current voting system you'll be stuck with the nutjobs representing you :cry:

[Kat45]

23. Are you going to go, Lynne?

You HAVE to go! And report back to us on what that asshat does. :hi:

[LynneSin]

28. I'm thinking of it

I mean, what are they going to do cuff me and drag me out of B&N if I asked him if he'll run for US Senate in Virginia after Bob Casey sends him packing home in 2006

[JohnKleeb]

30. hahahhaha

yeah go there, but he wont run for senate here, we have two republicans, one of whom is very ambitious for the presidency, and the christian right just loves him. God I hate fuckin George Allen.

[LynneSin]

32. Yeah, but John Warner is close to retiring

Rick could run for his seat if it opened up

[JohnKleeb]

33. Yep and we would rival Oklahoma for the worst senators

It would be sick, fortunately I plan to be going to college in New York or wherever by 2008, Warner isnt as bad as Allen actually, hes pretty republican on the national level but the local republicans and him have had differences, for instance, he refused to back Ollie North, didnt back this home school advocate for Lt Governor, and he supported the tax referedum a fwe years back, I wouldnt vote for him of course but hes better than Santorum.

[ghostsofgiants]

29. I wasn't overly familiar with Santorum until I saw him on The Daily Show..

I came up with a rant mocking his bullshit about marriage being for the purpose of having kids and that's why gay marriage is bad, but I'm too lazy to retype it here.

That guy is a complete scumfuck though.

[JohnKleeb]

31. Yep whats amazing is his state PA isnt that right wing

hes just about one of the biggest nuts out there.

[Delarage]

34. I'm torn about going.........

I would hate it if no dissenters were present to make him uncomfortable, but I get so agitated that I think it's unhealthy for me. I'd stand there sweating, heart racing, waiting for the moment to say something like "How do you claim to be a true Christian when you and your party support tax cuts for the richest of the rich while you cut social services for the poor--you know, the ones Christ told you to take care of?"

I went to a Mike Castle event one time and asked how he could say that Bush is the "education president" when his first goal was to cut taxes for the rich and run up huge deficits. But I was so out-numbered that I felt uncomfortably anxious.

I just don't like to be around "those kind of people."

[WCGreen]

35. Get thee to the Barnes and Noble....

Call the UU's and tell them....

Overwhelm him... Call the media and tell them you are scheduling a protest....

Any DU'er within fifty miles should be there.....

This is big, show the fool and all his followers that his way is the wrong way for our great country.....

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

36. Is he on a toru signing books?

He isn't going to be in NYC or NJ from what I've heard. I'd love to go to an event with him live and ask him some questions.