Rick Santorum’s Top 10 Most Outrageous Campaign Statements

[ProSense]

Rick Santorum’s Top 10 Most Outrageous Campaign Statements

By Igor Volsky

Rick Santorum’s surprising second-place finish in Iowa comes after months of dogged campaigning throughout the sate’s 99 counties and more than 350 town halls. ThinkProgress tracked the former Pennsylvania senator throughout this period and has compiled a list of his top 10 most outrageous claims:

1) ANNUL ALL SAME-SEX MARRIAGES: <...>

2) ‘I’M FOR INCOME INEQUALITY’: “They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality,” Santorum said during an event in Pella, Iowa in December. “I think some people should make more than other people, because some people work harder and have better ideas and take more risk, and they should be rewarded for it. I have no problem with income inequality.”

3) CONTRACEPTION IS ‘A LICENSE TO DO THINGS’: Santorum has pledged to repeal all federal funding for contraception and allow the states to outlaw birth control, insisting that “it’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

4) GAY SOLDIERS ‘CAUSE PROBLEMS FOR PEOPLE LIVING IN CLOSE QUARTERS’: During an appearance on Fox News Sunday in October, Santorum defended his support for Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell by arguing that gay soldiers would disrupt the military because “they’re in close quarters, they live with people, they obviously shower with people.” He also suggested that “there are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle and aren’t anymore.”

5) OBAMA SHOULD OPPOSE ABORTION BECAUSE HE’S BLACK: <...>

6) WE DON’T NEED FOOD STAMPS BECAUSE OBESITY RATES ARE SO HIGH: <....>

7) ABORTION EXCEPTIONS TO PROTECT WOMEN’S HEALTH ARE ‘PHONY’: <...>

8) HEALTH REFORM WILL KILL MY CHILD: <...>

9) UNINSURED AMERICANS SHOULD SPEND LESS ON CELL-PHONE BILLS: <...>

10) INSURERS SHOULD DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS: <...>

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2012/01/04/397355/rick-santorums-top-10-most-outrageous-campaign-statements/

[my2sense]

1. Having a brain freeze

I read "Anal all same sex marriages"........:smile:

[RockaFowler]

4. OMG - so did I

[trueblue2007]

2. santorum is an animal

[Scootaloo]

14. What's your problem with animals?

They don't deserve that. You take it back!

[LeftishBrit]

3. He makes me ill.

It does make me feel all warm and fuzzy to know that our very own Work and Pensions Secretary (and former Tory leader) Iain Duncan-Smith once co-authored an article with this vile man.

[hifiguy]

5. I think Frothy is getting signals

from the planet Xemnar Sigma Six through his fillings.

[deacon]

6. They left out '...I don't want to help black people...' comment he made just recently. n/t

[comipinko]

7. # 7 pisses me off

His wife, thankfully , had a safe, legal abortion that saved her life.

[Aerows]

20. IOKIYAR

More of the same old, same old. They want to tell YOU what you can do and not do, but you are infringing on their rights if you tell a Republican what they can and cannot do.

[Aerows]

8. Outlawing birth control

Yeah, that will make men and women across the nation jump for joy.

[newspeak]

9. any woman who votes for this ignoramous

either hates women or consider themselves chattel. And, could he please explain how some people are working more than two jobs just to make ends meet-don't they work hard. And, how about those CEOs and WS shysters who make millions even while companies aren't prospering, or they're creating misery for others and then betting on it to make a buck? Wow, I bet they had to work their widdle fingers to the bone. Or those corporations who steal inventions from others or claim it's proprietary? Yeah, all those who are making obscene amounts of money really deserve it, you clueless randian.

[Aerows]

18. I have to agree

It's complete idiocy to support someone that you know would prefer that you die if you have a bad pregnancy than have life-saving surgery, and that birth control should be banned so that women have an even greater chance to get pregnant.

As for the rest of the package, well that's no more than standard Republican party platform. It's not good for anyone but the 1%. What he is suggesting for women, however, is horrible for everyone, men women and children included.

[MH1]

12. Technically, he's just going to allow states to outlaw it.

Which implementationally, means he will appoint SC justices that will nullify Roe v. Wade and Griswold v. CT and whatever else they would have to nullify.

[Scootaloo]

15. I lovethe "State's Rights" argument, don't you?

States have the right to segregate, the right to punish people for their political leanings, the right to deny reproductive freedom for women, the right to annull the First Amendment's stance on religion, the right to dictate who can nad cannot have a job, the right to strip the needy of federal protections...

...But not the right to legalize medical marijuana, NOTdetermine their own electoral processes (at least, not when the Republican is losing - see Bush v. Gore) or - given the right's support for the confederacy - NOT the right to NOT abuse the rights of their citizens in the above fashions.

[newspeak]

16. well, if he's going for the states' rights thing

we may see a mass migration from certain states, depending how repressive their laws become.

[Scootaloo]

17. Moving costs money

Otherwise Texas would be empty.

[MH1]

13. I meant to add - any other republican will probably do the same, BUT ...

Santorum will be more determined and careful about his picks, because it is a 'mission' for him, while others might consider other factors as more important.

[Aerows]

19. If I thought he had the slightest chance of getting into the White House

I'd make it my mission in life to prevent it. As it stands, he really doesn't have much of a shot. Evangelicals will love him, but moderates will shun him once his positions are made known. And believe me, I'll be shouting them from the rooftops if it looks like he has a shot.

[MH1]

10. This should make it clear that Santorum should never ever be allowed near the Oval Office.

This stuff is nauseating, and just the tip of the iceberg with this dipstick.

[Scurrilous]

11. Thanks ProSense.

[Quantess]

21. #5 here is the link to the video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10174193

Regarding whether a zygote / fetus is a person... basically Santorum says, Obama really has a lot of nerve to decide who is and who isn't a person, since he's black!

Um...I suppose pro-choice black people are pushing their luck, since we whites ought to go back to calling black people 3/5ths of a person again!?

Yikes!! Watch the video. It's incredible.

[_ed_]

22. 99% of women have used birth control

I don't have the stat, but it was something like 99% of women 14-55 have used some form of birth control.

So, who is voting for this guy? Men and Post-menopausal women only?

Santorum will go away like the rest of them once people realize how nuts he is. He's basically a social conservative statist. Repubs just need to accede to the fact that Romney has all the $$$ and is going to win.

[NNN0LHI]

23. This guy is a complete right wing wackadoodle

The kind of person the baggers adore.

Don

[ProSense]

25. A nut! n/t

[surrealAmerican]

24. I still don't understand his "reasoning" on number 8 ...

... because the lack of health reform would also kill his child, since what he's talking about here is a genetic "preexisting condition", which, without reform, would mean she could be denied coverage.

He must think he's wealthy enough to afford any care she might need even without insurance.

[barbtries]

26. and i hear today that the religious right

is lining up behind this asshat. jeezus.