Santorum: A Criminal Father is Better Than Two Mommies

[one_voice]

Wow, Rick. You don’t seriously believe that having a convicted criminal for a father is better for children than having two parents of the same sex, do you?

MANCHESTER, N.H. — For the second time in as many days, Rick Santorum on Friday drew attention away from his efforts to craft a blue-collar economic message by wading into the issue of gay marriage. He suggested it was so important for children to have a father and mother that an imprisoned father was preferable to a same-sex parent.

Citing the work of one anti-poverty expert, Santorum said, “he found that even fathers in jail who had abandoned their kids, were still better than no father at all to have in their childrens’ lives.”

Yes, he actually does believe this. OK, that’s our right wing jaw-dropper of the day

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/39726_Santorum-_A_Criminal_Father_is_Better_Than_Two_Mommies

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/06/2577346/santorum-again-stresses-social.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Sure we'll give you the keys to the car ,sure.

[RandySF]

2. And Mitt Romney denounced this, right?

Right?

[undeterred]

3. What about two parents of the same crazy religion?

Oh yeah, right.

[Gemini Cat]

4. Wow.

Keep on talking rick. Sooner or later even the dumbest of supporters will get disgusted. (I hope.)

[Initech]

5. They're just trying to lose at this point.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Quite a day for Santorum - Charge more to the ill for coverage, cut Social Security now, not later

And now this. I grew up with no father, who in fact did abandon the family (after beating my mother mercilessly in front of my little brother and me as tykes).

And thank God he was gone. I can't even begin to describe the depth of my disgust for Santorum. Maybe if I was to Google his name. . .

[izquierdista]

7. After being blissfully absent for 6 years......

the froth sure is bubbling over now!

[Justice wanted]

8. OH Man He is REALLY digging his own political grave. Either that or he is REALLY insecure about his

own manhood.

[Blue Owl]

9. Crystalline Santorum Logic based on facts and sound reasoning

[spanone]

10. me thinks he doth protest too much

[complain jane]

12. hell yeah

[saras]

11. Preferably a rapist/abductor/wife beater sort of criminal

[DCKit]

13. with a taste for arson and torture. nt

[surrealAmerican]

14. That doesn't even make sense semantically:

Surely, fathers in jail "who had abandoned their kids", are part of the definition of not being "in their children's lives".

[hobbit709]

15. The STOOPID, it burns.

[brooklynite]

16. Sadly...

Santorum isn't catching fire here in NH, and his crackpot religious views aren't helping. I think he's going to sputter out soon.