Santorum keys on 'Islamic fascism' (and Dumps on Bush)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_474278.html

President Bush lacks broad support for the war in Iraq because he's reluctant to depict it as part of a larger struggle against "Islamic fascism" -- a major threat to the nation's security -- U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum said Monday.

"He (Bush) is managing the public relations on this war very poorly," Santorum, the third-ranking Republican in the Senate, said during a meeting with editors and reporters of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Bush is more concerned about "making the State Department comfortable" than providing the American people with "a clear message and a clear understanding of what we are up against," said Santorum, in his sharpest criticism of the president to date.

Santorum, who faces an uphill battle for re-election against Democrat Bob Casey, said he discussed the issue with Bush several times and said the president "has given a few good speeches on it, but he does not continually do it."

Bush dropped references to Islamic fascists when the State Department "went ballistic because we are offending our allies in the Middle East," Santorum said. "I don't care if we offend our allies in the Middle East."

I smell desperation on little Ricky's part!

[Erika]

1. These GOP'ers rubber stamped W completely

and did away with checks and balances, and now they are going against W. Get Real.

[EST]

2. If unsanitary Santorum really believes the crap he's spouting,

he is as delusional as is junior.
Santorum is immersed in the destruction of America an deeply as is any other of the neoclown fundies and can only shake the stink of their blood bath among the true believers.

We can expect to see a lot more pseudo-anger as the miscreants are called on the carpet for their misdeeds.
I can only hope the punishment goes farther than simple removal from office.

[snowbear]

3. It's not gonna work "Desperate Ricky".....

[Supersedeas]

5. Daytime Friends and Election Time Damage Control

[ninkasi]

4. Well, actually, Iraq was probably the most secular

of the Mideastern countries under Saddam Hussein. Islamic fascism is a relatively new term for me, and one which I believe the Republicans invented in order to make this terrible blunder on Bush's part seem more acceptable. Women had more rights under Saddam, although that has, sadly for Iraqi women, disappeared now that the more militant Shia factions are in a majority. Bush's war is an illegal fiasco, draining lives and money at an alarming pace, and no amount of inventing new phrases, or catchy PR campaigns is going to change that. We are in no position to credibly threaten Iran or N. Korea. Well, we can do it, Bush probably will, but we don't have the ground troops to follow up even massive air strikes.

I've seen some comments that a new war would make the American people rally around the president, but unless we are attacked first, I think he's lost any credibility he ever had. All of his and Cheney's and Rumsfeld's predictions regarding Iraq have been wrong. He has screwed up so much, so throughly, that people, I hope, would be reluctant to put faith once more in his and his administration's wrong policies.

People I've talked to are just tired of it all, the war, the growing number of Americans killed or wounded, and the whole stinking mess he's made of things these past six years. Only the most addicted to the kool-aide wingnuts are going to be enthusiastic about starting more wars, while we watch our economy get bleaker for the middle and lower income families.

Of course, I usually err on the side of crediting the other party with a modicum of common sense, and rational thinking. My family and close friends are all liberal, so unless they appear on t.v., or I read news articles, I don't understand how the neocons reach the conclusions they have. It doesn't make any sense to me.

[wisteria]

6. He must be going after the bone headed voters. You know, the ones

who listen to Quinn in the Morning, on the all Repub all the time, Clear Channel station in Pittsburgh.

[IntravenousDemilo]

7. Santorum

The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex...

He's in deep santorum now, from the look of the polls.