THE MAN IS STILL A BLITHERING IDIOT, WALKING LOOSE AMONGST MANY.
Richard John "Rick" Santorum is an American attorney and Republican Party politician. He served as a United States Senator representing Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007, and was the Senate's third-ranking Republican from 2001 until 2007.
He served two terms until losing his re-election bid in 2006. A devout, practicing Catholic, Santorum is a social conservative who opposes same-sex marriage and artificial birth control.
While serving as a senator, Santorum was the author of what came to be known as the Santorum Amendment, which promoted the teaching of intelligent design. In 2005, Santorum introduced the Workplace Religious Freedom Act along with Senator John Kerry.
Rick Santorum wins the prize for the worst Nelson Mandela tribute. I read this on the Week, a great online, and was sick to my stomach. No respect, no carefully chosen words of praise for the sacrifice and works of this great man by this mental giant of a mouse, Rick Santorum. In fact it was suggested he change his name to Rick Sanatorium.
BACKGROUND
This moron, part of the Republican Team in the last election shared the podium with the following to give you a sense of what was put forward by the party. He was in distinguished company with;
- Gov. Perry who couldn’t remember why he was there.
- Cong. Michelle Bachmann sprouting more of her Bat-Shit theology. And some stuff so far off the wall, the bats couldn’t even hang on. Fortunately no bats were killed or harmed during her speech.
- Sen. Ron Paul who would simply kill and starve all the poor and that would solve all our problems. His biggest mistake was not practicing safe sex and now we have his kid who is weirder than him.
- Herman Cain’s mathematical genius, his 999 economic plan, which would make the corporate income tax 9%, personal income tax 9% and the national sales tax 9%. His antics with his pants down which was rated .666 killed his chance of running by 100%.
- Former Speaker - Newt the Toot Gingrich - another womanizer and political despot, commonly called by friends the "intellectual sh*t head".
- Tim Pawlenty - Scored so low in voting, his High School wanted to repeal his elected class HS presidency and re-title him as class clown.
- Ambassador J. Huntsman - Way too nice to be in this crew, great Ambassador and respected. Too good to be involved with this crew.
- I considered this field the largest collection of nothing ever assembled on one stage at one time and it’s only a possibility it might exceed in stupidity, foo-pas’s and simply dumb thinking the last China Mainland Political Convention which hosted the 2012 Chinese’s Lets Dress and Look-Alike like Mao contest.
HIS “MISQUOTES”
ObamaCare is a great injustice, much like the institutionalized racism and segregation of post-colonial South Africa, according to former Pennsylvania senator and failed presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R)."
In an appearance on Fox News with Bill O'Reilly ( Master Moron and Spinner) Thursday, Santorum likened Mandela's anti-apartheid crusade to Republicans' continued efforts to dismantle the president's health care law.
"He was fighting against some great injustice," Santorum said, "and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives. And ObamaCare is front and center in that.”
THE IDIOT WAS WRONG IN HIS STATEMENT
Leaving aside the fact that shanghaiing a world leader's death to peddle your political beliefs is gross opportunism at its worst, Santorum's comparison is flawed for another simple reason: Mandela was a prominent proponent of expanding access to health care, especially for the poor and disadvantaged.
From a South African department of health report on the nation's health care system: On the 24th of May 1994, President Nelson Mandela announced in his State of the Nation address that all health care for pregnant women and children under the age of 6 years would be provided free to users of public health facilities. The free care policy at primary care level was extended to all users from 1 April 2006.
Free public health care? Sounds like socialism to me.
South Africa's constitution enshrines a "right" to health care in the same subsection that it guarantees the rights to "sufficient food and water." The Kaiser Family Foundation named an award after Mandela honoring "the efforts of individuals who make extraordinary contributions to improving the health and health care of the most disadvantaged sectors of the population in South Africa and internationally." And Mandela's work, both in office and after, laid the groundwork for South Africa's new universal health care system.
We're sure Rick Santorum will be issuing a retraction any moment now.
MORE FROM THE PARTY OF NOTHING
Several prominent conservatives lavished glowing eulogies on Mandela, among them columnist Charles Krauthammer who likened him to George Washington. The Texas senator and Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz went further, saying in a statement that "Nelson Mandela will live in history as an inspiration for defenders of liberty around the globe.”
I, personally appreciated Ted Cruz’s comment on Nelson Mandela and I feel Ted Cruz should follow in the Madiba’s footsteps by being put in jail for 27 years as a starter. His commentary though semi-thoughtful comes because he caught a little flack over shutting the government down and cost us taxpayers 24 billion dollars.
Take Cruz’s hero, Ronald Reagan, who as president in the 1980s branded the African National Congress a terrorist organisation. Or the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank patronised by Cruz, which in the 1990s disputed Mandela’s claim to be a freedom fighter, calling him instead a supporter of terrorism.
The Republican party’s sudden amnesia over its view of Mandela was most pithily captured by Salon, which dubbed the phenomenon the “right-washing” of his legacy.
Strikingly, many of Cruz’s followers on Facebook showed no such loss of collective memory. For them, the Texan senator’s adulatory words were as hard to swallow as they were for liberals mindful of the Republican party’s historic record in this area.
“Stunned to see you support this scumbag, Mr Cruz,” wrote Derek Cranford. “Mandela was a murderer, and a terrorist ... not to mention a communist.” Other commenters said Mandela had been trained by the Russian KGB and made insulting allusions to “South African necklaces”.
Really… It’s bound to be a windfall when A-holes congregate in one place. A fart-storm of thinking. If Santorum won the award for tone-deaf response, the Fox News presenter Bill O’Reilly took the medal for most mealy-mouthed praise of the deceased.
“He was a great man! But he was a communist! But I would never attack Nelson Mandela!” O’Reilly said on his show The O’Reilly Factor, demonstrating the clarity of thought that has become his trademark. Blind, Arrogant, Condesending and a Kook. B.A.C.K.