Santorum said that a legislature has the right to prohibit birth contol

[Catshrink]

He's on Aaron Brown right now and Aaron is grilling him...

Ricky said Roe v. Wade was wrong.

He said that the Connecticut birth control case was wrongly decided -- that the government should have the right to ban birth control.

He supports the constitutional right to privacy in cases of search and seizure.

But not birth control? You fucking idiot.

[MissB]

1. Rick is bat-shit crazy.

[earthboundmisfit]

10. HaHa - Just the same words occurred to me - (see post below)

:hi:

[ugarte]

2. The guy obviously belongs in a monastery

How the hell did Pennsylvania ever elect this freak?

[AuntiBush]

38. Sanitarian is more like it.

Someone should forward him the ph nu of a damn good shrink! He'll need one after the next election.

[gauguin57]

72. Don't look at me. Neither I nor any of my fellow Pennsylvanians

elected this WACKO!

But we're all gonna work our asses off to get him the hell OUT of the Senate!

Bob Casey Jr. may barely have a pulse, and I disagree with his stance on abortion.

But he's a Democrat and he ISN'T RickyBoy. So he's got my full support, if he's the nominee.

[Avalux]

3. Ban birth control?

Disgusting piece of shit. :mad: :grr: :banghead:

[sunnystarr]

48. Now Roberts would hug him for that ...

I'm sure he can't wait to decide that case along with the rest of the conservatives on the SC.

[Tesha]

73. It's the next logical step.

If you're trying to subjugate women, the next logical step after
banning abortion (or making it impractically difficultto obtain)
is to ban contraception.

Reversing Griswold v Connecticut would resolve a lot of legal
problems that face the Reich Wing.

Tesha

[mondo joe]

4. Neo Cons believe your property is private but not your body.

[FloridaPat]

30. Necons believe women should be barefoot and pregnant and

total slave to hubby.

[earthboundmisfit]

5. Santorum is BAT.SHIT.CRAZY.

Creepy crazy. People like him making decisions for US...yikes :scared:

[appleannie1]

6. You called him

what he is. Unfortunately he is a Senator from my state. Nothing like banning birth control and then lowering wages so people cannot afford to feed the children they have. But he has a solution for that, 60 hour work weeks.

[janx]

19. Is there some kind of

gargantuan fundie enclave in PA? Who elected him? The guy's so crazy that I cannot imagine who elected him! :shrug:

[earthboundmisfit]

22. Next "solution" will be taking the moms out of the work force

to stay home - thereby freeing up jobs for the menfolk & helping cure unemployment!
I'm in Oklahoma, land of Dr. Coburn, who's just as bad as Mr. Sanitarium...:puke:

[Tommymac]

51. You live in Virginia?

:sarcasm:

[Mandate My Ass]

63. He makes something like $165,000

and his retired parents send him money. I could easily raise six kids on $165K. Yet he thinks welfare and raising the minimum wage is wrong and that suffering is the lot of the poor.

I'm from PA too. and all I can say is he is a dangerous person. If the polls are right, he's gone in '06. Welcome, appleannie. :toast:

[SammyWinstonJack]

64. I bet he pays no federal taxes with 6 kids either.

[knitter4democracy]

65. He admitted on the Daily Show last night

that he's got a tough race ahead of him and that that's why he wrote his screed on family.

:puke:

He is just nuts. He tried to wiggle out of Jon's questions by saying that he does talk about economic factors in his book, but I'd bet good money that he doesn't talk about how unfettered capitalism is one of the family's biggest enemies or how greed at the top is hurting all of us. Jerk.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. The man is FUCKING NUTS!

You hear me????! FUCKING NUTS! Does he have any idea how many unwanted children are already living in this country? Does he have any FUCKING IDEA how many babies are already STARVING in this country??? Does he have any FUCKING idea how many MORE babies would be thrust into POVERTY if BC were banned????

OMG...Someone shut the idiot up before I have a stroke! :grr::nuke::grr::nuke::grr:

[Catshrink]

25. But that would make more white babies for people like Roberts to adopt

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. That's exactly how they think....

:grr::nuke::grr::nuke:

[dave502d]

8. What is this guy hiding?

Every time this guy opens his mouth he sound like a nut case.

[DanCa]

9. women with bleeding disorders

can someone tell this nut that women with bleeding disorders take bc to regulate thier periods. If one woman dies cause of this sick freak than he should burn.

[kestrel91316]

12. For many years, my BCP use was ...................

to control acne and cramps so bad I wanted to kill myself. Birth control was beside the point for over a decade. Santorum can kiss my ass.

[appleannie1]

13. He is the

strict Catholic version of the religious right. Leave the bleeding disorder thing up to God.

[DanCa]

16. welcome to du appleannie1

[appleannie1]

28. The pleasure is mine. Thanks.

[knitter4democracy]

67. That'll be me when I can get a doctor to help me out.

BC is used for PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, dysmenorrhea, hormonal imbalances, and many other conditions.

He should be held accountable for the suffering he causes. He said on the Daily Show last night that he wants to be held accountable--well, let's get to it!

[noamnety]

11. You sound surprised

You haven't read about W. David Hager or Joseph B. Stanford, or Dr. Susan Crockett?

All opposed to birth control, all appointed by Bush to the FDA's Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs. If you thought their intent was to stop at abortion, you were mistaken.

[MountainLaurel]

68. That was my first thought

We've known for years that these freaks' agenda didn't stop at abortion, that they wanted all forms of birth control banned. So why is anyone shocked now?

:shrug:

[Eloriel]

97. Exactly. Ending abortion is only the firrst step in their agenda.

Contraception is right after that, and that fight will be a lot easier because the rest of us will be so beaten down by that time.

Those of you so willing to trade off women's reproductive freedom will be very, very sorry one day.

WAKE THE FUCK UP.

[salin]

14. I hope someone gets the transcript to this interview.

Used strategically, it would sink hi reelection.

[jim3775]

15. The litmus test for governmental insanity

"Are you for overturning Griswold?"

To this day * has yet to state his position on this question, when someone asked him this question he refused to answer.

[kestrel91316]

17. Make no mistake - Santorum is a DOMINIONIST

In his heart he also wants to bring back stoning to death anyone who doesn't follow all the rules in the bible.

Hey, wait - I could go for stoning for these freaks who forget that Jesus said something about removing logs from one's own eyes before rmoving specks from one's neighbor's eyes.

Turnabout is fair play.

[deadparrot]

18. Well, he's a nutcase.

So I'm not shocked.

[mondo joe]

20. Dems need to keep tying this to the NeoCons and anti-choice forces

Even though a lot of Americans are not completely comfortable with abortion, this would not sit well with the vast majority.

[DaveinMD]

21. he's nuts

but he's going down this year so he'll be gone. No matter what you think of Casey, he doesn't want to ban birth control.

[roguevalley]

23. complete total bastard. Pennsylvania, you have a DUTY to

vote him out. He outstinks our guys. What a complete asshole.

[appleannie1]

24. Hey, I did not vote for him in the first place.

and you should be ashamed of yourself, talking about him and putting pictures of those beauties on the post. It could contaminate them getting that close.

[ladjf]

26. We have got to shut this idiot up. He is the looniest of the bunch.

[Pirate Smile]

35. Let's shut him up after we tie all the other Republicans to him for the

2006 elections. Yes, America, the Republicans want to take away your right to birth control. The fundies are already trying to do it with the pharmacists. This is just moving to the next phase. Next include Terri Schiavo's story .... scary sh@#!

[Gormy Cuss]

40. Absolutely. Let him be heard loud and proud.

He just says more and more outrageous stuff all the time. I wonder if he's given up on seeking any more political offices and is just flame ducking the rest of his term.

I never thought I'd say this, but thank you Sen. Santorum.

[sandnsea]

77. No, we need to broadcast him everywhere

So people will see how batshit these new Republicans are and that Democrats were right to sound the alarm.

[LincolnMcGrath]

27. recommended

[Literate Tar Heel]

29. who exactly is he pandering to here?

I understand that a lot of the really outrageous and assclownish things these people come up with are meant to reach out to one or another of their bases, but surely not even most of the fundies for whom abortion is more important than anything else in the universe, surely not even most of these people can actually be in favor of this, can they? does he just know he's going to lose his next election and he's positioning himself as the male Ann Coulter (hmm, on second thought, assuming she actually has working female reproductive organs, I'd imagine that she uses it herself and probably wouldn't be in favor of banning it either)

[TankLV]

46. Yes they can - and yes they are!

They just don't talk about it.

This is their real objective.

I saw many links on this, but I don't have them anymore.

After they outlaw Roe, this is next.

They just don't have the balls/ovaries to say it too often openly.

They just don't like the idea of anybody having sex for fun or even at all.

That is it in a nutshell.

[Raksha]

94. The fundies think birth control pills are a form of abortion...

...because they prevent implantation if an ovum should get released and fertilized. I used to waste a lot of time arguing with the anti-abortion faction on the various religion boards I frequent. When they say "life begins at conception" they absolutely mean from the very second of conception! There is no difference in their minds between a zygote and a full-term fetus. They call a zygote a "baby" and count the unknown number of zygotes flushed away by birth control pills as part of the "abortion Holocaust."

That's why I gave up arguing with them. They have absolutely NO respect for human consciousness and refuse to take it into account when talking about "human life." In fact, they consistently favor "human life" in the most unconscious and vegetative state it can possibly exist in (think Terry Schiavo). Since to me human consciousness (not human DNA) is the defining characteristic of a "human being," I decided there was no possible common ground and stopped debating abortion with them at all.

But that's why Santorum et al. want to ban birth control pills.

[grannylib]

99. He IS pandering to a small but vocal and powerful group of voters, and

banning birth control has been part of the Reich wing religious agenda from the start. Subjugation of women is high on their "to do" list. Women who can't control their reproduction are not going to be very successful controlling any other areas of their lives, so it's a high priority with the radical "Christian" extremists running the right wing these days.

[Lecky]

32. Santorum is loony tunes

I still can't believe that douche delux was ever voted into office.

[Pushed To The Left]

33. He needs to lose in 06

If he doesn't, I believe he will make a presidential run. He is another hardcore conservative that seems to be very good at selling himself to voters. I think Pennsylvania is a swing state, so he can be beaten! Even Bill O'Reilly has said that he thinks Santorum might lose in 06! I hope that prediction is correct! :bounce:

[Catshrink]

41. His opponent just needs ads with video of him spouting his bs

It should scare the hell out most sane people. He's doing a good job of hanging himself -- and the comedy (?) is that he has no clue.

And what's the deal with him not paying tuition for his kids?

[PA Democrat]

34. Good. And we should quote the idiot as often as possible.

Rick Santorum feels that women should be forced to become baby-making machines.

[MasonJar]

36. Birth control? Too bad his mom didn't practice it.

[AuntiBush]

37. I'll Toss in a "Second-That" on those last Three Words...

Santorum "IS" a f'in idiot!

[Pallas180]

39. Could we institute a return of burning at the stake for those

who make life miserable for all others?

[CelticWinter]

42. I didnt vote for scumtorum

and not sure where that cave is he crawled out of.

[Kalish]

43. Let them ban birth control, and then

watch the Republican party get booted out of power for the next two hundred years.

[Ready2Snap]

44. This is what Ann Coulter would look like with a dick.

[nookiemonster]

52. Oh I think Mann Coulter

is swingin' down below.

Just a hunch....

[mvd]

45. Thinking about Santorum losing will occupy me

through a couple of these lousy Bush years we must go through. Unless he's impeached, which I'm really hoping for. When Santorum loses, it will even somewhat make up for the lack of celebration in 2000 and 2004.

[Rex]

47. Rick is a closet dog fucker.

Why someone would elect him...then again Bush likes horse cocks so go fig. :shrug:

[Deja Q]

49. Okay everybody - go out and buy LINEN. Been used for 1000s of years.

Read up on the ancient condoms.

No joke.

Linen.

It works.

[nookiemonster]

53. Holy shit! I've got linen curtains!

Hellloooo ladies.....

:silly:

[gkhouston]

79. linen won't keep my best friend out of the ER when she

gets severe anemia from heavy bleeding nor will it help my niece, who has problems with cysts. OCs help both of them -- the Pill's about a lot more than preventing pregnancy.

[SF Bay Area Dem]

50. Maybe dear Ricky will advocate women being flogged in the...

... village square if proven to be on birth control or had sexual relations? What is it with these Republicans and or conservatives and their weird fear of a vagina?

[Douglas Carpenter]

54. I just hope PA voters are constantly reminded next year of

all the things he says.

Having grown up in Western PA--people there tend toward cultural conservatism..but not that nutty.

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http://www.iwtnews.com/

[Warren DeMontague]

55. At least one of these fucknuts will come out and say it in public.

That's been part of the agenda all along.

[sellitman]

56. He has Syphilis of the brain

Stupid Evil GOP Bastard!

[CWebster]

57. he is one sick fuck

with that soft pasty skin...He gives me the creeps.

[OrlandoGator]

58. I have never met someone opposed to birth control before.

I mean, agree or disagree...people have opinions on abortion and they are entitled to them. But I can't seem to come up with a good justification for banning birth control.

Other than people in power wanting to control every aspect of our morality, of course.

[OnionPatch]

59. Well then you're lucky

Every fundie I've ever argued with talks about how birth control pills cause abortions in some instances. (And don't start yelling at me about implantation....they do not care. If it's fertilized, it's a life to them whether or not it's attached to the uterine wall.)

Believe me: they are going to try to outlaw the birth control pill.

Perhaps it won't be a bad thing: Hopefully they'll try and it will wake up the people out there who think the Republicans "aren't so bad."

[OrlandoGator]

61. Well, if any living cell is life, then menstruation is "abortion" too.

As is ejaculating without intent to procreate.

[Hello_Kitty]

92. I knew a guy when I lived in NJ

Who gave another guy crap for using condoms for that same reason. He was a weird sort of wingnut with his religious views. He didn't have a problem with the guy having sex out of wedlock as much as he had a problem with preventing conception. He also believed that masturbation was "defiling" yourself. This same guy also frequented prostitutes.

I'm sure all that makes as much sense to you as it did me. These people are nuts. :crazy:

[Raksha]

96. I've known guys like that, and they were almost always Catholic.

But that was back in the Sixties. I didn't know there were any of those knuckle-draggers still around!

[Danmel]

66. And IUDs too

Because they can also prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. These people are unhinged and Santorum is a lunatic.

[DefenseLawyer]

81. Stop by the Vatican

on your way home from work.

[newportdadde]

60. How can this guy get elected in Penn?

I mean I can see somewhere like Georgia.. but Pennsylvania? :wtf:

Whoever the Democrat is who runs against him needs to run 24/7 with commercials and his 'ban birth control' bit.

[PA Democrat]

69. I am still trying to figure it out.

When he ran in 2000, the local TV stations played his commercials non-stop. The ads showed his family, including all 6 of his children, engaged in such gaggingly sweet play. My conservative dad just LOVED the ads and said he liked Santorum because he was such a "good family man". I told my dad not to believe the hype and check Rick's anti-family, pro-corporate profits voting record.

I don't know how my dad voted in the end, but a lot of people buy the TV ad image because they are too lazy to look beyond the window dressings.

We have to pull back the curtains and expose Rick for the greedy little hypocrite that he is.

[Junkdrawer]

76. There's an old joke...

"I thought I knew geography, but it turns out that Alabama is between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia."

[checks-n-balances]

82. I've been in GA for 22 yrs, and PA was red long before we were

Western PA & the Pittsburgh area are NOTORIOUS for their strict conservatism. It's the home of Richard Mellon Scaife and his local Pitts. newspaper; if you don't know who he is, look him up. He's been funding rightwing/fundie/neocon think tanks for decades.

Georgia became a "red state" under questionable circumstances by 2002; can you say "Ralph Reed" and "Diebold"? Still, Scaife was probably pulling strings while Reed was still in high school.

[Walt Starr]

62. Like I've been saying, they want to overturn Griswold

The bastards want to regulate every thing to do with human sexuality.

[kath]

71. Sure sounds like it. This is scary shit.

:scared:

[SillyGoose]

70. Wow...this is completely insane.

:wow:

[FourStarDemocrat]

74. Link to Transcript HERE

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0507/25/asb.01.html You need to scroll down near the bottom third of the page to read it.

Excerpt below (and man, Santorum is without doubt a wacko)


BROWN: Do you think there's a right to privacy in the Constitution?

SANTORUM: No -- well, not the right to privacy as created under Roe v. Wade and all...

BROWN: Do you think there's a right to privacy in the Constitution?

SANTORUM: I think there's a right to unreasonable -- to unreasonable search and seizure...

BROWN: For example, if you'd been a Supreme Court judge in Griswold versus Connecticut, the famous birth control case came up, which centered around whether there was a right to privacy. Do you believe that was correctly decided?

SANTORUM: No, I don't. I write about it in the book. I don't.

BROWN: The state of Connecticut had the right to ban birth control for a married couple.

SANTORUM: I think they were wrong. It was a bad law.

[musiclawyer]

83. can you send the transcript to the guy running against him

You would think the PA dems are on top of this, but you never know!

[FourStarDemocrat]

85. I did n/t

[BellaLuna]

75. Holy Shit

these guys are beyond reality. If they want to limit abortions what better way to do that than to promote (and provide) birth control???

[Eloriel]

98. They don't want to "limit" abortions, they want to END them. It's not

about "saving lives of little fetuses," it's about controlling women and especially our sexuality. Anybody who doesn't get that needs to really take a course in it or something. Oh, sure, I'm sure there are some people here and there for whom those little "unborn babies" of 12 - 20 days old mean so very, very much, but believe me, the psychological underpinning of the ENTIRE anti-abortion argument is controlling women and our sexuality -- and that includes a huge dose of PUNISHING us for our sexuality IF we don't use it appropriate (which is mostly, hardly at all).

[nadinbrzezinski]

78. I'll give him thi8s

he is willing to say what he believes in a public forum

[opusprime]

80. Santorum is the #3 guy in the Senate...

He is a GOP leader.

So in essence, the GOP thinks birth control should be banned.

Now there is a 2006/2008 campaign issue!

[paineinthearse]

84. Let it be a 2006 Pennsylvania election issue

...and dump his sorry ass.

[Coexist]

86. Let the man speak, people!

Let the general public know what kind of insane people reside on the right. SING IT LOUD, RICKY!!!

[pinkpops]

87. I just wish he had a larger audience.

[Coexist]

101. maybe the press will help a little in that regard!

here's hoping.

[Delphinus]

88. What??!!

That's BS - there's no way! But, it is probably exactly what he believes.

[alarimer]

89. Just try it asshole!!

I guarantee people will be in the streets. And your ass will be out of a job.

I really, really hate these fascist pieces of shit.

[DanCa]

90. So basically Santorum is going to distribute his picture with every bc

product sold? Ewwww!

[Kerrytravelers]

91. Ban birth control? This man obviously doesn't have a lot of sex.

Thank God! Some people shouldn't spawn.

[Vinca]

93. Geez I wish that guy had been aborted. nt

[bajamary]

95. What an odd man

Gee, this Ricky Santorum is really fixated on the life of sperm, isn't he !

[area51]

100. Ban birth control?

C'mon Rick Sanitarium, let's see you campaign for the real "evil" -- ban Viagra, Levetra, Cialis, etc (after all, that's as "unnatural" and usurping God as birth control). <crickets chirping>

[Theres-a]

102. Right On!!!!

Don't hold your breath.