Rick Santorum on C-SPAN right now trying to infer that...

[latteromden]

gay marriage leads to poverty, abuse, and children dropping out of school!

Good god, how do these people THINK?!

[barbaraann]

1. Aren't poverty, child abuse, and dropping out worse in the Bible Belt?

I know divorce is rampant in that part of the country.

[Nite Owl]

2. They don't

and they count on their followers to just 'believe' what they spew.

[thefloyd]

3. Santorum is a boob

I would really like to see any emperical evidence that supports his stupid claim

[Placebo]

4. Spreading Santorum

www.spreadingsantorum.com

"Importance of the family", eh Santorum? I hope all of your 6 children turn out to be flaaaaaaaaaaming homos.

[latteromden]

5. He was talking about "spreading" SOMETHING, and I started laughing.

Man, I just couldn't help myself.

[saltpoint]

6. Two friends in Philadelphia email me with news --

-- that Santorum trails in a recent poll to Casey by a respectable (if close) margin.

Early as it is, that's interesting. I'd rather have a pro-choice Democrat in the race, but Santorum is so goddamned disgusting that I'd support Charles Manson for that seat.

If any of you Pennsylvania DUers have any updates on this race, I'm all ears.

[CBHagman]

12. He is indeed disgusting.

"Early as it is, that's interesting. I'd rather have a pro-choice Democrat in the race, but Santorum is so goddamned disgusting that I'd support Charles Manson for that seat."

LOL!

Seriously, I'm extremely eager for the Democrats to run a really strong candidate for that seat. Senator Man on Dog needs to be shown the door. I did my swing-state volunteering in PA and would be happy to return to rid it once and for all of Santorum.

[saltpoint]

14. Hi, CBHagman.

We may run into each other on that swing-state volunteering gig. I'm considering a short stay in Philadelphia to help shore up Democratic/Independent voters already opposed to Santorum, just to ensure that he can't win without a titanic push from registered GOPers.

I have all my fingers and toes crossed that this guy goes down to defeat in 2006.

[Hippo_Tron]

7. How does the constitution say that you only need 51 votes for judges?

It says that the Senate shall advise and consent on appointments (doesn't specify whether a supermajority is required or not). It says that the Senate shall advise and consent on treaties with a supermajority. It says that the House and Senate shall set their own rules. Senate rules say that a minimum of 60 votes is required to bring a question to vote. Am I missing something? Oh yea, and if the constitution does say that the Senate is required to give an up or down vote on judges, where is the clause that says: "except when they are blocked by the judiciary committee".

[thefloyd]

8. More hypocrisy

For some reason homosexuals should not get married because marriage is so sacred BUT in their eyes a heterosexual gets married and then divorced. marriage is still sacred? I am not speaking out against divorce I am saying something is only sacred when it fits the CONS agenda. Similar to "stop killing innocent life" BUT lets bomb the hell out of innocent civilians

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. Exactly... who values "marriage" more?

A gay couple who have been "married" in every sense except the legal one for decades, or Titney Spears who got married twice in one year, and probably will leave the second husband within the next year.

Or Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Henry Hyde, Bob Dole, and even the dearly departed Saint Ronald Fucking Reagan himself, all of whom traded at least one wife in on a "younger model". Or in Newt's case, one without a life threatening disease.

If anyone in the Gingrich family needs to be legally prohibited from marriage, it ain't Candace.

[Erika]

13. He backs sending U.S. fathers to Iraq

and "dismisses" their responsiblities at home and the fact the kids are being left fatherless.

[latteromden]

9. Poor Rick, he was cut off by the "flashy red light"... WTF? Good riddance.

[Erika]

11. Average audience age 70?

On the scans they did on the audience it appeared it was basically old conservatives.

Many divorces are caused by financial strain and the financial inability of the family to meet the basics needs.

He was introduced by a speaker who gave him accolades for being an expert on family values because of his having six kids. Yet, it is the right-wingers who accuse women of having babies they can't afford. I guess there is one set of values for the rich having children and another set for the poor.