Gay Democrats Form Group To Oust Santorum

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/06/061405santorum.htm

The National Stonewall Democrats and a Pennsylvania political action group, Liberty PA, have formed a partnership to defeat Republican Senator Rick Santorum in 2006.

Santorum has been one of the most outspoken supporters of a federal amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

"The ideological agenda of Rick Santorum continues to neglect Pennsylvanians and threaten families throughout the United States," said Eric Stern, NSD Executive Director.

[DebJ]

1. They should get some dogs for mascots for 'Dog on Man' Dude.

I can't wait to vote him out!!!! I'd vote for a cheese sandwich first!

[bunkerbuster1]

3. Well, it was actually "man on dog," but

whatever. Cheezier idea--have someone blast "who let the dogs out" on a boombox wherever he appears.

[Conker]

2. Santorum

I live in PA, and I don't like Rick Santorum.Hopefully he will be voted out.

[Ian David]

4. How to beat Santorum

The general idea is to register someone as a third-party candidate on an outrageously conservative platform for the purpose of acting as a spoiler to split the reich-wing vote.

*Remember: Alan Keyes carried 30% of Illinois. As Jon Stewart put it, "30% of people in Illinois wear tinfoil hats and diapers."* If an Alan-Keyes imposter ran against Santorum and got even 5% of the vote...


1) Register someone to run in Santorum's district as an independent candidate.

2) Campaign on the most fundamentalist, anti-gay platform you can imagine. Wake-up in the morning and say to yourself, "Today, I am going to pretend to be Alan Keyes."

3) Reach-out to fundamentalists, evangelicals, and other un-enlightenment types.

4) Your platforms are going to be "protecting" marriage, denying civil unions, keeping gays out of the military, making sure that private companies are not allowed to extend domestic partnership rights, gay people can't file domestic abuse cases against their partners, banning gay-straight alliance groups and tolerance training from public schools, forbidding gay pride events, etc.

5) Here are some other things you will promise:

a) You're going to say you want to make sure the government can fund charter schools, even if they are religious schools.
b) You want the 10 commandments posted in every courthouse, classroom, police station, and in the passenger seat of every police cruiser where handcuffed suspects can read them.
c) You want rooms set aside in public schools for "voluntary prayer."
d) Students will have the option of adding the words, "We ask these things in
Christ's name o Lord, Amen" to the end of the pledge.
e) The pledge will always be followed by the song "God Bless America."
f) Gay people will not be allowed to name one another as beneficiaries.
g) Gay people will have their "medical proxy" rights weakened, so that "blood relatives" can over-ride the instructions of their partner.
h) All abortions will be considered murder, with both the abortionist and the mother put on trial.

6) You are going to run as the most godwhacked fundamentalist theocratic fundie that Pennsylvania has ever seen. This will split Santorum's vote, giving the Democrat a better chance.

7) You are going to liberally quote Fred Phelps and Alan Keyes, and perhaps even invite them on your campaign trail.

8) On the off chance that you're elected... well, politicians never keep their promises anyway, do they?

Remember: The goal is to split the bigot-fundie vote between Santorum and yourself.

See my prior post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=221&topic_id=5006#5097