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President Rick Santorum - Seriously?
by Izzy

For once, Donald Trump has actually said something vaguely correct. In a recent video of his,
he said he had no idea how Rick Santorum could actually manage to pull off three victories despite
the fact he lost in 2006 by 19% (a national record) - and now wants to run for President. The fact
he has next to zero electability chance against Obama, with Real Clear Politics giving Obama a
comfortable 9% lead, should be enough for Republicans to abandon him. We also know that
Republicans are desperate to find a replacement to Mitt Romney – AKA Mr 25%. Surely though,
they can’t be that desperate they have to turn to Rick Santorum? At least Gingrich and Paul would
have a decent debate with Obama. Santorum has hardly been touched by the news media and quite
frankly when you really start to delve into the deep dark fathoms of his mind he deserves to be fully
scrutinised and exposed.

K Street Project

From 1994 onwards, the GOP started getting into bed with lobbyists and corporate drones en masse.
The very definition of what has come to be known as crony capitalism at its most vulgar. Santorum was
the Senate liaison for the project, meeting with GOP strategists and then-House majority whip Tom DeLay
to candidly pick and choose jobs for fellow Republicans. This is not some crazy whipped-up conspiracy
theory; all of this is in the public domain. The project even had a written dossier to keep tabs of which
companies offered Republicans jobs. What’s the bet that if they did, they would get special tax incentives
or favoured legislation passed? Amazing then that Santorum fancies himself as an outsider.

Your Right to Privacy Government Spying on you

Everyone has a right to privacy? Not according to Santorum. The first bit of this video bluntly shows
that Santorum had no interest in keeping government out of the bedroom. Can you imagine what society
would look under the doctrine of President Santorum?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gwwmm-cQxU&feature=player_embedded#!

In particular, his opinion on gay rights is just plain disturbing. In a 2003 interview, he said that if
the Supreme Court allows you to have gay sex in your home, it’s the same as having the right to bigamy,
polygamy, incest and adultery. It’s surprising to think that even Republicans would want a president so
passionately obsessed with gay sex.

How far would Santorum take his crusade on invading our privacy? We know he’s preparing the troops
to storm your bedroom because apparently privacy isn’t in the Constitution, but what about your church
or schools? Maybe he’ll even snoop into our bank account and check on credit card transfers or something
even more trivial, who knows?

Foreign Policy

Just as Afghanistan is finally being wrapped up, Santorum is spinning the war propaganda on Iran.
Over 70% of Americans disagree with the wars in the Middle East, yet Santorum is openly threatening
to bomb Iran if he becomes President, insisting that they pose a direct threat to the US. Firstly, the CIA
and Mossad (Israel’s intelligence agency) have both questioned whether or not Iran really has any nuclear
weapons. Secondly, their military is mostly comprised of 1960s and 70s equipment the US and Britain
gave to the Shah, a puppet dictator put there in place of a democratic government. The US spends nearly
$700Billion annually on defence alone, more than every other national defence budget combined – probably
more than enough to hold off Iran’s aging military capabilities.

Santorum’s rise to political stardom will actually work against the Republicans. His neoconservative ideology
appeals to a minority hardcore right-wing activist base that will campaign for him relentlessly. As the primary
goes on he’ll likely pick up substantial amounts of delegates, perhaps even enough to get the nomination and
thus giving Democrats an easy victory. Or, he’ll divide the GOP right the way to the convention and then
through to the general election - again, giving Democrats an easy victory. With Super Tuesday fast approaching,
the Republican candidates will unleash more firepower at each other, further dividing and splitting the party.

It will be very interesting to see if Santorum can turn this momentum into even more victories,
a worrying prospect that his ideas then are actually being taken up by the public.

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