The 2012 presidential elections are now official defeat for radical Conservatism in this country, and thank God for that. Rick Santorum, one of the most dangerous human beings to ever reach such prominence in national politics, has dropped out, having been firmly defeated by Mitt Romney, a relative moderate. So whoever gets elected this November, we definitely dodged a bullet on this man. We've been all through why Santorum's brand of self-righteous moral judgment over the entire world is a horrible policy for American, a nightmarish return to Medieval standards of morality, and technically makes Santorum a Jihadist Muslim/Dalek*. Right-wing "Christian" craziness will just have to wait until 2016. Until then, I guess its time for a reasonable election between two moderate flexible career-politicians.
Though I think its worth being sorry that Rick Santorum wasn't completely defeated in the polls by Mitt Romney. He ducked out and surrendered right before the killing blow that was coming in the Pennsylvania primaries. Worse, he partially had to surrender due to a family emergency due to his youngest daughter's battle with Trisomy 18, an event I wish upon no family and no person. No child deserves to be sick. Either way, it means that Rick Santorum will be back in 2016, ready to try again. By then, one hopes, that the American nation will be even less ready to listen to his deranged policies.
This week homophobia lost, birth control won, pornography won, and modernism won a battle against superstition and madness. The government cannot decide morality, that's what Rick Santorum needs to learn before he can ever be seriously considered as a real politician and not a lunatic.
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* Of course, Santorum will never be awesome or adorable like a Dalek, so the metaphor is a bit stretched.
It's depressing that the state of US politics makes Romney appear moderate by comparison.
ReplyDeleteRomney hasn't fooled anybody with his claim of being a heavy Conservative. He wrote Obamacare. So luckily he's a mold of clay, meaning he'll do whatever the American people want.
DeleteRomney reverting to his old positions isn't a gamble I'd be happy to take. Regardless, the US is several notches to the right of most other Western countries.
DeleteWell, of course not. I'm not voting Romney. For one, he's a liar:
DeleteHis newest political strategy is to proclaim that the female unemployment under Obama was a "war on women". This of course assumes that 1) Obama hates women, 2) Obama manipulated the economy to create the recession even before he was President, and 3) Obama's policies targeted women to lose jobs. None of those things are true, Romney is just manipulating history. AND ignoring the fact that throughout this entire recession, men have had greater unemployment than women.
Also I have yet to see Romney apologize for Republican's direct attacks on women's rights such as, looking back for the last few months, constantly chipping away at abortion rights in every direction, creating loopholes for employers to cut female benefits, and in Wisconsin just last week, repealing the Equal Pay Act for the genders. By the way, the latter is exactly the kind of thing that actually would create an economic imbalance against women.
Most Republicans are mad at Romney for flip-flopping on health care. I'm mad at him for being full of shit.
Obama 2012.
Anyone voting for Romney is just doing it out of spite to Obama. But then again it was going to be the same with any republican that was going to the final rounds.
Delete*insert clip from the Nostalgia Critic's Independence Day episode where he's screeching in joy here*
ReplyDeleteI was happy when I learned that he was dropping, but then was sad when I heard the circumstances for dropping out was. No child should have to suffer like that....
ReplyDeleteBut at least now we won't have to worry about Santurom ever again. Now if he tries to run in 2016 then all the media has to do is play back all his stupid morality speeches and like your parents looking back at there childhoods in the 80's, "My God why did I ever thought that was cool?"
No matter who wins, everybody but the upper class is screwed over. The government doesn't even try to hide it anymore.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure Romney was "chosen" to win from the very beginning anyways in the primaries, that much was obvious. The elite strike away at our beliefs again and again.