#rick santorum

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.” -Rick Santorum in an interview with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier Times, 2006.(Citation.)

“When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.” -A July 2002 column for Catholic Online, in which Rick Santorum explains why some Catholic priests molest children. (Citation.)

“The shock troops of the village elders are now battering at the gates of the fortress of marriage. The gates will not long hold. The fortress is but a few years away—at most!—of being laid to ruin, unless we, like the apparently doomed warriors at Helms Deep in the movie The Two Towers, make that last charge against the foe.” -From Rick Santorum’s 2005 book, It Takes a Family.

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“I get a kick out of folks who call for equality now, the people on the left, ‘Well, equality, we want equality.’ Where do you think this concept of equality comes from?” said Santorum, according to ABC News. “It doesn’t come from Islam. It doesn’t come from the East and Eastern religions, where does it come from? It comes from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that’s where it comes from. Don’t claim his rights, don’t claim equality as that gift from God and then go around and say, 'Well, we don’t have to pay attention to what God wants us to do,’” Santorum continued to the enthusiastic crowd. “'We don’t have to pay attention to God’s moral laws.’ If your rights come from God, then you have an obligation to live responsibly in conforming with God’s laws, and our founders said so, right?”

ABC News link. Quotes from Rick Santorum at a town hall in South Carolina, January 2012.

“This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you think the Father of Lies - Satan - would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country. The United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack, in this day and age?…He [Satan] attacks all of us, and he attacks our institutions. The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first successful was in academia. He understood the pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest: that they were, in fact, smarter than everybody else, and could come up with something new and different. Pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth. Play with it, because they’re smart.” -Rick Santorum at Ave Maria University, 2008. Audio here.

“[Santorum] lambasted the president’s health care law requiring insurance policies to include free prenatal testing, ‘because free prenatal testing ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society. That, too, is part of Obamacare, another hidden message as to what President Obama thinks of those who are less able than the elites who want to govern our country,’ Santorum said.” -Rick Santorum in Columbus, Ohio, February 2012, via CBS News.

Free prenatal testing is not mandated by the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. “Obamacare”).

“Sixty years ago, people who did abortions were in the shadows, people who were considered really bad doctors. Now, abortion is something that is just accepted…This is the erosion. And it happens in the medical profession, and it can happen very fast. And I think Obamacare will lead us down that road.” -Rick Santorum at the American Heartland Forum in Columbia, Missouri, February 2012. (Video at 0:38 seconds.)

“We’re sort of new to this stuff, hydrofracking, in Pennsylvania. And [environmentalists are] preying on the Northeast, saying, ‘Look what’s going to happen. Ooh, all this bad stuff’s going to happen. We don’t know all these chemicals and all this stuff.’ …Let me tell you what’s going to happen. Nothing’s going to happen, except they will use this to raise money for the radical environmental groups so they can go out and continue to try to purvey their reign of environmental terror on the United States of America.” -Rick Santorum in Oklahoma City, February 8, 2012.

“What we should do, is [make unemployment insurance] just like welfare…have some sort of either work requirement or job training required as a condition.” -Rick Santorum in the January 16th, 2012 Republican Debate in South Carolina.  (Transcript.)

The man who goes on stage and uses the “MF” word has no right to complain about the woman who uses the same word. Ted Nugent went on stage and said obscene things about President Obama and Hillary Clinton and Trump welcomed him to the White House.

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