Since dropping out of the presidential race he was somehow doing good in, Rick Santorum has been pretty much off the radar. Now he's back and spewing more crap out of his proportionally small mouth.
He said it would be “suicidal” for the Republican Party to support same-sex marriage.
Yep. Backing a thing that over 50% of people support (and that number is ever growing), especially young people, would be bad for your image.
In an interview The Des Moines Register on Monday, Santorum compared some Republicans recent backing same-sex marriage to the Republicans in the 1960s and 1970s who broke with the GOP and supported abortion.
“I’m sure you could go back and read stories, oh, you know, ‘The Republican Party’s going to change. This is the future.’ Obviously, that didn’t happen. I think you’re going to see the same stories written now, and it’s not going to happen. The Republican Party’s not going to change on this issue. In my opinion, it would be suicidal if it did.”
Americans haven’t carefully thought out what legalizing same-sex marriage would mean for the country. “[It] is not a well thought-out position by the American public,” he continued.
“I think you’ll see, hopefully, a chastened Supreme Court is not going to make the same mistake in the (current) cases as they did in Roe v. Wade. I’m hopeful the Supreme Court learned its lesson about trying to predict where the American public is going on issues and trying to find rights in the Constitution that sit with the fancy of the day.”
He also said that he “hasn’t made any decisions” with regards to another run for President. Let's just pray to his God to make sure he does not run.
I don't have the energy to point out all the stupid crap he said in those few short paragraphs, but I just want to bring attention to two main failures of logic:
He said it would be “suicidal” for the Republican Party to support same-sex marriage.
Yep. Backing a thing that over 50% of people support (and that number is ever growing), especially young people, would be bad for your image.
In an interview The Des Moines Register on Monday, Santorum compared some Republicans recent backing same-sex marriage to the Republicans in the 1960s and 1970s who broke with the GOP and supported abortion.
“I’m sure you could go back and read stories, oh, you know, ‘The Republican Party’s going to change. This is the future.’ Obviously, that didn’t happen. I think you’re going to see the same stories written now, and it’s not going to happen. The Republican Party’s not going to change on this issue. In my opinion, it would be suicidal if it did.”
Americans haven’t carefully thought out what legalizing same-sex marriage would mean for the country. “[It] is not a well thought-out position by the American public,” he continued.
“I think you’ll see, hopefully, a chastened Supreme Court is not going to make the same mistake in the (current) cases as they did in Roe v. Wade. I’m hopeful the Supreme Court learned its lesson about trying to predict where the American public is going on issues and trying to find rights in the Constitution that sit with the fancy of the day.”
He also said that he “hasn’t made any decisions” with regards to another run for President. Let's just pray to his God to make sure he does not run.
I don't have the energy to point out all the stupid crap he said in those few short paragraphs, but I just want to bring attention to two main failures of logic:
- “[It] is not a well thought-out position by the American public.”
- What!? What do you need to think out? He talks like you need to sit at home in silence for hours contemplating wether gays should be able to marry. It's not that hard of a decision. Yes, they should be able to get legally married. There is no solid argument against that. So you don't have to think about it all that much. It's like saying people haven't thought about their position on interracial marriage. It's not something you need to think about for too long, since it doesn't affect you at all.
- The "suicidal" thing.
- As I said before, since when is it "suicidal" to have the same opinion as a majority of people. A majority consists of more people than it doesn't, therefore, you should actually try to side with the majority. Politicians usually know that Rick.
There are many more flaws here, but I think you're probably smart enough to find them yourself.
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