http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/09/1376737/-Preparing-for-presidental-run-Rick-Santorum-proudly-trumpets-his-record-of-anti-gay-bigotry?detail=email
If anyone was curious if Rick Santorum would pull back a wee bit on publicly hating teh gays in his perennial run for president, his remarks during a meeting with Iowa state legislators yesterday should put any question to rest.
Noting his opposition to the 2003 Supreme Court decision striking down laws against sodomy, Rick thinks that all that frothing he did back in the day provides him all the gravitas needed to be handed the keys to the Oval Office.
The video first posted to the conservative blog Caffinated Thoughts and later picked up by Right Wing Watch, shows Santorum at his whiny, victimized best. He gnashes his teeth and rends his garments over the press reporting his bigoted and extremist views in practically every race he has ever entered.
One social conservative issue that I think is, two of them, I should say, are paramount right now. Number one, the one that has been in the news recently is religious liberty. I know we've all, and State legislatures have seen what happened in Indiana and Arkansas. What happened there was the media created a firestorm and leaders didn't lead. ...
And you learn that the media can be brutal. It can be intimidating. It can be overwhelming, and you can look at folks and think, ‘That is a stand-up person, they are going to stand-up tall. They are not going to back down when it gets tough.’ Then you realize, ‘Wow, that is not what I thought was going to happen.’
I just share this with you because there is nothing… and this is what Walt (Rogers) was talking about… there is nothing that substitutes for experience, and particularly experience being in the middle of a vortex of a firestorm when your conservative principles and ideas are under the most intense scrutiny. And where you’re being called everything you can possibly imagine and trying to intimidate you from backing away from your position. That is when you find out if the person has what is necessary to stand up and lead through a difficult time, not back down, not run for the hills, not bail out, but actually stand-up in a positive and hopefully winsome way and make the arguments.
I always say when it comes to whether it's religious liberty now or the marriage issue or a whole bunch of other things, we are losing these arguments simply because we aren't making them. We're not making them because we are intimidated from them. And I think that's just a...if that continues then life as we know it, particularly the family, is going to become a very very bad trap in the long term.
all i read was he thinks if you are standing up for bigotry and hate you're a great guy and his past standing up as a bigot and hater served him well because it gave him the tools he needs to be able to run the country, what i must have missed was the rest of that statement ending in the fact that it really only makes him able to hate less than half the country those who share his ideals of hate and bigotry and teach their kids to be just like them and obviously him. that's like a car riding on 1 3/4 tires.
let's get real no matter who is PRESIDENT they can not run the country themselves there are always those who oppose sometimes within their own party, so keep in mind who you elect locally is just if not more important then who gets to sit in the big chair.
