Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Playing with a dead baby: Rick Santorum is disgusting (by anon)


Rick Santorum, one of the Republican presidential candidates, is disgusting on moral grounds.  Aside from fashioning his whole political campaign around being against homosexuality (which itself is morally questionable – Santorum’s campaign, not homosexuality), Santorum has made some morally repugnant decisions that should lead to his political demise.  He has shown that his decision-making skills are untrustworthy.  While I am sure there are more than just two decisions of his that are disgusting, here are two:

In 2005, the Washington Post reported:

Upon their son’s death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen’s parents’ home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.”

Yes.  Rick Santorum brought home his dead baby and played with it.  I realize that his intent was for his family to spend time with the baby as if it was a real, living person and a part of the family.  They wanted their other children to understand that the baby was not an abstraction.  But the baby was dead.  Not really sick.  Dead.  And so this act strikes me as grossly morbid.  Playing with the dead does not honor life; it shows a demented view of life.  This is bizarre behavior that shows questionable thinking. 

The second decision is the very fact that Santorum is running for president, which requires many months on the campaign trail away from his family.  You see, Santorum’s youngest daughter (age 3) could die at any moment because she is afflicted with Trisomy 18, a genetic disorder that kills about 9 out of 10 children affected by it before and during birth.  And then only 1 and 10 who make it past birth make it to their first birthday.  That makes “Bella” something of an outlier, but Santorum himself said that her life span is “always measured in days and weeks.”  He realizes that she could die at any time.

They why is he campaigning and opting to not spend that precious time with her?  This is a question many are asking of Santorum (in case you are thinking I’m alone in this).  Many have called on Santorum to drop out of the presidential race because of his family obligations.  However, Santorum strongly believes that he should stay on the campaign trail.  He said at the Defenders of Freedom event in November, “Yet here I am... because I feel like I wouldn’t be a good dad if I wasn’t out here fighting for a country that would see the dignity in her [Bella] and every other child.”

If Bella dies while he is campaigning (and if he wins the GOP nomination, which is his goal, it would be another year more on the campaign trail), I would like to know whether he felt he dignified her life.  I’d like to know whether he felt like he was being a good dad.  IMHO, this is another morally questionable decision Santorum has made.  If you love your child as Santorum says he does, you don’t decide to spend tons of uninterrupted time away from your child for such a long shot job prospect.  The cost isn’t worth it.

Don’t get me wrong.  I cannot stand Santorum for basically everything he believes.  But if he were to be president, I would at least like him to have good, morally sound thinking skills.  The above two tidbits count against Santorum having those skills.

I’m just shocked that Santorum has gotten this far.  Our country is doomed.

23 comments:

  1. Vote Ron Paul! He is the only one of the republicans running who is not only consistent when it comes to his political views, but also he seems to be the most dignified and trustworthy. He's the only chance we have.

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  2. Ron Paul is a libertarian quack. He cares more about capitalism than his own blood.

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  3. I'd like to know what makes you say that, 1:57...

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  4. Ron Paul has a whole list of stupid, weird changes he would make if elected as well as a stupid track record to prove it.

    A few of the dumbest:

    He cast the single "no" vote on the Darfur Accountability and Divestment Act of 2007. The Act proposed that US companies be banned from investing in a country (Sudan) that was carrying out genocide against its own people. Paul said that divestment wasn't in the best interest of America.

    He doesn't believe that global climate change is a major problem.

    He wants to eliminate the Department of Public Instruction.

    He wants to end federally assisted student loans.

    He wants to abolish the federal welfare system entirely.

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  5. I cannot stand Santorum with his beady, pricky looking eyes. I cant stand people who think they have the corner on morality.

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  6. Karen Santorum wrote a book about the experience: Letters to Gabriel: The True Story of Gabriel Michael Santorum.[130] In it, she writes that the couple brought the deceased infant home from the hospital and presented the dead child to their living children as "your brother Gabriel" and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital. The anecdote was also written about by Michael Sokolove in a 2005 New York Times Magazine story on Santorum.[1] Karen is also the author of a book on etiquette for children.[131]

    From Wiki: Note, I'm just wondering what the proper etiquette for children meeting a dead sibling would be?

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  7. Ron Paul is the kind of person who doesn't support upholding gay rights-- just the states' abilities to shit on them. "Consistency" is a commodity and all, but that doesn't even scratch the surface of what it takes to be a basic problem solver, let alone a good president.

    Pretty sure he's also verifiably racist, among other things. I think the only reason other candidates don't really attack Ron Paul is that he's a non-threat.

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  8. who wants to hear some dead baby jokes?

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  9. At this moment Romney, Paul, and Santorum are tied for first in the Iowa primary. 23% each. God help us. duck-duck-goose

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  10. Ron Paul on Gay marriage - "The federal government or any other authority has no right or business telling people who or how one can marry, people should be allowed to live and marry whom they want. And the states should have the right to recognize gay marriage."

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  11. Santorum- I don't know how I would deal with this horrible situation but I don't want anybody telling me how I should deal with it. Santorum is an inflated guy who only wants what he wants and whatever he does is the right way and this is how he thinks we should all think. He needs people to follow him to feel important. That is NOT what this country is about! We all have different views. We don't need somebody like this leading our country. He has no real chance anyway.

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  12. Santorum is a morally bankrupt (voted into the top 3 most corrupt politicians two years in a row, 2005,2006) career politician who managed to pull the wool over the eyes of some dupes in Iowa, thanks to GOP pressure and media complicity. It's a manufactured, unsustainable rise that will deflate before NH.

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  13. This country has an Evangelical problem. It's a disease that appears to be spreading. Is there a cure?

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  14. Well at least Ron Paul isn't a religious nut, a bullshitter, a flip flopper, a sell out, a business man, a fed enthusiast, a warmonger, homophobic OR racist, a corporate puppet, a money and power hungry, self-righteous prick, or anything else that makes every other candidate non-vote worthy. He's shown honesty, passion, and a true desire to do what is best for America and its people and I believe in him. If anything at all, we have to admit he is the most promising candidate.

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  15. Stop all this damn sensationalism. You know damn well they did not take the dead baby home to play with. They were in mourning. Have some respect. A baby died! SO WHAT IS HE SUPPOSED TO DO SIT BY HER BED 24/7?

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    1. You idiot, there are laws protecting the DEAD, whether they are Senior Citizens, Midlife, Teenagers, or babies. You can't just defile a dead human for your own interest. I can't just drive around with a dead family member, take them home, hug on them for hours on end, and do what I want with the body. There are moral reasons for this, that baby has no choice, and there are health laws. What if everyone took their dead family members home, I think health matters for the whole of the living members of that community trump the strange choice and allowance to take dead people around unchecked. Get real. When would you really take a dead person home, or even be allowed to do that. Someone turned their head when this went on.

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  16. Urh, barp, um, zork, pop zing.

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  17. 2:05, I'll tell you why Ron Paul is dangerous. He's for greed, pure and simple.

    Because he follows Ayn Rand's economics, Paul wants to deregulate the economy so that big business can do whatever it likes. He wants capitalism to reign free from all government interference. What makes capitalism thrive, however, is the lust for more and more money. Capitalism does not care to feed the hunger, take care of the sick, or help the poor. It's all about money, and getting more of it. That is why we had the financial collapse in 2008. That is why there is such a thing as the OWS movement. That is why the gulf between the rich and poor has never been so wide as right now. Ever since Reagan's economic policies that started massive deregulations, the income disparity has grown. Bush 1 continued deregulating, and so did Clinton, and Bush 2. They all allowed for greed.

    What makes Paul dangerous is that he wants to blow the lid off of any regulation. He believes that government absolutely has no Constitutional right to regulate the economy. If he gets his way, the 1% and the rest of the capitalists will run the tables and we will all be left in the dust. He believes in capitalism more than he believes in the good most Americans. You would be foolish to pin your hopes on Ron Paul.

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  18. Why exactly does Rick Santorum hate gays so much? Why does he believe that marriage has to be between a man and a woman? Is it just because of religion because that seems dumb.

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  19. Jan 4, 2012, so who are you going to pin your hopes on, Howdy Doody? Or the slick black guy, Barry Sotero, aka Barrack Obama. What has he done for you lately? So who you gonna call? Ghost Busters?

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  20. What king of father is Santorum? a father that love power, money, and materials more than his own biological child? How you gonna tell me that you love a country more than your own child, that's a pure lie, America let's get it right this time. This man does not have a heart, how can he be so strong in death situation like that? I do not get it, as a mother my kids come first then every body and everything else.

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  21. Santorum must be gay. He must be dating some guy right now. Every person who comes off so strongly against homosexuality is hiding something they don't want other people to know. Look at Michelle Bachmann's husband. Total flame. Santorum's flaming, but maybe he doesn't even realize it yet. Poor guy.

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  22. Excuse me, I thought there were laws against defiling a dead person. That baby had no choice!!! Being drivin around the town then coddled by bewildered children is not respectful of the DEAD. I love my family, if one of them dies, do I get to drive them home and hug on them for days, and bury them wherever I please? This is just too much weirdness for the regular voter. Too out of touch with the rest of us. just crazy is all.

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