Any one of us could have a stroke tomorrow and suffer diminshed intellect. We are the same as them. Rick Santorum has a daughter Bella from whom he has received so much joy. Not Downs but similar.
Yes, although in that case, I think we'd be more like Steven Crowder.
The number of straight-up @ssholes parading around out there, pretending to be "social conservatives," is astounding. It helps to give "social conservatism" a bad (but apparently deserved) name.