I disagree. This is senseless hyperbole that adds nothing to the debate.
"This is senseless hyperbole"
Santorum's comment or mine?
There is no "debate."
The duly-elected majority is attempting to rule--and the deposed minority is throwing temper tantrums and using every dirty parliamentary trick in the book to stall what should be the inevitable--while they also try to destroy and smear and bribe and coerce and blackmail and conspire to keep Originalist Pro-Life, Pro-Death Penalty judges off the federal bench. This is not a game. This is not a debate. This is WAR and the stakes are the future of America.
It's high time to level the big guns at the moral monsters blocking the Will of the People. Santorum done good, I'm very glad he said what he did and disappointed he "retracted" it.
The reason Santorum's quip stung and raised such a fuss was it was so close to the mark--plus it co-opted the standard DNC anti-RNC "extremist/Fascist" propaganda line.
"I disagree. This is senseless hyperbole that adds nothing to the debate."
Agreed. I was listening sporadically during work yesterday and Santorum was doing just fine until I heard that remark. I didn't like it when Byrd said it and I didn't like it when Santorum said it. I knew immediately after he said it that he just gave a small gift to the Dems - small because Byrd was the most recent pol to use such comparison. And I know Moveon.org and other lefty interest groups have used such comparisons in multiple ways but this was just opening a door for the left. Stupid when he had months, years to put together his remarks.
"This is senseless hyperbole.."
I agree. Santorum is out of it as far as this PA Repub is concerned. He was wrong where it counted most for him to be right---on Specter.
Being right on Terry Shiavo doesn't balance it, in my book. Help throw away our Constitution, then make a noble symbolic stand for Right to Life with no practical significance.
Now this wierd sounding statment.
Santorum is off, for some reason, lost the Force.