[meadsjn]

Seriously, I give up. There was a time when Freepers were actually above average intelligence. You’ve done a good helping to prove its no longer the case.

Now, that right there is funny, folks.

Especially since Santorum, like any other candidate who comes out of the box trolling for the evangelical vote, is trying to appeal to the bottom 10% of the electoral IQ spectrum.

Such candidates are just as fake as the TV preachers they emulate.

[DoughtyOne]

Now, that right there is funny, folks. Especially since Santorum, like any other candidate who comes out of the box trolling for the evangelical vote, is trying to appeal to the bottom 10% of the electoral IQ spectrum.

LOL, at least you don't have to worry about someone coming along and destroying you on this topic. You already took care of that.

[MSF BU]

I would characterize the vote that Santorum is after as, broadly, the “Reagan Republican” vote. Basically the same people or types of people who voted for Reagan over Ford or Reagan over Bush/Anderson/Baker, etc. The Pew Political Typology categorizes these people as “enterprisers” on “staunch conservatives” in the most recent edition of the report. They are, incidentally, among the most highly educated of all typology groups.

[darrellmaurina]

54 posted on 02/07/2012 8:17:44 PM PST by meadsjn: “Now, that right there is funny, folks. Especially since Santorum, like any other candidate who comes out of the box trolling for the evangelical vote, is trying to appeal to the bottom 10% of the electoral IQ spectrum. Such candidates are just as fake as the TV preachers they emulate.”

Blast it, Meadsjn, are you taking your talking points from the left wing of the Democratic Party?

If you want to have a serious talk about sociological demographics of evangelical and Roman Catholic voters, I'm game. Also, I'm no fan of televangelists who too often don't operate under legitimate church authority with a biblically constituted body of elders supervising their work.

But if you're going to say that Santorum, a practicing Roman Catholic and the son of a psychologist (i.e., has a doctoral degree) “like any other candidate who comes out of the box trolling for the evangelical vote, is trying to appeal to the bottom 10% of the electoral IQ spectrum” you are flat out wrong.

Sorry, but the stereotype of evangelicals as stupid and easily led belongs in the national news media, not Free Republic. Most conservatives know better. Those who don't need to learn quick.

Go read Dr. Aldo Santorum’s obituary here:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/obituaries/news/s_719135.html

I think most Freepers, no matter who they like in the military, will be very happy to read about a World War II veteran who used the GI Bill to go to school and then dedicated his life to helping veterans.

By the way, I just found out today that Santorum’s family and mine are from the same region of Italy. Interesting. But my family came here several generations before his.