2004 Presidential Candidate Calls for Santorum to Resign Senate Post

Guardian Unlimited UK ^ | April 23, 2003 | wire report

[Petronski]

"gets off"

You're projecting. You are the only one 'getting off' on these comments. Everyone else understands why he said what he said.

[hang 'em]

I wish I were and that this had not happened. But I don't care what political stripe one wears. This makes me physically ill.

Are you by any chance gay? (not that there's anything wrong with that).

[cksharks]

My response to dean would be he is not qualified to be president because he caint read. He was not bashing anyone and if he read the article he would know that.

[mabelkitty]

They think he should be "fired" the way Communist leaders "fired" the mayor of Beijing over SARS.

Tells you where they are coming from.

[eaglebeak]

What an ugly can of worms this is, eh?

[BibChr]

(...even though actually there IS....)

[m1911]

My apologies. The "in forum" search only gave me posts back to April 1, even when I hit the "more posts" link.

[Petronski]

He has embarrassed his constituency and the senate of these United States.

Speak for yourself, not his constituency. If you're so sick about this, go puke to get it out of your system and move on. Or maybe some Pepto...

[Howlin]

Disruptor alert!

[ewing]

I, FR Member Ewing, co-Chair of the 'Honkies for Sharpton 2004 Presidential Campaign' call on Howard Dean to officially stop making public pronouncements like this until he hits 10% in any national poll.

(its good enough for the Presidential Debates, so why not here?)

[jonalvy44]

contacting Santorum to express my support...this pc madness must come to an end.

[RichInOC]

Democrats are so cute when they're angry.

[m1911]

'Rick Santorum's failure to recognize that attacking people because of who they are is morally wrong makes him unfit for a leadership position in the United States Senate.'

Am I the only one who thinks that's a semantic loop? Isn't Dean attacking Rick Santorum for who he is? Does that mean that Howard Dean is dropping out of the presidential race?

[Once-Ler]

What an ugly can of worms this is, eh?

Hardly. It is a non-story and forgotten tomorrow.

[dirtboy]

Maybe he's....?

A liberal? Looks like it. Check out this post of his:

Going into this mad war is supporting our troops? How crazy can you be? It is going to kill our young men and women for no real purpose! KILLING OUR MILITARY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FOR NO REAL PURPOSE, FOR A PREEMPTIVE, UNCONSTITUTIONAL STRIKE!

Do you really support them? NO! You want to KILL THEM to justify your political partisanship!

10 posted on 01/26/2003 1:21 AM EST by eaglebeak

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He also has promoted the importance of safe, legal abortion...

[Mo1]

Santorum didn't bash anyone

BTW .. I listen to only a bit of Rush today .. he mentioned something about an ABC note/memo .. what was he talking about?

[lugsoul]

It is amazing to me that anyone with even the slightest understanding of the U.S. Constitution can defend the Texas law. At least our Georgia sodomy law (which our Supreme Court recently struck down based upon state constitutional grounds) applied to ALL people EQUALLY. And it amazes me that those whose view of this is based upon "nature" - i.e. don't go in through the out door - are completely unwilling to take the same position with regard to heterosexual activity.

CONSERVATISM, BY DEFINITION, IS ABOUT LIMITING THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT OVER YOUR LIVES.

[trebb]

Yep, and he was clearly talking about a law banning homosexual sodomy - the Texas law before the SCOTUS. To try to claim that the comments were not about that subject is so entirely disingenuous as to be unworthy of debate. Whether Rush said it or not. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Overturning the law banning homosexual sex may have been the topic, but his comments/intent are still misstated. If SCOTUS uses wording like "consensual" rather than specifying some limitations, the ramifications will be a lot greater than just decriminalizing homosexual sex. Granted, as a practicing Catholic, Santorum disagrees with homosexuality, but his greater concern is an opening of the floodgates about what is protected.

[dighton]

Or maybe some Pepto...

Oh sure, everybody's a doctor nowadays.

He needs Xanax.

;-)

[eaglebeak]

I don't find his discussing "the law" (in a general sense) indelicate. I find a U.S. senator's insistence on government getting into how people screw--and what they screw (he had to throw that in)--abhorrent.