What does it mean that the four people who entered the race suggesting that it was god’s idea in the first place (Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, and Michele Bachman) have now all been eliminated? God’s power seems to have waned quite a bit from the days when he created the universe and parted the seas. Now he cannot even get his people the Republican nomination. Perhaps appearing on pieces of toast is the best he can do now.
But it is likely that we will still have Santorum to kick around in the future. The conventional wisdom is that he withdrew from the race now before he lost in his home state of Pennsylvania in order to retain be a viable contender in the future. That makes sense to me. After all, if Romney loses in the general election, there will be an immediate scramble for the 2016 Republican nomination. The Tea Party and religious conservatives will argue that Republicans lost twice in a row because their candidate was not conservative enough and that the strategy of nominating people who are considered ‘centrists’ by the punditocracy (i.e. John McCain and Romney) has proven to be a failure and that next time they should go with a real fire-breathing conservative. This was pretty much Santorum’s pitch throughout the campaign and he can say “I told you so”, and I am sure that he will, in his smug and sanctimonious manner.
In 2016 Santorum will have the advantages of still being young (58) and having gained national visibility in the current election cycle. Of course, his disadvantages also remain the same, that he is a dour, humorless, bigoted, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, prudish, religious scold.
Will Romney pick him to be his running mate? I doubt it. Nor do I expect him to be given a cabinet post if Romney should become president. While Santorum may be useful in the campaign, he would be a pain to have around afterwards because he won’t shut up, especially about his religious views.
I strongly suspect that Romney doesn’t like Santorum. The Frothy One would be a shoo-in for one cabinet post, if it existed. He’d make an excellent Secretary of Scolding.
“…he is a dour, humorless, bigoted, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, prudish, religious scold.”
Let’s not forget warmonger!
I’m cautiously optimistic that the U.S. is beginning to shift away from the hard right Christians. Conservatives can always be counted upon to over reach, which they have done.
Hear me now and listen to me later: Romney picks Rubio in hopes that he, Rubio, delivers Florida in the general election.
Not only did god’s four chosen candidates go nowhere, but the xian right wing extremists couldn’t even nominate a xian. It just might be that the influence of the oogedy boogedy branch of xianity is overestimated.
Romney is a Mormon, considered by most xians to not be one of them.
Secretary of the Dark Ages or religious kooks. Santorum makes Sarah Palin look good. Although he is merely even with Bachmann.
This would cause the clowns over at the whacknutdaily to turn purple as they have already declared Rubio ineligible because neither of this parents were citizens when he was born. At least one of Obama’s parents was a citizen.
doG likes a good larf as much as anybody; he was just screwing with their heads; then he dumped them. Same thing’ll happen in the end times, they’ll go flying through the air without clothes then doG’ll just let them fall back to earth…I can dream can’t I?
@ ‘Tis Himself, #1,
The Secretary of Hate is still open.
Dept of Hate is reserved for Limbaugh.
It is funny to see people fight to explain that there is no God haha. Science is proving that God exists! And also on the other hand science can not prove that God exists since a man (scientist) is a blind duck who can not see the light in Christ!
Come to Jesus scientist and you can see your Creator. Darwin already met Him 🙂
I don’t know how to reach Jesus in order to ‘come to him’. But if you are in touch with him, have his people call my people at my office (I am sure he knows the number) and we can arrange to do lunch.