Bill Maher Smears Rick Santorum as Saying: 'I Will Take My Marching Orders From the Pope!'

Ok then

Submitted by chiefpayne on Tue, 02/28/2012 - 1:34pm.

if he wants to use the fact he a commedian as a defense, then everytime he says something, LAUGH. If he says he's being serious, laugh HARDER.

Tell everyone you don't take him seriously because he's a commedian.

When he gets to the point where he says he's really, really being serious...THEN call him on it and see how he gets out of that.

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Yes. I Have.

Submitted by stratman on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:53pm.

I read the transcript and watched the video and posted a link to them in a different thread a couple of days ago. I just reread and watched again Kennedy's "religion" speech. Some golden opportunities Santorum missed presented below.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.

What Kennedy said 40 years ago sounds like it could have been written last week.  What a tremendous gift to have JFK's own words to employ against Obama, the MSM, and the Left in general.  Santorum, instead, reinforces his previous immature and boneheaded remark about wanting to throw up.  A smarter person would see the battlefield and judiciously use his weapons to outmaneuver the opposition.  Not the first time Santorum has spoken too quickly, artlessly, detrimentally.

I would not look with favor upon a president working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty. Nor would our system of checks and balances permit him to do so. And neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test — even by indirection — for it. If they disagree with that safeguard, they should be out openly working to repeal it.

Another veritable gold mine ignored, and the shame in it is Santorum agrees with this.  These words of JFK could have been used by Santorum to call out the MSM, the Obama Administration, and the Left who seek to impose ObamaCare on the citizenry.  It also could be used as a boot to the backside of Republican lawmakers to get vocal about Obama's latest provisions against religious freedoms as well as ridding the country of ObamaCare.

But let me stress again that these are my views. For contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.

Whatever issue may come before me as president — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise.

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...nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election.

24 carat gold words for Rick to use, and pretty much what Santorum has said himself.  Even JFK knew he was the sum parts of all his life teachings, including religion, and could not fully compartmentalize his conscience or eradicate those experiences.  But the presidency requires leadership of all people of the country, regardless of religious affiliation. Somehow Kennedy forgets to say in accordance with the Constitution to which his conscience should defer in that wiggle-room of a paragraph.

A thoughtful politician would not say "throw up".  A smart politician would find a way to take an iconic President's words and use them to his advantage.  "Throw up" does not accomplish much outside the base and will be hung around his neck like an albatross - one of several of Rick's own doing it's starting to look like.  And what kind of fodder have the Left barely touched on in Santorum's past remain?

Yes.  Pure gold served up on a silver platter, a gift from his angel above, and Rick pisses it away for a cheap shot at a dead guy liked by at least half the country.  This is not prudent or Presidential public behavior. 

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Rad,

Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 8:25pm.

As a Jew, even I would rather take orders from the Pope than I would listen 5 nano-seconds to Barky, Tingles, and Horseface.

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The dingbat goldwater89 has separation anxiety on the brain.

Submitted by The Vet on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:29pm.

No dingbat. President Kennedy. And since we are not uneducated boobs like you, we say President Kennedy. President Kennedy was saying that he does not get his marching orders from the Pope. Fairly clear to everyone but a dingbat as it was in English and we monkeypeople are all educated in English for at least 12 years.

As for the rest, I think I will just make up some crap. You did.

Senator Santorum's, yep there it is again, monkeypeople talking like they have respect for those around them, Senator Santorum's view on Mike and Ike's is the mango ones taste the best.

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