Does Rick Santorum have a Satan problem?

[IDemo]

Parts of a 2008 speech by Rick Santorum have surfaced online, in which he says Satan is subverting great American institutions. Its appearance comes at a time in the campaign when Santorum's rivals are trying to make voters think twice about supporting him.

Does Rick Santorum have a Satan problem? Specifically, is it a political negative for him that the Drudge Report all day Tuesday has highlighted a story about a 2008 speech he gave at Ave Maria University in Florida in which he said America is under assault by Satan?

“Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that [have] so deeply rooted in the American tradition,” Mr. Santorum said in that 2008 speech.

Audio excerpts from the speech indicate that Santorum said Satan had successfully subverted academia first, followed by mainline Protestantism, which he said is “in shambles,” and then the culture. Politics came last.

“The body politic held up pretty well until the last couple of decades,” he said in the speech.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2012/0221/Does-Rick-Santorum-have-a-Satan-problem

[warrior1]

1. he's fucking out of his mind

[alcibiades_mystery]

11. He might be out of his mind

I don't know about the fucking part, though.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Could it be... Satan?

Ricky is the reincarnation of The Church Lady.

[la la]

7. heh heh - i was just going to post...

that it was time for the Church Lady to show up!

[Raine]

10. LOL ... yes EXACTLY!

they need to bring the Church Lady back!

[lonestarnot]

20. That Church Lady is depicted by a puggie Dana Carvey, puggie from Snottsdale. I'd just leave her

where they found her. I can't stand to look at her or him.

[IDemo]

16. He could have Fireside Church Chats if he became president

[appleannie1]

3. The problem is that the far right, especially evangelicals, do believe that.

My sister has been telling me stuff like that for a long time.

[NAO]

4. Santorum thinks we all have a "Satan Problem"

I doubt he will apologize for this medieval nuttery.

He'll say something like "well, who do YOU think tempted Jesus in the wilderness for 40 days?"

[RandySF]

5. It won't hurt him with his base.

I grew up listening to that in church.

[la la]

8. yeah, me too...

that's what turned me into a 'non-church goer' and agnostic....too much-o-that-schitt!

[HopeHoops]

6. Yeah - in his boxer shorts.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Santorum is weird

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

12. I think he has a bigger 'rape babies are a gift from god' problem

and i'm surprised more people haven't seized on that one yet

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[regnaD kciN]

13. The devil made him make that speech!

Cue Flip Wilson...

[mick063]

14. I hate it when Religious solicitors come knocking on my door.

Now one of them is running for president.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

15. The Republicans should choose their nominee through a trial by ordeal

such as the medieval ordeals of boiling water or fire. If God approves of a candidate and he's not in the grip of Satan, he will survive. Santorum can go first.

[Quantess]

17. I like how he suggests educated people are Satan's toejam.

Academia...Satan's elites!
Just what our country needs for a leader, a religious zealot who wants us all homeschooled and sent back to the 15th century intellectually.

[MisterP]

18. now I have both the Louvin Bros. and Homer Simpson's songs about the Devil stuck in my head

[Chorophyll]

19. Rick Santorum IS Satan. nt

[zenaedmundson]

21. Santorium is our dream come true!

He is a gift that will keep on giving and giving and giving!!!!

[Mopar151]

22. Submitted for your consideration

Have Rick Santorum and Dana Carvey ever been seen together? I'm just sayin....