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By David Edwards
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 11:34 EDT
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum recently told a group of students that they needed to fight for conservative values in every aspect of your life because liberals who support abortion rights even make it uncomfortable to shower at the YMCA if you disagree with their views.
In a video clip posted by Right Wing Watch on Tuesday, Rick Santorum told the group Students for Life that the truth would only win if you have the passion, winsomeness and charity to bring to this debate, to bring it to your communities, to bring it to every aspect of your life.
You see, what the left does, what the pro-choice movement does is they just dont focus on their little issue, they focus on everything they do and every aspect of their life, he explained. They make it uncomfortable for students who come to Austin to shower at a young mens Christian association YMCA gym.
Because they live it. Theyre passionate. Theyre willing to do and say uncomfortable things in mixed company. Theyre willing to make the sacrifice at their business because they care enough
They simply wont give up. We have the truth and we give up! We have righteousness and we give up because its unpopular!
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/07/santorum-liberals-make-it-uncomfortable-to-shower-at-the-ymca/
You've gotta be kidding me.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Mr. David
(535 posts)How would you know all of this? Personal experience? Have you showered at the YMCA?
You're just attracted to the hunky men over there aren't you. Admit it, Ricky.
Volaris
(10,266 posts)maybe it's just the cock that he's enamored with. maybe not the men they are attached to, so much, but DEFINITELY a mis-understanding of Masculine Energy going on here lol.
Holy God this thread could be an all-nighter, but I had a bad day, and I have Sith Lords to kill.
The Blue Flower
(5,434 posts)I don't think that word means what you think it means. (Inigo Montoya)
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)to turn on the child-like, innocent charm to win over opponents.
Is this Santorum's idea of an honest debate?
Is this the kind of advice that conservative parents expect politicians to provide for their children?
Could anyone, who paid any attention to what Santorum said, mistake him for an articulate, thoughtful leader with a sound understanding of history and the lessons it has taught us?
Santorum may or may not understand the meaning of winsomeness, either way he sounds like an idiot.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)The Magistrate
(95,243 posts)liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)times I've heard (and danced to!) that song, I've never actually seen the video to it. I was fourteen when it came out and it was such a fun, silly hit and has remained so. I have no idea why it is, it just is. What's really funny is when they play it at a wedding reception or other party and everyone does the group dance to it, with the hand movements during the "Y M C A" part, particularly when they're drunk. Especially when they're drunk! Years ago, I worked for a division of TransUnion with managers who were about as stuffy as you could get. But at the annual Christmas party when they were all drunk as shit it was hilarious to watch them do this dance.
I think ol' Ricky just needs to "loosen up and lighten up" a bit and remove the giant broom up his ass. Maybe we can get him to dance to this a few times. And WTF IS his fucking obsession with sex stuff? Methinks he's a repressed, closeted gay, frankly.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Its just so damn catchy, nonsensical, silly, dumb, irresistible ... who knew this one would be a hit??
Siwsan
(26,250 posts)Someone has OBVIOUSLY been spiking little ricky's kool aid with goofy pills.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)He might totally freak out
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)Too bad for Santorum that others might be in the facility, who aren't confused idiots like he.
And he can always tell when a naked man is a liberal (they have the bigger dicks).
Zorra
(27,670 posts)I think the light makes them uncomfortable.
rurallib
(62,387 posts)Drale
(7,932 posts)while looking at the young men
Rstrstx
(1,399 posts)...makes him want to vomit in his mouth
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Link Speed
(650 posts)Ol' Ricky always freaks me a little bit out.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)when he showers at The YMCA.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)pro-lifers being kicked out of the Austin YMCA?
The YMCA was kind enough to allow the group to shower at their facility while they were in town lobbying the legislature. The pro-lifers were kicked out for bringing their politics to the gym, which is against YMCA policy.
What is Santorum talking about?
And what about showering with liberals makes him uncomfortable?
Is he uncomfortable because he thinks liberals are gay (though he was not addressing any gay issue)?
Does he think liberals are all baby-killers, who would deem some humans less valuable than others? Does he think liberals were the strong supporters of American slavery? And why would these beliefs make him uncomfortable in the shower?
Does Santorum think YMCA policy equals liberal intimidation of conservatives (enough so that they couldn't shower together)?
Does he think that a policy designed to keep politics out of a facility is a liberal policy?
Does Santorum think that pushing one's politics on others, in inappropriate places, equals not being aggressive enough? And what do any of these things have to do with using a YMCA shower comfortably?
What happens to Santorum when he's uncomfortable in the shower? Does he shrivel or does he grow?
He is one confused person and nothing he said at that rally did anything to make things less confusing.
That's some awe-inspiring, presidential material there, I'd say.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)The way he put it, it sounded like he thought liberals would accost random people in the shower with progressive or pro-choice diatribes that made pro-lifers 'feel uncomfortable'. Apart from the inherent wrongness of his positions, it seems he's completely hopeless at getting his message across too.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)alp227
(32,006 posts)This "Students for Life" group is one of those intellectually empty feel-good groups for the next generation of fundiegelical Santorum/Bachmann/Gohmert drones.
stuckinodi
(113 posts)Don't drop the soap...
markiv
(1,489 posts)i think the term for that, is 'cruising', according to a friend with a different preference
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Santorum is fighting hard against something he has likely suppressed all of his life. What normal person, male or female dwells on who is in the next shower over?
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)But most every other guy, ESPECIALLY the gay guys, don't talk at all. Bathhouses are a different thing altogether.
markiv
(1,489 posts)because of liberals, i keep to myself in public showers and restrooms. perhaps rick and larry should try it
liberalhistorian
(20,814 posts)YMCA, it's fun to shower at the YMCA"!
Nah, just doesn't have the same ring to it, sorry Ricky!!!
spanone
(135,795 posts)ananda
(28,836 posts)I've been thinking about the mental health of conservatives
these days. It's seeping throughout the whole society, and
it's really cracked.
dembotoz
(16,785 posts)i guess we are the ones who should be nervous
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)How many times a week did he "grip reality"? Did he grip it in the YMCA shower? And which dog was he thinking about at the time?
Inquiring minds want to know.
dembotoz
(16,785 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)RKP5637
(67,088 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Bring on the clowns!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)we can do it
(12,173 posts)muntrv
(14,505 posts)GP6971
(31,113 posts)if he was convicted of a crime and sent to prison?
Skittles
(153,113 posts)oh wait........
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Santorum: "Theyre willing to do and say uncomfortable things in mixed company."
Translation for you young whippersnappers:
An old fashioned way of refering to:
the presence of women or children.
as in: You shouldn't tell dirty jokes like that when in mixed company.
You can just imagine when the Opus Dei guys have social gatherings with their families: the women are in the kitchen with the kids. Rick and Clarence and Tony, plus CJ Roberts are smoking ceegars and telling dirty jokes in the den.
Opus Dei routinely refuses to confirm membership. But if Tony's wife regularly attends Opus Dei functions, and Roberts & Scalia's kids are going or have gone to Opus Dei schools and Clarence Thomas' conversion/return to the Roman Catholic Church was handled by the Opus Dei "priest to the political stars" John McCloskey, with the assistance from Paul Scalia (another OD priest, and son of Justice Scalia), then one might say if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, what is it?
WillyT
(72,631 posts)Talk about projection...
Thanks for the laugh!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)liberals keep the water too cold to conserve energy?
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)That's when we're all distracted by the War on Christmas.
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,921 posts)Good G-d, is this man for real?! So are the new Republican town hall meetings to held in the shower at the Y?! This sounds like bad gay porn for some reason.
PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)...And it came from a man who several million Republicans across the country voted for to make him President.
Wow....
At first, I thought this came from The Onion!
But the larger issue, beyond politics and policy, is that Rick Santorum is thinking about young men in gym showers!
Mr_Patriot
(11 posts)Picking up the soap in the shower - did that cause him any discomfort???
Monk06
(7,675 posts)1970s HAWT!!! I bet he has a grotto filled with muscular towel boys in his house !!!
HardTimes99
(2,049 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)beerandjesus
(1,301 posts)They_Live
(3,224 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 8, 2013, 02:07 PM - Edit history (1)
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)What a maroon. Not to mention twisted repressed perv.
Sad that there are people who go for his bullshit, though.
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)What kind of mind would even come up with such shit? He needs a psychiatrist.
Nunliebekinder
(33 posts)CarrieLynne
(497 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,603 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)Shower". Tell 'em DU sent you.
bearssoapbox
(1,408 posts)Ricky Santorum...YMCA Shower Cop!
And what's with that creepy look on his face all the time?
Is it his 'Cruising YMCA showers' face? If there's anyone to be afraid of in the showers it would be him.
treestar
(82,383 posts)in fact, what the heck is he talking about. Some liberal talked politics in a YMCA shower and he had to overhear?
Usually it's right wingers who start - it was probably that he got uncomfortable when he realized his comments were not rubber stamped by his shower mates.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I'm sorry, but I cannot translate that much crazy talk.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)the man bores me zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Rex
(65,616 posts)then go to the doctor to find out I have terminal creep.
Skittles
(153,113 posts)just being around him I imagine myself having the same expression I'd have if I found a pubic hair in my soup.......I'd look like, well, Mr. Poison
Rex
(65,616 posts)A pubic hair in soup is EXACTLY equivalent to one unit of Sanitorium!
By George, I think you discovered a new way to measure acute ikkyness!
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)so that he doesn't feel uncomfortable.
Rex
(65,616 posts)I refuse to try and parse that idiots true meaning. He puts the C and Y in creepy.
Wolf Frankula
(3,598 posts)I certainly wouldn't want a frothy mixture in my shower.
Wolf
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)The emotionally fragile right wing girlie men take whining to a whole new level
MNBrewer
(8,462 posts)I wonder when the last time Frothy was in a YMCA gym....
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)DearAbby
(12,461 posts)just my opinion. The guy is obsessed about gays! Can't stop himself from thinking about gays...even within the act of lovemaking with his wife, he is thinking only of gays. Why didnt God allow him to kick the fecking tires...Maybe he would have made a different choice...I think the guy is in deep denial about his own self image, his own identity...Find a map Ricky.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)appleannie1
(5,062 posts)AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)-
that kind of uncomfortable? You know what santorum is don't you. Sorry, this a family friendly site right?
What a wind bag,
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Mopar151
(9,975 posts)It's his little creepazoid acolytes who make people "uncomfortable". The "Conservative Value" they are fighting for is the right to plague and annoy good, honest folk who differ with them.
AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)-
go Ricky!!!
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spelling and grammar
Mopar151
(9,975 posts)On his knees, in the middle of the street, blocking Willie's bus, begging the band to repent, before the debbil weed makes more of teh gay.......
AmyStrange
(7,989 posts)-
just one string on his guitar has more intelligence than a hunnert of you,
nuff said
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Initech
(100,041 posts)Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)Is he saying that liberals lurk in the shadows to spy on boys and men naked in the showers at the YMCA? Or is he talking about how we prepare food or shop for clothes or change our oil? I'm very confused.
And we know In-Santorum is confused as well. He is so dense he doesn't even know what he is saying.
Trust me, as a gay man, if I were a lurker there would be more target-rich places than a YMCA locker room.
The whole statement is ludicrous but we know that the GOP love that if they can shove it to some group they don't like....
JEB
(4,748 posts)but we already knew that. Still astonishing. What kind of person is he talking to? Wow!
Volaris
(10,266 posts)just by themselves, if unpakced even a LITTLE BIT, constitute a Masters Degree in something, for SOMEBODY. The levels of projection, and the self-loathing masquerading as love and compassion are truly Shakespearian in scope, with just the right amount of Frued throw in for flavoring.