Rick Santorum: 'I don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be"

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Rick Santorum: 'I don't care what the unemployment rate is going to be"

by Hunter

Rick Santorum, today:

"We need a candidate who's going to be a fighter for freedom. Who's going to get up and make that the central theme in this race because it is the central theme in this race," Santorum told a crowd of about 200 voters during a rally here on Monday. "I don't care what the unemployment rate's going to be. Doesn't matter to me. My campaign doesn't hinge on unemployment rates and growth rates. It's something more foundational that's going on."

As refreshing as I find it to have a Republican candidate for the presidency say openly he just doesn't honestly give a damn about unemployment, as opposed to merely beating around the bush about it, I think maybe he's lost the plot. Or maybe he hasn't at all: Rick Santorum's entire campaign is based around this new version of "freedom" he speaks of, which he defines as asserting his own narrow morality and turning it into the law of the land.

Compared to that theocratic social mission, worrying about little things like massive unemployment is hardly worth mentioning, right?

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/19/1075893/-Rick-Santorum-I-don-t-care-what-the-unemployment-rate-is-going-to-be-

Evidently, getting only 8 percent of the vote after telling the people of Puerto Rico they should learn English wasn't enough.

[w8liftinglady]

1. somehow, I actually believe he doesn't care.

[TrogL]

3. Freedom is slavery

Ignorance is strength
War is Peace

[nanabugg]

12. He must foresee that unemployment will be falling...nt

[elzenmahn]

15. He doesn't...

...and neither does any other Republican politician.

Notice, however, that they aren't even trying to hide their ambivalence toward the less fortunate or the unemployed. They're coming right out and saying it now. This makes the conspiracy theorist in me wonder if the fix is in, considering that they must feel that they can now "afford" to be so candid?

Curious...

[libmom74]

2. This idiot makes

Palin look like a Rhodes scholar, the fact that he is beating Romney in many places just shows how far gone the Republican party is.

[RKP5637]

4. What I find a bit scary is how far he has gone. I had thought he would have faded away by now. What

I always find more concerning than the candidate are those that vote for people like Santorum.

[LibDemAlways]

6. Agree. We have no one to blame for these idiots other than the

idiots who vote for them.

[felix_numinous]

5. The GOP candidates are cartoon characters.

It has gotten so obvious that the GOP is a 'party' of men who wish to govern behind a stupid puppet. It is their style because they wish to be underestimated and made fun of while they dismantle our Republic. These idiots are just a distraction.

[RKP5637]

8. Good observation IMO. It's like a cancer growing under a political camouflage. n/t

[undeterred]

7. as long as women are in their places it doesn't matter how many people are starving to death...

something more fun is going on

[2ndAmForComputers]

9. Whoa, he's channeling Mitt now.

[Major Hogwash]

10. He's just in it for the money, like Gingrich.

When the gravy train stops, he will get off and write a book about his experiences this year.
Just like Gingrich.

[Occulus]

16. Never ever believe that.

These people are serious as a heart attack. They view Orwell's 1984 and Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale as instruction manuals. If you need further evidence of this, see the Prop 8 fight, Michigan's antigay marriage amendment, and the nearly 150 bills/laws attacking women that have popped up all over the country.

These people mean it. Don't underestimate them for a second.

[alfredo]

11. Borowitz tweet about Santorum

Andy Borowitz ‏ @BorowitzReport Santorum made his very first sweater vest when he tore the arms off his straitjacket.

[Sedona]

13. Caribu Barbie called....

she wants her glasses back

[spanone]

14. christian nazi.

[hatrack]

17. Holy fuck, are he and Rmoney having a dumb-off?

Just when you think they couldn't possibly say anything stupider, they amaze time and again.

It's like Rick Perry never left.