Santorum calls Obama health program bad for marriage

[Little Tich]

Source: Reuters

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum accused Democratic President Barack Obama's administration on Monday of implementing healthcare policies that discourage marriage and hurt families.

The former Pennsylvania senator, trying to rally conservative voters and put pressure on Republican rival Mitt Romney, said Obama's 2010 healthcare overhaul gave couples financial incentives to remain unmarried.

"Do you realize that if you are married under Obamacare, you pay a lot more than if you are living together under Obamacare? A lot more," Santorum told 500 voters packed into Froehlich's Classic Corner restaurant. "Thousands of dollars more for the average American family you paid if you are married."

Santorum's attack was the latest in a series of provocative statements in which he or his staff has touched on religion, healthcare or abortion in criticizing the Democratic president.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/21/usa-campaign-santorum-idUSL2E8DK2YA20120221

[warrior1]

1. He's out of his fucking mind.

[gateley]

2. Oh my God -- he just gets more and more bizarre! Does he HEAR himself? nt

[Kber]

3. He's going for the tea party hat trick.

Next he propose legislation forbidding gay people from having abortions.

(And yes, he's out of his fucking mind for sure.)

[liberal N proud]

4. Keep talkiong little Ricky

At some point you electoral bubble will pop.

When done there will be a padded cell waiting.

[sarcasmo]

5. Please keep opening that mouth.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. will BigMediaCorp ever admit that Santorum is nakedly insane?

[RKP5637]

7. Instability and nuttiness at its best!

[AlbertCat]

8. Next up...

Obama's health care plan...

... discourages the wearing of clothes

... actually causes cancer

... will force you to eat Indian food (and you know where THAT can lead!)

... will make you fart in church

... will help aliens take over the planet!!!!

... will force men to have abortions too

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. When forced to attend church, I always eat beans for a reason.

[customerserviceguy]

15. And you wonder why you're always sitting in your own phew! n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

20. A pun, a pun, I do Confess!

[CAPHAVOC]

13. If the court throws out the mandate

We won't even have to buy insurance unless we get sick. How can he beat that?

[Glimmer of Hope]

18. Noooo...........not Indian food!

[SomeGuyInEagan]

9. "...divisive and patently false claims..." Wow. Tough talk.

Seriously, call him a lying fucker or don't bother responding to it. For fuck's sake, people.

[Warpy]

11. Well, it's just more proof that the man is baffled by numbers

since two singles with children have to pay for one family policy and one single policy. That costs more than one family policy covering all of them would.

But I don't expect Mr. Patriarch to know this stuff. I don't expect him to know anything that hasn't come from a pulpit.

And if that doesn't disqualify the man from politics, this country is totally fucked.

[provis99]

12. is he playing a game of random word association?

I say: bat. He says: peanut butter!
I say: Kleenex. He says: Nigeria!
I say: health program. He says: marriage!

Santorum, you are a very strange man.

[sakabatou]

14. C'mon Santorum, keep digging that hole of yours.

[Skittles]

16. he is in serious need of an intervention

seriously

[Smilo]

17. So no healthcare at all

equals happy marriage - just don't get sick - do I have that correct InSane-torum?

[area51]

21. Logic ...

it escapes him.