Rick Santorum,..surrounded by his family, all wondering why God hates their dad

[underpants]

NOT MY CAPTION
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/11/11/043119.php

Rick Santorum Concession Speech - Now A Top Selling Ring Tone
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5837672

[NanceGreggs]

1. "Keep crying for the cameras, honey ...

... or mommy will just keep squeezing your shoulders tighter, and tighter, and tighter ..."

[tritsofme]

2. Are we all supposed to laugh at the little girl or something?

Its not her fault her father is major league douche-bag.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. Let's just let this picture

fade into history, shall we?

[AndyA]

4. Note to Santorum Kids: Your Daddy is a bad man. He hates. He

discriminates. He's a bigot.

What goes around comes around. It's called Karma. Learn that we are all equal, regardless of our skin color, sex, sexual preference, religion, etc. And we all must share one World, which gets smaller all the time. Treat everyone equally and you won't grow up to be hated like your Daddy.

[ClintonTyree]

5. The look in his son's eyes (the one on the right).......

sends shivers down my spine.

We really shouldn't involve anyone's kids in their parent's politics. I hated it when the freepers were always putting Chelsea Clinton down. It's not fair.

[Ilsa]

34. That poor kid.

He looks so lost. He looks like he's ready to morph into a demon like Carrie, to get rid of the people who hurt his feelings.

It really is too bad the kids get drawn into the politicians' messes, and it is too bad the politicians drag them into it.

[rubberducky]

6. That poor little girl, how could her parents.....

have put these poor kids front and center. Every time the little girl tried to turn around, her "mother" turned her around to face front. How sick.

[Sequoia]

29. That's disgusting. Poor kids. Just think of the abuse at school

from other kids teasing them. Horrid parents. They keep this up those kids will go wild when they get older.

[blue neen]

37. They're cyber-schooled.

That was one of the issues in the election. Santorum was making PA taxpayers pay to cyber-school his kids, while they were living in VA all the while.

[Sequoia]

43. Of course, they would be. Should've known --- public school is house of devil or something.

[Red Zelda]

7. Are those kids for real?

Nerd bus arriving on track 3!

[Dr.Phool]

8. First, evil Dems made Mrs. Alito cry....

And now this. Have we no shame?

[90-percent]

11. Can't help it

I feel sorry for those three kids. They didn't get to choose their parents. The poor little crying girl up front just looks so sad. I hate seeing any kids cry.

-85% Jimmy

[LynneSin]

12. I feel sorry cause dad has used them as political pawns

Let's hope they can find some normalcy in their lives

[Jack Rabbit]

14. I, too, hate to see little kids cry

And I wish Mr. Santorum had kept his backstage.

I really hope that little girl lives this down.

[lyonn]

45. That's the results of brain washing, who is in control there?

Daddy brings a dead (?) weeks old fetus of a future sibling home for their viewing? How mind boggling is that?

[zbdent]

35. She may be crying because she will actually have to attend a school

back in Pennsylvania, where she doesn't know anybody ... now that her Daddy lost his job, he may actually have to do some real work, instead of getting $$$ from under the table ...

But it looks like the kids could stand to miss a few meals ...

[rsmith6621]

9. Those Childern Have heald A DEAD FETUS

Says Randi Rhodes on several occasions....That is probably what is partly wrong with them...

[Contrary1]

20. So have I...

I held my dead twin granddaughters for as long as I could last year.

No judgement from me...I've been there.

[rsmith6621]

24. So Sorry For your loss.....

The point I was trying making was that the Senator was able to take the fetus home without any supervision....

[LiberalFighter]

25. Could part of the fetus be inside the doll and why girl is crying?

[AndyTiedye]

27. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[RamboLiberal]

28. They held a dead baby - it lived 2 hours outside the womb

I'm sorry but every time DU'ers and Randi Rhodes spill this heartless crap you sound just like the Freepers.

It was their baby. It was their business how their family decided to mourn this child. I can't stand Santorum but I wish you all would give this a rest - and give the crying kids a rest too! Enjoy the Casey victory.

In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.

Upon their son's death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen's parents' home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.

"That's my little guy," Santorum says, pointing to the photo of Gabriel, in which his tiny physique is framed by his father's hand. The senator often speaks of his late son in the present tense. It is a rare instance in which he talks softly.

He and Karen brought Gabriel's body home so their children could "absorb and understand that they had a brother," Santorum says. "We wanted them to see that he was real," not an abstraction, he says. Not a "fetus," either, as Rick and Karen were appalled to see him described -- "a 20-week-old fetus" -- on a hospital form. They changed the form to read "20-week-old baby."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html

[harlinchi]

46. I've made comments about that event before. I was wrong.

Since, happily, I've never been involved in circumstances where I had the choice to cuddle a deceased fetus or baby, I should not negatively comment on those who have. I've said many things about Santorum. Commenting on how he handled this sorrowful event or on how his children look in the pictures we see are things I regret.

[zanne]

10. I feel bad for politician's kids.

When I was a kid, my father was in local politics. He was an alderman, then a county commissioner. Then he ran for mayor and lost. When you're a kid, you don't understand that there are Democrats and Republicans, or that those candidates stand for different issues. You just know that people didn't vote for your dad, and it really hurts. It took a me a long time to understand that they didn't dislike him as a person. Politician's kids have it hard.

[Atlas Mugged]

13. Matching dress, headband and doll outfit???

There's something very 60's about that. The doll even looks like it could be the same one that the little girl from 'Family Affair' carried around. And we all know what happened to her.....

[Sequoia]

31. I'm sure that's that's one of those "American Girl" dolls.

My daughter wants one but I think they're creepy. Those dolls come with an outfit and one just like it for the human girl. Those dolls have more accessories than I do.

[Ilsa]

33. Someone picked a blond American Girl for this kid? She's a brunette. nt

[Sequoia]

44. When she's older maybe her mom will let her dye her hair.

[Mz Pip]

40. 60s?

Try the 50s.

I feel bad for the kids. The poor little girl is being force onto the public stage to be used to make people feel bad for her father. She's being used in the worst way.

Maybe Karma will have her say eventually. Perhaps the little girl will grow up to be an emancipated woman and use birth control and think for herself.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[valerief]

15. Those poor f'd up kids. nt

[conservdem]

16. Posting this is rather mean spirited isn't it.

Ask yourself how you would feel if this were the child of a Dem that lost. I do not understand why more people do not consider this or do and then ignore their own good judgment.

[gratuitous]

17. I can see where that argument could be made

But I've looked and looked at the picture, and I just can't see a gun pointed at Mr. Santorum that forced him to march his entire family out to the podium while he made his concession speech.

Some things are private, and his family's upset over his loss should have been kept private. By not doing so Mr. Santorum was using them as political props, which isn't too surprising, in that it's of a piece with his entire political career, largely built on style rather than substance.

I wouldn't post the picture myself, but by stage-managing the photo op, Mr. Santorum is really ultimately responsible for its use or misuse. In my opinion.

[kestrel91316]

19. Agreed.

[Beaverhausen]

18. Jesus Christ - didn't we have enough of this childishness last week?

Stop making fun of those kids, who are doing nothing to hurt you. If you want to pick on their father - go right ahead. But leave these kids alone and grow the hell up!

[Dulcinea]

21. God doesn't hate Santorum.

But the PA voters do.

That said, leave the kids alone. They didn't choose to be Santorum's kids.

[happydreams]

22. Santorum's sleaze: Now he's using his kids as stage props.

:eyes:

[thereismore]

23. I'm sure the kids are perfectly nice, but they look like the Addams family nt

[LiberalFighter]

26. I perfer the Addam's kids over this bunch

[calico1]

30. Look at the dress the girl is wearing..

Who the hell dresses like that anymore? She is a serial killer in the making....

[RamboLiberal]

32. No she's just a good Christian Republican in the making

I feel sorry for his kids - I think they are somewhat isolated with the home schooling. I don't knock home schooling, but I can't help but think a lot of my attitudes were formed by being in different environments, exposed to teachers and students who didn't necessarily think like my parents.

[Infinite Hope]

36. The girl looks a little hold to be cuddling a doll during public appearances n/t

[calimary]

38. Aw hell, maybe she needed it. If there were ever a time to want a security

blanket as a kid, I'd say this one would qualify. I feel bad for them all. All but him. He brought this on himself. The rest of the family is being dragged in on something not of their making.

[tinfoil tiaras]

39. Poor girl

#1. I feel bad for her, having Rick Santorum as her father
and

#2. That outfit. Poor, poor girl. And the doll :cry: :( Seriously.

[PurityOfEssence]

41. Buck up, little darlin': god's a dick

If there is such a thing, which is more than just a stretch, then its actions have been nothing short of capricious and brutal. Take heart in knowing that the big sky chief has given daddy much more power than he really deserves. Take this as a momentary setback as he regroups and sucks more money from the weak and confused.

Who pays for your schoolin'?

[mrreowwr_kittty]

42. The kid reminds me of the Molly Shannon SNL character

Mary Catherine Gallagher. "Superstar!"