What a piece of work is Man Santorum.

[redneckgaijin]

On how liberal environmentalism is anti-science:

“What they have done? And I referred to it the other day and I got criticized by some of our, well, less-than-erudite members of the national press corps who have a difficulty understanding when you refer to someone’s ideology to the point where they elevate Earth, and they say that, well, men and humanity is just of a variety of different species on the Earth and should be treated no differently.”

. . .

“It’s so funny that this party that criticizes the right for being anti-science, but when it comes to the management of the Earth, [liberal Democrats] are the anti-science ones!” the candidate declared. “We’re the ones who stand for science and technology and using the resources we have to make sure we have a quality of life in this country and maintain a good and stable environment.”

On how environmentalism is anti-Bible:

“We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit not for the Earth’s benefit,” Santorum told a Colorado crowd earlier this month.

He went on to call climate change “an absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by those who, in my opinion, saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and a crisis for government to be able to step in and even more greatly control your life.”

The surging presidential hopeful fleshed out this argument further this Sunday on CBS Face The Nation, when asked to justify his recent controversial claim that President Obama has a “phony theology” that’s not “based on the Bible.” He said the President sides with “radical environmentalists” who don’t understand what God intended to be the relationship between humans and the planet.

“When you have a worldview that elevates the Earth above man and says that we can’t take those resources because we’re going to harm the Earth; by things that frankly are just not scientifically proven, for example, the politicization of the whole global warming debate — this is all an attempt to, you know, to centralize power and to give more power to the government,” Santorum said.

But here's the most important quote from Santorum- where he gives the fundamentalist Christian, Southern ex-Confederate conservative definition of "freedom":

“Freedom isn’t to do whatever you want to do, it’s to do what you ought to do.”

And what ought you to do? What Rick Santorum, and his fellow fundies, want you to do.

Obey. Obey. Obey. OBEY. OBEY!

Comments

[herlander_refugee]

I have a lot of trouble with Santorum's "ideals"....oddly, I find him not Constitutional.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

I'm considering voting for Santorum in the Republican primary this year. He'd be the Democrats' dream candidate.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

The only thing that worries me about that strategy is this: of the four major GOP candidates remaining, Santorum is the one most likely to get the party base unified and energetically behind him.