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Well well well, it seems like some interesting dirt has surfaced regarding Mr. Frothy and his wife, read on my dear readers and enjoy;

Rick Santorum‘s wife Karen, before their marriage, was living in an unmarried relationship with the founder of Pittsburgh’s first abortion clinic in the 1970′s, left the doctor to marry Santorum, and at the time both Karen and Rick Santorum claimed to be pro-choice. Further, the doctor, OBGYN Tom Allen, is the same man who actually delivered Karen Santorum (then Karen Garver,) and is 40 years her senior.

(Editorial note: Rick Santorum’s attacks on the lives and relationships of unmarried people, including but not limited to people within the LGBT community, we feel allow for this level of scrutiny on both his past and that of his family. The Santorums’ life choices certainly are theirs to make, but building a political career attacking the lives of good, decent, LGBT  Americans, pledging to “die on the hill” to stop same-sex marriage equality is not one of them. We’re not judging their choices, as fervently as we disagree with them, we’re highlighting their hypocrisy and their mistaken view that they have the right to judge us for who we are.)

A lengthy 2005 profile in a local Philadelphia newspaper, which includes an interview with Santorum, quotes Dr. Allen, Karen’s former boyfriend:

“When she moved out to go be with Rick, she told me I’d like him, that he was pro-choice and a humanist,” said Allen, an elderly but vibrant man, during a brief conversation on the porch of his Pittsburgh row home. “But I don’t think there’s a humanist bone in that man’s body.”

The profile also reveals that both of Rick Santorum’s parents worked for the federal government, the Veterans Administration, and were housed on the grounds of the VA hospital. Santorum’s father was the chief of psychology, his mother the chief of nurses, the profile reveals. So much for Santorum being able to understand current medical stances on homosexuality, and so much for Santorum’s position on small government.

Ironically, the profile (remember, this is from 2005,) includes this line:

“He had Republican values,” adds U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, another college friend of Santorum’s. “But it’s not like he was running around leading conservative jihads or anything.”

The profile also adds:

Santorum’s views on abortion changed around this time as well, recalls [Rick's] cousin.

“Our extended family has many strong women in it, who are intelligent and outspoken. There was one year Rick stopped by a family reunion for an hour or two. It was around the time he was ‘rising to power’ and becoming rabidly, ridiculously conservative. His views on abortion were quite contentious that year, and for those few hours of his visit, the women all descended upon him like flies, calling him on his change of views. He had always been pro-choice to my recollection. That’s why it was such a heated issue that year. The women in my family felt betrayed.”

A Washington Post profile of Karen Santorum, published today, notes, Karen “recalls their first meeting: He was the lawyer at the big firm, she was the law student. She says that she was the headstrong career woman. ‘But I came home that night and wrote in my diary that I had met the man I was going to marry.’ As hard as it may be to picture, she says, ‘He sang all the way to the restaurant’ on their first date.”

In this 2006 video, released by true Santorum campaign, Karen Santorum says, “I think it’s really sad, I think it’s tragic, that our opponent would use my family, go after my children, in the way he has, for political gain.”

Lost on Mrs. Santorum is how she and her husband are going after our families, our children every day, for political gain. The scales are severely unbalanced.

Carole Joffee, a University of California, San Francisco professor, in her article, “Collision of Reality and Ideology: Karen Santorum’s Past and Rick Santorum’s Vision of Your Future,” writes,

Normally, I feel that the past sexual history of a candidate’s spouse should be off limits to journalists and bloggers. But given Santorum’s rising fortunes as a serious candidate for the presidency, and in particular, his astonishing views on sexuality and contraception, I believe that attention to Karen Santorum’s past is warranted in this instance.

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What does all this have to with Karen Santorum’s past, before her marriage to the Senator?  In simplest terms, Mrs. Santorum was living in a situation–unmarried but cohabitating, and presumably using birth control—that has become only more common in American society since the late 1980s, when she lived with Dr. Allen. (Indeed, the only difference between Karen Santorum and millions of other Americans in similar circumstances, then and now, was the unusually large gap in age between her and her partner).

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In short, Rick Santorum’s stated policy positions, which include not only his well known obsession with abolishing legal abortion, but also his opposition to birth control and all nonprocreative sexual acts, are greatly out of step with the lives of the vast majority of Americans.  Clearly, the Santorums have changed their views over time on the issues of premarital sex and contraception as well as abortion, moving in a far more conservative direction. The couple has attributed these changes to a deepening religious faith, and such new beliefs are of course their right. But the Senator’s fervent desire to deny the rest of us the sexual and reproductive choices that his own wife once enjoyed is breathtakingly hypocritical and cruel.

Indeed.

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Tags: karen santorum, rick santorum, same sex marriage

So what is it Mr. Frothy? Black People or Blah People? Lives or Plives?  Keep talking king of Frothiness, you’re doing us a favor!

Rick Santorum just keeps putting his foot in his mouth. Just a week after saying ““I do not want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money, I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money,” Santorum is defending his racist comment for the second time. As you’ll recall, Santorum attempted to defend his comment first by claiming he said “blah people,” but Santorum is changing his story again.

According to the New York Times,

“He maintains that he did not say “black” people’s lives but rather stumbled verbally when he was trying to say “people’s lives” and uttered a short syllable that came out as “plives.””

Santorum made the claim while campaigning on Monday.

You’d think Santorum would learn to keep his mouth shut by now. But he insists on digging himself into a bigger hole. He clearly said “black people’s lives” on tape. The tape is so clear that it would stand up in a court of law. If Rick Santorum thinks he can convince the American people otherwise, he’s a fool.

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This man would be easy to ignore as just another wackjob fundie if he wasn’t running for President and scoring real poll numbers in key states, Santorum is dangerous for this country, this shit aint funny!

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I know I know, it is a wide known fact that Mittens is a liar but Jesus Christ on a pogo stick can he make it any more obvious that he’s a lying sack of monkey dung? During the Sunday morning debate Mittens lied with a straight face while defending the use of SuperPacs to do his bidding saying that he had never seen the commercials released against Newt, then changing his tune to say that the ONE that he did say only spoke the truth about Newt, then he again changed his mind and pretty much talked about the content of all the commercials defending them as truth but hey he never saw them and didn’t have anything to do with them…Huh?!  A small lie yes but if he can lie so easily on National TV even with so much time to prepare for such appearance, what else is Mittens hiding?   By the way, he loves FIRING people!

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Rick Santorum continued his assault on the poor and minorities yesterday evening. While speaking to a group of about 100 students at a small Iowa Christian college, Santorum claimed that no one in America has ever died because they didn’t have health care coverage. This, in fact, is a lie, as proven by numerous studies.

During an exchange, Santorum railed against same-​sex marriage, telling Dordt College students gay sex is not equal to straight sex, apparently from a “moral” stand point, and then there was this:

Santorum also had a tense moment when a student asked him about health care and the Christian responsibility of caring for the poor.

The student said he didn’t “think God appreciates the fact that we have 50 to 100,000 uninsured Americans dying due to a lack of healthcare every year,” citing a 2009 study out of Harvard University.

“Dying?” Santorum answered before going back and forth about the validity of the study.

“The answer is not what can we do to prevent deaths because of a lack of health insurance. There’s — I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of lack of health insurance,” Santorum said to a crowd of 100.

“People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor decisions with respect to their health and their healthcare. And they don’t go to the emergency room or they don’t go to the doctor when they need to,” he said. “And it’s not the fault of the government for not providing some sort of universal benefit.

Here are a few facts, Mr. Santorum:

“Researchers from Harvard Medical School say the lack of coverage can be tied to about 45,000 deaths a year in the United States — a toll that is greater than the number of people who die each year from kidney disease.” (New York Times, 2009)

“A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered byU.S. troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died (911 as of Oct. 31) since the war began in 2001.” (PNHP, 2009)

Igor Volsky at Think Progress adds:

The former Pennsylvania senator has told people who can’t afford health care to stop whining about the high costs of medical treatments and medications and spend less on non essentials like cable and cell phone bills and even suggested that insurers should deny coverage to people with pre-​existing conditions.

Santorum has decided he will do or say anything, now that the race is tightening. That’s neither very Christian nor very moral.

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It was a razor close race, but Iowa has chosen. Mitt Romney pulled out a close victory over Rick Santorum, winning by a very narrow margin. Despite being tied at 25% of the vote apiece, Romney scratched out an eight vote victory. Here are the results.

Mitt Romney- 30,015
Rick Santorum- 30,007

Romney wins the Iowa caucus despite a last minute surge by Santorum just days before Iowans casted their votes to choose their pick for Republican Presidential nominee.

Among the other candidates, Ron Paul finished in 3rd, Gingrich finished 4th, Perry finished 5th, Bachmann finished in 6th, and Huntsman finished dead last. Here are those results.

Ron Paul- 26,219 or 21%
Newt Gingrich- 16,251 or 13%
Rick Perry- 12,604 or 10%
Michele Bachmann- 6,073 or 5%
Jon Huntsman- 744 or 1%

Romney won among those making over $100,000 a year, while Santorum captured evangelicals. Paul won among independents and the young while God apparently abandoned Perry and Bachmann. Perry has announced that he will be heading back to Texas to reassess his campaign. Bachmann is staying in the race. Meanwhile, the only sane candidate barely got votes at all. The Iowa caucus vote suggests that the Republican Party is still split and may remain split for a long time, no matter who eventually becomes the nominee.

Iowans couldn’t seem to make their minds up this year, so it was only fitting that they chose the flip flopping Mitt Romney to be their candidate in the 2012 Election. Next up, New Hampshire.

Romney, Santorum, and Paul will all receive an equal number of delegates, despite the difference in votes.

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