[Plutus Aurelius]

WASHINGTON, DC — Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum attacked the media and "smart people" for not being on the side of conservatives in a speech to the Values Voter Summit on Saturday.

"We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country," Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side."

The media "doesn't like the other side," Santorum said. "And not necessarily, I would argue, because they agree with them, but because they can influence the country.

"If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to," Santorum said.

Santorum also criticized the libertarian wing of the Republican party for not supporting what he sees as the pillars of conservatism: religion and family.

"When it comes to conservatism libertarian types can say, oh, well you know, we don't want to talk about social issues," Santorum said. "Without the church and the family, there is no conservative movement, there is no basic values of America."





http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/rick- ... ever-be-on

[Decky]

Preparing his excuses for his inevitable defeat I see. Makes no difference, after all Obama is just George W Bush 2.0 but I will enjoy Rik's moaning.

[yiwahikanak]

Just please don't elect a man whose name has become the term to use when describing the aftereffects of anal sex. Please. I really want to take you at least somewhat seriously, and that would be impossible if you had a President Santorum.

[Social_Critic]

Santorum is right, to be a follower of the "Conservative" movement as defined by Santorum and Fox News one has to be fairly uneducated or have a keen interest in a Republican victory because those who control the party favor the rich big time.

This means Republican supporters have a bimodal distribution - they're either rich and smart and cynical and support the party to get richer, or they are fairly low on the scale, somewhat religious, and definitely dumb enough to support a party which focuses on screwing them economically while feeding them pap about "social values".

[Potemkin]

Santorum is right, to be a follower of the "Conservative" movement as defined by Santorum and Fox News one has to be fairly uneducated or have a keen interest in a Republican victory because those who control the party favor the rich big time.

This means Republican supporters have a bimodal distribution - they're either rich and smart and cynical and support the party to get richer, or they are fairly low on the scale, somewhat religious, and definitely dumb enough to support a party which focuses on screwing them economically while feeding them pap about "social values".

You know, S_C, you remind me of those lefty liberals in the West during the Cold War who despised what they saw happening in their own political system - the elitism, the corruption and cronyism, the eternal and pointless invasions of Third World shitholes - and looked to the Soviet Union or Red China as truly democratic, populist and pacifist regimes which had the best interests of the working people at heart. Once they acquired some understanding of the reality of life in the Soviet Union or Red China for the average working shlub, of course, their ideals would be shattered and, sick at heart, they would rant about how evil Stalin/Mao/Castro &c were to anyone who would stand still and listen to them. You're in the same position, but just with the political labels swapped around. And your position is equally as futile and pointless.

[EastCoastAmerican]

For once, I agree with Rick Santorum.

God, I got shivers down my spine just saying that!

[nucklepunche]

There were smart people in the conservative movement once. Now its the domain of ignoramus rednecks. The base of the GOP consists of two ends today: the wealthy and people like the family on that ridiculous Honey Boo Boo show.

[Stormsmith]

what in the wide world of sport is a honey boo boo show? (sounds like someone's being a tad vulgar)

[Beren]

[youtube]j72U074wi1I[/youtube]

I wonder if they are Republicans.

[Stormsmith]

Beren:
Thanks for the link. I can't tell to which party they belong, but I'm... speechless. That takes a little work...

[Malatant of Shadow]

There were smart people in the conservative movement once.

That was when the conservative movement was genuinely conservative.

What does the word "conservative" mean, anyway? It means inclined to preserve tradition or the status quo, and to resist radical change. In other words, what should properly be called "conservative" is the type of political stance that we now call "moderate." It's very possible to be an intelligent conservative, if one means by that genuinely conservative: inclined to preserve tradition or the status quo, and to resist radical change. Radical change often has problems associated with it, and one can present fine, intelligent arguments on behalf of caution, and of tradition.

But today's "conservative" movement is not conservative at all. It does not resist radical change, it advocates radical change. Today's "conservative" movement wants to repeal and roll back policies that have been part of the status quo for eighty years or more. It wants to implement things that go against American tradition all the way back to 1789 and the passage of the Bill of Rights.

There can be no such thing as a radical conservative movement; that's an oxymoron. Today's "conservative" movement is anything but conservative.

[Plutus Aurelius]

[youtube]j72U074wi1I[/youtube]

I wonder if they are Republicans.

Yep, same crowd