Santorum
I personally find Santorum an appealing person, but his policies? He's from Western Pennsylvania where my relatives hail from so I am naturally drawn to him- Penn Hills is spitting distance from where my niece and great niece live. My Dad worked in the steel mills as a youth until he went off to the Korean War, then went to Pitt on a GI Bill and also did courses at Dickenson from where Santorum got his law degree. I love his historic family narrative. I speak Pittsburgh. Everything about his stand up good guy personality and devoted husband and father persona I like. So I feel bad for him- because he is on the wrong side of history on a few things and needs to understand a few things before he is nationally electable. He won't be the nominee this time but he is young enough and should try again once learning his lessons. First, global warming is not junk science-and who does that cater to? Industry titans aren't saying let's ignore melting ice glaciers and snow caps and drowning polar bears? The goverment should be inspiring green technologies because that is the wave of the future. Those technologies that understand how we have to evolve to protect the planet are the ones that are going to also create jobs. The weather is demonstrably more freakish so its apparent to everyone. Just because Al Gore draws attention to it doesn't mean it's not out there. Al Gore drew attention to the internet and it's out there or you wouldn't be reading this. I sat next to a guy living in Sommerset PA on a bus recently who told me that he often visits Alaska where it is evident in his lifetime just by looking that the ice is dramatically melting and no rational person can doubt it. So this view doesn't even cater to what he might think of as hicksville Pennsyltuckians. We have a very green Pope by the way.
And why do you think you keep getting glitterbombed? Do you think it out of the questions scientifically, against the wisdom of a large part of the scientific community, that gayness might be in large numbers of cases intrinsically biological or physiological on a level that makes it just unkind or even unconstitutional to discriminate against them? How is it that you cannot see that your views place a segment of the population in a stigmatized category of unworthiness for something that you perceive as a sin, when we don't discriminate against others for sexual sins. What if we deprived everyone who masterbated (also a sin in your doctrine) in a category of unworthy to marry anyone. Or if a guy fell into watching porn- unworthy to marry. Or if someone was in the business of usery, or defrauding people- also unworthy to marry. How about greedy wall street tycoons- greed is a sin-unworthy to marry. We don't do that for any other sin- we do it for homosexuals. Why? So even under his own moral code it's not rational to discriminate against homosexuals and it is absolutely bigotry. How is it that he can't see that and still defends it?
Thirdly, no one can or should get elected if they don't appreciate why we need a strong public education system in this country. The homeschooling, we can do it better than any certified professionals is frightening. The California public school system use to be the best in the country and because of it a technological revolution took place now centered around Palo Alto in Silicon Valley which spurred industries and supported entire industries in developing. We cannot be globally competitive without a strong public education system. A candidate who cannot appreciate and articulate that and wants to send kids all back to the kitchen table is just not nationally electable.
Santorum is doing things that are beneath his intelligence which says to me he doesn't really want to be President this time- its for the exposure, the money, and whatever else that will launch him in another four years after Obama's reelection.
He should start endorsing someone soon.
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