Santorum: ‘Maybe It Wasn’t’ Bad That Founders Put Limits on Who Could Vote
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Source: Mediaite
Rick Santorum was on C-SPAN today, and during a discussion about U.S. foreign policy and bringing democracy to other nations, Santorum suggested that maybe it wasnt bad that the Founding Fathers placed certain limits on who could vote in U.S. elections at the start.
Santorum said nations like Egypt are ready for democratic elections, despite how noble U.S. goals might be. He brought up Americas founding to make a point about allowing everyone to vote in the infancy of a nations history.
Santorum did not say in any way that the U.S. ought to have any limits on who can vote nowadays, but he did suggest that the Founders might have done the right thing in limiting who could vote back when America got started.
Were we ready for an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States vote? Well, our Founders didnt think so. They limited the people who could vote in an election. Now you could say thats horrible, thats terrible. Well, maybe it was, maybe it wasnt. But it was a decision that was made to make sure that there was some continuity and stability within the government.
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GOP minority and women's outreach continues...
Ricky hates democracy and when "blah people" and women vote, because it leads to this:
theaocp
(4,223 posts)lead by example and take himself out of the voting pool, right? It's not like he knows how to win an election or even back those who can. Suck on a tailpipe, Santorum. What a fuck.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)...trying to froth things up......
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)were just born in the wrong century. Like you.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)back time!" "See you'all aren't quite ready to vote"
What a dangerous dolt
tjl148
(185 posts)"Santorum did not say in any way that the U.S. ought to have any limits on who can vote nowadays," Nothing about turning back time.
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)would need to arrive into the 21st century, to even speak of "nowadays".
He is the exception to the rule of evolution.
He needs to go the way of the dinosaurs.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)in an election. Now you could say thats horrible, thats terrible. Well, maybe it was, maybe IT WASN'T"
Of COURSE he wants what all his bat-shit crazy followers also want: to turn back the clock on womens' rights, voting rights, civil rights, workers rights, environmental regulations, etc...
The only surprise here is that he's letting his freak show flag show a little bit under his suit.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)shenmue
(38,503 posts)One of the worst things to ever happen to the great state of Pennsylvania, is this asshat.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)He is still pouting over being a loser.
BumRushDaShow
(127,323 posts)Alex P Notkeaton
(309 posts)Shouldn't there be a not in Ricky Boy's dumbassed tirade?
Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Ricky boy really is a sad case. He really does not know that he is an idiot
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)allowed to vote. That would probably leave out Santorum.
El Shaman
(583 posts)in what other ways can you pollute this planet ??
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)can find 5 votes in the U.S. Supreme Court to make it happen (Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts, and the "moderate" Kennedy).
47of74
(18,470 posts)....when former Senator Man on Dog says something else blindingly stupid in that area.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)They've been calling for years to have an Article 5 Constitutional Convention to repeal all of the commie amendments after the 10th.
But really, they want the Constitution itself to go away and get back to the Articles of Confederation. Now VT and CA have voted for that Article 5 convention. To do what the Koches have wanted for 50 years.
Ricky's just watering the stinkweed the Reich wingers have been selling for many years. Their first big name promoting it was Ann Coulter. Brace yourself, folks, they won't disappear in a puff of smoke. That's magical thinking, so GOTV. Have no faith that Gawd will fix it all for us.
czarjak
(11,195 posts)He was right about one thing, "Republicans will never get intelligent people to vote for them".
rpannier
(24,304 posts)Classes are Marxism
Americans have no classes
jmowreader
(50,453 posts)And "maybe it wasn't" bad you pulled out of the primaries in April.
And "maybe it wasn't" bad your name became part of one of the funnier Internet memes around.
Oh...I've told this one before but it's still good: In 2012 Idaho decided to become "a player" in the presidential nominating system, so we had a Republican caucus in March. All the R's came to town, at least the ones who were still in the race. Ricky Boy came to Coeur d'Alene and spoke to a packed house at the Hagadone Event Center on the east side of town. (Most of the events it gets are weddings.) A few days after he left town, it was College Paper Publication Weekend and I went over there to look at it, as I usually do. Two pages in and I just go off:
"We are NOT printing this headline! I don't care how much you love it. We're not printing it!"
'What's the headline?'
"Santorum Fills Event Center."
I thought the teacher over there was going to piss himself, he was laughing so hard.
Grins
(7,134 posts)...and that concludes today's lesson in how to spot someone abundantly unqualified to be President.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)I have said it before but it always bears repeating; The only reason the GOP is always creating laws and restrictions on voting is because they know that if everyone was allowed to vote and actually did vote, the GOP would be gone.
The GOP would never win another election if everyone eligible to vote was allowed to vote and did vote.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)The Republicans are pushing for voter ID, with a picture of a white male standing in front of property he owns, preferably in a gated community.
merrily
(45,251 posts)House Reps at that. Moreover, there was no univeral education then.
Under those conditions, Santorum might actually have a shot at the Presidency.
And now, maybe you get why I oppose Framer worship.
Maybe they were slightly more egalitarian than King George III and his House of Commons. And probably equally interested in his tax on tea (and the other imports their ships were bringing to the colonies).
Since the days of the East India Company, the story's been essentially the same: Follow the money. And when you do, odds are it leads AWAY from your door.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Thomas Jefferson wrote:
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment... laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind... as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, institutions must advance also, to keep pace with the times.... We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain forever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)"Were we ready for an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States vote? Well, our Founders didnt think so."
the "Founders" were only human. They weren't Gods, which means that even they were capable of mistakes sometimes.
dembotoz
(16,740 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Would only have rich land and business owners the right to vote. They long for those dark ages of yore when the slaves and peons worked from sunup to sundown 24/7 killing their bodies and souls to enrich their white voting owners.
Fuck off Saint Ricky and your nazi bagger party can go to hades too!
sakabatou
(42,083 posts)IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)I hope he runs for president again. Its very important that the voters associate idiocy with the GOP.
Finding out how someone so conservative like Santorum or Toomey can win statewide elections in a moderate state like PA is something that democratic activists and strategists should study. It also shows the importance of getting Dem voters to the polls for midterm elections.
1Greensix
(111 posts)Old Rick might not like it if someone opposed to his type of person decided that they couldn't vote. How about if only veterans could vote. Sorry Rick, but that ain't you! Or, only persons who provide services to the public, such as doctors, teachers, nurses, store clerks, firemen, military personnel, etc. Again, Rick couldn't vote. Or, only people who actually work with their hands, like carpenters, plumbers, loggers, farmers, etc. could cast a ballot. Rick couldn't vote again.
Maybe Rick the Prick is right, only Certain people should be allowed to vote. And HE should be one that Can't. I got not problem with his line of thinking, but only if greedy lawyers, and racist former politicians aren't allowed to vote.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)lexx21
(321 posts)The girl in front looks like she just got snatched from a scene of little house on the prairie. The girl in back looks like she just wants to get the fuck out and smoke a doobie. The boy has a look on his face like he is wondering why the front of his pants are getting tight when the lady in the audience bends down. Wrap that up with valium queen mom and you have the perfect almost first family.
I really wonder what the oldest daughter thinks of dear old dad and the crap that he puts out. Maybe when he gets old and bedridden, she will yank him up by his foley catheter and yell "WTF YOU PSYCHO FREAK!"
Just an observation there.....
That picture always cracks me up. The Adams Family, Republican edition...