When even Sarah Palin thinks you’re dumb, there’s really not much wiggle room left to convince anyone they should pay attention to what you say without snickering?
Rick Santorum is the type of Republican who draws a triple-take, a neck-bending nod and a micro brain-aneurism in anyone whose skull houses more than one brain cell.
Yesterday, during his latest public hate-spreading guest appearance at George Washington University, the former Republican presidential candidate was able to do what WingNut Republicans can do best ? sound outrageously stupid and plant divisiveness, bigotry, and animosity amongst the audience.
This particular engagement, organized by a now classified a hate group named Young America’s Foundation – YAG, was meant to be a the follow up to the YAG boycott of the mandatory sensitivity training, one of campus initiatives to help educate students and become more inclusive of the LGBT community.
And Mr. Santorum didn’t disappoint. During his speech, he tried to redefine tolerance, at the same time exposing the nasty, repugnant, and sadistic group to which he belongs:
?The only sensitivity training we need is to respect every person,? he said, drawing hysterical applause from around half the audience. ?Tolerance is the most misused word in the English language.
Tolerance means you can say really horrible nasty things that I hate and offend me, he added. That’s how we get along. You have a right to be mean ? a right to be nasty to people. That’s how this country works, because we have thick skins and we aren’t offended.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Santorum is well aware of how dumb he is.
During his laughable presidential run back in 2012, surrounded by Michelle Bachmann and another few of the most idiotic Americans this land ever produced, he confessed that the GOP and his colleagues can’t count on the support of intelligent people and media . Ever!
We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country,? he told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. ?We will never have the elite, smart people on our side.
Santorum went on to say
The media ?doesn’t like the other side, 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.
There is no better example of the GOP intentional efforts to dumb down this country.
The anti-intellectual movement, started by Pat Buchannan back in 1996, with his ?peasants and pitchforks? branding of the Republicans, carried on by Rush Limbaugh who tries to convince the world that intellectualism is a trait of child molesters, and championed by Sarah Palin who thinks that ?syntax is for liberals? seems to thrive in Southern red states,
And Santorum is absolutely right.
No known intelligent life will ever be on his side. I bet he doesn’t even get the flu.
