Suppose I should revise my judgement that Santorum was only the third most dispiriting if not frightening potential republican nominee behind Cain and Gingrich - after a string of truly disturbing statements dug up from his past or made by the man over the last couple of weeks - like comparing the coming battle against Obama's America to the Allied effort to defeat Nazism, declaring that the work of Satan is obviously evident in the decline of America, suggesting that contraception hurts women - with statements like these Santorum can safely take his spot right alongside Cain and Gingrich as absolute embarrassments to any sane and reasonably positioned conservative looking for a viable alternative to the liberal agenda. Hell, with the 'Obama is Hitler' analogy, he possibly deserves top billing. Bravo!
At least as depressing as the three stooges themselves are those members of the right wing intelligentsia that are attempting to rationalise or reframe in a more anodyne form Santorum's inanities - these people are so desperate to avoid the possible disquieting reveal [what cache can extremism have if moderation proves viable?] that Romney represents that it's as if there's no delusion they won't embrace in order to provisionally save themselves or the thing they imagine themselves to be.
Interesting, on that point, is the success of Scott Brown, the republican who won Ted Kennedy's old seat - he's been successful in a liberal state by presenting himself as a reasonable moderate, a true independent when measured against the standard of these highly partisan times - apparently he's leading the much heralded uber lefty Elizabeth Warren who is challenging him for the seat by about 10 percentage points - in other words he's being rewarded in a very liberal state for coming across as non-partisan and reasonable - exactly the way Romney tried to serve when he was governor of Mass - the right wing will cheer the pragmatism of Scott Brown if he beats the reviled Warren even as they damn Romney for having governed the state in much the same manner - it's flat out absurd.
