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| Blinders required to vote Republican |
He's leading Willard Mitt Romney in the national polls and he spent the weekend making idiotic and divisive statements.
From dismissing climate change to trashing President Obama's "theology" to comparing Obama to Hitler, Santorum was smoking.
His comments may fire up the Republican base, including teabaggers, like nothing else, but they're a sure-fire way to get trounced in November.
Santorum also considers public schools un-American while promoting home-schooling.
Okay.
All this publicity should remind future GOP primary voters that Santorum has no chance in the general election and that they should just hold their noses and pick Mitt.
But Mitt is also his own worst enemy. Now, he'll have to tack further toward the right-wing fringe just to win the nomination.
By the end of primary season, the so-called "big tent" of the Republicans will be reduced to an umbrella, in a cocktail.
The GOP candidates are on record as being anti-women, anti-Hispanic, anti-African-American, anti-homosexual, anti-science, anti-education, anti-contraception and, of course, anti-abortion.
The only thing the GOP is in favor of is the supremacy of white males, which should get the party of Lincoln about 45 percent of the vote in November.
That percentage, of course, is less than what's needed to win.
TV pundits are warning Democrats not to wish for Santorum's victory because, the last time they had such wishes in 1980, Ronald Reagan came to the forefront.
Comparing Santorum to Reagan, though, is as insane as any recent Santorum comment.
Rick is no Ronald. Rick is no Mitt or Newt, for that matter.
Santorum may represent the GOP thinking of 1980, but it is now 2012.
The times have changed. Republicans haven't.
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