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Rick ‘Ahmadinejad’ Santorum (The News, Switzerland)


Mar 15, 2012 by

Like Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum continues his nearly perfect record of derision from the international press. In this latest example from Switzerland’s News, columnist Patrik Etschmayer compares the elections in Iran to the Republican primary race and concludes that Rick Santorum is running for office in the wrong country.

For Switzerland’s News, Patrik Etschmayer writes in small part:

“Rick Santorum combines the worst of what Republicanism and Catholicism bring together in the public square without provoking his own immediate arrest. In the best Catholic tradition, he rails against the separation of church and state (this makes him “want to throw up”), and he is against contraception and all abortion, liberals, women’s rights, homosexuals, education and human rights for all people AFTER birth. He usually sounds like he would love nothing more than to undo all progress since the 17th century.”

Apart from their hatred of the United States and their desire to obtain a nuclear bomb, all candidates in Iran also agree that liberals, homosexuals, women – and human rights and contraception – must be defeated wherever and whenever possible.

Should Rick Santorum fail at the end – and it looks like he will – then he should certainly consider converting from Roman Catholicism to Shiite Islam, in order to enter Iranian politics. He would feel right at home in a country where gays are hanged and liberals are tortured, and he’d also be able to leave behind the separation of church and state, which just makes him sick to his stomach.

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5 Comments

  1. The_Ohioan
    March 15, 2012 | 8:54 am

    Welll… I think (I’m pretty sure) Rick is more interested in converting than condemning to death his non-co-religionists.

    But Mr. Etschmayer displays his foreign viewpoint when comparing Obama, Romney, and Santorum to the flu, plague, and cholera. I would say at the most, it would be a sore throat, gout, and psoriasis.

  2. StockBoyLA
    March 15, 2012 | 1:05 pm

    “Welll… I think (I’m pretty sure) Rick is more interested in converting than condemning to death his non-co-religionists.”

    Well I think Santorum has walked up to the line and is looking at the other side…. the side that condemns people to death. I don’t know what his true beliefs are, but throughout the ages deeply religious men (and I think Santorum is a religious fanatic) have killed in the name of their religion. Santourm knows that to cross the line he has walked up to is wrong. But he is the type who would do give the groups of people he dislikes (or hates) the hardest time imaginable.

    It makes me uncomfortable that he is at that line and demonizes a large percentage of the American citizenry.

  3. The_Ohioan
    March 15, 2012 | 2:14 pm

    StockBoy

    You say you don’t know what his true beliefs are, but what has he said or done that makes you think he would cross that line – or encourage others to do so?

  4. slamfu
    March 15, 2012 | 4:14 pm

    “You say you don’t know what his true beliefs are, but what has he said or done that makes you think he would cross that line – or encourage others to do so?”

    I don’t know about StockBoy, but for me history seems to bear that assertion out about men who can’t seem to draw the line between state and religion.

  5. The_Ohioan
    March 15, 2012 | 10:37 pm

    I wouldn’t vote for Santorum, but I don’t think he would behave like an Iranian politician in any case.

    In fact, Santorum is not a mullah aficiando.

    http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/07/santorum-denounces-killing-of-gays-in-iran/