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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