Buoyed by his victory in Puerto Rico, attributed to the Senator’s penchant for standing by his principles and telling it like it isn’t, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum intends to continue to speak his convictions from his heart, from his gut and from his foot-in-mouth.
Since he has Louisiana all sewn up, there is really no need to alienate motivate the voters there. Nevertheless, in the final hours before the Louisiana primaries, Santorum needs to tell those Cajuns that they must start speaking English and drop their cultural ties to that socialist republic, France, if they want Louisiana to remain a state in the Union.
But, looking ahead to Tampa, Santorum’s campaign has released a preliminary schedule for upcoming campaign appearances where the Senator will continue his visceral, provocative — but winning — approach of speaking his convictions and his principles — damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
The next Republican event happens to be the Presidential Preference and Congressional and Council Primary in our nation’s capital, on April 3. Alas, the Santorum campaign failed to get Santorum on the ballot.
If Santorum had been able to participate in the Washington D.C. primary it would have been interesting to hear what Santorum has learned from Puerto Rico and whether he would offer DC residents support for voting representation in Congress in exchange for their 16 delegates.
Nevertheless, because of the symbolism of campaigning in our nation’s capital and the nation-wide attention it will have, Santorum’s campaign has unveiled the following events.
In a rousing solo performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — if he can keep from throwing up — Santorum will “sing” the evils of Jack Kennedy’s speech on separation of church and state.
Santorum will also cross the Potomac and pay a quick visit to the Pentagon to tell those generals who have so foolishly and ungodly embraced and enforced equal rights for our gay and lesbian troops, not to get too comfortable because on Day One of his presidency he will once again make Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell the law of the land, as God has willed it.
Finally, while in Washington, why not demonstrate his foreign policy savvy and speak to the European Union Delegation to the United States to condemn the wanton and rampant euthanasia going on in the Netherlands and to once again emphasize the “need to re-evangelize Europe…these secularized countries that are dying”
Campaigning in Rhode Island — a state with one of the highest unemployment rates — for the April 24 primary, Santorum will reiterate that he doesn’t care what the unemployment rate’s going to be; that it doesn’t matter to him; that “there is something more foundational going on here.”
In Connecticut, also for the April 24 primary, Santorum is scheduled to address the Yale student body on the “snobbishness” of those wanting to go to college.
Moving on to the June 5 California primaries, Santorum will visit San Francisco to underscore his strong support for the Defense of Marriage Act and will elucidate the evils and dangers to our nation — to our very civilization — that gay marriage brings.
Perhaps, while in Los Angeles, Santorum will visit the Playboy Mansion and have a frank, heart-to-heart chat with the Bunnies there about the dangers of pornography and how he will crack down on it, when elected — not that Playboy purveys hard porn, but “that’s how it starts.”
Will Rick Santorum while campaigning in Atlantic City, New Jersey, for the June 5 primary elaborate on his “significant concerns about the impact of gambling on communities and families”?
And, last but not least, while campaigning in his main opponent’s home state of Utah for the June 26 primary, will the Pastor-in-Chief who has reportedly embraced the Catholicism of Opus Dei “frankly” continue to show Utahns the superiority of his religious convictions?
While final plans have not been hammered out yet, the Santorum campaign is considering equally frank and candid presentations on so-called women’s’ rights, abortion, gay and lesbian issues and contraception to organizations such as NOW, Planned Parenthood, Log Cabin Republicans, respectively, and companies such as Pfizer and Troyan.
As Esther J. Cepeda at the Holland Sentinel says:
By illuminating the courage of his convictions — his passionate opposition to birth control and abortion, as well as to elitism and naked political pandering — Santorum only grows in the eyes of conservatives who desire a moral leader.
We’ll see.
The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.