{"id":18916,"date":"2016-01-10T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=18916"},"modified":"2016-01-10T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T18:22:35","slug":"last-weeks-obnoxious-republican-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/10\/last-weeks-obnoxious-republican-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Week’s Obnoxious Republican Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how obnoxious InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"0110Santorum\"<\/h6>\n
Rick Santorum makes another super-creative analogy for gay marriage<\/h6>\n

.Santorum may not have achieved anything resembling relevance in the presidential campaign, but he\u2019s still out there swinging. In a radio interview in Iowa, Santorum came up with yet another creative way to express his distaste for gay marriage. He told Iowa radio host Simon Conway that allowing states to expand marriage to same-sex couples is like saying, \u201cthe states have the right to redefine the chemical equation for water, it can be H3O instead of H2O,\u201d according to Right Wing Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ooh, good one.<\/p>\n

Santorum made it a point to stake out a position that is even to the right of Ted Cruz, the presumptive frontrunner in Iowa, and that is no easy feat. Here\u2019s Santorum\u2019s bid:<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, I\u2019m very proud of the conservative record I\u2019ve put together,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s no one who\u2019s fought more on moral and cultural issues. I\u2019m not a libertarian. There are people in this race that want the states to decide whether there should be same-sex marriage or polygamy or marijuana use. I don\u2019t believe that. I don\u2019t believe that the states have the right to redefine something that\u2019s not capable of redefining.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, when you say the states have the right to define marriage, it\u2019s like saying, well, the states have the right to redefine the chemical equation for water, it can be H3O instead of H2O. Well, the states can\u2019t do that. Why? Because nature dictates what water is, nature dictates what marriage is, and the states don\u2019t have the right to violate what nature has dictated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cGoogle me\u201d needs a Saguaro suppository.  This is only the fifth of five obnoxious Republican moments from last week.  Click through for the other four.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Almost every week, Republicans join a competition to see who can say the most outlandish things, and in the process, they push the envelope on just how obnoxious InsaniTEA can become.  I trust that you will believe it, when I tell you that last week was no exception. Rick Santorum makes another super-creative analogy for […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}