Comments on: Santorum Finally Gets Around to Condemning the Booing of an American Soldier, But He Totally Has A Good Excuse For Not Speaking Up Sooner

By: cowboy

cowboy — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:45:30 +0000

Are mormons christians?

Do we really care? It shouldn’t matter.

By: BlackDog

BlackDog — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:16:32 +0000

Are you kidding? In my opinion at least, Movement “Conservatives” and Tea Baggers i.e. Right-Wing Reactionaries really hate the military. The military has to deal with reality on a basic level, or people die. The military has tended to be an equalizing factor in American society at least since the Civil War. The military is a mixing pot of pretty much everybody. Your basic (small “c”) conservatives, even Evangelicals and whatnot LOVE the Military for a variety of reasons but the further you get to the hard Right the less this is so.

But they have wrapped themselves up in American Patriotism so they have to put on a face of supporting the Military.

To observe how much the Neoconservatives, the Right-Wingers and (now) Tea Partiers really love the military, observe that in 2005 they were ready to take the axe to the US Military with another BRAC program while it was fighting two wars, and most of it got thrown out because it would’ve cut military infrastructure too deeply and left entire aspects of US forces (B-1B Strategic Bombers and Atlantic Fleet attack submarines especially) concentrated in single locations where they and/or their crews could easily be wiped out by a WMD attack.

The way Antigay activists have demeaned the military all through the DADT debate by saying it somehow could not stand up to the challenge of facing ONE MORE group of Americans being fully integrated into it is equally telling.

Actions speak louder than words in most cases…but in this case the words are pretty fuckin’ loud.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 15:32:17 +0000

Depends on who you ask, Dave.

By: dave

dave — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:05:54 +0000

Oh yea, and I’m sure they’ll all profess to be christians. Would Mitt Witt be considered a christian? Are mormons christians?

By: dave

dave — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:54:36 +0000

An entire news cycle has passed since the American people witnessed the spectacle of nine GOP presidential candidates remaining silent while audience members booed an American soldier during last night’s debate.

This is all we have to lead the country, people like that. You wonder why the country is in the state it’s in. It reflects our leadership.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 03:20:40 +0000

As loathe as I am to say anything even vaguely nice about Santorum, it’s certainly possible he didn’t hear the boos. For me, his idiotic response to the question, and the fact that all the major Republican candidates agree with him is far more troubling than one or two people booing.

By: cowboy

cowboy — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 02:12:04 +0000

It’s Jon Huntsman Jr.

I have met the former Governor & Ambassador. He is truly a different kind of Republican. What is surprising to me: my staunch Republican friends are spreading myths and unflattering gossip about Mr. Huntsman because they like Romney better and my DINO friends say they would be hard pressed to re-elect President Obama if Jon Huntsman was on the ballot in 2012.

Jon is far more gay-friendly than the others who were at that debate.

On a personal note: The Huntsman family has donated their billion-dollar fortune to cancer research. It’s probably because of the U of U medical center and the Huntsman Cancer Institute that I have a sibling still alive. So, I’m a little biased.

Until I can stand on a stage and participate in a live televised debate will I make a judgment call. I do think it was lazy of the media to take this much time to react to the booing. Perhaps this will be a talking point on this coming Sunday’s political discussions on the networks.

I applaud Megyn Kelly for pursuing this point until she got a reaction.

By: enough already

enough already — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:50:02 +0000

Color me surprised. Not.

The sad thing about this is how clearly it highlights the true disregard of the Republicans for those serving this country.

By: Sandhorse

Sandhorse — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:19:49 +0000

It’s days like these that make me ashamed to have what’s becoming a ‘four letter word’ starting with an R on my voters registration. It’s beginning to make me wonder. If the conservative repubs truly believe the thoroughly nonsensical theory that DADT repeal means carefree gay sexcapades will ensue in the barracks, how can I trust them to understand the more complicated nuances of the economy? I’m dangerously close to changing my political affiliation. Sad….