So Rick Santorum is now going after....porn

Mxylplyx

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Is this guy out of his mind? Doesnt he know there are some economic problems that Americans are a little more concerned about. For a guy that probably hates Muslim's, him and the Taliban have alot in common. He has built up so much baggage trying to win over the kooks in the primary that he'll never be able to dig himself out if he actually gets the nomination.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/v...-catch-internet-porn-viewers-with-pants-down/
 
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I've heard nothing good from Santorum except for taking away liberties and rights. if he gets the nomination, I'm voting liberal. If Romney gets it, I'm not voting at all. If Paul gets it, I'm voting republican.
 

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If elected, he promises to “vigorously” enforce laws that “prohibit distribution of hardcore (obscene) pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier.”

Ah, the big government Neocon emerges.
 
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You have to give him credit for his sincerity - it's been a long time since a major party candidate ran on a strong anti-sex platform. As Republican strategist/pundit Alex Castellano recently said, “Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.”
 

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Hmmm on top of wanting to keep women from becoming wanton harlots by denying them birth control he's going to try to deny them an indiscriminate sluts favorite form of entertainment which leads them even further down the road to perversity and bestiality?

Why he just might save their souls.. :whiste:
 

gevorg

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who cares, just a puppet show before Obama's reelection

Palin fiasco in 2008 was more amusing
 

blankslate

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You have to give him credit for his sincerity - it's been a long time since a major party candidate ran on a strong anti-sex platform. As Republican strategist/pundit Alex Castellano recently said, “Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.”

Apparently not with him and his wife... Seeing as how sex is only for procreation they probably only had sex a dozen or so times just enough to bring their children into the world one supposes.
 

HomerJS

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Why do Republicans blame the media for focusing on "all these side issues" (birth control, abortion, porn) when they are the ones focusing on all these side issues?
 

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Apparently not with him and his wife... Seeing as how sex is only for procreation they probably only had sex a dozen or so times just enough to bring their children into the world one supposes.

No, there is such a thing as natural family planning but I guess you never heard of that?
 

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He will only gain support from old folks with shrunken 'nads, puritans and closet homosexuals.

Not exactly your best base, but seeing how the raisin-testes crowd comes out to vote in higher %% than any other, it is still something to take seriously.

If he wanted to be taken seriously, he should have gone on the position of making it harder to ILLICITLY distribute porn, especially to minors, yadda yadda yadda.

So long as all the middle aged "God luvin americuns" can still get their playboy mags (on the net) and not have to worry about Jr grabbing one from under the bed....
 

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Apart from the not news that Santorum is a self-righteous douchebag, the article raises another important issue. If we're really going to start "vigorously" prosecuting "obscenities" in this country, it is time for the SCOTUS to revisit the absurdly vague definition of obscenities in Miller v. California. Not only is the definition meaningless, amounting to "whatever a jury doesn't like," but the "community standard" is ridiculous. It means a federal prosecutor can forum shop for the most socially conservative jurisdiction in the country in order to secure a conviction. In other words, what is "obscene" is whatever the dowdiest moralists in the entire country believe is obscene. By that standard, showing skin above the ankle will fast become illegal.
 

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No, there is such a thing as natural family planning but I guess you never heard of that?

There's no way that our Champion of all that is Moral and Righteous would ever fall into that slippery slope of a Satanic trap known as Natural Family Planning!!

Are you trying to impugn the moral character of this great paragon of Virtue?!?
:colbert:
 

ichy

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You have to give him credit for his sincerity - it's been a long time since a major party candidate ran on a strong anti-sex platform. As Republican strategist/pundit Alex Castellano recently said, “Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.”

According to Frontline on PBS, when John Ashcroft was first appointed Attorney General he had planned to step up the enforcement of obscenity laws. Those plans were sidetracked by 9/11.
 

Thump553

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Where the hell are his handlers? Can't they get him to put a sock in it until he gets the nomination? As a politician this guy is his own worst enemy.

As it is he'a already alienated women and now he working on alienating men. Good plan for success.
 

Mxylplyx

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Where the hell are his handlers? Can't they get him to put a sock in it until he gets the nomination? As a politician this guy is his own worst enemy.

As it is he'a already alienated women and now he working on alienating men. Good plan for success.

He cant afford handlers.
 

soundforbjt

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Where the hell are his handlers? Can't they get him to put a sock in it until he gets the nomination? As a politician this guy is his own worst enemy.

As it is he'a already alienated women and now he working on alienating men. Good plan for success.

Actually he's doing remarkably well with right-wingnut women. Go figure. D:
 
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According to Frontline on PBS, when John Ashcroft was first appointed Attorney General he had planned to step up the enforcement of obscenity laws. Those plans were sidetracked by 9/11.
Those damn freedom-hating terrorists ruined a perfect opportunity for us to vigorously defend our right to have evangelical Christians determine what is acceptable for everyone. Why do they hate our freedoms?!
 

woolfe9999

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You have to give him credit for his sincerity - it's been a long time since a major party candidate ran on a strong anti-sex platform. As Republican strategist/pundit Alex Castellano recently said, “Republicans being against sex is not good. Sex is popular.”

Yes, this is true. Santorum probably thinks that "porn" is an easy target in particular, since the very word is a stigma. In fact, he's probably right in the limited sense that other politicians will be reluctant to challenge him on it openly because they don't want to be seen as "pro-porn." However, what he fails to understand is that porn is enormously popular among people who do not like to talk about it. One study shows that porn consumption is actually higher in states laden with evangelicals. Porn is their dirty little secret.