Daily Kos: Deep inside Santorum’s noggin’: “Deep inside Santorum’s noggin’
There’s something that has been really bugging me about the Santorum scandal: In the now-famous interview, Santorum says:
In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be.
Tell me, what kind of person walks around talking about ‘man on dog’ sex? I can confidently say that the thought never enters my mind unbidden. Yet Santorum, in the course of a conversation with a reporter, casually mentions bestiality. The AP reporter was naturally taken aback:
I’m sorry, I didn’t think I was going to talk about ‘man on dog’ with a United States senator, it’s sort of freaking me out.
I would be freaked out if anyone started talking to me about ‘man on dog’ sex. It’s not normal. For a Senator to bring the topic up to a reporter is, well, beyond belief.
So Republicans — this is your number three guy in the Senate. Aren’t you even the least bit embarrassed? And if the ‘man on dog’ thing doesn’t get you, then what about this?
He and his wife, Karen, have seven children – including, as Santorum puts it, ‘the one in Heaven.’ Their fourth baby, Gabriel Michael, died in 1996, two hours after an emergency delivery in Karen Santorum’s 20th week of pregnancy. The couple took Gabriel’s body home to let their three other young children see and hold the baby before burying him, according to Karen Santorum’s book of the ordeal, ‘Letters to Gabriel.’
Having suffered the ordeal of a miscarriage last year, I can’t begin to imagine the horrors of losing a baby hours after birth. But passing around the baby’s corpse to his other children?
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