He is totally insane.

jj325: This guy may be the dumbest person to ever run for president

He's not even the dumbest person in this primary.

Cyberluddite: I agree, Rick. There should be no debates or campaigning, either--let's spend our time reflecting on the miracle at Bethlehem rathered than mundane secular crap. Also, they should cancel all college and NFL football games that are scheduled in December, because they detract from the birth of our savior. And, while we're on the subject, all shopping malls and stores should be closed, too. We don't want people being distracted by meaningless, ungodly consumerism rather than spending their time sitting at home or church reflecting on the glory of our savior. Let's put the Christ back in Christmas, and forsake pedestrian heathen pursuits for one month, at least. Amen.

I love the smell of sarcasm in the morning.

Good headline.

Teabaggers have their choice, it's the flavor of the week.

"They are in a position where they have resources and name recognition. The shorter the time frame the less opportunity for other candidates to come up and catch them from behind."

I bet Santorum would like to catch Rick Perry and Mitt Romney from behind

Rick Santorum claims December primaries distract from "birth of our savior". Subby wonders what he is talking about - Obama was born in August Kenya.

Fixed that for you.

on dec. 25 0000 was the first time the story was told about a mythical man named jesus, the illegal alien that created everything in the world and watches you when you sleep and leaves money under your pillow when you lose teeth and hides eggs that come from rabbits for kids to find

All sillyness aside. I do have to admit that pushing primaries into December is just stupid. This whole primary bullcrap has become one big dick swinging contest to see who goes first.

More people would listen to Santorum if he was a hot woman.

Who's this Jesus guy you all are talking about? Was he in Harry Potter or Star Wars or something?

wee: It's amusing that he thinks Christmas has anything to do with Jesus.

Um, it does. It's the christian version of the obligatory winter solstice(ish) festival that every religion around the time of Christianity's founding had. I mean, the choice of what to celebrate was arbitrary, but it's not inherently any less legitimate than Saturnalia, which was probably its major competition and was also more or less completely arbitrary ("hey, man, we're short a party and Carthage just chewed us up pretty bad. Hey, you know what? I don't think Saturn has an official festival yet. Let's do it!").

Though, regarding the actual article/headline, Mr. Santorum is certainly welcome to not attend the primary-related events in December on religious grounds and let people vote for him in absentia. Maybe it'll make him look more legitimate to the christian right... probably not, but who knows.

I honestly forgot he was even running.

Reagan (All Praise be unto his Name) was born February 6, and December is awfully close to Reagandan, so I understand his point.

War on Christmas
what a douche!

Farker Soze: Reagan (All Praise be unto his Name) was born February 6, and December is awfully close to Reagandan, so I understand his point.

I meant Ronaldan. Sorry, please forgive my blasphemy. Don't stone me!

jj325: This guy may be the dumbest person to ever run for president

Rick Perry would like to remind you that he is still running.

Isn't it ironic. Fundies can't nail down a specific date on Easter, but they sure do remember the Jeebus day when they get handouts.

/Oh, and Froth.

culebra: I honestly forgot he was even running.

Santorum is always running. Usually down Marcus Bachmann's leg.

/A mental scar. You now has one.

You know what distracts from honoring the birth of Jesus?

Being a hateful, ignorant tool and claiming you're a christian.

Mugato: 3-way

do you think you could use another term? Cause that planted a mental image I really didn't need ;)

The Why Not Guy: Well Republicans, when you choose your candidates based solely on "will this piss off the Libs?" this is what you get.

Eh, Romney is still legit. I tend to ignore campaign rhetoric in favor of looking at a longer sample of their past career, though, so my impression may be a bit different from someone basing things solely on the campaigns. This approach worked pretty well with Obama, though (a lot of the shiat that people further left than I are upset he's not done I wasn't actually expecting him to do), so I'mma stick with it.

Kumana Wanalaia: You know what distracts from Saturnalia?honoring the birth of Jesus.

FTF historical accuracy.

ok, I had to laugh, nice one subby

I think of it as "Jesus Day (US), Observed"

WhyteRaven74: Mugato: 3-way

do you think you could use another term? Cause that planted a mental image I really didn't need ;)

Add to that image the fact that they would all definitely be wearing rubber Reagan masks.

Campaign funding by registered voters living or working in the relevant district.
Campaigns should start Jan 2,
Primaries (all of 'em) March 15 - with autorunoff voting,
Conventions in May - 2 days each on consecutive weekends - the party not in the whitehouse goes first,
Elections on the first Tuesday in November, with EC votes allocated in each state by proportion of the popuar vote.
Votes cast on hand-marked, paper ballots stored in public and counted in public.

But, of course that's too much regulation of political speech.

Pretty much every religious scholar in the universe, except derpy retarded American ones agrees that the historical Jesus/YESHUA character was not born in december, and that the holiday was moved there thanks to Rome trying to forcefeed monotheism to the pagan masses.

But keep celebrating Saturnalia and thinking you are loving up on the Jesus.

Sabyen91: Yeah, I would imagine Romney might be a bit off-putting to a conservative if you look at record.

Yeah, but conveniently the kind of wingnuts that demand a hard-right approach on every single damned issue don't have the attention span to look up what a politician has advocated over a decade or two, so if Romney gets the nom he just has to throw them a few rhetorical bones and they're his.

His main issue with my demographic (conservative-ish centrists) is that, while his long-term record makes him look like a reasonable guy with some decent executive chops, so does Obama's. And the GOP affiliation means that he'd probably be appointing GOP folk to various positions, which, statistically, is not a good bet sanity-wise right now. So the center and center-right, who mostly just want things to keep rolling, are most likely Obama's regardless.