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(Daily Kos)   Rick Santorum wants a federal commissar to ensure enough conservative professors are hired by universities. That seems pretty reasonable   (dailykos.com) divider line 411
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2012-02-19 09:51:04 PM
As long as they are going all affirmative action, we should at least get it right and enslave them, emancipate them, then Jim crow them first.
 
2012-02-19 09:53:25 PM
Javacrucian: Javacrucian: GranoblasticMan: Will you stop sayin everything's crypto-fascist?!

How could I have ever been such a smeghead?

/better use that tension sheet


It's just so catchy.

OMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
 
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2012-02-19 09:53:32 PM
NIXON YOU DOLT!!!!!: You watched 26:30 of that video to FIND that? God bless you, man.

No! Are you joking? It's listed in the article....
 
2012-02-19 09:56:56 PM
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Those liberal professors don't have a chance.
 
2012-02-19 10:06:27 PM
Hideously Gigantic Smurf: blorpenster: Hideously Gigantic Smurf: How many people with the mentality that would qualify them as a "conservative" in today's American vernacular be able to acquire the credentials FOR professorship in the first place?

Quite a few but still a minority. Conservatism and tardism are not mutually inclusive. Imagine a venn diagram where the circles nearly overlap.

So, basically you're talking about people from a noticeably thin crescent-shape, that about right?


Yep
 
2012-02-19 10:08:21 PM
culebra: I wish we had Carlin around for this election. His bits about Catholics were always my favorite.

On a similar note, someone should troll Santorum's campaign by switching the music at his next function to Zappa's Catholic Girls.

/all the way


Dear Mr. Santorum:

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2012-02-19 10:23:46 PM
How come all "Christian" conservatives become fascists?

Is that what Jesus wants them to become?
 
2012-02-19 10:43:38 PM
Sgt Otter: Nothing is more American than a политрук from политический руководитель.

I.
Love.
You.
 
2012-02-19 10:54:06 PM
I thought the correct response was to let the free market decide
 
2012-02-19 10:56:31 PM
WorldCitizen: Wow. Wow. Political tests for fields of knowledge. That's something right out of the Soviet play book. So, he's now like combining an Iranian Mullah and a Soviet commissar. Both of those things are so American, you know?

I expect "proctologist" to get thrown into the mix soon.
 
2012-02-19 11:01:59 PM
Conservatives in academia? Are there no white-collar prIsons? And the multinational derivative workhouses, are they still in operation?
 
2012-02-19 11:05:28 PM
AcneVulgaris: WorldCitizen: Wow. Wow. Political tests for fields of knowledge. That's something right out of the Soviet play book. So, he's now like combining an Iranian Mullah and a Soviet commissar. Both of those things are so American, you know?

I expect "proctologist" to get thrown into the mix soon.


Fusili Santorum!
 
2012-02-19 11:28:49 PM
Remember, politicians don't buy the same products that they're selling.
 
2012-02-19 11:38:01 PM
How come this guy always looks like he's having an uncomfortable bowel movement?

www.rawstory.com
 
2012-02-19 11:38:12 PM
i.imgur.com

Ah, I am beginning to see Ricks point of view...

Is this why they were called the dark ages?
 
2012-02-19 11:47:23 PM
dickfreckle: Conservatives' utterly perverse interpretation of what America stands for is enough to remind me of why I'll always support guns in this country despite not being particularly fond of them - some day I'm probably going to need one when the Santorum-ilk aims his small government tractor beam at me

I would agree, except that I see no reason to call such people 'Conservative.' The Conservative tradition is a long and proud one, warts and all---but it does not apply to the people you are talking about. John Birchers and their ilk are not Conservative, and I see no reason to indulge their own fantasies that they are--every commentator should point out that they are Reactionaries. It makes a difference.
 
2012-02-19 11:48:45 PM
rga184: Soviet? I would say more Roman Catholic Church ca 1400's.

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2012-02-20 12:05:14 AM
James F. Campbell: Santorum is winning. This isn't proof enough that Americans deserve him?

There's a BIG difference between "winning the Republican primary" and "winning the election". The sad thing is: once the Republicans completely get their asses stomped, they're going to claim that it's because "Santorum wasn't CONSERVATIVE enough." They double-down on the Stupid every single time they lose an election.
 
2012-02-20 12:25:45 AM
Just what we need, more professors who think the age of farking rocks is still debatable.
 
2012-02-20 12:32:57 AM
Weaver95: GAT_00: That sounds like a gigantic government interference into personal lives. How very Republican.

but how can Santorum say he's a 'small government conservative' when he keeps advocating for larger government and more government intrusion into every aspect of society (and people's private lives)?

I don't get it. people vote for shiat like this? you don't have to be a genius to understand hypocrisy...and santorum reeks of bullshiat.


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2012-02-20 12:33:59 AM
Let's do some math:

There are 4140 public and private universities in the US, which comes out to about 82 per state. Presumably, every university would need one commissar, so 4140. Presumably they would need a support staff, say, a secretary and assistant, so we're up to 12420 employees. Of course, they would have to report to someone, so at the very least you would need, say, 60 state/territory administrators plus support staff, and likely some number of sub administrators. It would probably be a good idea to set up regional administrators as well just in case some liberal areas like the Pacific Northwest don't play along. And then you would need a headquarters in DC so that the information could get to the White House quickly. Since the Departments of Education and Interior would likely be abolished at this point, this would probably have to be a department level organization with a Secretary and his numerous underlings. That's quite a bureaucracy the small government conservatives are putting together.
 
2012-02-20 12:34:50 AM
Captain_Ballbeard: Just what we need, more professors who think the age of farking rocks is still debatable.

Exactly. And they get on airplanes.
 
2012-02-20 01:10:54 AM
Weaver95: IronTom: There should be a certain large percentage of teachers at each school that actually loves America.

this is a GREAT idea! we should also make CEOs and stockbrokers sign loyalty oaths! lets make sure EVERYONE loves america! Obviously, we should also put a political officer into every corporation as well, just to be sure everyone is in compliance.


In Georgia, state employees (including teachers, of course) have to sign a loyalty oath to the state Constitution upon hiring.
 
2012-02-20 01:44:29 AM
dletter: Hideously Gigantic Smurf: How many people with the mentality that would qualify them as a "conservative" in today's American vernacular be able to acquire the credentials FOR professorship in the first place?

How many universities like Liberty and Oral Roberts are there? Since, those are the ones where they'd have to work I think.

Although, there is the flip side to his proposal.... I would assume Liberty University, Oral Roberts, etc, are the "Fox News" of universities..... so, with this law, wouldn't they have to bring on a whole bunch of "Liberal" professors that they currently don't have?


Of course not. That's when they'd pull out the "religious liberty" card again, and say that because these schools are religiously affiliated, they can hire or not hire anyone they damn well want.
 
2012-02-20 02:44:22 AM
If the GOP convention ends up being brokered, I wish they'd just admit that they seriously screwed the pooch, that the total duds they offered up to run for President shouldn't be in charge of anything and rather than picking some alternate (who didn't run in the primary) they'd give Obama a pass. I know this will never happen as introspection has never been a strong suit for conservatives.

I bet how things will play out is Romney will have a plurality of votes but not enough needed to win the nomination. So Santorum will have to be brought into his campaign meaning Romney/Santorum 2012.
 
2012-02-20 02:55:40 AM
It looks like a civil war is coming. These rightwing nuts want us dead, literally, and I truly believe that the xians will go on a killing spree like we've never seen on this continent.
 
2012-02-20 03:21:45 AM
sunlion: and I truly believe that the xians will go on a killing spree like we've never seen on this continent.

What you mean "never" Kemosabe?
 
2012-02-20 03:56:00 AM
IronTom: Weaver95: this is a GREAT idea! we should also make CEOs and stockbrokers sign loyalty oaths!

they are not directly influencing the children of America, controlling what they say, write, learn, and do. That argument is totally off-base.


..Seriously? In your world, you'd need to make sure that my husband's and my patriotism was the Right Kind of Patriotism before we were allowed to be employed teaching a bunch of 20-year-olds grammar and mathematics? Do we need to tell you how we vote? Are we denied tenure if we're just too moderate and don't like to talk about national affairs at work?
 
2012-02-20 04:18:03 AM
Virtual Pariah: The man's a damn idiot.

Can't we get back the intelligent conservatives who understood what their beliefs were and had the ability to have rational discourse to support their points?


The last one that tried was named Huntsman. Guess what happened to him? Even he had to resort to spewing rightard garbage like a neantherthal to appeal to the mouthbreathers, but it was too little too late.

/I'm surprised that conservatives today can even have children without devouring them in the crib
 
2012-02-20 04:46:14 AM
Virtual Pariah: Can't we get back the intelligent conservatives who understood what their beliefs were and had the ability to have rational discourse to support their points?

They're still here; now they're called Democrats.
 
2012-02-20 05:32:33 AM
WhyteRaven74: Someone should ask Romney and Santorum, if they are so sure the government can do nothing right, why are they trying to get elected President?

They are power-hungry greed-pig whores.
 
2012-02-20 05:56:42 AM
Man I hope he gets the Republican nomination.
 
2012-02-20 06:23:39 AM
vartian: IronTom: CougarJeff: IronTom: There should be a certain large percentage of teachers at each school that actually loves America.

We do. That's why I hate your guts.

I'm sorry I took you off ignore. You really should get some other hobby, your hard-on for me is getting really annoying.

Wait, you are for real? That wasn't a joke? Well, fark you.

Who the fark are you to tell me who loves America? Who the fark are you to judge how much a person loves his or her country? Who the fark are you to think there could be a proper line of questions to even determine such a thing?

Shut the fark up, you fascist piece of shiat.


My reaction exactly.

As much as I am loathe to Godwin a thread, he's more Nazi than Hitler.
 
2012-02-20 07:05:00 AM
wademh: Yet for most college professors today, they have a better lifestyle than their parents had.

I don't know about that. ~ 2/3 of the college instructors in the US are "associate" professors that barely make minimum wage, must reapply for their jobs every year, and can be fired pretty much at whim, and the last two decades of tenure "reform" certainly hasn't helped matters. The Blog Lawyers, Guns, and Money paints a rather bleak picture of life in the teaching side of academia.
 
2012-02-20 07:11:28 AM
Somacandra: dickfreckle: Conservatives' utterly perverse interpretation of what America stands for is enough to remind me of why I'll always support guns in this country despite not being particularly fond of them - some day I'm probably going to need one when the Santorum-ilk aims his small government tractor beam at me

I would agree, except that I see no reason to call such people 'Conservative.' The Conservative tradition is a long and proud one, warts and all---but it does not apply to the people you are talking about. John Birchers and their ilk are not Conservative, and I see no reason to indulge their own fantasies that they are--every commentator should point out that they are Reactionaries. It makes a difference.


Technically I agree with you, but if we quibble over labeling then some of these folks will use the space between those "Conservative" and "Reactionary" to wiggle free of any opprobrium. The Rs won't change their behavior until being labeled a "conservative" carries a similar stigma to what being labeled a "liberal" did in the 90s.

/and btw how crazy is that? The American Revolution was specifically fought for Liberal ideals, and now those very ideals are anathema to close to half of the US. Insanity!
 
2012-02-20 07:12:50 AM
Mavent: James F. Campbell: Santorum is winning. This isn't proof enough that Americans deserve him?

There's a BIG difference between "winning the Republican primary" and "winning the election". The sad thing is: once the Republicans completely get their asses stomped, they're going to claim that it's because "Santorum wasn't CONSERVATIVE enough." They double-down on the Stupid every single time they lose an election.


I've actually heard this from a Republican friend of mine. He calls Santorum a "phony conservative" because of his Congressional record, etc. His opinion of Romney is basically unprintable. Without any trace of irony, he refers to Gingrich as a "brilliant man."
 
2012-02-20 07:17:40 AM
sunlion: It looks like a civil war is coming. These rightwing nuts want us dead, literally, and I truly believe that the xians will go on a killing spree like we've never seen on this continent.

Nah, this won't happen. Yeah, the dominionists are a bunch of damn loonies, but the majority of them are never going to take up arms for anything, and even if they did, the FBI is very, very good at watching, infiltrating, and busting up just those sorts of movements. True, they spend most of their time and money inventing terrorist plots these days, but that's mostly because they now have to compete with the DHS for funding and, unlike them, the FBI can't just snatch random people off the street, deport them, and then claim to be doing its job.
 
2012-02-20 07:20:34 AM
rosebud_the_sled: How come this guy always looks like he's having an uncomfortable bowel movement?

[www.rawstory.com image 615x345]


Because of the absurdly gigantic stick up his ass.

/it's the girth man; the girth
 
2012-02-20 07:33:29 AM
demaL-demaL-yeH: cameroncrazy1984: Weaver95: IronTom: Weaver95:
They should report to a Committee for State Security. But abbreviated somehow, possibly in Russian.

No, no, make it an Extraordinary Committee, one that would check Americanism. Call it Check Ah. And the guys who do the checking, call them check-ists.

/That's the ticket.


Yes. The contents of your newsletter are now of interests to me.
 
2012-02-20 07:42:54 AM
I hear he wants to replace the presidential seal as well

www.informatik.tu-cottbus.de
 
2012-02-20 07:46:23 AM
PC LOAD LETTER: As long as they are going all affirmative action, we should at least get it right and enslave them, emancipate them, then Jim crow them first.

This doctrine is intended to restore fairness to our universities. I wish we could come up with a good name for it.
 
2012-02-20 07:49:57 AM
2wolves: Obviously Mr. Santorum has never taken an engineering course.

This.
 
2012-02-20 08:20:53 AM
rosebud_the_sled: How come all "Christian" conservatives become fascists?

Is that what Jesus wants them to become?


Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to the derp side.
 
2012-02-20 08:21:49 AM
He's a religious fascist, plain and simple.
 
2012-02-20 08:32:56 AM
if he gets elected president I'm leaving the country...seriously
 
2012-02-20 08:38:43 AM
everything that happens will happen today: if he gets elected president I'm leaving the country...seriously

Be quick or he might just fence you in!
 
2012-02-20 08:57:18 AM
Funny how the small/less regulation government people, are perfectly OK with government telling us what to do here.

BTW..I was thinking about Romney going on about capitalism being what we are about.... then I realized he was right....I mean that what we fought the civil war for to preserve, right?

The republicans are ass holes... plain and simple. Except for Lincoln, that is...he saved capitalism
 
2012-02-20 09:04:40 AM
Now hold on, Milenko, I thought that was Fartbama wantin' to do that??

You know, declarin' hisself Messiah and all that?

/plots to put hungry fire ants in Ricky's gold olive leaf wreath
 
2012-02-20 09:10:55 AM
Olympus Mons: The republicans are ass holes... plain and simple. Except for Lincoln, that is...he saved capitalism

Eisenhower was the last decent Republican.
 
2012-02-20 09:14:08 AM
everything that happens will happen today: if he gets elected president I'm leaving the country...seriously

A country that could elect something like Santorum is no longer worth saving or fighting for.
 
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