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Maureen Dowd from NYTimes takes a shit on Santorum, calling him Senator Sanitarium, a 'small-town Mullah'

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A great and hilarious article by the New York Times columnist Maureen Down about Santorum’s religious fanaticism. 

Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola.

That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.

“Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.”

When, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice? Next he’ll be banning Barry White.

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Mullah Rick, who has turned prayer into a career move, told ABC News’s Jake Tapper that he disagreed with the 1965 Supreme Court decision striking down a ban on contraception. And, in October, he insisted that contraception is “not O.K. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

Senator Sanitarium, as he was once dubbed on “The Sopranos,” sometimes tries to temper his retrogressive sermons so as not to drive away independent and Republican women who like to work, see their kids taught by professionals and wear Victoria’s Secret.

[FULL ARTICLE]

“When, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice?”

That’s awesome!

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  8. ladyfabulous reblogged this from marmoulak and added:
    I agree the rest of the article is good. It’s really that one thing that threw me off, especially as it occurs early on...
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    I suppose she could have used the word “mullah” there just to make a back-handed connection between how Republicans as a...
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    I must admit, as much as I like the sound of that phrase, and how terrible my personal experience has been with Mullahs...
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    I thought about that, but I took a broader view, as she did couch it as “small town mullah.” It could have been “small...
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    “When, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice?” That’s awesome!