Yesterday, Rick Santorum won the Alabama and Mississippi Republican presidential primaries. Go Rick Santorum. You might ask why I want Santorum to win the Republican presidential nomination since I'm a liberal.
Easy. He's so far right on social issues that in the general election, he won't get liberal, moderate and independent votes. On abortion, he believes life begins at conception. So he's anti-abortion. But he's more radical than that. He wants to criminalize doctors who perform abortions. There would be no exceptions for rape if Santorum had his way. If a woman is raped, she will be punished twice. She will suffer the crime of rape and be forced to carry to term with all the pain and suffering of childbirth. He doesn't support contraceptives and let's face it folks. Under his draconian abortion views, you can see why. If a contraceptive prevents a fertilized egg from becoming implanted, it's probably murder to his view. And Santorum's views doom him with one major force of the electorate. Women.
If Rick Santorum wins the GOP presidential nomination, the party that once had Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Gerald Ford will have moved so far right that it no longer represents the large majority of the population. That means President Barack Obama gets re-elected for another term.
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