Santorum’s losing it — in more ways than one

October 30, 2006

About a week ago, I mentioned that Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) compared Democrats to Nazi appeasers and suggested the only thing standing between the United States and some kind of terrorist-based fascism is his re-election.

Not quite content with embarrassing himself last week, Santorum decided to push the envelope just a little further over the weekend.

U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum accused state Treasurer Bob Casey of “aiding and abetting terrorism and genocide,” saying yesterday that state pension funds are invested with companies linked to terrorist-sponsoring states. […]

Santorum did not cite specific examples but referred to a report by the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank that has pushed for divestment from companies doing business in terror-sponsoring nations.

“Bob Casey has invested Pennsylvania pension funds in companies with ties to terrorist-sponsoring states and states that engage in genocide,” Santorum said. “Bob Casey is aiding and abetting terrorism and genocide.”

According to the York Dispatch, “Casey’s campaign disputed the allegations, calling them a sign of desperation.” Ya think?

The fact is Santorum is losing this race, badly. He is almost certainly going to suffer an embarrassing defeat in eight days, and these kinds of shameless attacks don’t change any minds, they only reinforce voters’ biggest fears about Santorum — that he’s passionate but unhinged, zealous but reckless, an ardent advocate for his ideas without a sense of proportion, decency, or accuracy.

As Kevin put it, “Deeper and deeper into the muck. Truly disgusting.” Indeed.

Does Ricky “Man on Dog” Santorum want to talk about the fact that his President walks hand in hand with the first cousin of terrorist leaders?

This is the fruit of Rove’s summer reading. He set his little Bushite minions to collect dirt on every Democratic opponent. Of course, the fact this is a Pot calling the Kettle Black seems to mean little in a country without a functioning free press.

  • Wasn’t Rumsfeld on the Board of Directors of ABB when they supplied material to an axis of evil of country to help build their nuclear reactors?

    Shouldn’t that mean that investing in ABB, or any company Rumsfeld worked for, is a company that supported terrorism?

  • Bob Casey has invested Pennsylvania pension funds in companies with ties to terrorist-sponsoring states and states that engage in genocide

    Rick the dog catcher can’t say which states because he’s talking about the United States and that sort of drives a stake through whatever point he is trying to make.

    I’ve already said this about Florida regarding K. Harris, but I’ll repeat my warning to the citizens of Pennsylvania: Come November 8th, watch your fucking backs. Dog-boy will be on the loose and looking for vengance. Where innocent men and women walk, Santorum will see orcs in full Nazi drag. If you see any men dressed like a cross between Aragorn son of Arathorn and a WWII soldier, shoot first and don’t ask questions, ever.

  • You think that’s bad consider this story from TPMmuckraker.

    The Pennsylvania Senate race has provided a case in point. TPM Reader TC, who lives there, sent us a scan of a mailer he received Saturday. You can see it here. The mailing purports to be from a group called The Progressive Policy Council, which, according to the mailer, “is a not-for-profit organization seeking to educate the public and to advocate for progressive public policy solutions for contemporary social issues,” and provides bullet points to show that Democrat Bob Casey and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) are both against gay marriage, stem cell research, and “common sense gun controls.”

    Well, I think we have our answer as to who is behind the Progressive Policy Council, the phony group behind a mailer that’s gone out to an untold number of Pennsylvania voters in an apparent attempt to sour liberal voters on Democrat Bob Casey.

    Records with the Virginia State Corporation Commission show that the group’s charter was filed by a man named Jason Torchinsky of Holtzman Vogel. And who is he?

    His bio at his law firm gives a good idea:

    Jason Torchinsky recently joined Holtzman Vogel PLLC with a primary focus on campaign finance and election law. During the 2004 election cycle, Jason served as Deputy General Counsel to Bush-Cheney ’04 and Deputy General Counsel to the 2005 Presidential Inaugural Committee.

    Immediately before joining the firm, Jason was Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the United States Department of Justice. Jason has also served in other positions at the White House and at the United States Department of Justice. At the White House, he worked for now-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in the Counsel’s Office. At the Department of Justice, Jason served as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division and in the Eastern District of Wisconsin as a Special Assistant United States Attorney….

    Jason’s prior political experience includes the Republican National Committee Counsel’s Office, the Dole-Kemp campaign, the 1996 Republican National Convention, and

    Desperation doesn’t smell very good.

  • I like this part:

    “Instead of making each state do homework, perhaps the federal government could make it a lot easier” by releasing a list of companies involved with terrorist nations, Smar said.

    Santorum said it is not the federal government’s place to release a list.

    “You have layers of folks who look at, well, you know, are we going to offend our allies? You have the State Department sticking their nose in, you might have the Commerce Department sticking their nose in. There may be all sorts of interests that come into play that can color the picture,” he said.

    So essentially, Santorum admits the federal government can’t say who’s a state sponsor of terrorism or not because it’s afraid of offending someone.

    Why was national security supposed to be a Republican strength again?

  • ***Santorum said it is not the federal government’s place to release a list.***
    ———————–brainiac

    Just like it isn’t the federal government’s place to present evidence of your guilt, eh?

    I’m anxious to see how Sanitorium reacts to his embarrassing defeat-to-be, and what his actions are, once it happens. I’m also curious as to why J-Ken’s (Blackwell) website here in Ohio is geared up to register Pennsylvania voters. I always thought that registering Pennsylvania voters had to occur in Pennsylvania—but putting Blackwell and Sanitorium together? There’s suddenly a nasty smell in the air….

  • Santorum accused state Treasurer Bob Casey of “aiding and abetting terrorism and genocide,” saying yesterday that state pension funds are invested with companies linked to terrorist-sponsoring states. […]

    PA owns Halliburton stock? I’m outraged.

  • From ElectionCentral (TPMCafe):

    “By Will Menaker | bio

    GOP Senator Rick Santorum — who’s trailing Dem Bob Casey by double digits in polls — has launched a remarkable attack on Casey: He’s now accusing the Dem of “aiding and abetting terrorism and genocide.” Today’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Santorum is making this charge by rather creatively pointing out that Casey, who’s state treasurer, hasn’t ensured that pension funds were not invested in firms that do business with nations “linked” to terrorism, such as Iran and Syria. Of course, there’s a small problem with this attack: As a Casey spokesman is noting, Santorum’s own campaign has taken money from some of the very same companies which Casey allegedly failed to prevent pension fund investments in. Among them: Royal Dutch/Shell and Deutche Bank. More here.”

    Sorry, can’t do embedded links etc; lack of ‘puter-savvy. But it does look like Santorum doesn’t believe that “what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander”…

  • ” I have here in my hand a list of 205 companies that were known to my challenger as being members of al Qaeda…”

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