{"id":8910,"date":"2006-10-30T15:43:38","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T20:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8910.html"},"modified":"2006-10-30T15:43:38","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T20:43:38","slug":"santorums-losing-it-in-more-ways-than-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/santorums-losing-it-in-more-ways-than-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum’s losing it — in more ways than one"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Not quite content with embarrassing himself last week, Santorum decided to push the envelope just a little further<\/a> over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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. […]<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

The fact is Santorum is losing this race, badly<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

As Kevin put it<\/a>, “Deeper and deeper into the muck. Truly disgusting.” Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}