{"id":184614,"date":"2012-03-06T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/06\/yes-mr-frothy-mixture-is-nuts\/"},"modified":"2012-03-06T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T00:14:00","slug":"yes-mr-frothy-mixture-is-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/06\/yes-mr-frothy-mixture-is-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Mr. Frothy Mixture is Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Blow looks at Rick Santorum’s public statements and discovers that what drives him is his revulsion directed towards the sexual revolution of the 1960s<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rick Santorum wants to bring sexy back … to the 1950s, when he was born.<\/p>\n

That is because Santorum seems to have an unhealthy fixation with, and passionate disdain for, the 1960s and the sexual freedoms that followed.<\/p>\n

To fully understand Santorum\u2019s strident rejection of the 1960s, it\u2019s instructive to recall a speech and question-and-answer session he gave in 2008 to a course on religion and politics at the Oxford Center for Religion and Public Life in Washington.<\/p>\n

The speech was interesting, but the answers he gave to the questions that followed were truly illuminating.<\/p>\n

In response to a question about the kinds of words he had heard \u201cattached to religion and politics\u201d during his years in the Senate, Santorum ventured off onto sex:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt comes down to sex. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. It comes down to freedom, and it comes down to sex. If you have anything to do with any of the sexual issues, and if you are on the wrong side of being able to do all of the sexual freedoms you want, you are a bad guy. And you\u2019re dangerous because you are going to limit my freedom in an area that\u2019s the most central to me. And that\u2019s the way it\u2019s looked at.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s not let facts slow us down. Santorum, predictably, deflected back to sex:<\/p>\n

\u201cWoodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has become. They have become the party of Woodstock. They prey upon our most basic primal lusts, and that\u2019s sex. And the whole abortion culture, it\u2019s not about life. It\u2019s about sexual freedom. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about. Homosexuality. It\u2019s about sexual freedom. All of the things are about sexual freedom, and they hate to be called on them. They try to somehow or other tie this to the founding fathers\u2019 vision of liberty, which is bizarre. It\u2019s ridiculous. That\u2019s at the core of why you are attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next question was: \u201cDo you see any possibility for a party of Christian reform, or an influx of Christian ideas into this [Democratic] party?\u201d<\/p>\n

Santorum\u2019s answer included what? That\u2019s right: Sex!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blow (heh) is implying that Santorum has an unhealthy fixation about sex.<\/p>\n

I’ll be more specific. I think that Santorum is indicative of a strain of Republican thought that I saw a lot<\/b> of when I was in the SGA Senate working alongside future Abramhoff : basically, they are really<\/b> pissed, because they weren’t getting any during the sexual revolution.<\/p>\n

I understand how it feels.  Not only was I a war-gaming\/Dungeons & Dragons geek in high school, I founded<\/b> the Woodrow Wilson High School war gaming club.<\/p>\n

I was as likely to get laid in high school as I was to fly to the moon.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I got over it<\/b>, and not end up with a sociopathic need to tell women what to do with their bodies.<\/p>\n

Mr Santorum, not so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Blow looks at Rick Santorum’s public statements and discovers that what drives him is his revulsion directed towards the sexual revolution of the 1960s: Rick Santorum wants to bring sexy back … to the 1950s, when he was born. That is because Santorum seems to have an unhealthy fixation with, and passionate disdain for, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,977,1104,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-psychology","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}