Santorum?
Really? that guy?
Yep. Now I don’t know if the seeming insanity of the republican field makes me feel better (it’ll be harder to defeat Obama) or if it just scares the shit out of me. Maybe it’s that at the end of the day I’m more scared by social conservatives than fiscal ones. I know that Romney is running as a super social conservative, but everyone sorta knows that’s a platform he has to run on. I’m not saying he’s not conservative, but unlike, say Santorum, I don’t actually think it’s his life goal to ensure that women and minorities are consistently kept as second class citizens and, although a mormon, his piety doesn’t scare me like Santorums. Look, he’s dripping with money rich, and I should be (and am) disturbed by the dripping-with-money-rich, but his priority is money (ok and global domination via war) so yes I am sure that were he to make it (shudder) to the white house he would make a series of decisions that are really fucking awful for the country but dominated by greed less than ideology. Why does greed scare me less than ideology? Because greed is manipulative and ideology is not. Maybe this is a totally incorrect reading of the universe. Maybe it’s conditioned that as I live a comfortable life I know that fiscal policies will personally hurt me less than most social policies (selfish, I know). Regardless, I am hypnotized by this primary, although it does make me physically sick.
One of the other forseable problems (although this will probably happen in the general election anyway) is that the longer this primary goes on the more conservative Romney will have to be.
Here’s a question. Why do conservatives get to push to be more and more conservative while liberals have to also be more conservative? Why don’t we get to be progressive?
