It looks like we are heading into a doozy of a 2016 Republican primary season. One of the potential GOP presidential candidates, Rick Santorum, was in South Carolina last weekend, and did he ever run into an angry teabagger. Calling her unhinged almost seems like an understatement. Her question to him was so full of incorrect statements that it was hard to keep count. Obama was not born in America, and cannot be president. Obama is DESTROYING the country. Obama tried to nuke Charleston. The list goes on. And, she also seemed to be behind the times as she seemed to think Santorum was still in the US Senate.
From The New Civil Rights Movement:
Former Republican U.S. Senator Rick Santorum was presented with an opportunity to be a statesman this past weekend at the South Carolina National Security Action Summit. He failed.
"Why is the Congress rolling over and letting this Communist dictator destroy my country?," the older woman, a retired schoolteacher, demanded to know. "Y'all know what he is, and I know what he is. I want him out of the White House. He's not a citizen. He could have been removed a long time ago."
"Larry Klayman's got the judge to say that the executive amnesty is illegal. Everything he does is illegal. He's trying to destroy the United States. The Congress knows this. What kind of games is the Congress of the United States playing with the citizens of the United States?"
"Y'all need to work for us, not the lobbyists that pay your salaries. Get on board, let's stop all of this, let's save America. What's going to stop -- Senator Santorum, where do we go from here? Ted [Cruz, perhaps?] told me I've got to wait until the next election. I don't the country will be around for the next election. Obama tried to blow up a nuke in Charleston a few months ago, and the three admirals and generals -- he's totally destroyed our military, he's fired all the generals and all the admirals who said they wouldn't fire on the American people."
Of course, not one single word of that Obama hatred is factual.
From Wonkette:
Rick Santorum took a few questions from the audience at last weekend’s South Carolina National Security Action Summit, an annual Gathering Of The Wingaloos sponsored by conspiracy theorist, rightwing hack, and Islam-panicked freak Frank Gaffney. So it’s not too surprising that Santorum got this long “question” from a nice lady named “Virginia.” She started by explaining John Boehner’s secret deal with Obama to let illegal aliens into the country, and eventually built to a beautiful crescendo of Pure Weird.
Did we mention that Virginia introduced herself as a retired schoolteacher? Just imagine all the young minds whose worldviews she helped to shape.
Santorum said some words about Obama exceeding his authority and none of this is Santorum’s fault since he’s not in Congress, but if he were, he’d never stand for such tyranny. It’s a pretty good sidestep, deftly ignoring the craziest parts of a crazy person’s question so he can agree with her that Barack Obama is in fact a tyrant. After all, why would he want to alienate the base?
And thank you for your service to America, Virginia.