All around scumbag Tony Perkins and his assorted “Christian” organizations are now going all in for little Ricky:
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council says conservatives are looking for a candidate who will repeal the nation’s health care law, fight for pro family values and address the national debt.
“Not a lot of time was spent talking about Mitt Romney” Perkins says. He added, “it’s not news” that there’s not a lot of support among conservatives for Romney. Perkins says Romney’s Mormon religion was not discussed among those participating in the meeting.
So what does this mean? Expect conservative groups to start individually motivating their constituents to work for Santorum. Also look for more money and resources to start pouring into Santorum’s campaign. No question about it, this is excellent news for Santorum’s camp and a major blow to the Gingrich and Perry camps.
Who knew God was all worked up about the healthcare bill and the national debt. And when they say “pro family,” they mean gay bashing.
gbear
Wow. Three posts in 12 minutes, two of them about the same thing. A Balloon Juice record?
Can’t wait to see how this not-Mitt thing plays out. Hope both sides spend lots of money and energy railing against the other, with Newt lobbing the occasional bomb on his own.
dmsilev
I don’t think Balloon Juice front-pagers represent separate super-PACs. Y’all are allowed to coordinate with each other…
cbear
Most everyone, Cole, except you godless libruls and your little pets—and he’s probably going to start smiting the shit out of some of you people right after the big game tonight.
cathyx
Who knew being pro family meant watching them suffer because they can’t afford to go to the doctor. Or watching them lose their home to pay the medical bills.
nancydarling
Did they announce it with puffs of smoke from a chimney?
scav
I love it, it’s like buses, they all arrive at once in packs (not PACs).
Villago Delenda Est
Is Tony Perkins actually Norman Bates?
The actor was not, but this guy, well, let’s say the parallels are just too compelling to dismiss out of hand.
Now, this simply is not the case.
They also mean “women, stay in your place (on a tether between the bedroom and the kitchen), and don’t even think about any sexual pleasure, slut”.
scav
@cbear: Well, God would be overly busy during the game now, wouldn’t he?
The Unbelievable Truth@nancydarling: And the puffs of smoke is how they announce bowl scores.
Donald G
Of course, these men of God would be the first to nail Jesus to the cross for driving them out of the temple and undermining their authority in the first place.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
ah, christians, like the very prayerful Speaker of the Kansas state House
Cat Lady
How ’bout combining the two threads called Here comes the Jesus brigade in a cart hitched to a dead horse.
dmsilev
@cathyx:
Well, to quote Barney Frank, they believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth.
MattF
Every time I hear about one of these guys being up to something, I think “Hmm, scumbag, as I recall…” Then I read about him, and he’s ‘way worse than I ever thought or remembered. And I have a good memory; they just strain credulity.
Nix
Going with the K St. goon…
That is impressive! Who would have thought they could bring Jack back? Abramoff of those sweet sweet times when the GOP held all three houses and nothing could stop the flow of ill-gotten gains! Those were the days.
Ricky… Oh this is going to be AWESOME!!!
cbear
@scav: Hey, this is no joke, he done smote the shit out of the Steelers last week and now he’s apparently trying to drive Cole to suicide:
Was Tim Tebow’s game-winning touchdown illegal?
eemom
Irony, we hardly knew ye.
Mike in NC
No, no! Not at all!
Kane
If they were genuinely behind Santorum, Iowa would have been the time to offer their full support. Offering support now when Santorumentum appears to have fizzled out appears suspicious at best.
David Koch
Funny how Jesus didn’t care about the national debt when Bush blew the 5 trillion dollar surplus he inherited from Clinton.
TooManyJens
@dmsilev:
FTW.
scav
@cbear: GoD Decides what is legal and/or off-sides and/or adultery/incest. Refs in a game, like fact-checking at the NYT . . . need I go on?
Baud
Apparently, BJ front pagers were waiting in breathless anticipation for this news.
Carol from CO
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Look what He did for the Broncos.
4tehlulz
So the evangelicals are supporting a follower of the Whore of Babylon against a Mormon, whose church also thinks the Catholic Church is the Whore of Bablylon?
U doin’ it wrong Tony.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
Looks like the Charge of the Jesus Light Brigade to me. I don’t think they’ll get anywhere until a couple of the anti-Romneys decide that the grift has lasted long enough and they don’t need no more stinkin’ rubber chicken served by Red State zombies.
Kane
Conservative evangelical leadership has shown over the years that they are part of the GOP establishment. They undoubtedly want Romney to win the nomination, but they can’t publicly offer their support to him without losing face from their followers. Thus, they offer their support to a candidate who is essentially out of the race, but who will peel off votes from others who might actually have a chance at defeating Romney.
Cacti
But the concerned, concern trolls of Balloon Juice keep telling me how the religious conservatives are going to dutifully rally around Romney, and how his Mormonism is a non-starter.
nancydarling
How long til Driftglass has a photoshop of Santorum in papal regalia up on his site?
Brachiator
The Baby Jeebus believes in capitalism and is against free health care. Do you know how much he charged their family to raise Lazarus from the dead? It’s in the Bibble. David Brooks and Mitt told me so.
@Kane:
That sounds so wrong.
KG
@cbear: If they strictly enforced that rule, no offense would ever get a snap off, especially in the shotgun. What how many tackles are “on the line of scrimmage”
hells littlest angel
And yet they’ll be surprised when they find themselves choking (not to mention gagging)on Santorum.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@nancydarling:
Papal regalia? You mean Speedo, lube and small boy?
Fwiffo
This seems to be a little bit of closing the barn door after the horse went to market, or however it goes. If it was so important for them to have an anti-Romney, why did they wait until after Iowa and New Hampshire to finally settle on somebody?
Jay C
That’s probably correct: Romney’s Mormonism probably wasn’t mentioned: it didn’t have to be: for reasons I’m sure we can all imagine.
And not be the downer here, but as retrograde and mockworthy as Mr. Perkins and his merry band of wannabe theocrats might be, the more they organize and get their political act together, the more likely it is that they will be able to leverage that organization into electoral influence on more down-ticket races. The Religious Right may not (or may) be minded to line up behind the Mittbot for the Presidential race, but in terms of state and local races, the approval/endorsement/financial assistance of the Jesus-jumpers may possibly (actually, probably will) ensure an even greater representation for religious fanatics in a lot of polities.
Cacti
@Fwiffo:
It’s South Carolina.
Next question.
pseudonymous in nc
Because to Focus On The Penis, Mormonionism ain’t no religion.
Rita R.
@nancydarling:
Personally, my favorite characterization of Santorum and his presidential quest has come from Charles Pierce, who said little Ricky “seems to be angling for the job of patriarch of Antioch.”
Amir Khalid
@Rita R.:
Would that be the guy in charge of manufacturing the Holy Hand Grenades?
S. cerevisiae
I love the graphic Colbert uses for Santorum: Santorum as Davy
Rita R.
@Amir Khalid:
“Three shall be the number you shall count, and the number of the counting shall be three.”
Love that movie.
Arclite
I don’t see how the ACA is unChristian…
tamiedjr
@Arclite: You’re just not looking hard enough.
dogwood
@Kane:
This. I have no doubt they met , settled on Santorum, and issued a press release in about an hour. Now they are on to the real purpose of the confab – running up their expense accounts on fancy hotels, expensive meals, strip clubs, peep shows, call girls and rent boys.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Mike in NC: And just think the Mormons, did all that groundwork in passing Proposition 8, in California and this is the thanks they get.
BAWAAAHAHAHAHA!!!
cromagnon
I thought the Jesus Brigade was in New England tonight for the game against Satan’s spawn, Belichick and Brady…
Go Pats!!!
CarolDuhart2
Because they aren’t as organized as they like to make us believe. They watched as one after another “serious” candidates demurred. They didn’t bother to recruit one of their own, or persuade one of those running to be their champion and fund them adequately. Maybe they couldn’t agree on a person, or they tried and was turned down somehow, or they had someone and they dropped out. In any case, they knew Romney had never stopped running for President and had plenty of money to throw around in his quest. He had so much effort and money that he could win by default without someone equal in stature or resources. That they didn’t take it seriously enough is now a problem they can’t really solve.
While South Carolina is strongly evangelical, the evangelicals haven’t taken the time to really make their case to the people they needed to make the case to in order to defeat Romney. But even if Romney loses in SC, he’s the only other person who has the organizational chops to go the distance. And against a very well-funded and organized and already running machine, a last-ditch effort just won’t work. Look at Perry. Perry started way too late and unprepared to run a national race. He may run through his money in ads, but ads alone have never won a Presidential Primary, let alone a Presidential race.
MikeBoyScout
I do believe that God wants the Republicans to nominate Rick Santorum.
Rick Santorum’s Communist Clan in Italy You didn’t really think Granpa Santorum enjoyed being a slave coal miner in Somerset, PA, did you???
RalfW
So did the Family Research Council PAC endorse Santorum? Because I think it’s still a no-no for the Family Research Council Action Fund (or whatever their 501( c)4 is called) to endorse a partisan candidate.
And for sure their ( c)3 can’t. Will the IRS investigate?
Probably not. But they damn well should.
If these bastards are spending tax exempt dollars shilling for that ooze, they need to get hauled in to tax court.
Jennifer
Possible headlines….
Religious Leaders Promote Santorum
Evangelicals Prefer Santorum To Mormons
Santorum Mixes Easily With Evangelicals
Conservative Christians Offer Full-Throated Endorsement Of Santorum
There’s gotta be more.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@Jennifer:
Evangelical leaders force santorum down their followers’ throats….
Josie
They thought Rick Perry was going to be their guy, and it has finally sunk in that he is not going to live up to their expectations, to put it delicately.
Jennifer
@Josie: Perry failed the Slut-Shaming and Slut-Punishment prerequisites with his blaphemous opinion that preventing cervical cancer is a good idea.
General Stuck
Santorum is a genuine true believing religious nut. He has managed to tone it down some during appearances at various MSM venues, but if you listen to his townhall stump speeches, he is the same ole extreme shithead he’s always been. And the closest thing we have to a genuine national level theocrat, with whiffs of a fascist mindset. He is like demorats in the sense that he believes government can be a force for good. If you believe that good is having everyone kowtow to the bible and various radical interpretations of it, of course ministered through vessels of piety like his self.
He is patently unelectable, unless we tumble into a dystopian free for all, and he decides to elect himself, as god would want it, according to Rick Santorum. He could easily be the Will Patton character in The Postman. I think people like Tony Perkins know this full well, and I take this endorsement of surrender to pragmatic efforts to beat President Obama, and going with one of their own to make them feel warm and fuzzy in defeat.
jrg
@Cacti: Whatever. They raised hell about McCain, too, but showed up to vote for him like the shitheel authoritarian mooks they are.
Romney will put some hick like Perry in the VP candidate slot, and Jeebus will be cool with the ticket. Just wait.
R-Jud
@MikeBoyScout: NICE! I wondered if there’d be something like that in his past. I come from a similar background on my father’s side, and I love exploding the wingnuts’ heads on my mother’s side with the news that those hard-workin’, Medal of Honor winner-spawnin‘, coal-minin’ Italian great-grandparents of mine were honest-to-God sociaIists who had to get out of Italy when it went fascist.
ETA: And also, too, that my grandfather was most likely an anchor baby.
Raenelle
When they say family values, they first and foremost mean patriarchy–men have the power; women and children are subsidiaries. Gay bashing is just an add-on. IMO.
quannlace
Gosh, who knew Santorum believed that the earth is only six thousand years old?
I mean, that is the view of the majority of evangelical pastors.
handsmile
[I posted the comment below at the end of Tim F.’s “…dead horse” thread, before realizing that John Cole had written on the same subject, and this thread still has faint signs of life.]
How heavenly ironic that this conclave of fundamentalist Christian patriarchs has chosen a Papist as their preferred candidate. Santorum’s religious beliefs (and he himself is deeply conservative theologically within that faith) would have been denounced as wicked and idolatrous a generation ago by these same evangelical leaders.
This endorsement should offer some clue as to just how unholy and unworthy they regard Mormons.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Jennifer:
Other headlines:
Evangelicals Embrace Santorum
Evangelicals Swallow Santorum
Conservative Christians Find Santorum Acceptable
Christian Conservatives Using Santorum To Ease Mormon Member Out
MikeBoyScout
@55 R-Jud: My friend, I know a lot about our boy Rick. ;-)
Chuck Butcher
@MikeBoyScout:
Ooohh, tell us
DanielX
@nancydarling: Actually, I heard tell they distributed hand engraved stone tablets…
DanielX
@Brachiator: And in other news, Get Behind Me Satan by the White Stripes is now the semiofficial musical theme work for the Santorum campaign…ouch.