It's easy to get drawn into hyperbole, to be accused of "dehumanizing" the opposition in an argument.
Sometimes, though, we encounter a being so consumed by its basest atavistic impulses that we're forced to wonder if it's truly a human capable of thought and emotion, or merely a human-shaped animal guided by a reptile brain.
I don't ordinarily like to ascribe motives or feelings or thoughts to other people when they haven't expressed them. But since Rick Santorum has absolutely no hesitation doing that to others, I'm not going to feel that bad about it this time.
He spends a lot of time telling us how Barack Obama feels, and what Barack Obama thinks, and what Barack Obama's goals are. How the President wants to "take our freedoms" and "make our choices" because "he thinks he knows better." Huge portions of his stump speech are devoted to building a massive, throbbing strawman out of what Obama "thinks" and "feels," and the rest of the speech is spent fellating that straw man with more gusto and fervor than any glory hole queen could muster.
This, from a person who would like to decide for everyone else who they're allowed to marry, and what kind of medical procedures they're allowed to have.
I'm sick of it. So, with that in mind, I'm going to share what Rick Santorum truly thinks and feels.
He thinks gay people should be gathered up and incinerated.
He feels that women are far too liberated; they should probably spend more time cooking instead of taking up jobs that their husbands could do.
He's committed to his lifelong goal of imposing the will of the most desperate medieval fringes of the Vatican on the American people.
He will, at the first opportunity, remove the actual Constitution from the National Archives and use it to wipe his ass while he grips the Declaration of Independence around what passes for his dick and furiously masturbates on the Statue of Liberty's face.
The problem with someone like this clinging to the edge of the nominating process for the PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES and coming even as close as he does, will come when he's finally tossed aside.
The Republicans will run Romney and hopefully lose by historic margins. Then the Republicans will conclude that their mistake wasn't simply in choosing a robotic, milquetoast, pandering, lying, plutocratic fraud. They will think their mistake was in NOT choosing the homophobic, misogynistic, big government, lying theocratic douchebag. The next time around, they will double down on this insanity, drag the national dialog completely over the edge, and shovel up someone even farther on the wrong side of Senator Frothy.
When he is finally disposed of by the Romney Hate Machine, we must make sure to exploit the moment immediately. History needs to show that even the most insane and irrational Republican electorate in modern history was too well-connected to reality to take Rick Santorum seriously. It's an opportunity to discredit him and his poisonous philosophy for decades to come, and we must not miss it.