Santorum: ‘Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony.’
Santorum: ‘Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony.’
Last night on Fox News, former senator Rick Santorum told Greta Van Susteren that the Republican party “has to stand up for conservative principles.” They have to support the “patrimony” against “a guy named Barack Obama” who wants to upend “our social structure”:
SANTORUM: The other thing we have to do is we have to stand up and say, look, America — Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony. In other words, there are things in America that are really good, that work, have worked for 200 years. And we have a guy named Barack Obama who’s trying to fundamentally rewrite everything, change our economy, change our social structure, change our economy to something new.
Santorum also praised the 75 percent of Californians who did not vote in yesterday’s special election, “because they knew enough that they didn’t know enough to vote.” Watch it:
Part of that “patrimony” that has “worked for 200 years” — besides limited franchise — is apparently the subjugation of women. Santorum has declared that birth control is “harmful to women” and “harmful to society.” And in his book, “It Takes A Family,” he railed against “radical feminists” who “succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.”
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May 21st, 2009 at 3:24 pmMan-on-dog Santorum: And we have a guy named Barack Obama who’s trying to fundamentally rewrite everything, change our economy, change our social structure, change our economy to something new.
And “something new” is to be FEARED!
At least we know Man-on-Dog Santorum is a True Conservative.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:27 pmSantorum = another one who would prefer that the decade of the 1950s never ended, that the Protestant Reformation had never occurred, that the Catholic Mass was still said only in Latin, and that ALL OF US could be subject to the authority of the Pope.
Santorum
May 21st, 2009 at 3:27 pmSantorum belongs in a Sanatorium!
May 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pmI’m proud that our state whipped his ass in his last election. Repeat LAST election. What a putz.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:29 pmPatrimony works… if you happen to be a patriarch. For everybody else, not so much.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:32 pmShoter Santorum: The white guys with the most money knows best.
If there isn’t one running in your riding, the responsible thing is not to vote.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pmLike DICK Cheney, RICK Santorum needs to SHUT THE HELL UP and enjoy his retirement-from-politics years, because they are going to be long in number.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pm“Patrimony”? Is he serious?
Here are the various definitions for “patrimony”:
Property or other legal entitlements inherited from (or through) one’s father, especially if it has been handed down through generations in the same family, birthright.
So Ricky Man-on-Dog is all about protecting the wealth of rich kids who were born on third base and quickly decide that they’ve hit a triple.
The sum total of all personal and real entitlements, including movable and immovable property, belonging to a real person or a moral person.
I thought “entitlements” were a bad thing, Ricky?
the envelop that contains all of a person’s rights and obligations which can be assigned a monetary value under the French legal system.
OMG! The FRENCH legal system! But — but — but — they’re socialists!!!
I’m glad Ricky Man-on-Dog is no longer in a posiiton of power. And I’m also glad that despite his loser status, he still gets a national forum to continue to tar the Republican Party with his own particular brand of Stupid.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:34 pm“Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony. In other words, there are things in America that are really good, that work, have worked for 200 years. And we have a guy named Barack Obama who’s trying to fundamentally rewrite everything, change our economy, change our social structure, change our economy to something new.”
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Hmmm…wasn’t Abraham Lincoln accused of trying to “change our social structure” and “change our economy” by ending slavery? Is Santorum suggesting that things would have been better now if no changes had been made in that department?
A lot of the “things in America that are really good, that work, have worked for 200 years” are things that are only “really good” for wealthy, white, heterosexual males with northern European surnames. Those of us who don’t fit that mold beg to differ.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pmHey, Little Ricky! Wouldn’t we just know that you would rear your ugly puss on the same day that Darth Cheney farted loudly at the AEI with his usual concoction of half-baked ideology, innuendo, outright lies and faux-patriotism.
Well, Little Ricky, I have one message for both you and Darth:
May 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pm“Sit down and STFU.”
And that’s why according to Christian radio Christians have a higher divorce rate than nonchristians?
May 21st, 2009 at 3:35 pmI don’t get it. No emails, no notices. Who the f##k died and left the Republicans in charge? Please, would someone let me know.
Where do these guys get off lectuing me on what it means to be an American. Kiss Off Santorum!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 21st, 2009 at 3:36 pmWebster’s online shows:
pat·ri·mo·ny
Pronunciation:
\?pa-tr?-?m?-n?\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Middle English patrimoine, patrimonie, from Anglo-French patremoine, from Latin patrimonium, from patr-, pater father
Date:
14th century
1 a: an estate inherited from one’s father or ancestor b: anything derived from one’s father or ancestors : heritage
2: an estate or endowment belonging by ancient right to a church
— pat·ri·mo·ni·al \?pa-tr?-?m?-n?-?l\ adjective
In other words, Santorum, and others like him, think that they are entitled to this because it’s their right or “social structure”.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:39 pmHoo Boy.
Rick is just jealous that women get all the hot men! All he’ll have left are the doggies!
May 21st, 2009 at 3:40 pmI’m guessing he meant patriarchy, but then who knows. What a loon.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:41 pmI think Little Ricky misspoke today. He said “stewardship of patrimony” when what he really meant was “entrepreneurial insurgency”.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:42 pmI think by Patrimony he means crony capitalism
May 21st, 2009 at 3:44 pmWhat a doofus.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:45 pmBronzing a fetus is grounds for admittance to a Sanitarium, Ricky.
If you were as important as you think you are, why did you lose your last election?
YOU were partially responsible for 600,000 in your State LEAVING the Republic party.
YOU!
Thanks, Ricky
May 21st, 2009 at 3:46 pmWhen is someone going to finally figure out that what we have done the last two hundred years won’t work today.
Let me see….did we have the money system 200 yrs ago?
did we have instand communication two hundred years ago?
did we have the internet two hundred years ago?
did we have the military that we have today two hundred years ago?
did we have the population we have today two hunderd years ago?
Did we have private insurance for health care 200 yrs ago?
STOP FU**EN COMPARING US TO TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO!!!!!! THIS IS TOTAL BULL.
TIMES CHANGE, PEOPLE CHANGE, THE WORLD CHANGES , WHY DO WE REMAIN THE SAME AND ARE AFFRAID TO PROGRESS AHEAD????? ARE WE STILL LIVING LIKE WE DID 200 YEARS AGO?????ANSWER THE F***EN QUESTION RICK …..YOU F***EN A-HOLE …..IDIOT!!!ERRRRRR
May 21st, 2009 at 3:47 pmThen again, maybe Little Ricky meant to say “stewardship of palimony”. It is a rich and common republican philosophy I am told.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:53 pmRick:And we have a guy named Barack Obama…
– - A guy? I’m quite sure he’s earned the title of President, or Mr. President or Mr. Obama. What utter disrespect not only for the man, but more importantly, the office.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:54 pmSANTORUM: “Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony. In other words, there are things in America that are really good, that work, have worked for 200 years. Like keeping people who look like Barack Obama from ever being President.” There fixed it for ya.
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If it gets bad enough, Santorum may have to move his family to Saudia Arabia where they still practice good old American family values.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:56 pmSantorum: ‘Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony.’
– - And no, Rick, the new glasses do not make you look smarter.
May 21st, 2009 at 3:57 pmConservative, the word, was coined by a french guy who wanted to keep the ancien order of rule — king, clergy and powerless masses
Thats not what the founding fathers wanted or worked to create
May 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pmI don’t suppose he was talking about not torturing people, was he?
May 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pmThey have no one to blame, but themselves. Are we supposed to somehow believe that Bush was a steward of said “patrimony”? If so, then why wasn’t it working for the country?
If not, then why not shift the blame where it belongs… any amount of “Socialism” that Obama uses is merely an attempted solution to fix what the Bush Administration destroyed.
Again, they have no one to blame, but themselves. Nice try, though… kind of.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:00 pmWhen you listened to what this dumb f**k has to say, you understand why he is “former” senator from Pennsylvania.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:01 pmWhy do so many out of office (resigned, lost elections, indicted, subpoenaed, etc) right wingers get SO MUCH tv time?
Back in 2003 we were told that they got so much tv time because they held power, the White House and dominated Congress.
Doesn’t pass the smell test.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pmExpecting intellectual honesty from Rick Santorum is like expecting moral clarity from Dick Cheney, but one of the big problems with the Republican party today is that they do not lead as if they believe in the principles which they claim to support. Over the last eight years they have enthusiastically embraced an increase in the size of government, the use of our military power for nation building, new social programs, new bureaucracies, massive national debt, the abandonment of conservation, reliance on foreign powers for energy and even military procurement, the use of mercenaries rather than our armed forced, not to mention committing atrocities in the name of national defense. I’m no Republican, but I don’t think that most of their erstwhile supporters like a lot of that stuff any more than the rest of us do.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:03 pmWe dont do kings or royalty in America, Santorum, if you want that stuff move to another country that does.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:05 pmFrom Merriam-Webster…
There he goes again… confusing religion and politics and trying desperately to be relevant. Go away Rick. We kicked you out and we don’t want you back.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:06 pmCivilizations that don’t change with time soon disappear.
Which is what the Republic Fascist Party is doing…
….slowly disappearing.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:06 pmWould that be something like a feudal system of lords and serfs?
May 21st, 2009 at 4:07 pmConservatism is dying right before our eyes. The GOP can only resurrect itself with the help of the younger Americans – who don’t bleieve in 75% of what the GOP stands for. Young people are not getting on board the GOP cult-train because of gay rights issues, religous issues, bigoty issues, rascism issues, holier than thou issues, white party issues, authoritarian issues, etc…
In other words – all the positions the GOP holds dear. The GOP is stuck as the party of wealthy, overweight and overbearing guys trying to appear hip (I’m looking at you Michael Steele). Change in the form of a tea bag! WTF!
May 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pmRick Santorium…the man who brought his still born child home from the hospital so his other kids (toddlers) could hold (play) with the dead baby and “say goodbye to it”. Yea that’s someone I want dictating morals to the rest of society.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:11 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
I have no idea what this guy is talking about with phrases like “the stewardship of patrimony,” but he doesn’t speak for all Conservatives.
Sure he does. You all may use different words to explain your positions, but the intent is all the same. The have’s get to keep what they have, and the have not’s can scape by on the table droppings left by folks like Santorum.
The GOP sees itself as the wise and capable group. The planet sees them as yesterday’s news – and rightly so.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:16 pmHe’s basically saying that Barack Obama does not belong in the ‘big house’ or white house. Do these guys know that a white woman carried this man for nine months?
May 21st, 2009 at 4:17 pmGreat things like … slavery, and sexism, and racism, and segregation, and secession, and inequality, and ….
May 21st, 2009 at 4:18 pmPatrimony?
F uck you, prick.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:20 pm“Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony”
Translation: Conservatives believe Plutocracy = rule by the wealthy, or power provided by wealth.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:21 pmYou don’t need to argue against this guy, just quote him.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pmSomething smells like santorum in here.
http://www.spreadingsantorum.com
May 21st, 2009 at 4:28 pmSKdeAnt Says:
Something smells like santorum in here.
http://www.spreadingsantorum.com
Yep. It is our trolls. They can use a computer keyboard, they just can’t reach the soap dispenser on the sink.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:34 pmEat spooge, Santorum. You and your moronic ilk do NOT get to decide what my rights are.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:36 pmSantorum has entitlement syndrome. He wants things to go back to the way it used to be when white men controlled everything and had all of the wealth. Santorum can just go to he11 because we’re not going to the back of the bus EVER again. The country is moving forward and people like Santorum will be left behind.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:40 pmUhmmm…sorry Santorum, but there is a WORLD of difference between “has worked for 200 years” and “worked 200 years ago and Republicans are going to use fear to keep those policies alive for ever regardles of whether or not they actually apply today”.
Seems to me Republicans, especially Santorum, is very much confusing the latter for the former. Republican policies and beliefs are no longer relevant to the modern world. They are living in a past that not only doesn’t apply any more, but an idealized version of that past that is better in their heads than it ever really was.
As a result, the party is now extremely suffering. Younger and younger generations have been moving more and more away from Republican’s unrealistic and hypcritical ideals. Mainly because as the world moves on and advances, they continue to preach nothing more than “do as I say, not as I do” and “sure my rich family gave me everything I had, but YOU should work hard an earn it…just as long as it doesn’t come from me or I will fight you tooth and nail.”
May 21st, 2009 at 4:43 pmThe first time I really wanted to hit Santorum was when he went to Florida for Terrie Schiavo. In fact, all the conservatives that made a mockery of that poor woman are sickening, but esp Santorum. He’s a fool! Apparently he didnt’ get the memo that we’re living in the 21st century.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:44 pmGood thought, Santorum! Yes, congratulations on not voting, all you know-nothings. That should be great news for Rethugs, who thrive on voter apathy and ignorance.
My suggestion would be to tell the people who don’t vote that they are neglecting their civic duty by not educating themselves sufficiently to vote intelligently. But, then again, I am not a Rethug.
May 21st, 2009 at 4:45 pmSANTORUM: The other thing we have to do is we have to stand up and say, look, America — Conservatives believe in the stewardship of patrimony. In other words, there are things in America that are really good, that work, have worked for 200 years. And we have a guy named Barack Obama who’s trying to fundamentally rewrite everything, change our economy, change our social structure, change our economy to something new
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Mr Santorum,
May 21st, 2009 at 4:50 pmIt’s Mr. President to you! If you love this country, show some respect for the office!!!!!!!!
54. flight Says:
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Mr Santorum,
It’s Mr. President to you! If you love this country, show some respect for the office!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU! What is it with media pundits consistantly omitting the President in President Barack Obama???
May 21st, 2009 at 5:08 pmRick Santorum is proof positive that white folk are scared we might do to them what they have done to us.
If you dumb asses think that all we want to do is get power so we can avenge our ancestors you really are clueless.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:26 pmWe want your women too!
(Insert Evil Laugh Here)
May 21st, 2009 at 5:27 pmSantorum is the alpha tool.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:32 pmSantorum is clearly one easily frightened little boy in a so called mans body.
His pants-wetting knee-knocking cry baby fear of women, change and anyone who doesn’t look like him is pathetic and he requires serious couch time.
Makes me tired. Makes me bored.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:34 pmConservativeForProgress Says:
JB: I think you twisted the story a bit to serve your purposes, but here it is. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61804-2005Apr17.html. The guy is a bit eccentric, to put it mildly.
That’s twisted, alright, but not jbrantow’s take, Rick’s mind. God’s will be done, the fetus died anyway. Perhaps God gave us the knowledge to save the burden of the prolonged situation. (I’ve always liked The Ciderhouse Rules take on the issue).
May 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pmIt’s not just women that want them to use birth control. There is probably just a percentage of the 18% that’s opposed to birth control. Whether he meant “patriarchy” or “monarchy” he can eat his own dust.
May 21st, 2009 at 5:45 pmIf this guy was starving to death, I wouldn’t let him eat my vomit.
May 21st, 2009 at 6:03 pmMr. Santorum, real men, those who are secure in their identity, want real partners, women who function at full capacity. Gee, don’t we all want a partner who has our back? Don’t men want to know that if they’re unable to provide, their wife can. Don’t real men love us as complete human beings, as capable as they? Don’t they want someone who challenges them intellectually? Neither I, nor my husband of 29 years, need some (pardon) a$$hat to tell us our roles.
May 21st, 2009 at 10:33 pmI thought Rick Sanitarium was committed to a Santorum.
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:00 amFox News: where washed-up has-been Republican failures can still feel like they’re relevant
May 22nd, 2009 at 1:08 amOh, the good ol’ days. I mean, even if we just stick with the 20th century, there is so much to remember with fondness.
Ah, the days when a white man could lynch a pesky person of color, who can forget those good ol’ times. Largely unimpeded violence against women, who couldn’t want that cornerstone of the American way of life back.
I know, personally, as a Chicano man it offends me deeply that I’m allowed to eat and shop wherever I like. Helllloooooooooooo! Or, who could forget herding the mentally ill into hellish “warehouse” type facilities.
It’s downright unAmerican not to be able to shame divorced women publicly. Some of the noblest Americans are not being put down. Why isn’t it cool to talk about eugenics to rid ourselves of the “undesirables?” Why is it so bad to have racists scientists from fields as disparate as morphology to genetics talking about the those darn “colored’s” being, essentially, an inferior species.
Yup, Ol’ Rick just wants them good ol’ days back. Those golden days when a white man could intimidate and abuse fellow Americans as God intended. F-you Santorum.
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:16 amOh, my, little Ricky. Did you lose that number to the psychologist?
But, seriously, “there are things in America that are really good, that work, have worked for 200 years“?
Well — you have three qualifiers here: “things that are ‘good’”, “things that work”, and “have worked for 200 years”. What things, specifically, meet all three criteria? (here’s some crayons so you can draw the Venn diagrams).
Marriage certainly does NOT: separation, spousal abuse, and divorce rates show that marriage, and espescially your “traditional marriage” does not “work”.
The corporate model of today is not the model of 200 years ago, so that fails (plus all the depressions and recessions have been because of the business models in place, and “corporate personhood” did not exist 200 years ago — I believe it did not exist 100 years ago).
Worker’s rights and conditions have changed considerably over 200 years, so nothing about the workplace, top down, can fit your criteria.
I could go on, but eating food to sustain our bodies has ‘worked’ for 200 years. Breathing air has ‘worked’ for 200 years. You are going to have to get that basic to fit those criteria.
Ricky — your conditions, when applied, argue against that which you are trying to defend. You, Ricky, are a moron speaking gibberish.
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 amIf you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle ‘em with BullShit.
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:42 amWell done, “man on dog”-Sanitorium!
I guess if Rick/Dick Sanatorium believes in Patrimony, he doesn’t support Matrimony. Right?
Or is the key to his thinking that he wishes to return to the days of yesteryear? Ah, for the good old days, when white men of property ran everything. There was no room in the thinking of our founding fathers for women, for people of color (black, yellow or red in today’s parlance), or for other white men who did not have any estates or acreage to give them legitimacy.
Fortunately for all of us, the good people of Pennsylvania did the right thing and got rid of him. Now, it is the turn of our beloved media to show sense and judgment and not give this private citizen a podium that he does not deserve.
Happy Holiday
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:41 pmThat Sciavo case still grinds my gears. The whole GOP stance about marriage? One of the legal rights of marriage is that the spouse is the decider when it comes to pulling the plug, isn’t that right? So, Terri’s husband should’nt’ve been harangued.
But, then, consistency isn’t a Republican’s strong suit (you’re “pro-life” but support war and the death penalty?)..
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:14 pm