Rick Santorum to drop out of the presidential campaign
 

Rick Santorum to drop out of the presidential race - The Washington Post

Good riddance to the loser.

Oh good. The guy is an idiot.

The only problem with this is it means one of the other morons is one step closer to victory.

Damn straight!

Santorum < Anyone else.

I'm voting for Newt Gingrich because he's going to take me to the moooooon.

:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

That is all.

don't really see how this is significant news, santorum was never going to post a threat to romney and now we have a republican nominee who treats animals like hood ornaments.

Oh good, the ****ing lunatic partisans at MusicBanter decided to make a thread celebrating the fact that a man stopped running for President to take care of his sick child.

I hope one day you wake up and realize how disgusting you are.

Sick child or no, he'd make a shit president.

Again with this, really? It doesn't take a democrat to realize Santorum was a corrupt idiot.

Notable examples

No one is refuting that. I wouldn't vote for him, it doesn't change the fact that you're all ready to dance on the grave of what looks like a 3 year old because of her fathers political views.

If you can't see how thats ****ed in the head, I don't know what I can do for you.

I think you're exaggerating a bit. If his child weren't sick, I would be glad he dropped out the race. If his child were sick and he continued running, I would want him to drop out of the race. If he had no children, I would still want him to drop out of the race. I obviously would never wish ill on a child, but being glad that a candidate I don't want to be in the race is now no longer in the race hardly means I'm dancing on the grave of a three year old, ffs.

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I absolutely see where you're coming from, but Christ, man.

I didn't make the thread because of that. I made the thread because it's current news, and that is what this part of the forum is for.

I don't think anybody is celebrating that the man has a sick child. I didn't really even know that was the reason until your post, I just thought he bowed out because he had practically no chance of beating Romney.

That's most likely why he dropped out. Santorum probably just came to his senses and thought "if you can't beat em, join em" or something along those lines.

I also had no idea that his child is sick.

Wasn't my intention for this thread to get out of hand :/

I just thought it was something to post about because it has to do with the presidential campaign.

"Victory" in this situation only means the GOP nomination, not the presidency. Just sayin'.

from the OP

I'm fine with you guys attempting to paint me as Dick Cheney's old heart thats come back from the grave, but theres a line you can't cross if you're going to claim to moral highground. Celebrating a childs illness, which is what celebrating his "suspension" is here, is beyond the line.

Santorum held some backward, offensive, and wrong views of the homosexual community and to a lesser but relevant extent women. I don't agree with him but he had a right to lose the primary saying them. And I'm not telling anyone they shouldn't be put off by his statements, but you need to make the case for why he's wrong, not scream about his "evil" he is and celebrate a medical condition in one of his children.

I don't think Family is fair game - they didn't choose to run just like I'm sure Bella (his daughter) didn't choose to have her genetic condition. You can rail against a mans beliefs, but theres no reason to get personal. When you do you look petty, unintelligent, and rutterless. There are plenty of ways to attack Rick Santorum on principles alone.

Okay, I obviously didn't read that article clearly. However, I don't see anyone here "celebrating" his child's illness, and CERTAINLY not me. It's fine to assume that he dropped out of the race because he wants to take care of her.

I live in Canada though, so me participating in this discussion is kind of moot.

i dunno, i read somewhere Dave Mustaine supported him

that's about the extent that I know about him

from reading this article, though, he seems to hold a lot of those crackpot Conservative ideals

From what I've heard, Dave Mustaine is a Born Again twat. His last few albums have been cool, but he writes too many songs about the Bible. Here's a hint, Dave, NO ONE CARES!!!

P.S. Old school Dave is still the **** though. Satan bless him for writing Megadeth's first four albums.

Dude, no one said shit about his daughter. The thing you quoted was SANTORUM giving one of his reasons for leaving the race. That paragraph doesn't say anything even remotely offensive, it's just stating a fact. Maybe you should read things more carefully in the future.

That would qualify as a step, would it not?

**** Rick Santorum's daughter. Shes in the crossfire and i blame it on Big 3 now. :finger:

I guess it depends how you look at it. I wouldn't, for example, describe making it to the final rounds of a pre-Olympics qualifying tournament as "a step closer" to winning an Olympic gold medal, but to each his own.

Jesus christ. Close the damn thread then.

He's dropping out because his child is sick. People are excited. If you can sleep at night, I guess thats all that matters.

People are excited that he's stepping down. I had no idea he had a sick daughter until you said anything. You're making assumptions about people who are excited about him stepping down because of that, but they're only excited because he would have made a ****ty president.

Which is fine, he's allowed to step down from running for president to take care of his family. People are happy about his decision because they didn't like him and/or his principles. His daughter has nothing to do with their excitement, so coming in here with guns blazing and stating that everybody is apparently happy that his daughter is ill, is not apt at all.

That's one of the reasons he dropped out, not the only one. His campaign was also deeply in debt, among other things.

I think he was also deeply distressed to find out that everyone at Music Banter hated his kid also.

Well said.

Uh...I don't know if I buy that. He was on track to lose. Why wouldn't you want him to stay in and lose in the court of public opinion. Are you celebrating his reputation being saved? Because he's now the front runner in 2016. So if anything, his drop out now only enhances his chances next time around.

Furthermore, he would not have dropped out if it weren't for his child. I just don't understand how you aren't happy about this. Is what you're saying currently "Jeez its a real shame that his child got sick, but you know what, I guess it all works out because I hate Rick Santorum?"

Explain to me your position, Burning Down.

Sure. That and he was in trouble in PA.

:laughing:

I'm glad someone is calling a spade, a spade.

Wait a minute, you made this post. Are you telling me you didn't read your own ****ing post? It says in the OP that his daughter was sick from a rare genetic disorder.

Think about what you're actually saying. Do you honestly believe it was anyone's intention to celebrate the illness of a little girl?

No of course not. But perception is reality whether anyone wants to admit that or not.

The fact is/was people were giddy about him dropping out. Thats fine, but you need to recognize that he's dropping out because his child is sick. So he's making a decision to stop pursuing political office, he doesn't want to stop pursuing political office, he wants to keep running against a man who he believes is fraudulent. But he cannot because he values his daughter’s health more than winning office. And in that decision, people are finding elation.

At the end of the day, it doesn't matter what I think. MB has always been about "winning" which is why 4 or 5 posters keep coming back here, but you need to realize that there are real issues out there, and if you had to stop defending gay rights because of a medical issue, and someone celebrated that, I'd have said the same thing to them.

Beyond this point, I think its civically ignorant to celebrate like you are. So to be fair, I was bias walking in. I think its unintelligent from a political position to take the position many here have. It basically says you have a stunted understanding about many of the political machinations in the primary process. So yeah, I'm pissed that so many stupid opinions are being celebrated. But theres still a core problem here that people aren't recognizing. I don't know how I can say it to make you understand beyond using an example you're sympathetic to so...

When the religious right celebrated Christopher Hitchens death as "punishment" I was equally appalled. Because its not that a political argument is silenced, its that one is silenced - not because it was squashed with reason - but because of a tragedy.

To fail to recognize the tragedy says you lack a basic empathy for other people. In this particular example, I can't take anyone seriously who fights human rights when they can arrogantly ignore human suffering.

Weren't you the one who said we should be celebrating Osama's death...

Thats pretty cruel. Dude held off The invading Russians for us.

1. Yes

2. Santorum didn't kill 3k innocent people. He didn't advocate that the world be palced back into a caliphate. He didn't authorize the destuction of Buddhist statues and temples.

3. You have miserable takes it music.

Edit: Also, I do think its great that you've compared the two because now we're getting down to brass tax. We should be thrilled that Rick Santorum is out of the race because his child is sick, but we should be horrified that people cheered Bin Laden was dead...and I'm the one who's crazy.