Senator Sanatorium gets a new bully pulpit

[thatcrazycajun]

Former US Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), one of the wingnut Gingrichistas blessedly evicted from office by last year's Democratic sweep in the midterm elections, is now being given a weekly op-ed column in the Philadelphia Inquirer, the last daily I used for my morning newsprint fix before moving to Atlanta. As if he hadn't already done enough damage to the public policy debate in the Keystone State. Jeeze Louise, I'm all for Republicans and/or conservatives being allowed to speak their piece in public fora (not un-rebutted, mind you, but allowed), but does it have to be the guy who equated homosexuality with bestiality while in office?

Memo to Inky publisher Brian Tierney and editor Bill Marimow: What in the name of Ben Franklin's sainted memory are you guys thinking? Are your Rolodexes really so pitiful that you couldn't find someone saner to represent the right on your op-ed pages?

Comments

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

"Senator Sanatorium". I like that!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I've always called him that because, quite frankly, that's where I firmly believe he should have been put a long time ago.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

"Jeeze Louise, I'm all for Republicans and/or conservatives being allowed to speak their piece in public fora (not uncontested, mind you, but allowed), but does it have to be the guy who equated homosexuality with bestiality while in office?"

Obviously a Librul Media conspiracy to make conservatives look bad by prominently presenting their most moronic examples....

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I could concede this as a PR plus for the left and against the right if Sanatorium wasn't so damned irritating in his dumbassedness.