Now living in the United States,The Big Dollop can’t but help himself from publishing various posts on the race for the Republican Nomination for the Presidential election which is to be held in early November.
To the casual reader of my humble blog it might appear that The Big Dollop may have an axe to grind with the candidates seeking the Republican Nomination – had the shoe been on the other foot and Mr McCain had won the 2008 election there is every possibility my critique would have been focused on democratic candidates instead.
The subject of this particular post is the former Senator for Pennsylvania - Rick Santorum who at a town hall gathering in Florida failed to admonish a constituent who told him that President Obama was “an avowed Muslim” and is not a “legal” President in a manner which her denunciations of Obama’s legitimacy to the Presidency were not only in poor taste, but in actuality - totally erroneous.
In the interests of regularity I must state for the record I have no problem with anyone having fundamental differences of opinion on policy as exercised by the Obama administration, however when someone expresses an opinion that Mr. Obama has no right to call himself the President because of his supposed religion or that he is somehow constitutionally disqualified, by staying silent on the matter Senator Santorum is guilty by association, he should have stepped in and called the lady out on her jaundiced point of view.
Having criticised his fellow "contender" Mitt Romney as an individual as:
To the casual reader of my humble blog it might appear that The Big Dollop may have an axe to grind with the candidates seeking the Republican Nomination – had the shoe been on the other foot and Mr McCain had won the 2008 election there is every possibility my critique would have been focused on democratic candidates instead.
Another Faux Pas Mr Santorum
The subject of this particular post is the former Senator for Pennsylvania - Rick Santorum who at a town hall gathering in Florida failed to admonish a constituent who told him that President Obama was “an avowed Muslim” and is not a “legal” President in a manner which her denunciations of Obama’s legitimacy to the Presidency were not only in poor taste, but in actuality - totally erroneous.
In the interests of regularity I must state for the record I have no problem with anyone having fundamental differences of opinion on policy as exercised by the Obama administration, however when someone expresses an opinion that Mr. Obama has no right to call himself the President because of his supposed religion or that he is somehow constitutionally disqualified, by staying silent on the matter Senator Santorum is guilty by association, he should have stepped in and called the lady out on her jaundiced point of view.
Having criticised his fellow "contender" Mitt Romney as an individual as:
“Someone who supports lies and promotes lies and stands behind those lies in order to get elected president.”Senator Santorum was hypocritical in standing behind the lies of this badly informed constituent.
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