Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

[Walkoff Balk]

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I wonder if this happened because he wanted to ban porn.

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

No, it happened because he thinks it preserves his political future. It does not.

[lensperson]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

I may be wrong, but I think it was Justice Scalia who remarked that he would
recognise pornography when he saw it.Leaves one wondering what his frames
of reference were.
The power to replicate ourselves and the fun involved while doing so
are a 600 pound gorilla within certain mindsets.
The Victorian era tried to repress all sexuality and created a floodtide of perversion.

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

Scalia reminds me of 600 lb. gorilla porn.

[Leo Lakio]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

I may be wrong, but I think it was Justice Scalia who remarked that he would recognise pornography when he saw it.

It goes back much farther than that.

It was U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart who said that "hard-core pornography" was hard to define, but that "I know it when I see it." It was in the obscenity case of Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964); Justice Stewart later recanted this view in Miller v. California, in which he accepted that his prior view was simply untenable.

Trivia bits:
Justice Stewart served on the Court from October 14, 1958, to July 3, 1981, and was succeeded by the first female Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor.

Upon his death in 1985, Bob Woodward disclosed that Justice Stewart had been the primary source for "The Brethren," his account of the deliberations leading to some of the more controversial Court decisions from the 1970s. Among the cases with substantial treatment in the book was the decision in United States v. Nixon (1974), where the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon was legally obligated to turn over the Watergate tapes.

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RE: Santorum - I hope you are all familiar with the slang definition of "santorum" (and if you aren't, web-search "santorum definition" - assuredly NSFW, and something to which Seattle can lay claim).

[matapule]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

Among the cases with substantial treatment in the book was the decision in United States v. Nixon (1974), where the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon was legally obligated to turn over the Watergate tapes.

What kind of odds would you give me that the current Supreme Court would rule that Nixon would NOT have to turn over the tapes by a 5-4 ruling?

Regarding pornography, I define it as Rick Santorum who is trying to prostitute the Constitution.

[salmoned]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

Rick Santorum - RIP [regarding GOP nomination]

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

Rick Santorum is pulling out of the GOP presidential race. A frustrated GOP would just consume bon bons.

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

You're a little late there, sally, pRick the snob is done period. Anybody who loses their home state and then follows it up by running away from yet another embarassment after this nuttasious campaign is burnt political toast. And good riddance.

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

You're a little late there, sally,

Did you just call me Sally?
I'm ready for some competitive banter.

[lensperson]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

To the victor belongs the spoils.
Romney is not very popular with old school power elites.
Many of the evangelical right are not prepared to even declare him a Christian.
Even Rove has expressed doubts about widescale acceptance of Romney.
I think most Americans nowadays are polite enough to avoid the topic
of basic faiths, but somewhere in the back of the collective Jungian memory bank
they have doubts.
Look up Ezra Taft Benson and the John Birch Society.

[TATTRAT]

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RE: Santorum - I hope you are all familiar with the slang definition of "santorum" (and if you aren't, web-search "santorum definition" - assuredly NSFW, and something to which Seattle can lay claim).

I love Dan savage, lol.

[TATTRAT]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

I'm ready for some competitive banter.

What a surprise

[Ron Whitfield]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

Did you just call me Sally?
I'm ready for some competitive banter.

sally, as in salmoned. And don't call me Shirley.

I think most Americans nowadays are polite enough to avoid the topic of basic faiths, but somewhere in the back of the collective Jungian memory bank they have doubts.

In the face of many denials by rightys, I've long asserted there is a significant % of Baptist types that will never vote for a Mormon as president. They are not considered anything but to be avoided and dismissed as Heaven bound. Add that bunch to the bigger picture of those the R's have greatly alienated themselves from this season, women, blac... people, hispanics, gays, moderate/indies/libs, middle/lower class, the youth, and I see no way this will be the close race many predict unless Dem apathy is overwhelming.

[Walkoff Balk]

Re: Rick Santorum-GOP Presidential Canidate: Exit Stage Right

sally, as in salmoned. And don't call me Shirley.

Oh den, nevah mind.