Paging Dr. Freud, Santorum Surrogate’s Slip is Showing: Obama’s “Radical Islamic Policies”

Santorum spoke Alice Stewart seeks to “explain” Ricky’s references to President Obama’s religion the other day. It doesn’t go well.

An honest misspeak? Direct line from unconscious to mouth? Undigested talking point burp? We report, you decide, but in view of Ricky’s dogfoghorn-blowing, you have to wonder.

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Posted by YAFB on 02/20/12 at 04:32 PM • Permalink

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Poor thing, they changed the password on her. “Radical Islamist” was yesterday’s password.

Comment by Vixen Strangely on 02/20/12 at 05:37 PM

It’s just over 8 months until the November, 2012 elections. Dog knows this shit is going to get worse, but it is hard to imagine exactly what that will entail. Part of me sighs sadly, and another part is sure there is going to be some ugly violence involved.

Comment by StringOnAStick on 02/20/12 at 07:51 PM

At the end she says he was referring to Obama’s “radical islamic policies” with regard to energy policy.

Unsurprisingly, that’s just gibberish.

Comment by Glix on 02/20/12 at 10:48 PM

Keep your gubmint fatwa out of my Drill Baby Drill!

/gibberish audition

Comment by Jewish Steel on 02/21/12 at 03:31 AM

Santorum draws on the writings and beliefs of a guy named Plinio Correa de Oliveira (google it) who published a manifesto in 1959 called “Revolution and Counter-revolution”. That’s where Santorumn’s recent blatherings about the evils of the French Revolution come from too. Oliveira’s beliefs are the basis for a far right wing Catholic organization called The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (google it, they have a web page) which was founded in the early 1970s. TFP/USA is headquartered in Spring Grove, PA. Oliveira is essentially Rick Santorum’s Saul Alinsky.

You can watch some TFP activist in action here (anti-gay marriage protest in Maryland):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-3kZGceHhc

note the man-on-dog reference which comes half way into the video. TFP was also involved with the objection to, and protest against, Obama’s visit to Notre Dame Univ.

Comment by the farmer on 02/21/12 at 03:54 AM

Correction. TFP protest video linked above is from Harrisburg PA, i think, not Maryland. Whatever.

Comment by the farmer on 02/21/12 at 04:04 AM

Thanks, the farmer. If by some freaky turn of events Santorum gets the nom, we’ll no doubt have great fun with this stuff.

Unsurprisingly, that’s just gibberish.

It was actually unfair to focus solely on the “Islamic” thing. It was just the croutons on the word salad that led up to it.

Comment by YAFB on 02/21/12 at 10:24 AM

What is it with these reactionary white dudes and their connection to some 1970’s whackdoodle as their political muse? First (lately anyway) there was Beck and his Cleon Skousen channeling, and now we find Li’l Ricky doing the same with some ultraright catholic nutbar.

I should have known that all the hyperventilating over Saul Alinsky was just projection covering their very real obsessions with some dead guy’s POV’s. Everything they do seems to be projection; I just wasn’t sure who they were projecting.

Comment by StringOnAStick on 02/21/12 at 11:56 AM

Conspiracies are the perennial obsession of the right-wing. Extreme right-wingers and conservatives, by definition have a narrow and intolerant world-view. That means they have a tendency to ascribe anything outside their worldview to a black and white world, which, because the world is a much more complex environment, in reality, means that conspiracies must account for why things aren’t going RIGHT.