Santorum: Single-Parent Homes Worse For America Than Guns

Posted by | December 21, 2015 15:55 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


What if you get pregnant, your partner has abandoned you, and you happen to live in Missouri where there is ONE clinic which provides abortions? What if you’re also financially or geographically unable to exercise that particular option? The Republicans have made sure that you must birth that baby, welcome to single-parenthood! According to GOP Presidential…

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20 responses to Santorum: Single-Parent Homes Worse For America Than Guns

  1. Larry Schmitt December 21st, 2015 at 16:08

    Mika says, “You’re a smart guy.” They keep making these statements without any basis in fact. Where did she get the idea that Frothy is smart? Nothing he’s said recently indicates it.

    • allison1050 December 21st, 2015 at 16:24

      Personally, I believe he paid someone to sit and take the bar exam for him.

  2. Boltorama December 21st, 2015 at 16:29

    Time to pull out the Greg Popovich gif on this one.

  3. tracey marie December 21st, 2015 at 16:38

    That bristol tundratarlet is a bad parent and bad for America

  4. Dwendt44 December 21st, 2015 at 17:23

    Why does anybody listen to this ditz?

    • Boltorama December 21st, 2015 at 17:35

      For entertainment?

  5. Carla Akins December 21st, 2015 at 17:44

    He is so far removed from reality I am amazed he can find his way home at night.

  6. William December 21st, 2015 at 17:50

    * President Barack Obama (met his father only once)
    * Tom Cruise (he and his 3 siblings were raised by his mother)
    * Bill Clinton (father died in a car accident 3 months before his birth)
    * Michael Phelps
    * Demi Moore (father abandoned her before she was born)
    * Angelina Jolie
    * Julia Roberts (lost her father when she was 10)
    * Oprah Winfrey
    * Aubrey Hepburn
    * Maria Carey
    * Matt Damon
    * Halle Berry (abandoned by her father when she was 4)
    * Jodie Foster (parents separated before she was born)
    * Alicia Keys (grew up without her father)
    * Al Pacino (grew up in his grandparents’ house with his mother)
    * Marilyn Monroe (grew up with no father)
    * Barbra Streisand (lost her father when she was 2)
    * Jack Nicholson (did not know his real father)
    * Pierce Brosnan (abandoned by his father before his 1st birthday)
    * Jonathan Rhys Meyers (parent separated when he was 3)
    * Justin Bieber (his mother was 18 when she had him)
    * Ryan Gosling
    * Lance Armstrong
    * Samuel L Jackson (met his father twice in his life)
    * Jay-Z (abandoned by his father)
    * John Lennon (grew up with no father)
    * Charlize Theron (father was abusive and an alcoholic, mother ended up killing him)
    * Shania Twain
    * Kanye West
    * Mary J. Blige (father left when she was 4)
    * Adele (father left when she was 3)

    • arc99 December 21st, 2015 at 18:46

      and me..

      my father lived less than 5 miles away but I saw him rarely. my parents divorced before I entered kindergarten.

      so shove it rick..

    • Bunya December 21st, 2015 at 22:21

      This just proves Santorum’s point. All the people listed above went on to become successful, well-respected individuals, very much the opposite of Rick “man on dog” Santorum, who prides himself on being in the GOP race to the bottom.

    • Robert M. Snyder December 22nd, 2015 at 03:21

      Yes, all of those people had successful lives, but it only proves that some people are strong enough to overcome the huge setback that fatherlessness presents. I had a good friend in high school whose biological father and stepfather both wanted nothing to do with him. My friend was a good guy with a good sense of humor. He was smart and he had dreams. But he also had a hair-trigger temper and he took a lot of chances. It always seemed like he was trying to prove himself.
      Imagine a fatherless boy sitting in homeroom on Monday morning listening to his friends talking about the cool things they did with their fathers over the weekend. That’s what my friend Bret had to endure for years and years.

      At he age of twenty he died in a car accident when he took a big chance trying to pass a car on a two-lane road. As he crested the top of a hill, there was a Greyhound bus coming the other way. I cannot say how Bret’s life might have been different if he had a father like mine. But I know it would have been much better. I was lucky. My dad always looked forward to spending time with me. He planned camping trips and hikes and always took the time to show me how to do things around the house. I had a great dad, and my life would not have been the same without him.

      Maybe girls don’t need fathers, but boys do. A male role model such as a coach or a priest can provide some of the support that a father might provide, but it’s not the same as having a dad who is thinking about you every day.

      Today we have millions of boys growing up without dads in their lives. This is not a good thing. These boys face real challenges without the kind of enduring support that a father can provide. I’m sure a lot of single mothers love their sons very much and do their absolute best for them. But boys relate to fathers just as girls relate to mothers. Boys need fathers. Since 1970, fatherlessness has doubled among blacks and tripled among whites. It’s everyone’s problem.

  7. amersham46 December 21st, 2015 at 17:51

    YES YES , attack those least able to defend themselves , standard GOP tactic

  8. Chris December 21st, 2015 at 18:36

    Two absolutely ridiculous GOP rants are single-parent households and crazy people getting guns. Yeah, I’m looking at Santorum and LaPierre, among a number of other dissemblers.

    They pull these rants out, knowing full well that nothing will or can be done about them. They then wash their hands of the matter. The things that legislators CAN do, like upping the minimum wage so single-parent households can have a bit of dignity, and sensible gun control to keep the guns OUT of the hands of crazy people to begin with, are absolutely anathema to the GOP.

    Thus, nothing gets done. We need Democratic legislators to take on this nonsense, stop dignifying these asinine arguments with refutation, and engage the electorate.

    Stop backing down, start taking action.

  9. anothertoothpick December 21st, 2015 at 19:04

    Dear Joe

    Where did you put the axe?

    Love Mika

  10. jybarz December 21st, 2015 at 20:29

    He doesn’t make any sense at all.
    Does he know that Republicans are worse for America than guns?
    Does Sanitarium know that the likes of him belong to a mental institution?

  11. labman57 December 22nd, 2015 at 00:09

    May a single-parent home from Kansas fall from the sky and land on Righteous Rick’s head.

  12. rg9rts December 22nd, 2015 at 01:52

    Who cares what a guy with -1% in the polls has to say

  13. bpollen December 22nd, 2015 at 06:06

    To paraphrase Alice Cooper:

    Dead babies
    Go home with little Rick
    Dead babies
    For sleepovers is sick.

  14. liberalMD December 23rd, 2015 at 04:23

    When I read the title of the article, I almost thought Rick Santorum had come to his senses and was no longer beating the drum against gay couples adopting children. But reading the article brought me back to reality. Rick Santorum is simply doing what he’s always done: escalating one of the bullet points of his social agenda to the level of a serious national problem. When will he get a real job?

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