Looney Toons

Rick Santorum is little more than a footnote on this presidential campaign.

He's not worth bothering with -- except that his looney claims and his notorious homophobic anxiety make him so much fun to ridicule.

Michele Bachmann has become such a mechanical talking doll that she's not even interesting as a crazy person any more, so now Rick is the reigning Looney Toon songbird. His latest looney toon is enough to gain him a bit of notice here at ShrinkRap.

Here's his latest and worst hit yet, uttered in a radio show last week with Family Research Council's president Tony Perkins:

The GOP strategy for reducing "the Democratic advantage" should be to marry off all the single mothers "who look to the government for help. . . . Look at the political base of the Democratic Party: It is single mothers who run a household. Why? Because it’s so tough economically that they look to the government for help and therefore they’re going to vote. So if you want to reduce the Democratic advantage, what you want to do is build two parent families, you eliminate that desire for government."

And how does Rick propose to find the men who will marry these single mothers and let the government off the hook? He doesn't address that problem. Reinstitute the draft and assign all single men to marry a single mother? Require that every man over 21 be married?

If he really wants to reduce single motherhood, this foolish former senator might want to reexamine his positions opposing any form of family planning or sex education other than abstinence only and his implacable anti-abortion stand. Each one of these positions increases the incidence of single mother births.

Poor Rick. Please don't tell him that the military troops are having no problem with the repeal of DADT. It might raise his anxiety level enough to throw him into psychological decompensation.

Ralph