Bad_Doggie
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Sadly former presidential wannabe Rick Santorum lost a nephew to an unexpected illness a while ago.
Then in speech a few days later, he spoke of his nephew's passing in a touching, personal way that came thiiiiiis close to making him seem like an actual, sympathetic human being, before snapping out of it and reasserting his unmatched douchebaggery with a jaw-dropping example of the kind of unvarnished crassness only he can deliver.
From the CNN article:
Full cringeworthy speech here
I honestly didn't think it possible to think less of him than I already did, but by using the untimely death of his nephew to score tearjerker political points, he managed to make it happen. Whata arsehole.
Woof!
Then in speech a few days later, he spoke of his nephew's passing in a touching, personal way that came thiiiiiis close to making him seem like an actual, sympathetic human being, before snapping out of it and reasserting his unmatched douchebaggery with a jaw-dropping example of the kind of unvarnished crassness only he can deliver.
From the CNN article:
Full cringeworthy speech here
With tears in his eyes, the former presidential candidate talked emotionally about his nephew who passed away Thursday in Pittsburgh from what Santorum described as "a horribly painful disease that almost overnight began ravaging his body."
"Medicines were effectively blocking all of his physical pain. We were the ones in pain," he said. [...]
While society has made immense progress in stopping physical pain, he said, Democrats have gone too far in trying to use government programs to address almost every other pain.
"The left can always promise more stuff and make it sound like they care more, because they make it easier for Americans by providing the stuff for them through government programs paid for by somebody else's money," he said. [...]
"Obama has offered a new deal. He and his friends will reduce the pain and the suffering," Santorum said, adding that all Americans have to do is abandon their principles. "He wants to exchange the why of the American Revolution for the why of the French Revolution."
I honestly didn't think it possible to think less of him than I already did, but by using the untimely death of his nephew to score tearjerker political points, he managed to make it happen. Whata arsehole.
Woof!