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NH-Sen: Ayotte's DC Donors, in their Own Words

by: Dean Barker

Wed Oct 21, 2009 at 21:29:16 PM EDT


NHDP, on Craig Benson protege Kelly Ayotte:
A close examination of Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte's FEC report confirms, today, that she is the candidate of Washington Republican insiders, not the people of New Hampshire.  

The fundraising report details approximately $100K in contributions from the PACs of DC Republicans - including Rick Santorum, John Cornyn, Trent Lott, Mitch McConnell, and Jon Kyl.  Each contributed generously to the Ayotte campaign.

Former Senator Rick Santorum on "man on dog":
Every society in the history of man has upheld the institution of marriage as a bond between a man and a woman. Why? Because society is based on one thing: that society is based on the future of the society. And that's what? Children. Monogamous relationships. In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality -

AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.

Senator John Cornyn, on man on box turtle, or, the need for a Constitutional ban on marriage equality:
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. . . . Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife."
Former Senator Trent Lott, on Dixiecrat presidential nominee Strom Thurmond:
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either," Lott said at last week's party.

...During the campaign, [Thurmond] said, "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."


Senator Mitch McConnell, on (then) fellow Senator Clinton:
"I hear [Hillary] hasn't been this worried since a new Hooters opened" near her home with former President Bill Clinton, McConnell said, prompting laughs from the 400 Northern Kentucky Republicans.

Senator Jon Kyl, on living under a rock:
I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance.
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From the Box Turtle Bulletin:

Bill O'Reilly, during a shouting match with a guest, confessed his love for a duck: "The people who want to marry a duck can come in, all right. ...If I want to marry a duck... I have a right to marry the duck, alright? ... And leave my house to a duck."

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa), in describing marriage as being between a man and a woman, added, "It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be".

After considering his options, Bill O'Reilly apparently changed his mind and decided to forsake his duck for a goat: "...Somebody's gonna come in and say, 'I wanna marry the goat.' You'll see it; I guarantee you'll see it."

Rev. Jimmy Swaggart thought that politicians who supported marriage equality "all oughta have to marry a pig and live with him forever."

You mean like your wife did, Jimmy?

What a bunch of perverts.  


I do think these are good examples of people having (0.00 / 0)
preconceived notions and then reacting to their own imaginings.   It's a closed loop into which reality does not intrude.
Some theorists have identified such people as idealists.  That is, they formulate an idea of how they want things to be, or not, and then act on that.  The French have a phrase for it, "ideé fixe."

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Ugh! (0.00 / 0)
I'd almost forgotten what a creepy pervert Santorum is.

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