Forget The Obama Angle... This Recent Santorum Quote Is The Pinnacle Of Right-Wing Projection

[WillyT]

"It's not about you,' Santorum declared."It's not about your quality of life. It's not about your jobs. It's about some phony ideal. Some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible -- a different theology."

Link: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505267_162-57381228/santorum-remark-on-obama-theology-draws-ire/

[AlinPA]

1. It was quickly followed up with his spokesperson using "radical Islamic" to describe Obama's

policies. They are on a roll. Next, racial slurs will help Santorum rise in the GOP polls.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Apologies don't un-whistle the dog whistle.

He's black, he's Muslim, therefore he's a black Muslim. And the whistle is blown.

Shades of Bobby Seale!

[WillyT]

3. Oh, I Definitely Understand That... But... If 'Projection' Is Accusing Your Opponents Of...

the very things you cherish...

Those words were VERY telling.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Oh, yes indeed.

I almost think I'm starting to get a fix on Santorum's psychodynamics.

I think he's a terribly repressed, homophobic, sexophobic latent homosexual who is so threatened by the nature of his unacknowledged needs that he has to keep a tight lid clamped down on his feelings while he punishes himself and others for their sexuality. Kind of like all those old hairshirt-wearing, self-flagellating penitentes who used to inhabit far reaches of the globe like New Mexico.

[WillyT]

5. Couldn't Have Put It Any Better Myself...

Seriously... No Way I Could...

[Jackpine Radical]

10. Glad to be of service, Willy.

The thing that scares me most about these types is that they managed to hold power for centuries in the past (think Spanish Inquisition, or the Protestant witch-burnings, or Calvin's burning of Giordano Bruno) & we seem to have lost the flames ignited in the Enlightenment, so who knows how far the current "Endarkenment" is gonna reach? We already have the torture chambers, the suspension of habeas corpus, the betrayal of higher education and academic research in the interest of the corporations…

And a whole political party that has dedicated itself to the enthroning of the irrational.

I keep thinking of that old Sinclair Lewis novel I read in the 60's: It Can't Happen Here.

[intaglio]

8. Opus Dei actually asks its followers to use "mortification"

Like hair shirts and self flagellation. One of their variants of the "cilice" (hair shirt) is a metal chain with inwardly pointing spikes worn round the thigh

[Jackpine Radical]

9. I knew that at one time

but i guess I repressed it.

Those people are fuckin' sick. I wonder what little toys Scalia wears when he's on the bench.

[provis99]

6. this later part in the same speech is definitely projectionism.

It's a classic psychological case.
"You can call it a theology, you can call it a moral code, you can call it a world view," he said. "They want to impose [that] on everybody else while they insist and complain that somehow or another people of Judeo Christian faith are intolerant of their new moral code."

Read more: http://www.wesh.com/politics/30492378/detail.html#ixzz1mywylIjt

And he said it while waving his arms in the air like a revivalist preacher.

[WillyT]

7. Yep...