Showering at the Y with Santorum

Aug 07, 2013 20:19

The frothy former senator from Pennsylvania, failed 2012 Presidential candidate, he of the unfortunate Google problem, Rick Santorum, is off and running for the 2016 election. He's already trying to fire up his base: far-right-wing Catholics, far-right-wing Evangelicals, and far-right-wing right wingers. Appearing in decidedly not right-wing Austin ( Read more... )

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xiphias August 9 2013, 13:38:46 UTC
Hunh. And I thought we won the American Revolution because George Washington developed strategic asymmetric warfare, plus a good amount of political maneuvering, plus other European powers using the opportunity to get their digs in at England, plus England being over-extended in too many foreign wars, requiring them to use their best troops in Mediterranean wars against Spain, and East Indies naval battles against France. The United States was just one front in a global French/English war, which eventually weakened France so much that anti-Monarchist forces were able to overthrow the Monarchy.

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bill_sheehan August 9 2013, 13:39:49 UTC
Yes, but you went to college. (Elitist!)

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xiphias August 9 2013, 13:40:33 UTC
For ONE YEAR, and I failed all my classes and flunked out.

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bill_sheehan August 9 2013, 13:43:05 UTC
A fellow auto-didact!

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