More GOP Insanity: Santorum Planning 2016 Presidential Run

If nothing Republican Party is consistent: consistently insane and out of touch with both voters and objective reality.  Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum is already gearing up for another presidential run in 2016.  The irony, of course, is that in many ways Santorum personifies what is wrong with today's GOP and its growing alienation of younger voters, women and non-whites.  Yet there remain Kool-Aid drinkers who continue to support Santorum rather that strap him in a straight jacket and take him away to the mental ward.   The New Civil Rights Movement looks at Santorum's unhinged efforts to prepare for 2016 - a move that will only help Democrats and those in support of the LGBT civil rights movement.  Here are highlights: 

Rick Santorum is already planning and organizing his campaign for the Republican 2016 presidential election season. Santorum, who lost badly this year, ran on a platform of religious anti-gay and anti-immigrant hate — exactly the positions that some in the GOP are now just starting to realize hurt Mitt Romney‘s chances, however small they were, of winning the White House.

Santorum is a questionable candidate among younger voters, women, the LGBT community, the African American community, the Hispanic community, and other minorities, and his abrasive and condescending demeanor doesn’t help either. By 2016, America will be so over the Rick Santorums they’ll have to find another country to try to rule.

“A leading evangelical leader who is close to Santorum and asked not to be identified, told The Christian Post on Wednesday that Santorum is ‘organizing and making all the necessary preparations’ for another run in the 2016 Republican primary,” the Christian Post reports: “Rick’s getting ready organized and is not going to be behind the eight-ball when it comes to fundraising and building a grassroots organization,” the anonymous source said. “I think you’ll see and hear a lot from Rick in the next 12 months.” 

Last week, Santorum told CNN’s Piers Morgan that “Romney, in my opinion, didn’t do was go out and vigorously defend the beliefs that he said he espoused and didn’t go on the offense.”

“And when you’re playing defense, which is what I believe the campaign was doing and Republicans were doing generally throughout the course of this campaign you’re not going to win.”

“He didn’t make it about those two fundamentally different visions for America,” he said of Obama’s re-election campaign, “and I don’t think we did a very good job either as Republicans pointing out those fundamental differences and what type of freedom we’re talking about.”

What not a single Republican seems to understand is that Hispanics don’t have a problem with the GOP’s not having “a strong message for those folks.” The GOP has had a very strong message for the Hispanic and Latino communities: “self-deport, you illegals.”  Santorum 2016!

Democrats must be thrilled that Santorum will be out actively underscoring the extremism and racism of today's GOP.