{"id":26223,"date":"2012-02-08T20:43:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T03:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/rick-santorum-lives-in-a-topsy-turvy-world.html"},"modified":"2012-02-10T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T05:47:24","slug":"rick-santorum-lives-in-a-topsy-turvy-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/rick-santorum-lives-in-a-topsy-turvy-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum lives in a topsy-turvy world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; where he thinks people do the <i>exact opposite<\/i> of what they really do.  So when the Obama Administration says in Supreme Court case that it would be unconstitutional to force the Catholic Church to hire women to be priests, Rick immediately interprets that to mean that the Obama Administration intends to force the Catholic Church to hire women to be priests.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s zany.  Especially since Rick is running for president and just got chosen by three states as their choice for the GOP nomination.  Like I said, zany.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, it&#39;s almost worth it, in order to see a picture of Dawn French as the Vicar of Dibley.  #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2Fvicar-of-dibley.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/02\/08\/421206\/santorum-invents-new-front-in-fake-obama-war-on-religion-claims-obama-will-force-catholics-to-hire-women-priests\/'>Santorum Invents New Front In Fake War On Religion: Obama Wants Female Catholic Priests<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor weeks, Republicans have pretended that President Obama is waging some kind of war on religion because his administration recently approved regulations requiring insurers to cover contraceptive car&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; where he thinks people do the exact opposite of what they really do. So when the Obama Administration says in Supreme Court case that it would be unconstitutional to force the Catholic Church to hire women to be priests, Rick immediately interprets that to mean that the Obama Administration intends to force the Catholic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/rick-santorum-lives-in-a-topsy-turvy-world.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rick Santorum lives in a topsy-turvy world&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24293,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/not-that-i-pay-much-attention-to-rick-perry-any-more-but-well-actually.html","url_meta":{"origin":26223,"position":0},"title":"Not that I pay much attention to Rick Perry any more, but &#8212;- well, actually,&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Dec-11 10:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I pay much attention to Rick Perry any more, but -- -- well, actually, it's kind of nice that I don't have to pay much attention to Perry any more. 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