Just a little reminder for everyone currently revving their engines for Rick Santorum

He openly and nakedly dissents from the Church’s teaching on Just War (no such thing as just pre-emptive war).

He favors the use of torture (which is, you know, intrinsically immoral).

He thinks cold-blooded murder of the Right Sort of innocent human being in a nation with whom we are not at war is “wonderful”.

He lost his Senate seat by putting party before his allegedly unshakeable prolife principles not only by backing pro-abort zealot Arlen Spector over the prolife candidate, but (according to Judie Brown) by actually pushing legislation to legalize human cloning.

He is another mega-government zealot for ever-expanding wars of Empire (on deck: IRAN!) which will help torpedo our economy even further (resulting in more misery and, yes, more abortion for cash-strapped single mothers).

He is almost as clueless as Romney when it comes to the miseries of the poor and middle class. Here he is, explaining to a mother that she shouldn’t have a problem paying $1 million for prescription drugs for her ill son. In short, he is another guardian, like Obama and the rest of the Ruling Class, of the interests of our Ruling Class. I can certainly understand a Catholic who may vote for him out of desperation at Obama’s assaults on religious liberty. But I can’t for the life of me understand any Catholic who actually takes the Church’s teaching seriously seeing in this man a hero to be cheered for and defended against all criticism.

Not that it matters. After this temporary hiccup, the GOP machine will, with the slow, smooth strangling power of a python, slowly crush the life out of its obstreporous members and bring them to heel, safely chanting the name of Romney. It really does make me wonder in what sense we live in a democracy when we so consistently keep getting candidates nobody wants and nobody anybody knows wants.