If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: being a Republican means never having to worry your pretty little head with things like truth, reality, or facts. Honesty is dependent on what you need it to mean, or, as the great George Costanza once said, “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” Few Conservatives have lived this belief more fully and completely than Rick Santorum. Little Ricky has garnered a well-deserved reputation for having a tempestuous relationship with the truth. If it pops into his head, and he thinks it can score some political points, he’ll say it…because, as any REAL American patriot knows, truth is a fungible concept.
Santorum mangling the truth is neither new nor newsworthy; it’s an everyday, sometimes several times a day proposition. What I’m learning to find enjoyment in, though, is the (lack of) skillfulness and (lack of) alacrity with which Little Ricky desiccates the truth. When he stomps on the facts concerning the workings of a foreign country…well, you can’t expect the Netherlands to stand mutely by while Santorum makes things up about Dutch law and culture as he goes, right?
What I find most astonishing is the idea that anyone so willing to mangle the truth and make up facts as he goes can seriously think he has any claim to the moral high ground in this campaign.
