And the sad part is that the latter is going to get more of a spark out of people than the fromer
Nngh... because the latter is a multi-billion dollar industry with gods only know how many lobbyists. That's basically the sole reason banning it's more unlikely than the former.
So, question. Anyone have any thoughts as to what this Santorum fellow is
actually doing? It's reached the point where every few hours this thread is giving another display of him committing political (and social, really) suicide; if that's even remotely representative of what's going down in wider media, the dude's basically dead. I, personally, have trouble believing that the fellow is genuinely that mindbogglingly stupid; I think I genuinely don't buy that someone that's managed to rustle up millions worth of backing can be an actual, full blown,
idiot. It just doesn't seem to follow. I'm not even saying the guy might not believe what he's saying; I'm saying he's not stupid enough to not know what the public reaction to those kind of statements would be. Either him or his handlers (for sake of my sanity
) have to be aiming for something else.
I mean, yeah, people are people and people can be stupid, but it'd seem to me that the writing's not just on the wall, it's been painted on with rapidly flashing neon/florescent paint, that's screaming out its message in every language on earth and about fifteen invented specifically for that moment, while tap-dancing Morse code on the guy's skull and massaging braille into his rectum. This isn't stuff you just miss.
So. Any conjectures as to what the actual intent could be? Is it just trying to go down in flames? Drawing attention from something else? Just trying to add to the media furor so actually important shit gets drowned out? Trying to make the other candidates look better? Something else? Without going into full blown conspiracy madness, is there any conceivable reason to be taking this sort of path? The path to the presidency doesn't seem to be something you'd just... go and do, willy nilly. There's gotta' be intent, somewhere in there.