{"id":9078,"date":"2015-05-18T04:27:37","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=9078"},"modified":"2015-05-18T04:27:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T11:27:37","slug":"rick-santorum-a-paragon-of-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2015\/05\/18\/rick-santorum-a-paragon-of-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum, A Paragon of Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;When Bruce Jenner, the soon to be transsexual, came out of the closet as a Christian and a conservative, many on the left <a href=\"http:\/\/soopermexican.com\/2015\/04\/24\/tolerant-liberals-are-very-angry-bruce-jenner-is-a-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\">flipped out<\/a> and started hurling &#8220;transphobic&#8221; insults and otherwise venting pure distilled H8.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Who was it, then, that stood up and defended Bruce Jenner as a human being deserving of respect?\u00a0 None other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2015\/05\/02\/rick-santorum-shows-support-for-bruce-jenner-at-south-carolina-republican-party-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Santorum<\/a>, who said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;My responsibility as a human being is to love and accept everybody. Not to criticize people for who they are. I can criticize, and I do, for what people do, for their behavior. But as far as for who they are, you have to respect everybody, and these are obviously complex issues for businesses, for society, and I think we have to look at it in a way that is compassionate and respectful of everybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9079\" title=\"santorum tolerance\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/santorum_tolerance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/santorum_tolerance.jpg 600w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/santorum_tolerance-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unsurprisingly, rabid Leftist H8-mogers flipped out and attacked Rick Santorum, complete with purposefully insulting photos and reminding everyone that <a title=\"The Modern Day Menshevik\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/06\/10\/the-modern-day-menshevik\/\" target=\"_blank\">H8-mongering bully and all-around piece of [expletive deleted]<\/a> Dan Savage was &#8220;tolerant&#8221; enough to equate Santorum with something that only Savage would love.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The loathsome and intolerant excuses for human beings (<em>i<\/em>.<em>e<\/em>. Wonkette) went so far as to belittle Santorum by <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150514112334\/http:\/\/wonkette.com\/584622\/rick-santorum-sorry-for-saying-nice-thing-about-bruce-jenner-swears-he-didnt-mean-it\" target=\"_blank\">falsely calling him a liar<\/a> and claiming that he was apologizing for expressing true tolerance:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9080\" title=\"santorum facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/santorum-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/santorum-facebook.jpg 516w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/santorum-facebook-300x118.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Boy, Santorum sure stepped in a puddle of himself, didn\u2019t he? It says something about the state of right-wing douchenozzlery in America when a presumed presidential candidate feels the need to make a public apology for being TOO NICE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer that Santorum wasn&#8217;t apologizing for being tolerant, but rather <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/240865-santorum-expresses-support-for-bruce-jenner\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrating<\/a> <em>true<\/em> tolerance!\u00a0 One tolerates things they do not approve of and do not like.\u00a0 Clearly this notion is alien to the H8-mongering idjits over at Wonkette.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Rick Santorum, A Paragon of Tolerance\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"When Bruce Jenner, the soon to be transsexual, came out of the closet as a Christian and a conservative, many on the left flipped out and started hurling 'transphobic' insults and otherwise venting pure distilled H8.  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