Rick Santorum: Do You Want Any Women to Vote for You?

Dear Mr. Santorum,

You should know that I am a Libertarian.  I am fiscally conservative, although I support social issues that are clearly liberal.  It’s difficult for me as a voter because it is rare that a Libertarian ever has a chance at winning the Presidency.  So I have to take the good with the bad, and cast my vote for what’s more important to me.

I tend to vote Republican.

I don’t agree with everything any candidate has to say.  I don’t think anyone does.  I think we pick through the statements and empty promises to try to find someone that will lead our economy out of this crisis and allow us to experience the freedoms every American deserves.

That being said, I am terrified of you.  If you make it through the Republican Primary and actually become the Republican candidate for President, YOU WILL NOT HAVE MY VOTE.

Are You an Alpha Male?

I was once cyber stalked by a group of Alpha Males (they refer to themselves Alpha Males) who had an entire forum dedicated to hating me because I am a working mother.  Here is a small sample of what they said about me:

Females fail at everything besides raising children and caring after people.

We didn’t get through millions of years of natural selection by having women with “equal rights”.

What kind of man would let his wife hire more kitchen help?  *in reference to our nanny*

women, lol. i wish some sort of major apocalypse would really happen in 2012 (to the extent where only the strong and lucky survive)  the only women to make it through would be guided by men… fukin ingrates srs

women would be totally biased to hiring other women so they can gain some sort of power

lol women. i can’t believe women’s suffrage actually happened. was a bunch of self-entitled stay at home moms who thought they deserved to earn 100k pay checks and graduate high school with a 2.5 gpa.

newsflash: women are worse than men at everything

Nothing new here, most women suck at everything.

Back in the stone-age, a womens job was to give birth, look after children, and care for the sick. Men literally done every other action that was involved in the survival of the species. 

I can’t believe they put a woman in a position that effects the lifes of men.

She probably throws out the resumes of men based on her damaged female pride.

Ouch, right? That hurts. Is that really what men think of women?

To wrap my head around these statements, I spoke to my boss, my male co-workers, my husband, and my dad. They all found what was said to be hilarious and told me to let it go, calling them “giant douche bags that don’t understand the real world.”

I think you’re an Alpha Male, Mr. Santorum.  Your words sound a lot like their words (but with much better grammar and a larger platform).

Here is what you have to say…

On Women In Military Combat

I want to create every opportunity for women to be able to serve this country, and they do so in an amazing and wonderful way, and they’re a great addition and they have been for a long time to the armed services of our country, but I do have concerns about women in front-line combat.

The other example is the emotions of men, dealing with women in combat, and having men not focusing potentially on the mission but on the natural instinct to protect someone that’s a female.

If you’re out there, for example, in a group, or just two people, and some people, because of women, have, as you know with respect to physical capabilities, they don’t have the same requirements that men do in the military, and may be in a position if someone is injured, has to be brought back.

I think that could be a very compromising situation, where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.

On Women Working Outside of the Home

Many women have told me, and surveys have shown, that they find it easier, more ‘professionally’ gratifying, and certainly more socially affirming, to work outside the home than to give up their careers to take care of their children.

The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.

On Women Who Use Birth Control

I don’t think it works. I think it’s harmful to women. I think it’s harmful to our society to have a society that says that sex outside of marriage is something that should be encouraged or tolerated, particularly among the young. And I think we’ve very, very harmful longterm consequences to our society. Birth control to me enables that, and I don’t think it’s a healthy thing for our country.

One of the things I will talk about, that no president has talked about before, is I think the dangers of contraception in this country

The whole sexual libertine idea; many in the Christian faith have said, well, that’s OK, contraception is OK. It’s not OK, because it’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

On Abortions for Women Rape Victims

That child is an innocent victim, to be victimized twice would be a horrible thing. It is an innocent human life, genetically human from the moment of contraception. We in America should be big enough to try to surround ourselves and help women in those terrible situations who have been traumatized already. To put them through another trauma of an abortion, I think is too much to ask. So I would absolutely stand and say that one violence is enough.

The right approach is to accept this horribly created—in the sense of rape—but nevertheless a gift in a very broken way, the gift of human life, and accept what God has given to you.

…make the best of a bad situation.

On Women Marrying Women

[Marriage is] not a right, it’s something that has existed since the beginning of human history as an institution where men and women come together for the purposes of forming a natural relationship as God made it to be. And for the purposes of having children and continuing that civilization. It is an intrinsic good…And as a result of that, we extend a privilege. We extend certain privileges to people who do that because we want to encourage that behavior. 

Two people who may like each other or may love each other who are same-sex, is that a special relationship? Yes it is, but it is not the same relationship that benefits society like a marriage between a man and a woman.

Please Don’t Tell Me He Stands a Chance

Don’t Worry About What You’ve Said About Women, Mr. Santorum.
Your Buddy, Rush Limbaugh, Has Your Back.

Now, they happen to have an interview that Santorum gave years ago in which he talked about this within the context of states’ rights.  He said if the state wants to ban contraception, they should have the right to do that. 

Well, that becomes:  Santorum supports banning contraception.  So to the people in this country who do nothing but have sex mindlessly day in and day out and to whom birth control is only a means of eliminating consequences, you tell them that the Republican Party wants to take away their means of no consequences, and I don’t care what else is going on in the world, 300 nuclear weapons, tax increases, economy being destroyed, you tell that bunch of mindless, brain-dead twerps that they’re not gonna get their birth control pills, and that’s all that will matter. 

They’re gonna vote for Obama on that alone, and that’s what they’re counting on.  Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are aiming at the lowest common denominator.  They have spent decades dumbing down the American people in the education system that they run and that they have run. 

I vote mostly conservative, and I will never vote for you.  I’ll vote for President Obama with the rest of the (what did Rush call women again?) “mindless brain-dead twerps” before I ever cast a vote for an Alpha Male like you.

I pray you don’t make it out of the GOP, because you will ruin the conservative ticket for women voters.

I’d rather be taxed more than be treated like a second rate citizen because I have a vagina.

This isn’t a “radical feminist” thing, sir, this a “women in general” thing.

Sincerely,

Meredith Soleau
A Concerned Conservative Voter

Sources: Rush Limbaugh Show, Think Progress, You Tube, You Tube , It Takes a Family, Fox News, CNN, CNN