Cooties From "Uncovered Meat?"

We missed it, but via No More Mr. Nice Blog we can repeat it.

Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum told a Spartanburg crowd Wednesday that the only woman he’s ever sat on a couch with is his wife, a not-so-subtle dig at former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who appeared seated next to Democrat Nancy Pelosi in a 2008 ad urging action on climate change.

99¢ Only Store psychology follows; we doubt that Nancy Pelosi is Santorum's entire point here. Per Rick's patriarchal/Talibanic attitudes, he's probably afraid that, like fellow bead-rattler Gingrich, his self-control will give out should a tempting tramp (or trollop) sit next to him.

In the religious address on adultery to about 500 worshippers in Sydney last month, Sheik Hilali said: "If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street, or in the garden or in the park, or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it ... whose fault is it, the cats or the uncovered meat?

"The uncovered meat is the problem."

The sheik then said: "If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred."

He said women were "weapons" used by "Satan" to control men.

"It is said in the state of zina (adultery), the responsibility falls 90 per cent of the time on the woman. Why? Because she possesses the weapon of enticement (igraa)."

Or just the possibility of cooties? (Directly connected to the "weapon of enticement [igraa]" of course.) Either way, Rick is scared, & as so often, what most scares him is himself. Which is why he's trying to clamp down on America's sex life & will not shut up about morality: He's still trying to convince himself.