Conservatives, Praising Mandela, Unintentionally Humorously

Y'ALL'LL REMEMBER RICK SANTORUM, whose fifteen minutes o' fame consisted in a failed term in the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania, trying futilely to force extreme right wing legislation upon his poor,hapless country, and for an abortive joke of a candidacy for the republican nomination for president of the grand old republic. Santorum is way too conservative for mainstream America, and mainstream America is pretty damned conservative. Nonetheless, he just had to express himself, in front of cameras and reporters, on the passing of Nelson Mandela, just like every other failed conservative politician simply must hold forth on the glory of the legacy of Mandela about now. Anything for a few more moments of fame. And they're all the same, these pious conservative eulogies, all distortations of what Mandela stood for, and what they stand for, all laughably ludicrous. Santorium compared Mandela to the American tea party; both of which he imagines fought a noble fight for a great cause against an implacable enemy. Mandela fought against apartheid, and the tea party fought against Obamcare, the only difference being that Mandela won his fight. American conservatives are in denial that Mandela was a socialist, and tea party types, like Santorum, are corporate profit Christian, the opposite of Nelson Mandela. Even Rush Limbaugh got his brownie points by kissing up to the Mandela legacy. A more honest approach for Rush and the republican right would be to condemn Mandela for his shameless harping about forced, government imposed racial and economic equality, and for his damnable, big government, radical liberalism.