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Beat you to it, Rose.

Falling behind in Penn is surely a factor. I'm not sure that would be enought to get him to drop out TODAY. I HAVE to think the decision to drop out, given that it is today, HAS to be strongly related to watching his daughter struggle with her health. I can't imagine voluntarily giving so much of what could be very limited time left with my daughter to campaigning for POTUS.

I'm sure you are right about Penn being a big factor. Better to drop out before having the painful experience of losing in your home state. Gives him a much better chance at future political success to not be a two-time loser in your own state.

I just think this announcement, today, is related to his daughter, and I have to say it gives me a much better impression of the guy.

To anyone who has ever lost a child, there is nothing, NOTHING more important than the limited time we have with them... Even if you live to be 80.

"It isn't over until the fat lady sings."--George Bush, 1980.

The fat lady is singing.

If I live to be 100, it's doubtful that I'll experience pain equal to that of losing a child. The only comfort one can take from it is that you are the one that suffers instead of them.

Certainly makes the book "A Time to Kill" a compelling story, doesn't it?

So can I. If someone did something terrible to one of my children and was not convicted, I'd be the guy outside the courtroom in your example, or Carl Lee Hailey in Time to Kill.

"extreme social viewpoints" "religious fanaticism" So you hold strongly opposite viewpoints. You encourage abortion, have no respect for the unborn life removed; you think a solid Catholic who is not afraid to announce his faith is problematic to the point of being "fanatic."

The Founders must really piss you off.

How about you enlighten the board about Islam if a Catholic frightens you? While you discuss islam throw in bho's early upbringing that soaked him in islam and caused him to state not at all long ago that the call to prayers is the most beautiful sounds on earth. Honor killings. Women treated as utensils. Calling for conversion, taxes on non-islam, or death. Celebratory songs and dancing in the streets of muslim capitals after 911. Yeah, Rick Santorum is really fanatic.

I've been one of the board's most outspoken critics of Islam for the better part of four years (counting WeAreSC), save for Khan, so hold your horses there big guy. I, unlike you, am not a deranged lunatic, so I don't lump Obama in with Muslims. With that said, I know some great Muslims who I call friends, and I feel heartache when I remember my friend Mohammed introducing himself to me as "Mo" at the gym.

Rick Santorum is a religious fanatic because of his extreme viewpoints that he'd project on the country should he have ended up in Washington. These include, but are not limited to: abortion, homosexual rights, education policy, censorship, allocation of funds to science, etc., I suspect the below will upset me a whole lot more than you, but he will be tied to this forever.