Although we cats are delighted to see Rick "Don't Google My Name" Santorum mucking up the 2012 Republican clown college, we don't want to lose sight of the important fact that... well, he's a moron.
He's helpfully reminded us of that this week. With his "three-way" primary and caucus wins on Tuesday, and the subsequent media attention he's received, he's given a bunch of interviews — a few of which have turned out to be "oopsies."
Such as when he starts yammering away on something he knows absolutely nothing about: women in combat.
Right-wing crank and all-around bad writer Jennifer Rubin asked Santorum, for example, to clarify his remarks about how "emotions" could cause problems when it comes to women actually fighting in wars. His clarification was silly enough, but he couldn't just leave well enough alone. "'It's not a matter of putting women in dangerous roles,'" he tells Rubin. "Women are fully capable of 'flying small planes.'"
Ricky, Ricky, Ricky. Like most members of the home-school set, you probably have no idea that women in the military flew planes as far back as World War II. Quite big ones, too. (See above.)
They were WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots). They didn't fly in combat, but 38 of them died in the line of duty in 1943-44. They were tough, brave, patriotic dames, and they'd whup your sorry butt in about two seconds, Ricky dear.
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