Santorum: Founders Were Right to Prevent Black People from Voting

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45. No words were put in his mouth

But the words he did use give me no choice but to conclude he is trying to argue there is some benefit to some people being denied the vote and while others have it. And again, don't forget, Santorum is accepting by omission that white slave owners were in some way more qualified to vote over Women and African Americans. If he's not suggesting that he needs to clarify what he means because it's no leap to wonder if he thinks the Floundering Fathers were valid in denying others the right to vote based on circumstances they created. That's the key point here to take into account: White, male landowners created the circumstances where Women and African Americans were powerless, landless and undereducated. Missing that shows tremendous disconnect. No words are being put in Santorum's mouth. He is suggesting all this by direct inference and giving me very little room to conclude anything else.

"Maybe they were wrong and maybe they weren't"? No, Rick. There is no maybe here. They were wrong. Period.

"Were we ready for an election when the United States was formed to have everybody in the United States vote? Well, our founders didn't think so...They limited the people who could vote..." That's because they also limited the power and access to freedom and rights some of those people could have, Rick. Are you stupid?

And again, to speak of qualifications for voting while those allowed to vote were the ones setting the rules that gave less rights to others is totally offensive. What about the voting qualifications and intelligence of white males who deny people basic human rights? That is the issue here. A policy that would lead to no less than a Civil War and thousands of dead Americans. So whose voting rights really threatened America?

Who were white males going to save the nation from by limiting the access of Women and African Americans to vote? They were already electing slave owners to government themselves. A policy that would lead to no less than a Civil War and thousands of dead Americans. So whose voting rights really threatened America?