A no-win Santorum vs. the Pope

We mistakenly believed that we would all get a break from political quackology once Texas got over its hysterics that the U.S. military was planning to invade the state,  sort of like the Martians landing during a Dallas Cowboys halftime tribute to George W. Bush.  If you'll recall  this glowing tribute to overdone political fondue, Lone Star Gov. Greg Abbot, a Republican with paranoiac tendencies,  ordered the Texas National Guard to monitor the U.S. military exercise, just in case.

But now, another quackologist, Rick Santorum a presidential candidate with Hellfire warnings, has literally told Pope Francis to mind his own business when it comes to climate change.  "The Church has gotten it wrong a few times on science," he says, with something he had heard about Galileo in mind, "and I think we're probably better off leaving science to the scientists and focus  on what we're really good on, which is theology and morality."

But, Rick,  if 97 pct of the scientists tell us that climate change is real, which the Pope is likely to tell us in his forthcoming encyclical,  doesn't it make sense to you that they have already settled on that reality and we should leave the issue to science, too?  And as polls have shown, a much,  much smaller group of voters have settled on you as their candidate.