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This really is one of my favourite Internet videos, from Have I Got News For You:

Rick Santorum:

One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world.

Seriously? What kind of maniacs vote for this guy? Who wants their government to “get involved in the bedroom”?

And, for what it’s worth, if you look at the history of the Republican party, low taxes, low regulation and minimal government involvement is always what they’ve been about. Who’s this guy kidding?

You know, John McCain was just a right wing politician with right wing political views. Santorum, Gingrich and Romney are downright dangerous.

From Ian McKellen’s Wikipedia page:

In 2003, during an appearance on Have I Got News For You, McKellen claimed that when he visited Michael Howard, then Environment Secretary (responsible for local government), in 1988 to lobby against Section 28, Howard refused to change his position but did ask him to leave an autograph for his children. McKellen agreed, but wrote, “Fuck off, I’m gay.”

So much win.