Former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson has
said Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are out in the Bering Sea on social
issues, including gay rights.
The 80-year-old Simpson made his
remarks during an appearance on CBS' Face
to Face, a web special from the Sunday morning news show Face
the Nation.
When anchor Bob Schieffer asked
Simpson, a Republican, if he was a Mitt Romney supporter, Simpson
replied that he was.
“I am now,” Simpson said. “I
just watched it all, I've been watching. I know Santorum, I served
with him. I served with him. I don't know Paul, but I, I am
convinced that if you get into these social issues and just stay in
there about abortion and homosexuality and even mental health they
bring up, somehow they're going to take us all to Alaska and float us
out in the Bering Sea or something. If we're going to do that, and
here's a party that believes in government out of your life, the
precious right of privacy and the right to be left alone. How then
can they be the hypocrisy of fiddling around in these social issues?
We won't have a prayer. But I have tossed some money in the kitty
just last week to Romney.”
Schieffer pressed on Santorum, asking
if Simpson believed that social issues would be Santorum's undoing.
“Well I'll tell you, he is rigid and
a homophobic. He believes that gays and lesbians, he mentioned in an
interview in 2003, about bestiality, and gays and lesbians. I think
that's disgusting. And they asked him, well he said I want a
Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage and they said well what
about the people who are already married? And he said well they
would be nullified. I mean what is, what's human, what's kind about
that? We're all human beings, we all know or love somebody who's gay
or lesbian so what the hell is that about? To me it's startling and
borders on disgust.”
(Related: Rick
Santorum opposes civil unions for gay couples.)