Rick Santorum: Smart people ain't conservative

Never mind his completely batty views on abortion, gun control, and God; Rick Santorum positively likes the fact that he's not smart. The failed candidate for the Republican nomination told the (clue-in-the-name) Values Voters Summit: "We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country. We will never have the elite, smart people on our side".

As Gawker reports: Yes, damn the media and the elites and anyone who has bothered reading a book that isn't the Bible. Those smarts with their logic will never understand Santorum's staunchly anti-gay perspective. Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan also made an appearance at the Values Voters Summit, reminding attendees that a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote against marriage equality: " [Romney] is a solid and trustworthy, faithful and honorable man. Not only a defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best."