For those remarks, a Mr. Ian Bayne, candidate for the Illinois 11th District, dug deep and decided that Robertson was the " Rosa Parks of our generation ." Never mind that in the same interview Robertson argued that Southern blacks were perfectly happy under Jim Crow laws. Bayne believes that, much like how Parks took a stand against the unjust persecution of African-Americans, Robertson has taken a stand against the unjust persecution of Christians in our society, as the United States is basically ancient Rome with cars.

4 Rick Santorum Thinks Obamacare Is Like Apartheid

Nelson Mandela's recent death was almost universally greeted with mourning at the loss of a man who suffered on behalf of the cause of equality in a country of institutionalized racism. Rick Santorum, a former Republican presidential candidate and senator from Pennsylvania, decided that Mandela's death was the perfect vehicle to express his distaste for Obamacare.

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Santorum told a Fox reporter that Mandela was fighting a great injustice in apartheid, which is about the only true thing he said in the interview. Santorum followed that up by saying that the greatest injustice in America is how Obamacare is bloating the government, and it needs to be fought. He might have picked the wrong issue to fight using Mandela as a symbol, because interestingly enough, Mandela himself instituted a fundamental right to health care in his South African Constitution.