Leading into elections, GOP targets... Rosie O'Donnell

Raw Story combines some amusing reports of Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum's increasingly weird behavior in his re-election bid with an indication of just how serious the Republican party is about confronting the serious problems the nation is facing.

This weekend, Santorum reportedly accosted a Pennsylvania reporter, saying "I have to raise tens of millions of dollars because of the junk you feed the people of Pennsylvania.” Santorum then allegedly used an expletive to describe the reporter's coverage before going on to attack the paper.

A release issued by the DSCC includes retellings of Santorum "tantrums" on KQV radio, the Don Imus radio show, and C-SPAN--where the Senator repeatedly mouthed the word "bitch" during a debate with Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). (. . .)

Republicans, for their part, turned their attention last Friday to TV talker Rosie O'Donnell, for observing on last Wednesday's broadcast of The View that, "as a result of the attack and the killing of 3,000 innocent people, we invaded two countries, and killed innocent people."

"We are bombing innocent people in other countries," she added.

Though the US has never claimed that no civilians were killed during strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan, a release issued by the Republican National Committee targets the statement as a controversial claim.

Yet in spite of this one-two punch of GOP insanity, most pollsters are still predicting that they will remain in control of the senate. Heaven help us.