Santorum Watch - No Pink Balls Edition

March 29th, 2012

This kind of thing that makes me wonder how many casual, throwaway exercises in fearful hatred are being missed when the press is not around.

Via the HRC website:

"At a campaign event at a bowling alley in Wisconsin today, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a boy who reached for a pink bowling ball: "You're not gonna use the pink ball. We're not gonna let you do that. Not on camera." Santorum went on to say "Friends don’t let friends use pink balls." The comments were tweeted by Reuters reporter Sam Youngman." (EMPHASIS MINE)

It has come to this. The GOP base is flirting with nominating a man so virulently homophobic that he would order someone else's child not to use a pink bowling ball.

So much for small government.

Santorum Gets The BLR Treatment

Feb 2nd, 2012

They have really outdone themselves with this one.

Santorum Watch - Will Pander For Food Edition

Jan 24th, 2012

Wow. Seriously. "Wow," is the only response to this vulgar and morbid display of kowtowing to the worst form of delusional extremist which is now, yes, the true base of the GOP.

Rick Santorum is fielding a question in this clip and here's what happens...

Off-screen woman: I never refer to Obama as President Obama because legally he is not (the crowd cheers and Santorum nods and grins) and, well, he constantly says that the Constitution is passé (when?) and he totally ignores it (when?), as you know, he does what he darn well pleases. He is an avowed Muslim. (Bullshit) My, my question is why isn't something being done to get him out of the our government? He has no legal right to be calling himself President.

Santorum's response? NO pushback whatsoever. Nothing. Santorum actually attempts to capitalize upon this nonsense which simply serves to reinforce it.

This psychopath interrupts him to rephrase her ridiculous claim that Obama "says our government is passé."

Santorum, again, does nothing to combat her. Ball-less, nut-less, soul-less tool that he is, he tries to work it for an angle.

His crowd pleasing humdinger? He tells this woman "You will be the first 'Czar' I name."

Things You Can't Make Up - Santorum & Acronyms Edition

Jan 23rd, 2012

Take a good, long look at this graphic from Rick Santorum's website...

This is Rick Santorum for crying out loud. You'd think there would've been one adviser worldly enough to make this catch before it was posted.

Justin Rosario has a field day:

"I suppose the good news is that he’s raised over $1.6 million dollars. That’s a lot of C.U.M."

Santorum Could Take Iowa

Jan 3rd, 2012

Bear with me.

Jake Horowitz wrote a week ago:

"Back in 1975, Georgia's Democratic governor Jimmy Carter pulled off an upset to become president, and his surprise victory in the 1976 Iowa caucuses played a signficant role in his success. Carter went door-to-door and shook people's hands in order to sway Iowans' votes.

Today, this kind of in-person, on-the-groud campaigning is no longer a focus of the campaign, as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and televised presidential debates have taken precedence (debate viewership has been staggering this electoral cycle). Yet, with the race for this year's nomination still very much undecided, the momentum that a caucus victory provides remains important."

"The results will help to winnow down the field to the only legitimate contenders (bye bye Bachmann, Santorum, and Perry)."

With all due respect, his assumption that Santorum has no chance may be dead wrong. This is why actual campaigning still matters. Like Ron Paul, Santorum has a better ground game than most of his competition. Santorum is polling very strong right now and there is also something else at play;

Amanda Marcotte wrote yesterday that what truly defines the Iowa caucus this year is a single issue:

"To really understand Iowa, you need to understand the primacy of abortion as an issue to the Christian right. It’s baffling how little attention this gets, considering the tendency of all the candidates---and especially those whose numbers in Iowa, like Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, eclipse what they can get in most other states---to make frequent statements about how they consider banning abortion to be a number one priority and the big issue of our time. Economic issues are confusing and the difference between candidates is too hazy to matter to the Republican base. Foreign policy doesn’t seem to matter that much at all to voters this year. But abortion is a nice, simple issue, and the candidates by and large seem to get what the media doesn’t: The more you pound the table and stereotype women who get abortions as heartless slatterns, the better you do in the polls."

If she is correct, and I believe that she is to a degree, Santorum just might win this thing. Bachmann's campaign is not only hopeless, but her paranoid accusations against former staffer Kent Sorenson might have handed her followers to the only other rabidly pro-choice candidate.

It could be the perfect storm.

As for the broader implications, anything that gets another few hundred thousand would-be voters to Google the word "Santorum" is fine with me.

Would You Eat It?

Jan 2nd, 2012

"Santorum Salad"

Rick Santorum Is a Liar.

April 1st, 2010

His lips are moving.