The Froth Also Rises: Santorum Surges
Santorum’s campaign has primarily been a retread of the culture wars of the 1990s. He is best known for his opposition to women’s reproductive rights and civil rights for gays. In 2005, he compared gay sexual relations to bestiality, for which he was given the nickname “Man on Dog” Santorum. (This despite the fact that his senior spokesman, Robert Traynham, was gay.) Seattle-based columnist Dan Savage responded to Santorum’s anti-gay hate rhetoric with the ultimate Google bomb. To this day, if you google Santorum’s name, the results suggest it means a “frothy mix” of body fluids.