Tag: Rick Santorum
The Froth Also Rises: Santorum Surges
After flipping and flopping their support from Donald Trump to Michele Bachmann then Rick Perry, Herman Cain and, most recently, Newt Gingrich, Iowa Republicans are giving Rick Santorum an 11th hour surge in the run-up to the caucuses tomorrow night, according to the Des Moines Register poll released Saturday night.
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.
Newt the Consummate Name Dropper
63
Number of references to former presidents that Newt Gingrich has woven into the debates of the 139 total candidate references to ex-presidents this cycle to date — nearly three times more than his closest name dropper, Rick Santorum, at 22, according to Smart Politics.
Rick Is Exploring
Soon, the GOP prez candidates will have a quorum,
And there’ll be enough that we can’t ignore ’em.
Huck and Pawlenty might be there,
And Romney, DeMint and Trump’s hair.
And they’ve just been joined by that oozer Santorum.