Tag: Rick Santorum

Frothy Bigot Santorum Incorrectly Asserts That Most Welfare Recipients Are Black

Jon Ponder

I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them other people’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn their money and provide for themselves and their families. The best way to do that is to get the manufacturing sector of the economy rolling.

– Republican Party presidential frontrunner and infamous bigot Rick Santorum speaking to a presumably all-white audience in Iowa, ignoring the fact that the percentage of black, white and Hispanic families on welfare is roughly the same: 33.3 percent of the families are black, 31.2 percent are white and 28.8 percent are Hispanic.

The Froth Also Rises: Santorum Surges

Jon Ponder

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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.

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