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Rick Santorum wins the Minnesota primary
By Virginia SmithFebruary 8th, 2012, 12:55 amComments (19)
Famously un-Google-able homophobe Rick Santorum ran up on Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich from behind tonight (sorry), beating both candidates out to win the Republican caucuses in Minnesota.
A victory for bigots and lovers of anal-related sex puns alike, Santorum's surge from the rear (sorry!) could pose a serious upset to the Republican primaries, positioning him as the closest competition to presumptive nominee Romney. As one aide told the Times, "It's Rick's turn." Then again, let's not forget that the likes of Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry all had "turns," so if you're experiencing Republican primary fatigue, feel free to take the speculation with a grain of salt.
Still, this does indicate that many Republican voters are still looking for a "true conservative" alternative to Romney, whose campaign will now have to spend the rest of the week cleaning up the mess Santorum has made for them.
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Commentarium (19 Comments)
And Missouri and Colorado. Looks like the bigots of the left are not as powerful as they think.
Oh yeah, all those bigots of the left voting in Republican primaries. Go spread some santorum, will ya?
If left-wingers are voting for anyone, it would be Santorum. Why make things harder for ourselves in 2012?
What "bigots of the Left" do you imagine even vote in Republican primaries and caucuses?
If I were in a state that allowed open primaries (i.e., people besides registered Republicans could vote), I'd go vote for Gingrinch or Santorum just to f*** with Romney and help the Democratic ticket. See, we "bigots of the Left" are a lot smarter than the bigots of the Right.
Yeah, robert, no one has ever thought of that before.
The bigots of the left have attempted to smear Santorum in the most juvenile ways possible (thanks Hahahaha for the classless reference). Others have suggested that he should have aborted his Trisonomy afflicted daughter. Still others have dragged his wife into the discussion.
So, yes, the bigots of the left have yet to lay a glove on Santorum!
When you observe someone in the street repeatedly shooting himself in the foot, it is really not good form to run up and kick him in the ass for good measure.
@sideways: "attempted to smear Santorum"
Did you really write that unironically?
You know, Romney probably couldn't care less about bedroom issues personally. It's just that he has to appeal to the talibanesque right wing evangelicals that want to elect this douchetard. It's a race to see who can get the most anti-women, anti-gay, anti-science/intellectual, pro-gun, pro-bullying, pro-anything NASCAR/redneck bullshit points. I feel sorry for Romney. The guy went to Harvard. He studied hard, probably has a nuanced view of the world. How was he to know all he had to do was hate on women and minorities, sleep around on his wife (with other women preferably but dudes will do if you amp up the anti-homo rhetoric) and drink Coors at car races. You can tell the ignorance if his party irks him--it's obviously difficult for him to dumb himself down enough to be palatable to most fox news watchers/tea baggers. Santorum winning these churchy states is gonna force Romney to get better at pretending he's a slack jawed yokel and push his platform even further to the right--I'm hoping most of us will take a milquetoast Obama over that agenda any day. Halftime in America yo!
I agree with you in re: dumbing himself down, but I don't know if I believe he's secretly a sheep now putting on the clothes of the wolf. Before he was Moderate Massachusetts Romney, he was Hard-Line Social Conservative Mormon Romney, and of course Incredibly Wealthy Businessman Romney.
I really have no idea what Romney actually believes. I suspect that he believes in nothing that is more important than his own advancement. It's too bad because his father was actually a reasonably classy guy (for an Incredibly Wealthy Businessman), and would have been a much better president than Nixon. I guess the lesson Mitt took from his Dad is that having principles = losing, so he's committed to having no principles that might get in the way of his being elected.
godfuckingdammit
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I'm starting to think that NYC should secede. Even our Republicans give money to Planned Parenthood out of their own bank accounts. Any other parts with a sane majority are welcome to join.
I'm for killing babies too!
Well, clearly you won't be joining the new, sane nation of which I speak. Whew!
Can Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, and Vermont come too?
Sounds good, on the condition that Massachusetts will renounce Mitt Romney and Scott Brown. Hmm, need to think of a less clumsy name than “New New England”…