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1
Santorum is winning it all. He just got the mother of all endorsements.
2
If you aren't sure it's Santorum you might want to smell it.
3
HAHAHAHAHA!!! His people HAVE GOT to be just screwing with us at this point, right?
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@ 3 - I assume so, which is actually kind of awesome.
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I think there needs to be a Santorum comic book hero (villain?) that slings santorum at his enemies (from his ass?).
7
Mitt's got a poo gun.
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@1 I kinda like what Mustaine said about Ron Paul. Other than that, what a loser.

@3 Maybe not with us. They might be trying to associate the santorum "smear" with Romney, in essence, transferring the "blame" for it. Not a bad move. Lemons, lemonade...
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I love that Romney is so ruthless. The 'publiclan primary season is like watching watching a shark eat it's own guts...
9
I saw one of the Romney super-PAC ads against Santorum, and it was nothing more than an exercise in, "Let's see how stupid the voters of Michigan really are."

First, they nailed Santorum for voting five times to raise the debt limit. So Mitt, if you were in the Senate at the time, you would have voted against raising the debt ceiling? Seriously?

Then they nailed Santorum for voting for all kinds of spending, including Alaska's bridge to nowhere. Senators have to vote on trillions of dollars of spending on thousands of programs and projects. You're always going to be able to find some stupid project that some responsible Congressmember voted for. It's a function of being in the Senate and the House. The alternative is either always voting no or just not voting.

But this is all in line with Mitt's "severely conservative" Freudian slip. He and his advisers are dripping with contempt for the very voters they have to win over.
10
Heh. "Backfire."
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@3, that would be cool but the brown substance is more likely meant to be mud as in mudslinging. It's a good ad.
12
Ha. I saw that this morning on the Today show and knew it'd be on Slog.
13

Santorum hijacked your meme.

Now it looks as if Romney is behind a Spreading Santorum smear.

Brilliant.
14
In the end what I take away from this ad is that Romney got santorum all over his pressed white shirt.
15
Truth in advertising.
16
Playing paintball with feces!

Can't think of a better metaphor for Republican politics.

But the slam against Romneycare goes by so fast, it's almost subliminal.
17
It makes me wonder if Santorum has never actually googled himself.
18
So wait, wait -- was that an attempt to tie Romney to Dan?
19
I'd rather vote for the cardboard cutout of Santorum than for Frothy Mix himself.
20
This is the first really interesting ad of the 2012 campaign. I like it -- it kind of Mondales Romney by showing the dapper plutocrat in toting a gun. It tags him with existing perceptions of his floundering campaign: that he can't get the job done, that he's just dumping ads on opponents, that he's tone deaf, and that he's a political moderate. It also inoculates him some against the inevitable Romney carpet bombing. It even highlights the Santorum advantage: that he's the squeaky clean altar boy in the race, untouched by mud or moderation. If Santorum can take Michigan, I'm seeing a brokered convention, with social conservatives pitted against libertarians and moderates. Maybe we'll get lucky and Palin will get drafted from the floor.
21
Good God - are all those people in the "I approve this message" shot in his family?

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