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News & ArtsMonday, May 16, 2011
2012 Santorum 2012!
Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Santorum got a boost when Huckabee pulled out. Now Santorum's got a bumper sticker:
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I'm going to order a bunch of those and put them on cars with anti-Obama bumper stickers. See how long they last.
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Hahahahahahahahahaha, the "O" is terrific! Great work!
Very, very pleasing. More hahahaha and etc.
Very, very pleasing. More hahahaha and etc.
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Isn't that term/the visual and the concept kinda repulsive PR for us gays?
I mean, I know it detracts from Rick and all, but, thas' nasty.
I mean, I know it detracts from Rick and all, but, thas' nasty.
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It would be even funnier without the "frothy mix." People who are clueless (see Tea-baggers) might actually use them earnestly.
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@7, So what's up with @7's indented and duplicated comment, with the mysterious line "The comment above is nested elsewhere"? Is Slog trying to implement threaded comments? Is it dependent on the at sign at the beginning of a comment?
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@15,16,17 yeah-- it looks pretty ridiculous when you're in 'normal' view -- the way you seem to be responding to something that's not happening. Like our very own Garfield Minus Garfield...
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@20, feel free to worry. Just because I'm not crazy about this one particular thing doesn't mean I'm not crazy.
Now I kind of wish I could turn that part of the commenter-blocker off.
Now I kind of wish I could turn that part of the commenter-blocker off.
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@22 I suppose if you consider anal sex to be depraved that would be a valid point, but all the people I know who do it are pretty classy. Of course we all know to take extra precautions to prevent santorum.
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@4: And how do you feel for everyone who has "Hitler", "Stalin" or "Mussolini" as a surname?
Senator Santorum got this "Google problem" for a *reason*. Go look it up.
Senator Santorum got this "Google problem" for a *reason*. Go look it up.
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@6 does make an excellent point that Slog and Danny are blind to.
The whole "santorum" slap and tickle;
while certainly entertaining 7th grade scatalogical humor;
and while certainly creating awkwardness for a B list candidate who has no chance anyway;
also rams home the disgustingness of homosexual sex,
and to an audience that has not probably stopped to ponder the details of homosexual "love" before.
Sure, the dandies will assure us that done "right" anal is blahblahblah, but that point will be totally lost (and is much less convincing that the statistics on how many homosexuals do not manage to do it 'right' but instead infect themselves).
And sure, heterosexuals also do anal (though strangely enough, while doing it in much much greater numbers that homosexuals heteros manage to get AIDS at a fraction of the rate of the dandies- really, who should lecture whom about doing it 'right'?...)
bottom line, when the average Real American sees the clever bumper sticker in its yucky brown with the clever 'o' they will think,
"Oh God, homo buttsex is a disgusting filthy perversion..."
and also will think
"linking Santorum's name to this disgusting filthy product of deviant homo behavior is a first class piece of asshole immaturity"
Danny is SOOOOOO proud of his cleverness,
he doesn't see any of it;
and wouldn't care if he did....
The whole "santorum" slap and tickle;
while certainly entertaining 7th grade scatalogical humor;
and while certainly creating awkwardness for a B list candidate who has no chance anyway;
also rams home the disgustingness of homosexual sex,
and to an audience that has not probably stopped to ponder the details of homosexual "love" before.
Sure, the dandies will assure us that done "right" anal is blahblahblah, but that point will be totally lost (and is much less convincing that the statistics on how many homosexuals do not manage to do it 'right' but instead infect themselves).
And sure, heterosexuals also do anal (though strangely enough, while doing it in much much greater numbers that homosexuals heteros manage to get AIDS at a fraction of the rate of the dandies- really, who should lecture whom about doing it 'right'?...)
bottom line, when the average Real American sees the clever bumper sticker in its yucky brown with the clever 'o' they will think,
"Oh God, homo buttsex is a disgusting filthy perversion..."
and also will think
"linking Santorum's name to this disgusting filthy product of deviant homo behavior is a first class piece of asshole immaturity"
Danny is SOOOOOO proud of his cleverness,
he doesn't see any of it;
and wouldn't care if he did....
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@1, 4, 22, 30: your self-loathing troll needs more fine-tuning no matter how many times you agree with yourself.
Keep trying, though. Maybe you'll find someone besides you on Slog someday that thinks anal sex is icky, and anything that keeps you from raving at passersby on a street corner when you're off your meds has to be time well spent.
Keep trying, though. Maybe you'll find someone besides you on Slog someday that thinks anal sex is icky, and anything that keeps you from raving at passersby on a street corner when you're off your meds has to be time well spent.
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@29: Stalin was a made-up name, not his actual name, therefore I doubt there are many people running around with that surname today.
As for Mussolini, people suck at history, and Italy sucked at war, so I doubt most people bother them very much. Besides, BM wasn't Hitler, and therefore, didn't get such a bad rap. Sure he was a fascist, but the Holocaust wasn't his idea.
Oh, and as for people named Hitler, yeah, they're fucked. Especially since that spelling of the name was only used by people relatively closely related. It's not something you get for being *that* Hitler's 9th cousin, it's something you get for being his nephew.
As for Mussolini, people suck at history, and Italy sucked at war, so I doubt most people bother them very much. Besides, BM wasn't Hitler, and therefore, didn't get such a bad rap. Sure he was a fascist, but the Holocaust wasn't his idea.
Oh, and as for people named Hitler, yeah, they're fucked. Especially since that spelling of the name was only used by people relatively closely related. It's not something you get for being *that* Hitler's 9th cousin, it's something you get for being his nephew.
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@32: pokemyname.com registers 444 people named Stalin in the US alone, with 4 new ones every year. If you count people in other countries... (in Russia, Stalin enjoys a certain popularity. I've met at least one person who goes by this name in Nizhny Novgorod.)
The point is well taken that this campaign ruins the name for all those non-Rick Santorums out there (besides making fun of a perfectly good plural genitive form in Latin). The point is that this is collateral damage, and not serious enough to be tolerated given the symbolic value of making good ol' Rick pay, even if only a little, for his bigotry.
The point is well taken that this campaign ruins the name for all those non-Rick Santorums out there (besides making fun of a perfectly good plural genitive form in Latin). The point is that this is collateral damage, and not serious enough to be tolerated given the symbolic value of making good ol' Rick pay, even if only a little, for his bigotry.
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