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Friday, February 3, 2012

2012 Rick Santorum Still Exists?

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:28 PM

1. Did you know that Rick Santorum is still in the presidential race? I had to check, but it's true! Apparently, he is very upset about Mitt Romney saying he doesn't care about poor people, too:

We saw something the other day that Mitt Romney said. It sort of sent a chill down my spine as a conservative and a Republican. Mitt Romney said, 'I don't care about the very poor as long as they have a safety net there, I don't really care. If we need to repair the safety net, that's fine, I'm not going to focus on them. I'm going to focus on' — I think he said — 'the 95 percent.' That's not the Republican Party I want to belong to. I want to belong to a party that focuses on 100 percent of Americans and creating opportunity for every single one.

2. But when he's not busy feeling concern for every single American, Rick Santorum is coming down with a bad case of the Glenn Becks, seeing doomsday everywhere:

To hear him tell it, the United States will collapse under the weight of its health care system and basic freedoms will be history. Iran will annihilate Israel and then South Carolina if Iran isn't blocked from building a nuclear weapon. And divorce will yield higher taxes for all Americans.

3. On the lighter side of things, Slog tipper Ben sent along what he calls his "nominee for gif of the YEAR." I think I agree with Ben.

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Gif of joy!

Posted by gloomy gus on February 3, 2012 at 2:42 PM

+1000 Internets for that gif.

Posted by Knat on February 3, 2012 at 3:01 PM

The ONLY thing that would make that gif PERFECT would be if the bad lipreading peeps added some appropriate (inappropriate?) dialogue!

Posted by Helenka (also a Canuck) on February 3, 2012 at 3:07 PM

I know what you guys are thinking, but my cultural catholicism makes me think that "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa" is just as delicious.

Posted by rob!

on February 3, 2012 at 3:13 PM

But BEG could probably come up with something appropriately smutty.

Posted by rob!

on February 3, 2012 at 3:14 PM

Oh man! That right there is sheer gold.

Posted by gnossos on February 3, 2012 at 3:23 PM

Wait, it would be a BAD thing if Iran nuked South Carolina (well, aside from the obvious death-toll)? But think about it: we lose one of the most bat-shit crazy fundie backwaters in the country AND we're handed carte blanc to bomb Iran back to the Pleistocene Era in retaliation.

Sounds like a win-win to me...

(NOTE: The views expressed in the above comment should be considered mildly satirical, and do not construe an actual belief that South Carolina should be nuked, even though there are presumably many Good Old Folks in South Carolina who would themselves cheer like an Exxon exec at a NASCAR race at the thought of bombing Iran back to the Pleistocene - assuming of course they actually believe in the Pleistocene.)

Posted by COMTE

on February 3, 2012 at 4:06 PM

Oh thank you thank you, sweet baby Jesus, for that GIF.

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on February 3, 2012 at 4:50 PM

He's right, you know; the US is in fact in danger of collapsing under its health care system.

But Santorum's prescription would hasten that collapse, not forestall it.

Posted by Fnarf