Yup: [URL="http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/"]Rick Santorum[/URL] has jumped aboard the 2012 Clown Car. From [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/06/rick-santorum-2012-campaign_n_871590.html"]the Huffington Post[/URL]:
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Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum declared his candidacy for president of the United States on Monday, vowing he's "in it to win it."
Santorum, a favorite among his party's social conservatives, chose to confirm his plans during an appearance Monday morning on ABC's "Good Morning America" at the banner-draped site he chose in the western Pennsylvania coalfields for his formal announcement.
In the network interview, Santorum accused President Barack Obama of having a weak foreign policy, saying he doesn't feel he has stood up sufficiently to Iran and asserting he has done too little to speak out against Syrian President Bashir Assad for the violence there.
"I'm ready to lead. I'm ready to do what has to be done for the next generation, with the courage to fight for freedom, with the courage to fight for America," Santorum said later in the day, speaking the sun-splashed steps of a county courthouse in western Pennsylvania. "That's why I'm announcing today that I'm running for president of the United States of America."
Santorum, who enjoys strong support from the anti-abortion rights bloc in the Republican Party, nodded to the social conservatives who have huge sway in early nominating states of Iowa and South Carolina. He also pitched himself to tea party-style activists who have yet to jell around a single candidate.
"The principal purpose of America was to make sure each and every person was free. Ladies and gentlemen, that is at stake now," Santorum said, pointing to a Democratic-pushed health care law that conservatives loathe.
"Every single American will be hooked to the government with an IV," Santorum said.
"They want to hook you. They don't want to free you. They don't want to give you opportunity. They don't believe in you. ... This president does not trust you to make a decision on your health care plan."
He also said that Democratic spending has put the country on a dangerous path, and Santorum blamed Obama for an economy that collapsed in 2008 before he won election.
"If you look at the record of spending under this president, sure he came in with a problem .... but he kept digging and digging," Santorum said.
In an announcement speech near the coal fields where his immigrant grandfather toiled, Santorum praised the nation's founding fathers and said the nation needs to return to the potential that lured his grandfather from Italy in 1927.
"If they work hard, they can succeed. That's the America my grandfather came to. That's the America my dad lived in," Santorum said. "That's the America we need again today."
Santorum enters the race four days after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney formally declared his candidacy and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann are strongly weighing bids.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and businessman Herman Cain are already in a race that has seen some of its biggest names decide against bids. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, Gov. Mitch Daniels of Indiana and entrepreneur-entertainer Donald Trump have said they're not running.
There also has been speculation that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who sought the nomination in 2008, is considering making another run.
Santorum's announcement comes as no surprise. The Republican hopeful [URL="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150195390559440"]signaled[/URL] his intention to officially kick off his campaign for the White House last week after making numerous trips to the key primary states of [URL="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53533.html"]Iowa[/URL], [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/07/rick-santorum-south-carolina-straw-poll_n_859012.html"]South Carolina[/URL] and [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/rick-santorum-blames-abor_n_841940.html"]New Hampshire[/URL] in recent months.
The latest polls have shown Santorum to be trailing more well-known Republicans vying for the party's nomination to take on President Barack Obama in 2012. Findings from one [URL="http://www.gallup.com/poll/147860/Newt-Gingrich-Image-Slides-Among-Republicans.aspx"]survey[/URL] released by Gallup last week suggest the former senator lacks strong name recognition among voters on the right side of the aisle.
Santorum [URL="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/13/rick-santorum-2012-announcement_n_848951.html"]formed[/URL] a presidential exploratory committee for the next election cycle earlier this year. The [I]Los Angeles Times[/I] [URL="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/09/nation/la-na-santorum-california-20110409/2"]reported[/URL] just prior to the launch of the organization that Santorum described himself as a "tortoise" and overlooked in the GOP field, though perhaps that would soon change.
Santorum, 53, is married with seven children. He has been out of elective office since 2007 and lacks the robust fundraising or personal wealth of his likely rivals.
But he is a tough campaigner, unafraid of fiery rhetoric.
"I believe now, that Americans now are not looking for someone they can believe in," Santorum said in a mocking reference to Obama's 2008 campaign slogan, "Change You Can Believe In."
"They're looking for a president who believes in them," Santorum said.
He is expected at next Monday's debate in New Hampshire, which is likely to include more of the expected field.[/quote]I like that Senator Frothy Mix set his announcement in the middle of a [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_corn"]corn field[/URL]. Somehow, that seems quite appropriate.
Now, the concerted effort to remove [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_%28neologism%29"]Santorum (neologism)[/URL] from the Wikipedia makes sense.
I'd rather vote for a frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal matter than vote for a Republican. Wise choice.
[quote]santorum (san-TOR-um) n.1. The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matterthat is sometimes the by-product of anal sex.[/quote]
What
He's the one who said John McCain doesn't understand torture right? Oh well. I already thought he was a shitstain.
I had some santorum on my bed the other day. I threw it out. Please do the same with this guy.
[quote]Santorum praised the nation's founding fathers and said the nation needs to return to the potential that lured his grandfather from Italy in 1927.[/quote]
So we need alcohol prohibition, mafia issues in the North-East, more minority discrimination, and an economy leading up to a massive stock market crash?
[QUOTE=Megafanx13;30290876]So we need alcohol prohibition, mafia issues in the North-East, more minority discrimination, and an economy leading up to a massive stock market crash?[/QUOTE]
It's not like we don't have prohibition, cartel issues in the South West, [i]some[/i] minority discrimination, and an economy that just lead up to a massive economic clusterfuck right now.
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;30290948]It's not like we don't have prohibition, cartel issues in the South West, [I]some[/I] minority discrimination, and an economy that just lead up to a massive economic clusterfuck right now.[/QUOTE]
I know that. It's the same thing but about 100x worse. I'm saying it's ironic to advocate it.
More of a reason to support Giuliani for president.
another batshit insane conservative
obama will win by a landslide
We can't let someone that reminds you of an asshole be president.
We already had enough of that with Bush.
I'm waiting for the GOP to come out and say 'just kidding!' with these candidates they're fielding.
They can't be serious.
Santorum can go soak his anti-gay, pro-socially conservative head for all I care. Soak it in a giant bath of santorum.
Santorum made his kids cuddle and sing songs with a twenty week old fetus after his wife had a miscarriage. He then used it to capitilize and made a book about it. The guys an insane shit head
[QUOTE=Nikota;30292264]Santorum made his kids cuddle and sing songs with a twenty week old fetus after his wife had a miscarriage. He then used it to capitilize and made a book about it. The guys an insane shit head[/QUOTE]
I as like "What!? Bullshit." at first, but the internet does not lie.
"...deceased infant home from the hospital and introduced the dead child to their living children as "your brother Gabriel" and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital."
[QUOTE=JDK721;30291609]another batshit insane conservative
obama will win by a landslide[/QUOTE]
This is going to be a boring election.
[QUOTE=Detective P;30292643]I as like "What!? Bullshit." at first, but the internet does not lie.
"...deceased infant home from the hospital and introduced the dead child to their living children as "your brother Gabriel" and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital."[/QUOTE]
I find the fact that they used the word 'Infant' to describe a fetus offensive.
Typically Infants are alive after birth.
[QUOTE=Nikota;30292264]Santorum made his kids cuddle and sing songs with a twenty week old fetus after his wife had a miscarriage. He then used it to capitilize and made a book about it. The guys an insane shit head[/QUOTE]
:wtc:
Santorum not only is against gay marriage, he thinks that the government has the right to regulate the bedroom and even compared homosexuals to zoophiliacs in the same breath:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_controversy_regarding_homosexuality[/url]
why is it that most of the GOP opposes something as simple as this or simply won't move to defend it effectively?
[QUOTE=BagMinge104;30293588]Santorum not only is against gay marriage, he thinks that the government has the right to regulate the bedroom and even compared homosexuals to zoophiliacs in the same breath:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_controversy_regarding_homosexuality[/url]
why is it that most of the GOP opposes something as simple as this or simply won't move to defend it effectively?[/QUOTE]
And the zoophiliac comment is why we have this great definition of his name.
[editline]6th June 2011[/editline]
Hell, even Bush said that he was a moron.
I hate this man
[QUOTE=JDK721;30291609]another batshit insane conservative
obama will win by a landslide[/QUOTE]
I wouldn't be so sure if i were you. The vast majority in America are... well idiots, just like the rest of the world.
People can vote on stuff for the most stupid reasons.
[QUOTE=Detective P;30292643]I as like "What!? Bullshit." at first, but the internet does not lie.
"...deceased infant home from the hospital and introduced the dead child to their living children as "your brother Gabriel" and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital."[/QUOTE]
woah woah
what the fuck
this guy can't be president
[QUOTE=thisispain;30303256]woah woah
what the fuck
this guy can't be president[/QUOTE]
This.
[QUOTE=thisispain;30303256]woah woah
what the fuck
this guy can't be president[/QUOTE]
Yeah I'm pretty sure willingly sleeping with a corpse (aside from like on a bet or something) disqualifies you from running anything
even then the bet had better be amazing
[editline]7th June 2011[/editline]
[release]In an April 7, 2003 interview with the Associated Press, Santorum stated, "If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything. Does that undermine the fabric of our society? I would argue yes, it does."[14][15][16][17] Santorum further stated that he believed consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to privacy with respect to sexual acts.[18][/release]
Rick Santorum everybody
oh god zeke your avatar blinks when did that start happening
[editline]7th June 2011[/editline]
ahh it knows when I'm not looking directly at it
I know people are stupid, but it would be so easy to slam him and make Obama win. I know too many people my age that have said they don't care who it is, but they will vote against Obama. This might be the one person bad enough to convince them otherwise.
[QUOTE=s0beit;30303028]I hate this man[/QUOTE]
I think this is the one thing everybody who visits ITN can agree on.
one day I will have to produce some santorum just to be able to utilize the word
I thought Santorum was a Steam game about an insane asylum or something
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