Rick Santorum will never be president of the United States. He won’t ever be the Republican nominee for president. The fact that Halperin and Politico are wasting time talking about him just shows that, to paraphrase David Plouffe, if Halperin and Politico think it’s important, then it’s not important.
To be completely fair, Halperin’s piece on him is an extended slam via Mark McKinnon, whose analysis of Republican fail is generally dead-on.
geg6
They’ve been touting Santorum for about a week now. Ol’ Man on Dog has apparently been trolling Iowa testing the waters. I can’t think of anything I’d love more than a GOP ticket of Santorum/Palin.
That would be so AWESOME.
MattF
Well, it is interesting that the argument that Halperin quotes against Santorum is not “Santorum will lose”, but “Santorum is a wacko ethics-free wingnut.” It’s actually a step in the right direction. Which possibly explains the snowball I saw flying out of the Gates of Hell the other day.
Joshua Norton
I think they should put Santorum in charge of the local Death Panel. After 20 minutes of listening to him, people would willing throw themselves in front of the nearest moving bus.
The Moar You Know
Wholly OT: Can we have the Pam Anderson ad back and get rid of the ad with the poor dog with a BBQ fork stuck in its head? Jesus Christ that is awful.
geg6
@The Moar You Know:
I do not know the poor dog ad of which you speak. However, I’d take a dog with a BBQ fork in its head over the Pat Toomey ad I’m forced to see every time I’m here.
The Saff
@The Moar You Know: Yes please. I hit refresh everytime I catch that ad out of the corner of my eye so that it’ll go away. It first started appearing a week ago.
Leelee for Obama
@Joshua Norton: Like the lady in Airplane, who gets TMI from the Pilot! I almost sprayed choked to death on popcorn the first time I saw it.
gypsy howell
I like how there’s a Toomey ad right next to the comment box. Seems appropriate. (And I agree about the BBQ’d dog- I didn’t think I could feel nostalgic about seeing Pam’s mamms.)
I’d love to laugh off Santorum, but after 8 years of Bush Cheney, and a much-closer-than-makes-me-comfortable McCain Palin campaign, I know better than to think it couldn’t happen. I really had no idea there were so many insane people in this country, but there it is.
Ajay
Rick Santorum will never be president of the United States.
You never know though. The fact that he is wing nut is a huge plus to all cons. Add to the mix the frustration with dems that media is portraying you can elect anyone, including Palin as president.
IMO, Obama won only because Bush came out as completely inept. It can happen the other way round as well.
Notorious P.A.T.
What are you talking about? The Republican party is poised for a big revival. It’s a wave that will carry that dead-fetus-lugging guy all the way to the promised land.
Zifnab
Palin / Santorum ’12! We have a winner!
The Grand Panjandrum AKA Americans for America
Actually the Halperin piece is a cut and paste of the entire McKinnon post. McKinnon only covered a few of Santorum’s ethical problems, of which, there are many. TPMuckraker probably has a pretty extensive archive of Rick’s BS.
Peter J
I bet I’m not the only one how got reminded of how Lieberman treated Obama.
Dan
Interesting that all the major GOP speculative candiates -Palin, Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, and Huckabee- currently hold no poltical office.
Common Sense
This place seriously needs to go PBS. That’s the only way the kvetching is gonna stop. Get rid of the ads and put up a “this blog is supported by readers like YOU”. And then every 45 minutes bring the comments to a screeching halt so you can hold a fundraiser. Fun times.
arguingwithsignposts
Totally off-topic, but the CEO of Whole Foods is getting slammed for opposing health care reform in the WSJ. Check out the thread on the whole foods forum.
Since the FPers discuss food so much, I figured this would be of interest.
Michael
The unofficial campaign art in oppositin to him would be awesome. Creampies abounding…..
Jorge
I hope this “Sanatorium” speak is just academic cause Barry is the man…
Obama just stuck his hand into a turned-on garbage disposal with this health care stuff. The left is attacking him for selling out and the right is painting him as a socialist eugenecist.
If he pulls out his arm from the drain with his hand intact and a health care bill in his fist, everyone else can just sit down and shut up cause he’ll be running things til 2016.
Leelee for Obama
As to the ads, I take off my glasses and can barely see them, worth a try, no?
Davis X. Machina
Is he the best hater? The GOP, ceteris paribus will nominate the best hater. It’s Nixon’s Law.
mantis
For reactionary times, make it Santorum time.
The Grand Panjandrum AKA Americans for America
OT: The first picture is this post at Blue Hampshire says a lot about “family values” in Teabaggia, dunnit?
catclub
Remember Dan Savage of Savage Love columns?
He will be Santorum’s campaign manager.
Or maybe not.
Michael
Nope. It’ll be Bulldog Gannon.
Stooleo
Why is it that every time I think of Santorum, the Duggar family rushes into my head?
http://www.duggarfamily.com/
peach flavored shampoo
@geg6: I doubt it. The fork-in-head ad is beyond disgusting. Even Philipino mail-order brides is better.
Violet
@arguingwithsignposts:
The WF CEO has really stepped in it this time. There’s a WF boycott being organized. I wonder if it’ll take.
@catclub:
Who could forget. Dan Savage will have fun with a Santorum run for the presidency.
freelancer
Who can remember Man-on-Dog’s opinion back in June when Obama took Michelle to NYC:
Boy, do conservatives like him and O’Reilly have their thumbs on the pulse of Black America or what?
That community is so lucky to have right-wingers like them caring so much.
PeakVT
The fact that Halperin and Politico are wasting time talking about him just shows that they are hacks with nothing better to do.
Sweet FSM how I hate the endless horserace.
Fencedude
@Violet:
Who ever could have expected that pissing off your customer base of DFHs could have negative consequences?
freelancer
@The Grand Panjandrum AKA Americans for America:
UR link is teh brokeded.
steve s
@Joshua Norton: LOL.
Death Panel Judge: You are sentenced to drive a car off a cliff. Alternately, you could read the collected works of Rick Santorum, and then be free to go. Do you have any questions?
me: Yeah where’s them keys?
steve s
@The Moar You Know: I think the _dog_ would rather have a fork in his head than look at that Pam Anderson ad some more.
Violet
@Fencedude:
Yep. I wonder if the boycott will hold. Pretty sure it’ll have little effect in my neck of the woods, but who knows. Voting with your wallet can work. And WF has been struggling in the recession anyway. The board may decide the CEO is expendable.
Cyrus
@freelancer:
I found it by Googling “blue hampshire.” The post he’s talking about is probably this one.
ironranger
@arguingwithsignposts:
Whole Foods CEO seems to be tone deaf. I can’t imagine why he thought his oped was going to be received well by customers, lol.
Fencedude
@Cyrus:
WP does not want people linking to that blog, whatever it is.
steve s
Do boycotts ever work? I remember when the American
Gay HatersFamily Association boycotted Disney. Disney told them to get stuffed.Fencedude
Lets see if I can do it.
Blue Hampshire
Fencedude
@steve s:
Depends on the boycott, the company, and who’s doing the boycotting.
Whole Foods should probably be kinda scared, honestly.
Disney on the other hand…yeah, its not really something they need to worry about.
Cyrus
@Fencedude: Huh, you’re right, that’s really weird. It’s possible that I screwed it up, but hard to believe that TGP and I would just happen to make the same mistake. Even odder, your link in comment 37 does seem to work. What did you do?
Napoleon
@Fencedude:
My favorite comment on one of the signs in your link is something I have now heard asked on some call in shows and asked at town halls is to the effect if the uninsured get health care we then have to few doctors and it will cause waiting in line/rationing.
Think of how deeply twisted that is, and apply the same logic to other things like say there is a water shortage and you have to stand in line to pick up your water. These people think that a certain segment of the population should just not be allowed to get in line and simply die of thirst simply so they are not inconvenienced with standing in line. That is about as sick as you can get.
Fencedude
@Cyrus:
[a href=”http://www.bluehampshire.com/diary/8028/a-childs-garden-of-teabaggery”]Blue Hampshire[/a]
Only with angle brackets. Standard HTML and all that.
arguingwithsignposts
@Fencedude:
agreed. WF is a much more niche company than Disney. The entire South could boycott disney and it would be a blip on their bottom line. If DFH’s boycott WF in any large numbers, that could put a significant hit on their bottom line.
Not to mention destroying the brand.
steve s
“Rick Santorum will never be president of the United States. He won’t ever be the Republican nominee for president.”
:-(
A guy can hope, though, right?
I generally agree with this. The GOP doesn’t actually tend to nominate their basey wackos. McCain, Dole, Bush, Elder Bush, all were more moderate than many of their primary opponents. But the wingnuts are exerting more and more power, so maybe that’ll change…?
Morbo
Santorum’s biggest challenge to overcome I think: the entry which bears his name in Urban Dictionary.
BFR
WF is a much more niche company than Disney. The entire South could boycott disney and it would be a blip on their bottom line. If DFH’s boycott WF in any large numbers, that could put a significant hit on their bottom line.
Yeah, I don’t think there’s much of a basis for comparison. Disney sells stuff worldwide and not just in rural ‘Murica – they had a choice of pissing off one segment of the US population or pissing off another (larger, vastly wealthier) segement.
Whole Foods isn’t in the same ballpark. They sell almost exclusively to highly educated, left-leaning, wealthier urbanites. Eg, the most likely to both notice and take offense to this obnoxious op-ed.
On a side note, Whole Foods is busily deleting all of the negative threads/comments on their side. Victory is on the march!
arguingwithsignposts
@BFR:
It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup that does the damage.
freelancer
Wow, a tea-bagger I can support…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/granitepics/3812645821/
Though this is near the end of the thread, so this might be a pro-reform demonstrator.
Tax Analyst
The Moar You Know said:
“Wholly OT: Can we have the Pam Anderson ad back and get rid of the ad with the poor dog with a BBQ fork stuck in its head? Jesus Christ that is awful.”
Yes, OT, but now that I’ve noticed that ad I would like to join the chorus asking for its removal. It does have a certain smug type of “National Inquirer” repulsiveness to it.
By all means, bring back the awful Pam Anderson ad or almost anything else. Note that I said “almost” there.
feebog
From the Times piece:
“His base will be narrow but passionate. ”
Ya think?
gypsy howell
@Tax Analyst: Thank god for Laura’s beautiful ads and products. I wish they could fill the whole column. Heck, I wish John would use it as the background wallpaper for BJ. I’m saving up for something on her site. :-)
jenniebee
@geg6:
How about:
Sarah Palin/Katy Abram – for Sophomore Class Prez!
Santorum/Vitter – Man-in-diaper-on-dog
Sanford/Craig – coming soon to an airport near you
Boehner/Vilsack – it’s the bipartisan dream ticket from the same people who brought you Bush and Dick.
jenniebee
@Tax Analyst:
Have you seen the one yet for the Goth dating site? I love that ad.
About the only thing that could top it is a personal shopping service targeted at Punks and/or Krishnas. Krishna Chic could be the Next Hawt Thing.
Sentient Puddle
@BFR: Because as we all know, DFHs don’t know much about the internet, and if they delete those comments, nobody will ever know!
I don’t know, when I first heard of the WSJ article, I thought it was something they could deal with by making overtures to a “spirited debate” or whatever (I’m not big on boycotts). But now, looks like they really stepped into traffic.
BFR
I don’t know, when I first heard of the WSJ article, I thought it was something they could deal with by making overtures to a “spirited debate”
I dunno, it’s pretty appaling. It’s such a giant middle finger to their cusotmer base – sort of like Disney announcing that they are getting into the seal-clubbing business. I mean healthcare is basically the #1 progressive policy issue right now and Whole Foods caters heavily to progressives.
It’s so tone-deaf it’s almost beyond belief.
Calouste
@Dan:
Excluding sitting (vice) Presidents:
Republican candidates since WWII not holding office: Eisenhower, Nixon (1968), Reagan, Cheney.
Republican candidates since WWII holding office:
Dewey, Goldwater, Dole, McCain.
Republican candidates since WWII blisfully unaware whether they hold office or not: Bush II.
If your party thrives on the idea that government is the problem, it is apparently a good idea not to be part of it around election time.
geg6
@peach flavored shampoo:
You obviously don’t know Pat Toomey. We Pennsylvanians can handle dead dogs. Pat Toomey? Not so much.
Tax Analyst
Jenniebee said:
“Krishna Chic could be the Next Hawt Thing.”
lol…
The LOOK of one hand shopping.
“Can I show you something in Monk mauve today? It will offset your shaved head mahhvelously.”
Common Sense
@Calouste:
Wasn’t Cheney a Rep and Reagan California’s Governor? And Wasn’t Nixon both a Rep and a Senator, as well as not the sitting VP when elected in ’68? Nixon followed Kennedy/LBJ. He did not directly succeed Eisenhower.
I’ll give you Eisenhower though. Hard to call him a trend though.