Denial: A river in Pennsylvania?

January 26, 2006 2:16 PM

Santorum, a lying sack of Senator:Seems Pennsylvania's junior senator, who as recently as November told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that "K Street Project" was merely a "good government thing" is now saying: What K Street project? And Grover Norquist? Who he? Oh right, the guy who appeared at the Santorum fund-raiser just last June...
posted by kgasmart (39 comments total)

Santorum is not to be trusted. Got it!

But will I still be supporting the troops with a Re-Elect Rick bumper sticker?
posted by fenriq at 2:24 PM on January 26, 2006

Well if that just isn't the frothy mixture on top of my day.
posted by The White Hat at 2:26 PM on January 26, 2006

But will I still be supporting the troops with a Re-Elect Rick bumper sticker?

Yes. I am assuming you have the mandatory made in China yellow ribbon magnet and your "abortion stops a beating heart" bumber sticker on your SUV.
posted by three blind mice at 2:35 PM on January 26, 2006

Santorum is a name as well? He must have got picked on at school...
posted by Artw at 2:41 PM on January 26, 2006

Going out on a limb here - Santorum re-elected by a 20 point margin. Cuz that's how it works.
posted by Zorro on Doughnuts at 2:48 PM on January 26, 2006

Santorum blew his stack at reporter in public yesterday.
posted by ericb at 3:08 PM on January 26, 2006

Does that last link in the post work for anyone else?
posted by aburd at 3:09 PM on January 26, 2006

ericb - See that just shows that Santorum is a man of passion and coviction!! Hell, I'm upping the ante - he wins by 22 points!!
posted by Zorro on Doughnuts at 3:11 PM on January 26, 2006

All the Pennsylvanians in this thread raise your hands.
posted by fixedgear at 3:16 PM on January 26, 2006

I will personally pay the state of Pennsylvania $5 if they elect anyone other than Santorum. That's five singles into the state treasury that are not there right now. Think about it, PA!
posted by Joey Michaels at 3:20 PM on January 26, 2006

Some of you will know what these are the lyrics to:

"You're a lying sack of crap
You're a lying sack of crap
You're a lying, scheming, nasty low-down sack of liquid crap."
posted by moonbird at 3:20 PM on January 26, 2006

three blind mice, not only that but I let out most of the air in my tires so my mileage goes waaay down and I drive like I'm in a race car. I'm averaging about 4 miles per gallon now!

Will Rick still win by landslide when the photos of him performing cunnilingus on a cow are published?

Joey, I'll match that offer. That's 10 crisp bucks, PA!
posted by fenriq at 3:23 PM on January 26, 2006

I was going to comment about how hysterically polemic this front-page post was, but then I read the comments and came away thinking that the FPP was actually quite temperate by prevailing MeFi standards.
posted by esquire at 3:27 PM on January 26, 2006

I don't have $5 spare dollars, but I'll kick in a box of ding dongs.
posted by dial-tone at 3:31 PM on January 26, 2006

*Raises hand*
Little Ricky's not doing too well in the polls here but I'm not too happy with the leading contender, Casey, who just endorsed Alito. I'd vote for anyone running against Santorum but I wish that we could get candidates in PA that I could get excited about voting for.
posted by octothorpe at 3:35 PM on January 26, 2006

I'll send a box of my own vomit. It's almost as valuble as whale vomit. Almost.
posted by puke & cry at 3:35 PM on January 26, 2006 [1 favorite]

Was Rick Santorum named after the frothy mixture...that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex?
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 3:45 PM on January 26, 2006

AP: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.

posted by kirkaracha at 3:49 PM on January 26, 2006

Every time Santorum comes up, it's like "What the fuck, Pennsylvania? I thought you were one of the good states!"
posted by klangklangston at 3:56 PM on January 26, 2006

As usually, he continues to give the byproducts of anal sex a bad name.
posted by drpynchon at 4:09 PM on January 26, 2006

Octothorpe, would you rather have a pro-choice, anti-gun democratic candidate who loses the election, or a anti-choice, pro-gun candidate who wins?
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:09 PM on January 26, 2006

I don't have $5 spare dollars, but I'll kick in a box of ding dongs.

I see your box of ding dongs, and raise you a carton of Ho-Ho's!
posted by nlindstrom at 4:17 PM on January 26, 2006

I'm in Philly but I just moved here. How do people like this stay in office?
posted by wfc123 at 4:22 PM on January 26, 2006

How do people like this stay in office?

Ask him.
posted by ericb at 4:31 PM on January 26, 2006

I'll add five dollars to the pot, plus a twix bar. C'mon, PA! Would you rather have a douchebag or some cash and candy?
posted by kosher_jenny at 4:46 PM on January 26, 2006

Seconded. Casey's a pinhead. Still giving him money this year.
posted by Vetinari at 4:50 PM on January 26, 2006

How Rick Santorum got his name:
His parents.

How his name came to mean something gross:
Dan Savage.
posted by Revvy at 4:55 PM on January 26, 2006

Well, shouldn't someone add a "santorum" tag?

(Not that there is anything wrong with being tagged with santorum.)
posted by R. Mutt at 6:01 PM on January 26, 2006

I really wish I were religious because I'd love to go to bed tonight thinking that this charleton will really pay for his petty, crooked behavior. What an awful, awful man. Rick=santorum-fun.
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 6:25 PM on January 26, 2006

I almost feel bad ragging on 'ole Rick - the target's so big it's not even fun. What was that funny line from one of the moveon.org-ish type places? "The Right Man for the Thirteenth Century"? Ha!
posted by jalexei at 6:33 PM on January 26, 2006

My prediction: Santorum re-elected by three points.
posted by MattD at 6:33 PM on January 26, 2006

Almost forgot:

I'm in Philly but I just moved here. How do people like this stay in office?

Drive an hour or two west....
posted by jalexei at 6:35 PM on January 26, 2006

now if pittsburgh can only win the super bowl..
posted by phaedon at 6:49 PM on January 26, 2006

My prediction, Santorum will actually loose. He too crazy, even for Bush.

If I lived in Pittsburgh I'd be hard pressed to vote for Casey. I think I'd writing in Rick Santorums dead fetus.
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 8:20 PM on January 26, 2006

I'm proud of my involvement with the K Street Project. I know exactly who I am, and what I mean to the world, and the K Street Project helped spread my essence across the nation.

Today, I look at America, and see a nation covered in Santorum, and it fills me with indescribable joy.
posted by A frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter. at 8:49 PM on January 26, 2006

All the Pennsylvanians in this thread raise your hands.

I've hated Santorum longer than most of you youngins have even known the name.

Voting against Santorum is a family tradition. I remember how proud my mother was, voting against him for local offices...

Maybe I should vote for him next time, in a kind of reverse psychology type of thing ... maybe it'll hex him or something...

G-d, I hate Santorum so G-d damned much...
posted by jefgodesky at 9:08 PM on January 26, 2006

Oh no ... it's him or Casey?

Here in PA, we grow ourselves some Democrats that occasionally make Republicans look like well-mannered populists.

Yes. Casey. Not too far from the tree.
posted by jefgodesky at 9:13 PM on January 26, 2006

That was five bucks Pennsylvania coulda used, man!
posted by five fresh fish at 9:21 PM on January 26, 2006

Drive an hour or two west....

Yeah, jalexi nailed it. We call the vast wilderness between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh 'Pensyltucky' (with apologies to Kentucky). It's a strange state, but we like it.

However, and I realize that Santorum is a national figure, every time I see a thread about him I have to laugh. We get it, he's a butt-head. You folks in the other 49 states can hate on him all you want but only the voters in this state - those who actually bother to go to the polls - can do anything about it. It would help if the Dems could field a decent candidate, but we don't seem to be able to do that.

Don't get me started on Arlen 'magic bullet' Specter who now seems to be Mr. Burns...
posted by fixedgear at 3:38 AM on January 27, 2006