The sad thing about the news that Rick Santorum is ending his campaign is that there really isn’t anything to write about it. I mean, who cares? No one ever took him seriously. Even when he (kind of) won Iowa, no one gave a crap. About the only thrill Santorum gave us were a few brief moments when it looked like he might humiliate Romney in his birth state of Michigan. And that didn’t pan out. The thing about Santorum is that he isn’t funny. He’s not even unintentionally funny. I mean Herman Cain was funny. Newt Gingrich is a laugh-riot (student janitors and moon colonies, anyone?). Ron Paul can actually crack a few good jokes. Michele Bachmann is a joke. And what can we say about Rick Perry that isn’t funny?
Santorum is just a grim tight-ass with a dark and delusional worldview. He doesn’t restrict himself to the usual Republican practice of punching down and sucking up (which, incidentally, is one definition of unfunny). Santorum punches in all directions, like a man beset by venomous gnats. He could be the least optimistic man America has produced. He’s like a hate-filled pustule that tries to pass itself off as concerned about the children.
There aren’t enough negative words in the Oxford English Dictionary for me to properly describe my utter contempt for Rick Santorum and every thing he stands for, and pretends to stand for.
I’m sorry to see him go, though, because he’s right about Romney. Romney really is a phony. He really is pulling the wool over conservatives’ eyes. He doesn’t stand for anything. And Santorum was pointing it out every day. The truest things Santorum said during the whole campaign were targeted at Mitt Romney. He was doing real damage to Mitt, and I was loving every moment of it.
And, no, Santorum doesn’t have any future in the Republican Party. He didn’t earn anything during this campaign but the admiration of a bunch of end times home-schoolers. In 2016, we’ll see the GOP’s A-Team, and Santorum won’t be in the top echelon.
If it wasn’t for the poor health of his suffering daughter, I would pile even more abuse on Santorum’s head as he walks out the door. My one final parting shot, and I think Fox News already knows this, is to point out that people can give Santorum a teevee show if they want, but no one will watch it.
Did you just contradict yourself there? After all, what the hell is the Republican Party but a bunch of end-times home-schoolers?
It’s the Alan Keyes principle, right?
The true base of the party is exactly equal to the percentage of the Illinois electorate who preferred Alan Keyes to Barack Obama.
The Crazification Factor
27%
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html
Right.
Heh. Never gets old, does it?
Nicely said. This is a guy who wants to take us back to the dark ages when women were chattel. He can take his nasty vision of God and go home. But I agree, it was nice having him carve slices out of Mittens on a daily basis. Hope someone will step up besides Krugthulu.
Gee whiz. He’s not carrying his dead baby to term?
He’s aborted his campaign?
here’s something interesting
http://gawker.com/5900710/announcing-our-newest-hire-a-current-fox-news-channel-employee
I look forward to more from the Fox Mole with great delight.
I am as well. amazing. I think the horse conversation is the genuine RMoney – he prefers his MO foxtrotter for its gait. what a bizarrely circumscribed self he has.
I looked it up. They do have a very special gait that makes them a smoother ride.
very neat. here’s a video with explanation – well, it’s not linking unfortunately, don’t know why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMV98tIDtTA&feature=related
That’s actually a Rocky Mountain horse, doing a running walk. Here’s a link to a Missouri Foxtrotter (different breed; there are several kinds of gaited horses) showing its foxtrot, walk, and canter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByO5b9Snq5Y
Besides the running walk and the foxtrot, depending on the breed, there’s the rack, the singlefoot, the paso llano, the…. well, you get the idea.
thanks for the link and explanation, janicket. I was hoping you’d come to the rescue of the horse-loving but ignorant. new life goal= ride a gaited horse.
I guess what I’m saying about Romney here is the horse discussion makes me sympathize with Ann. She has found a niche with something she cares about where she spends most of her time, with her horses. For Mitt on the other hand, here’s something alive he really cares about, but he’s circumscribed his life so that it doesn’t pertain to how he spends his time, he spends almost all his time as the bot we see.
Well, crap, as a long-time horse owner who’s done dressage (very low level and certainly NOT on imported Warmbloods), and who’s enjoyed a couple of rides on the incredibly smooth gait of MO Foxtrotters, I have to admit that this actually plays well with me rather than adding to my vast and visceral disdain for my former governor.
But yes, it’s the sort of thing that can be spun as elitism. Especially since Austrian Warmbloods and dressage (at the levels where you’re likely to find an Anne Romney riding ’em) most certainly are way above the touch of most people, even most horse owners like me, with manure on our barn boots and calluses on our hands from doing the hard dirty work ourselves, work the Anne Romneys of the world wouldn’t be caught dead doing.
I’m interpreting the video as here is a glimpse of some humanity in the guy, something he genuinely likes. what’s shocking is that most of his life he’s the Romneybot – firing ppl, outsourcing, thinking it’s humorous that his Dad closed a factory in MI, laughing at ppl’s rain gear, etc – i.e. so out of touch with anything human and alive – out of touch with everything except the $ with which he evidently assesses values in life. pitiful if it weren’t so destructive, but it’s chilling.
Oh ho! Listening to Mitt on horses again, I spot comments that will piss off a large segment of the horse-owning world — he dissed Quarter Horses:
“Mine is like a Quarter Horse, but just a much better gait…and it’s easy to ride, meaning it’s not boom, boom, boom….”
The Quarter Horse in fact is by far the most popular and populous horse breed in the United States, can be found performing in just about every horse activity people pursue, and is particularly prominent in stock horse events like, oh, rodeo roping, barrel racing, to name just two; it’s the premier cattle-handling mount in the country; it’s a kids’ pony, a mom’s stress reliever, a search-and-rescue worker’s partner, a race horse, a driving horse, a backyard pet, a……. Well, there’s a huge segment of the horse-owning public who will not enjoy having their BFF dissed.
There’s over 9 million horses in the USA, and at least a third of them are Quarter Horses, plus there’s lots of Paints (essentially Quarter Horses with extra chrome) and QH crossbreds. And the Mittster ragged on them as inferior to his fancy-schmancy gaited horse. Chew on that.
that’s amusing. When the GOP starts alienating the horse farm community…
Very good!! is this like his rain-gear comment translated to the horse owning world?
Not so blatantly; the horse world is complex and complicated, and as you point out above, that he and his wife are horse lovers makes them overall more sympathetic to that world. Still, it’s yet another example of just how tin-eared he is that he’d offhandedly backhand such a huge segment of the horse world as QH owners/lovers.
By the way, one of Ann’s horses (she has several, each of which will have cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy and over a grand a month to keep) is headed for this year’s World Cup competition. That’s Olympic-level competition. She won’t be riding the horse; her trainer will. This sort of thing (multi-megabucks owner, professional trainer/rider) is quite common at that level.
Progressives…what you don’t realize is that there is an increasing divide among the “rich”…some were born that way…some achieved through brute force of Ego…others of us did it though…some other power…those of us who got there that way, are committed to makind every single human being on this planet Rich…even your hero Obama cannot stop us!
We’re going to make you Rich whether you like it or not!
Can I have some of your LSD?
That’s what Ronald Reagan told us 32 years ago. We’re still waiting.
I don’t want to be rich, I want a job and my student loans to be gone — and now I’m almost a year out of school, and still unemployed. I want health care without worrying about an accident bankrupting me. I want to be able to get to work by bike or public transport.
It’s not much to ask in the richest country on Earth.
We are still going to make you, or possibly your heirs, rich. We’re not going to stop–We are tired of the scarcity bullshit…done with it…realistically, it most likely takes three generations to re-educate the planet…
No!!! Do Not Want A Job! Start a business! Damn!
I don’t want to run a business. I’ve done it. It’s not fun. I don’t prefer money over increased power and headache.
come on, seabe. When everyone owns a business, there won’t be any poor schlubs left looking for employment.
Only customers, suppliers, and the taxman to worry about.
he’s rambling due to some substance I assume. I kind of feel for the guy. he’s our pet troll after all, obviously having a bad night
Errol…true…my affinity for alcohol is unmistakable…on the other hand…in the other twenty or so hours when I have to run my business while sober…It’s all still true..my ability to create wealth largely depends on my abilility to convince others that they are DESERVING of wealth…it’s the entire key…and my BAC does not change that fact…why would I continually be drawn to this site?
If I cannot teach others how to be “rich”, then I have failed.
The “some other power” also said something about you not being able to serve both God and Mammon…
I don’t understand this statement. Romney will be what the situation calls for. In this case a victory would see him as the head of a far-right hate plague. He will act according to conservative’s wishes. He can’t do otherwise.
Agreed – the Redoublechins want another Reagan. i.e., an empty suit that will do whatever the handlers want. Reagan was ideal – was he even aware he was President during 1988? Given this, the only problem with Romney is he doesn’t speak as well as the Gipper.
Right, I don’t understand Booman on that one, either.
Conservatives know all too well Romney is a moderate– that’s why they have not (until now?) supported him, and supported Santorum as the “true” conservative candidate.
whether Romney is a mouth-breathing paleoconservative, a Big Israel neo-conservative, a Poppy Bush virgin mint julep-drinking pro-choice corporate raider, or a poorly programmed cyborg, he’s not being honest about who he is or what he wants to do.
He’s a phony. And that’s the heart of what Santorum was saying.
And, let’s be honest. Look at him. He’s in the Poppy mold. Only difference is Poppy was Episcopalian/Mayflower establishment. Romney’s family were polygamist refugees in Mexico. So, the resentment factor is strong in the latter.
Uhhhhh…Booman, criticizing a politician for “not being honest about who he is or what he wants to do”… Really?
That puts him in “good” company.. 99% of politicians fall into the self-serving, dishonest category.
But isn’t that exactly what conservatives think? He’s not actually fooling them.
Well, let’s look at the original premise.
Is Romney actually trying to fool conservatives- or is he merely playing the typical political/pandering game which we see all the time?
And Romney knows the rabid/racist anti-Obama mob will end up voting for any repuglican candidate, regardless of how “hard core” cultural conservative they are.
On another note…even forty-five (45) years later, the Rolling Stones’ “Satisfaction” remains the Human Race’s Greatest Rock and Roll Song!
that’s definitely debatable
My boss in the 1980s was convinced that it was the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”.
Had the lyrics framed and posted, readable when you sat down for your annual review and salary negotiation.
Given all the mayhem of late, I’m thinking Heartbreaker might be more apropos.
So Santorum
is ending his campaign. Will I miss the campaign of
Santorum?
I don’t think so, as Santorum has said so many hateful things. The campaign of
Santorum did
cause his google problem to go away, which must make Santorum happy,
but it could come back- depending on how
Santorum is perceived. Well there is always 2016 for
Santorum
for the repubs, the guy who comes in second or is VP
seems to get the nod next time, so maybe we have not
heard the last of Santorum and the google problem that Santorum has.
Some great rhetorical flourishes there Booman! To paraphrase RNixon, will you not miss not having Santo to kick around any more? Or will the US Catholic Bishops now take on that role? (They deserve it even more richly than he).
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Dolan!
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."So for the remaining 12 some odd states who haven’t yet had a primary/caucus kind of a bum deal. I see Gingrich’s $500 ballot ticket bounced. So, a sign that only funny money will be thrown at the remaining races. Was thinking it could be interesting to see how Mitt does in those states with no money paving his way and a bitter taste left ahead.
Since everyone has given up on Paul it would be about the time for him to rise from the ashes on these final races and grab some races.
Oh yeah and did you see Allen West says he’s heard there are 60 Dem members of Congress who are members of the Communist Party. All that and an endorsement from both Cain and Palin to boost him to the VP seat.