Santorum Pulls Hat From Presidential Ring

[Charlie Brown]

http://www.mcall.com/news/yahoo/all-a1_5santorumjan26,0,6276674.story?coll=all-aol-yahoo-nws-hed

U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., came as close as any ambitious politician ever will to taking himself out of a future presidential race, saying Tuesday he has no plans to run in 2008.

''If you talk to everybody who's thinking about running for president, they're working right now,'' Santorum said over breakfast with Pennsylvania reporters. ''They're lining up people, they're making visits to New Hampshire and Iowa, and they're doing what's necessary to build that political and grass-roots support.

''Let me be very candid: I'm not going to do any of that. If I travel around the country — which I intend to do — it's for one purpose: to raise money for my Senate race in 2006.''

[DS1]

1. WAHOO! I'm gonna run home and fuck my dog!

:party:

[Kikosexy2]

2. and my..

cousins, uncles, and nephews!

[truebrit71]

3. LOL!!!!!

Now THAT was funny!!!

[Beetwasher]

18. LOL! Dude,

that's very funny...You're a sick sick man. Love it!

[tsuki]

28. TMI. eom

[Misunderestimator]

39. Thank God you don't have a box turtle.

[Tyler Durden]

40. you owe me a new keyboard!

Coffee, coffee EVERYWHERE!

Gawd, I'm still laughing.

[davidinalameda]

4. now who am I going to vote for

:evilfrown:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

5. Wish he'd rule out running in PA too since he lives in VA. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

6. You mean there was anyone out there who seriously considered him

a possiblity?

[PROGRESSIVE1]

7. .

[justjones]

8. Santorum? He's a senator? I thought it meant this.....

santorum

:o

[d.l.Green]

25. I think he's just feeling out his chances, but I hope he does,

this new word he inspired will surely insure a new dictionary entry. Actually he's doomed no matter what attention he brings to himself, a google search continues to bring up Mr. Savage's crafty revenge as the top of the search above even his Senate webpage. You posting here, jj, just helped a whole lot- hehe...

Weren't his kids being schooled via the internet? How tough it must've been to block out any reference to their namesake's new definition... in light of PA picking up the tab for this schooling, without his eligibility to do so, no wonder he's now going to homeschool them...

[malachi]

43. Story "behind" your post. Brave New Words

It's hard to predict the staying power of new words (or new ways of using old words), but every year, the American Dialect Society (ADS) gives it a shot anyway. In early January, its members meet to vote on member-nominated words that are newly prominent (but not necessarily coined in the preceding year). One entry is voted Word of the Year. For last year, the overall winner was "red state, blue state, purple state," and if you've never heard of "purple state," you're not alone. Call me an illiterate "flip-flopper" (another Word of the Year nomination), but I'd neither read nor heard the phrase "purple state" until the ADS announcement. (Nor had anyone else I asked, though, admittedly, I only asked six people.)

And no longer, according to the ADS, is "santorum" simply the name of the Republican senator who infamously stated that granting such rights to homosexuals is equivalent to granting heterosexuals the right to start humping every blood relative, man, woman — or multiples thereof — and child in sight. (Except U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum used the words "bigamy, polygamy, incest," and "adultery.") According to the ADS, Santorum may go down in history for more than his political record now that his last name (voted Most Outrageous Word of 2004) has become a noun used to describe "the frothy residue of lube and fecal matter that sometimes is the result of anal sex."

http://citypaper.net/articles/current/slant.shtml

[Turbineguy]

9. I can see why

he doesn't even look like Hitler.

[Benhurst]

10. As if Diebold et al doesn't already have Jeb Bush

the winner of the primary and general elections of 2008.

[JI7]

11. this is an attempt to get people to give him money for his Senate race

there are probably some republicans who don't want to give him money for his senate race since they don't think it's worth it if he runs for president.

if they think he wont run for president for sure they feel more comfortable giving him money for the Senate.

i wouldn't take this seriously.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

12. Don't expect much in the way of campaign donations

from the citizens of Penn Hills, you scumbag...

Abusing hard-earned school tax money is frowned upon in these parts, you know...

[renaissanceguy]

13. Yeah, give all the money to his Senate race

because we're going to cream him.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues.15032002

[FredScuttle]

14. Sen. Man-On-Dog: "I'm not going to cure cancer either!"

Please, Ricky...Pat Paulsen laughs at your chance at the Oval Office

[Arkana]

15. Good

I only wish he'd left the hat in there long enough to be trampled into the dirt. Maybe he'll go home and have some lusty man-on-dog sex.

[dogman]

16. Now if he'd only pull his head out of his butt.

[zann725]

33. LOL!

n/t

[Eurobabe]

17. Hey Rick: NEWS FLASH

You never stood a shot in hell anyhow.

And you can forget about your senate seat too, you carpetbagger!

[cthrumatrix]

38. in other news.... Sammy Sosa will not enter Wimbeldon

[Palacsinta]

19. He was right behind Bush........

in every inaugural video I saw when Bush took the oath of office. Highly symbolic. There's always a rhyme and reason for who stands where in historic photo ops. I don't believe 'im for a second.

[jhain]

22. i am sure you are right

I'll neevr forget Ridge sitting up there with Pickles before they 'invented' HS.

Ugh. Where will they imput Santorum?

[WatchWhatISay]

31. You took the words right out of my mouth

I noticed the same thing and suspected the same reason.

[Redstone]

20. He didn't "pull his hat out of the ring"

He pulled his pud out of his dog.

Redstone

[geniph]

21. Well, hell, I guess I'll pull my hat out too, then

since I probably stood damn near as good a chance myself as Senator "I'm Overly Obsessed With Bestiality" Sanctimonious Santorum.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

23. i don't know.

don't count this guy out. The reasons? Precisely because we turn more and more into Jesusistan every day. This guy would make a great Talibornagain "Moolah". He's representative of where the RW is headed, remember - chimpy is a "moderate". RW'ers who judge chimp judge him as "too liberal". I wouldn't put it past our hilariously retarded citizenry to elect Rick "definition of" Santorum, these last 4 years have brushed away my lofty expectations.

[punpirate]

36. Well, Dubya has broken new ground...

... for Santorum, having proven that someone who is both ignorant and an amazingly arrogant asshole can actually become president. Santorum must see Dubya's experience as heartwarming.... :)

Paraphrasing P.T. Barnum, I would never overestimate the taste of Republicans these days. After Alan Keyes, it's safe to say that Republicans could and would find Santorum a very marketable commodity.

But, if he doesn't run, it will be that the stress of a national campaign might cause some of the most unpleasant aspects of him to come to the fore. I suspect that Mr. Ricky has enough submerged fetishes in him that if David Lynch had written his character into "Blue Velvet," it wouldn't have seemed out of place.... :P

[Coastie for Truth]

24. Good

As if Pete Flaherty and Tom Ridge didn't bring enough disrespect to Pennsylvania.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

26. Pete Flaherty?

What did he do wrong?

[Coastie for Truth]

30. Everything

I was there and saw it. It took Dick Caliguiri to turn things around --- and he died too young.

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

32. Thanks for the heads up PM...

I was away during most of the 70's (Central PA), but followed Pete from afar...

Skybus technology is not being used anywhere else, is it?

I have worked for PPG (dahntahn) since 1979 and have never heard that they almost went to Detroit...Did hear a rumor about Atlanta, but with the thousands in the Pittsburgh area that would have been a tough sell...PPG and the URA were not exactly above-board on the condemnation of many of the properties involved, as lawsuits and out-of-court settlements proved...

Don't' know anything about the fight against the universities, but he was against the Parkway North - which has done more for south Butler county than it has for the city...

Downtown was vibrant until the current POS (Murphy) destroyed it...He kept on saying that it sucked, until finally everybody believed him...

I liked Pete because he ran against the machine in power (Dem though it was) and was able to keep spending in check (and taxes) for a number of years...After a period of time, his spendthrift ways began to catch up with him to the point that some deterioration set in...

Leaving Caliguri (whom I respect as well) a situation that he could use to re-grow, something he did very well with his ability to talk to the business folks...A real fine person...

I worked on Pete's 1980 Senate campaign and was floored when he lost...I don't think he did much of anything when he went to D.C. as assistant Attorney General, and I believe he quit in disgust...

Seems like most politicians who have succeeded in PA lose something when they take an administration job...

[adigal]

27. And you will need it, Home School Boy

Because I will support anyone who opposes you, BIG TIME!!!

[leesa]

29. 'Presidential ring'??? As though it was ever in there!! Too funny!

[American Tragedy]

34. Pennsylvanians, please, please get rid of this guy next year.

How the hell did he get elected in your relatively progressive state? Was he running against Charles Manson or something?

[Divine Discontent]

35. Santorum Vs. Klink

U.S. Senator - Senator Rick Santorum (R), a conservative, won his first term in 1994 when he defeated incumbent Harris Wofford (D) with just 49% of the vote. In November 2000 Senator Santorum defeated Democratic Congressman Ron Klink 52%-45%.

and...

http://www.nationalreview.com/daily/nr040500.html

ennsylvania Democrat Ron Klink won the nomination to challenge Republican senator Rick Santorum on Tuesday. Congressman Klink's win is a victory of sorts for conservatives, as the congressman usually votes with pro-lifers and Second Amendment activists. It's a lot harder to make the case that the conservative positions on abortion and guns are out of the mainstream when both of the candidates in the biggest contest this year in Pennsylvania-not the least significant state in the union-support them. Allyson Schwartz, the runner-up to Klink, tried to make an issue of these stands. Even in a Democratic primary, that tactic didn't bring her a victory. The Pennsylvania Democratic party remains a Bob Casey party — more conservative than the national party. (That's one reason the state Republican party is more liberal than the national party; the sort of ideological realignment that happened in other places two decades ago hasn't affected Pennsylvania.) <SNIP>

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

37. It's on the very top of our to-do list here in PA, believe me. nt

[renaissanceguy]

41. Good.

Nutjobs like him and Alan Keyes should be put in a cage, not running our country.

http://www.cafepress.com/liberalissues/472476

[warrens]

42. Philly and Pittsburgh are relatively progressive

There are parts of PA that would put Massabama to shame. Whoever runs against him should just plaster the state with that poster someone came up with

Santorum: Fighting for Pennsylvania

With Pennsylvania crossed out and Virginia written in.

And posters asking when he is going to to return the $100K Pennsylvania gave him to home school his VIRGINIA RESIDENT kids.

[Harry S Truman]

44. The media in PA...

...have long soft-soaped this lunatic. Klink blew his ass away in the debates the last time and, of course, the media talked about how santorum did so well. NRA money had "sportsmen for santorum" stickers everywhere even though this asscrack wouldn't know which end of a gun to load.