BWAHAHAHA!!! Rick Santorum wants to be President, but still has a Google problem (frothy mixtures.)

[backscatter712]

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/rick-santorum-google-problem-dan-savage

Rick Santorum's Anal Sex Problem

Rick Santorum would very much like to be president. For the past few years, he has been diligently appearing at the sorts of conservative events—the Values Voters Summit, the Conservative Political Action Conference—where aspiring Republican candidates are expected to show up. But before he starts printing "Santorum 2012" bumper stickers, there's one issue the former GOP senator and his strategists need to address. You see, Santorum has what you might call a Google problem. For voters who decide to look him up online, one of the top three search results is usually the site SpreadingSantorum.com, which explains that Santorum's last name is a sexual neologism for "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex."

Santorum's problem got its start back in 2003, when the then-senator from Pennsylvania compared homosexuality to bestiality and pedophilia, saying the "definition of marriage" has never included "man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be." The ensuing controversy prompted syndicated sex columnist Dan Savage, who's gay, to start a contest, soliciting reader suggestions for slang terms to "memorialize the scandal." The winner came up with the "frothy mixture" idea, Savage launched a website, and a meme was born. Even though mainstream news outlets would never link to it, Savage's site rose in the Google rankings, thanks in part to bloggers who posted Santorum-related news on the site or linked to it from their blogs. Eventually it eclipsed Santorum's own campaign site in search results; some observers even suggested it may have contributed to Santorum's crushing 18-point defeat in his 2006 campaign against Bob Casey.

Savage says his site hasn't been updated for years, yet it remains entrenched in the Google rankings. Not even Santorum's ascent as a Fox News contributor or his early campaign swings through the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire have managed to bury it. With Google results like this, what's an aspiring presidential candidate to do?

I wanted to ask Santorum whether he had a strategy for scrubbing his Web presence, but he didn't return my calls. So instead, I asked a few experts. "This is an unusual problem," says Michael Fertik, CEO of ReputationDefender, which specializes in helping individuals maintain a positive Web presence. "It's devastating. This is one of the more creative and salient Google issues I've ever seen."

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:nopity:

Now we're just going to have to come up with a new definition for the word "palin"!

[Ken Burch]

1. I think Rick would have to buy the domain name, and any others that reference the term

Plus, he'd have to go to court to copyright his last name. It'd be worth it just to hear what Savage would say on the witness stand.

[MrScorpio]

2. Thank gay net activists for generating that search meme back in the day

It was damn smart of them

[Rex]

3. Well he did make a leap of faith jump from boy to dog and made

most of the world wonder how much doggy dick Ricky dreamed about to obtain his 'frothy mixture'. Hence his myth will be forever known to the world, even if fabricated.

What irony for a Repuke that made his career on lying to the public!

[arbusto_baboso]

4. Rick Santorum will never be President. EVER.

Not in this reality, or any other. The fact that he thinks it's even a remote possibility shows how uniquely unsuited he is for the office.

[PCIntern]

5. well, I didn't need to eat dinner anyway...

x(

[Blue Owl]

6. Yo ho ho

and a bottle of Santorum...

[KamaAina]

7. Palin: The spatula-like tool used to clean up santorum

:P

[Brother Buzz]

8. I did my part and bumped a few sites. Google ranking is important

I also included a few extra words in my search:

anal sex shit republican anal sex butt gay cum dirty sanchez anus semen feces ass butt sex penis lube asshole fecal fecal matter conservative senator rick santorum dick sodomy fuck ejaculate cock scat felching bitch dan savage blood smegma canada sperm diarrhea republicans felch lubricant futon shart rick bush poop frothy napoli vagina poo ass to mouth

[The_Commonist]

9. And nobody has bothered to post the link yet?

Here ya go:

http://santorum.com/

[backscatter712]

13. HEH! Kicking up those Google search results - what's not to like?

http://spreadingsantorum.com/

or

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=santorum

[Quantess]

10. Santorum lost his last election, so

how does he expect to get on the Presidential ticket?

[Dappleganger]

11. Google is the gift that keeps on giving...

and Google cache can be even better!

[donheld]

12. Dan Savage would make a MUCH better president.