Santorum Wants to Be President, Has a Poo Problem

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Posted on Sep 15, 2009

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Rick Santorum is thinking of running for president, but he has a serious PR problem. The former senator’s rampant homophobia inspired sex columnist Dan Savage to launch a campaign to usurp the conservative’s name. The result: If you type “Santorum” into Google, you’ll find that, in addition to a former senator, it refers to “that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.”

A Web site launched by Savage to propagate the new word ranks among the top spots in Google’s search results, as of this writing. Also rotating at the top were a Wikipedia article on the former senator and another Wikipedia article titled “Santorum (sexual neologism),” which is quoted below. 

Comparing a U.S. senator to the byproduct of anal sex may be sophomoric, but is it more offensive than saying, as Santorum did in 2003, “If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual [gay] sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything”? —PS

(h/t: Political Wire)

Wikipedia:

The Economist noted in January 2006 that “gay activists use [Santorum’s] name to denote something indescribable in a family newspaper.” In April 2006, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the “disgusting” definition was “spreading like kudzu on the internet.” The Inquirer described the Savage coinage and other references to Santorum in The Sopranos and Veronica Mars as illustrating his name’s evolution into “cultural shorthand ... for social conservatism.” The regional gay newspaper Bay Windows said in August 2006 that Savage had “succeeded in turning [Santorum’s name] into an oft-Googled slang term.” According to the Philadelphia Weekly, writing in October 2006, the term “gained real traction” and “found its way into salacious dictionaries — and books published on actual paper,” with Savage admitting that he “worked pretty hard” to get it out there.

Indeed, the Human Rights Campaign included the full definition in a reprint of an item from Gay City News. The article noted that Savage had donated $2,100 to the campaign of Santorum’s challenger in the 2006 election, Bob Casey, but Casey had not accepted the donation. According to the Scranton Times-Tribune, Casey returned the money after hearing of Savage’s promulgated definition of santorum, saying that Savage had gone “over the line” demarking political civility. Savage gave the money instead to an anti-Santorum political action committee.

Subsequently, Casey won the election. Although a California weekly suggested that the campaign’s “ripples were felt strongly by the outgoing senator himself in the recent midterm elections”, and Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle declared that “Dan Savage helped kill Rick Santorum”, Savage himself says “you can’t really measure impact.”

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By Russian Paul, September 16 at 1:24 pm #

This is old news…
But yes, funny as hell. NYCartist - there’s a time for such juvenile humor,
Santorum got what he deserved.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 15 at 10:59 pm #

catlady628, September 15 at 6:28 pm #

That may be the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard. That being said, it’s also funny as hell and no less than the creep deserves.
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Then you’ve lived a sheltered life—there’s lots more disgusting things than the urban dictionary’s definition of “santorum”—and one of them is Rick Santorum himself, who is FAR more disgusting than the semi-liquid named for him!

But you are right: It IS funny as hell!

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By RobertinWestbury, September 15 at 10:13 pm #

Someone suggested a Palin/Santorum ticket…  Hmmmmm…  Let’s not forget about that wise Caucasian woman, Michelle Bachmann..  If she can’t be on the ticket, let’s at least ensure she is secretary of state….

Oh not, Palin has to be Secretary of State….  her breadth of knowledge of world events and leaders is too great to waste on the presidency.  Let’s have Bachmann as President, Santorum as VP, and Palin as Secretary of State… They can bring Bush back as Press Secretary (what with his eloquence)....  and make Limbaugh a Czar…

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By JimM, September 15 at 8:45 pm #

yeah much of their actions are governed by their related corporate interests.

Let us be their opposites and invest in companies that do the world some good. We are smart and all of us can do this to some extent or other.

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By JimM, September 15 at 8:36 pm #

Hey thanks. Sanotorum supported Bush in lockstep, and then tried to distance himself from Bush’s failing policies before the election but it was too late, how Repug of him. I think he might even be a creationist, but most certainly is an rabid arch conservative, and he has a rather odd bent to his character as well. I am going to get his book and read it for a laugh. the library, I wont buy it.

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By SteveL, September 15 at 8:22 pm #

Santorum/Palin, Palin/Santorum, Cheney/Satin.  Whatever.  About all the same.

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By catlady628, September 15 at 6:28 pm #

That may be the most disgusting thing I’ve ever heard. That being said, it’s also funny as hell and no less than the creep deserves.

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By JimM, September 15 at 6:11 pm #

This dude is the male Sara Palin. He had his head so far up Bush’s butt before he fortunately lost his last election bigtime.

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By NYCartist, September 15 at 5:15 pm #

Is wikipedia always accurate?  There’s so much Santorum to tear at.  Why do so many guys get hung up on anal stuff?

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By msgmi, September 15 at 4:45 pm #
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Former PA Senator Rick Santorum and Sarah Palin would make a terrific presidential ticket. Two neoCONS with homophobia issues should garner them a GOP run in 2012.

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By Fat Freddy, September 15 at 4:24 pm #

Wow, that’s a new one on me. Gonna have to check the Urban Dictionary.

OK. Now I believe it.

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

Also, from #8 page 2:

Latin for asshole. “Santorum, that’s latin for asshole”, is a quote attributed to former Senator Bob Kerrey, three weeks into Rick Santorum’s career as a US Senator.

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By shemp333, September 15 at 4:05 pm #

HOOOOOOOOOLEEEEEEY SHIT!!!!!

This is way 2 funny!

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