Oh, daddy, not again.

Guess who just barely caught the caboose on the wingnut welfare gravy train?

Rick Santorum To Join World Net Daily As ‘Exclusive Columnist’

(h/t: Wonkette| pic. source)

What's the matter, Chick-Fil-A, you don't think ...

... Santorum, Huckabee, and Palin love you enough already?

(cf., cf.)

Women care about Rick Santorum! They really, really do!

Rick Santorum Aborts Presidential Campaign from Ashley Judd

Swiped from Veracity Stew.

Deep thought

Image from another dropping out concession, c. 2006

Today, Rick Santorum dropped out suspended his campaign.

Yesterday, we posted this ad.

COINCIDENCE???

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(pic. source: I forget. TBogg, probably.)

Rick Santorum will watch this ad many times! (So he can tell you how shameful it is.)

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Stay in touch up to date on the Twitter!

(h/t: PB, via email, and HuffPo)

Dennis Perry: just another well-connected member of the American Taliban

BFF of Rick Santorum and Tony Perkins speaks to the sheeple:

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(h/t: Sarah Posner)

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, Bloggingheads ...

Presuming that at least one of them (Conn, for sure) thinks "yes!!!1!," I can only say, what, have we given up on Our Savior already?

Above: Last week's presumptive GOP nominee,
Rick Santorum, giving some hot man-on-cone action

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Pic. sources: screen shot of Bhtv home page as of this moment (video here)
and someone on canv.as

Line of the Day: 2012-02-26

Lends a whole new meaning
to "bully pulpit," doesn't it?Said a few years ago, admittedly:

“Forced worship stinks in God’s nostrils.”
    -- Roger Williams

If I were susceptible to conspiracy theories, I could easily imagine that Rick Santorum is on Mitt Romney's payroll, to help Willard walk back his claim of being "severely conservative" come the general election.

In any case, the source of the above LOTD is Timothy Egan's latest Opinionator post, "Theocracy and its Discontents." It is well worth reading.

(pic. source)

Wingnut fight!

Probably you already heard about this, but just in case not:

The National Review Online called on Monday for Newt Gingrich to quit the Republican presidential contest and endorse Rick Santorum.

The editors of the conservative magazine said it would be a mistake for Republican voters to nominate someone with “such poor judgment and persistent unpopularity” to be the party’s standard bearer.

But wait. That's not the weird part. Here's the weird part:

“On his own arguments the proper course for him now is to endorse Santorum and exit,” the editors wrote.

Endorse Santorum? What about "poor judgment" and "persistent unpopularity?" On the NRO's editors' own arguments …

Remember, kids ...

... always ask President Santorum if it's okay with him.

(h/t: KK, via email)

Headline of the Day

Rick Santorum: Mitt Romney Is To Blame For Same-Sex Marriage

Yeah.  That Santorum.

(Think Progress via Joshua Holland.)

Line of the Day: 2011-10-20

I love the idea that I’m “bullying” Rick Santorum, because all he wants to do is write anti-gay bigotry into the Constitution, prevent me from being at my partner’s bedside in a medical emergency, get in a time machine to prevent me from being able to adopt my son, reinstate Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Literally destroy my life. That's all he wants to do. And I made a joke at his expense. I’m the bad guy. And he’s the victim. All he wants to do is beat this to death. How dare we — tease him.
    -- Dan Savage, via Dawn K. Johnson

And see also. And see also.

(h/t for the RT: Jim Henley)

I thought this suggestive pose of a large-breasted ...

... chicken was a funny ad all by itself, but when I realized which famous bestiality-curious Republican was featured in the article on the same page …

(embiggen)

Santorum 2012!

All My Children

Today's news about "Democratic Illinois lieutenant governor nominee Scott Lee Cohen, of steroids, prostitutes, knife-cutting, knife-cutting prostitutes while on steroids, etc etc, fame …"

… brought to mind a past moment from the never-ending soap opera that is American politics:

(Santorum pic. source)

How Stupid Is Rick Santorum?

Actual quote:

... we're looking at out of wedlock birthrates in three quarters to 75 percent of children being born out of wedlock.

(h/t: Steve Benen, who used to hate the Twitter)

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(Rick Santorum's home page.)

Some Jump

The historical highs are good, but it's the sudden change that really caught my eye (emph. added):

Forty-two percent of Americans now say same sex couples should be allowed to legally marry, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds. That's up nine points from last month, when 33 percent supported legalizing same sex marriage.

Support for same sex marriage is now at its highest point since CBS News starting asking about it in 2004.

Twenty-eight percent say same sex couples should have no legal recognition – down from 35 percent in March – while 25 percent support civil unions, but not marriage, for gay couples.

The post on CBS's site doesn't say, nor does a related NYT analysis piece, but I'm going to presume they're comparing with their own polling data from March, which was conducted using the same methodolgy (sue me, I trust the LIEbrul media sometimes). So I wonder what that quick, large shift could be explained by. Think Iowa (a "heartland" state, plus the unanimous decision by their state supreme court) and Vermont (first state to approve via legislation, not court decision) made that many people suddenly relax, nationwide?

Could be somewhat of a fluke, I suppose. The margin of error is +/- 3% for these polls, so maybe if the error in March's poll was all the way to one end and April's the other ……… but even with all that hand-waving, it'd still be a three-point change for the good, and odds are strong it's better than that.

Only one way to react to this news, right?

(h/t: Steve Benen | pic. source)

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Notes:

1. In the interests of equality, I was going to post a picture of two women kissing, too, but I couldn't find any on the Internet.
   
   
2. In the interests of equality, I will link to a nice wholesome heterosexual kiss, for Rick Santorum.

(pats self on back for making a prediction that could not fail to come true)

Remember yesterday when I was babbling out loud to myself about health care reform? If you made it all the way through (thanks!), you'll recall near the end I predicted OUTRAGE from the usual suspects about legislation being jammed down their throats. You know, because there will only be six months for Congress to pass a bill in the usual way before the reconciliation process is invoked to put an end to Republican desires to see people die in the street for the crime of being poor obstructionism.

And now, speaking of things being jammed down throats … Ladies and gentlemen, the man who put the best in bestiality … Rick Santorum!

(h/t: watertiger)

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[Added] Also in the pot, meet kettle department: raspberries to almost-mole Judd Gregg and Bond, Kit Bond, two more Republican senators who ought to be as ex- as Santorum.

This MUST Become a Meme

Emph. added to proposed new meme:

“A democracy could not exist because Mohammed already made the perfect law,” Santorum said. “The Quran is perfect just the way it is, that’s why it is only written in Islamic.”

Yeah, that Rick Santorum.

Maybe Santorum Was Right

Never mind hot man on beast action. We're now messing with the plant kingdom. From today's NYT:

Prince Charles, whose hobbies have included both polo and … hedge laying …

Oh, wait…