2012 GOP Candidates
RESEARCH: Celebrity Animal Abuse Stories — Has There Ever Been A Politician Involved In One?
One of the things I want to accomplish in the 2012 election is to find a way to mitigate the damage that the Tolerant Left intends to do to Republicans should the Cocktail Party GOP establishment succeed in making Willard “Mittens” Romney the presidential nominee — specifically the damage that will be done down ticket from association with the “Mutt Romney” animal abuse scandal that Tolerant Leftists are already ginning up.
Republicans think this is a big joke and are mostly doing that stupid thing they do where they pretend something bad doesn’t exist (which reminds me yet again the party’s symbol should be an ostrich, not an elephant).
I need your help today researching other instances where celebrities abused animals in some way — so we can take a look at how much damage was done to them by groups like PETA, since in a general election you can count on PETA leading a charge against Romney if he’s the ultimate nominee. What did others in the past do to mitigate the damage done to their careers and brands when the elite, agenda-driven media revved up the attack machine against them because of some issue related to animals?
On the political front, I can think of idiots like Ashley Judd accusing Governor Sarah Palin of hunting wolves from a helicopter in her spare time — which actually made it seem like the Governor was secretly engaged in Buffy-esque “Werewolf Slayer” activity in Alaska. That attempt to tar Governor Palin with the animal-abuser brush largely failed, though Judd and other “celebrity activists” tried their hardest to make it stick. The narrative the Tolerant Left kept pushing against Governor Palin was that she’s stupid — as in Tina Fey’s apocryphal “I can see Russia from my house” line — so the media could not succeed in hammering the Governor with an animal abuser epithet too (because if she’s so stupid in the Left’s eyes, then how could she even know what she was doing when she was hunting werewolves from helicopters).
Lyndon Johnson used to lift his two beagles Him and Her up by their ears for photographers — and while that didn’t do much damage to him at the time, today I rarely hear anyone talk about Johnson without someone mentioning “what he did to those poor dogs”. It’s colored his legacy because he’s painted as an animal abuser retroactively — and he was a Democrat, so it shows you that when animals are involved the Tolerant Left can’t even control what the PETA -esque zealots get up to with this sort of thing.
Here’s a list of the big animal abuse stories that the media went wild with in the last few years — please chime in below with any others I’ve missed. I really want political-related ones, like where a Senator or Congressperson or Governor was involved in harming an animal in some way and was then excoriated for it — but all I’ve been able to find have been actors, singers, and reality-TV stars doing these stupid things:
1. Paris Hilton — remember her? At one time, she had something like 17 dogs, mostly chihuahuas. One of the dogs was named “Tinkerbell”, which lived in Paris’ purse during the filming of her various reality TV shows. Around 2006 or so, Paris stopped taking little dogs with her everywhere she went after it became known that she wasn’t the kindest or most dedicated dog owner. She treated the little animals like fashion accessories and was accused of leaving them to die in her closets when she got bored with them. The animal rights’ zealots started taking smacks at her in print because she was blamed for starting the trend where vapid celebutantes carried these critters in their purses — and forever PR-attuned Paris decided it was best if she phased the Tinkerbell antics out before she became a bigger target for these people.
2. Courtney Love: allowed one of her dogs to eat breast implants she had laying around the house (which she claims she forgot about) and forgot about another dog that she left at the vet’s and never picked up again. Because she has such a bad reputation already as a drugged-out train wreck, Love didn’t get any more hate than usual from the press over these instances…though the animal rightists scolded her for allowing the dog to eat her implants. What Romney did to his dog Seamus is a lot worse than this, because he’s supposed to be a respectable person who makes good decisions — not the wasted, deranged lead singer of a band named “Hole”. Love was also accused recently of having a “hoarding problem” (like you see on TV, where people accumulate so much junk in their homes it consumes their lives) that resulted in her cat dying (from being trapped in the rubble). Love claims the cat was killed by a mountain lion, not her hoarding.
3. Ellen DeGeneres: huge, hateful backlash against her over a dog adoption issue back in 2007. I know you remember this one — it’s the first time that Ellen’s golden image was tarnished. Ever since she came out of the closet, she became the media’s designated “go-to” lesbian and one of the gay community’s most high profile spokespeople. I used to watch her show every day when I had a TV but stopped around the time this thing happened with the dog because I’ve never felt the same about Ellen afterwards. I bet I’m not alone on that, either. The problem with the dog adoption is that Ellen and her now-partner Portia di Rossi adopted a dog through something called “Mutts & Moms”, which has strict rules for their adoptions. That word — adoption — is used purposefully by these people because they treat the handing over of an animal as seriously as people treat adopting a child. Ellen got in trouble because she and Portia ended up not liking the dog and got bored with it, so they gave the dog away to their cleaning lady. The “Mutts & Moms” people paid Ellen a surprise visit to see if she was abusing the dog and found out that she’d given the dog away — which violated the terms of the “adoption”. Ellen was so peeved about this that she made the huge mistake of badmouthing “Mutts & Moms” on her TV show…which encouraged her rabid fans to bombard “Mutts & Moms” with death threats. In turn, “Mutts & Moms” took to the local airwaves to talk about all the hate aimed their way because of Ellen. It was a huge PR disaster for DeGeneres — she even had a mini nervous breakdown on her show over it.
What Romney did to his dog Seamus is much worse than Ellen and Portia giving their dog to the cleaning lady. If dog lovers reduced Ellen to sobbing and tears on TV, just imagine what these people are going to do to Republicans down ticket from Romney if he’s the nominee. Can you imagine having to defend the party’s standard bearer for strapping his dog to the roof of a moving vehicle? If these people turned on Ellen – a darling of the Left – you need to think about how ugly this “Mutt Romney” stuff is going to get in a general election.
4. Jesse James – Sandra Bullock’s ex-husband, whom she divorced for a lot of reasons, but including the fact that he took his pit bulls to dog fights. Bullock found out about it and immediately started divorce proceedings — in part because she’s a genuinely nice woman who was horrified by this, but also I think because her fans would have turned on her if she’d stayed with a man who engaged in dog fights. I am sure her PR team had coronaries when they found out what Jesse James was doing. Bullock escaped unscathed from this because she got out quickly…but Jesse James is still seen as America’s #1 Scumbag for what he did to both Bullock and those dogs.
5. Michael Vick — like Jesse James, he got on the national radar for dog fighting and will forever be known as a villain for abusing animals. James and Vick did things that were worse than what Romney did to his dog Seamus, clearly, and what they did was so bad there’s just no hope of them recovering from it in the public eye.
6. Kim Kardashian — In 2010, she picked up a kitten by the scruff of its neck for a photo shoot, and PETA went after her with a vengeance for “abusing a feline”. The animal was not hurt in the slightest and it didn’t even seem to mind being picked up that way. This is sort of like the Johnson beagles thing, where those animals didn’t seem to mind what he did either. But Kardashian — who is some sort of reality TV staple — was hounded by PETA for months so they could “make an example of her” to discourage others from picking up cats by the back of their necks. You really need to understand that the Outrage Industry is comprised of groups like PETA that sit around all day waiting for someone to pick up an animal the wrong way so they can label that person “The New Hitler” for being so cruel and callous. Kardashian picking up a kitten by the neck is nowhere near as bad as Romney strapping his dog to the roof of a car. Just imagine what these people are going to do to him.
7. Ozzy Osbourne — many, many years ago, during a concert, a fan threw something on the stage that Ozzy thought was a rubber Halloween bat. So he took it and playfully bit the head off it. Instantly, he realized it was a real bat and vomited the head onto the stage, along with his lunch. He was rushed to the hospital for a rabies check — and he never intended to harm an animal, live or dead, and didn’t mean to bite the head off a real bat (that was already dead). Still, to this day, people tell the story about him biting off the head of that bat and the usual suspects at PETA go on about this, citing it as “cruelty to animals”.
For those of you who are really good at research, please help add mores instances to the above.
What’s at work here — which a lot of Republicans don’t yet see — is that there’s an entire shadowy Outrage Industry that exists for the scandal these “celebrities abusing animals” stories create. PETA uses these events to solicit donations in their fundraising campaigns — so a lot of money is probably involved, which makes these people forever on the hunt for the next big name they can smear as “The New Hitler” for being cruel to animals.
If Willard “Mittens” Romney becomes the Republican presidential nominee, he instantly also becomes the biggest named “celebrity” to ever abuse animals — according to the guidelines that have been established for this sort of thing. A quick check of the above instances reveals the following:
* it’s considered animal abuse to carry animals in purses or leave them in closets — putting Seamus on the roof was worse than this, so Romney is an animal abuser to these people
* it’s animal abuse to give a dog away to another person when you said you would not do that — clearly, strapping a dog to the roof of a moving vehicle and scaring it so badly it explodes with diarrhea all over the car is worse than this, so Romney is an animal abuse to these people
* it’s animal abuse to pick up a kitten the wrong way — so traveling with a dog strapped to the roof of a car is more animal abuse than that
The more instances of this stuff that we can find, the better sense we’ll have of what’s coming Romney’s way and how we could possibly remove this as an issue in the general election if we start planning a counter strategy now.
The only way to take it off the table would be to find an instance where Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, or Joe Biden did something worse to an animal than what Mittens did to “Mutt Romney”. If we find that, and start talking about that incident, the “Mutt Romney” stuff will go away instantly.
Otherwise, this will be one effective attack against Romney in the general election that the ostrich/elephant Cocktail Party chimeras keep pretending doesn’t exist.
Conspiracy Afoot? Did Ron Paul Really Win the Maine Caucus?
My boyfriend Justin’s parents are obsessed with conspiracy theories — so much so that after he returns from an extended visit with them, or even after he gets off a long phone call with his mother (in particular), I need to talk Justin down off all sorts of ledges they egg him onto with wild theories they have of various entities plotting against our country (or them personally).
Living in Arkansas, a lot of their obsessions involve Hillary Clinton, whom they despise (because they swear she’s the equivalent of a magical robot from the future engaged in a long-range, patient plan for global domination); you can just imagine their shared thrill realizing that not only is their only son gay, but he’s living with a guy who worked for Hillary’s presidential campaign (and runs a political site that started its life as a Hillary for President volunteer effort).
Another weird focus of Justin’s father’s is John F. Kennedy’s coffin — THE ORIGINAL ONE (in all-caps because Justin’s father, Doc, shouts this at the top of his lungs) that Robert Kennedy had sunk 9,000 feet underwater before the President was buried at Arlington in a second casket; the original coffin that carried him from Dallas to Washington was destroyed at the Kennedy family’s request because it was saturated with blood, brain matter, and other fluids and the Kennedys didn’t want it ever displayed in public for morbid curiosity seekers. Justin’s father believes state secrets are hidden in it and has devoted an entire room in his house to maps, drawings, and stacks of papers pertaining to “Kennedy’s Missing Original Coffin”.
I’ve never been obsessed with anything (yet), so I don’t know what it’s like to burn from the inside out with the knowledge that I’ve secured one or two pieces of a grand puzzle…which sets me on some epic mission to prove nefarious people in dark rooms will get away with a massive cover-up unless I fill a room of my house with sketches I make of coffins at the bottom of the ocean or crude re-enactments of the murders Hillary Clinton has committed in her free time working as the world’s most deadly assassin.
I do, however, honestly and truly believe that the Fifth Dimensional imp Luap Nor quite possibly won the Iowa Caucus, the Nevada Caucus, and the Maine Caucus — and that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment in those states deliberately “lost” votes that should have gone to Luap Nor to prevent him from winning their caucuses. The operating theory being that if Luap Nor won, then a hue and cry would be raised to eliminate the chaotic and absurd caucuses and force normal, sensible primaries in all states in the next presidential nominating process.
The Cocktail Party establishment LOVES caucuses because they are so cheap to run and so easy to manipulate; the caucuses also require large amounts of time commitment on the part of voters, so the permanent political class in both parties erroneously believes it can recruit dedicated volunteers from those who show enough interest in politics to spend hours of their lives “caucusing” in these absurd little gatherings.
It just doesn’t make sense to me that Luap Nor consistently keeps performing worse in the 2012 caucuses than he did back in 2008, when his supporters are supposedly so much more dedicated and organized this time around. The caucuses are all about getting people out of their houses and determined to spend hours dealing with the nonsense of a caucus — and the most motivated activists in the Republican race this year are Luap Nor voters.
There’s absolutely no passion for Willard “Mittens” Romney…so it’s bizarre to me that Romney won the Maine Caucus this weekend, when that should have gone to Luap Nor because of the enthusiasm gap between the supporters of these two men.
In Iowa, the Cocktail Party GOP establishment was ultimately forced to admit that Romney didn’t actually win there — and the Caucus was given to Rick Santorum weeks after the fact; Santorum, it seems, was a preferable winner to Luap Nor, whom the Iowan permanent political class refused to register a win. Amid loud shouts of “Nothing to see here! Move along!” the establishment also acknowledged that vote records had been mysteriously “lost or destroyed” so the true winner of Iowa’s Caucus in 2012 will never be really known. It’s as if these people just came out and said, “Alright. You got us. Romney didn’t really win. Let’s just say Santorum won, okay? As long as it wasn’t that Fifth Dimensional imp known as Luap Nor”.
I really hope committed Luap Nor supporters raise absolute Hell over Maine’s Caucus though — because officials in the Cocktail Party there are now being forced to admit shenanigans went on that threw the race to Romney.
Maine’s Cocktail Party decided not to count some caucus sites’ results because they appear to have favored Luap Nor, and changed other rules midstream so that conditions better favored a Romney win. I would not be the least surprised if ultimately the Maine GOP had to admit “vote records were either lost or destroyed” just like what happened in Iowa.
Because I have seen the inner workings of the Cocktail Party GOP establishment here in Illinois (and before Justin, I dated a few operatives involved in this sort of stuff here in Chicagoland), I can attest that a conspiracy really does exist to keep someone like Luap Nor from winning any states.
I’m paying close attention to what happens in Virginia, since only Romney and Luap Nor will be on that ballot and I am hoping more than anything for a Romney loss there — to underscore just how weak and unwanted a candidate Mittens really is. Expect the Cocktail Party to use every trick in the book to drag Romney over the finish line in Virginia to spare themselves the embarrassment of a loss to Luap Nor there.
Ultimately, I think the Cocktail Party GOP establishment is doomed — and I think many in the permanent political class know that, too. The big advantage these people have always had is that voter fraud is such a dry topic that’s hard for a lot of people to focus on. It’s boring, hard work to slog through the minutia of what enables the two parties to rig elections. BOTH parties do this, and agreements are often made between the establishment figures on both sides of the aisle as to who’s going to win what, when, and where. It’s all about keeping certain would-be aristocrats in positions of wealth and prestige so that the political world runs smoothly and all the various consulting firms and campaign operatives stay employed…and keep channeling funds back to the right people so the establishment remains secure no matter who the voters really want to send to Washington.
I really wish people like Justin’s dad would stop obsessing over Kennedy’s ORIGINAL COFFIN and would instead get excited about voter fraud and the machinations of the Cocktail Party in the caucuses — because, while dry and difficult to read at times, there honest to goodness is a mystery to solve here with great ramifications for the country.
The trick is making this stuff appealing and interesting to the average person…so that uncovering fraud and election tampering in Caucuses is as interesting as theorizing what’s really inside Kennedy’s ORIGINAL COFFIN at the bottom of the ocean (or what Hillary Clinton really is up to late at night when everyone thinks she’s asleep, but she’s really in her black ninja pantsuit operating as some sort of vigilante).
Any ideas?
Rick Santorum at CPAC: Is This the 45th President of the United States?
Please watch the full video — all 22 minutes.
A few things that strike me off the bat:
* I enjoy listening to Santorum. He holds my interest, his voice is pleasant to the ear, and his speaking style drives home his points in ways that are memorable. When he’s done speaking, I can — without taking notes — name at least five important things he said. I can’t do that when Romney talks.
* Karen Santorum looks like a First Lady, and the Santorum children look like First Sons and Daughters. I’m not a fan of the Cindy McCain/Calissta Gingrich plastic-y blonde brand of Republican wife…and I’m delighted to this day that the obnoxious cretin Meghan McCain never became a First Daughter herself. I like the tableau the Santorums paint on a stage and would enjoy this family living in the people’s house.
* Santorum is someone who, if I worked in an office with him, I’d go to seeking a mentor. If he was a neighbor who lived down the street, I’d like to get to know him and talk to him about politics or whatever. I think he’s incredibly approachable and very much a “regular guy”. That’s the sort of thing I like about people like Governor Sarah Palin…people who come off as public servants and not aristocrats.
* I can picture Santorum making an ass of Barack Obama in debates and not letting Obama get away with any garbage. I think Santorum would hit hard and often and would not back away from a fight. This is what I am looking for in a Republican nominee.I do not trust Romney to hit Obama hard and think Romney would wuss out the way John McCain did in 2008.
On Monday night, I’m going on Andrea Shea King’s radio show to talk about Rick Santorum. By then, I think I’ll have made up my mind on who I think needs to drop out of the race — either Gingrich or Santorum. Because I want the Not-Romney vote to unify before Super Tuesday.
Do you think this speech by Santorum is a game-changer?
Where are your thoughts?
Making the Rounds: Image of Romney Getting Shoes Polished on Tarmac
[Click above to embiggen: Image of Willard "Mittens" Romney getting shoes polished on tarmac juxtaposed with that of Obama fist-bumping a janitor...part of the Tolerant Left's tireless efforts to depict Romney as out of touch with regular Americans]
I just saw this on Facebook today — it’s the latest image the Tolerant Left is using to portray Willard “Mittens” Romney as out of touch with regular Americans. This is part of Barack Obama’s “Occupy & Persecute” re-election strategy, which replaces 2008 old-and-busted “Hope & Change” with unrestrained class warfare at a time when millions of Americans are suffering financially — and are thus primed to fall into the trap Democrats are setting for an emotional “Us vs. Them!” election.
Is this seriously the man that the Cocktail Party GOP establishment elite wants to send out as its standard bearer while the Occupy Wall Street types are being conditioned to make a frontal assault on Romney-as-classic-Wall-Street-Villain caricature?
Seriously?
Below the fold, read comments I scooped off Facebook showing you just how nasty things will get if Romney is the nominee — that “electability” thing the Romney camp keeps parroting is bunk, folks. See for yourselves:
Taiwanese Animation: Mutt Romney Edition. Next Media Cartoon of Romney Dog Strapped to Roof
This is one of those times that I tell you that conservatives ignore things like these “Taiwanese Animations” at their own peril.
These cartoons are stupid, and they almost always get the facts wrong, but the majority of people who share these little clips via social networking enjoy them — and actually get their news from these things.
Pretending they don’t exist, or that “they’re stupid and don’t matter” is foolish.
The saga of “Mutt Romney” — the name that’s now being assigned to the Romney family dog Seamus who was strapped to the roof of their car in the 80s for a long ride to Canada — is evolving every day, with new details taking hold in the imaginations of those laying the groundwork to bring Romney down in a general election if he becomes the nominee.
Here are a few bits that the Taiwanese cartoon captured that you might not appreciate yet:
* Comparison is already being made — by the White House — between how Barack Obama treats his dog Bo (who rides in limos and in private planes and is pampered) to Willard “Mittens” Romney strapping his dog to the roof of his car; if you are a Romney supporter, you need to admit this is a PR nightmare and work to disarm it now
* The story’s growing, so it’s no longer about the dog being only strapped to the car and becoming so terrified he exploded with diarrhea — but it’s also delving into the family’s arrival in Canada where the dog was so traumatized he ran away from the Romneys; the dog’s becoming an almost sentient creature in these expanding tales, where he chooses to leave the Romneys after bad treatment. The Tolerant Left is using this as a secular parable to illustrate how voters should run away from Romney too.
* The “Mutt Romney” saga is obligatorily being called “Crate Gate”, in Watergate fashion
* The Tolerant Left is alleging — through sites such as Dogs Against Romney – that Mittens cruelly drove the family car through a car wash, with Seamus “Mutt” Romney still strapped to the top, to wash it off after the dog sprayed the car with diarrhea. This is apocryphal, of course, but like Tina Fey’s “I can see Russia from my house” line that was used to malign Governor Palin, the Left’s unconcerned about facts and instead seeks to push a damaging narrative against Republicans. With Palin, the Tolerant Left depicted her as stupid and chose lines of attacks that used lines from Tina Fey to convince millions of Americans she said things she didn’t; in Mittens’ case, the Left’s objective is to paint him as cruel, callous, and uncaring and to claim he abused his dog, strapped it to the roof of a moving vehicle, and then dragged it through a car wash to clean it.
I truly implore you to start paying attention to the “Mutt Romney” issue and to ignore the fools in conservative ranks who always say, “It doesn’t matter what Hollywood says or what people are saying on that Facebook thing!”. If Romney ends up being the nominee, this diarrhea-spewing-dog-strapped-to-the-roof-of-a-car visual will alienate this man from millions of dog owners (estimated to be 38% of the population), dog lovers (estimated around 70% of the population), and pet owners of some type (around 80% or so of Americans, at one point in their life or another).
This is a big, woofing, deal.
Mutt Romney Issue: People Get Pulled Over By Cops For Doing What Mitt Romney Did With Impunity Back in 1980-something
[Click above to embarken: The Seamus Express — “Mutt Romney” issue that could derail general election campaign}
The Facebook group Dogs Against Romney was abuzz yesterday with the revelation that people in the year 2012 get pulled over by the police for driving with dogs strapped to the roofs of their cars — for those unaware, this is the “Mutt Romney” issue that will dog his candidacy in the general election if Romney indeed becomes the Republican nominee for president.
The photo above was posted on Dogs Against Romney and is purported to be a shot of a police cruiser after it pulled over the driver for suspected animal abuse. In reality, it was a Dogs Against Romney member who strapped that carrier to the roof in a protest against Romney.
Before I post the comments left by the Tolerant Left eviscerating Romney on the “Mutt Romney” issue, I implore Romney supporters out there to aggressively encourage any contacts you have on the Romney campaign to get out in front of this issue before Barack Obama has a chance to use this against him in the general election.
I suspect the reason the White House has so prominently flown Bo the Dog around in special planes and drives him all sorts of places in limos is so that at some point during the campaign Obama will start making jokes about how his dog rides inside while Romney strapped his dog Seamus to the roof.
This is going to happen. If Romney’s your guy, disarm this attack NOW while you still can.
Rick Santorum Won Himself A Second Look Last Night
A few days ago, I had an interesting exchange with someone from Palin circles whom I’ve been working with on different things for a few years now — and who I thought I’d be volunteering on a Palin 2012 campaign with right now. This is someone I respect and admire very much who is now working behind the scenes on behalf of Rick Santorum. I found that interesting and started to take another look at him because of not only her, but also because of things another person I respect very much, Andrea Shea King, has said regarding Santorum on her radio show.
My next act was to monitor the Tolerant Left on Facebook to see how the most crazed individuals over there respond to Santorum — and he makes these people as apoplectic as they get whenever railing against Governor Palin or President George W. Bush.
I have a not infallible rule of thumb/acid test in life that requires me to take a second look at anything that sends those on the Tolerant Left into fits and convulsions, because 80% of the time something these people hate with burning passion is something that’s actually good for the country. There are instances — like with SOPA/PIPA and the plot to censor and destroy the Internet as we know it — where the Tolerant Left emerges from the wilderness and accidentally lands on the right side of something, but that’s so rare I can’t even think of another example besides SOPA/PIPA off the top of my head. Maybe they’re really wrong 99% of the time, though I was trying to be generous.
My beef against Santorum has always been that I just didn’t like the guy on a personal level for the weasely stunts he pulled in Pennsylvania with his residency status and the tuition scam he pulled with his kids when they were “cyber learning”. I lived in Pittsburgh when he was a sitting Senator and was heavily influenced by my neighbors — who railed against him every day over these two issues. I also can’t help but associate him with the smear campaign launched against him by gay activist Dan Savage, who deliberately engineered an Internet meme where Santorum’s last name was redefined as “santorum”, a new word coined for a varietal of fecal matter.
For the longest time I thought Savage prevented Santorum from attaining a national political career with that smear campaign, but I’ve reconsidered the reality of this in light of how the general public will react to it in a general election matchup against Barack Obama.
For one thing, the Tolerant Left will rev up emotional, often crazed attacks against the ultimate Republican nominee. Willard “Mittens” Romney will be attacked as a Wall Street stock villain — and he’ll be mocked for his “magic underwear” and for strapping his dog to the roof of his car (see: Romney, Mutt). New Gingrich would be savaged for his serial adultery and the apocryphal story that he divorced his wife Jackie (who is very much still alive today) while she was dying of cancer (which she never had). The big thing the Tolerant Left will smack Santorum with is the fact that some Gaystapo agent engineered a malicious stunt where Santorum’s family name was bismirched, just because Google allowed this tactic to be effective.
Out of the three of them, the Tolerant Left has the least material to work with in Santorum — a man who is unknown to many Americans, still.
It’s also going to be hard for Tolerant Leftists to bring much attention to attacks on Santorum made by the Gaystapo because it then invites conservatives to question Barack Obama’s gay past, his sexual encounters with Larry Sinclair, his relationships with Kal Penn, Reggie Love, Nick Colwin, and everything else strange and seedy about his past (including his frequent visits to Man’s Country bathhouse here in Chicago).
I guarantee the Obama campaign won’t want to go there and will discourage the Gaystapo from taking the “santorum” with a small-s propaganda to the national stage.
Looking back on Santorum’s performances in the debates, he’s handled himself very well. He’s sharp, a clear and crisp speaker, and I believe what he’s saying when he talks to the camera. I also feel sorry for him regarding not only what the Tolerant Left did to him with Dan’s savage “santorum” Google bombing, but the emotional terrorism directed at the Santorums over their lost child, a son named Gabriel.
In light of his trifecta of wins last night, it’s time to learn more about what sort of general election candidate Santorum would be and if he could indeed effectively take the fight to Barack Obama in a general election matchup.
I don’t believe Romney would beat Obama and have yet to see anything from this lackluster and uninspiring candidate to prove otherwise.
I think Gingrich would win, but it would be messy, and the Tolerant Left would have plenty of old distractions to rehash in the general election.
I wonder if Santorum is a punch out of left field that the Tolerant Left never saw coming — and which they’d be completely and devastatingly unprepared for.
I want to spend today reevaluating Santorum in light of his stunning and historically unprecedented triple-punch to the Cocktail Party GOP establishment last night in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado. If you saw Romney’s brittle concession speech, you’ll know he was shattered over the results — because “it’s his turn to be the nominee!” and the Cocktail Party GOP establishment promised this to him. That was the first time I have seen in this election a realization on Romney’s face that people just can’t stand him and want him off the stage, no matter how many elites push him forward.
Can you help answer these five questions about Rick Santorum today, with your own opinions?
1. What attacks — besides the “santorum” gay smear and the emotional terrorism related to his deceased son — do you think the Tolerant Left would launch against Santorum in the general election? NOTE: This matters because a good portion of the public decides whom to vote for over Halloween weekend before the November 6th election. That means that whether you like it or not, the vile attacks the Tolerant Left uses to define Republicans to the public matter. I want to know what else the Leftists will do to aim the Alinsky Death Star at Santorum.
2. Do you believe Santorum would repeal Obamacare and not rest until it was completely removed from the books?
3. Do you trust Santorum to decimate entitlement programs and declare war on public employee unions (as I believe the next president needs to do if the country’s to be saved from financial ruin)?
4. Do you think Santorum as President would care a lick about what the elite, agenda-driven media thinks of him?
5. Does the Cocktail Party fear and loathe Santorum and does Santorum embrace and embody the Tea Party spirit?
If you can think of another question we should be asking today, chime in below and perhaps others will answer it for you.
If you are someone who is vehemently opposed to Santorum too, I want to hear from you, too, because today is all about giving Santorum a fair chance and considering whether or not he deserves support going forward. Either he or Gingrich needs to drop out of the race soon so the Not-Romney vote can solidify behind someone who can stop Mittens…and I am now officially open to supporting either of these men to thwart the Cocktail Party’s coronation of Willard “Mittens” Romney.
