I have to wonder... how many Santorum Republicans will stay home this November? I hate it when things make me smile. My old face tends to crack.

A little hand lotion will fix that right up.

A paranoid Rick Santorum campaign ad, “Obamaville,” briefly replaces a picture of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad with President Barack Obama’s face, as the narrator talks about a “sworn American enemy”:
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After this subliminal editing was noted by Politico, the Santorum campaign professed confusion about Obama’s appearance.

“Obviously I’m not trying to say anything about Obama and Ahmadinejad,” Rick Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley said.

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“Despite their sanctimonious protestations to the contrary,” liberal blogger Digby comments, “that quick cut in the ad that juxtaposes Ahmadinejad and Obama is a very creepy, underhanded trick.” She continued:

“The Republicans love to do this. (Recall the famous RATS ad.) But this one is especially low because it’s obviously aimed at the none-too-bright right wingers who believe that Obama is a Muslim usurper — which is just another racist dog-whistle with a little xenophobia and religious intolerance thrown in for good measure.”

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Santorum goes off on reporter for asking a question. Temper, temper, Rick! People will judge you on your temperament and how you keep your cool?

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/20 ... deo/?tsp=1

"Quit distorting my words. It's bullsh*t," he said to a Times reporter.

In a fundraising email Monday morning, Santorum writes, "I'm Ready to Take On The New York Times":

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John Sweeney profiles US politician Mitt Romney, the leader in the race to become the Republican candidate in this year's presidential elections, and explores how his Mormon beliefs are likely to be received by voters across the country. Sweeney travels to Utah to examine the appeal of the world's fastest-growing religion, investigates the faith's practices, including rituals Romney is likely to have participated in, and talks to believers as well as former members of the Church

Newt Gingrich has replaced his campaign manager and is laying off a third of his staff, but has vowed to continue his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, a spokesman confirms to CNN.

"The campaign is being redesigned to make it convention ready," spokesman R.C. Hammond said. "Speaker Gingrich is committed to going all the way to Tampa."

Didn't he do this last year too?

He has also started charging for having pictures taken with him.

The staff shakeup, first reported by Politico, is designed around a “big choice convention” strategy, which the campaign says will be built around two goals: showing how Gingrich is the most capable candidate to take on the president and courting delegates in anticipation of a brokered convention.
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This “big choice convention” strategy, of course, depends on front-runner Mitt Romney’s failure to secure enough delegates to win the nomination.
Gingrich has said anything short of 1,144 delegates will create an opening for him make his case to the party at the August convention in Tampa.
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/ ... convention

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Santorum claims ‘seven or eight’ University of California campuses don’t teach American history

During a campaign stop in Wisconsin on Monday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum claimed that a number of the University of California’s ten campuses did not offer courses on American history.

“I was just reading something last night from the state of California,” he said, according to Think Progress. “And that the California universities – I think it’s seven or eight of the California system of universities don’t even teach an American history course. It’s not even available to be taught.”

“Just to tell you how bad it’s gotten in this country, where we’re trying to disconnect the American people from the roots of who we are, so they have an understanding of what America should be,” Santorum added.

He appeared to be making reference to an op-ed recently published in the Wall Street Journal by Peter Berkowitz of the National Association of Scholars, a conservative group that fights the “progressive agenda” in the lecture hall.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Monday night that it was difficult to report on Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum because he does not appear to be running a serious campaign.

On Monday, Santorum falsely claimed that “seven or eight” of the University of California’s ten campuses did not offer any American history courses. Previously, he falsely claimed that elderly people in the Netherland were terrified of being involuntarily euthanized.

“The Rick Santorum campaign is essentially being run out of the blog comments on a birther website,” Maddow said. “It is very hard to treat him or his campaign as a major political force. It is hard to treat him as a major political figure that has a shot at the presidency.”

"on four of the nine UC campuses, a student can achieve a bachelor's degree without doing any coursework in science, mathematics, a foreign language, economics, literature, or the history and institutions of their country."