2012 republican presidential nominee III: can romney get santorum out of his hair?

you guys Santorum said on Bill O'Reilly that he didn't say "black people," he said "blah people"

I literally have tears in my eyes from laughing at this, hope you're happy aero.

I just think that abortion looks completely reasonable compared to lugging a dead baby around

he said it on CNN too!

xps

Like, dude also thinks states should be able to ban birth control if they want to, dictating to me what I can do in my home, and he is at home carrying around a dead baby

http://prospect.org/article/it-takes-democrat

Santorum's typical presentation of one of these ideas goes something like this: “The Village Elders consider a large percentage of our population to be helpless: they're not going to consider how to empower the poor to build wealth,” or “The village elders like to show they care for the poor among us simply by spending more money,” rather than investing strategically to build communities. Such statements are followed by, “that's why Senator John Corzine and I introduced ... ” or “therefore, I co-sponsored Senator Carol Moseley-Braun's amendment that would ... .” If not Corzine and Moseley-Braun, two of the most unabashedly liberal current and former senators, one has to wonder: Just who are these unreconstructed “village elders” after all?

These innovative solutions may have caused liberals some discomfort decades ago, but a dozen years after the passage of federal empowerment zones and Bill Clinton's legislation to support community banks, “empowerment” is now very much the core strategy of modern liberalism. One might be tempted to say, as Santorum does of Senator Clinton, that behind Santorum's rhetoric is a “left agenda,” but that wouldn't be fair.

That's because Santorum is prepared for this challenge. In his conclusion, he warns that “some will dismiss my ideas as an extended version of 'compassionate conservatism.'” But it is not, he insists, because of his insistence on “moral capital,” at least as defined by him. In other words, even if liberals advocate some of the same policy solutions, they are doomed simply because they are associated with the moral tolerance of liberals. And so, in the end, it is not as easy as I had hoped it would be to separate Santorum's interesting and laudable ideas on poverty and work-family balance from his mean-spirited and intolerant social views; they are wholly interdependent. Rather than compassionate conservatism, Santorum has fashioned something new: a mean-spirited, intolerant liberalism.

this "blah people" thing is enough to cut through even my jadedness. what in the hell.

holy shit what????

haha santorum has a bright future ahead of him as a racist english premiere league football player

Santorum will make the country better by spending government money on churches and other moral organizations he agrees with, basically.

He is basically the best argument for strict separation of church and state that anyone could make, personified.

so that means Romney is the only GOP candidate who hasn't had some flagrantly racist bullshit attached to his name this go 'round

oh wait huntsman

his explanation on o'reilly is actually WORSE than it sounds from just being told about it:

‘I looked at that, and I didn’t say that. If you look at it, what I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of — blah — came out. And people said I said ‘black.’ I didn’t.’

'me and my mom were having an argument and i started to say a word but then i burned my mouth with some chili and the word sort of changed and it sort of -- "bihhh" came out. and people said i said "bitch". i didn't'

LOL

Fear of a Blah Planet

"Dude came at me with a fucking knife but I knocked it out of his hand. Then I asked him what the fuck that was all about and he was like 'you said you were going to fuck my wife all night.' After I explained that what I'd actually said was 'I'm going to fuuuuuu your wife all night,' he calmed down and we had a good laugh about it."

im going to blah yr wife all nite

Rick Santorum: "You fuuuuuu my wife?"
Rick Santorum's brother: "How could you ask me a question like that? It's a sick question, you're a sick fuck, and I'm not gonna--wait a minute, what did you say?"
Rick Santorum: "You fuuuuuu my wife?"
Rick Santorum's brother: "Oh--never mind, I misheard."

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxd0r0jyYp1qa7bh4o1_500.jpg

btw really surprised republicans arent holding this blatant display of racism against santorum

just shocked

you guys Santorum said on Bill O'Reilly that he didn't say "black people," he said "blah people"

you guys you guys you guys

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omg omg omg

i hope rick santorum is in this thing until the very end somehow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxgB7pwbO7k

I think the full picture is that Santorum is a guy who really wishes he could 1) talk more about race and 2) get told he's really insightful about it

like he's really in his head got all this shit thought out & he's certain he's right & nobody could really disagree with him because the thoughts he has seem so true when he thinks 'em

i was having that exact same thought

i just keep cracking up

blah people

i need you guys to make more jokes about this

there's a simliar attempt to cover tracks in a Simpsons script somewhere but I can't quite call it to mind

Chalmers: Did that boy say what's a battle?
Skinner: No he said What's that rattle, it's about the heating duct.
Chalmers: Hmm, it sounded like battle.
Skinner: I've had a cold, so--
Chalmers: Oh so you hear r's as b's?

I have told this whole 'black people'/'blah people' thing to my girlfriend and her prize-winning response:

"Damn you Autocorrect!"

Has anyone been reading Corey Robin? He's been on fire the last couple weeks. I may buy his book, which inspired this scathing Mark Lilla review and this Ta-Nehisi Coates defense.

Anyway, his comments on Paul and liberalism are worth reading.

The thing that annoys me the most about Ron Paul supporters, beyond the fact they believe that he would attempt to do what he says he supports is that they never seem to think about the negative consequences of shrinking the government in the way he claims (or as I like to think of it, "throwing all these babies out with the bathwater") or evaluate his record of sneaky legislation.

Paul's record is basically coming out strongly against a bill, attaching a bunch of earmarks and other shady shit he does support but publicly speaks against to it if it stands a good chance of passing, and then voting against it to look like he's ethically consistent.

and of course by "government" the supporters mean "federal government." What they want is federalism writ large, which has been a disaster for the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment.

i hope rick santorum is in this thing until the very end somehow

When are you blah people going to admit there is no contest?

hey man dont be raciiii

but he has a blah friend

I don't care if you're blah, whi, purrrrr . . .

so i take it, he was going to say black people, got through the bla part when he realized that it would be perceived negatively and tried to elide the rest.

he really just said black people

the blah people
the blah people

http://marceloferreiro.com/blog/images/marylin-manson.jpg

i actually buy his explanation, insofar as the word he was "trying to say" before he "went in a different direction" was in fact "black"

Wow. The commenters ain't takin shit here.

I just love that he is "pretty confident" about it. It's his racist idea, coming out of his mouth, and he needs to look at the quote and the video to see what he "thinks" he said.

Appearing on John King USA on Wednesday evening, Rick Santorum denied he said he didn’t want to make “black people’s lives better” during a pre-caucus campaign event Sunday in Sioux City, Iowa. “I’ve looked at that quote, in fact I looked at the video,” Santorum argued. “In fact, I’m pretty confident I didn’t say black. What I think — I started to say a word and then sort of changed and it sort of — blah — mumbled it and sort of changed my thought.”

lol yes youll recall when first asked abt it he said 'id have to take a look at the context'

maybe he has Tourette's and just says "black!" at inopportune times, which he then tries to stifle so it comes out as "blah!"

I mean, he did it again right there in that quote: What I think — I started to say a word and then sort of changed and it sort of — blah — mumbled it and sort of changed my thought.

damn it i wish these fuckos would stop blah-... blowing up all over the launching pad. Romney for the next 8 months is going to get really boring really quickly