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

would totally vote for the comical criminal mastermind over the kinko's standee

Romney's campaign should just show that ad in reverse.

wow do I love that ad

2012 rules

what, what the

I mean, what

this has been such an amazing year for ads

i have to say that though i oppose everything he stands for, rick santorum has brought me a lot of joy this primary season. "blah people" alone deserves a commendation for outstanding service toward lols

Okay, that is actually Morrissey in the ad, though?

wow do I love that ad

2012 rules

― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:04 AM (1 hour ago)

comedians should just retire

Bahahaha that ad is great. I don't think its very effective at anything but bringing the lulz -- it shows Santorum has a sense of humor and isn't just constantly crying about fetuses.

That can't actually be from his campaign, there's no way.
― Steamtable Willie (WmC),

did you miss the part at the beginning where he said his name was Rick Santorum and he approved the message? it was pretty quick, but, this is totally from his official campaign.

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damn

santorum needs to find a billionaire to pac him up

^^^ I am hearing this to the tune of The Fabulous Thunderbirds' "Wrap It Up"

a couple days old but what in hell

http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2012/02/13/the-ladies-of-nyus-college-republicans-have-a-newt-gingrich-themed-sleepover/

so, either only 6 women in the College Republicans group thought his was a good idea or... the NYU College Republicans group only has 6 women in it

either way, lol

I like how Santorum gives RushLimbaugh.com as a source in his spot.

it's pretty clever tbh

"The streets will fill with the blood of the unborn if Mitt Romney is elected."
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dare to dream --dr morbs

did you miss the part at the beginning where he said his name was Rick Santorum and he approved the message? it was pretty quick, but, this is totally from his official campaign.

So far, news outlets are calling it "mud," while the comments sections on the stories all start with, "Um...'mud'? You sure about that?"

the only way that ad could be better is if the word "CUMbomb!!!!!" was in flashing neon letters at the top and bottom of the screen

vote rick lubeypants

It is also super-roffley to me that a mere week before "Act of Valor" comes out, Santorum's camp thinks it's a good idea to cast Romney as an ass-kicking gun fiend

the mitt lookalike is way more nixon than mitt. i can't work out if that's an unintended compliment or not.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/rick-santorum-contraception-birth-control-sex.html

i didn't really have a handle on santorum's anti-contraception thing until this; i feel like he is acting as a awkwardly alluring tactic for me hate on a strain of religious belief, but this is so weird to me, in the context of it being preached rather than just practiced

for a second i thought they got Rick Perry to play romney in that ad

^^^this puritanical logic - that all non-procreative sex is WRONG - is at the root of all anti-abortion, anti-contraception arguments.

xp

Okay, that is actually Morrissey in the ad, though?

Times are tough, he has to make make do.

did you miss the part at the beginning where he said his name was Rick Santorum and he approved the message? it was pretty quick, but, this is totally from his official campaign.

I assumed that whatever awesome joker put this together lifted that audio from one of his other ads.

for a second i thought they got Rick Perry to play romney in that ad

i did too

^^^this puritanical logic - that all non-procreative sex is WRONG - is at the root of all anti-abortion, anti-contraception arguments.

xp

― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 21:44 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

idk, i think a lot of it's from the same ballpark but i think it's generous to think that anti-choice rhetoric is always grounded in reverent observance of a tenet of faith. i think it's a control thing, a 'tradition'/patriarchal thing, a bunch of other things, in ways that don't dovetail w/an underlying 'respect for' sex. tbh i find more in common w/anti-abortion ideology just in santorum's solipsistic prescriptiveness, per the nymag comment:

In a nutshell, Rick Santorum is promising to use the platform of the presidency of the United States to tell people who use contraception that they're wrong, because they're not treating sex the way it's "supposed to be" treated, according to the personal religious beliefs of Rick Santorum.

but i'm sure it fuels it, yeah.

Nation of fornicators!

that sounds obvious - like there's more in common with a way of speaking than there is with the thing he's speaking about. but what i mean is that i think a lot of anti-choice talk comes from a very personal, social judgement, & i'm sure that's reinforced directly and indirectly by the anti-sex thing but i also think that part of it's more about empathy and connecting to others as much as it is theology or philosophy
xp

lol

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idk, i think a lot of it's from the same ballpark but i think it's generous to think that anti-choice rhetoric is always grounded in reverent observance of a tenet of faith.

a tenet of faith that has been cherrypicked out of the bible specifically because of this anti-pleasurable-sex philosophy. (Abortion is not mentioned ONCE in the bible FYI, and there are all sorts of commandments in, say, Leviticus that Xtian anti-choice assholes are more than happy to completely ignore). If you walk back the logic of anti-choice arguments they all regress to the central tenet of the overarching sanctity of procreation. Abortion is wrong because it prevents a life from being brought to fruition. Contraception is wrong by the same logic. As is masturbation. And anything that enables sex-outside-of-marriage/procreation is also, by extension, wrong. This logic is, however, totally archaic and nonsensical (if abortion is murder, what is miscarriage? manslaughter? etc.)

Shakey's almost right; the Thomistic argument to which Santorum (or his handlers, same difference) subscribe is that the proper function of human sexuality is procreation, and any sex act that is not intended to fulfill this function is a sin.

can we talk about the decor of the Newt Sleepover room? What kind of room is that?!?!?

looks like a p standard mcmansion living room

As is masturbation

Onan's sin was preferring to spill his seed on the barren ground rather than impregnate his widowed sister-in-law. He was being a selfish family member. Masturbation is not implicitly mentioned as a sin.

so its not a sin unless theres a lonely fertile female around

I know Michael I'm fond of pointing that out too.

altho to be clear I was careful to tie the Xtian right's condemnation to their overall SEX-AM-BAD puritanism and not to any particular scripture. it isn't really rooted in scripture imho.

looks like a p standard mcmansion living room

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:58 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omg is it?!?

For all the Bible's talk of fornication and licentiousness, there's nothing that really says that's it's not actually a good thing to rub one out instead of committing a 'real' sin.

the patriarchs, judges, and kings of the Old Testament can pork away at their leisure as long as they don't Forget God.

seems like a fair compromise

I'm not fond Judaism's sexism but Pauline Xtianity took it possibly a step further and Catholicism's hatred of anything that's not engendering children in happy wedlock is risible when not destructive.

the whole "sex is evil" thing is strictly New Testament afaict. Jews don't have this puritanical streak that the Xtian patriarchy got so fixated on.