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Complete this sentence: "Santorum vanquished Savage like ________________"
...like Dewey vanquished Truman
...like Goliath vanquished David
...like Santorum vanquished Cain
...like Dole vanquished Clinton
"But I get it because we fought a culture war in the 60's and the Right lost," Maher says. "Rick Santorum is like that Japanese soldier on the island who doesn't know the war is over, so he's still fighting against birth control and butt sex. Plus, Republicans are now mostly a Southern party and if there's one thing Southerners don't do well its lose a war and get over it."
"But that war is indeed over. The ideals of a youth movement became assimilated into civil society. That's why we have gays in the military now and pre-natal yoga classes and tofurkey. And that's why Rick Santorum will never be president and a black guy who snorted cocaine is."
The risk of these sorts of aneuploidies go up dramatically with maternal age - but they had to keep procreating, to try for that eighth child, because without procreation their sexual union would be false and imperfect. Never mind the suffering child they needlessly brought into the world. They'd probably have to get divorced or annulled or something if they were to stop trying for their ninth or tenth kid - at least, get separate bedrooms.
By the way, Dan. I wound up explaining "santorum" to my mother last night. Thank you. o.O I may or may not recover from this. (She was simultaneously amused and appalled, not being a Santorum (or santorum!) fan either.)
The PG is a pretty liberal paper, and they need a token conservative reporter/blogger (McNulty) and a token conservative columnist (Ruth Ann Daily).
@24 - the PG has been following Santorum's campaign with that blog called "Daily Santorum." It cracked me up the first time I read it.
I assume the "vanquished" part refers to his sponsored link on Google that appears before "Spreading Santorum." I never click on sponsored links, of course, and I imagine most remotely tech-savvy people don't.
Of course, they aren't his target audience, either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKdcjJoXe…
Anyway, Santorum would no doubt outlaw anything but dead-fish missionary style. And you have to make an "I know this is awful but it's God's will" face. And it would be enforced. By penalty of stoning.
written by ironsausage, October 24, 2011
How exactly did Santorum "vanquish" Dan Savage? Last I heard, Frothy Rick declined a public debate with him. And why does anyone take a guy with a troglodyte mentality and a tiny fraction of the republican vote seriously, anyway? If it wasn't for people's amusement at Santorum's "Google problem," the public and the media would have forgotten him long ago.
Wait, was this from one of you guys?
And most American women use hormonal birth control.
So, after the Republicans get rid of abortion, and The Pill, they'll be coming (heh!) for the condoms and other barrier methods.
If I may have a firebrand feminist moment, I so wish that every woman had THIS power: Just before intercourse, she stares a man in the eyes and vows, "You get me pregnant, I'm snapping my fingers and you'll be the one pregnant!" ::sighs:: Well, I can dream, can't I?
@8, that also occurred to me -- conservatives running for office are rarely as clear and honest as Santorum about that. Indeed, the reason why they want to control other people's sex life is that there is one way in which sex should be had -- and everything else is wrong, bad for you, bad for your soul, a spiritual health hazard as it were. If he believes in hell, of course he's morally bound to do whatever he can to prevent people from ending up there, right?
In fact, that's how it works in the extreme conservative/fundamentalist mind: all this sex that's being had, all those people (especially women) having orgasms, that feels to them like drug addiction to others. The fundies think these poor people are damaging themselves beyond repair by doing these things, and it would be nice to help by preventing them from doing this (just as they think they prevent drug damage by making drugs illegal).
It's not about hating women for them, it's about hating sex that deviates from the accepted party line. Women are just an unavoidable but secondary target (they're standing in the way).
Surely enough people use small-s santorum in conversation and print for it to be considered a real, dictionary-worthy word.
Nope! He's still the King, baby.