And Newt just got another $5 million donated to his Super PAC. Does it buy enough airtime in FL?

Y'all must stop these attacks on Santorum. Kathleen Parker has called you guys out by writing, "He (Santorum) also has suffered some of the cruelest attacks of anyone in the blood sport of politics, some so vile that they don’t merit repetition here. Suffice to say, those who have attacked him personally couldn’t hold up Santorum’s socks in a contest of personal honor." Or maybe she's just delusional.

In this case, Kathleen Parker is delusional.

3.5 years ago Brendan Kiley made a Slog post titled "Sarah Palin Is an Anagram for 'A Sharp Nail'"
Nobody has yet mentioned Rick Santorum's anagram "Scrota In Murk". "Murk in Scrota" is probably funnier to say aloud.

@2,

Even putting aside the sadistic things he's said in relation to the culture war, Rick Santorum was one of the most corrupt members of the U.S. Senate. The man has not one scrap of personal honor or dignity. Kathleen Parker (whoever the fuck she is) is a buffoon.

This has to be intentional, because even someone as stupid as Santorum is not this stupid. Rather, Mr. Frothy is just playing the lucrative "Conservative Christian Victim" card one more time. Wait a week or so and you'll see a new fundraising bomb about how those gay perverts pervert evertyhing related to Santorum. So send cash now!

"Murk in scrota" sounds like a Latin slogan for a city or something.

this is mildly amusing (and last week's news, or the week before?)

but: grow up

I see these on this site.

There's a possibility that the SLOG post ignores: it isn't that Santorum is so unlikeable, or that the evanglical leaders can't marshal their forces. It's that, in regards to the Republican primary field, the evangelicals have already won.

Except for Ron Paul, who is a longshot by nearly anybody's standards, the three most plausible nominees have already pledged to promote a constitutional amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman. They've all pledged to end DADT. They've all come out against abortion, and they've all pledged to do all they can to overturn Roe V. Wade. Perhaps Santorum is falling behind because he wants states to have the right to ban contraception. Or perhaps, because he's pledged to run the country on Roman Catholic principles, he is suffering (as John Kennedy did) from some lingering anti-Catholic prejudice, just as Romney is suffering from anti-Mormon prejudice. But it scarcely matters. Unless there is a dramatic shift and Ron Paul magically wins the nomination, evangelical Christians can rely on the fact that their nominee is going to hate on teh gays and make sure that women no longer have control of their reproductive systems, and those are really the only two "values" that so-called "values voters" care about.

P.S. That should have been they pledge to reinstate DADT--not end it. My bad.

@5 - I don't disagree with you.

i don't believe the Evangelicals *ever* had much clout. The corporate media - as it has done time & again on events & issues - has vastly overplayed their influence. I do think their is a "hard core" of maybe a few million Evangelical wingnuts ...nowhere near the 25+ million the mass media likes to trumpet.

@10 well said.

The evangelicals have managed to skew our politics so far to the extreme right that even Obama, slightly left of the once-middle, is considered a pinko-socialist-liberal.

It’s a sad condition we’re in.

And don't forget, Santorum is a Mary worshiping Catholic, which many Evangelicals don't consider "True Christians™". God only loves a few select people.