Santorum’s Canine Fetish
By on Feb 16th, 2005 at 9:59 am
Santorum’s Canine Fetish
What’s with Sen. Rick Santorum’s obsession with talking about men and dogs? This morning, he’s quoted in the New York Times as saying the president is “like a pit bull and he’s got a pair of trousers in his mouth and he’s not going to let go.” It’s a weird metaphor, even before you remember his argument against allowing gays to marry. Last year, Santorum equated homosexuality with, er, an unnatural love for your pets. He said he didn’t just oppose marriage for homosexuals, he also opposed it for “you know…man on dog, or whatever the case may be.” Note to the senator — if you don’t want to end up banned from next year’s Westminster Kennel Club show, it might be time to retire the creepy dog metaphors.
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I call all bloggers and all other concerned citizens to dig up dirt on Santorum… I’m sure this man isn’t shooting straight. Let’s do a Gannon-like investigation. It’ll be fun, but the most satisfaction will come from his defeat in PA… Please help us get rid of this praetorian!
Yeah, he’s the #3 Rep leader in the Senate and has presidential ambitions. In 2000 he won his seat by 6 % points–a landslide according to him. But, he’s target #1 in 2006 for us! Let’s send this dog to the pound!
February 16th, 2005 at 11:41 amHere’s an example of the impact this neanderthal has on the public policy debate:
Public Acts, Compelling State Interest, and the Santorum “Man on Dog” Test
February 16th, 2005 at 12:02 pmSantorum’s “canine love that dare not speak its name” statements also earned him a place in the pantheon of the American Taliban.
February 16th, 2005 at 12:04 pmThanks for the link…. Santorum’s arguments are beasty! He also shows his ignorance… As far as marriage and “family values” if viewed historically, it meant a union between a man and his wives… Not to mention that women were considered property, in the Bible, and even today in parts of the world….
February 16th, 2005 at 12:59 pmSomebody, anybody please take this jackass off our hands. We’re a Blue State with a bright red walking, talking (too much) cave man for a Senator.
February 16th, 2005 at 1:18 pmIt’s so ironic that his last name happens to be the name of a byproduct of sex:
February 16th, 2005 at 2:17 pmhttp://www.spreadingsantorum.com
I wonder if it’s from Latin or something?
Actually Santorum said this in response to the pending Supreme Court case about Sodomy laws. It was facinating how the Leviticus Crowd successfully changed the subject from sodomy laws to gay marriage when Lawrence V Texas was decided. If the concern was really judicial activism, why no efforts to pass a Federal No-Sodomy Amendment (FNA)?
February 16th, 2005 at 3:01 pmFYI — the ’spreading santorum’ site was created by Dan Savage intentionally to make fun of the name Santorum. It worked.
February 16th, 2005 at 3:13 pmAnd, here’s good news from a recent Quinnipiac U. poll….
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x11379.xml?ReleaseID=649
Casey (a conservative Dem) leads Ricky in PA…. Santorum has higher negatives than Casey, and even 12% of PA Reps think he’s too conservative….
February 16th, 2005 at 4:01 pmOrder your Santorum T-Shirts here.
February 16th, 2005 at 5:22 pmSantorum and Ann Coulter would make such a cute couple…something seriously wrong with both of them.
February 16th, 2005 at 6:10 pmBy now someone may have posted the Bush comment that he’s a “pitbull on the pants-leg of opportunity” which may have inspired Santorum.
I believe I recall a news interview with Rick Santorum in which he was asked how he would handle the situation if his son told him he was gay.
Santorum’s answer was odd. He said he’d tell his son that those kinds of urges are normal to have but that they are not to be acted upon.
Those urges are normal to have if you’re a bisexual or homosexual. I wonder how Santorum came to accept this in concept.
February 16th, 2005 at 6:56 pmWhen you gather wallnuts, and come across a bitter spoiled one inside, I get that impression every time I see this man speak. Senator my foot !!
February 17th, 2005 at 3:42 pmOur ex-male cheerleader pResident with trousers in his mouth? Pit Bull(dog)?
February 17th, 2005 at 3:53 pmWay to go, Rick – your timing can’t be beat!
What ever happened to Victor Ashe anyhoo?
It appears the Sanctimonious Senator is addicted to porn. Or at least the money generated by it. He has accepted $12,000 from Adelphia–the first cable company to provide hard-core pornography to viewers on pay-per-view.
http://www.macaddict.com/forums/topic/51487
February 17th, 2005 at 4:17 pmIn current polls Santorum is looking very weak against Bob Casey. If he keeps talking, it should be too hard to knock him off in ‘06.
February 17th, 2005 at 4:43 pmlET’S NOT FORGET rICK SANTORUM IS ONE OF THOSE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS WHO GOT BUSH ELECTED.
February 17th, 2005 at 6:07 pm[...] Scientists, who Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) said, “are mostly liberals …and probably dog-marrying homosexuals,†found the Presidents declaration laughable. [...]
February 9th, 2006 at 12:41 amIt’s called projection Mr. Santorum. You are what you accuse others of being. A very common theme among those who support the current administration.
July 24th, 2006 at 9:55 pmSantorum knows that the marginalized Left, like you fine folks, are a bug on the windshield of mainstream politics. Obviously many of you don’t know nor understand what a metaphor is. And I won’t take your time explaining it to you.
Dig all you want on Santorum – he’s very popular with his local base and even the national base recognizes that he’s a good guy. He doesn’t beat around the proverbial bush when declaring what he believes in and what he supports. You guys and gals would be doing the Nation a big favor by supporting him. But, your crowd isn’t interested in seeing a Nation that is strong, united and free. You blue-state clods don’t, and, may never understand why this Country is one big Red-state. Thank God it is and I thank God for you people. If it wasn’t for you and your Area51-Bush-Derangement-Syndrome, people might have voted Democrat over the last 8 years and we rightwing bloggers wouldn’t have so much fun making fun of you (finger pointing derisively at You) ha-ha.
Who are your political icons? Boxer, Kennedy, Schumer, Kerry and Clinton. You trolls deserve exactly where you’re at in the National political theatre. You can’t even put together a “progressive” talk radio network that is successful.
July 24th, 2006 at 11:29 pmSomeone needs to find out if Santorum has a pet dog. If so, we need to check it’s rectum for any sort of repetitive strain injury. Nobody who “hates” sexuality as much as Santorum could possibly have a healthy sex life. I’ll bet his wife has some pretty incredible stories to tell if we could only get her to relax.
July 25th, 2006 at 12:13 am[...] To quote Tbogg: “Wow. Just… wow.†SCOTUS is, of course, the Supreme Court of the United States. Rick Santorum is, of course, the demented rightwinger– a frothy mix of self-righteous intolerance and stupidity– from Pennsylvania, whom the citizens of that commonwealth forcibly retired from the Senate last night. (He’s also the inspiration for one of the more unpleasant new nouns of the past ten years.) Rick Santorum is never, under any circumstances, going to be so much as a judge at the Westminister Kennel Club show, let alone a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 1:36 pm[...] The fun didn’t stop there, however, as I watched one Senate seat after another slide our way. In another sign of increasing intelligence in Pennsylvania, voters gave man-dog lover Ricky Santorum a solid trouncing, leading to one of my favorite concessions of the night. Almost as good was watching the train wreck of the Katherine Harris (she who gave the presidency to Bush in ‘00) campaign collide against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson after she blew millions of her own dollars and sold her D.C. home in a last ditch fund-raising attempt. She will not be missed. The only low-point of the evening was watching Joe Loserman successfully court the Republican vote in Connecticut and return to the Senate as a representative of the Lieberman for Lieberman party after the National Democratic Party all but abandoned it’s chosen candidate, Ned Lamont. With the addition of Sherrod Brown’s defeat of Ohio Senator Mike DeWine and Sheldon Whitehouse’s defeat of Rhode Island Senator Lincoln Chafee, the idea of a Democratic Senate grew less and less preposterous. [...]
November 8th, 2006 at 2:51 pm[...] I stand before the world and declare my full on platonic man crush for Travis Hafner. No player consistently exceeds my pythagorean expectations on a yearly basis like him. Half project, half donkey, he is a masher of mythological portions. The Passion of the Pronk is primal, almost bestial in a way maybe only Ricky “Maddog” Santorum can understand, but Mel Gibson would never condone. [...]
December 28th, 2006 at 11:15 amIf you think it is ridiculous that men would marry dogs, it is not so ridiculous after all. In 2004, a 75 years man in Nepal married his dog for good luck but he died three days later. This was reported in the French press. Marriage must remain one man/one woman. Homosexuality is immoral.
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