FORMER SENATOR LEAVING “OPTIONS ON THE TABLE” FOR 2016
Somewhere, God is vexed …
Seriously … he’s got evangelical panderer and fiscal liberal Mike Huckabee on hold on one line, and now Rick Santorum is beeping in?
Decisions, decisions …
The sweater-vested former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania – part of the great GOP fiscal betrayal of the previous decade – is strongly hinting at another presidential run in 2016.
You know … since “Republicans” have nothing better to offer the electorate than sanctimonious recyclables slavishly devoted to big government (all rhetoric to the contrary, naturally).
“I want to stay involved in the mix,” Santorum told Fox News. “I’m certainly concerned about this election upcoming, and have left my options on the table for 2016. And if you’re going to leave your options on the table you’ve got to get around and see people.”
Great … that means early voting South Carolina should expect to see a nauseating amount of this over-the-top moralizer in the coming months and years.
How exciting!
Santorum – who lost to fellow establishment “Republican” Mitt Romney in the 2012 race – is one of the leading critics of the emerging fiscally conservative, socially libertarian wing of the GOP. In fact he’s downright hostile to elected officials who are championing this ideology – and is currently spearheading a movement (along with social conservatives like Huckabee and so-called “neo-conservatives” like U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham) to boot them from the party.
“The Republican Party isn’t going to change,” Santorum infamously said last spring. “If we do change, we’ll be the Whig Party. We’re not the Libertarian Party, we’re the Republican Party.”
Yeah … like we said at the time, “good luck with all that.”
Anyway, here’s the clip of Santorum signaling his 2016 interest …
Ah, yes indeed it’s fun time …
72 comments
It must be depressing as hell to be a republican with half a brain these days. Where do you find, and why do you keep running, these dip shits?
Anybody willing to part with $50k± can run for president, doesn’t mean the Republicans are putting him out there. Anyone can have supporters.
Clown car loading up.
You know that stereotype of the GOP being nothing more than a bunch of judgmental white moralizers that are dickish hypocrites, also happening to have money they didn’t really earn?
Santorum isn’t helping to dismiss that stereotype any time soon.
rick santorum makes a lot of money. a LOT of money. more than me or you or any commenters, quite possibly more than all of us together. and for doing almost nothing. and that’s the point. he is a fantastic success. i wish he were dead, but he’s a success.
Being a major fucking idiot with money is not a sign of success. Unless you’re a republican.
Al Gore says it’s not exclusive to the Republican party.
You mean Al Gore proves it’s not exclusive to the Republican party.
Money is one metric of success. There are others. I don’t idolize George Soros or the Koch’s for example.
Rick Santorum being rich just means it is highly profitable to whore yourself out once you obtain a seat of power.
Does that creepy SOB even have a job? Has he done anything in the last 10 years besides get paid to campaign and show up on crappy talk shows? And what’s with the turtleneck and blazer look? Is that how Pennsylvania mobster wanna-bes dress?
He and his wife pump out babies, one right after another, which grow up with weird blank stares on their faces.
Even took a dead one from the hospital for the rest of the brood to see!
SICK!
Sadly, if they grow up to be like daddy or people who vote for him, they are all dead……brain dead, that is.
They should move to Jackasskastan.
because they take their marching orders from Rome…….
Tim Scott for President!
He already has more experience than Obama did when he first ran for the Presidency.
I get excited reading about santorum. It gets Tango excited because he likes sucking the santorum out of Lindsey’s ass when Lindsey stops by to visit us.
Santorum is a synonym for “smegma” when butt sex is involved. If you don’t know what smegma is, Google it. I learned that from my gay brother-in-law.
no, I won’t.
Wow…What Kind of country is this?? A man can actually offer to run as a candidate, even if the lord-god almighty, and dangerous liberal-tarian FITS objects……The Humanity!!!!
Only America-loathing liberal-traians, or FITS’ @$$-buddy Obama should be able to rule this land, that Conservatives won…
Of course, iberal-tarians will take the pleasure to Hit Bong, look at porn and use stupid liberal women at their disposal…because men like Santorum love freedom…but my God don’t extend that freedom to any American close-minded FITS does not want to tolerate.
What is Santorum thinking???
I guess you’d like to live in a Theocracy? Somehow, those never seem to work out very well for the governed.
I’d like (and will physically fight hateful bigots) to live in a country where a person can offer to run for office, and let the voters decide. There are more that just Christian Hating, Pro-Homosexual, Dangerous-to-democracy, closed-minded Nazis , like you and FITS in this country….
You have a lair, Racist, anti-American dictator in the White House now..and you Hate Santorum because he is a Christian???
Clue: Christians BUILT this country…and if we would not have been blessed by God, we’d be like some of the God-forsaken H#!!-hole countries that you and FITS worship because of their hate for God, and love for sin and evil….
Physically fight? Lol…how many times have the readers here challenged you on that bullshit? C’mon, we’ll do it for charity. You win, your charity…
So you’re saying you’ll fight to deny Santorum the right to put his name on a ballot to be the GOP nominee???…
It’s more than just me who have already killed Nazi, freedom-hating polit-bureau S#!* like you….
The idea of the freedom to run for office is American…you sound Communist…
Oh, he has the right to run…but since you think Liberals are racists brings me to challenge your punk ass. You down or what?
Typical liberal. When you get the $#!* slapped out of you, and you cannot defend your ignorance…you resort to physical violence against people who say things you don’t like…
I’ll fight for freedom. And I allow you the right to be a racist, if you want. You can hate Conservatives, too. I don’t fight over that….If you ever try to stop me from my rights, I’ll beat the F*#k out of your effeminate liberal @$$……
You’re so cute when you’re mad.
Go get a tampon, Tango…
Whoooo…tough guy, sissy…and such a mature insult…What are you…6th grade or did you get promoted to 7th this year??????….LMAO…
My bad…I did just stoop to your level…
Don’t worry, I’m pretty sure he probably posts on Bronie fan pages too.
Chill the fuck out. Go take your Xanax or smoke a little weed, OK? This is still the United States of America, anyone that wants to run for president can, all they need to do is pay their filing fees and get on the ballots in the states. With that said, Santorum, Huckabee and the other ultra-social conservative types hurt the brand and lead us down the road to Obama, Hillary and worse. Unless you want to be staring down 40 to 50 years of liberal democrat rule which will likely be the demise of the country you need to suck it up butter cup and embrace the new face the republican party needs. That new face is the Libertarian wing of the party, it’s the only chance we have to stop the social/fiscal/Marxist liberals from taking over the country for the long hall.
This all makes sense unless you are an Apocalyptic Evangelical in which case you are intentionally supporting idiots that will run the country in the ground in some misguided notion of bring the end time prophecy to fruition.
Well said, easterndumbfuckastan!!!!!!
I wish you would have suggested sex with his favorite male monkey. That might put Tango in a better mood. He can only pretend to be straight for so long. He secretly envies Larry Sinclair because Larry got to sleep with the greatest president the country ever had.
Dumb@$$…LookDumb@$$…Look at Obama’s, and the democrat’s numbers…Not one Republican voted for it…
Liberal-tarians like McCain, Graham, Boehner, Huckabee, and McConnell seem resigned to it…Liberal-Tarians are what the GOP must purge to thrive again…
That said: Obama won last time because criminals, illegals and thugs voted multiple times…Unless yall find a second messiah…the democrats will lose and lose big…
Shit, you said Conseratives stayed home…yet, the GOP are, once again, going to run the same idiots, or the same type of idiots expecting different results…
Your ability to read and comprehend are sorely lacking. The part of the party that is going to save us from 40 years of European Socialism is the Ron/Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Tim Scott etc. Boehner, Huckabee, McConnell, Graham, McCain and Santorum all need to head quickly to pasture. Obama won because no one is trying to sell the brand correctly. Romney is a smart guy, he’s very successful, he’s a great business man and he has the personality of a used car salesman cross bread with a corporate raider. You can’t sell that to independents, you can’t sell it to minorities and you can sell it to women voters. If you want to win you have to be able to market your brand to the 30% give or take that are the swing vote, and you have to be able to sell it in Ohio, Florida, Northern Virginia, and The Research Tri-Angle / Charlotte North Carolina. You cannot win these areas with a theocratic social agenda. They won’t buy it. If you want to win you are going to have to compromise on gay marriage, birth control access, and other parts of the social agenda.
I’d rather keep my 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendment rights and give up the theocratic social agenda that doesn’t affect me personally in any manner. Obamacare is a farce and a wealth redistribution program, it needs to end. We need to elect people that are going to end it on day one. That has to be the focus for now, restore the constitution for everyone, end Obamacare and keep the country from going bankrupt. We have to sell the brand in order to elect people. Santorum can’t sell the brand, he damages the brand just by participating. I’m willing to compromise on everything else in order to accomplish the above three points.
Compromising on all those Liberal, Liberal-Tarian ideals is EXACTLY why the GOP is in trouble.
Republicans who stand up and tell you leftwingers to kiss their @$$ (see 2010 mid-terms) will win and WIN BIG…
Remember: McCain is yours…so is Romney. They are bigtime compromisers…Bush ran as a Conservative…and got into BIG trouble when he compromised Conservative principles…
What you propose is what the Ds are begging the GOP to do…it’s the only way democrats have a chance, after you’ve proven to be a TOTAL failure…Republicans compromising weakens the party…
BigTime wants to live in a BigT-ocracy.
I suppose we should only accept what closed-minded Grand Tango wants to accept.
So you want to dis-allow Santorum from running because you and FITS hate Christians??…Nice philosophy…For Moscow…
You’re an EXACT product of how the left perpetuates leftwing intolerance, and makes you feel like a big man for forwarding their hate and intolerance.
Nice job.
Santorum is a waste of space and has no chance in Hades of winning dog catcher or any other election. He wouldn’t know the constitution if someone spoon fed him. Kind of like you.
But he’s got every right to participate, right???…or are you admitting you’ve become FULL Nazi and you are going public that you leftwing Bigots want to kill all Christians…???
Let him run. It should be very entertaining and will continue to hurt the GOP brand, thus helping the Dems. BTW, I’m a Christian and have been since I was 10 years old. But you keep spewing that hate. I’d love to see your face when you try to blast through the pearly gates to heaven…. that’s the only way you would be admitted.
Do you support abortion? and the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright???
Keep reaching, oh sick human.
Ummm-Hmmm…Just what I thought…
Not normally, but I think most of us here would make a retroactive exception for your mom.
I would be proud to say I aborted GrandMango.
Personally, I would like to see Sarah, Michelle, and that little “witch” from Delaware going at it!
I never said Santorum can’t run.
He would be foolish to do so, though. A complete waste of time and energy, IMO.
I want him to run, it’s funny to watch him try. Also, the Santorum jokes are always fun.
Iowa Delegate Count in 2012:
Romney: 6 Delegates
Paul: 22 Delegates
Santorum: 0 Delegates
One can only assume that Santorum would run the country like he ran his campaign.
“I want to stay involved in the mix,” Santorum told Fox News.
Dude, you ARE “the mix”.
Very good!
A rather “frothy” mix, at that.
Yesterday FITS tried to indict Rand Paul because he is using the Clinton’s record to show who they are.
Today he’s trying to take out Santorum…He hates Romney and Haley too…yet FITS savaged Warren Tompkins for gutting John McCain in 2000..And FITS went real soft on Obama, like McCain, and favored Gary “Global Warming” Johnson…in 2000…
Are you people as stupid as the liberals and FITS think you are…or are you just as moderate and Liberal-Tarians as FITS??
Are you ready to apologize to me for saying that the blow jobs you gave me were metaphorical? I am still hurt but we need to make up and have some of that good make up sex again.
Please go on, Mr. Santorum.
He would have crushed Obama had he won – even if he is a papist.
FITS pushed Obama over Romney in 2012…How’s that workin’ out for you Gigantic Dumb@$$#s?…
Thanks to idiots like FITS, and most of you, now we’ll have EIGHT years of the Obama Disaster to clean up instead of the four-year Catastrophe it could have been w/o liars in the media, like FITS……
His son is a damn good Citadel cadet.
Rick Santorum’s wife said in an interview that their decision to bring their dead baby son to their kids wasn’t “some crazy thing” and that it was a personal way to cope with his death.
In an interview with CBS News’s Jan Crawford, Karen Santorum opened up about the criticism she and her husband faced for taking their son, Gabriel, home after he died shortly after being born at 20 weeks gestation. The Santorums have been criticized by some for letting their children hold the dead baby; in the interview, Santorum said that “no one can tell me how to grieve.”
“We brought Gabriel home from the hospital to have a funeral mass and to bury him. And so they twist it and make it sound like it was some crazy thing,” she said in the segment set to be shown Tuesday. “We brought him home from the hospital to introduce him to our kids and place him, it was for the funeral mass and the burial. And what is so sad to me Jan is that no one can tell me how to grieve, and I’m not going to tell anyone else how to grieve. It’s not right.”
Santorum also said in the interview that the press tries to “corner” her husband on social issues.
“You know, every aspect of this race, any issue out there, he’s brilliant,” she said.
20 week old fetus…. yep… She can grieve however she wants. The kids didn’t get a say, I’ll bet. Barfarific.
Haha GOP, the Party of Stupid
Why not? Just another run for the washed up schmucks who didn’t make it in a previous primary, as was Romney, as was McCain.
Speaks volumes about the depth of their bench.
Arrrgh!!! Please, please, please throw him on the pile of “not just no but hell no” former candidates with Mitt and Ken and Andre and Jim (Rex)
he’s a toilet clog
He has a right to put his name on the ballot. This is the USA. I don’t have to vote for him.
and the Daniel Island Santorum Cabal leaked that to you…. bwahahahahahaha!