Rick Santorum stole the show during last night’s Republican kids’ table debate.
The former Pennsylvania senator, who has been hovering for months between zero and two percent in national polls, not only managed to rile up the crowd with some antigay rhetoric, but he also managed to trend on Twitter for about, oh, 15 seconds or so.
It all started with a simple question about the economy from one of the debate moderators.
Without citing any sources, the moderator claimed that “40 percent of babies born today are born to single moms,” which, she noted, again without citing any sources, is “11 times as high as in 1940,” the era in which GOP thinking still seems to reside.
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“From a policy perspective,” she asked Santorum, “should the government be doing anything about family formation?”
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The candidate wasted no time launching into his answer.
“You know we’ve had this debate about the economy,” he began, “but we haven’t talked about the one issue that now, increasingly, even the right and the left are coming to agree with me.”
That issue, of course, is gay people having kids.
What followed were several minutes of Santorum ranting about how “single parent children” growing up in “single parent neighborhoods” and going to “single parent schools” don’t perform well and it’s all because of political correctness.
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Santorum then issued a call to action, urging Americans to use “the bully pulpit” to jumpstart a “national campaign” to “rebuild the American family” and insisting hat the economy — which is doing very well, by the way — simply cannot be fixed until “every child” has “its birthright, which is a mom and a dad who loves them! That will change this economy!”
Oh, but it gets better. Because later in the debate, Santorum did the unthinkable: He encouraged folks Google him.
“Google Rick Santorum!” he commanded.
Not surprisingly, this led to folks on Twitter having a field day:
People who should never say “Google me” -Rick Santorum, and well, me. ?
— Sydney Leathers (@sydneyelainexo) January 15, 2016
Historic moment: Rick Santorum just told people to go Google Rick Santorum.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 14, 2016
Hi I’m Rick Santorum. I don’t need to introduce myself. Just google me. Just make sure your kids aren’t in the room. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaIdTromp) September 16, 2015
Do NOT Google: Rick Santorum. Don’t listen to him! It’s a trap! #GOPDebate — Nomiki Konst (@NomikiKonst) January 14, 2016
Oh no. Rick Santorum just said “Go google Rick Santorum.” Don’t.
— Fake Charlie Whiting (@charlie_whiting) January 14, 2016
ohcanadian
Another angry white guy. So had enough of them.
JAHarrell61
rick santorum
1. Santorum refers to the frothy mixture of lube, ejaculate, and the contents of a person’s rectum, which is a byproduct of anal sex. To rick santorum means to lick and slurp said santorum directly from someone’s ass.
2. Rick Santorum may also refer to a homophobic douchebag running for president under the guise of “family values.”
1. “I’ll let you fuck me up the ass, but only if you rick the santorum afterwards.”
2. “I just googled politician Rick Santorum and I got a bunch of results about anal sex.”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rick+Santorum
Condor221
Santorum, okay, google. Santorum equals Anal Froth. Is that what you want Ricky? You want someone to create anal froth with you?
Chuck
@JAHarrell61: Were sorry, the reason your getting those results, Rick Suckasstorum has been trying to pucker up and kiss so many azses, that is all that cums out of his mouth. A bunch of F-ing BULLSH*T.
russellhm
I have now tried twice to post a more than relevant comment and you don’t print it. What gives?
Chuck
When I Googled RICK SANTORUM, the results were amazing…
1. It stated that he is a HYPOCRITE!
2. It stated that he is a BIGOT!
3. Apparently he wants to know more about gay life.
4. He is leading a secret life, and is bisexual.
5. He wants to receive/give anal sex.
6. HAPPY NEW YEAR DICKHEAD!
Mack
I found the “numbers” to be interesting. Unweded mothers are 11 times 1940? That was a different era/different time. NOTHING in the world is like 1940 now. THANK HEAVEN. We all know the Republicans wants to take us back to the 1950’s that goes without saying.
I have pretty much determined that “Frothy” wants kids to have a male and female parents regardless of whether they love them or not. He doesn’t care about the kids being loved, just a male and female parent.I can think of a lot of “straight” parents I wouldn’t wish on the Devil. But that’s Frothy for you.
gayjim1969
The only good thing about Santorum running for President is that we don’t have to deal with this asshole in Pennsylvania anymore! You can imagine what it’s been like here for the gay community.
o.codone
Stop it. I love ass cream and you’re ruining it by putting this guys face all over it.
Margarita Reyna
After I quit my 8-to-5 job, I get paid $95/hr…How I did it? I started doing an internet-based job//
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Jim Guinnessey
Another hateful Republican claiming to be a good Catholic but who just loves to hate any LGBT person and who encourages the same hatred from anyone who is stupid enough to listen to this loudmouthed hypocrite.
o.codone
@Jim Guinnessey: oh hell, I forgot to slam his Catholic faith. What kind of a fag am I? How could a card carrying fag overlook a good opportunity to slam a Christian, particularly a Catholic? I must be sleep at the wheel. Fu*cking Catholic hypocrite, Pope lover, spaghetti man in the sky loving fake. There, that should make up for my forgetting to bash christians at every opportunity, and bash them even when there isn’t an opportunity. Christians, fags gotta hate them all the time, every time. Free of an agenda except that gay one and the Christian bashing one. Every time. Every SINGLE time. (but everybody has to tolerate fags like ’em or not. It’s a federal hate crime if you don’t). XO. Where’s GianCharo85? Did he get thrown off Queerty again?
paul dorian lord fredine
really? there are schools and neighborhoods strictly for single-parent families? who knew. and when rick says he wants to be googled, is that a code word? is that something he screams in bed, ‘GOOGLE ME!!! OH YES, GOOGLE ME AGAIN!! HARDER!!! GOOOOOOGLE!!’
face it. the man’s a fool.
startenout
@o.codone: Um, I think you may have misread his post since he says Santorum is claiming to be a “good Catholic” but doing the opposite. While it’s a slam on ol’ Ricky, I don’t think it bashes good Christians like me.
Harley
Imagine the uncomfortable questions parents will have to answer to their children after that google.
Daggerman
…I just can’t believe in this pathectic puerile garbage! Hello! Mr. wake up to the real World. A mommy and daddy that loves you! How amazing it’s still necessary to teach idiots we do NOT live in an ideal word. Drop dead you stupid prat…