This might not be widespread news over here as yet. But Rick Santorum, while running for President (actually, at present, for the Republican nomination for such) has something of a problem.
It\’s delicately referred to as Santorum\’s \”Google Problem\”.
Nothing illustrates this better than what Mr Santorum calls his \”Google problem\”, which has been an irritation for nine years.
In retaliation for his comparing gay relationships with bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery, gay rights activists flooded the internet with graphic false claims about what his surname really meant.
This explicit description remains the top web search result for the former Pennsylvania senator, a 53-year-old father of seven children.
Well, no, it\’s not the top result. The Wikipedia entry about it is, then there\’s his own Wikipedia entry and then, at least on my version of the results, comes the entry which is indeed his problem.
The basic background is that he did something (can\’t remember what) to piss off Dan Savage, the sex columnist at the Village Voice. Who then launched a campaign to get a new meaning associated with the word santorum.
Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum.
That is something of a problem. That the dastardly liberals have done this to him might whip up his base among the die hard cultural conservatives but a politician who is being laughed at really does have a problem.
As to who I want to win, well, it\’s not my country, not something I have a vote in but Santorum would be a retrograde step I think. To put it mildly. Romney, well, there\’s a problem again. I think that the worst thing that Obama has done is his horrible mangling of health care reform. Given that this is based on Romneycare (ie, what Romney instituted when Gov of Massachussetts) then that\’s not something that would be undone or corrected under Romney.
Other than Gary Johnson (who has no hope at all, sadly) the rest of the Repubs are worse. And it isn\’t as if Obama\’s been all that good on anything is it?
Doesn\’t bode well for the American Republic that they\’re going to end up choosing from among that bunch of political pygmies and outright idiots.