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Despite Google Problem, Santorum Is Running For President

06/06/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire

Rick Santorum is officially running for President. This seems to be about as unexpected as the sun coming up in the East. The man has been running for President now for some time much to the prurient laughter of many of the people having to cover him. In fact, Santorum might as well just give up now since not only is he not every popular in his home state of Pennsylvania, but let us be clear here, he has a major Google problem that overshadows the fact that his views are among the most vile of the GOP candidates.

ThinkProgress has been wonderfully kind enough to compile the ten most vile things that Santorum has said in his career. These are just the top two:

1. “In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That’s not to pick on homosexuality. It’s not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be….If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything.” [4/2003]

2. “Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?” [5/22/2008]

Of course, Santorum’s problem with Google might be the bigger problem since after the news round up on Google, the next entries relate to the neologism that his name now conjures up. They score higher than his Wikipedia entry.

Santorum is just one of the latest scraping the bottom of the barrel candidates that the Republican Party has to run against President Barack Obama in the next election. It is something that the Republican Party is well aware of given their push to ruin the economy and pin the blame on President Obama.

But still, Santorum has a lot to overcome, and right now, he should be very aware of that. After all, this clip is probably going to haunt him for a very long time:

That’s right…Santorum stole Keira Knightley’s innocence! The relevant bit is about one minute in. Of course, there are some who might enjoy having Santorum run for the Presidency. You know, like Jon Stewart:

He would have to cut back on the dirty jokes. He would just have John Boehner and Anthony Weiner left to mock.

Still, here is Santorum on ABC basically making his announcement:

Santorum also has stated that he wants to go far further than the most hated man in politics today, Paul Ryan. “Not even Paul Ryan in his budget now, in the face of trillions of dollars of deficits currently, had the temerity to step forward and say we’ve got to do Social Security,” Santorum said according to TPM. Of course, the Evangelical Christian is all for the Christian ‘values’ of hurting others, not helping seniors and the poor, and accumulating wealth because it makes it easier to get into Heaven.

Oh wait, I’m being told that Christ was opposed to those ‘values’.