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Santorum begins employment at WND by suggesting UN conspiracy to kill his daughter
World Net Daily (WND), a conservative website which pushes birther fantasies and other conspiracies, announced on Sunday that it had hired former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum “to offer exclusive opinion each Monday.” “Rick Santorum – the former U.S. senator who ignited grass-roots conservatives as a Republican candidate for president…
Harris-Perry guest: ‘Underlying civil war’ will ‘break out’ among GOP in 2016
On MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry on Sunday, the host “begged for forgiveness” for already beginning speculation on the 2016 GOP race for president as her roundtable of guests speculated on which Republicans would take a shot at the open seat. Harris-Perry threw out a range of possibilities, from second-timers like Rick…
Santorum: LGBT rights will ‘disintegrate’ churches, families and marriage
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum warned on Tuesday that equal rights for LGBT Americans would destroy the church and the family and eventually “disintegrate” the institution of marriage itself. Throughout his speech in Spokane on behalf of the the Family Policy Institute of Washington, the former candidate talked about…
Santorum suggests ‘eating’ Big Bird: ‘You can kill things and still like them’
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday suggested that Big Bird’s death at the hands of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney didn’t have to be in vain because the Sesame Street character could be suitable for “eating.” During Wednesday night’s presidential debate Romney had told moderator Jim Lehrer, “I like…
Bravo’s Andy Cohen would marry Paul Ryan but ‘hate-shag’ Santorum
In an appearance of Current TV’s “Joy Behar: Say Anything,” Bravo TV Vice President Andy Cohen revealed that he would marry Paul Ryan but “hate-shag” Rick Santorum. Cohen and show host Joy Behar played the game “Marry, Shag, Kill,” a kind of middle-school “slam-book” question that Cohen sometimes asks guests…
Santorum: ‘Smart people will never be on our side’
In a speech to the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, former presidential candidate Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) marked out the media and “smart people” as permanent enemies of the Republican Party, according to BuzzFeed. “We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country,” he said. “We…
Santorum claims that saying ‘y’all’ is divisive
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says that Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama are “dividing this country” by playing the race card and using words like “y’all.” CNN host Jim Acosta on Sunday asked if it was fair for Romney to complain about the tone of the…
Santorum defends Penn State on radio show
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum called the recent NCAA sanctions against Penn State University a reaction “to public” opinion during a radio appearance Friday, according to Think Progress. “I’ve been talking to a lot of folks at Penn State and they say, ‘you’re just gonna have to wait for…
Rick Santorum’s heavy investment in direct mail suggests big future plans
It’s not unusual for presidential candidates to spend heavily on direct mail — as of January, all of the presidential campaigns has spent $18.6 million on such services. But in the waning weeks of his campaign — even as insiders well calling on him to drop out — former Sen.…
Santorum gets mandatory counseling before aborting campaign
Rick Santorum, an ardent opponent of a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy, received some mandatory counseling before aborting his Republican presidential campaign. In a video by Funny or Die, actors Ashley Judd, Michelle Trachtenberg, Katy Mixon, and Eliza Coupe weighed in on the “risky behaviors” that led Santorum to…
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